How to raise a random guy's wife

Eriri grinded her little white teeth, "Kasumigaoka Utaha..."

"Okay, okay~" Kobayashi Megumi reminded, "Hurry up and put your clothes on, and then drink more hot water to warm up."

Eriri complained, "If you weren't watching me, I would have been dressed already!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha put on Kobayashi Sora's shirt. "If you don't want people staring at you, shouldn't you have gotten dressed sooner?"

"Hmm...hmm?" Eriri paused for a moment, "Anyway, it's all your fault!"

"So you start making trouble when you can't refute it, huh?"

"I want you to take care of it!"

Kobayashi Megumi watched this familiar scene with a smile.

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri are getting along very well today too.

Chapter 835 Seeking Thrills

"Hmm..." As soon as Kobayashi Ran made a faint sound, Nian Gao, who was standing guard to the side, stood up.

After scratching its rear end against the tree trunk a couple of times, Nian Gao called out to Xiao Lin Lan, "Meow?"

With her long, curved eyelashes fluttering, Kobayashi Ran opened her eyes and habitually rolled over.

"Meow!" Nian Gao cried out in warning, and even tried to press down with her big paws, but she couldn't stop Xiao Lin Lan from falling off the hammock.

Kobayashi Sora and Nian Gao stood guard together, fearing this might happen. They reached out and took their daughter, expertly holding her in their arms. "Are you awake?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Linlan was still a little dazed, but the momentary weightlessness brought her back to her senses. She patted herself twice, still shaken. "I almost fell, thank goodness Daddy was here~"

"This is your first time sleeping in a hammock. Remember next time, don't rush to turn over when you wake up."

"Mmm~" Lin Lan hugged her father's neck, "Did Lanlan sleep for a long time?"

"It's only been a little while." Kobayashi Sora glanced at the fire out of the corner of her eye. "If you had slept for a long time, Dad would have carried you into the tent long ago."

Why?

"Because it's windy outside, it's okay to sleep for a little while, but you'll catch a cold if you sleep too long."

"It's really a bit cold." Kobayashi Ran snuggled up to Kobayashi Sora. "Luckily, Daddy's warm."

"Because Daddy was just by the fire." Xiaolin Kongqing hugged Lanlan and sat on the folding chair, with the fire right in front of them. "Look, isn't it warm and cozy?"

Ran Kobayashi shook her head, "It's different~"

"How are they different?"

"Holding my father's words," Kobayashi Ran looked at Kobayashi Sora, "Lanlan's heart is also warm."

This familiar, understated yet devastating blow.

Kobayashi Sora kissed her daughter on the cheek. "Now that you mention it, it really is different."

"Right?" Ran Kobayashi suddenly noticed something, turning her head to look left and then right. "Where's Mom?"

"Mom is helping the godmothers change clothes." Kobayashi Sora pointed to Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri's tent. "They accidentally got their clothes wet, and Dad is just boiling water for them."

"Lanlan is here to help too!"

"It's ready." Kobayashi Sora pointed to two uncapped water bottles beside her. "Lanlan, could you please take them to them?"

"Okay."

Kobayashi Sora touched the bottle and felt that the temperature was just right. She carefully screwed the bottle on and handed it to Kobayashi Ran.

Clutching two water bottles, Xiaolin Lan ran to the tent, crawled inside, and exclaimed, "I'm back!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri had just changed their clothes.

Eriri was wearing Megumi Kobayashi's clothes; the loose sweatshirt covered half of her thighs, and the sleeves were long enough to cover her hands.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was wearing Kobayashi Sora's blue clothes, was in a similar state and was currently trying to dry her long hair.

Megumi Kobayashi took the water bottle from Ran Kobayashi and handed it to Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri, saying, "Ranran is awake."

"Yeah, I almost fell off...that place just now, but luckily Daddy caught me." Ran looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri curiously, "Godmother, why are you wearing Mommy and Daddy's clothes?"

"Because I forgot to bring clothes when I came..." Eriri took the water bottle and took a sip. The warm temperature dispelled the lingering coldness of the lake water.

Kasumigaoka Utaha tossed her still slightly damp long hair. "How is it? Does it look good?"

"Hmm..." Ran Kobayashi hesitated for a moment, "Actually, it looks really good."

“Actually, those two words are unnecessary.” Eriri said helplessly, “Thank you, Ranran, for the water. Godmother feels much better.”

"Dad cooked it, and Lanlan just brought it over." Little Linlan asked curiously, "How did you two get so wet?"

"This..." Eriri didn't know how to explain for a moment.

“Because she wasn’t a good girl and got herself wet,” Kasumigaoka Utaha said rather subtly, “I got wet too in order to correct her mistake.”

Eriri: "..." Judging from what Kasumigaoka Utaha said, it doesn't sound like she was talking about falling into the water.

"What do you mean I'm not a good child!" Eriri sensed the malice in Kasumigaoka Utaha's words. "I was the one correcting your mistakes!"

