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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 61: Oppa… Are You Okay?

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Sia’s rampage, which had been pouring out magic like a tsunami while she could not control herself, finally stopped.

The rampage she had thought would continue until time ran out had suddenly ended, and her eyes soon filled with surprise.

‘How...?’

How had Minjun stopped her rampage with Dragon Speech he could not even use properly yet?

But now was not the time to dwell on that.

‘What happened to oppa?’

Sia looked around to check on Minjun.

However, thick fog created by the aftermath of the uncontrolled magic that had poured out moments ago blocked her vision.

Moreover, the aftereffects of the rampage left her unable to use even simple magic.

There was no helping it.

Until the fog cleared, all she could do was call for Minjun at the top of her lungs and search for him.

“Op... pa...”

But her voice, already drained of all strength, could not carry properly.

‘I need to say something...’

Without hearing Minjun’s voice, Sia lost consciousness on the spot.

Shortly after Sia fainted, the fog slowly began to clear, and Minjun found her lying on the ground.

Cough.

“S-Sia!”

He desperately wanted to run to Sia and check whether she was all right, but before she lost control, Sia had clearly told him not to worry about her. She had told him to get out of here first and tell Rokan about her condition.

Leaving the unconscious Sia behind alone weighed heavily on him, but there had to be a reason she had insisted so strongly.

Swallowing back his tears, Minjun ran toward the portal with all his strength despite limping.

Pain shot through him with every step, and he coughed up blood several times along the way, but Minjun kept running with everything he had.

After barely escaping the dungeon, Minjun immediately contacted Rokan.

The moment the call connected, before he could even hear Rokan’s voice, Minjun shouted with all his strength.

“Sia’s rampage...!”

[I-I’ll be right there!]

Fortunately, the moment the word “rampage” left Minjun’s mouth, Rokan Teleported to where Minjun was.

“Shasha... How is Shasha...?”

It was the first time.

Rokan, who always had a kind and composed air about him, was shouting so desperately in such a disheveled state.

“Training ground...”

Even saying a single word was difficult for Minjun. He pointed toward the dungeon entrance and barely managed to say the words.

Realizing that Minjun was seriously injured as well, Rokan hurriedly took an elixir from his subspace and poured it into Minjun’s mouth.

This should at least serve as emergency treatment.

Just in case, Rokan left several bottles of elixir beside Minjun along with Undine, a spirit.

“Just a little longer, Minjun. Hold on a little longer. I’m truly sorry.”

Even after taking sufficient measures, he seemed uneasy about leaving an injured person behind. Rokan kept apologizing until the very moment he entered the dungeon.

But while Minjun was injured, it was naturally Sia’s condition that had left Rokan this shaken.

‘Shasha, please be holding on.’

Ever since hearing that his granddaughter had gone on a rampage, Rokan had struggled to remain calm.

He knew well because he had been beside her ever since she first experienced a rampage.

Her life itself was not particularly in danger when she went on a rampage.

If anyone’s life was truly in danger, it was those near the rampaging Sia.

Not Sia herself.

But while it would not kill her, once a rampage began, she suffered such terrible pain that she wished she could die.

Knowing that, Rokan ran toward Sia with a pained heart.

Watching his precious granddaughter, whom he cherished beyond measure, writhe in pain and scream was agonizing.

‘My Shasha.’

It had happened not just anywhere, but in an enclosed space without even one dragon to help her. And she had been alone with Minjun.

How frightened and anxious must she have been?

He had to reach her as quickly as possible and reduce even a little of the pain she would suffer.

“Shasha!”

With a desperate cry, Rokan immediately began searching for Sia.

But when Minjun had told him the news, Rokan had naturally assumed Sia would be unable to control her magic and be writhing in agony.

Instead, only the desolate sound of leaves rustling could be heard. The depths of the dungeon were quiet as a grave.

A chill ran down Rokan’s back.

The silence was an even more ominous sign.

Her rampage could not have stopped for no reason.

Once it began, it continued all day.

So if nothing was happening like this...

Perhaps something terrible had happened to Sia.

Perhaps her life was in grave danger.

“No. No...”

Rokan took a deep breath and shook his head again.

If that were the case, there was no way he would not have sensed it.

Rokan quickly used detection magic and soon found his granddaughter collapsed on the other side of the dungeon.

Her body was faintly, but clearly, twitching.

“Grand... fa...”

The voice was too quiet for an ordinary human to hear, but it was enough to reach Rokan.

“Shasha!”

The moment he heard her voice, Rokan ran toward his granddaughter and pulled her into his arms, not even noticing that one of his shoes had come off.

Her recovery came first.

Rokan restored her strength with Dragon Speech while taking pain-relieving potions from his subspace and giving them to her.

Fortunately, they were not entirely ineffective. Sia seemed to have regained some strength as she coughed.

Cough. Cough.

“Shasha, are you all right? Can you move?”

“No...”

Her voice was still terribly weak, but it was fortunate nonetheless.

This was within the normal range.

