Stein Rays's Move (11): The Road to Advancement

I was born in a truly boring village where there was nothing at all.

All I did was help my old man with odd jobs for a few coins a day, while he shoved me around whenever he felt like it.

It was a village with no money, no future—nothing at all.

And even my father gave up on me.

"I can’t afford to feed you anymore."

Rejected by the world, I left the village.

I survived by stealing wherever I went, and before I knew it, I was scraping by as a low-ranking member of a gang of thugs.

A ray of hope appeared when the carriage those thugs attacked turned out to belong to a Golber noble.

There was no way for bandits who had incurred the king’s wrath in Golber to survive.

So I pretended to be a slave...