How to raise a random guy's wife

Kobayashi Sora paused for a moment, then reluctantly let go of Kobayashi Megumi. "Wait for me."

"Mmm." Kobayashi Megumi closed her eyes and nodded gently.

Noticing Kobayashi Megumi's expression, Kobayashi Sora asked, puzzled, "You don't need to close your eyes, do you?"

Kobayashi Megumi knew he was going to change clothes, so there was no need for her to close her eyes.

"It feels better with my eyes closed," Kobayashi Megumi replied. "Let me know when you're done."

Kobayashi Sora felt a pang of emotion as she pulled out her high school uniform from her luggage.

Before this, he had never really thought about wearing it again.

Fortunately, he matured early and his physique didn't change much during college, which allowed him to wear his high school uniform smoothly.

That's what I said, but after putting it on, I still couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and ashamed.

Kobayashi Sora looked at Kobayashi Megumi, whose eyes were closed.

She endured this feeling and dressed him in his high school uniform.

I should also do something for her.

Kobayashi Sora's gaze softened further as she gently reminded him, "It's changed."

Kobayashi Megumi slowly opened her eyes, as if she saw Kobayashi Sora from her high school days walking through time and overlapping with the Kobayashi Sora in front of her.

"Hello, Kato Megumi-san, my name is Kobayashi Sora." Kobayashi Sora smiled. "I hope we can get along well in the future."

Kobayashi Megumi's eyes widened, and for a moment, time seemed to blur.

It wasn't until I held Kobayashi Sora in my arms that this vague feeling transformed into the familiar warmth and heartbeat.

Noticing Kobayashi Sora's heartbeat quickening, Kobayashi Megumi tilted her head back in his arms, her watery eyes sparkling, "Sora-kun, you can't have strange thoughts about your female classmates, okay?"

"But you're my future wife, is that not allowed?"

"That's the future... It can only be done in the future, not now," Kobayashi Megumi emphasized. "There are many things that can't be done."

For example?

"For example... um... I'm still a high school student, I don't know about those things."

"Then... is this alright?" Kobayashi Sora lowered his head and kissed his wife's slightly parted cherry lips.

"Mmm..." With her arms wrapped around Kobayashi Sora's neck, perhaps it was just her imagination, but Kobayashi Megumi felt a subtle, youthful feeling, like the memory of her first kiss was coming back to her.

The overlap of memories in the mind and sensations in the body creates a dreamlike experience.

"This...this should work," Kobayashi Megumi said, pursing her glistening lips. "But the others won't work..."

Kobayashi Sora smiled and pressed on, "For example?"

Kobayashi Megumi bit her lower lip lightly, "For example... um... things that can only be done after marriage, are not allowed."

You mean...that's it?

“Um… that’s how it is…” Kobayashi Megumi reiterated, blushing, “This is not allowed, and there are many other things that are also not allowed.”

"More things... you mean this?"

Holding Kobayashi Sora's shoulder, Kobayashi Megumi answered earnestly, "This is one of them... the others are not allowed either."

"Is this not acceptable either?"

"No way!"

"so?"

"Can't......"

......

“A bad student who deceives female classmates…” Kobayashi Megumi lazily rested her head on Kobayashi Sora’s arm, her bright eyes sparkling like little stars. “I’ve already said it’s not allowed.”

"As a student, I have a basic thirst for knowledge." Kobayashi Sora gently helped Kobayashi Megumi tidy her messy hair. "I want to figure out exactly what things are forbidden."

Kobayashi Megumi blinked. "What you just did, and what you're thinking now, are both unacceptable."

"What you just did goes without saying," Kobayashi Sora's curiosity was piqued again, "How do you know that what I'm thinking now is not allowed?"

Kobayashi Megumi seemed to be putting on a serious face, but a sweet smile leaped from the corners of her mouth to her eyebrows, without any intention of hiding it. "Guess?"

"Hmm..." Kobayashi Sora thought for a moment, his past experience giving him inspiration, "Because you're thinking about the same thing?"

"I won't tell you..." Kobayashi Megumi buried her face in his chest, listening to his familiar heartbeat.

Chapter 552 New Goals

"Grandma made something delicious this morning, there was... um... and... everything was so delicious," little Lin Lan said in her childish voice, recounting her experience at her grandma's house. "In the afternoon, Grandpa drove Grandma and Lanlan to the aquarium. Nian Gao went too, and we were so happy. We wanted to play with the fish, but we couldn't get in..."

Goodness, Kobayashi Sora couldn't help but laugh.

Nian Gao really wanted to play with the fish, the kind of play where they risked their lives.

"Did Lanlan brush her teeth properly?" Kobayashi Megumi nestled in Kobayashi Sora's arms, looking at her phone screen.

