Chapter 32 How to Adopt a Child

The old man who is the housekeeper of the Suzuki residence is a very good-tempered man.

The prerequisite is that he likes you.

Until the young man named Munakata Reiji disappeared for unknown reasons and never returned, his favorability towards his future son-in-law was full.

Good looks, good temper, good abilities, and good character.

Then the son-in-law ran away without saying a word.

So the appearance is still good, the temper may still be good, the ability may be good, but the character must be bad.

The old butler thought it was a good thing that he ran away. If he hadn't taken this opportunity to see the true face of Reiji Munakata, the young lady would have suffered a great loss in the future!

However……

As the door on the third floor was slowly pushed open, the old man looked at the scene in the young lady's bedroom with gritted teeth. His hands began to tremble with sadness, and he complained to God bitterly.

Since everyone knows that he is a person of terrible character, why should we give him a likable appearance?

——Don’t you know that our young lady has no self-control at all!

In the empty bedroom, the warm colors of the setting sun cast a red hue through the floor-to-ceiling windows. A large bed was leaning against the window, with dark curtains hanging half-covered on the bedposts.

The former son-in-law, who had a terrible character, leaned leisurely against the head of the bed, holding a collection of essays that he had bought at an unknown time. It took him a long time to slowly turn one or two pages.

Their young lady, who had no self-control, had fallen asleep by now. She curled up her legs in a familiar posture that the old housekeeper had seen since childhood, and her whole body curled up into a ball. Occasionally, she would rub her face or smack her lips. Her sleeping posture was the kind that could give people a subtle sense of happiness just by looking at it, and they couldn't help but want to grab a pillow and sleep with her.

The old man cleared his throat, and seemingly calmly but actually madly knocked on the half-open door.

Suzuki Sonoko was immediately awakened by the powerful sound.

Under the old man's increasingly distressed gaze, the dazed Miss Suzuki slowly opened her eyes, looking as if she didn't know what day it was. She yawned almost silently, and like a cat that just woke up, she shrank in place with drooping eyelashes and rubbed her face.

This original place refers to Reiji Munakata's chest.

The man's collar, with one button undone, drooped at an angle. Miss Suzuki, who had just woken up, was almost defenseless when she saw Reiji Munakata's face. Without even a struggle, she was stunned by his handsomeness.

The old butler felt subtly embarrassed at that moment.

The next second, Reiji Munakata calmly put down the collection of essays in his hand, raised his hand to touch the side of her face with red marks from sleeping, tilted his head slightly more calmly, and gently kissed the corner of her mouth.

The action was natural and intimate, and looked like countless adult men saying goodbye to their wives when getting up early to go to work. If time could be turned back a year or two, the old housekeeper would probably cry with relief.

But at this moment, looking at their young lady's expression that said, "I'm already stunned by his handsomeness, no one should bother me," the old man only had one word in his mind.

——You vixen!

The vixen Zong Xianglisi put on his coat. Although Suzuki Sonoko was awake, she was still stunned for a while looking at his back. Seeing his thin shoulders wrapped in the dark blue coat, her mind that was blurred by his beauty immediately cleared up.

So Yuanzi rubbed his eyes, his expression changed quickly and naturally, and he turned sideways to look at the door.

She asked, "What happened?"

The old man's aura was low, but he still said dutifully, "Miss Maori is here."

Upon hearing this, Suzuki Sonoko's eyes lit up almost instantly, and she jumped out of the bedroom.

The old butler watched her walk away without a trace of nostalgia, and smiled with satisfaction. He turned sideways again and said to the vixen who was still sorting her sword, "Since Miss Mori is here, Mr. Munakata, would you like to have dinner before leaving?"

Mr. Munakata, who was hanging his sword, was stunned by the question.

Then, with a familiarity that the old butler couldn't understand, he thought for a moment and replied, "Not today."

The old man smiled and cursed in his heart: Don’t talk like you still have a future, okay…

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When Suzuki Sonoko ran happily to the living room, Mouri Ran was sitting on the sofa drinking milk. She was about to call for help when she saw Kudo Shinichi sitting on the other side of the sofa.

Kudo Shinichi is only seven years old.

Feeling that he might be exposed, the famous child detective began to try to wink at her.

The moment he saw Suzuki Sonoko turn her head away indifferently, Kudo Shinichi felt that he might be finished.

