Prologue: The Start of a Long Story

[Summoning Host...complete.]

[Welcome, Host.] A fish-looking creature with heart-shaped fins was circling around a sleeping man's head.

He opened his eyes and sat up, abruptly hitting his head on the fish. [Ow.] The creature spoke in a robotically monotonous voice.

The man blinks slowly, taking in his surroundings. A white room with white walls, decorated with nothing but the white bed with white bedsheets that he had just woken up in. "Where am I?" He seemed oddly calm, despite the fact that he was in a plain white room with nothing but a bed.

[This is the inside of your mind. Moving on. You are Xiu Baiye, yes?] The fish stopped to narrow his eyes at the man, which shouldn't be possible since fish don't have eyelids, but it was only his temporary body.

"Yes, that's me." The man, now confirmed as Xiu Baiye, nods. "I assume that I have died?" He didn't assume. It was a wild guess that he thought was impossible. As he spoke, words floated onto the wall across from him.

"I'm not dead. This is probably just a dream."

The fish's eyes followed the word, before flitting back to Xiu Baiye.

[I'm afraid it is not a dream. You are indeed deceased, and I am currently awaiting conformation.]

An awkward silence falls upon them. The fish's tail twitches as he hovers around Xiu Baiye.

[Oh, how rude of me to not introduce myself. After all, I am the system that your soul has been bound with. You may call me Anakas. I will take you through simulations of world while assisting you with the missions.]

By the time Anakas finished explaining, the originally-white room had expanded into a library. But instead of having classic novels and history books, the spine of every book had the letters 'BL' on them. The shelves were filled with every Boys' Love genre there was.

Xiu Baiye guilty pleasure was reading BL. Perhaps the reason he was so calm was because he read so many of these books. "Oh. I see." The shelves seemed to be never-ending.

[Just how many books has he read?] Anakas wondered with both fear and admiration, being a bit of a fudanshi himself. [Ahem. Anyways, would you like to see the first world before you enter?]

"No need. Let's go." No questions! Nothing at all! Just, 'let's go'! This host sure was strange.

After Anakas heard a 'ding!', signaling the confirmation complete, a door appeared, opening to reveal a bright white light.

[I wish you the best of luck, Host.]