A Highest Rank in Another World!

Two hours had passed since Ward had woken up.

After his sister brought coffee into the room and he ate, Ward had calmed down a little. He had calmed down, but he still wasn't saying anything.

"What happened to you?" Luna looked at her brother who was sitting silently on the bed. She thought of several things, but the only conclusion she could think of was that he had seen that demon again.

Remembering what that thing looked like was enough to make Luna's whole body tremble. Just that one disgusting and frightening thing would be enough to leave Ward in this state.

Like any child, Ward had had nightmares before. But he had never been in this state.

'Did the demon do something to him? No, but he doesn't have any injuries.' Luna thought worriedly as she sat down next to her brother.

She looked at every corner of his body as she tried to look for any marks or injuries, but there was nothing.

And since she didn't like to see her brother silent and so "gloomy" she kept trying to get him to say something. But all Ward did was gestures and then remain silent as he stared at the wall.

Not just the wall, but he kept changing the position of his head and staring at the whole bedroom.

He seemed to be waiting for something.

"Right, wait for me here for a while. I'm going to talk to Raquel and I'm also going to bring you some more snacks, okay?" Luna smiled at Ward and stood up, but before she could move away her dress was grabbed.

Ward's hand was shaking as he held her back so she wouldn't leave the bedroom.

"Do you want me to stay with you?"

Ward nodded.

"All right, I'll stay here. Do you want to lie down? You look a little tired." Luna had already realized that Ward had not slept well during the night, so she lay down together with him until he fell asleep.

It took a while, but finally, he closed his eyes.

After her brother slept, Luna lay next to him as she looked at his innocent face and thought about what to do.

'I'm scared.' Luna murmured as she moved closer to her brother and hugged him.

'I'm scared of losing you too, so get back to normal, okay?' Even though she didn't know if he was suffering from some illness or something, Luna started to cry.

Even if he is just scared, she couldn't control her feelings when she remembered her parents and her friends who were killed. What would happen to her if her brother also ended up dying?

She doesn't know if she could go on living.

'I don't even know how I'm managing to live now. Maybe it's because of him.' She smiled at her sleeping brother and then gave him a little kiss on his forehead.

And before she knew it, Luna started to feel sleepy too and ended up sleeping cuddled with her brother.

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"Hmm?" Luna opened her eyes and found Ward beside her staring at her.

The first thing she felt was strangeness, but soon she started to get scared about how her brother was looking at her. But still, she didn't show that she was scared and smiled at him.

"What time is it?" She stood up and looked out the bedroom window. It was late, maybe it was past lunchtime.

"Okay, I think I'll go get us something to eat, all right?" Startled Luna left her room and quickly went down the stairs to the first floor.

Arriving there, she found a few guests sitting at tables. Many of them were drinking and eating snacks, and others were just chatting.

But she didn't mind them and walked over to Raquel.

"What is it?" Noticing Luna a little frightened approaching, Raquel looked worried.

"Did something happen to Ward?" She asked as she placed the tray on the counter.

"He's acting a little too strange. He stands still while staring at me, it's scary."

"Are you afraid of your brother staring at you?

"You don't understand what I mean. He's staring at me so strangely, it's so strange that I can't believe that person is Ward."

"Are you feeling all right? What do you mean by 'This person is not Ward'?"

"That is Ward, but who is in his body is someone else. Maybe it's that demon?" Luna scratched her head as she felt her head start to hurt just thinking about it.

"All right, you need to get some rest. You are worrying too much, there is no demon inside your brother's body, all right?"

"I'm sure that's not Ward! He's never looked at me like that and he's never acted so strange before!"

"All right, all right. I'll serve you something to eat." Raquel scoffed a little at how Luna was acting and ended up giggling.

"..." Luna looked at Raquel for a while, but she just pretended she wasn't listening to any laughter. 

'I don't want to go back to the room now, I'm sorry Ward.' Luna gritted her teeth and sat down at one of the tables. The surrounding guests who had heard Luna's 'craziness' were laughing at her.

But she completely ignored all of them and could only think of her brother staring at her.

'That's not Ward. I'm sure that's not him.' 

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Inside the bedroom, Ward felt his consciousness slowly return.

"What?" he said as he looked around.

"Where am I, I don't remember this place." He began to look around desperately trying to understand where he was.

"The last thing I remember was leaving the village together with my sister... But what happened?" Ward began to search his mind for answers, and after a while, he remembered something.

"That's right, we were heading towards town and Will helped me kill some rabbits. After that, we went into town and found a giant rhino man... Who is he?" Ward tried to remember the man's name, but unfortunately could not.

"And after that, we came to this inn. And after some things that I can't remember I laid down to sleep." Ward started to get extremely scared since he couldn't remember everything that had happened properly.

He got out of bed and walked towards the door to find his sister, but unfortunately, the door didn't open.

"How strange..." He tried to open the door with all his strength.

"Is it locked? Why did someone lock me in here?" He went back to his bed in frustration and sat up.

[ Ward, are you okay?]

"Huh? Will?"

Hearing Will's voice, Ward began to smile that his friend was here.

[ Yes, I'm here ]

"Good, I thought I were alone. Do you know where my sister went?"

[ Don't worry about her, your sister is probably working right now. ]

"Got it, good."

[ But why do you care so much about her? ]

"What do you mean?"

[ Why do you care so much about your sister? ]

"She's part of my family, she's always helped me... And she's my only family now. I guess it makes sense that I care about her so much."  Ward felt sad as he remembered his parents' faces. Unfortunately, he had not been able to forget what happened in the village.

[ I understand. Since she is your only family, what would you think if she ended up dying? ]

"What? Are you crazy? Don't say that."

[ What about your parents coming back? Wouldn't that be nice? ]

"Can my parents come back?"

[ Sure, but you have to do something for me. If you do that I can bring your parents back, what do you think? ]

"How? I'll do anything for that!" Ward excitedly got out of bed and began to smile.

[ I'll need to borrow your body for a while, what do you think? ]

"Borrow my body? But why?

[ I have a mission to accomplish, how about lending me your body? ]

"But..."

[ Don't worry. You'll still be together with me in your body, you'll see everything together with me. What do you think? ]

"I'll be together with you in my body?"

[ That's right. You will be together with me, the only thing you have to do is let me move your body when necessary. And of course, you must obey my orders. ]

"Wouldn't that be a kind of slavery?"

[ Not at all. We would just be two friends controlling the same body. Isn't that fun? ]

"It might be... But my sister would be angry."

[ Don't worry about her, I'm sure I'll make her accept all this. ]

"You'll make her accept it? What do you mean?"

[ You don't have to worry about the details. Now answer me, do you accept my proposal? Remember that you'll get your parents back, isn't that a wonderful proposal? ]

"..."

Ward was silent as he thought of an answer, he was very confused whether he should accept this or not.

What if his friend ended up taking his body forever?

'It's not that I don't trust him, but....'