Chapter 1

**Familia** (ファミリア, *Famiria*?) is the first chapter of Seo Kouji's Goddess Café Terrace.

## Summary

Hayato returns to his family home for the first time in three years, and to his surprise, the cafe that should have been deserted after his grandmother's passing was occupied by five young women he's unfamiliar with. Mistaking him to be a burglar, the girls knocked him unconscious and tied him up. After waking up, both parties cleared the misunderstanding, but, Hayato, still furious at his treatment, kicked them out and told them he'd have the cafe demolished and turned into a parking lot.

At a nearby beach, the girls think of how to get by now that the legal owner of the cafe kicked them out, and one them, Riho, suggests that they seduce Hayato to get him to change his mind.

Hayato reflects on the last interaction he had with his grandmother before he went to high school and ponders why they even fought. He gets interrupted by Ouka who awkwardly invites him to eat dinner with them in a maid outfit. Suspicious of this, Hayato warns her that he won't change his mind if they're trying to suck up to him, but Ouka passes this gesture off as an apology for their rudeness earlier. Playing along, Hayato says he'll pay and demands to eat karage. Ouka says she can only make pilaf, but Hayato doesn't budge and gets his way in the end, much to Ouka's annoyance. After presenting her dish to Hayato, he provides a scathing criticism, offending Ouka and sending her crying in Riho's arms. Riho admits that this won't be as easy as they thought.

After eating food from a convenience store and taking a bath, Hayato spots the door to the cafe open and enters it. He sees Akane holding a choco stick in her mouth, initially assuming it was a cigarette and complains to her. Akane corrects him and says she uses the place to write songs for her band since it's quiet and allows her to concentrate better. She asks why he cares about her smoking since he's gonna tear down the place anyway. Hayato gets flustered at her words and immediately leaves the room. Amused at his reaction, Akane calls him cute. Riho plots to surprise Hayato and gets more bold with her tactics.

Hayato's room is opened by an uninvited Shiragiku under the influence of alcohol, and gets aggressively seduced by her. Riho waits nearby and plans to capture the scene on video so that when Hayato gives in to Shiragiku's advances, it'll be used to blackmail him into letting the girls stay. Unfortunately, Ami ruins the plan and by the next morning, Shiragiku is back to normal, clueless about the previous night's events.

The cafe gets visited by the demolition people Hayato contacted, to appraise the property. Noticing one of the contractors approach the signboard, Hayato is overcome with memories from his childhood, when he attached the sign with his grandmother. The contractor breaks the sign off and tries to take it with him, but out of instinct, Hayato stops him and takes it back. The girls watching this are curious about Hayato's actions, and Akane pushes Ouka to capitalize on this. In his room with the signboard, Hayato thinks back to more of his past, but is interrupted once more by Ouka, who this time has a plate of pilaf in her hands. Hayato tries to refuse but is told that his grandmother taught her how to make it, and that it was her grandson's favorite. She was instructed to feed it to him if anything were to happen to her. Ouka then leaves the room to allow him to eat. Hayato consumes the meal and with tears admits that he got into Tokyo U to put the people who looked down on his grandma in place.

While washing his plate, Hayato asks Ouka if his grandma got to die happy. Hearing that's the case, Hayato steels his resolve. After going through the cafe's account book and complaining about how they're constantly in the red, Hayato declares he'll run the cafe in her place. He allows the girls to stay in the cafe, and confirms that he'll stay there too, Ouka is reluctant about living with him but eventually agrees. The chapter ends with everyone giving formal introductions.

## Characters Introduced

* Hayato Kasukabe
* Ouka Makusawa
* Ami Tsuruga
* Akane Hououji
* Shiragiku Ono
* Riho Tsukishima
* Sachiko Kasukabe

## Characters in order of Appearance

* Ouka Makusawa
* Shiragiku Ono
* Riho Tsukishima
* Akane Hououji
* Ami Tsuruga
* Hayato Kasukabe
* Sachiko Kasukabe