How to raise a random guy's wife

Kato Megumi asked, puzzled, "An ordinary person?"

"What is the antonym of 'attack'?" Eriri asked.

Kato Megumi: "Protect him."

Eriri: "An ordinary person."

Kato Megumi: "Huh?"

"The person in charge of the script will be joining soon." Kobayashi Sora pressed the marble on the Ramune soda, held the bottle cap shut to prevent the soda from overflowing, wiped the spilled drink with a tissue, and handed it to Kato Megumi. "You two know each other."

"I know her?!" Eriri blinked her big eyes. "Wait, could it be... you contacted her?!"

"She writes good scripts."

"That's not the point!" Eriri snapped.

"That's the key point. Everything else is secondary and can be ignored, including your conflict with her."

"I want to quit!"

“Okay.” Kobayashi Sora nodded. “That way she can spend all her time with Tomoya.”

"...What does this have to do with me!" Eriri stubbornly retorted, like a defeated dog.

"This is a competition. Let's see if your original artwork is better, or her script is more compelling, within the same game." Kobayashi Sora offered her a way out. "Is Kashiwagi Eri-sensei going to back down without a fight?"

"...I will not lose to her!" Eriri snorted and turned her head away.

A proud and arrogant person who's super easy to please.

"Hmm..." Kato Megumi asked curiously, "Is the person in charge of the script also the type who needs to keep secrets?"

"No, that's not it. She's even held book signings, and there were no adult content signs."

Eriri gritted her teeth, "She is!"

Do you know Kasumigaoka Utaha-senpai from Class 3-C?

"It's hard not to recognize her." Kato Megumi's mouth dropped open in surprise. "She's an honor student."

"Hmph!" Eriri turned her head to watch the animation.

Eriri's academic performance is average, and she even has English scores that would put anyone of British descent to shame.

The conversation got to a rather unpleasant point, so it was time for some quiet anime watching.

Eriri was already in tears when the ending theme song played.

"It's truly a masterpiece, no wonder it's generating so much buzz," Kobayashi Sora praised. "The music and visuals are perfectly matched, but the most important thing is the buzz surrounding the 'Falling from the Sky and Fighting the Childhood Sweetheart' story."

“It’s really touching,” Kato Megumi nodded. “Especially when the childhood friend left.”

Eriri, her eyes brimming with tears, glared at the two of them with displeasure. "So why should I watch this with people like you?!"

I'm crying!

When others are crying, cry along with them!

Chapter 40 Each on its own

“Even if you say that…” Kato Megumi was a little troubled, “The childhood friend part is just one scene, and the rest is all about the daily interactions between the male and female leads. Even if you want to cry, you can’t.”

Kobayashi Sora: "I was so focused on the story structure and the way it was expressed, sorry."

Rice Cake: "Meow~"

The little guy had never seen Eriri with such long hair, especially blonde hair, and reached out his paw to scratch it.

"Mochi is still the best." Eriri hugged the cat heartbrokenly.

Rice Cake: "Meow?"

“Miko (the childhood friend in the anime) is so pitiful.” Eriri sobbed, taking off her glasses to wipe away her tears. “I’m going to draw a doujinshi about Junko (the heroine who suddenly appears in the anime).

Kato Megumi: "Huh?"

“Any inspiration will do.” Kobayashi Sora pressed, “What about the specific plot?”

"Being taken turns by the idiot duo..."

Kato Megumi: "Huh?"

Kobayashi Sora sighed, "If you feel sorry for Miko, then don't make Junko even more pitiful."

"Then what do you suggest we do?"

Kobayashi Sora thought for a moment, "Drawing is about mundane daily life, like walking home together after school, making dinner together, eating dinner together, playing games together, and so on?"

Eriri's reaction was rather indifferent. "I can skip over many points I want to criticize and just give you one comment: nothing new."

"I didn't expect you to say that."

"That's why I said it's not the right time yet, I have absolutely no inspiration."

"How do you usually... eh?" Kobayashi Sora stared at Eriri. "I mean, you wouldn't be facing a deadline and having no inspiration, so you poured all your anxiety and frustration into your manga to create a really impactful story, would you?"

"No...no, I didn't!" Eriri looked away, drenched in cold sweat.

Look at how guilty this guy looks.

"Hmph... Alright then, the 'what if' scenario for Kamiko and the protagonist."

"So you're saying it's unoriginal?" Eriri pouted. "You actually want me to draw a pure romance novel... If it doesn't sell well, it's your fault."

"You could draw a pure love humiliation doujinshi."

"This is completely out of character!" Eriri said angrily. "Miko and the protagonist aren't even into that kind of thing."

"We can do it this way: the two of us can get married, and then spend a peaceful day together, sharing a bed."

"Make up for it with intense sex?"

"No...the two of them slept peacefully, and nothing happened."

"What does that mean?"

“The female protagonist is dreaming, anything can happen in her dream,” Kobayashi Sora suggested. “Slimes, tentacle monsters, it’s all a dream.”

"Well......"

"Then the dream ended, and the two engaged in real combat." Kobayashi Sora concluded, "A pure love humiliation story."

"Tsk..." Eriri bit her lower lip with her canine teeth. Although she didn't want to admit it, it was indeed a good idea. "I really don't know how you came up with this."

"Nothing special, just practice makes perfect."

"Ok?"

"I mean, observe and think more." Kobayashi Sora cleared his throat twice. "I'll draw the storyboard."

Kobayashi Sora was working at a rapid pace, quickly drawing storyboards and outlining their general shapes with circles.

Then there's the issue of the dialogue.

Kobayashi Sora is quite mature; she spent a whole night with Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Eriri mimics the heroine's lines, "Ever since Junko appeared, you've been..."

Kobayashi Sora diligently simulated, "No, Miko, it's because..."

"I won't listen, you just like her."

"Maybe I like her, but the person I truly love is you. It was because of her that I was able to distinguish between liking and loving."

"What's the point of saying all this now...?"

"Go straight up here and kiss her." Kobayashi Sora broke free from her role.

"Okay," Eriri noted irritably.

Kato Megumi felt she should leave when her sister texted her, "Are you coming back today?"

Kato Megumi lowered her head and typed, "I'll be right there..."

"Get to bed quickly," Eriri reminded her. "There are only so many pages left."

"Is what follows a one-man show of a dream?"

“Hmm, not there, not here…” Eriri skillfully wrote her lines, “The dream is over.”

"Wow, that's fast!" Kobayashi Sora said, getting into character. "Did you have a nightmare?"

"Um...no..."

"I see you..."

"I've said too much, there aren't enough pages, hurry up and come in."

"Miko, I want..."

"Ouch, it hurts so much..."

Kato Megumi: "..." [I'll be back later]

He casually covered the rice cake's ears.

Children shouldn't listen to this.

"Phew—" Eriri breathed a sigh of relief, finally finishing the draft.

Although the lines are messy, the lines are hastily drawn, and some detailed expressions are yet to be drawn, the basic outline of the content can already be seen.

The rest is just work like outlining and coloring.

"It actually finished, more than twenty days ahead of schedule..." Even Eriri herself found it hard to believe that she had actually completed the task under Kobayashi Sora's guidance... Wait!?

What did I just do?!

This seems to be that... that legendary... romance?!

I actually met Kobayashi Sora...

"Have a drink," Kato Megumi said, handing over a cup of black tea with ice.

And this was witnessed by a classmate they were meeting for the first time?!