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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 53: Don’t Hit on My Oppa.

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After finishing her long phone call with Minjun,

Sia’s heart was in turmoil.

She had no idea what the other dragons, who disapproved of her relationship with Minjun, might do if they decided to interfere.

They might even harm the innocent human man who had dared to love a dragon.

They would probably hesitate to openly hurt him because they were wary of her, her grandfather, and the dragons who supported her. Still, that was no reason to let her guard down.

It would not be strange if someone harmed Minjun at any time or in any way.

But her heart was not filled with nothing but unease.

There was Minjun’s warm concern for her, his reassuring resolve to overcome any hardship between them without wavering.

And because he was worried about her, he had even sent tteokbokki, a gift, and a handwritten letter.

For some reason, even in this situation, her heart was fluttering too.

At least that brought her some comfort.

‘I really don’t understand them.’

She had lived as a dragon far longer than she had ever lived as a human, but she still could not completely understand how dragons thought.

Did dragons really have to love only other dragons?

To ease her troubled heart, she decided to eat the tteokbokki Minjun had made himself.

The moment she opened her messenger app to send Minjun a photo and tell him she would enjoy it,

she found a message from someone she had never expected.

[Hello! I’m Go Yuna, one of Minjun’s older friends. We met at the restaurant last time :) Do you remember me? I wanted to get close to you, Sia, so I kept thinking I should contact you sometime, but I only just worked up the courage haha. I think you said you were a Hunter too. If you’re okay with it, would you like to spar sometime? I’d like to spar and have a meal together!]

“...Go Yuna?”

Her mind was already a mess, and now she had received a text from that woman.

How had she gotten her number, and why had she sent this message?

Frowning, Sia carefully read it again.

“What is this bitch up to?”

Since she had not yet heard about what had happened between Minjun and Yuna yesterday morning, Sia could not guess why Yuna had texted her.

‘She didn’t even ask me to bring oppa.’

Why did she specifically want to meet her alone?

She probably did not simply want to become friends, just as the message said.

Maybe she wanted to separate her from Minjun, or perhaps she had some other motive.

With her thoughts in disarray, Sia sent Minjun a message along with the tteokbokki photo she had just taken.

[By the way, oppa. Did you give Yuna my number?]

Minjun replied immediately.

[No. Why? Did she text you?]

It seemed Yuna had found it through a third party.

How she got it was not important. What mattered was that she had not received it from Minjun.

[No, I was just suddenly curious. I’ll enjoy the tteokbokki, oppa!]

For now, Sia decided to hide the fact that Yuna had texted her from Minjun.

So, what should she do now?

Should she ignore the message, openly show her displeasure, or reply without revealing what she truly thought?

At first, none of the choices seemed particularly good.

But after thinking about it, this was the perfect opportunity.

An opportunity to give that woman a firm warning.

If they met without Minjun there, it might actually be better. She would not have to be conscious of Minjun’s presence.

‘I’m tired of worrying about that woman.’

Minjun had already handled things appropriately on his end, but Sia did not know that. She decided she would put an end to all of this herself.

‘I’m already in a bad mood because of those dragons.’

If Yuna had sent this message the day before yesterday, before Sia went to meet the other dragons, Sia would not have reacted so sensitively.

In that sense, Go Yuna was very unlucky.

Determined to teach her a lesson, Sia wrote back.

* * *

The next day.

Sia was waiting for Yuna at a café near the sparring arena where they had agreed to meet.

Naturally, she had not told Minjun about today, and she probably never would.

She intended to cut off this complicated and ill-fated connection with that woman for good.

Not long after Sia settled in and began waiting, Yuna spotted her from afar, waved, and approached.

“Sia!”

“You’re here, Yuna?”

The two greeted each other in bright, cheerful voices the moment they met.

“If I knew this would happen, I should have asked to meet you sooner. I worried that you might feel pressured.”

“Oh, you could have contacted me anytime. I had a lot of things I wanted to ask you too.”

To an outsider, they might have looked remarkably close.

But both women, harboring intense hatred for the other, concealed deadly claws beneath their smiles.

“Then, shall we go spar now?”

“Sure!”

The two headed to the sparring arena in the basement of the same building.

The arena was nearly empty.

Since Yuna had reserved it in advance, they were able to enter right away.

After changing into sparring clothes and putting on safety gear, the two stood inside the arena.

“It feels refreshing to do this again after so long. It reminds me of the old days.”

“Me too. It’s been a while since I last sparred, so I feel a little awkward. I look forward to this, Yuna!”

“Same here.”

As they exchanged friendly words, Yuna made the same vow to herself again and again.

Today, she would make that girl, who did not know her place, painfully understand the difference in their strength.

Normally, even if one Hunter was retired and the other active, the gap in rank would be so great that the stronger one would go easy on the other.

But Yuna intended to use all her strength and crush Sia mercilessly.

If Sia complained about why she was being so rough, Yuna would claim that it had been too long since she last sparred and that she had trouble controlling her strength.

‘Then I can use that excuse to spar with her again.’

She would apologize for last time and say she would control her strength properly this time so they could have a fair spar.

The more they sparred, the more chances Yuna would have to vent her anger on Sia.

“Yuna, shall we start right away?”

“Sure.”

When they fed a trace of mana into their equipment, a signal sounded to announce the beginning of the spar.

As soon as it began, Yuna, a Spirit Summoner, immediately summoned a Salamander.

“Yuna, you were a Spirit Summoner?”

“Yeah. I guess I never told you.”

Sia watched the Salamander Yuna had summoned with interest.

Yuna’s Salamander had always been aggressive, and it had been bored by Yuna’s dull life after retirement.

