"...and yet we find ourselves overrun with all kinds of strange and wonderful creatures." Kaoru hummed, tilting his head to one side. The idea of breeding - for want of a better word - wasn't particularly appealing to him, either. It sounded like a bad Sci Fi plot.

"It stands to reason, though, in families like the ones I was surrounded with, that those values would never really disappear. Since they've been around for all of those years..." After all, commoners didn't really care since they had little to no hope of getting into high society without the head-spinning wealth to compete with the other families.

Probably just the same as in Seimei's time.