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

I said as I moved my gaze from the book,
"You familiar with this book?"
"It's my favourite manga. I bought one from the Cultural Festival last year,"
Ibara was not someone who would easily give her approval to something she
likes, but I never expect her to utter the word "favourite". Well, now that's
interesting. Looking at the book, she said without any tension,
"Hey Oreki, mind if you could lend me that?"
...... Man, this book is popular, isn't it? First Chitanda, now Ibara wants to
borrow this? Though I had wanted to lend it to them, I replied,
"Sure thing, but just hang on for a while,"
"I can wait, but how long are you going to make me wait anyway?"
I thought for a while, and soon taped on the page with the afterword on it and
said,
"At least until I've memorized this...... Once I make a copy of this, you can
have it right away,"
Ibara looked at me in puzzlement. Maybe I wasn't good in explaining myself,
to begin with, not even I was sure what purpose doing this would serve me.
Maybe I should say "until I figure out whether this afterword serves any
purpose or not".
Chitanda suddenly clasped her hands together,
"Oh yes, I have something to tell you,"
"What is it?"
"Well, I've been invited by the Broadcast Club to appear in their lunchtime
broadcast,"