"I did nothing wrong."

Eriri snapped, "It's clearly your fault!"

"You made a mistake because you were emotional, and then you blamed it all on someone else. Your attitude towards your savior is really unique."

"Who needs your help! I can swim!"

"So your brain is full of water. You can swim but you won't swim up yourself. You have to make me go down."

"That was your own choice, not my idea to make you go down!"

"I didn't tell you to get off."

"I wouldn't have gone down there if it weren't for you!"

"I wouldn't have gone down there if it weren't for you."

"They look so powerful..." Watching the two of them locked in a fierce battle, Ran Kobayashi was quite tempted. "Ranran wants to join too!"

"..." Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri exchanged a glance, "..."

They rationally stopped arguing.

After drinking a bottle of hot water, both of them felt much warmer and were finally able to leave the tent.

After sitting by the fire for a while and riding bicycles around the lake with Xiaolin Lan for a couple of times, the two of them finally recovered from the coldness of the lake water.

"Kids really have so much energy..." Eriri couldn't help but sigh as she watched Ran Kobayashi fly a kite with her parents again.

“Lanlan just took a nap,” Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at her, “unlike you who took a bath.”

Eriri glared at her, too lazy to argue with her anymore.

“However…” Kasumigaoka Utaha added fuel to the fire, “You did remind me before.”

"Ok?"

"No matter how much you try to put yourself in someone else's shoes, people's vision is limited; they can't see what they can't see themselves."

"Such a correct but meaningless statement." Eriri took a small sip of hot water. "So you finally realize your mistake?"

“I’m not wrong,” Kasumigaoka Utaha insisted. “I just suddenly thought of the White Album issue.”

During the discussion, Eriri raised two issues: one was that there were too few game options, resulting in insufficient gameplay; the other was that Setsuna's personality was quite complex and difficult to understand.

Now that she's calmed down, Kasumigaoka Utaha keeps seeing the image of Eriri jumping into the lake without hesitation.

The images that kept playing in her mind gave her inspiration.

"Since we're going to seek thrills, let's go all the way." Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes flashed with a dangerous red light. "We'll not only make players who follow the main storyline feel conflicted, but we won't let players who follow the side quests get away with it either."

Chapter 836 Chasing Each Other

Can you please have some decency?

Eriri simply didn't know how to face the devil in front of her.

You don't do anything that involves people at all.

but......

If Kasumigaoka Utaha weren't this kind of person, she wouldn't have been able to create so many works that moved Eriri.

"We've finally designed several female supporting characters, so of course we should make use of them." Kasumigaoka Utaha's mind started working, "and connect them to the development of the main characters."

“You mean…” Eriri gradually caught up with Kasumigaoka Utaha’s train of thought, “Just like Haru is Haruki’s mirror, the other two side heroines also show some hidden characteristics of the other two heroines.”

“If it’s all just hints, then it’s a bit repetitive.” Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head. “My idea is to split the plot that was originally in the main story into the side stories… Forget it, I’ll just rewrite it.”

"Splitting it up..." Eriri's eyes lit up. "You mean telling the main story through side quests?"

“That’s where the gameplay comes in,” Kasumigaoka Utaha explained. “For example, if a player likes Setsuna but goes straight to the main story, it’s hard to fully understand Setsuna’s personality and behavioral logic. To better understand Setsuna, you need to go through side quests and explore Setsuna’s inner world through interactions with side quest characters.”

"Should we let the heroines interact with each other?" Eriri subconsciously felt that this wouldn't work, since in most visual novels, the lives of the female characters revolve around the male protagonist, and there is basically no interaction between the female characters.

However, upon closer inspection, White Album is different from most visual novels.

“It seems…it could work.” Eriri’s first thought was about the drawbacks, “but this would leave something missing from the main storyline.”

“That’s why I changed my mind and decided to rewrite it.” Kasumigaoka Utaha made two gestures in the air. “Setsuna getting closer to Haruki is one state, and Setsuna getting further away from Haruki is another state. But Haruki can’t see the latter, but Touma and the side heroine can.”

Eriri felt a long-lost shiver, the same feeling she had when she first opened "Love Metronome." "Do you want players who are only interested in Touma and Setsuna to go to the side quests to see how they fail in order to understand them better, and then want players who want to give up on Touma and Setsuna to witness their heartbreaking pain while pursuing other supporting heroines?"

"No one will have an easy time." Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded. "They'll all die."

Eriri felt she needed an adjective more aggressive than "beast".

"Let's do it this way for now..." Kasumigaoka Utaha's mind raced with ideas, "and then at this moment..."

Eriri looked at her profile.

Actually, Eriri had already started to regret it when she jumped into the lake... no, when Kasumigaoka Utaha threw a tantrum.

Having expressed her thoughts so bluntly, how is she going to get along with Kasumigaoka Utaha in the future?

Now it seems that nothing has changed.