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

was just a marketing ploy to sell our Hyouka anthologies, but we never
thought "Juumoji" would actually appear, so she was pretty shocked. All I
could do was casually shrug my shoulders to tell her I wouldn't know the
answer to her question either. After all, I much prefer seeing Mayaka look so
worked up than dejected.
We walked down the stairs to the first floor.
"Hey, Fukube,"
Someone called me, it was Tani-kun.
I made an abjected smile as befitting of a loser. As I really have lost, so it was
not a hard expression to make. Though it was not Tani-kun that I had lost to.
"Hey, Tani-kun. As you see, we got had. You were at the Geology Room,
right?"
"Of course,"
Yet, Tani-kun spoke with less confidence than before. That's to be expected. I
went on to ask,
"So, Tani-kun, did you manage to find out who 'Juumoji' was?"
Tani-kun's face scowled for an instance. He probably felt a sense of
humiliation. Yet he quickly went back to his relaxed demeanor, and said in a
graceful manner,
"Nope, I haven't,"
"I see,"
"Well, there were too little clues. With so little information, one could never
come to any conclusion no matter how much they would think about it,"
There were indeed too little clues.
"Then, what about you? Did you figure out something?"