My consciousness was in the blackness for quite some time.
But then, I felt something cold hit me.
More specifically, in the face.
Multiple times even.
'Who the hell dares splash cold water on the crown princesses' face?!!!!'
With this thought, I opened my eyes angrily, only to see the faces of three people staring down at me.
Unfortunately, I was in a position where the sun was shining directly in my face, causing the glare to block my view of the faces of the people.
Putting my hand up to block the sun, I was about to reprimand them, before noticing the features of one of them.
"Rank 2..."
"Oh, so you know me?"
"Yeah, that face of yours is way too hard for anybody to forget."
'He's not handsome, he's not handsome, he's not handsome!' I tried to stop myself from staring at him.
'Okay, he's amazingly handsome.'
When this line of thought surfaced, I immediately mentally slapped myself in the face.
'No! Bad girl!'
So, to take my mind off whatever it was on, I looked at the two others.
One of them was the only brown skinned student in our class, Rank 8.
The other was that girl that was amazing at archery, Rank 12.
'Honestly, she doesn't look like she could shoot well, with those, large, uhm... "bonkers".'
Staring for a bit too long at the other girl's cleavage, maybe out of attraction, maybe out of envy, I flinched as she looked at me, before adverting my eyes quickly. (A/N: Remember, in the original novel, she was married to Primrose.)
'No other people must enter your mind. Arvil is the most important one at the moment. You must find him first before deciding on your future.' I repeated this mantra several times in my head before finally calming down my messy thoughts, and starting to speak normally with the other students.
"Thanks for protecting my body and waking me up. Who knew what could have happened to me if it weren't for you guys?"
"No problem, it's just what we had to do. After all, you are a fellow classmate and Top 10 student."
"So, what do you want in return?"
Scratching his head awkwardly, Two replied, "Uhm... We were just wondering if you would be interested in joining our party..."
This actually gave me a pause for a second, as I had never thought that those words would come out of that guy's mouth, but then, I realized that it was probably the most logical thing for him to do in this situation.
"So, you're saying the only reason you saved me was due to the fact that I was Rank 5?"
"N-n-no, we would have saved you anyways, y-you're a g-girl after a-all."
It was at this moment, that he knew... he had fucked up.
'You should have just stopped what you were saying. Ugh, dumbass.'
"What were you just implying right there, Two?"
He started receiving extremely, and I mean extremely, harsh stares from both me and 12.
"U-u-uhm... I just meant..."
"Whatever, just keep your mouth shut."
Two looked pathetic as he gratefully shut his mouth. (A/N: I'm just gonna have all of them call each other by just their rank numbers from now on. "Why?" because I'm lazy.)
Twelve and I stared into each other's eyes for a second, acknowledging each other as fellow strong girls, before we turned back to the topic of conversation.
"You know what Five? I think that we would get along well together. How 'bout it? Wanna join our group? You know that it's beneficial for both parties right?"
"Yeah, I know, but I'll have to decline the offer..."
All of them showed surprised expressions, as I pushed myself off the ground, and stood on equal footing with each of them, making them all look up or straight forward now, instead of down at me like before.
'I am a princess after all... I can only be looked "up" to.'
"Could you tell us the reason why?"
"I must find someone here on this island, for both my task and my heart, so please, don't hinder me in my search."
Hearing this explanation, they all immediately stepped to the side as they let me pass through.
As I walked away from their group, Twelve shouted one last thing at me.
"Just remember! You're welcome to join our group at any time!"
"I know!" I yelled back, before my shoulders disappeared completely from their view, obscured by the trees.
I waited for an absurdly boring amount of time.
"Where the hell are they?! They should have been here hours ago!"
Having enough, I stood up quickly, only to be greeted with the sight of a figure approaching.
My angry expression instantly turned to a happy one as I waved and yelled, "Yo Primrose! Over here!"
Quickly turning towards my voice and taking notice of me, as if getting an energy boost from seeing my face, Primrose immediately dashed in my direction.
Coming up to me so suddenly, I unconsciously leaned back due to her closeness, before smacking myself in the face mentally and instead starting to support her with my hands.
"You okay?" I asked, concerned.
Still panting like a dog, she pushed something into my hand before falling limp, my arms barely fast enough to catch her before she fell.
Laying her down gently, I took a look at what was in my hand.
Immediately realizing what the contents of the vial were, I threw my head back and dumped the constituents down my throat whilst pinching my nose.
Folding to the ground beside Primrose, I sat in a lotus position as I monitored the poison in my system, waiting for the exact moment it would pass through my liver and get delivered into my bloodstream.
I allowed the first atoms of the poison to get through and circulate a little, before burning them with my spiritual energy along with the rest of the poison in my stomach.
"Haaahhhhh, that was close, well, at least I think it was? Either that or Primrose wouldn't have been in such a hurry."
I let my upper body relax and drop to the ground next to Primrose's legs.
I just laid there and stared at the gloomy sky, replenishing the significant amount of spiritual energy that I had just used.
'That red color sure is beautiful...'
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