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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 5: Oppa, You’ve Been Through So Much.

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I meant it when I said I’d buy Sia enough tteokbokki to make her sick of it.

But 10 servings of tteokbokki?

‘Can she really eat all this?’

“Excuse me, but 10 servings... is that correct, ma’am?”

“Yes, that’s right. I’ll write the extra toppings on a note, so please add them as written.”

“Ah, yes!”

Fortunately, ordering went smoothly.

I thought it might take a little while, but thankfully, the tteokbokki was ready on time.

“Your tteokbokki is ready.”

There was enough tteokbokki to fill me up just by looking at it.

Seeing the containers piled high on the table, I was impressed once again.

I’d thought this earlier too, but how was she going to eat all that?

After paying, we headed to my studio apartment with our hands full of tteokbokki.

Then, just then.

“Oppa. Don’t we normally turn the other way here to get to your place?”

Sia looked puzzled as we took a route different from the one she knew.

“Oh, I moved a few months ago. You’ll definitely be surprised when you see where I moved.”

“Surprised?”

She looked doubtful, but I was certain Sia would be surprised.

And that certainty soon became reality.

“Oppa, is this...?”

“That’s right. It’s the studio apartment where you used to live.”

After the day Sia died, I desperately tried to preserve every trace she had left behind in this world.

And one of those traces was this place.

The studio apartment where Sia had lived while she was alive.

Most of the clothes and other belongings in the apartment had been handed over to Sia’s relatives, but the apartment itself had not disappeared.

I couldn’t bear the thought of someone else moving into the room filled with my memories of Sia, so I contacted the building’s landlord and eventually moved in.

Of course, Sia’s apartment had a completely different atmosphere from when she lived here.

Almost all her belongings were gone.

Still, that was okay. It was a place where I could revisit, even a little, the memories I had with Sia.

When we returned home after so long, tears filled Sia’s eyes.

“Oppa...”

The familiar yet unfamiliar sight of the studio apartment where she had once lived.

Perhaps because it was me, rather than some stranger, who had filled that sight once more, Sia began shedding tears of relief.

“Sniff, sob. Why am I, why am I crying so much today, sob, Oppa?”

“Sia, it’s okay. Those aren’t tears of sadness. You’re crying because you’re happy.”

I gently patted Sia as she wept on and on, saying her tears would not stop.

“Sniff, even if I try not to cry, sob, when I see that teddy bear, sniff, how can I not cry, Oppa?”

Now naturally nestled in my arms, Sia pointed at the teddy bear in the corner of the room.

It was the teddy bear she had given me with a letter for our first anniversary.

Several years had passed since I received it, but I had taken good care of it so I would not forget my memories of Sia. Thanks to that, it still looked exactly as it had when she first gave it to me, without a single stain.

Ah, and I had kept the letter safe too, just like the bear.

“Oppa, you tried really hard not to forget me too, sob.”

“Of course.”

Her tears of happiness soon became tears of relief.

Only after she hugged me tightly and soaked my shoulder with tears did Sia finally stop crying.

“The tteokbokki will get cold. Hurry and eat.”

“Mm... sniff.”

* * *

After the long meal was over, we roughly cleaned up the tteokbokki containers and lay sprawled on the floor.

Our bellies were full, and it had been so long since the two of us had lain together like this in a studio apartment. I couldn’t have asked for more.

How could I possibly be happier than this?

“Oppa, your stomach is so round.”

“You ate so much, so why isn’t your stomach sticking out at all?”

Despite eating almost all 10 servings of tteokbokki by herself, Sia’s stomach looked perfectly normal, as if nothing had gone into it.

“Mm, secret!”

We spent our time leisurely, playing with each other’s stomachs.

After resting until we had played with each other’s bellies enough.

“Oppa.”

Sia called to me.

“Come to think of it, ever since we met again, I’ve only talked about myself. I never got to hear about you. How have you been all this time?”

Now that she mentioned it, I had been so happy to see Sia again that I hadn’t told her anything about myself either.

Realizing that anew, I slowly began telling her about the life I had lived without her.

“Well, I’d be lying if I said I’d been doing well.”

* * *

The year after Sia’s death, trauma made me short of breath whenever I entered a Gate, leaving me unable to function as a Hunter.

It was also a year when I was overwhelmed by pain and guilt, unable to properly function as a person.

After hearing about Minjun’s bleak year, Sia quietly sank into thought.

How hard had Minjun Oppa’s life been during the year after I died?

‘At least I had the faint hope that I could see Oppa again while researching dimensional travel magic. But Minjun Oppa didn’t even have that small hope.’

In such a terrible situation, she didn’t want to imagine it, but he must have thought at least once about taking his own life.

But Minjun had struggled desperately to protect his memories of her.

He hadn’t met anyone else during that time, and he never forgot to observe the anniversary of her death.

