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

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expression.

"Do go easy on us,"

I gave him a polite response, to which he nodded.

"Good luck to us both then, Fukube!"

040 - ♦08

While I would prefer to slowly enjoy my lunch as an excuse to stay with the

Classics Club as long as possible, I know this can't last. No matter how

unpleasant it is, I need to return to the Manga Club soon.

Without noticing, I had already unwrapped and torn my bacon roll into bits,

and I now slowly picked them up one by one and fed them to my mouth. I'll

go once I'm finished with them all. Just when I'd decided to do that, Oreki,

who was in charge of watching the stall, opened his mouth.

"Ibara, you said you've read Agatha Christie's novels before, right?"

I was just about to wonder how he knew that when I remembered that I had

told him near the end of the summer holidays, during what Fuku-chan called

the "Empress" affair.

I stopped picking up the bacon roll pieces and said, "I did, but only her most

famous works. It's not like I've read all of her works."

"And The A.B.C. Murders is one of them?"

"Of course."

Crossing his arms, Oreki sat back deeply into his chair while brazenly staring

at the ceiling and said, "This 'Juumonji' incident, Satoshi said it's similar to

A.B.C...."

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