My name is Bi Lan, and I'm a Dark Three-Eyed Golden Beast who has already taken human form.
Does that sound unbelievable? It seemed just as unbelievable to me. Especially when Mother explained, not long after I was born, how she and my parents were different from other families. I couldn't believe it either.
My father is Di Tian, the Black Dragon King, and my mother is Lady Bi Ji of the Emerald Swans.
There was no chance at all that a Three-Eyed Golden Beast like me could have been born.
But so what? My mother, Bi Ji, is my mother, and my father, Di Tian, is my father. Their love for me is real, and my body came from them. That's enough.
The three of us aren't mindless beasts.
My father is now the New Dragon God's foremost general! He can even spare a day or two each week to spend with Mother and me.
I'm happy to have a family like this. That's all.
"I hate how much homework the Elf teacher assigned."
Bi Lan sat beneath her desk lamp, wearing a pained expression as she worked on the assignment her teacher had given her.
She had never thought that after finally taking human form, what she'd assumed was the end of the road would turn out to be the beginning of yet another ordeal.
Around the beginning of the Unified Era, especially within the Kingdom of Locke, the school system for Elf and Dragonkin children—from primary school to university—had already gone through multiple revisions. There was no longer any need for the kind of specialized secondary school called a "junior college," but the high school entrance exam, the qualification exam, and the college entrance exam remained two brutal dividing lines.
Elf and Dragonkin children went through preschool