Norla Broll.
An ordinary British boy born in 1785.
The names of his father and mother could no longer be verified. According to Norla himself, before he was abducted and sold, he had lived in what could be considered a fairly happy family.
His father and mother loved each other dearly, and a younger brother would trail behind him. Though they were not wealthy, as long as the family was together, they feared no hardship.
—Until Norla was abducted at the age of eight.
It was a prosperous age, an age that changed the entire world.
Just as the Renaissance had begun in Florence, Italy, the Industrial Revolution likewise began in a single city.
That was London, Britain.
The advent of the Spinning Jenny brought endless changes to the world. Industry, the most important force in modern history, began in Norla's hometown and spread across the entire world.
Originally, all this turmoil had nothing to do with Norla Broll, who was still only a child.
—Until the appearance of a headhunter.
Though he was called a headhunter, he was actually a human trafficker.
As the Industrial Revolution surged ahead, large-scale construction began everywhere in London. Whether legal or illegal, the emerging industry began amid chaos. Since everything was new, management became exceedingly disordered.
And chaos meant tragedy.
Child labor was one part of that great era's immense tragedy.
The construction of factories created a great number of vacant positions. At first, there were enough adults to fill them, but as market demand rose, some factories sought every possible means of increasing their labor force in pursuit of greater profits.
Child labor was the choice those factories made.
Though child labor existed in every era, the period when the Industrial Revolution had just begun was undoubtedly one of the times when