Hyouka - Volume 03 - The Kudryavka Sequence - Welcome to KANYA FESTA! (1)

was surprisingly calm.
"Each team member has twenty minutes, so we'll just put Mayaka last. If she
still doesn't come in 40 minutes, then guess that's too bad. We're only here to
promote ourselves anyway, so it doesn't matter whether we win or not."
While he's quite right, I still continued to glance towards the field entrance.
A male student's voice spoke from behind us.
"Doesn't matter whether you win or not? That's hardly fun at all, Fukube!"
Could he be a friend of Fukube-san? I've not seen him before.
Though Fukube-san was usually energetic, perhaps even he was getting
exhausted from being so active during the tournament, because he sounded
quite indifferent when replying to his friend.
"Nah, we'll be giving our all."
Though his friend did not seem to mind a bit and smiled.
"At any rate, this rule of having three people on a team is great! Even if my
cooking isn't up to snuff, I'll still be well covered by the other two teammates.
Still, no one person can win it alone, so you gotta plan ahead accordingly."
"Isn't that the same for all team tournaments?"
"Anyway, have you found yourself some good teammates? Just so you know,
Team B has got Suhara, who's the son of the chef of Miraku on Main Street."
"Ah, so I've heard."
"And I'm on that team."
Fukube-san gave an ambiguous smile.
"Wow, that's great. May the best team win then."