Instead of thrilling, bloody combat, what did she do after retiring? Cooking?

Yuna had asked it several times to help add a smoky flavor to food, so the Salamander often complained to her.

But this time was different.

It was not a real battle, but it was still an exciting contest against another Hunter, one that could leave blood flying.

The moment it understood the situation, the Salamander excitedly flicked out its tongue again and again.

As though urging her to give the order quickly, it pressed Yuna.

‘Salamander, breathe fire at that woman’s face. Use every bit of your strength.’

Yuna gave the command through the mental tether connecting her to the Salamander.

They were wearing protective gear for sparring, so even if she raised its firepower to the maximum, Sia would not die from getting hit.

But what if the protective gear broke and she was burned?

‘That might not be so bad either.’

She could call it an accident, pretend to be sorry, and simply pay her hospital bills.

She had plenty of money, after all.

If anything, it would make her feel better.

Thinking horrible thoughts she could never say aloud, she swallowed a laugh.

‘What kind of reaction will that bitch have?’

After giving the Salamander its orders, she watched eagerly to see how Sia would react.

However.

Her wish, naturally, could not come true.

Following Yuna’s command, the Salamander gathered as much of Yuna’s mana as it could and tried to unleash a powerful blast of fire at Sia.

However.

For some reason, the Salamander felt its power being controlled by an unknown, overwhelming force unlike anything it had ever felt.

‘...?’

The Salamander was clearly flustered by the unfamiliar sensation.

It tried to gather its strength again and breathe fire, but then,

in an instant, immense fear began to constrict it.

“...!”

Having never met a dragon directly, it did not know that this was Dragon Fear.

Still, it understood one thing with painful clarity.

The being before it was absolutely not an ordinary human.

And if it tried to attack, something it could never handle would surely happen.

The Salamander tried to relay this to Yuna through their mental link, but it was already forcibly unsummoned back to the Spirit Realm by an unknown power.

“Urgh!”

A spirit being forcibly unsummoned back to the Spirit Realm was uncommon, but when it happened, the Spirit Summoner would temporarily suffer agonizing pain and mana reflux as a side effect.

They would not die. They would merely writhe in terrible pain for several minutes.

The moment the Salamander was forcibly unsummoned, Yuna collapsed to the floor. The familiar agony of mana reflux coursed through her body, and she writhed as pained groans escaped her lips.

It was humiliating enough to show such an unsightly appearance in front of Sia, her sworn enemy.

But she did not have the composure to care about that now.

Casting aside all dignity, she gasped and reached out to Sia for help.

But Sia looked down at Yuna with an icy gaze, entirely unlike the expression she had worn just before the spar began.

“Ghk... Sia...”

Even calling her name was so painful that it left her breathless.

Separate from the pain, Yuna began to be overwhelmed by immense fear.

No Spirit Summoner had ever died from the side effects of a spirit’s forced unsummoning, but she feared that perhaps she would become the first.

But it was not over yet.

Another pain was waiting for her.

Dragon Fear, which had filled the Salamander with overwhelming terror.

This time, that Dragon Fear was directed at Yuna.

Faced with a density of fear unlike anything she had ever experienced, she seemed to forget even how to breathe. Her face began to turn pale.

Sia walked toward her with slow, steady steps and looked down at Yuna’s broken state.

Could an aura like this really come from a D-rank Hunter?

“Yuna.”

Sia’s eyes were cold, like an assassin looking at a target before a killing.

Yuna wanted to ask what this was and why Sia was suddenly acting this way, but her voice could not leave her throat, dispersing as a faint groan instead.

“Why were you interested in my oppa when you clearly knew he had a girlfriend?”

There was no emotion in Sia’s voice.

That only made the atmosphere more terrifying.

All Yuna could do now was tremble in fear and listen to Sia.

She regretted everything.

Not trying harder to win Minjun’s heart when they were young, approaching Minjun too hastily after meeting him again for the first time in years, and trying to vent her anger on Sia.

All of it.

She wished she could lose consciousness here and now, but her mind was shockingly clear.

“Just in case, if you’re thinking of trying anything with the CCTV footage you saw when we came in, you’d better drop that idea.”

Sia had already cast magic throughout the sparring room without Yuna noticing, so the CCTV footage would probably be recording them having an ordinary spar.

So,

“Even if you go around saying something like this happened to you, no one will believe you.”

Watch yourself.

Fearing for her life, tears streamed down Yuna’s face as she nodded desperately and submissively. Sia released Dragon Fear and returned to where she had been standing.

The pain from her mana reflux gradually faded, and her ragged breathing returned to normal.

But that indescribable agony was still lodged deep in her heart.

Everything had returned to normal as though nothing had happened, but Yuna’s unfocused eyes showed that what had just happened was no illusion.

“Good work, Yuna.”

Yuna did not even have the presence of mind to fix her disheveled hair, but Sia had returned to her usual self and spoke to her warmly.

“It was a great experience. It helped me a lot too. When else would I get the chance to spar with an A-rank Hunter?”

As if they had just finished a perfectly normal spar, Sia spoke casually.

“...”

Yuna found that sight so chilling and frightening that intense fear flooded her body again, enough to leave her paralyzed.

Without even the courage to ask why Sia was acting this way, she could only give a small nod with a vacant expression.

Sia naturally pulled Yuna into a tight embrace.

As though she were grateful to Yuna for arranging this meeting.

Holding her, Sia whispered quietly enough that Yuna could barely hear.

“If you ever show yourself around oppa or me again, this probably won’t be the end of it.”

Then,

as though nothing had happened, she asked Yuna in a friendly tone,

“You’re hungry, right, Yuna? It’s nearly lunchtime. Shall we go get something to eat?”

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