"please." "Um..." "I..." "I have a request!" "A request?" "Yes." "{lit this is just my problem} so I have no right to ask you for help... just hear me out first!" "yeah." "Thank you!" "It's about my uncle." "His name was Sekitani Jun." "Please help me remember what he told me!" "I don't really get it." "sorry." "I skipped a few details." "I'll explain things from the start." "and nobody has heard from him since then." "I was very attached to him." "no matter how crazy it was." "It was as if there was nothing he didn't know about. and I became interested in it as well." "I think it's because "Classics" sounded similar to the "candy sticks" I loved at home.{lit vinegar-kelp}" "That's a really bad pun." "I asked him about the Classics Club." "That was the one and only question he avoided answering." "He avoided it?" "and eventually he relented." "I..." "You what?" "I cried." "}" "You cried... but my uncle didn't even try to calm me down." "It was such a big shock that I can't remember anything else." "I couldn't stop thinking about it." "Why did he try to dodge the question?" "Why didn't he try to calm me down? I've done everything I could do." "I still tried to stay in touch as much as possible." "I can't remember what it was!" "I felt like the Classics Club was my last hope." "That's the "personal thing" you were talking about?" "But I didn't know that the Classics Club was on the verge of being disbanded." "but none of them remember when my uncle attended the school." "So?" "Why did you come to me?" "Well..." "Because you can solve mysteries that I can't even fathom! and the secret club!" "I just know that you'll be able to lead me to the truth!" "You really shouldn't overestimate me." "That was just dumb luck." "Then let me count on that luck!" "I don't want to." "You could say that this mystery is at the core of Chitanda Eru's very life." "Do you really think a low-energy person like me would want to be responsible?" "You've gotta be kidding me." "So why just me?" "Surely there are other people you could talk to as well." "replace with idiom if possible}" "Just ask all your friends to help." "Oreki..." "I'm not the kind of person who just goes around revealing her past to everyone." "This isn't... something I can discuss with just anyone." "Sorry." "I know I'm really asking a lot of you." "I know I shouldn't be getting you mixed up in my past." "But... but you answer my questions too!" "Please accept my deepest apologies for being unfriendly." "I think I might've seen something of my uncle in you." "right?" "That's more than enough time to investigate this. before he's dead." "Before he's dead?" "Yes. they're considered legally dead." "I see." "My uncle's family wants closure as well." "but they've planned a funeral." "So..." "So I wanted to find out what he told me back then...{*} as well." "I'm sorry." "right?" "{the letter}" "I can't take on this responsibility for you." "So I can't say that I'll take on your request." "I'll let you know." "I can assist you with that." "Okay." "I'll help you." "Thank you very much!" "I'm sure you'll be able to help me!" "Yeah. it isn't all fun and games." "we have exams." "midterms have begun. that includes the Classics Club as well. so not a lot has changed. but with no key available we didn't have much choice." "pens down!" "the midterms are over..." "Jeez." "Greetings." "I am writing to you from Istanbul." "so I'm currently stuck in the Japanese consulate and haven't seen much of the city yet.{split?" "}" "What did you do this time?" "I'm really enjoying this trip!" "I'll be able to look back on these days without regret.{i'm really unsure about this but his reaction shows that this line isn't supposed to be alright} how's the Classics Club?" "Has anyone else joined?" "so I thought I'd better mention it." "Will you be making an anthology?" "The Classics Club used to release an anthology every year at the culture fair." "Are you still doing that?" "you might be wondering what you need to do." "The Classics Club's prior anthologies aren't kept in the library." "You should be able to find them in the clubroom." "There's this unused medicine safe." "The back issues are in there." "It's not locked." "I'll give you a call." "Oreki Tomoe." "A medicine safe?" "You couldn't have chosen a better time to tell me..." "Really?" "Yep." "too." "is it?" "though." "That's right!" "I haven't seen anything like that here!" "B-But then what about the anthologies?" "The anthologies?" "Chi." ""Chi"?" "all she said was that the medicine safe is in the clubroom." "My sister graduated two years ago." "The clubroom has changed since then." "I see!" "So that's what happened!" "do you know which room it was two years ago?" "I asked our club advisor." "it was the biology prep room." "you really did your homework!" "I just took the most efficient approach." "Such enthusiasm!" "Not even close." "I don't know the meaning of the word "enthusiasm"." "let's go!" "what about Fukube?" "That sew-and-sew?" "He was going on about taking a sneak peek at some summer fashion thing..." "Oreki!" "Huh?" "It's locked." "Is anyone in there?" "sorry." "I'd locked the door." "Are you interested in joining the News Poster Club?" "Not exactly." "then?" "pretty much." "That smell..." "Cologne?" "Or rather..." "Air freshener?" "how can I help you?" "Chitanda Eru." "right?" "How do you know my name?" "I remember seeing you last year at the Manninbashis'." "At the Manninbashis'?" "would you happen to be one of the Chitandas from Kanda?" "Yes." "You've been a great help to my father." "the feeling's mutual... a Chitanda." "Why's he so tense?" "how can I help you?" "Right!" "We heard the Classics Club's old anthologies were being kept here in the biology prep room." "right?" "yeah." "So..." "So would you happen to know anything about the anthologies?" "No..." "No." "I see." "Thank you very much." "Hold on!" "but they have to be in here somewhere!" "let us look for them!" "they're not here." "But... let's be off." "Wait!" "Don't you think it's weird?" "I do." "Then stick around!" "but you'll have to look somewhere else." "But we heard that they were here!" "we'll have to search the entire school!" "The entire school?" "That's out of the question." "Please let us in!" "Just for a minute!" "Please." "I'd prefer not to let outsiders in." "but this is a classroom first and a clubroom second!" "And you are?" "Ibara Mayaka from the Classics Club.