That was the kind of man Minjun was, the man she loved.

‘How much pain was he in for that whole year?’

She quietly dwelled on two emotions: gratitude that Minjun had somehow endured through such difficult circumstances, and guilt that she hadn’t come to see him sooner.

Then Sia felt something swell up inside her.

‘Why? Why did I make that fatal mistake at the end?’

If I hadn’t made that one mistake in the formula before casting the dimensional travel spell, Oppa wouldn’t have suffered like this.

Because of me, one precious year of Oppa’s life was wasted.

Idiot. Jeong Sia, you idiot.

I know I was excited to go see Oppa, but how could I make a mistake at such an important point?

Jung Sia, you stupid bitch.

Still, it was okay now.

From now on, I would make sure Oppa knew nothing but happiness.

No, I had to.

“Oppa, you’ve been through so much this past year.”

Full of regret over her mistake, guilt, and sincerity, Sia spoke to Minjun.

Now that we had found each other again, let’s be happy from now on.

“The one who had it hard wasn’t me, Sia. It was you. You said you spent 2,000 years researching dimensional travel magic just to see me again.”

“That much is nothing if it means seeing you. If you were in the same situation as me, you would’ve made the same choice. I believe in you, Oppa.”

“What do you mean, nothing? I only suffered for one year, but you...”

Unable to finish, Minjun hugged Sia tightly, his eyes brimming with tears.

How much pain and hardship had our Sia endured during all that time?

As she patted Minjun, whose tears had begun flowing along with hers, Sia thought that she had made the right choice in coming back to see her boyfriend.

She would make Minjun Oppa, who had thankfully endured the long tunnel of that year, truly happy now.

No matter what it took.

* * *

After spending such a lovey-dovey night, the second day with Sia after our reunion dawned.

A soft touch brushed my cheek, followed by a quiet smack.

“Oppa, are you going to sleep more?”

I woke up to Sia’s sweet morning kiss.

“Sia, Oppa will get up in five more minutes.”

“It’s noon, Oppa. Shouldn’t you start getting up now?”

“Five more minutes. Sia, just five more minutes.”

When I whined in a sleep-heavy voice, Sia kissed my lips this time.

“Then I’ll keep kissing you until you get up, Oppa.”

“Then I should sleep five more hours, not five more minutes.”

She probably thought she could annoy me into getting up, but that only worked in my favor.

Sia’s sweet kisses were always welcome.

And even if she kept kissing me, she would get tired eventually, right?

‘That’s what I’m curious about, too.’

I didn’t know when she would get tired, but after around 20 minutes, wouldn’t she wake me in a cute voice, saying, “Oppa, I lost, so get up already”?

Just imagining it made me smile.

But then.

“Even better.”

Contrary to my expectations, Sia gave my cheek another deep kiss, then pressed her cherry-like lips to mine.

‘What? Is she really planning to just kiss me for five hours?’

Thinking about it again, five hours wasn’t even the briefest instant to Sia, a dragon.

Then maybe it wasn’t impossible...

Huh?

Huh, huh, huh?

Sia planted a deep kiss on the nape of my neck, then began moving lower.

Her white hand tugged at my shirt.

‘This is dangerous!’

Well, aside from anything else, it would be troublesome for the genre.

Goosebumps rose all over my body, and I immediately sat up.

“Oppa’s up.”

When I sprang upright, Sia pouted, as though something hadn’t gone according to plan.

“You could sleep more if you’re tired.”

“No, I’m really okay! I’m not sleepy at all now.”

I had been a little groggy, but Sia’s kissing attack had completely woken me up.

Still, Sia seemed disappointed that things hadn’t progressed any further, and she tried to force me back down.

“Then should I put you to sleep?”

“No, I’m awake now. Really.”

“No. If you’re tired, lie down a little longer, Oppa.”

Normally, I could have somehow held out through the difference in our strength, but now that Sia had become a dragon, that kind of situation was no longer possible.

Completely overpowered by Sia’s terrifying strength, I had no choice but to endure five minutes of her one-sided, intense physical affection. Only after Sia loosened her grip could I barely sit up again.

Even though I had only been kissed for five minutes, my head felt like it was spinning.

The kisses had definitely been sweet. They were sweet, but...

For some reason, they were also a little scary.

If I had really been kissed for five hours, just as I had said, wouldn’t I have passed out halfway through?

After barely gathering my senses, I asked Sia, who was gently stroking my reddened body from all her affectionate touching.

“...Sia, was what we did yesterday not enough?”

“Yep!”

We had shown each other enough affection yesterday that it had seemed a little excessive, but Sia answered with a bright smile, as if it truly hadn’t been enough.

Well, I could understand it from Sia’s perspective.

She hadn’t been able to share affection with her lover for 2,000 years.

I gently hugged Sia.

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