Suzuki Sonoko has a very strange way of thinking, but outside this special pattern there is an unchanging origin, and this origin is Ran Mouri.

After all, her indignant dislike for Kudo Shinichi was just a mirror image derived from this origin.

In other words, Suzuki Sonoko would definitely not lie to Mouri Ran.

Kudo Shinichi had no doubt that she would call out his name loudly in front of Xiaolan without any hesitation, and then, when Xiaolan asked in surprise, reveal the Black Organization and a series of confidential information that followed.

He could basically guess this kind of thing without any reasoning, but how to put it...

In addition to being unhappy, there is also a kind of powerless frustration.

The seven-year-old detective almost jumped down from the sofa, hurried to Sonoko, and hugged her waist.

The little boy hummed in an almost flawless voice and said in a wronged tone, "Sister Yuanzi, I was wrong. I will be a good boy and never run away on purpose again!"

Then, just as Kudo Shinichi expected, after seeing this scene, Xiaolan, who was born to love taking care of others, naturally began to plead for the poor child.

"It's okay, Sonoko. I don't think Conan did it on purpose. But I've told you many times that you can't always do things according to your own will."

Yuanzi subconsciously hugged the child who jumped into her arms, and listened to Xiaolan scolding her with a confused look on her face.

Mao Lilan started by talking about the first pair of goldfish they raised together when they were young.

"That's obviously what Yuanzi wanted, right? Because Yuanzi liked the black goldfish, I bought a red one for you to raise together. We agreed that each of us would feed it for a week, but Yuanzi got tired of it very quickly."

Suzuki Sonoko sat on the sofa with a wronged look on her face while listening to the lecture. Kudo Arata was half sitting and half standing in her arms, with his cheeks puffed up as if he was hugging a pillow.

Xiaolan continued, "Because Yuanzi was impatient, when it was his turn to be in charge, he poured three days' worth of fish food into the fish tank at once, and in the end, both fish died of starvation."

Finally, Xiaolan concluded: "If you ever get tired of it, just tell me and I'll take the two fish home. They won't die."

Yuanzi struggled in confusion for a moment: "But I haven't raised any fish recently..."

"This problem is much more serious than raising fish!"

Xiaolan clenched her fists and said anxiously: "If you raise a goldfish and don't like it, you can give it away. You can stop feeding it. Even if it dies, you can easily buy a pair of similar ones. But Conan is a real child, and he is completely different from a goldfish."

She touched Yuanzi's hand and advised him earnestly, "Since you adopted him, you should take some responsibility for this child. How can you treat him like a goldfish, feeding him well when you're in the mood and letting him run around when you're bored?"

Suzuki Sonoko took the time to lower her head and looked at Kudo Shinichi in confusion: Where did you go before?

wrong.

She blinked and changed her expression: What did you say to Xiaolan?

Kudo Shinichi let out a few fake tears, struggled to turn over in her arms, his two little arms fell on her shoulders, and then he nestled his head in the side of her neck as if he was tired of crying.

Sonoko heard him whisper, "I went home to find something, and I was caught."

Yeah……

Sonoko patted his back lightly while trying to convey her meaning with her eyes: It doesn't matter where you were, the important thing is how did you slander me in front of Xiaolan! ?

Although the little boy who has changed his name to Conan received the signal, the specific process was a bit cumbersome. In this situation, it was already difficult for him to pretend to cry, so how could he speak?

Fortunately, the understanding Miss Mao Lilan explained the process of their encounter to her childhood sweetheart in between training her childhood sweetheart.

"Shinichi disappeared inexplicably, and the house keys were left with the housekeeping company that was responsible for cleaning. The housekeeping company couldn't find him, so they called the backup contact number and asked me to pick up the keys."

At this point, Mao Lilan, who was tired of her childhood sweetheart, sighed: "Why is it that every time he encounters something troublesome like this, he always thinks of leaving my phone number?"

Sonoko said without hesitation: "Because he is just so annoying!"

Conan nestled in Sonoko's arms and silently apologized to Xiaolan: Of course it's because you are the most reliable person I know...

Mao Lilan hissed angrily: "Forgetting to take the key is not a big deal. How can you even forget a relative's child in the house? Professor Agasa said that the child is now adopted by you, but Conan ran back by himself because he was angry."

"Hey, Sonoko..."

