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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 80: Let’s Meet Again.

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A dragon-shaped figure, presumably Bellium.

The moment Minjun saw it, he felt as if his breath had stopped.

“Minjun... sir?”

When Minjun simply stared blankly at Bellium’s remains without a word, Adil cautiously called out to him, apparently worried.

But Minjun did not answer.

No, more precisely, he could not answer.

At that moment, Minjun was practically cut off from the outside world.

Staring dazedly at Bellium’s apparition, Minjun carefully opened his mouth.

“Could you be... Lord Bellium?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the radiance surrounding Minjun grew brighter and brighter before swallowing him whole.

And with that radiance, Minjun vanished.

* * *

The first thing Minjun saw when he opened his eyes was pale smoke, thick as fog, spreading out before him.

‘Where... am I?’

It did not seem to be Earth or Pangaea.

He tried to call out and ask whether anyone was there, but no words came out. Likewise, he could not move his body as he wished.

It felt as though he had become a patient in a vegetative state, able to do nothing but blink.

‘What exactly is going on?’

Before long, the smoke gradually cleared, revealing dozens of dragons densely filling the distant sky.

The sight of not one but dozens of dragons crowding the sky was enough to leave Minjun stunned.

But his awe at the scene lasted only a moment.

‘What is Bellium trying to show me?’

The radiance, Bellium, and Bellium’s lingering will.

Putting those clues together, Minjun became certain that Bellium was deliberately showing him the scene before his eyes.

Then this was probably a scene from the past.

Why was Bellium showing him a scene from the past?

And why were all those dragons filling the sky?

A small gap appeared among the dragons crowding the sky, and it gradually widened.

As soon as the view zoomed in, Minjun could see citizens of many different races looking up at the sky in terror.

Those residents were probably...

‘The people of Elysium?’

From the residents of different races and the sight of them fleeing to underground air-raid shelters, Minjun inferred that he was looking at Elysium from tens of thousands of years ago.

‘But... wait a second.’

He had heard that Elysium had frequently faced outside invasions ever since its founding.

But if so many dragons had once invaded Elysium, someone would have told Minjun about it at least once. Yet he had never heard anything about such a history.

Even if the residents did not know, Adil, a historian, surely would have at least briefly mentioned it.

‘Why?’

Was there any reason for all those dragons to invade Elysium?

They could not have come just to capture a human who had challenged a dragon. Judging by how they had gathered in such numbers, they likely had business with Bellium, another dragon.

Perhaps Bellium had gathered exiles and built a town because he, too, had been ostracized from dragon society for some reason.

Or perhaps Adil had said that the most likely theory as to why Bellium founded this city involved his child, about whom no information had been passed down.

Could that child have committed a grave wrong, prompting the dragons to come and judge the matter?

He did not know what had truly happened, but once he formed that hypothesis, it seemed fairly plausible.

As Minjun busily formed his own theories about the situation before him, his view suddenly shifted.

A man was urgently directing the residents toward the air-raid shelter, the Sanctuary.

The residents were panicking, and the man shouted something at them while using Dragon Speech to help them evacuate.

So many voices rang out that Minjun’s ears hurt, but he could not understand a single word.

For some reason, though, he felt he could guess the man’s identity.

‘Bellium.’

He was in human form, but considering the situation as a whole, there was a high chance that he was Bellium using Polymorph.

Around then.

After confirming that every resident had escaped, the man shouted something at the dragons dominating the sky.

Once again, Minjun could not understand what he was saying.

‘If that man really is Bellium...’

From the way he faced the dragons, there definitely seemed to be some conflict between Bellium and the other dragons.

In the middle of their heated exchange, Bellium suddenly turned around and urgently said something to someone who was not a dragon.

Just as the view was about to shift in that direction, his vision suddenly began to crackle with static.

‘Why?’

He wanted to see more.

He could not understand their conversation, but their faces, expressions, and the agitated emotions in their voices were enough for him to roughly grasp the situation at the time.

And judging by how Bellium’s voice had grown louder than before, the person he was speaking to was likely his child.

Minjun instinctively knew he could find an important clue here.

But.

His wish did not come true.

Unable to speak or move, there was nothing Minjun could do.

The crackling image did not return to normal.

The view began to grow hazy again, and soon everything around him became black as pitch.

After that.

Not long afterward, the radiance from before began to bloom once again.

But this time, something was different.

Unlike before, when it seemed to show him a scene from Elysium’s past, this time only radiance bloomed within a completely black space.

And unlike before, when his movements had been restricted, Minjun could now move freely.

Once the restrictions on his movement disappeared, Minjun walked toward the radiance as though entranced.

The blooming radiance gradually began to take the shape of a person, and when the transformation was complete, it had become someone’s form.

He was tall, with ash-gray hair and mysterious eyes that seemed to hold blue starlight in sharp contrast to it.

It was the man Minjun had just seen in the vision.

