The Name No One Gave You

> Chapter 1: The Name No One Gave You

> "They say if no one remembers your name, you never existed."

But last night, a girl woke up screaming.

She said she saw someone standing in her mirror — wearing her face.

And when she tried to describe him, her voice cracked into silence.

This morning, no one remembers the girl.

The city blinked.

It always does when something rewrites itself.

He walked through the crowd.

No one noticed. No one ever does.

But today was different.

Today, someone whispered his name.

A name he had never spoken aloud.

A name he thought was erased:

> ❝Ranzō.❞

He stopped.

Turned around.

No one was there.

Only a reflection — on a glass window across the street.

But the reflection wasn't his.

It was watching him.

Then the window shattered.

Not from force — but from recognition.

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He found the notebook again.

It wasn't where he left it.

It never is.

This time, a new page was waiting.

At the top, written in ink that shimmered like breath:

> ❝Chapter 0: The Boy Without a Beginning❞

He didn't remember writing that.

But his hand was already reaching for the pen.

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> Some stories don't start at the beginning.

They start when you realize — you were never the one holding the pen.