Of Name and Nothing | Volume 1 Complete

Mizuki Yumaki has spent her life trying to deserve the Name she was born with.

As the volatile younger heir of one of Altavia's Ten Clans, she wants a Nexus-Blade — the final proof of her strength and legitimacy. But beneath her ambition lies a secret Altavia would answer with fire, and exposure would end more lives than her own.

Her final Academy assignment sends her to Outpost 404, an abandoned frontier fortress whose destruction was erased from official history.

The outpost is not empty.

Its captain still guards the ruins. Beside him lives Noll — a Nameless young man with a failing body, impossible technology, and open contempt for everything Mizuki was raised to believe.

When a distress signal draws them beyond the walls, Mizuki sees one last chance to prove herself. Instead she finds the first signs of something moving beneath Altavia's borders — something tied to the disaster everyone agreed to forget.

To survive, she must trust a man her world refuses to value.
To learn the truth, she must risk revealing her own.

And none of them can see it yet: every door that has opened before them was left open on purpose.

Once Mizuki begins questioning what makes a person worthy of a Name, she may never believe in Altavia again.

Volume 1 is complete. Volume 2 is now in progress, but public updates are paused while the novel is under submission for traditional publishing. Thank you for reading and supporting the story.