Prologue: What the Hell Did I Do Wrong?
I mean, what the fuck did I do to deserve this? Did I rack up some massive karma debt in my past life or something?
I'd lived a completely ordinary life as your everyday office drone—one of the millions crawling around out there. No arson, no murder, no looting, no scams, no theft, no assaults. Nothing that even bent the law. Just your typical salaryman grinding away day after day until I finally croaked from overwork at the office. That was it. The whole damn story.
But the moment those past-life memories came flooding back out of nowhere... my current situation was straight-up pathetic.
A beggar. Or a street urchin, if you wanna get fancy. A six-year-old boy draped in rags so threadbare you could barely call them clothes, surviving on whatever scraps I could beg for. Snot streaming down my face, looking like a total dimwit. That was me now.
'Reincarnating into a normal family is too much of a luxury, huh?!—'
Hell, in novels, comics, and anime, people get reborn as nobles and shit! But nope, not me. I drew the short straw as a goddamn beggar!