How to raise a random guy's wife

Xiaolin Ran repeated earnestly, "Stay at home, don't open the door to strangers, don't go to the kitchen or the balcony, and call Mom and Dad if you need anything!"

"And also," Kobayashi Megumi said gently, "don't cry just because your mom and dad aren't here. They'll be back soon."

"I won't cry~" Xiaolin Lan shook her head vigorously, "Lanlan is very capable."

Kobayashi Megumi took Kobayashi Sora's hand and said, "Then Mommy and Daddy are leaving."

Ran Kobayashi, mimicking Megumi Kobayashi's usual mannerisms, waved her little hand, saying, "Be careful on the road!"

As soon as she stepped out of the house, Kobayashi Sora regretted it a little. "Should I keep watch nearby?"

"Have faith in Lanlan," said Kobayashi Megumi, linking her arm with Kobayashi Sora's. "We'll be back soon."

She comforted Kobayashi Sora in the same way she comforted Kobayashi Ran.

Chapter 785 Pretending to Cry

Click.

The door was tightly closed, and the sound of Mom and Dad's footsteps gradually faded away.

Ran Kobayashi stared blankly at the door, a feeling that was hard to describe welling up inside her.

"Hmm..." Kobayashi Ran lowered her head, unsure of what this feeling was like.

"Meow~" Nian Gao moved closer to Xiao Lin Lan and gently rubbed against her leg.

"Mochi!" Ran Kobayashi felt that strange feeling disappear. "Want some ice cream?"

rice cake:"......"

Where are the cat treats?

"Meow~!"

Hearing the rice cake's excited response, Kobayashi Ran felt happy too.

After finding delicious ice cream in the refrigerator, and also finding a cat treat for Nian Gao, Xiao Lin Lan squeezed the cat treat into the ice cream lid, and Xiao Lin Lan and Nian Gao enjoyed their favorite treat together.

Ran Kobayashi swung her legs, the ice cream in her mouth sweet and cool, "So delicious~"

Ran Kobayashi exclaimed happily as she looked to the other side of the table.

Quiet--

"Hmm..." Ran Kobayashi stopped scooping ice cream.

Normally, the parents would respond with a smile.

But now...

Nian Gao noticed Xiao Lin Lan's unusual behavior and looked up. "Meow?"

"Don't worry!" Lin Lan patted the fluffy rice cake. "Mom and Dad will be back soon, rice cake, don't worry."

rice cake:"......"

But after Xiaolin Lan finished eating her ice cream, her parents still hadn't returned.

"We'll play for a little while, then Mom and Dad will be back." Xiao Linlan found a cat toy and started playing with Nian Gao. "Don't cry, okay?"

Nian Gao perfunctorily fiddled with the cat toy a couple of times, went through the motions, and then collapsed onto the ground.

“That’s right, Mom and Dad will be back after a nap!” Xiao Linlan lay down on the floor, using rice cakes as a pillow.

The rice cake was already used to it and didn't react at all.

But today was different for Xiaolin Lan. She had just woken up and, thinking about her parents, couldn't fall back asleep. All she could do was turn over with the rice cake under her pillow.

"Rice cake, rice cake~" Ran Kobayashi nudged the big cat, "Do you know how to play badminton?"

rice cake:"......"

Ran hugged the rice cake, "Do you want to learn?"

rice cake:"......"

"How about another ice cream? Mom and Dad will be back soon after we finish this." Xiaolin Lan's eyes lit up. "I can also have an extra cat treat with rice cake, since Mom and Dad aren't home, Lanlan is in charge!"

Rice Cake: Meow!

Xiaolin Lan finally discovered the advantage of staying home alone: ​​without her parents watching over her, she could eat as much ice cream as she wanted.

"I want a second ice cream!" Ran Kobayashi opened the refrigerator, and still no one stopped her.

Ran Kobayashi pouted and reached for the ice cream.

wrong......

She suddenly realized.

I don't eat a second serving, not because my parents won't let me, but because eating too much will give me a stomachache.

If you eat too much delicious ice cream and your stomach hurts, then you'll carry that memory of stomach pain with you when you eat ice cream in the future, and it won't taste as good.

After hesitating for a moment, Ran Kobayashi firmly closed the refrigerator door, turned around and earnestly explained to the expectant Nian Gao, "Eating two cat treats will give you a stomachache."

Rice Cake: "Meow?"

"Let's draw!" Kobayashi Ran found a new way to pass the time. She took out paper and pen from her room and started drawing on the coffee table.

Unable to get a second cat treat, Nian Gao could only lie on the coffee table and watch Kobayashi Ran draw.

