A Highest Rank in Another World!

After that awkward moment that lasted a few minutes, the door to Emma and Lucio's room was opened. Then Emma came out of the room with a slightly sleepy face.

"Were you asleep again?" Noah asked her, then she walked towards the bathroom without answering him. 

After washing her face, she went to the kitchen and got a glass of tea.

"Yes, I slept again." She approached the living room and sat down on the couch, forcing Noah and Lisandra to the side a little.

"It's a little cramped in here. You could have sat in a chair, couldn't you?" Noah grumbled and then immediately moved off the couch to make more room for Lisandra and Ciaphia.

"Whatever." Emma took a sip of her tea and then sighed and looked at Noah. Noah had grabbed a chair and was sitting next to her.

"I overheard your conversation. So you are dating Ciaphia? How surprising." Emma said not sounding surprised. Because of this, Noah was a little disappointed.

"I thought you would be surprised, how disappointing."

"How could I be surprised now? I was surprised while I was still lying in bed."

"So that's why you got up."

"No, I need to take care of some things in the village again. I'm tired."

"Good luck with that." Noah smiled at Emma to encourage her. Seeing that, Lisandra and Ciaphia smiled bitterly.

"I think I'm going to need it... But now tell me, how did this happen? I ended up sleeping again and didn't listen to the whole story." Emma took another sip of her tea and looked at Noah and Ciaphia.

Ciaphia's face turned red again.

"Do you want to listen? It's not something very interesting." Noah asked and got up from his chair.

"Yes, I do."

"All right, Ciaphia will tell you everything, because now I need to leave." Noah opened the door and prepared to leave.

"Are you embarrassed or something?" Emma tried to make Noah embarrassed, but he just smiled at her.

"I need to go after Lari. After she found out about us she ran away. I'm afraid she'll do something crazy."

"Ah, so that's it. Good luck with her, it's going to be a little tricky for you to convince her to accept your relationship."

"I don't need to convince her of anything, if she doesn't accept it, there's nothing I can do about it."

"..." Emma watched Noah leave the house and looked at Lisandra and Ciaphia.

"What do you guys think about that?" She asked as she sipped her tea.

"Well, I don't think Noah has any reason to try to convince her. It was his choice, she needs to accept that, no?" Lisandra shrugged as if she didn't care about that, Ciaphia on the other hand looked worried.

She looked at Emma for a few seconds before she said something.

"I don't know what to think. I'm afraid she'll end up doing something crazy because of it, and I'm also afraid she'll end up hating me." Ciaphia bowed her head looking a little sad.

Lisandra looked at her and tried to support her by giving a big smile and telling her not to worry. Emma, on the other hand, was sincere.

"She's sure to hate you." She said honestly, making Ciaphia go into a state of shock.

"Hey, Mom..." Lisandra caught her mother's attention as she noticed that Ciaphia was almost starting to cry.

"But it's the truth. She has loved Noah since he was very small. Even if it's strange, it's the truth. I'm sure she'll be angry that Ciaphia stole him from her."

"But she didn't steal him."

"I know, it was just a figure of speech."

"It's okay, Ciaphia, I'm sure it will be fine." Lisandra looked seriously at her mother.

She was telling her mother to be quiet just by looking at her, so her mother was silent.

'Lisandra is angry now? I just answered everything honestly.' Emma thought as she finished drinking her tea and stood up.

She then opened her mouth and raised her arms.

"Aaaah~~ All right, time to get to work. And don't worry, Ciaphia, I will support you." Emma smiled at Ciaphia and left the house.

"Do you hear that? We'll all support you, so don't worry, I'm sure Noah will be able to convince Lari somehow." Lisandra hugged Ciaphia.

"Will he?"

"I'm sure he will."

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Noah left his house and started walking in the same direction that Lari had.

He was in a bit of a hurry because he remembered everything Lari had already done.

'She tried to abuse me in the bathroom and has already done crazy things. Surely she has the nerve to do something stupid just because I started dating someone.' Noah thought as he walked quickly and looked for her.

Since he wasn't finding her, he started asking some locals who were hanging around if they had seen her.

"Lari? I haven't seen her."

"I think I saw her running in that direction."

"A while ago she came by here while she was crying."

"She was crying, what happened?"

Many residents gave Noah clues to find her.

"Lari!" Noah had already approached the wall that was around the village, so he shouted for her.

Around there were only a few empty houses that the residents who had gone had left.

"Lari, are you around here?" he shouted as he walked between those houses, but unfortunately no one answered.

"Will I have to go into all these houses?" Noah sighed and then entered the first house. It was a wooden house like all the others. It was recent construction, so it was well taken care of.

But It was dirty since the residents had left quite a while ago.

There was still furniture in the house, so it was a house that could very well be lived in by someone. If it wasn't full of cobwebs and dust, surely Noah would think that someone is living here.

"Lari, are you here?" Noah walked through the living room and made his way to the bedroom.

Thump~~

And right after his question, he heard a door closing.

"Glup~~" Noah swallowed dryly.

'It's not that I'm afraid of ghosts or anything... I'm an adult, I can do this...' He walked to the second and last bedroom that existed in the house, which was where the sound had come.

Noah was walking slowly.

"Lari?" He looked inside the room and saw that the bed was tidy and had some toys on the small table inside the room.

'It feels like I'm in a horror book story. Imagine if it was at night? I sure wouldn't come in here.'

Noah walked into the bedroom and looked around.

Then he went to the closet where the sound had come from.

After building up courage, he opened the closet door.

And a woman fell out. Lari who was sitting inside the closet fell to the side and landed on the floor.

"Ouch~~" After emitting some strange sounds, she stood up and looked at Noah. His clothes, face, and hands were full of dust.

"What are you doing here? Leave me alone!" She shouted at Noah and then immediately tried to leave the bedroom.

But Noah grabbed her hand, not allowing her to move on.

"I told you to leave me alone! Let go of me!" Lari screamed again as she tried to get loose. But Noah was showing no signs that he would let her leave the room.

"We need to talk, stop acting like a child," Noah said to her while keeping a serious expression.

"I don't want to talk to you! You already chose to be with that girl, I don't want to talk to you anymore."

"I see, so you don't want to talk to me anymore."

"..."

"I'll leave then. When you're better you can come home. Don't try to do anything crazy." Noah let go of Lari's hand and then prepared to leave the room.

But as soon as he tried to leave, the hem of his shirt was grabbed by Lari.

"What is it?" he turned around and looked at Lari. She was crying as she looked at him with a very sad expression.

When Noah saw this, a bad feeling grew in his chest. Because of this, he came closer and hugged her.

"Please don't cry." He whispered as he hugged her. Since he was short, his face was almost at her breasts. Because of this, Lari ducked down.

"There's no way I can't cry... You chose to be with someone else."

"I'm sorry about that, but we couldn't be together anyway. You're much older and I just can't see you as a suitor to be my wife. I tried... But..."

At Noah's words, Lari pulled away from a little and looked at him.

"You can't see me as a future wife, is that it?" She continued to cry.

"Exactly. I've tried, but I can't. I can only think of you as my older sister, and-"

And as Noah tried to justify his choice, Lari moved closer and placed her lips on Noah's lips.

He was talking so his mouth was partially open. And because of that Lari managed to stick her tongue inside Noah's mouth. 

He let the kiss happen for three seconds before he pulled away from Lari.

"Stop it!" Noah shouted as he looked at Lari in irritation.