"A name?"
Inside the Snow Cave, [Abyss] looked at Qin Manjiang in confusion.
"Abyss is just a code name, not your name," Qin Manjiang said.
The man before him, who looked exactly like him, did give him a sense of déjà vu. He was almost exactly like Qin Manjiang before he turned twenty.
He said nothing for a long while, and Qin Manjiang did not rush him.
The Snow Cave halfway up the Snow Mountain offered shelter from the bone-chilling wind, and Qin Manjiang did not mind resting there a little longer.
[Abyss] sat there.
Everything that had happened since he met Qin Manjiang had been beyond his expectations.
None of the contingency plans "Doctor" had provided accounted for him meeting Qin Manjiang in the Ghost Story Game. He had appeared in Fu City's [Eye Realm] as Qin Manjiang's replacement in the first place.
But unexpectedly, Qin Manjiang had still been summoned back by Fu City's [Eye Realm].
As far as he knew, a meeting between an original and his substitute would never be pleasant, especially when the original had never consented.
He had imagined Qin Manjiang's reactions: humiliation, insults, fury, violence... The best outcome would be for them to leave each other alone and simply ignore each other.
Yet this man had no intention of making trouble for him at all. He had even said he wanted to give him a name.
A name...
Only after Qin Manjiang brought it up did he realize that he had never had a name.
He did not find that strange. It was just... it had been fine before he noticed, but now that Qin Manjiang had mentioned it, he, too, felt that perhaps he really should have a name.
For the first time in [Abyss]'s life since his creation, he felt a