Vania puffed out her chest proudly. "Yup, that's how amazing the Shereen Tigers are. But… what about you? What are you exactly?"
Her sharp eyes scanned the boy in front of her from head to toe. His facial structure didn't look fully human, especially with those two large, protruding front teeth.
But he didn't look like a beastkin either.
"I'm Miki Lepidus. Half-human, half-ratfolk," the rat boy replied.
Vania's expression instantly twisted into disgust. "A lowly ratfolk… and even a half-human at that."
"Beastkin might hate ratfolk," Miki quickly defended himself, "but at least I got accepted into the Academy without taking the entrance test."
"You passed without a test?" Vania gave him another up-and-down look. "Well, I guess that makes you slightly better than pure humans.
At least your parents were smart enough to marry into beastkin blood, though they could've chosen a better beastkin partner. But then again, no great beast would ever marry a human."
