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

2-1 Has Something Happened With
the Classics Club?
005 - ♠02
Saying "I enjoyed this a lot" may sound easy, but is actually a pretty difficult
task. Rather than the possibility of the difference in one's level of
understanding, a more important factor would be the difference in one's level
of interest. When watching a magic performance, a dense person would not
even understand even a hundredth of what was going on. On the other hand,
if one had the ability to see through a magician's trick, then no matter how
much entertainment he may see, while he may try to enjoy to his heart's
content, there's no way he could have enjoyed it sufficiently.
It was morning, and I was walking to school earlier than usual, as the
Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival starts today. Seeing Fukube Satoshi
constantly repeating "Ohh, I'm so looking forward to enjoying this," I felt
compelled to mischievously tell him the above, to which Satoshi responded
with a frightful smile and slowly shook his head.
"An excellent idea, was what I wanted to say, but you're too naive,
Houtarou,"
"Oh? How so?"
"For a person like you who was raised on nothing but boorishness to even
think of lecturing me on my enjoyment, you're too naive," he said as he raised
his index finger and swung it left and right as though acting.
"Of course I already knew that it was useless to try to enjoy myself deep