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

As I was busy selling the Hyouka copies, I had no way of knowing whether
"Juumoji" had already sneaked in among the uniformed students or visitors in
their casual wear, trying to find an opportunity to break through the triangle
guard formation of Chitanda, Satoshi and Ibara. Eyeing the heavily guarded
manuscript and the copies of Hyouka, I thought to myself Please don't make
your move yet, as I hoped to extend the moment for as long as possible in
order to sell as many copies as I could.
Regardless of whether they're detective-wannabes or just curious onlookers, I
couldn't help but listen in on their conversations:
"...... Is he really gonna come......"
"...... He managed to pull it off this morning......"
"...... I think this is just a staged show by the Student Council......"
"...... Hey, isn't this To Terra... the book that you said you were reading a
while ago......"
"...... Aren't they overdoing this a bit? There's no way he'd be able to get
through such heavy security......"
"...... Not if he's Lupin......"
Unfortunately, "Juumoji" is no Lupin, but a mere student of Kamiyama High
School. He's not gonna pull some amazing stunt in order to get his hands on
those heavily guarded manuscripts. Ibara looked quite anxious, since the
"Juumoji" incident wouldn't be solved even if they were to successfully guard
the manuscripts.
I continued to observe.
Hyouka was still selling. Five copies, ten copies, twenty copies.
Time was passing. Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes.
I opened the boxes that I thought would never be opened, and slowly
removed the Hyouka copies within it, until I could see the bottom of the