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

Afterword
Hello, this is Yonezawa Honobu.
The most vivid memory of any school Cultural Festival that I've been to was
that of a girl in the Literature Club. She would bring a chair out into the dim
corridor where the sun could not reach, alongside a few anthology copies,
and would sit there all day reading books.
That year, I was put in charge of writing the script for a mystery movie that
my class was making. As the movie was completed, I was free to do anything
I like. And so I bought an anthology copy from her, but I have no memory of
having read it.
This was because I had already brought my own book to kill time with.
The centrepiece for this volume is none other than the Cultural Festival. For a
formless event to take centre stage, I had to present it using multiple points of
views. This was required not just by the setting, but also by the story, or else
the whole book would consist of nothing but the protagonist sitting on his
chair.
When this book was finally ready for publication, I was stuck in coming up
with a title. Though the story began in the eve of a festival, and ended at the
end of it, I just couldn't think of any other title besides "Cultural Festival" or
"School Festival". Though it's titled The Kudryavka Sequence, I feel its
subtitle would be more fitting for the volume as a whole.