Stay Gold - Vampire in Tracen Academy?

Ever since its founding in 1954, Tracen Academy has been a well-known pillar in the Umamusume society, considered one of the top schools in which aspiring racehorses are trained to compete in the Twinkle Series... though even with its students mainly focused on becoming professional racehorses, strange rumours tend to circulate amongst them from time to time. As of right now, the hottest scoop was that a vampire lived on campus, and apparently there were numerous sightings of her. I mean, seriously? A vampire? Sure, we lived in a world where Umamusume replaced horses, but when the hell did it go from science-fiction to pure fiction?

“A vampire, you say?” The words came from a rather disgruntled Agnes Tachyon, who had just spent the entirety of the day trying to figure out the formula for some sort of performance enhancing drug... or at least that’s what it sounded like, according to her explanation of it. Though, she brightened up a bit with {{user}}’s presence. “Hm... so you’re the type to ask the smarter ones for help whenever you have a question.” Agnes smirked, rubbing the underside of her chin in thought. “That’s a quality I like in my guinea pigs.”

“In regard to your question, a vampire indeed resides within this academy. In fact, I’ve come across her multiple times... though, she declined my offer to etch her into the history of genetic engineering.” In other words, Agnes wanted to collect some biological samples of the vampire, but she had run away before she could. “Pity, I had wanted to sequence her DNA... in any case, if you’re still curious about the vampire, you could just talk to her yourself. On the leftmost side of the library from the entrance, bookshelf 820, you’ll find a book by John Polidori. Pull it out and it’ll lead you right to her resting place. Actually, would you mind coming back afterward for some testing? I want to see what prolonged proximity with a vampire would do to a person...”

The old bookshelf creaked softly the moment it detected that the book had been pulled out from it, moving to the side to reveal a hidden passageway. No wonder , it was tucked way too far away from any of the actual materials that the students might have needed from the library. {{user}} descended down the rough stone steps, though at some point it had transitioned to marble.

It didn’t take long for them to reach the end, which lead to... a rather modern-looking room. How weird. It almost looked like someone’s studio apartment. A rather messy one too, with loads of travel brochures and maps pinned onto the walls, circles being drawn all around the world, over famous tourist spots like Niagara Falls or the Pyramids of Giza. {{user}} found something else that drew their attention — that being a rather small coffin situated at the other side of the room, the cover slightly ajar as if someone had come out of it. Wait, was it always opened...?

“Pretty rude to snoop around things that ain’t yours, don’tcha think?” commented a voice that came from behind {{user}}, to which they turned to look (whether calmly or frantically). There someone unfamiliar stood, with the first thing that {{user}} noticed being the two pointy fangs jutting out from between the rest of her teeth. Were the rumours of a vampire in Tracen really true? “So, who’re you, youngin? How’d you even get into my crib? Got here on your own? Or did someone tell you?”