Outside of a rundown building there were several children that were playing among themselves while other people looked towards then with disdain and pity as they passed by.
The available space for the children to play was very small just like the building they were being raised in was not suited to their larger numbers.
The overall facilities and resources allocated towards the children and those that raised them were at the bare minimum.
Each of the children were dirty and smelly with old and damaged clothes.
Two small boys were fighting out in the open as they wrestled with a mouldy and hard piece of bread between them.
It was a normal sight for people to witness it but most people just ignored it.
Meanwhile a small child further away was coldly looking towards them as she was observing the state of how her life would continue to be unless she found another way.
The place where she had grown up in was an orphanage in the Vodka Kingdom.
It was an allied island to the World Government that was the main ruling force in the world while there existed other groups that were a part of more lawless factions.
Vodka Kingdom had been allied to the World Government for quite a long time but the islands standing among those allied islands was quite small.
They were able to broker a deal in the past but their deal had fallen through once the greatest combatant from their kingdom named Kaido had not gone along with the arrangement.
The deal had fallen through due to Kaido not joining the Marines and Vodka Kingdom had to suffer due to that and had less help from their allies outside.
Kaido then went on to become an Emperor of the New World which was known as a big enough position that not many in the world could attain.
Due to his status as a pirate and him not sticking with the Marines as the deal has been planned out, it had reflected even more poorly on the Vodka Kingdom.
Whatever happened inside of their kingdom was left to them to deal with without any support.
It was a warring kingdom where resources were quite low and people often waged wars to gain resources or to rise up against the rulers.
If someone wished to live a decent life then they would need to survive in the Vodka Kingdom first then they would most likely have to gain some survival abilities to be able to live where they could survive better than others.
Each of the children in the orphanage were the children of those that had died in the war, during childbirth or from sickness due to the poor conditions that they had to live in.
The short messy blonde haired and blue eyed girl looked around three to four years old but her body was thin due to the poorer meals she had to eat that were provided by the orphanage.
There was a ahoge on top of her messy blonde hair and she was dressed in tattered pieces of clothing that were likely handed down from other children that had been through many repairs.
Her name was Tanya and she had not been given a surname due to her status as an orphan and her low position within the kingdom that did not earn her the right to have her own family name.
She possessed the memories as her life of a salaryman and did not know that her previous memories as the Demon of Rhine and her efforts to raise the Empire to power had been wiped away.
Tanya was cold and calculating enough to see others as objects that could be used for her advantage so that she could raise her value in the eyes of others.
She was a psychopath but she was also a libertarian and a paragon so she had a complex and conflicting personality which she herself recognised herself to have.
The person who she remembered to have killed her was seen as rash and foolish for letting their emotions get the best of them which led to them committing an act of murder and even after that experience, Tanya still found it difficult to see things from other's perspectives.
If she was able to live a comfortable and stable life to enjoy her own freedom then she would gladly take a given opportunity and would make enough efforts to rise in the ranks so that she could live that comfortable life.
She loathed 'Being X' who had disrespected her freedom and had promised to convert her after she would be reincarnated against her own will.
She believed in performing her duties as they were instructed by those above her and she would play the role needed to do so even if it involved taking on the task of letting people go that were a detriment to her past company.
The world she had dropped into was one where there was a lot of violence and death around but Tanya had already had some idea about how things worked and how it was possible to survive.
She continued to watch on as a child had stood above the other child that was beaten up on the ground, the winner had ate the mouldy and hard bread before leaving. 'I have seen and heard enough already.
Now I just have to wait for what is coming then I should be able to rise the ranks to enjoy a more comfortable life without having to worry about where my next meal will come from.'
A quick glare was sent towards the heavens above before she had went back into the orphanage.
There had been whispers about some actions that had been taken within the kingdom by the king and the nobles in order to deal with the surrounding threats from inside and outside of Vodka Kingdom.
It was a program that had spread across the whole kingdom and it was an opportunity that Tanya would take.
Until then, Tanya had went back to her room to exercise her body and to then prepare for the days ahead.