"This is Ranran~" Under the guidance of Eriri and Akane Kousaka, Ran Kobayashi can now easily draw her own image. "This is mochi."

Even furry animals are no problem.

Holding the paintbrush in her little hands, Xiao Linlan added her parents on both sides, along with a house, trees, and flowers and plants. "It's finished!"

Xiaolin Ran happily held up her completed drawing, "Daddy, Mommy... um..."

The family of three in the painting is smiling happily, but when Xiaolin Lan looks out of the painting, she sees only an empty and quiet home.

Her lips pursed, and tears welled up in her beautiful eyes.

Rice Cake: "Meow?"

Ran Kobayashi put down the painting, then hugged the rice cake with a pitiful expression, sobbing, "Waaah..."

Nian Gao gently touched Xiao Lin Lan with her fluffy paws and meowed softly.

Xiao Linlan cried twice, and when she realized that her parents didn't come to comfort her, she looked up blankly and looked around.

This time I really wanted to cry.

Why haven't Mom and Dad come back yet...?

Ran Kobayashi released the rice cake, stood up, and walked around the room blankly for a couple of minutes.

When Mom and Dad aren't around, it seems like I can do anything.

But I don't want to do anything.

Or... Kobayashi Ran looked at the phone at home.

Should I call my parents?

But if I did that, I would have failed the first time I looked after the house by myself.

Xiaolin Lan suddenly remembered something, pulled out a phone number and dialed it, "Hello? I... this is Lanlan, um, I'm looking for Sister Xiangxiang."

After waiting a short while, Du Xiang's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Lanlan?"

"Sister Xiangxiang!" Lin Lan proudly boasted, "Lanlan is watching the house by herself now!"

"Lanlan is so amazing. I almost cried when I was watching the house all by myself last time."

"Lanlan doesn't... although she's almost there... It feels like she can do a lot of things by herself while looking after the house, but I don't know what to do."

"Yeah, me too, but then there was one..."

The two children chatted about other things. Xiao Linlan wanted to continue chatting for a while, but when she heard Du Xiang's mother's voice on the other end of the phone, she politely said goodbye to Du Xiang and hung up.

I can't talk to my mother myself, and I can't let Du Xiang be unable to talk to her mother either.

Haven't they come back yet?

After hanging up the phone and having just had a pleasant chat, that initial strange feeling seemed to have become even stronger.

I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong, but it just feels like something's missing.

"We're back!" Kobayashi Megumi pushed open the door, and behind her was Kobayashi Sora.

"Welcome back!" Ran ran happily to Megumi and hugged her mother's leg. "Ranran will take good care of the house!"

"Lanlan is so great~" Kobayashi Megumi put down the shopping bags, picked up Kobayashi Ran, and looked at her slightly red eyes, "Did Lanlan cry when she was home alone?"

"No!" Xiaolin Lan avoided her mother's gaze. "I didn't really cry... I just... I was just pretending."

“I see…” Kobayashi Megumi tilted her head. “Just like Daddy.”

Kobayashi Ran looked at Kobayashi Sora, "Did Daddy cry?"

Having been worried all the way, Kobayashi Sora avoided her daughter's gaze, "No... I was just pretending."

Chapter 786 A Feeling of Loss

“It’s not quite enough.” Kasumigaoka Utaha paused. “Azure, do you have…Azure?”

"Huh?" Kobayashi Sora seemed to have just heard it.

Kasumigaoka Utaha asked Kobayashi Megumi directly, "What's his situation?"

"Well..." Kobayashi Megumi's smile was filled with doting and helplessness, "Recently, Lanlan has been able to look after the house by herself, and Kong Qing feels that she is not so important to the child anymore."

Kasumigaoka Utaha could hardly believe that the Kobayashi Sora from back then had become like this. "Are you a child?"

Kobayashi Sora sighed, "A single person like you wouldn't understand."

"Your anxious and insecure attitude is all too easy to understand," Kasumigaoka Utaha scoffed. "As soon as your child becomes a little more independent, you feel a bit abandoned, especially for a control freak like you. If you were the simple control freak you used to be, you would probably try to control your child's entire life, only to realize how obsessive you were when you got old and your child disliked you, and you ended up being made into an anime by Izumi. Now, with Megumi's help, you've learned to let go and respect other people's ideas, and that's why you're like this now. You want to take some action, but you're afraid of affecting your child's growth. You want to let go, but you feel lost and abandoned. You're wallowing in complicated emotions, and then you were made into an anime by Izumi."

Kobayashi Megumi was stunned.

Utaha Kasumigaoka's personality has noticeably improved in recent years, but now she's suddenly displaying such strong aggression...