Given the circumstances, this was likely what Bellium had looked like in life.

Minjun swallowed hard and stepped closer to him.

The man’s expression as he looked at Minjun was difficult to define.

It was as though joy, anger, sorrow, and delight were all present in it.

The man’s unreadable expression made Minjun even more curious.

There was so much he wanted to ask that his mind nearly went blank.

Are you really Bellium? Were you the one who called me to Elysium? If so, why did you call me?

What is that radiance, and why did you help me?

Why did this jewel, said to be your tear, become absorbed into me? Was that also your intention?

However, just as Minjun was about to ask the man his first question.

<I am sorry.>

With those words, the man began scattering into light, as though everything Minjun had just witnessed had been an illusion.

They had not even had a proper conversation yet.

Minjun urgently reached out toward Bellium.

“Lord Bellium! Wait! Why did you bring me here...?!”

Before Minjun could finish speaking, Bellium completely turned into light, leaving not even a trace behind.

Minjun collapsed to the ground in despair.

“I thought we would at least get to talk...”

Would everything end in vain like this?

Minjun stared blankly at the traces of Bellium that had become radiance once more.

‘What... happens now?’

At the very least, he had thought they would be able to exchange a few words after meeting like this.

While Minjun was overcome by disappointment, the light that had taken Bellium’s form slowly approached Minjun and wrapped around him.

Before, it would have ended with the dragon aura within his body being amplified, but this time, that was not all.

Along with the amplification of his aura, a notification window appeared before Minjun.

It had been quite some time since a notification window had appeared, and its contents were also quite shocking.

[Part of your existing skills has been unlocked by ???.]

[??? (EX)

Skill Description:

1) Stealth: Upon activation, completely conceals the caster’s aura. However, while this skill is active, the caster cannot affect others in any way.

The skill may be canceled midway through activation. (Duration: 30 minutes, Cooldown: 10 minutes)

2) ???: (Seal released upon achieving ???)]

Part of the mysterious skill that had existed ever since Minjun first awakened had been unlocked.

However, the skill’s name was still hidden, and it had not even been completely unlocked.

Even so, it was enough to shock Minjun.

Why had a skill whose identity he had not known until now been unlocked at such a perfect moment?

And what exactly was the relationship between this skill, the radiance, and Bellium?

His mind had already been complicated enough, but this utterly unexpected event made it even more so.

However, Minjun had no time to dwell on it.

Not long after the notification window appeared, the radiance faded.

And a door leading to another dimension appeared.

Minjun instinctively knew it was a dimensional gate that would take him back to Earth.

Without hesitation, he ran into it.

And after Minjun left, only darkness remained in that space.

<Let us meet again.>

Only the faint echo of Bellium’s lingering will, which never reached Minjun, reverberated through it.

* * *

The moment I leaped into the dimensional gate, an immense amount of light burst forth.

The glare made me shut my eyes for a moment.

When I opened them again and looked around, a familiar sight met my eyes.

Countless Hunters and Hunter Association personnel stared at me in surprise as I emerged from the Gate.

When I turned my head, I saw Jeju Island’s blue sea and the Gate I had entered only moments ago.

“Finally...”

I was back on Earth.

I had worried that I might never return to Earth, that I might never see the people I loved again.

Thankfully, it seemed God had not abandoned me.

But before I could savor the joy of returning.

“Mr. Minjun!”

“Are you all right? Are you injured anywhere?”

“What happened inside?”

Questions began pouring in from all sides.

However.

I knew they had many questions, but I was not in a state where I could answer every one of them.

As I blankly stared at the crowd, one woman who seemed to understand my condition shouted at the others.

“Everyone, please quiet down for a moment! I know you all have a lot of questions, but he just got back! What is everyone in such a hurry for?”

After quieting the others, the woman brought a bottle of water from the tent and handed it to me.

“Ah, thank you.”

The moment I received it, I drained the bottle in one go.

After taking the empty bottle, the woman spoke gently.

“I don’t know what happened inside, but please catch your breath first, then tell us about it.”

Thanks to her consideration, I had a moment to collect my thoughts.

As I organized them, I realized there was something I needed to check.

“May I ask how much time has passed since I entered the Gate?”

A Gate could be considered a fragment of another dimension, and since time flowed differently between dimensions, time inside a Gate and time on Earth could sometimes pass at different rates.

For example, three hours might pass inside a Gate while only one hour passed on Earth, and the reverse could happen as well.

However, there had never been a reported case of time passing at an extremely fast or slow rate.

In other words, there had never been a case where someone spent one hour in a Gate only to return to Earth and find that a year had passed.

But if it was this Gate, which had shattered all common sense, perhaps even something so absurd was possible.

Swallowing nervously, I anxiously waited for the woman’s answer.

What if much more time had passed on Earth than I thought?

Sia, my family, and Rokan must have worried so much.

But her answer completely defied my expectations.

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