Captain Shi understood all this. But understanding it didn't mean he could accept it.
"But however you look at it, she's still a Surface Human, isn't she?" Captain Shi insisted, clearly unwilling to accept that fact.
"No. The moment she gives up resisting or is completely subsumed, she'll no longer be a Surface Human. She'll be an Underground Race member. Titan Academy will also gain a Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar. Do you know what that means?"
Captain Shi naturally understood what a Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar meant, and just how much weight the title carried.
Because he understood, he was afraid. And because he was afraid, he was angry.
When he thought through the chain of events and considered their awkward situation now, it felt a little like they'd picked up a rock only to drop it on their own feet.
But in the end, all this was just impotent rage. He knew that decisions on such a grand scale were far beyond what a mere captain in the School Lang Department could change.
Forget him—even the head of the School Lang Department couldn't influence the decisions of Titan Academy's upper echelon.
Captain Shi sighed helplessly, his face downcast. "So there's no way to turn things around? If that's the case, and she can't extinguish her desire for revenge, are we supposed to stick our heads out and let her chop them off?"
"That's the worst-case scenario. It may not be very likely, but we still have to guard against it." Bronze Coconut Scholar was just as helpless.
Titan's talent for never forgetting anything at a glance apparently hadn't come from the Old Jiang Family. It seemed to have been inherited from his mother's side.
Meanwhile, in a corner of Bronze Coconut Scholar's residence that no one had