How to raise a random guy's wife

"Ah-woo." Kobayashi Sora held the spoon in her mouth, and the cool, sweet taste spread throughout her mouth.

"Then you want me to go in?"

"Ah."

"Then the rest is up to you." Kato Megumi pushed the smoothie cup next to Kobayashi Sora. "Make sure you finish it before I get back."

Kobayashi Sora nodded.

-

"Wait a minute." Seeing Kato Megumi enter, Sagara Mayu spoke up, her hands still busy. "I was so focused on how to beat him up that I forgot to draw..."

Kato Megumi: "Huh?"

Since it was just a sketch, coupled with a burst of inspiration, Mayu Sagara quickly completed the painting.

"Okay, sorry to have kept you waiting so long."

“It wasn’t long,” Kato Megumi shook her head. “Besides, you were working hard for the project, there’s no need to apologize.”

"I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it..." Mayu Sagara muttered. "Let's not talk about that anymore, let's get straight to the point."

"Okay."

"Can you tell me what happened after you went to his house?"

“Of course, there’s nothing I can’t say.” Kato Megumi thought for a moment, then began to speak.

"Stop right here," Mayu Sagara asked. "Don't you feel uncomfortable? Why would someone ask you to change something?"

Kato Megumi recalled the past, "Just like when I made you change."

"Has anyone ever told you that you're frighteningly perceptive?" Mayu Sagara paused. "Well... I certainly felt uncomfortable at the time, but then I realized you were right... so it turned into annoyance."

“Others don’t express themselves as tactfully as you.” Recalling Kasumigaoka Utaha’s comments, Kato Megumi smiled as she answered Sagara Mayu’s question. “It’s normal that you feel uncomfortable, since I don’t have the same problem. How would you feel if Eriri said to you, ‘I have the same predicament, let’s work together!’ and then quickly pointed out the solution and proposed a concrete plan?”

"This person is not bad," Mayu Sagara said, expressing her true feelings.

“That’s exactly what I mean.” Kato Megumi nodded. “First, I expressed my dissatisfaction with the current situation, and then he deeply sympathized with me. After asking for my thoughts, he offered to help.”

Ah, what a way of speaking.

It wasn't this obvious when I was chatting with them at the same time before.

Once they talked alone, Mayu Sagara discovered that Megumi Kato and Sora Kobayashi had similar communication styles, or rather, communication approaches.

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Are these two people... about to become one?

Chapter 392 How It All Happened

"So," Mayu Sagara asked, bringing up the question she had previously asked Sora Kobayashi, "when did your relationship undergo a qualitative change? In other words, when did you start wanting to take things further with him?"

"Hmm... this," Kato Megumi thought seriously for a moment, "it probably started when he got a cat."

"So early?" Mayu Sagara remembered that the day Kato Megumi and Kobayashi Sora first met was the day Kobayashi Sora started keeping cats.

"Not that early... Although there was some that day, it wasn't anything more than that." Kato Megumi organized her thoughts. "Hmm, do you know anything about the previous 'Sky Blue' incident?"

“I’ve heard about him,” Mayu Sagara replied. “I heard he was an extremely awful guy whose greatest interest was to provoke the other person’s nerves as much as possible without affecting their ability to fulfill their demands. To be honest, that’s quite different from what I’m talking about now.”

"Actually, the difference isn't that big."

"Huh?" Mayu Sagara was taken aback. "You mean, he's still as awful as before?"

"He likes everything to go according to his plan, as controllable as inputting instructions and outputting results in a computer. But people are not machines, and emotional thinking can influence their decisions. So, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the plan, he will try his best to use objective factors to constrain the other party's rationality."

“While what you said makes a lot of sense,” Mayu Sagara concluded, “simply put, he likes to use coercion and bribery, right?”

What I'm trying to say is that he's good at using coercion and bribery.

Is there any difference?

“Liking is a personality trait, while being good at it is an ability,” Kato Megumi explained. “What he likes is control, and what he is good at is coercion and bribery. So when a matter can be resolved through coercion and bribery, he doesn’t need to use other methods—to others, it seems as if he likes coercion and bribery.”

"So your main point is that he's a control freak?"

What do you think a control freak is like?

