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

"Furthermore, on page 33, there are no clubs that begin with [KU], yet there
is a person's name, that of President Kugayama,"
I made a deep breath before going on,
"Let's take a brief detour. By this point, we can guess as to what sort of
person 'Juumoji' is, and which club he belongs to. It would be too random for
all the targeted clubs to fall so neatly into the same page. The only people
capable of manipulating the order of how the clubs are displayed would be
the General Committee, the greeting cards would be by the same people as
well,
"By the way, concerning The Cooking Club. I had confirmed with their
president that they had prepared a ladle before the tournament. For an item to
be prepared before a tournament to go missing, the suspect must be involved
with the tournament preparation somehow. Satoshi probably had so much fun
that he probably didn't work much, but I'm guessing the General Committee
had a hand in helping out with the tournament preparation, right?"
He could do nothing but smile bitterly. In which case, it makes my
explanation much simpler,
"Well, there are like twenty people or more in the General Committee. So this
would not be enough to pinpoint the culprit,
"On the other hand, I also know that Anjou Haruna, the author of Ashes at
Dusk, and President Kugayama, whom she worked with, would also know
about The Kudryavka Sequence. In other words, Kugayama should be able to
decipher the message hidden in the 'Juumoji' Incident,
"Then what about the culprit, 'Juumoji'? Who is this person that was
mimicking the plot of The Kudrayvka Sequence in an attempt to relay a
message to Kugayama?
"We have a ten character rule starting with [A], and an accusation that
'something has already been lost to begin with'
"Now this is a bold speculation, but what if the message was Kugayama had