Since I’m a Time-Limited Princess Who Has No Tomorrow - Chapter 132

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Chapter 132
In any case, as the divine blood of the God of War, Heo Gye-gyo would have started from a different baseline than ordinary people, so it made sense that he came from the Blood Plum Squad of Jagyogapsa at such a young age.
‘Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember hearing from the Chief State Councillor that there was a divine blood boy at Jagyogapsa who was remarkably skilled despite his youth.’
So that divine blood boy was Heo Gye-gyo.
“Yes, if you need any assistance, please don’t hesitate to—”
“My Lady.”
The Crown Prince, wearing a crimson red sash, approached and naturally positioned himself between me and Heo Gye-gyo.
“Who might this person be?”
“Oh, he’s an instructor for the Plum Blossom Class.”
The Crown Prince stood before me and turned to look at Heo Gye-gyo.
“It seems the instructor takes quite an interest in my Lady.”
“The cadet who ranked first in the class assignment exam—naturally I would take interest, would I not?”
Heo Gye-gyo, drawing out his final words with a subtle formal tone, wore a cryptic smile.
“Hmm… should I address you as Crown Prince?”
“The director said that once someone wears the red sash, we’re all equal cadets.”
“Ah, so I can call you Cheon Gyeol-u then? Casually.”
“…Yes, instructor.”
I left the two of them to their conversation and returned my attention to watching the students taking the class assignment exam.
‘The top ten automatically go to the Plum Blossom Class. After that, it seems they’ll divide the classes based on aptitude as mentioned earlier… I wonder who will make up the rest of the top ten?’
As soon as the thought crossed my mind, the third Plum Blossom Class cadet emerged.
“Uh… uh?”
It was the bespectacled boy who had raised his hand to answer the director earlier. He had loosened his red sash on his own, and it seemed he had figured out the connection to the illusion because of it.
‘How did he discover the connection between the red sash and the illusion?’
Curious, I quietly shifted my position to listen to the conversation between the director and the boy.
“B-but no matter what, putting us new cadets who just enrolled into a r-real life-or-death situation seems w-wrong, so if there’s some kind of s-safety measure, the red s-sash must be…”
From what I could gather, he had reached the conclusion that the red sash was suspicious through logical deduction of the situation.
‘He’s quite intelligent. Though he seems rather shy.’
The director nodded and tied the crimson red sash around the boy.
“Congratulations on becoming the third Plum Blossom Class cadet, Je-gal Pyo.”
“Th-thank you very m-much…”
And right after Je-gal Pyo received the red sash again, the fourth person to escape emerged.
“Huff, huff, huff… I managed to catch them all somehow… If more come out, I think I’ll really die… huh?”
It was Sa Young-jun who stood up, drenched in sweat. From what I could tell, he had beaten every demon that appeared, so there were no more demons left and the illusion had ended.
‘That’s right, Young-jun has such a good physique that he doesn’t need to be smart. You could say he’s a worthy successor to Ki Ho-cheol…’
Though it would sound unfair to Ki Ho-cheol if he heard it, Sa Young-jun’s martial prowess truly was befitting of Ki Ho-cheol’s successor, so it wasn’t an inaccurate assessment.
The fifth person to escape appeared a bit later. It was a girl with short black hair who had a cold appearance.
“Director, I’m fifth? Sigh… I’m already getting rusty.”
“From now on, it’s director, not director, Yun Ra-sa cadet.”
It seemed she had known the director beforehand, as she appeared to be a cadet who had been recommended by Baekui-bang.
“Director, if I stay with these young children, my skills will get even rustier. I need real combat—”
“Director.”
“…Director. I don’t want to go to Seongsul Academy. I want to go straight to Jagyogapsa. You know how I was raised.”
“Yun Ra-sa, you’re not at that stage yet. Go wait where the Plum Blossom Class instructor is.”
“….”
The short-haired girl approached us with a sharp, intimidating presence, as if suppressing her anger.
She’s about my height. Probably around my age too.
“Hi there?”
I raised my hand in greeting, and her distinctly dark eyes glared at me.
“Don’t talk to me. I have no intention of playing friends.”
A blunt response came back. The girl stood a couple of steps away from us alone, as if she didn’t want to associate with us.
‘Wow, refreshing.’
This was the first time someone had so openly rebuffed me after I greeted them first. Living as a human really does bring diverse experiences.
‘Her name is Yun Ra-sa, right? I should try talking to her again later. Since we’re in the same class, there will be plenty of opportunities.’
I felt a little excited because it seemed like it would be interesting.
As I kept glancing at Yun Ra-sa, the sixth escapee appeared. She was a girl who looked a couple of years older than me.
“Hwa, where’s the patient? There was definitely a patient here just now, and I was in the middle of treating them…!”
“That patient was a hallucination. I had my doubts even when assigning it… but I didn’t expect a student to emerge this quickly after discovering a collapsed patient in that situation, protecting them, and even finding the hidden medicinal herbs.”
Director Sung Jeong-sim expressed quiet admiration before asking.
