[Ping!]
[You have entered the Selection Room!]
[You have experienced selective amnesia. All memories of friends and family have been removed. Memories of the previous life are hidden, necessary memories kept back.]
[Motor skills have been retained.]
[Please create your character profile!]
"Wha..." I exclaimed in surprise as I realized I was floating. I looked around but the screen? Panel? Kept hovering around at the center of my vision.
It took a moment for me to comprehend what was happening. The momentary dread was further followed by confusion, I couldn't understand what I was seeing. A game? What game? I didn't... wait what was my name?
I was confused not knowing who I was, more the literal aspects of things, the only thing left in my head were the faded personal memories. No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get access to most of my memories. Only after reading the screen did I realize whatever this was, the afterlife or whatever had wiped out, or at least hidden, most of my memories.
'Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Harry Potter, One Piece...'
After searching and failing to find any hint of recognition of anything real, the only thing that was left in my mind was all the information about the mangas and books I had read, the movies I had seen, and the shows I had watched.
I looked at the blue translucent screen in front of me.
[Please enter your name:]
I looked at the text box before me and squinted my eyes, did I have eyes, was I in an astral form?
I blinked and looked at everything around me, it was pitch black, and even though I could move my hands around, when I tried to touch my face my hand passed through it. It was a bizarre situation that took me several moments to get used to.
I looked at all the boxes before me. 'My memories are...gone, and now I'm some kind of ghost or is it just my soul?' I blinked, that was...how does this even work I could feel myself blink but not feel or touch my face.
I tried to remember my name, my age, anything but nothing sprang up. I always came up blank, with no memories, no flashes of recognition of any name. I... I didn't know who I was.
The stories and manga were the only things I knew now. A name? I guess the only option left for me is to give myself a new one right?
"My name is… Hadrian," I replied. I paused midway to marvel at the fact that somehow I could speak but not feel my face, at the same time hoping by following through with the box questions, I could eventually find some way to resolve this memory issue.
'How does this even work, my body isn't able to physically interact with the world so I shouldn't be able to touch anything or make sounds...' I thought. my attention was once again caught by the screen as it flickered once again with familiar choices appearing on it.
...
[Name: Hadrian]
[Please select the gaming world:]
[1. Naruto]
[2. Naruto A.U {Ero Edition!}]
[3. Harry Potter]
[4. Harry Potter A.U {Ero Edition!}]
[5. Dragon Ball]
[6. Dragon Ball A.U {Ero Edition!}]
...
There were just 6 highlighted options and everything else was crossed out. I blinked, I recalled that it was far easier to recall the entire storyline of Naruto, Dragon Ball and Harry Potter than to try to search through my memories. It seems the selective amnesia was for this reason.
'I wasn't expecting this though, do I even want to know what the Ero Edition means...' I thought as I looked through the six choices available to me.
'No way in hell I'm going to the Naruto or Dragon Ball. I would take fighting against the Dark Lord over the likes of Madara and Obito or Frieza, Vegeta and others anytime. But then again do I even have to go to the normal version of the world...' I thought but once again I reviewed the choices.
I looked at the two choices again and to be honest, no matter how much I would like to be a part of the canon timeline and mess around with Dumbledore's plans, the Ero edition sounded too good to be true, and maybe it would be safer too. I clicked on the [Harry Potter{Ero Edition!}] option and the screen changed again.
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