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

"No, that's not what I meant,"
Toogaito-san rubbed his forehead and said, "I'm no longer with the Wall
Newspaper Club."
"Eh?"
"I'm a third year, so I'm retired already."
Oh.
H-how did I not notice that before? This would of course be natural. It's
completely obvious.
"I-I'm sorry."
"No, you don't really have to apologize..."
For a moment, I felt like I was of no help, and was feeling a bit depressed.
But soon a fine idea came to my head. If Toogaito-san had retired, then this
could work.
"Then, could you introduce me to one of your juniors so that I may make my
request to him instead?"
However, Toogaito-san looked even more troubled than before.
"Well, I can introduce you, but I don't think it'll make much of a difference."
"Not much of a difference?"
"Our Special Edition goes up every two hours, so we have to get everything
prepared before then. So to ask us to write something about the Classics Club
now would be a bit too much, you see."
I see. Indeed, while I thought of the possibility of getting mentioned in a
Special Edition every two hours, I totally did not consider the fact that they
would need to prepare a draft edition beforehand.