"A person who tries to control everything around him believes that his decisions are the best and that no one else needs to care about anything but listen to him."

“That’s very apt,” Kato Megumi affirmed Sagara Mayu’s statement. “And then it’s me.”

"Are you a control freak too?"

"I'm quite the opposite. How should I put it? I used to be the kind of person with a very low profile."

"A background character, right?"

"The background characters in anime are like those who have no impact on the plot, right?"

"Yes."

“Then I’m that kind of person.” Kato Megumi looked on with a look of reminiscence. “At first, I would express my opinions and offer my ideas, but if no one cared, there was no need for it.”

“I understand.” Mayu Sagara nodded vigorously.

She understands this perfectly.

At first, she would also advise her brother to have a proper relationship and not always be in a relationship full of conflict.

It was no use saying it once, and it was no use saying it twice.

She didn't want to say it a third time.

There's no need for that.

but......

Mayu Sagara pointed out, "The more you do this, the more you'll be ignored, right?"

"On the other hand, what else can you do when you've already been ignored?"

Sagara Mayu: "..."

I had only heard that Kato Megumi had a low profile before, so I didn't feel much about it.

Now that Kato Megumi has said this, it's clear that this is not something that can be glossed over in a single sentence.

No one will ask you questions; your own problems aren't problems.

No one is here to share with, and I can't find anyone to share with either.

Even though I exist, it's as if I have nothing to do with everyone else.

It felt like the world had abandoned us.

"And then," Kato Megumi chuckled, "a control freak, under my influence, adopted an uncontrollable cat."

Sagara Mayu stared blankly at Kato Megumi in front of her.

The smile on her face at that moment vividly illustrated what happiness is.

Mayu Sagara's thoughts seemed to have stagnated.

It's not that I stopped thinking, it's just that too many thoughts came to mind in that instant.

“Wait a minute, let me sort this out.” Mayu Sagara sighed, “So, as a control freak, the fact that he got a cat proves that he’s willing to change, and he has already made changes.”

Kato Megumi nodded. "Mm."

"This means he is a control freak, but not a stubborn one. He has made some changes, and there will be more changes, which means the future is promising."

"Hmm," Kato Megumi replied briefly, gesturing for Sagara Mayu to continue.

"Seeing his changes, you also begin to have hope for your own changes, so you want to continue spending time with him."

"Ah."

"At the same time, because his change is partly due to you, as someone with a low profile, you are fascinated by this kind of influence on others, so you want to continue to be with him."

"Ah."

"That's all I can think of." Mayu Sagara finally sorted out her thoughts.

Then I started to feel that Kobayashi Sora was right.

Human emotional thinking is just too complex.

“Because you don’t know much, it’s already quite remarkable that you thought of these things,” Kato Megumi said, recounting the details. “When we found the mochi, Sora’s first thought was to send it to an animal shelter.”

"I remember that animals at animal shelters are euthanized if no one adopts them for a certain period of time, right?"

“I know that, but sending stray animals to shelters is the right choice and should not be stopped.”

“Indeed.” Mayu Sagara also knew the harm caused by stray animals.

"So I poked at the rice cake on the road, trying to make it escape."

"Ah...that's a rather cunning approach."

"When we got to the shelter and heard about its rules, Sora decided to adopt him." Kato Megumi recalled Sora's expression at the time. "Then he said to me: 'Just tell me directly.'"

"Ah..." Sagara Mayu understood.

At that time, Kato Megumi, as always, hid her thoughts.

Kobayashi Sora said to her, "Just tell me directly."

Then I adopted Nian Gao (a type of rice cake).

This is actually just a very ordinary thing.

However, considering that one of these guys is a control freak trying to dominate everything around him, and the other is a background character who has always been ignored.

This ordinary thing has become extraordinary.

“I thought it was an exception, so another time, I hid my feelings from him, but it didn’t work out.” Kato Megumi’s eyes gleamed. “After that, I did as he said and told him directly what I wanted to say. I like you, I want to be your girlfriend, I accept your proposal… I told him everything directly.”

Sagara Mayu recalled that Kobayashi Sora had talked about preparing to confess her feelings and propose to her.

And then there are the expressions: "Ah, how happy I am!" and "Ah, how happy I am!" 2.0.

So this is the root of the problem?