How to raise a random guy's wife

She held up her phone, comparing the photo on the screen with the girl's face, and said, "Hello, Kato Megumi-san. My name is Kobayashi Sora. I hope we can get along well in the future."

"Wow, there really are transfer students who know their classmates beforehand." Kato Megumi's lips parted slightly, a hint of surprise on her face. "Do you practice calling your friends before you do it?"

puff!

For a moment, Kobayashi Sora felt as if an arrow had been shot into her knee. "Well... occasionally."

"That's great. Even if I wanted to practice, I wouldn't know what the other person would say," Kato Megumi exclaimed. "You're so amazing, you must have a lot of friends."

puff!

Two arrows have been fired.

"Well... that's quite a lot."

Kobayashi Sora was a little confused. What was this feeling?

It was obvious that Kato Megumi had no ill intentions; her voice was calm, her expression indifferent, and there was no sense of malicious attack at all.

But what exactly is causing this clear pain in myself?

It's like a defense has been breached.

True damage plus critical hits.

"Ahem, I have something to do," Kobayashi Sora said, practically fleeing for her life. "See you at school tomorrow."

"Okay, goodbye." Kato Megumi waved goodbye.

The next moment, the two walked in the same direction.

"Huh?" Kato Megumi looked at Kobayashi Sora, "Are you going to the six-day event too?"

That was a shopping mall.

"My home is in that direction."

"I see." Kato Megumi nodded, without saying anything more.

Kobayashi Sora couldn't help but look at the girl beside her, but her gaze kept involuntarily drifting to the side, as if Kato Megumi didn't exist.

Wow, the sky is so blue, the ground is so flat, and the cat is so dirty.

cat? !

Chapter 9 The Last Meeting

The two stopped almost simultaneously and looked at the cat in the cardboard box by the roadside.

It looked like a two- or three-year-old long-haired cat, with a dirty gray-black body and tangled fur. Only its golden eyes were relatively bright.

Having probably heard their footsteps, it got up from the cardboard box and looked at them curiously.

"Stray cat?"

“It must have been abandoned,” Kato Megumi corrected. “Stray cats tend to be more energetic.”

As she spoke, she reached out her hand closer.

The cat shrank back, then leaned closer and carefully sniffed her fingertips.

"I see," Kobayashi Sora felt she had learned something. "Shall we adopt them?"

“My mother used to have one,” Kato Megumi’s eyes flickered slightly, “but that cat got sick and died, and she never had another one.”

"Then we'll have to send it to an animal shelter," Kobayashi Sora sighed. "I have absolutely no experience with pets. Keeping it would only hurt it. Do you know where the nearest shelter is?"

"I don't know."

"Let's look it up online." Kobayashi Sora took out her phone.

“I remember now, there’s one nearby.” Kato Megumi glanced at Kobayashi Sora. “I’ll take you there.”

"That's perfect." Kobayashi Sora put away her phone and tried to pick up the box.

The cat didn't resist, it just let out a weak meow.

"It's calling out so weakly, could it be that it's starving?" Kobayashi Sora said, holding the box. "You're really something, you're so grown up, you can even try to hunt for yourself."

"Meow~"

"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere to eat."

"Meow~"

Kato Megumi watched the person and the cat communicate, then suddenly reached out and poked the cat with her finger.

"Stop fooling around," Kobayashi Sora said helplessly. "What if it jumps out and gets lost?"

“Oh right, then we can’t go to the shelter.” Kato Megumi said, poking him again.

Perhaps it was just her imagination, but Kobayashi Sora felt that Kato Megumi seemed to have become a little colder.

The cat wasn't scared; it just meowed at Kato Megumi.

Kobayashi Sora thought it was just Kato Megumi being naughty, and since the cat didn't seem to mind, he didn't bother with it.

Following Kato Megumi to the animal shelter, the staff approached, learned about the situation, and prepared to take the cat away.

“Speaking of which,” Kobayashi Sora handed over the box, “can I come see it again sometime?”

"Look at it?" The staff member was taken aback and gave Kobayashi Sora a strange look. "If you want to see it, look at it now. This is the last time you'll see it."