After someone went through a rampage, these kinds of aftereffects usually followed.

There was still much Rokan did not understand, and much he wanted to ask, but he decided to leave that for later.

Recovery came first.

Carrying Sia on his back, Rokan hurried out of the dungeon.

Once outside, Rokan found Minjun breathing heavily right in front of the dungeon entrance.

The moment Minjun spotted Rokan, he looked for Sia and found her on Rokan’s back.

At first, she was completely still, and he feared that Sia might be dead.

But once he saw her body twitch faintly, Minjun let out a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Rokan looked back and forth between Minjun, who was breathing heavily, and Sia on his back.

The best option would be to take them both to his lair and treat them together.

But Sia’s energy was incompatible with Minjun.

As though he understood Rokan’s concern from his expression, Minjun addressed it first with a smile.

“I’m fine. Please take care of Sia first.”

A rampage only happened once every few decades, so Sia’s condition was probably much more serious.

Minjun waved his hands, saying he would hold on with the elixirs and wait here a little longer.

Then Sia, still on Rokan’s back, painfully turned her head toward Minjun.

“Oppa...”

Guilt, remorse, gratitude, and sorrow.

With all those emotions in her gaze, Sia called to Minjun as tears welled up in her eyes.

From her perspective, Minjun looked like he desperately needed help too.

And Minjun had been injured because of Sia’s own rampage.

“Don’t worry. Thanks to the elixir, I’m not as bad as I thought. So go get treated first.”

“But...”

“Shasha, don’t worry. I left Undine with Minjun, and he has passed the dangerous point, so he’ll be fine. I’ll send Minjun home first.”

After Teleporting Minjun to his apartment, Rokan took Sia back to his lair.

After that, Rokan laid Sia down and carefully examined her condition.

‘Strange.’

For someone who had just gone through a rampage, she was in strangely good condition.

Normally, by now, she should barely have been able to breathe. But that was not the case.

Objectively speaking, she was not in good shape, but considering she had just gone through a rampage, she looked better than she ever had afterward.

But that was not the only thing Rokan found strange.

‘How did Minjun forcibly stop Shasha’s rampage?’

He had watched her rampage countless times, but this had never happened before.

Whenever Sia went on a rampage, all other dragons could do was keep the magic she fired wildly after losing control from leaving her lair.

Since Sia had been a hatchling, how many dragons, including Rokan himself, had tried to completely control her rampage?

They had tried Dragon Speech, high-level magic, and even artifacts designed specifically to stop her rampage.

There was no method they had not tried, yet every attempt had failed.

So how had Minjun...

How had he succeeded in completely stopping a rampage that continued for nearly twenty-four hours without rest in less than an hour?

“This only makes my head hurt more.”

How had a human accomplished what even dragons could not?

Rokan guessed it was connected to a secret of Minjun’s that even Minjun himself did not know.

“What is?”

“Nothing. Don’t push yourself. Just rest and sleep.”

Rokan laid Sia back down after she sat up and covered her with a blanket.

But Sia felt too uneasy to fall asleep easily.

“Oppa... he’ll be okay, right?”

“Don’t worry. I am checking on him through Undine, and fortunately, he is in stable condition.”

But Rokan’s words did not seem to reassure her. Sia’s face was still full of worry.

‘It can’t be helped.’

Rokan fully understood how Sia felt.

“Once you fall asleep, I plan to go over to Minjun.”

“He really is okay, right?”

“You saw him earlier too. He is injured, but if he rests well and is cared for, he can recover sufficiently within a few days. If you are still worried, I can make a video call to Minjun.”

Rokan thought Sia would feel better if she saw that Minjun was conscious and doing all right, but for some reason, she shook her head.

He had expected her to beg to see Minjun, so her unexpected response surprised him even more.

“If I see oppa... I think I’ll cry.”

It was because of her guilt.

A few hours ago, when she had been rampaging, her mind had gradually grown hazy.

But the moment her uncontrolled magic had struck Minjun had become a terrible trauma for her.

Minjun’s painful screams, and the desperate look in his eyes as he tried to save her despite knowing that one mistake could put him in danger of dying.

She wished she could forget Minjun’s desperate eyes and cries.

But dragons were not granted the blessing of forgetfulness. No matter how much she did not want to, she could only vividly recall that moment again and again.

Tears began to fill Sia’s eyes.

“...All right.”

Rokan held Sia’s hand for a long time as he watched over her condition. After she fell asleep, he quietly went to Minjun’s home.

After Rokan left.

Sia woke from sleep because of pain that had not yet completely faded, and she sat up to take the painkillers by her bedside.

Normally, she would look at the photos of Minjun saved on her phone before falling asleep again.

But now, the more she thought of Minjun, the heavier her chest felt.

“How am I supposed to look oppa in the face when I see him next?”

She was so sorry. And so grateful.

She knew she needed to sleep again, but images of Minjun from the entire day kept coming back to her. Despite her exhaustion, she could not fall asleep easily.

Perhaps tonight, she would have a terrible nightmare.

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