Children of Nobility Who Are Not Considered
Everything has a beginning.
Where does a human become human?
Is it immediately after they gain sentience, when they begin to have clear memories?
Or when they are separated from their mother's body through childbirth?
If we dare to ask, we will be met with different answers. Many of them.
But before we get to the root of these mysteries, we must first address the fact that the act of questioning actually occurs.
In a certain world, there lived a king.
In that world, the king's role was not only to rule but also to fight the demons invading his country.
At that time, the king traveled near the border to intercept an army of monsters led by the Demon King, so he established his frontline base in a remote village nearby.
After slaying dozens of monsters with his own hands, he returned to that village base, the heat of battle still intact.
Not wanting to be rude to the king in his path, he attacked and raped one of the village girls who came to him for personal treatment, carried away by the excitement of the battlefield.
After the passions had passed and he regained his composure, the king was disillusioned with what he had done.
He had poured the royal bloodline, which should be shared only with the chosen, into a peasant woman whose surname was unknown.
The king told the village girl not to speak of what happened that night, and that she must never tell anyone about it.
If she did, he would have to take his life.
After that, he gave her his sword.
"If the child grows up and asks about his origins, have him come to me with this sword. Until then, no one will ever know who his father is, not even his son. The qualifications for that must be understood by the child himself!"
And that was the beginning.
Skillfully utilizing all his closest subjects, the king firmly nurtured the womb of the nameless village girl, and in the tenth month, a strong baby boy was born, while they cleverly concealed the fact of what the king had done to his precious bloodline.
...Unbeknownst to him, this child would become a major figure in the era to come.
Twenty years later, having grown up, a boy named Cua would begin his real life in earnest.
This is his story.
With orders not to reveal his father's name, Cua had to live with abuse as an orphan.
The place they lived was a rural village far from the royal capital.
After fending off a fierce attack from the demon army once, a second attack never came, and thus the royal army never visited this place again after that incident.
However, in this cold yet peaceful village, Cua grew up under the scornful gazes of many.
They called his mother a prostitute who gave herself to an unknown man and even became pregnant, and the child she gave birth to was a despicable bastard.