He then reached for the box.

It couldn't be moved.

Kobayashi Sora narrowed her eyes. "The last time?"

"We will register its information on the website, and if someone adopts it within the specified period, it will be taken away," the staff member explained.

"What if no one adopts it?"

"Euthanize on the next culling day." The staff member tugged again, but couldn't budge it.

Kobayashi Sora looked at the cat in the box. The cat also looked up at him, meowed softly, and blinked its golden eyes, as if it was looking forward to the meal that Kobayashi Sora had promised.

"Adoption procedures," Kobayashi Sora asked the staff member. "What do we do?"

"You need to provide identification and fill out a form." A smile appeared on the staff member's face.

"Will a student ID be acceptable?"

"Of course, do you have experience raising cats?"

After a long silence, Kato Megumi suddenly spoke up, "I've raised them before."

The staff member's gaze swept between the two, then he gave them a knowing look. "That's good."

Kobayashi Sora realized while filling out the form that Kato Megumi's little trick was because she knew the shelter's rules and deliberately wanted the cat to escape.

He turned to look at Kato Megumi, "What if I don't adopt?"

The girl looked away. "Hmm... I'll ask my other friends."

"If you know the situation here, you can just tell me directly."

“Hmm, I thought you knew,” Kato Megumi replied. “Besides, sending stray animals to shelters is the right thing to do, and we shouldn’t stop it.”

After filling out the form, Kobayashi Sora, with her cat, and led by Kato Megumi, found a pet hospital.

Blood and stool tests are mainly used to check for viral or parasitic infections.

Take a bath, trim your nails, treat external parasites, and treat internal parasites.

The cat's fur is now completely transformed, smooth and long, with a silver-gray body adorned with black smoke-like stripes, and its tail fur spreads out like feathers.

The all-inclusive service ended, and it was already afternoon.

"That's good. No ear mites, no ringworm. Choose wet cat food, or soak it in goat milk powder to soften it." The doctor advised, "The cat is still young and can't eat hard food yet. Let it get used to it for a couple more days."

"Small?" Kobayashi Sora stared at the cat, which was about the size of an adult cat. "How big is it?"

"Two or three months, I guess."

"Is this two or three months?"

“Maine Coons are like that.” The vet stroked the kitten’s head. “They’ll grow even bigger later.”

Kobayashi Sora looked it up and found that the cat was quite expensive.

Such an expensive cat was abandoned...

That makes sense; if you don't love someone anymore, even the most expensive thing is a burden.

They put the cat in a cage and, led by Megumi Kato, went to a pet supply store.

Cat food bowls, cat food, pet milk powder, litter boxes, cat litter, cat toys, scratching posts, freeze-dried food, combs, hair removers, nail clippers...

By the time shopping was over, Kobayashi Sora was already carrying a bunch of things.

Kato Megumi took some of the things, saying, "Now you'll have to lead the way."

"This way." Kobayashi Sora held the cat litter in her left hand, the cat in her right, and cat food and toys on her back. The moment she opened the door, she remembered something.

"Kato-kun..."

"Just call me Kato."

"Okay, Kato, do you have any older or younger brothers?"

"I have a cousin."

"So you can understand why boys' rooms are a little messier than girls' rooms."

“Girls’ rooms can be messy too.” Kato Megumi tilted her head. “Or should I wait until you’ve hidden some things before I go in?”

"It's not that bad." Kobayashi Sora opened the door, put the things in the entryway, and found new slippers for Kato Megumi.

"Thank you." Kato Megumi changed into slippers and then noticed the mess in the living room.

File folders, folders, and crumpled pieces of printed paper were scattered all over the coffee table and sofa. The wastebasket was already full. Apart from the TV wall, one wall had a transparent glass cabinet filled with game books and figurines, and the other wall had a huge whiteboard with crisscrossing red lines and messy characters.

"Kobayashi-kun," Kato Megumi looked at Kobayashi Sora, "you really don't have any pets?"

"...Just call me Kobayashi." Kobayashi Sora cleared his throat twice. "Please sit down...please give me a little time."