Lami was very fast to fall asleep.

I was still in her embrace and was enjoying the body contact. This is the first time I am not sleeping alone in this world and, to be honest, it was a nice feeling to have someone by my side. Sleeping like this reminds me of the time I dated a girl. She was a good-looking person and was too good for me. I still don’t know why she asked me out or why I said yes to her to this day. I did date her for some time but It didn’t work out so well in the end. To tell the truth, it was all my fault.

Since this was my first time dating someone, I simply had no idea what to do. And there was no close friend of mine who could give me advice on how all this works. So I went to the internet and read a bunch of stuff on forums that other people do and went with that. It was going good at the start and she seemed happy but that did not last long.

One day she just comes to my apartment and says she wants to break up. I was a little surprised but was somewhat expecting this. ‘Who would want to date a boring person like me anyway’ ‘I am glad it lasted till now’ were my thoughts at that time. So I just said “OK” to her and she left after saying “I knew you would say that”.

After 2 days she sends me a text message saying,

‘You bastard at least ask me the reason why I broke up with you. Did you not care about our relationship at all?

Do you even love me?

You know what don’t even bother anymore

bye’

I was a little confused by this text but just ignored it since she did not want to talk anymore. After some time, while I was reading a romance novel, I realized what I did wrong. Funny enough, the girl in the novel broke up with the protagonist with the same line my girlfriend used.

“Do you even love me?”

Then the author proceeded to describe what the protagonist did wrong in their relationship. He was never interested in her so he never tried to make the relationship work. He never shared anything about himself and never really bothered to know the other person.

Then I realized that I was the same. I was never interested so I did not try. I did not try hard enough to make her stay and did not have enough confidence in myself.

After that incident, I started reading a lot of romance genres and got to know a lot about what you do in a relationship. Well, most of the stuff was bullshit but there were some good things too. Sadly enough, I never got a chance to apply and check if those things worked or not.

Now that I was here, my plan was to be more confident and try harder to have a relationship.

The first candidate was already in bed with me but I am guessing she has no idea about male and female relations because she was too carefree around me. So first I need to explain to her what a male-female relationship is, and then we can proceed from there.

Anyway, the first thing was first, I need to go to the lamia village and talk to her mother. Then I need to read those books and figure out where I was and how to get out of here. These were my thoughts as I went to sleep.

I woke up to notice that it was morning already. When I tried to get out of bed, I was pulled back by Lami. I struggle a little and get out without waking her up.

‘she really is a heavy sleeper’ I think to myself with a smile.

I go out and was about to start stretching when I feel something approaching me from my right side. I turn towards it and was about to block but was too slow. It was a clean hit to my chest and I was sent flying towards the obsidian tree.

My ribs were broken and I spew a mouth full of blood. I quickly put my hand on the tree and start using [Metal Healing] and try to heal some of the damage. I was about to look in the direction from where the attack came but a hand grabbed me by the neck and lifted me up. I look at my assailant and was surprised to see who it was.

It was a lamia that looked like Lami but was more mature. She was holding me by the neck and looking me up and down.

“What beast are you?” says the mature lamia. I was surprised that she could speak but figured out who this was. Still, I use the appraisal to confirm my suspicion.

[Lamia]

Name: Lamina

Age 200+

Title: Queen, Scholar, Doting Parent, Ruthless, Pervert, Battle Manic, Fantasist

Class: Warrior, Magician, Researcher, Stalker

Mana:10,236

Level: 987

[Stats]

Vitality: 958 Agility: 972

Stamina: 977 Strength: 998

Intelligence: 838 Dexterity: 934

Charm: 824

Skills :

[Charm (Divine)]

[Absolute Tail Bind]

[Magic Arts]

[Weapon Arts]

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I thought I had gotten strong and was confident that could fight most of the things in this forest but when I saw her stats I was humbled. Just reading the names of the skills I could tell that those were some crazy skills. Still, I had no time to check everything in detail.

I was about to speak and tell her everything but before I could even get a word out of my mouth, she interrupts me and says,

“Why do you have Lami’s smell on you?”

‘Well shit’ I thought in my mind.

There was a proper explanation I could give her but one look in her eyes and a person could tell that she was not gonna listen to anything in this state.

She starts to make her grip around my neck harder and pins me to the tree. Then mana starts to gather in her right hand. I did not understand what that was but I was sure if that hit me, I was gonna die.

I was about to use my [Dragon Transformation] when I shout came from behind Lamina.

“STOP!!!” shouts Lami in panic.

Lami was up and was coming towards us in a hurry.

“Lami!!” says Lamina with an excited voice.

“Mom he human,” says Lami while pointing toward me.

Lamina turns her head towards me and starts to look me up and down again with her eyes wide open.

“Yo..you are hu..human,” says Lamina with shock on her face.

I point towards her hand telling her to loosen the grip.

She lets go quickly and moves back a little.

“cough…cough...yeah, I am human” I say while trying to catch my breath.

The next thing I knew, I was being hugged by Lamina.

“Finally you’re here,” she says with tears in her eyes.