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

anthologies from you,"
I find it troubling to be described as some shady character, so I smiled bitterly
and said,
"Oh, no, of course not. I won't go so far as to extort money from you
personally. That's not what I was thinking,"
"...... I don't get it. Then what do you intend to do with those anthologies if
you're not selling them?"
"I did say I was going to sell them, however, the ones buying would be,"
I took a deep breath,
"The General Committee,"
"That's rid-"
Tanabe's face went pale. It would be bothersome if he were to raise a
commotion, so I continued,
"It's not ridiculous at all.
"I saw it, on the Kamiyama High School home page. You guys are putting
merchandise from the Cultural Festival on sale there, aren't you? And since
these anthologies are related to the Cultural Festival, it wouldn't be out of
place, would they? You can simply buy them in the General Committee's
name and then put them up on the site for sale,"
Tanabe was at a lost for words. He went into thought for a while before
saying,
"...... These anthologies, they're not really that popular, are they?"
"In other words, you'll agree to put them on sale if they're popular enough?"
So he's unable to make such an easy commitment, or something like that.
Tanabe began choosing his words carefully,