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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 24: Oppa, Why Are You So Sexy?

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Sia replayed the footage.

From the scene where the villains were chatting with us in a friendly atmosphere, unaware that they would soon reveal their true colors, to the scene where Junhwi and I made small talk during a break.

They were nothing special to me, but they seemed incredibly special to Sia.

[It feels strange seeing the world through your eyes, oppa.]

“Really?”

Come to think of it, I would probably find it pretty fascinating too if Sia recorded videos like this and showed them to me.

Maybe it would feel like secretly reading her diary.

[Yeah. And seeing what those pieces of trash who tried to kill you were like when they were still alive...]

“Seeing them?”

Had she changed her mind about watching after all?

Honestly, it would be better if she did not watch it, so I was about to tell Sia that she did not have to keep watching if it was too hard.

But then...

[I know for sure now. This world is too dangerous for you, oppa.]

What was that supposed to mean?

[Look at that. That bitch named Seo Yuseon keeps trying to seduce you with her eyes.]

“She was just trying to make us let our guard down...”

Honestly, I had not gotten the impression that Seo Yuseon was trying to seduce me.

But apparently, Sia saw it differently.

[That's a problem too. Anyway, that bitch was like that, and who knows what other bitches might try to seduce you and do to you. This won't do.]

I had felt this from time to time, but since we reunited, Sia seemed noticeably more worried and jealous than before.

She was reading that much into the actions of a villain who had tried to kill me.

Then again, we had reunited after being apart for an unimaginably long time, so it was not hard to understand.

At this rate, I might end up having to explain myself even if my hand briefly touched a female part-timer's at a store.

Anyway.

“See, Sia? I told you. The footage isn't that interesting.”

[No. I want to keep watching. I still have to see it.]

But Sia shook her head as if she could not believe what I was saying and focused on the footage again.

Even when I was forcing myself not to yawn from boredom, Sia never took her eyes off the screen.

How much time passed like that?

The footage had reached the point where the villains, making one last desperate struggle before dying, would spit out those outrageous words.

I paused the video for a moment and spoke to Sia.

“Sia. Can't we stop watching now? There's nothing good to see after this.”

[I still want to watch, though.]

“Even if it shows people dying?”

[They aren't people. They're trash, so it's fine.]

“...”

I tried one last time to persuade Sia, but she did not seem willing to change her mind.

[It's okay. So I really have to see it.]

“...Okay.”

There was no point trying to stop her anymore.

I gave up persuading Sia and started the footage again.

Slowly, the scenes I had been worried about began to appear.

The insults toward Sia and me that were too vile to repeat, followed by the sight of me stabbing their hearts without hesitation.

‘It finally happened.’

Sighing inwardly, I carefully watched Sia's reaction.

I had been furious when I first heard the villains talking like that. How much worse would it be for Sia?

But...

Sia did not look like someone who had just seen something unpleasant at all.

If anything, her eyes were so full of life and excitement that they caught me off guard.

...Why?

[Oppa.]

As if none of that mattered, Sia looked at me with dreamy, excited eyes.

[Why are you so sexy?]

“...?”

What exactly was sexy about that?

* * *

Even after ending her long video call with Minjun, which had lasted several hours, Sia did not leave the screen.

Instead, she moved closer to it and began replaying the paused footage.

Was she rewatching the battle footage because she felt that she had not given Minjun enough feedback and wanted to explain things in greater detail?

No.

Then was it because there was something in the idle chatter during travel, which Minjun had called boring, that caught her interest?

That was not it either.

The scene Sia wanted to watch again was the one where Minjun drove his sword into the hearts of the villains who were spouting abuse without hesitation.

“Hehe. How can my oppa be this sexy?”

Contrary to Minjun's worries, she had not taken the villains' insults to heart.

What interested her was Minjun's response.

The way he stabbed their chests without hesitation, as though they were no longer worth listening to.

And the sword aura that seemed to turn blood-red for a brief moment, as if it carried his emotions.

“Oppa probably doesn't even know how sexy he is.”

When she had called Minjun sexy while watching the footage with him, Minjun had unconsciously shaken his head because he could not understand what part of it she found sexy.

But to Sia, it seemed as though Minjun was simply embarrassed by the word sexy itself.

He had openly shown such a sexy side of himself, yet he shuddered at being called sexy and shyly denied it.

Sia found that kind of nerdy charm in him.

He was handsome and sexy, and on top of that, he had the unexpected appeal of nerdy charm.

Sia felt as though she might shiver at the fact that a fantasy man, a unicorn, was her boyfriend.

“Still, this is a little disappointing.”

Because it had been made in a hurry, the wearable camera still had many shortcomings in Sia's eyes.

One major problem was how limited its viewpoint was.

