February 21st, the eighth day of the lunar month.
It was also the last day of winter break.
When last year's "final day" arrived, every member of Dormitory 403 had already been wandering around school for over a week. They had even completed a mission posted by Genie's Hut, helping Beta Town fend off a small-scale Black Tide.
But this year, even by afternoon, half the beds in the dormitory were still empty—Fatty Xin had written to say that he was still gathering material in Venice, hoping to trace the origins of the "Raven"; Dylan, meanwhile, was on the run.
Literally on the run.
According to information delivered by an anonymous paper crane, O'Brien and the Talbot Family had jointly decided that Dylan was to marry a Zombie Bride. They hoped that one day, a "super bloodline" combining the three great high-born clans under the moon—the Werewolf, Vampire, and zombie clans—would be born. Yet Dylan, burdened with this weighty task, had no desire to have any intimate contact beyond touching fingers with a pale-faced zombie young lady whose actual physical age exceeded five hundred years.
So he had decisively run away.
Recently, the Vampire Werewolf had been constantly on the move. To avoid being caught by his family, he had once hidden among an Inuit tribe, which meant he would arrive at school a few days late—although Starry Sky Academy did not share Alpha's bad habit of extending holidays, it was not as strict as Jiuyou Academy either. Being a few days late occasionally was no great matter.
"When he said his family had arranged several balls for him and that he needed to go home, I thought they were just ordinary social dances." Zheng Qing shook his head. A flame sprang from his fingertips and burned the paper crane