Kazuma suffered an accident and the ordeal rendered him amnesiac, with his only clue to his past being an intense desire to reach England. He escaped from the steamship, and gradually made his way surviving acting as a crew member aboard cargo ships.

Kazuma doesn't remember anything, his name, his past, or why he wants to go to England he just needs to, he hears a voice in his head telling him to go to England, but nothing more than that, he hears voices from time to time, as if to guide him.