Since the camera was fixed to Minjun's chest, everything could only be seen from Minjun's chest-level perspective.

If she could have seen Minjun from a third-person view...

‘I could have seen what expression oppa had back then.’

The expression Minjun had worn while ending the lives of the three villains.

The Gate showed another side of Minjun, one she could not see for herself.

She had prepared the camera for that purpose, but now that she had actually reviewed the footage, it had shortcomings in many ways.

Unless she put a drone in the air to film him instead.

Ah!

‘Why didn't I think of that?’

She had been so focused on other things that she had not considered it.

A camera drone.

If she improved one, she would be able to observe Minjun in greater detail and from more varied angles.

If she had made something like that from the start, she could have seen the expression Minjun wore then, as well as every expression and moment of his.

But it was too late to regret it now.

She would use a drone for the next Gate raid.

For now, all she could do was make the most of what she had.

Sia replayed that part in slow motion.

She would find somewhere Minjun's face appeared, even if only faintly and unclearly.

For example...

‘His reflection in someone's eyes.’

Minjun's image might have been reflected in someone else's eyes.

To find it, Sia enlarged the screen and examined Minjun's reflection in each villain's eyes one by one.

It might be difficult to make out detailed expressions because of the nature of an eye's reflection, but it was still better than nothing.

Then, finally.

“Found it...!”

Sia found Minjun's image reflected in an eye.

After finding Minjun in the eyes of Seo Yuseon, the villain who had been facing him directly, Sia enlarged the image.

It was a little blurry, but she could see Minjun's figure holding a sword.

‘Can't I enlarge it more?’

She swallowed hard and enlarged the footage to its highest magnification.

Unfortunately, she could only vaguely make out the shape of Minjun's face.

She could not see his exact expression.

‘Should I give up like this?’

The thought crossed her mind for a moment, but she quickly shook her head.

Had she not spent two thousand years researching only one kind of magic, dimensional travel magic?

She was the unyielding icon who never gave up.

If she had reached the limit of technology, it was time to borrow the power of magic.

To make the blurry image of Minjun reflected in Seo Yuseon's eyes clear somehow, Sia mobilized all the knowledge she had accumulated over 2,500 years.

It looked as if magic would make it easy, but this footage had been created through a mixture of magic and modern technology, so it was not an easy task at all.

Still, that only meant it was difficult by human standards.

As a dragon, she succeeded in clearly enlarging the footage in just ten minutes.

With a trembling heart, Sia checked Minjun's expression reflected in the eye.

“Ah...”

His eyes were wide as he glared at the villains.

His lips trembled as he struggled to contain his anger.

An indescribably deep rage clearly swirled across Minjun's face in the reflection.

A fierce rage that those uncivilized things, unworthy even of being alive, had dared insult his woman.

Feeling Minjun's emotions in full, Sia covered her mouth and could not take her eyes off him for a long time.

Her heart pounded more and more violently beyond her control, and her face turned redder than the sun from excitement too great to bear.

Sia wanted to run to Minjun at once and bury herself in his warm embrace.

She wanted to hold him, feel his warmth, and tell him everything she felt.

But she knew it too.

That she could not do that right now.

‘I wish I had something more.’

Her calls with Minjun, the photos they had taken together, and the videos containing Minjun's image.

At first, she had thought those would be enough to endure a week, but she was beginning to reach her limit.

Maybe it was because she missed Minjun, but her hands trembled strangely.

‘This won't do.’

Not a video call. She wanted to feel his warmth and his scent in person.

She needed a way.

A way to feel as though Minjun were beside her, even when he was not.

* * *

After that incident, I accepted Rokan's advice and did not take part in any Gate raids.

I even asked Rokan whether I could at least train, but he shook his head, saying we had to be careful about even the slightest possibility.

So.

Forced to take some time off, I spent my time talking with Sia for several hours a day.

We chatted as usual, but I also took this opportunity to ask Sia to tell me all kinds of stories and knowledge about dragons.

I thought that gaining a deeper understanding of dragons might greatly help me handle a dragon's power.

Time passed like that.

At last, the day I was supposed to meet Sia arrived.

After finishing all my preparations, I checked the clock and saw that there were about ten minutes left until our planned time.

During the remaining time, I checked one last time to make sure I had not forgotten anything.

Today, I was going to visit Sia's lair.

Since I was visiting her new home, I thought I should bring a housewarming gift, so yesterday I had told Sia to ask for anything she wanted.

But instead of ordinary housewarming gifts like toilet paper, Sia had asked for some truly unexpected things.

I thought I knew Sia fairly well after dating her for so long, but lately, I had no idea what she was thinking.

‘Why does she want my old clothes?’

Not new clothes or clothes I had only worn a few times, either. She wanted old clothes I had worn for years until they were nearly worn out.

...What on earth was she going to use them for?

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