"—Oh! Him!"
Dylan slapped his palm sharply, an enlightened look appearing on his face as he eagerly gossiped, "I know, I know why the school eventually agreed to let him transfer... because he changed his blood!"
"Changed his blood?" Fatty Xin caught an interesting phrase.
"It means an Embrace."
Dylan glanced at the fat wizard and gave a simple explanation. "The Embrace caused too many sins in the past, so nowadays, to make it sound nicer, people gradually started calling it 'changing blood'... Outsiders generally don't know about this... That Guan Shanyun the Doctor mentioned accepted an Embrace from the Black Family before transferring to Edge Academy, becoming a half-blood Vampire. Such people aren't accepted by the true Moon Clan and belong to a genuinely marginalized group, so he met the basic requirements for an Edge Academy student."
"He found another path... Pretty smart, actually," Fatty Xin commented.
"Whether it was smart or not depends on who you ask."
Dylan shook his head dismissively. "...Anyway, the story spread like wildfire among the Blood Clan. He had originally been a formally registered student at First University, but then he accepted an Embrace... accepted an identity heavily discriminated against within the Moon Clan. It was practically using his status as a First University student to elevate the Black Family's Blood Servants... There apparently hadn't been a case like this in centuries. People from the other families were jealous to death."
"—In that case, he really was quite smart."
Fatty Xin skillfully pulled a doughnut from his pocket, took a big bite, and stared at the Magic Array Xiao Xiao was busy drawing as he mumbled, "Shi Yuan mentioned before that Edge Academy had taken in a Tuki Cult member transferring from Atlas... I'd wondered why Brother Qing had lost his mind enough