Xiaolan paused, wanting to say something but then looked into Sonoko's eyes seriously: "Tell me, you adopted Shinichi's relative's child. Was it because you felt sorry for him and needed care, or was it because he looked like Shinichi when he was a child, so you wanted to adopt him so you could bully him?"

——This doubt has nothing to do with a person's character. It is purely based on putting myself in Suzuki Sonoko's train of thought. It is very likely that she would do such a troublesome thing for such a childish reason.

Suzuki Sonoko pinched the child's butt in her arms expressionlessly.

Conan's arms around her neck were like two iron chains, so strong that he almost fell on her neck: "I have no choice, otherwise how can I explain why I ran to such a far place like Kudo's for no reason? The only choice for a child is to run away from home after getting angry..."

Suzuki Sonoko pinched him a second time with an expressionless face.

——Does this give you a reason to slander me in front of Xiaolan? !

To be honest, compared to Kudo Shinichi's little secret, she still felt that her image in front of Xiaolan was more important.

Just as she was about to speak, a pleasant male voice, along with the crisp sound of boots stepping on the wooden floor, reached everyone's ears.

He asked, "Did the garden adopt a child?"

Reiji Munakata, who was walking down the stairs, gently pushed his glasses and his eyes fell on the little boy in Sonoko's arms.

"Children's clothes..."

As if hearing this ambiguous sigh from a great distance, the high school detective now known as Edogawa Conan subconsciously raised his head and glanced back.

Just this one glance made the leader of the Blue Royal Clan frown unconsciously.

This kid's eyes... a little too smart.

Suzuki Sonoko was the typical throwaway type. With Ran around, she was immune to her beauty buff, so she naturally asked Munakata, "You haven't left yet?"

Munakata Reiji naturally filtered out this question and slowly walked down the stairs: "I was just about to leave, but this child..."

He paused and asked, "Is that the one who found Kurosaki Ichigo in Fraglia?"

Suzuki Sonoko nodded frantically.

Although she inexplicably fell asleep in the man's arms in the second half, she did listen carefully to the basic science lectures in the beginning!

Suzuki Sonoko only listens to advice when she thinks it makes sense. As her former teacher, Reiji Munakata not only does not think that this kind of personality is difficult to communicate with, but instead believes that this kind of stubbornness to get to the bottom of things is a quality worthy of praise.

So he followed the regulations that Scepter4 had compiled over the years and explained to her word for word the information permitted by the law.

——Specifically, how many divisions does Soul Society’s Seireitei have now, how many captains and vice-captains there are, and who are they?

Because the people who needed her to withdraw the lawsuit included the adopted daughter of the Kuchiki family, even the marriage history of Byakuya Kuchiki, the head of the Kuchiki family, the first of the four famous families, could not escape this improper science education.

As for the complicated story between Kurosaki Masaki, Ishida Ryugen, and Kurosaki Isshin, the entanglement between the ex-fiancé, the ex-fiancée, and the ex-fiancée's current husband, although the language is dry, it leaves enough room for imagination.

Of course, Reiji Munakata is not the only one who can tell the whole story. When he was a teacher, he was often retaliated against by his students. As a representative of the Soul Society who will meet with the representatives of the Soul Society and perform mediation work, he must write in his report how the Suzuki family came to have a conflict with Ichigo Kurosaki.

But after Suzuki Sonoko finished that long string of pointless mumblings, Reiji Munakata did not find any irreconcilable culmination except for the obvious result that he had held her in his arms and patted her to sleep.

——Before the discovery of the virtual household registration and the blank person, it would be more accurate to say that it was not Sonoko who was trying to hold on to the Kurosaki family, but rather the "eyewitness" who was now seven years old but very good at grasping the key points who was responsible for advancing the case and discovering clues from beginning to end.

To be honest, if Munakata were to evaluate him, he might be a very smart child because he can remember so many things and make inferences.

But considering that his cleverness caused a series of troubles for Onoshira Tower, Munakata had to change his evaluation to: a child who is so smart that he is a little annoying.

Thinking of this, he observed the aggrieved face of the child and saw that he looked so timid and ignorant that the fleeting cleverness he had just displayed seemed more like an illusion.

It's a pity that I don't know if it's because the impression was already fixed before we met...

Munakata looked at the little boy nestled in Sonoko's arms and playing with her hair, and frowned slightly unconsciously: Why did the more he looked... the more he felt that this child was a bit annoying?

This is a problem.

