Chapter 0: Prologue

Prologue beginning of the Koufuku Graffiti manga series, also called Chapter 0.

Plot Summary
Ryou Machiko gets a call from her aunt, Akira Machiko, who tells Ryou that she'll be alone for new years, and apologizes for it because she feels sad about it due to the fact that it'll be Ryou's 3rd year of middle school soon; however, Ryou assures her that she can manage by herself, and is determined to become more reliable. Ryou then decides to cook some food, a hamburger steak. When eating it, she laments that she has a habit of talking to herself while she's alone, and also that the hamburger steak is actually really bad. Meanwhile, elsewhere, Kirin Morino is eating with her parents, claiming that eating outside is better than eating her mom's cooking; she will also be on her 3rd year of middle school soon. When asked what she wants to do for high school, Kirin says she wants to go to Tokyo Fine Arts, and her mother flips out and gets all worried, making claims like Tokyo is too far away, and she might have to take different exams and go to cram school and stuff. However, Kirin says that she already applied for a cram school and that she even has enough money to pay for it herself. Her mother inquires how she'll get to the cram school, and Kirin, in a fit of emotion, exclaims that she'll find a nice person in Tokyo who will help her out. It's at that moment that Ryou is walking outside, wishing that she could cook great meals like she used to be able to.

Characters

 * Ryou Machiko
 * Kirin Morino
 * Mother Morino
 * Father Morino
 * Grandmother Machiko (picture)