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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 17: My Oppa… What Do I Do?

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Rokan went on and on, praising me to Sia.

He said I had talent, that I was a genius.

Far more than he had said in front of me, enough for his mouth to go dry.

Sia smiled the entire time she listened to him praise me.

“Still, I want both of you to remember not to take this lightly. No matter how much talent Minjun has, this will never be easy.”

“Of course.”

It was too early to be happy when I had not even started yet.

I had no intention of letting my guard down either.

“Anyway, I will help Minjun well, so do not worry too much, Shasha.”

[Of course! I’ll trust only you, Grandpa. Oh, Grandpa. Can you give Oppa what I left with you yesterday?]

“I will.”

Was it a gift?

I did not show it, but I was curious.

“Then I will contact you again soon.”

[Okay! Oppa, it won’t be long until we see each other again. See you then! Call me when you get home!]

“Okay. I will.”

As soon as the call ended, I immediately asked about the item.

“Rokan, what is the thing Sia left with you?”

“I will give it to you now.”

Rokan took out the item Sia had left from his pocket dimension.

Unexpectedly, it was a wearable camera.

“Wear it whenever you go to a Gate. Shasha and I will watch the footage and analyze it. We will see what you did well and what you need to improve.”

There would have been limits to feedback if it had been filmed with an ordinary camera, but Sia had modified it so that, unlike a regular camera, it could record even the minute flow of mana.

When had she found time to make something like this?

She was my girlfriend, but Sia really was a genius.

“Thank you for taking such good care of me.”

“That is enough. Just focus on your training.”

“I will definitely live up to your expectations.”

Everyone was helping me this much. There was no way I could not work hard.

With that in mind...

“Rokan, if it is not too rude, may I train here for a little while before I leave?”

Even if I went straight home now, I would have nothing to do. And if I wanted to train, there was no suitable place nearby.

Besides Sia, Rokan was the only one who could advise me about Dragon Speech.

If he allowed it, I wanted to keep training here.

“Not only today. You may come anytime in the future.”

* * *

From the moment I was given permission to use the lair until late at night, I gritted my teeth and devoted myself to training all day.

What did it mean to put will into something? What did it feel like to use Dragon Speech?

It felt like rowing through empty air.

As expected, I could not use Dragon Speech by the time training ended.

Well, I had not thought I would master Dragon Speech overnight anyway.

Still, someday I would be able to use Dragon Speech freely.

And the next day.

After quickly taking care of breakfast, I immediately opened the Hunter recruitment app and looked for Gates worth clearing.

Training was good, but nothing beat actual combat.

After looking around for a suitable Gate, I decided to join a raid party for a D-rank Gate about an hour away by public transportation.

‘It feels empty.’

Before that incident, more than nine times out of ten, Sia had been with me when I cleared Gates.

Maybe that was why it felt so strange to find a Gate I could clear alone and join a raid party by myself.

Right after the raid party was formed, I called Sia.

Of course, it was a video call.

Sia answered before the first ring had even finished.

“Good morning.”

[Good morning, Oppa! Did you sleep well?]

We started with ordinary conversation, exchanging greetings about how our nights had gone.

After briefly checking in on each other, we talked about yesterday.

[Oppa, how was training yesterday? It was really hard, right?]

“It was hard, but... not hard enough to kill me.”

[That is a relief. Did you get a feel for it at all?]

“No, not yet. I just cannot figure out what a dragon’s will is. Even though your grandfather helped me, I could not understand what he was saying at all.”

I complained to Sia about yesterday’s training.

I had asked specifically how to express will, but Rokan had explained concepts that were difficult for me to understand and demonstrated them.

Naturally, I could not understand.

[That is normal for now. In that case, maybe I will watch you train next time too.]

“We can only see each other once a week. Even if you want to watch, you cannot, can you?”

[There are video calls. I will watch through that. Oh, I bought a screen to video call you, Oppa.]

...A screen?

‘Like grandfather, like granddaughter.’

Sia said she would show me the new screen and switched the camera.

Then I saw a massive screen on one wall, at least twice as large as the one I had seen in Rokan’s lair yesterday.

[I will use this to watch you train, Oppa. Since we cannot meet, I want to watch you this way at least.]

“Ah...”

If we could meet often like ordinary couples, Sia would not have gone this far.

My heart felt torn for no reason.

More importantly.

“Did you already find a place to live?”

I was currently living in the house Sia had originally lived in.

Since we could not live together, I could not help worrying about her.

I had wondered what she would do, since staying at her grandfather’s lair for a while would be awkward for her too.

