Starting Out as an Orphan

(The entire first part is about everyday urban life. The underworld story only really begins later.)

I grew up in an orphanage.

At sixteen, I left the orphanage and started making my own way in the world.

A restaurant owner sold me to M Country, where I spent six years as a mercenary.

Six years later, M Country was liberated, and the army sent me back to my homeland.

I discovered that the orphanage I once knew no longer existed.

The orphanage director and two friends I grew up with had all died years ago under mysterious circumstances.

To uncover the truth behind their deaths and get justice for them, I began hanging around the streets and back alleys of the city.

I made a living while investigating the truth about the director’s death.

By a twist of fate, I found my mother, who had become a gang boss.

As revenge and the ties of blood and identity drew me in, I was forced to get caught up in a fierce struggle for power within the underworld...