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

On the podium were three guys and one girl. I took a quick glance at them;
besides Tani-kun, I didn't know any of them. Had they been the "Empress"
Irisu Fuyumi-sempai, President Tanabe Jirou-sempai of the General
Committee, or the "New Master of the Library" Juumonji Kaho-san, then I
would have to hold my hands up in resignation. While I'm confident that my
knowledge is as good as theirs, I just can't feel like beating them. That said, I
don't think my database would accept such a fact.
The announcer had interviewed and asked the names for three of the
contestants already, including Tani-kun. And now it was my turn. The
announcer held up her mic and smiled.
"Okay, our fourth finalist! May we have your class and name please?"
I cleared my throat in order to address the 200 participants as well as the
hundreds more listening via the speakers,
"I'm Fukube Satoshi of the Classics Club."
"Huh?"
"The Classics Club, as in classical literature."
The announcer looked confused for a moment. She didn't look the type to
know how to deal with unexpected events.
She soon nodded deeply and said, "I see! I never knew we had such a club.
Guess we have all sorts of strange clubs, right?"
So far so good. I paid attention not to rush myself and allowed the words to
come out naturally. Even without being requested to, I was generally good at
saying what I wanted to say.
"Though we call ourselves the Classics Club, we don't exactly cover classic
literature like 'Tsurezuregusa [1] .' To be honest, not even I knew what it is that
we do exactly, so it's kind of strange. After all, this was a club that came back
from the jaws of abolition as it didn't have any members prior to us joining.
You could say we're a club that publishes anthologies. So we've published