It was a relief that she had somehow found a place of her own.

[Yep! Grandpa and I went looking together, and this place seemed the best.]

“When you say you went looking with Grandpa, did you make a lair?”

[Yep. I made it myself.]

So this was how dragons got their own homes.

Well, if you had a lair, there was no need to find a house.

[Come visit my lair soon, Oppa!]

“Of course I will. Should our next date be at your lair?”

I should visit for a housewarming and have an indoors date too.

I was also curious how Sia had decorated her lair.

[Oh, sounds good.]

“Then where is your lair? If it is not far, I will come to you.”

[Uh... it is really far, so it will be hard for you to get here. I will come get you.]

“Where is it?”

Since I lived alone in Seoul, I had assumed she would choose somewhere near Seoul. Apparently not.

Since her grandfather was in Gangwon Province, had she made her lair around there?

[Near Hallasan.]

“...Ah.”

If nothing else, I would be able to eat all the tangerines I wanted when I went there.

After that, we continued chatting about small things. The call ended when Sia said her battery was low and that she would call again soon.

It felt as though we had talked for quite a while, so I checked the call duration.

<Call Duration: 03:53:12>

I had often talked to Sia for over an hour before, but I thought this was the first time we had talked for this long.

But this would probably keep happening in the future too.

Now then.

The time...

“...There is not much time left.”

I was supposed to meet the Gate raid party members at one in the afternoon.

It was currently 11:50.

It would take about an hour by public transportation, so even if I got dressed and left now, it would be an extremely tight schedule.

“Ughhhhh.”

It would be great if I could use Teleport freely like Sia.

* * *

After talking on the phone with Minjun for nearly four hours.

Since it was lunchtime, Sia visited her grandfather’s lair to have lunch with him.

“Grandpa!”

“Welcome, Shasha. Have you eaten?”

A granddaughter’s visit was always a delight.

Rokan warmly welcomed her.

“No. I came to eat with you, Grandpa.”

“That worked out well. I was just about to eat too.”

Not long after, Rokan brought out a plentiful meal, and the two began eating while chatting cheerfully.

“Grandpa, how was Oppa’s training yesterday?”

She had already heard about it from Minjun during their nearly three-hour call, but she wanted to hear her grandfather’s side of the story too.

Their perspectives would be different, after all.

“Only one day has passed, but it is clear that he works very hard.”

She had heard something similar yesterday, but she never got tired of hearing praise for Minjun, no matter how often.

“Your boyfriend will surely grow faster than you expected. He may even be able to use Dragon Speech before long. But that is also why there is something to worry about.”

“Worry?”

Sia’s pupils shook for a moment.

“If he can use Dragon Speech, the other dragons will also be able to sense Minjun’s aura, however faintly.”

It was a fact almost unknown to the world, but there were dragons on Earth besides Sia and Rokan, and the dragons were already aware of one another’s existence.

Because of the unique aura dragons possessed, they could sense one another no matter where in the world they were.

‘Until now, we have lived while tacitly hiding our identities from one another, but...’

The problem was that once Minjun could use Dragon Speech, even imperfectly, the other dragons on Earth would be able to sense his aura.

“That... could be a problem.”

Thinking it was not as serious as she had expected, Sia let out a breath of relief.

But Rokan thought differently.

“Shasha. This is a far more serious problem than you think.”

Rokan knew that not every dragon here would feel favorably toward Minjun.

Since they would be seeing a human use Dragon Speech for the first time, some dragons might feel curiosity, if not fondness.

But Rokan also knew well that some dragons would feel displeased that a mere human was using the power of great dragons, Dragon Speech.

“I, I see.”

Sia weakly nodded in agreement with Rokan.

She wanted to deny it and did not want to hear it, but she had no choice but to accept reality.

“Is there... anything I can do for Oppa?”

In an unusually weak voice, she asked Rokan.

“Unfortunately, there is nothing for now. I say this out of concern, but do not tell Minjun yet. There is nothing to gain from him knowing now.”

“I’ll do that...”

But there was one fact Rokan could not bring himself to tell even Sia.

Some ancient dragons like Rokan awakened a Third Eye that could read the traces left upon a soul rather than the body.

Once that eye was awakened, they could distinguish a good soul from an evil one, and even see through the very nature of a soul.

‘It seems there are no dragons here who have awakened it yet.’

As far as he knew, there were almost no ancient dragons settled on Earth as old as he was.

But if one of his kind awakened that eye as he had.

And if they could read the records accumulated within Minjun’s soul.

That dragon would not stop at merely feeling displeased.

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