Chapter 76: Those Who Change and Those Who Do Not

Five years had passed since Mercedes had stolen Beatrix’s dungeon. She was now seventeen, and only a year away from graduating. Sieglinde had reached her perpetual age a year prior, so her appearance had stagnated at the ideal age between young girl and young woman. Her breasts had always been rather developed, and they now shook with every step. Whenever she walked, the eyes of every boy in the academy were laser focused on her.

Mercedes questioned whether that degree of shaking was healthy, but unfortunately, vampiric nations were still only at a medieval level of development, meaning brassieres had yet to be invented. While there existed underwear that could support the breasts, it was not the proper item that existed in modern-day Japan.

Still, the fact that vampiric busts never sagged was what truly accounted for this. Their Cooper’s ligaments were tough and would regenerate if lacerated. Consequently, Sieglinde’s breasts bounced every day, drawing much attention from the boys.

Felix had reached his perpetual age at twenty, so he had stagnated almost perfectly at his physical prime. It was an ideal perpetual age for a male. As he shared some similarities with Frederick, the academy’s former principal, Mercedes had worried that Felix would never reach his perpetual age, but thankfully, his clock had stopped while he was still young.

Felix had already graduated and now studied tirelessly to one day become the heir of House Grunewald. Sadly, Bernhard still paid him no attention.

However, Felix had become friends with Empress Beatrix (to be exact, the body double that ruled the Empire, as the real Empress was locked away in Mercedes’s dungeon), which may have caught Bernhard’s eye. Perhaps he still saw use for his son, as he had yet to abandon him.

Margaret and Monika were now sixtee