Harumi Takasugi is 31 years old, single, and can’t seem to find apermanent job. But when his cousin Kururi’s mother dies in an unfortunateaccident, it’s suddenly up to him to take care of the orphaned 12-year-oldeven though he didn’t even know she existed! Kururi is an odd child,antisocial and stubborn, but she used to love the bento boxes that her mothermade her. In an attempt to overcome the difficulties between them and live up tobeing a good guardian, Harumi takes up cooking. Even though he isn’t verygood at it at first, his heart is in the right place, and the two begin theirnew life together as an odd little family in this installment of NozomiYanahara’s heartfelt, slice-of-life series.

Visual artist(s): Nozomi Yanahara, Jake Elphick, John McNamee