"Yes!" Lin Lan nodded vigorously. "Grandma wanted to help Lanlan wash the clothes, but Lanlan can do it herself."

"Lanlan is so great~"

"Grandpa and Grandma said the same thing~" Lanlan said with a proud little expression.

Kobayashi Sora thought back and realized that even his father had never praised him like that.

Then he imagined his father praising him...

just forget it.

This way of communicating is quite good.

"Meow~" Rice cake also came over to join in the fun and meowed at the camera.

Upon discovering that Kobayashi Sora and Kobayashi Megumi were hugging, it wagged its tail and walked away.

Lanlan talked a lot about her experiences at her grandmother's house, and Grandma Lin added to the story.

Kobayashi listened patiently, gave a few more instructions, and then ended the video call.

After their hot spring trip, the couple, feeling relaxed both physically and mentally, thought about the things they had considered before the trip.

Visual novels are a significant part of the Revenue Provider (RER) business. Although the revenue is not high, it is stable.

However, compared to the wildly successful Superstar project, it is clearly somewhat lacking.

This isn't a problem with RER (Refresher Orientation), but rather a problem faced by visual novel-style visual novels. As games rapidly evolve and surge towards the next generation, visual novel-style visual novels are somewhat lagging behind in terms of both graphics and gameplay.

If RER wants its business to develop comprehensively, it must find ways to increase the revenue of visual novels.

Kobayashi Megumi's final decision mainly had two directions.

Firstly, the core message of visual novels is sound; games that involve interacting with beautiful girls will always be popular.

However, single text adventure games cannot meet the growing needs of players. In this regard, Maltz, which is currently undergoing a merger, can provide a lot of technical support and experience guidance.

After completing the merger with Malz, they immediately began exploring other types of visual novels.

Because of a lack of relevant experience, we cannot rush things; we need to proceed steadily and gradually.

Therefore, the current work mainly focuses on the second direction—the production of text-based visual novels and the change of revenue models.

Compared to visual and musical galgames, light novels, which consist only of illustrations and text, have a simpler mode of expression, but their momentum is growing stronger, with news of manga being adapted into anime being commonplace.

One of the most important reasons is that there are enough professionals in the field.

Compared to companies that make visual novels, there are far more authors who write light novels.

The forest is big and there are all kinds of birds.

With a larger number of participants, outstanding works will inevitably emerge.

However, if you can write light novels, you can get into the industry as long as you can write stories.

Creating a visual novel requires people who know programming, music, story writing, and art; someone to contact developers; and someone to handle publicity and public relations...

Too many chickens will not lay eggs, and too many people will only cause trouble.

Even if we could gather all these people and get them to divide the work and cooperate with each other, it wouldn't be a simple task.

Kobayashi Megumi's approach was to establish a resource library, provide a 2D character creation system and background music, as well as UI designs such as dialogue boxes, and develop a user-friendly galgame maker to lower the barrier to entry for galgame creation and attract more creators to join in.

Kobayashi Sora, considering the income issue, proposed her own supplementary plan.

Light novels have another advantage: authors can earn money without finishing the story.

A visual novel (galgame) can only be released after it is completed.

We could refer to existing methods and allow games to be unlocked chapter by chapter, allowing creators to make money while creating the game to support their production.

Various ranking lists should also be included.

For works that make the list, RER can also help remaster them, improving the visuals and music to create a complete version... as a way of giving back to fans for their support.

Finally, let's talk about how to play.

Light novels can be read anytime, whether browsing online or buying physical books, which is very convenient.

In contrast, most visual novels remain unchanged; even if there are downloadable versions, they can only be played on computers, with only a very few titles playable on mobile devices.

However, visual novels, which are essentially just background music with text and images, can be easily loaded online with current internet speeds, thus lowering the barrier to entry for players.

The key to achieving these three points is a website similar to RER Comics.

Similarly, if this website wants to develop like RER Manga, it needs a representative work like "Kaguya-sama: Love Is War" to help it gain wider recognition.

This masterpiece is...

"White Album 2?" Kasumigaoka Utaha took a sip of coffee. "I remember there was a 1 too?"

Eriri was taken aback. "What 1?"

"It's not what you're thinking anyway." Kasumigaoka Utaha glared at her.

"What do you mean by 'the one I'm thinking of'?" Eriri asked, displeased. "Which one am I thinking of?"

"In the first project, there was a setting for the part-time job location, similar to the action misdirection in 'Liella! Superstar,' which is more complex than a typical visual novel and difficult to implement in a web browser. However, this setting is the core of the game and cannot be removed," Kobayashi Sora explained. "That's why we chose to directly develop the second one."