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

"All right! We shall do our best tomorrow as well. We'll be participating in
The Cooking Club's cooking tournament tomorrow morning."
Ibara asked nonchalantly to his merry expression, "The one where you need
three people to form a team?"
"Huh?"
Satoshi's smile stiffened.
"Three people? Really?" He said as he frantically took out the pamphlet. It's
no good for someone from the General Committee to be unaware of what the
events are about, after all.
Meanwhile, Chitanda looked kind of depressed.
"I'm sorry, I... I didn't do my best..."
"Don't worry too much about it."
To be honest, I hadn't expected much from her. Rather than having no
expectation from her abilities, it was more to do with having no expectation
that we would receive special permission to make changes to an event that
had already been decided. As she looked down toward the ground, she
seemed to have thought of something and looked up.
"Oh, but, I did come across something curious though."
Something, curious?
I felt myself shuddering at the mention of that word. Whenever this lady
utters "I'm really curious about it," it means that things cannot go back to the
way they were. For someone with such a burning sense of curiosity, it is
impossible not to satiate Chitanda in her search for the answers.
Every time she says "I'm really curious about it," she has given me... I mean,
us, quite a lot of commotion... These memories began flashing in my head.
However, this was simply not the time of the day for her to do that. Once she