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

"...Really? Hahaha, now that's kind of mean..."
"...But don't you think it sounds kind of ridiculous...?"
To begin with, while I had already imagined a lot of people participating, not
even I, who had been looking forward to this since last night, could envision
200 people coming. Such was the effect of their publicity campaign.
It was just past 12:30 when the school PA broadcast went on air. It was the
Broadcasting Club's pseudo radio broadcast. With relaxing pop music being
played in the background, the broadcast was used to relay the latest hot topics
during the Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival to the listeners. About
15 minutes had passed when the broadcast went to interview the president of
the Quiz Club, which went as follows:
"This year will be our 7th tournament. As usual we are offering very
interesting prizes, but this time we've prepared questions that not just people
who are good at quiz shows could answer. Naturally speaking, members of
the Quiz Club are forbidden from participating, so we believe this is a golden
opportunity for these people. So we welcome all to participate... Basically,
we'll be holding a true and false questions preliminary involving participants
running between circles with each answer on the school grounds. It'll be some
great exercise after lunch, no?"
He sure knows how to stir up the event. By advertising via a radio broadcast,
I thought they could achieve a moderate success, but I was mistaken. Not
counting the audience, there were already 200 participants. (This was just a
guesstimate amount of course, as I have no idea exactly how many there
were. Still, it was definitely more than a hundred people.)
And I must also mention that the Quiz Club had also gotten themselves
mentioned by the Wall Newspaper Club. During the Cultural Festival, the
Wall Newspaper Club publishes a Special Edition every two hours. And
within the Day 1 12pm edition it was mentioned that the Quiz Club activity
today sounds interesting. By pasting these Special Edition copies around the
school's notice board, even a fool would be aware of their activity.
It seems the Classics Club would need the assistance of both the