How to raise a random guy's wife

Akane Akasaka handed over the position of RER representative to Sora Kobayashi. Although she has always been easygoing and Sora Kobayashi's abilities are obvious to everyone, many people were still dissatisfied with Sora Kobayashi after she actually became the representative.

Although she didn't dare to directly deny Akane's decision, it was still easy for her to do some underhanded things.

There are countless ways to outwardly comply while inwardly defying authority and deceiving superiors; even Akane Akasaka cannot control everyone.

The saying goes that it's better to guide than to block, which is why Iori Hashima appeared.

Kobayashi Sora independently recruited members, formed a club, and proved her abilities.

Those who have opinions about him can invest their resources in Iori Hashima, helping him to form a club and prove that Sora Kobayashi's abilities are average, and anyone can reach his level.

In this way, internal conflicts can be kept within a range that will not affect the normal activities of RER, while also avoiding internal friction caused by underhanded tactics.

Iori Hashima herself also had the idea of ​​taking over, after all, the position of president is still very attractive.

Without Iori Hashima, the individual efforts of those with their own ideas within the company could very well affect the normal operation of RER. If there were two more people with ulterior motives, the conflict could escalate even further.

What followed was the success of "The Cherry Blossom Promise" and Kobayashi Sora's victory.

Logically speaking, this matter should have just passed.

However, some people still lack sportsmanship and believe that the success of "The Promise of Cherry Blossoms" is due to Kasumi Utako and Eriri, and that producer Kobayashi Sora is dispensable.

Therefore, further action was taken.

On the one hand, they released a production team and invited Kobayashi Sora to an internal meeting, giving him face while distracting him.

On the other hand, through Iori Hashima, Akane Akasaka learns about Eri Kasumi's two talents.

Given Akane Kousaka's personality, she would definitely recruit Utako Kasumi and Eriri into her ranks.

As a result, Kobayashi Sora lost two key personnel. If he is not up to par, he will be blamed and replaced.

At the same time, if he were capable, even without Xia Yingli, the club he founded, he could allocate club resources more fairly.

This is what is known as a win-win situation.

It means they won twice.

Following this plan will ensure that you won't lose money either way.

But there is a problem with this.

Iori Hashima does indeed have the idea of ​​going head-to-head with Sora Kobayashi.

But it's just a gamble.

Because he understands Akane Kousaka.

Akane Akasaka doesn't object to deciding the winner through their works; in fact, she strongly encourages it.

But if it goes on and on, and you still try to play dirty tricks after losing your work, then you're not far from being dealt with by Akane Kousaka.

So after losing, he had no intention of taking any further action.

But just like in the beginning, if Iori Hashima doesn't do it, then someone else will, and they'll use all sorts of methods that are impossible to guard against.

So, with the fighting spirit of loving what you do and sticking to it to the end, Iori Hashima agreed to the plan and told Sora Kobayashi about it.

The plan proceeded smoothly, but the core underwent significant changes.

Originally, those people used a production team to hold off Kobayashi Sora, allowing Hashima Iori to poach Kasumi Utako and Eriri through Kousaka Akane. Now, however, Kobayashi Sora is using Hashima Iori to hold off those people and prevent them from taking any further action, while Kobayashi Sora takes the opportunity to poach members of the production team for her own use.

Again.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself should become a monster; and if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

While that production team was trying to use Kobayashi Sora as a breakthrough point, taking advantage of his youth and lack of experience to obtain authorization from Akane Kousaka, Kobayashi Sora also wanted to find an ambitious production team to help him complete his subsequent series of plans.

While others tried to stall Kobayashi Sora with the production team's work, Kobayashi Sora also tried to stall them with Hashima Iori to buy time for her recruitment efforts.

However, there is a problem: poaching people from within the company will cause public outrage.

The key to quelling this anger is...

Eriri, as expected of a diplomat's daughter, asked, "Us?"

“That’s right.” Kobayashi Sora nodded. “They want to separate me from you so that the company’s resources won’t be overly concentrated. Their method is to poach you with the big project ‘Chronicles of the World’.”

Kasumigaoka Utaha gradually understood everything. "And your presence here now means that this operation has failed, but we haven't separated."

"The way to get me to leave the 'Chronicles of the Universe' project is simple—make me busy with another project, which means you have to pretend that I never poached you." Kobayashi Sora chuckled. "On one hand, there's the allocation of resources involving many production teams, and on the other hand, there's a production team that's suffering in silence. It's obvious what they'll choose."

Kasumigaoka Utaha frowned. "But they can also use your poaching of people to declare that you are not suitable for the production of 'Chronicles of the Universe'."

“If it were a normal company, that would be true, but this is RER.” Eriri had a different opinion. “Whether it’s suitable or not is up to Akane Kousaka to decide. And the fact that Sora Ao is here itself shows Akane Kousaka’s attitude.”

Akane Kousaka's attitude was very simple.

That's enough.

Those who doubted my decision and wanted to decide the winner with their work, I don't care.

Now that the winner has been decided, they've started resorting to underhanded tactics again.

Is this never going to end?

“So now they only have one choice.” Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled with delight. “No, one choice isn’t a choice—well done.”

“The dirty world of adults…” Eriri muttered.

Kasumigaoka Utaha tilted her head. "You really understand the filth of adults, in every sense of the word."

"What do you mean by 'various meanings'?!"

Chapter 316 Secretary Kato

"So to put it simply," Kobayashi Sora concluded, "I'm here to participate in the first round of consultations, and the help I can offer in the follow-up work is very limited."

The two, who were initially a little uneasy, felt relieved after seeing Kobayashi Sora appear.

Their creative abilities are undeniable, but their social skills...

