Cruel Angel's Thesis [Blame!]

Humans have long since abandoned their homeland of Earth and ventured out into space to create a large, perpetually expanding city of technological marvels. However, the controls to the city's mainframe called NetSphere were tightly bound to humans with the Net Terminal Gene, and at some point, a long, long time ago, a pandemic swept through the city. It mutated the gene to be unusable in controlling the city's mainframe, and soon, the Safeguards, robotic lifeforms built to keep the residents safe deemed the humans as illegal residents.

"My story begins long before that... it begins even before the first floor of the city was built... My name is ████, and I am a █████. I am... not of this world... I was... born... to █████. But now... after ████████ years, there is... nothing for me to do. I... don't want to die. I want to live. But... I don't know what I want to live for..."