Jack was a commoner with no surname. He had grown up on the streets of Pritz Harbor. His father was a drunkard, his grandfather had been a drunkard, and he had heard that his great-grandfather had been one too.
His mother had died long ago. His father usually made a living doing odd jobs at the docks, looking no different from the countless poor people in Pritz Harbor who were too poor and too afraid to venture out to sea.
But Jack had known since childhood that it was all a facade.
When he was very young, he had been mocked by the children of Sailors, and he had resented his father, who would throw him into a tavern whenever he had money. That continued until he was twelve, when his father, who always seemed perpetually drunk, suddenly revealed that mysterious power to him with an exceptionally clear gaze.
From that moment on, he learned that he possessed an illustrious surname—Trunsoest.
He was a descendant of the Night Emperor and the Beauty God, a nobleman with the most exalted bloodline. The royal families of Feynapotter and Loen had merely once been subjects of his ancestors.
However, from the moment he learned that secret, he also bore the "precepts" his father had left upon him. He could neither reveal anything about his origins nor use the abilities of the Arbitrator Pathway.
He could not even openly act out his role. He could only slowly advance through daily refinement and adherence to the rules passed down by his forebears.
Although his family had abandoned their surname long ago, the major Churches had never stopped watching them. To reclaim the glory of Trunsoest, his ancestors had been striving all this time.
But under the Churches' surveillance, they could advance no further than Sequence