Because of the difference between [not allowed to get married] and [not allowed to have a relationship], Mr. Munakata Reiji had to rethink his attitude towards his future interactions with the Suzuki family - in fact, since neither party had clearly expressed the intention to cancel the engagement, from a conventional perspective, this engagement was actually still tied together from beginning to end.

We must not let this child become an obstacle.

So he thought about it and decided it would be better to ask clearly.

"When was the adoption procedure completed?"

Yuanzi shook his head blankly: "The housekeeper went there, I don't know."

Xiaolan, who was sitting opposite, sighed tiredly. Although she knew that Sonoko was not serious, she still couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor little Edogawa Conan.

"What about adoption?"

I don't know about Suzuki Sonoko either...

She asked tentatively, "Mother and son? Sister and brother? Are there any other adoptive relationships?"

Kudo Shinichi, who was nestled in her arms, twitched the corner of his mouth and didn't want to correct her outrageous statement at all.

Munakata spent a long time trying to discern the expression on Sonoko's face, then studied the child for a long time with a subtle, scrutinizing look. Finally, as if he had been forced to give in to her gaze, he said, "Forget it."

Then he left.

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"Awashima," the Scepter 4 director said, getting into the car they had come in by. He carefully called his trusted deputy and said, "Please check what procedures are required to convert a single adoption into a joint adoption."

Awashima Seri didn't understand what this meant at first.

Munakata pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "Sonoko adopted a child."

Although she was in charge of superpowers, Ms. Seri Awashima, a civil servant in the household registration department, frowned seriously, "Minors themselves are not capable of adoption..."

"Although it has no legal effect, it has constituted a de facto adoption."

Munakata Reiji sighed, "She's already brought the child home. Even the child's clothes are hanging in the closet. Sonoko is very careful with her things and has the same territorial awareness as a cat. The fact that she's willing to let the child have things in her bedroom means she's already taken him seriously."

Awashima Seri had no desire to learn the skill of [how to judge the mood of the future director's wife]. She just said "oh" indifferently, as a way of repaying her loyalty to her boss.

But the truth still needs to be told.

"If the Suzuki family handles the formalities, the child will likely not be protected by the law."

——In fact, it’s not that they are not protected by the law, but the Suzuki family will definitely not register an adopted child under the name of their underage daughter. Regardless of the issue of reputation, there may be disputes when the next generation determines the inheritance rights!

The most likely possibility is that this child is nominally the son of a relative of the Suzuki family, but is being raised by the second daughter of the Suzuki family.

The lack of legal protection means that if the family wanted to take the little boy away, even if Suzuki Sonoko liked the child so much that she allowed him to keep his clothes in her room, she would have no chance of winning the lawsuit and keeping the child with her.

How sad do you think she would be then?

The head of the household registration department decided to take legal action to ensure his fiancée's happiness and gave an order calmly.

"After checking, if the boy is a homeless child, we'll erase the adoption record handled by the Suzuki family from the database and give him another virtual household registration."

The official [human skin] in Spceter4's hands is much more manipulable than illegal operations. With the identity he gives, even if there is no legal protection, the child can stay where she wants him to stay for the rest of his life.

In other words, it can't be taken away.

Before hanging up the phone, the leader of the Blue Clan seemed to remember something and calmly gave his subordinates a final order.

"Help me prepare some books on how to get along with children."

He thought for a moment and added, "It's better to talk about stepparents and stepchildren in a more targeted way."

The author has something to say: It’s a bit beyond my expectation that I’m arriving this late... I haven’t saved any manuscripts recently, and I have to come back and write when I have something to do, so it’s a bit late. I’m sorry everyone!

The process of Kudo Shinichi naming himself is the same as in the original work. He was suddenly caught by Xiaolan and just thought of something randomly. However, Jinjiang does not allow detailed descriptions of the original plot, so I can only mention it like this.

I don't know the specific adoption procedures. The adoption relationship is checked on the spot. It is not calculated based on the father-daughter, mother-son or other methods. If there are any loopholes, I would like to trouble you to try to forget it. [Bow

The director who started to think about becoming a father——From trying to get along to considering killing

Sonoko let Conan live next door to her because they are now accomplices and are both being watched by the psychopaths of the Black Organization.

Finally, as usual, please leave a message, but I might oversleep tomorrow morning, so just say good afternoon!

Good afternoon (づ￣ 3￣)づ