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

sounds so tedious, who on earth is gonna read that? We should have made
more parody mangas instead."
Come to think of it, someone had suggested everyone in the Manga Club
could try making their own parody manga. Right now, there were a few of
them lined up around the stalls. The reason why there were so few of them
was mainly because they were either not confident about displaying their
works in the Cultural Festival, or they did not want to end up making a loss.
But to blame it on the presence of Zeamis was just absurd.
Upon being told that no one would bother reading the anthology that I
worked so hard on, the atmosphere in the room became delicately tense. To
begin with, Kouchi-sempai's group was entirely uncooperative in the making
of Zeamis. Uncooperative as in shoving the work to other people. Even
someone as lazy as Oreki still bothered to take time to write up the
manuscript despite constantly complaining about how bothersome it was, but
Kouchi-sempai's followers were simply slacking off. Even now, not a single
one of them had offered to help sell it. There were quite a few people in the
club who found such behaviour revolting.
The only reason such sentiments had not erupted was due to Kouchi-sempai,
who had herself diligently worked on her own rather interesting column. She
didn't even brag about the fact that she had it completed within the day.
Extending her arms from within her long Taoist priest robes, Kouchi-sempai
crossed them and looked up as though preaching some truth.
"Even if we assume that there's no such thing as a boring manga, this would
be like reading an interesting manga a hundred times over. Anyone would get
bored doing that. There's simply no meaning to it, right?" she said, seeking
approval from those around her. A chorus of barely audible agreement could
be heard, muttered by her followers. If you want to be a Yes Men, you could
at least be more assertive in your agreements.
But to say that it has no meaning, well...
Some of the members turned their gaze toward the sales booth where I was
seated... While I was indeed the only one who disagreed with Kouchi-sempai,