“The principle is that the top ten join the Plum Blossom Class, but I’ll give Kim Cho-ryeong an exception—a choice. If you’re a student learning medicine, the Orchid Class might suit your aptitude better. Which will you choose, the Plum Blossom Class or the Orchid Class?”
Kim Cho-ryeong? So she’s Choi Ja-myeong and Nain’s younger sister!
I was watching with joy when our eyes met with Kim Cho-ryeong, who was looking flustered and turning her head back and forth. The girl who spotted me widened her eyes and quickly turned to face the director.
“Has the Crown Princess joined the Plum Blossom Class?”
“Here, please call me Se-ru-hwa. Yes, that’s correct.”
“Then I’ll join the Plum Blossom Class too!”
…She had said she’d repay me someday, but is she really joining the Plum Blossom Class because of me?
Right after Kim Cho-ryeong, her cheeks flushed, glanced at me and joined the Plum Blossom Class, the seventh escapee emerged.
“Phew! I thought I was going to die!”
It was Yi Yeon-ju with her cat ears drooping.
‘Yi Yeon-ju is in my class now too. She was in a different class on the student roster… this is great!’
And almost simultaneously with Yi Yeon-ju being called forward, the eighth student woke up.
“…Oh no.”
He was a fairly handsome boy around the Crown Prince’s age, and as soon as he woke from the hallucination, he looked around sharply. When he saw the children who had woken before him, he frowned. Watching him bite his lip with wounded pride, he seemed like the type who was quite confident in his own abilities, much like Yun Ra-sa earlier.
“That boy is from the Hwarang. His name is Choi Hwang-hae. He’s the youngest Hwarang and is also being considered as a candidate for the next Gukseon.”
I heard a whisper from beside me and turned to see it was Kim Cho-ryeong. She mumbled shyly, covering her mouth with both hands.
“You seemed curious about who he was… was I being presumptuous?”
“No, thanks. And speak comfortably—we’re classmates now.”
“But I couldn’t possibly….”
“You’re Kim Cho-ryeong, right?”
“Ah, y-yes, you know me?”
“Your sister told me a lot about you.”
“What? Sister talking about me? About me?! Aaah, aaahhh!”
Kim Cho-ryeong’s face flushed crimson as she made strange sounds and scrambled away from me.
Why was she reacting like that? Choi Ja-myeong hadn’t even said anything harsh.
In any case, during that commotion, a ninth student with the unusual name Park Dong-dong joined the Plum Blossom Class, and as the tenth, Yi Yeon-jo emerged from the illusion.
“Ugh, I was planning to tease him relentlessly if he hadn’t made the rankings.”
“Sister, be quiet. Why are you making such a big deal about the class assignment rankings anyway? What matters is our strength at graduation.”
“What did you say? I can’t hear you because your ranking is lower than mine!”
“Ugh, there’s only a few positions difference!”
With the bickering twins as the finale, the assignment of the top ten students to the Plum Blossom Class was complete. After that, it seemed the director would approach each student as they awakened from the illusion, evaluate their performance, and assign them to a class.
‘She must have memorized all the students’ names. And she’s personally evaluating each one too… The effort she’s invested in this test, the care she shows these children—it’s genuine.’
As the formal class assignments began, assistant instructors from the other classes appeared and started lining up their respective students. Among them, I spotted Baek Tam-sol, who had become an assistant instructor for the Chrysanthemum Class.
As several more students were added to the Plum Blossom Class afterward, the final class sizes were: Plum Blossom Class eighteen students, Orchid Class twenty-seven students, Chrysanthemum Class twenty-two students, and Bamboo Class thirty-three students.
‘The Bamboo Class has the most. It seems to be the class with many warriors—perhaps that’s why the warrior count is so high?’
Watching it all unfold, I began to understand the assignment criteria.
‘The illusion used in the test seemed to be formatted so that monsters burst out and attacked simultaneously, while various additional evaluation elements were hidden throughout the forest.’
The Orchid Class appeared to be students who helped others or tried to establish survival bases, the Chrysanthemum Class those who explored and found hidden elements or managed to escape the forest entirely, and the Bamboo Class those who simply destroyed everything and pushed forward.
‘The Plum Blossom Class, aside from the top ten, seems to have selected students with exceptional perseverance.’
As candidates for the Blood Plum Squad, the most elite unit, it seemed the class assignment was meant to train us properly. I felt a slight chill about what lay ahead.
Once all the classes were divided and arranged, Director Sung Jeong-sim climbed back onto the stone steps.
“From now on, you are officially students of Seongsul Academy. Classes begin tomorrow, so I urge you to do your best preparing for the first exam if you wish to avoid expulsion.”
“Pardon? Expulsion?”
“The first exam, you say…?”
As the students murmured, the director spoke matter-of-factly.
“There will be an exam at the end of every month. The exams will vary each time, consisting of written tests, practical training, group assignments, and inter-class competitions. We will announce the contents of the monthly exam in the middle of each month. Depending on exam results, you may be reassigned to a different class, and accumulated failures can result in expulsion.”
“…!”

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