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

preparing miso soup.
Observing from the podium, The Cooking Club president began
commentating on behalf of the audience.
"Oh, looks like Team Classics Club sure are thorough! They're slowly taking
out the intestines of the sardines one by one! This is a very important step!"
After taking out the sardines' intestines, he began cutting up the radish into
smaller pieces.
Wait, Fu-Fukube-san! There's no problem with how you cut up the radish,
but you've forgotten to peel its skin! But team members are not allowed to
speak while their teammates are cooking. The radish! The radish! I tried to
motion my body in order to let him know... The radish!
After cutting up all the pieces, he finally seems to have noticed and took out a
peeler. Oh dear! He's peeling the skin off the small pieces he just cut one by
one! But if you do that, they'll become too dry by the time you put them into
the hot water!
After peeling off the radish skin, he placed the dried sardines aside... Though
as he'd taken care of its innards, it shouldn't smell anymore. Fukube-san next
turned his attention to the sliced pork. He walked to the centre to obtain some
miso paste. Of the three types of miso: red, white and koji, he had chosen
white. By now, even I knew what he was planning to make, and it was not
plain miso soup. He now held a miso soup spoon in his left hand and a
regular spoon in his right.
Twenty minutes passed and on the stove of our kitchen counter was a pot of
pork miso soup.
"Twenty minutes is up! Please swap places now."
Fukube-san ran back towards where we sat, and the first thing he said was,
"Didn't go as well as I thought!"
"The peeling of the skin?"