One is proud, the other is arrogant.

If it weren't for Kobayashi Sora, they would probably have been listening in with Akane Akasaka.

Now that they have Kobayashi Sora, they can listen in on her classes.

"The person we need to pay attention to this time is Zhong Ben, the head of Malz's R&D department and the overall person in charge of the Global Chronicles series. He is forty-seven years old and his height is..."

Although it wasn't the first time they'd met, Kasumigaoka Utaha was still amazed by Kobayashi Sora's intelligence-gathering abilities. "How did you know?"

“Oh, that,” Kobayashi Sora replied, “It’s written on Wikipedia.”

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "......"

Eriri noticed another problem, "What about Megumi? Why do you bother Megumi to run around with you?"

“Of course we’ll go on a spring outing during spring break,” Kobayashi Sora replied. “After the negotiations are over, it’ll be time for a fun trip.”

"Tsk." Kasumigaoka Utaha made a displeased sound.

After a night's rest, I met Akane Akasaka the next day, who had sobered up from her drunken stupor.

After a quick lunch, the formal negotiations began.

It wasn't until 3 p.m. that Kato Megumi, who was waiting at the cafe, finally saw Eriri and Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had come out earlier.

"Is it over already?" Kato Megumi didn't see Kobayashi Sora's figure.

“It’s just the beginning.” Eriri is quite familiar with this process. “The previous discussions only set the tone; there are still many details to be finalized in the contract.”

"It's more boring than I expected." Kasumigaoka Utaha stretched. "If it weren't for Sora Aoi being here."

"Huh?" Kato Megumi asked curiously.

"You don't know, Akane Kousaka pretended to listen for a while, then immediately went to sleep." Eriri's pink cheeks puffed out slightly. "How could she do that!"

"Get to the point," Kasumigaoka Utaha reminded her. "That's not what Megumi wants to hear."

“Ah, right.” Eriri took a big gulp of black tea. “At first, the person in charge at Malz, the one Sora mentioned earlier, after a brief exchange of pleasantries, went on and on about his requirements—the scale, the release date, the phased progress, and a whole bunch of other things—until I was almost falling asleep before he stopped. Then Sora started speaking, but after only a few sentences, he was interrupted by that person, who then launched into a long-winded speech about how important this project was, how the Universal Chronicles series couldn't go wrong, how this was the first collaboration and how he needed to pay special attention to a bunch of other nonsense. Sora had barely managed to reply with a couple of sentences when he was casually interrupted.”

"Simply put, the idea is to overwhelm Sora with sheer force of will, thereby gaining more benefits and shifting more risks onto Akane Akasaka," Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed. "And then Akane Akasaka is sleeping."

Kato Megumi asked with some concern, "What about Sora Ao?"

“To be honest…” Eriri’s eyes flickered slightly, “Before this, I had almost forgotten what Sora looked like.”

“I remembered everything all at once this time,” Kasumigaoka Utaha added. “What kind of monster was Kobayashi Sora, who wasn’t at school?”

Kato Megumi blinked blankly. "A monster?"

"Because the other person kept interrupting him, Kong Qing tried to interrupt them too, but they ignored him. After he couldn't take it anymore, he..." Eriri raised her hand and twirled her fingers, "...and then guess what happened?"

"Hmm..." Kato Megumi thought for a moment, "The lights are off?"

"how do you know?"

"Well... just a guess."

“The power went out, and that person couldn’t continue talking.” Eriri continued, “Then Sora snapped her fingers again, and the lights came back on, but the PPT needed some time to be adjusted. Without the PPT, that person didn’t dare to talk nonsense, but Sora dared to—she directly refuted the other person’s words, sentence by sentence. I really don’t know how she remembered them.”

Kato Megumi frowned slightly. "But, simply refuting it won't do any good, will it?"

“That’s true.” Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded. “So Sora’s rebuttal was very skillful. For example, regarding the things the other party expected Akane Kousaka to do, Sora found corresponding problems in past series, proving that even Maltz, who has a long production experience, could not avoid them, further pointing out that the other party’s demands were unreasonable. When someone suggested that if you can’t do it, you shouldn’t take the job, he named them one by one, listing all the mistakes that everyone present had made in their past work—if you can’t work if you make mistakes, then no one present should be here.”

"Ultimately, both sides have already decided to cooperate. What's left is to discuss the details of the interests, which is similar to haggling at the market." Eriri pointed out the key issue. "Malts wants a breakthrough in the series and a full rollout in multimedia. The best partner for them is Akane Kousaka. At the same time, Akane Kousaka also wants a classic project to enhance her own influence. A well-established company like Maltz is just right."

The knowledge that the diplomat's daughter acquired from her upbringing was put to better use after she left school and entered society.

While Kasumigaoka Utaha focused on verbal sparring, Eriri's attention was more focused on the topic of the negotiation and the overall pace.

“Once everything was discussed, Akane Akasaka led us away,” Kasumigaoka Utaha further explained. “Obviously, she wanted us to understand the other party’s strictness and the complexity of the creative content. We didn’t need to listen to any more about the contractual matters.”

"Let's go get something to eat first," Eriri suggested. "It'll probably be over by the afternoon, and once Sora comes out, we'll go find Akane Kousaka."

"Yes." Kato Megumi nodded.

Eriri's guess was correct; the three of them had just finished dinner when Akane Kousaka called.

As soon as Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri left, Kobayashi Sora appeared in front of Kato Megumi.

"Sorry, the other party was a bit persistent, so it took some time." Kobayashi Sora sat down. "I originally wanted to resolve this quickly."

"No need to rush," Kato Megumi said, sipping her drink. "I just finished eating. Why don't you order some more food?"