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

"Hmm? What is it?"
"This," She said and handed something to me. It looked like a greeting card.
On it was written "The Cooking Club has lost its ladle." Signed by "Juumoji."
"Hmm."
I took a bite of the spicy beans and said, "The ladles were stolen?"
"Yes... but just ours."
Ibara nodded. As Ibara had made the kakiage rice bowl, she was most
affected by the theft. And to think she could have just made dumplings out of
the flour I provided... Who would have thought she would fry something with
it? She sure is a sensitive person.
"Probably a prank by someone with too much time on their hands."
I returned the greeting card, yet the conversation did not end there.
Munching on his red bean paste bread, Satoshi smiled and said, "It's not just
The Cooking Club, the same happened to the Go Club as well. I hear the A
Capella Club was also hit."
"The Fortune Telling Association, too. They both found this, um, declaration
of crime with the same font."
I see.
"Looks like someone really has a lot of time on their hands."
I tried to downplay the incident, but Chitanda was not one to be fooled.
Disregarding the green bean paste bread in her hands, she held her fists
tightly. Chitanda's large black eyes, which betray her normally gentle image,
were now widening. I could sense the atmosphere changing.
T-this is bad. Why now? Not even half a day had passed yet. And I was
hoping to endure the Cultural Festival without incident. To think Chitanda
had restrained herself well yesterday, how did it come to this? Where has it