Charles cracked a smile and said, "I, too, hoped that my first deceit in life would come from a beautiful upperclassman…"
Julian interjected, "You mean Menilman, the upperclassman?"
Charles immediately spat out the sip of tea he had just taken and said, "Don't joke about that kind of thing!"
Julian burst into hearty laughter, regaining some of his innocent vivacity. He didn't actually hate Charles so much. Even though Charles had nearly played him like a fiddle and deceived him out of the Asilo Clan's secret scroll, Julian could sense that Charles never intended to betray him, which he found quite "novel."
As a vampire and a descendant of one of the three imperial clans, Julian knew how humans felt about vampires: hatred, fear, trepidation, but if given the chance, nearly every human would choose to become a vampire, just for the promise of a long life.
Yet Charles was unlike any other human he had ever encountered.