{3}" "Very well." "You can take a look inside." "Just don't make a mess." "Where are the other club members?" "They're on break today." "I was just thinking about what to put in the June issue." "It's called the Kami High Monthly." "in fact." "Looks like it's not here either." "I see." "That's too bad... Oreki? did anything get moved around when you switched clubrooms?" "we had to carry a few cardboard boxes." "Cardboard boxes?" "Yeah." "Which means... though." "Let's give this guy a good shake and see what falls out." "but there's so much stuff in this room that it'd take ages for us to look through it all." "I'd like to ask our club advisor to help us give it a more thorough search." "Is that okay?" "No." "I told you not to make a mess." "But this is the only lead we have!" "We'll take full responsibility for returning everything to the way it—" "I said no!" "But..." "I'm busy!" "I don't care about your thorough search!" "Your anthologies aren't here!" "You got that?" "Get outta here!" "Bingo." "We're after what's in the medicine safe." "What?" "!" "The anthologies are supposedly in there." "right? we'd be grateful if you could bring them to the earth science prep room." "It isn't locked." "Y-You..." "What do you think you're..." "What do I think?" "Very well." "I'll bring them to you." "Thank you very much." "Let's go." "first-year." "You haven't introduced yourself yet." "Oreki Houtarou." "I apologize." "Oreki." "Why are we waiting here?" "To save energy." "come on." "Chitanda." "What is Tougaito's family famous for?" "Well..." "They're quite well-known in the field of junior high school education." "in fact." "I see." "It's been five minutes." "Shall we head back?" "Look what we have here." "It's the anthologies!" "what just happened?" "Did you do something?" "Just a bit of blackmail." "Blackmail? can you keep a secret?" "Huh?" "I won't." "I see." "let's start from the beginning." "he was clearly wary of us." "That's true." "How about inside the room? but from that position the papers on the desk were almost blown away." "He wanted to air out the room." "Exactly." "But why did he want to air out the room? why would he lock the door and set up an infrared sen—" "Wait a moment!" "What are you talking about?" "What infrared sensor?" "There were these tiny boxes on the corridor walls that I hadn't seen before. then it must have been set up to alert him when someone passed by." "How did you figure that out?" "Just a guess based on the situation." "But why would he take so much care to start airing out the room as soon as someone passed by?" "To clear out a smell?" "Most likely." "He also smelled of air freshener." "What smell would he want to cover up that badly?" "{lit keep people from knowing} right?" "The heir of a family famous in the field of education couldn't allow anyone to find him smoking illegally." "I see." "she would've smelled it right away. then?" "of course." "O-re-ki!" "I-I'm not making fun of you." "The medicine safe was under that home-made table." "I guess he must've been hiding his smokes and lighter in there too." "That's why he panicked when I suggested getting a teacher involved in the search." "You're really weird." "I'm as average as they come.{there's something wrong. chitanda too quiet}" "Hey guys!" "I'm a sunflower! we found the old anthologies." "really?" "So that's how they look!" "so does that mean it was written by hand?" "Chitanda?" "they probably printed it with a mimeograph." "mimeographed. he uses a different word for the same thing ガリ版 - 謄写版} It was invented in the late 19th century.{Meiji era}." "What's wrong?" "I doubt the school would have had a photocopier during the 1970s." "Oreki... this one was photocopied..." "Come here..." "I see...{?" "}" "This is it." "Hyouka"." "Issue number two." "This is what I found back then." "I brought it to my uncle and asked him what it was." "You remembered?" "Please read it." "There is something in here that has to do with my uncle." "Something happened 45 years ago in the Classics Club." "this year the culture fair has come once again." "One year has passed since Sekitani left us." "The year that he began as a hero and finished as a legend. and the smiles he shared into the distant past." "But that is how it should be." "It is not something meant to be remembered." "It was nothing even close to an epic. as per the rules of historic perspective." "One day we too will just be classic literature on someone's shelf." "1964." "Kooriyama Youko." "The year before that was 45 years ago." "Which means that the Sekitani mentioned there was my uncle." "it was related to the Classics Club as well." "I guess?" "But I can't remember what it was!" "It's..." "It's so close!" "What did he tell me that day?" "What happened to my uncle 45 years ago?" "Then why don't you investigate it?" "It says right there that it shouldn't be remembered!" "What if I find out something I never wanted to know?" "{lit if i investigated it may end badly} right?" "Even things from 45 years ago?" "Does that matter?" "It does." "As it says here:" "as per the rules of historic perspective." "It's already in the past.{ so it's okay to talk about}." "this article refers to the previous year." "So why not just check the first issue— what's going on?" "!" "The first issue is the only one that's missing!" "Next time:" "Past Days of the Classics Club and Its Glory." "12)}Hyouka 12)\3cHFFFFFF}Hyouka" "599)}Inheritors of the Classics Club and Its Circumstances" "193)}Japanese {\alphaHFF}man missing 206)}Japanese {\alphaH00}man {\frz-1.5}goes {\alphaHFF}missing" "211)}Japanese man {\alphaH00}missing 0)\bord0\blur0.5\p1\cH2E3438}m 611 206 l 583 252 l 672 243 l 707 240 l 749 236 l 779 235 l 849 235 l 893 235 l 931 236 l 964 237 l 998 239 l 1024 241 l 1103 247 l 1135 202 l 1066 196 l 984 191 l 890 188 l 814 189 l 731 194 l 650 202" "230)\cH417669\b1}Library" "122)}First Semester {\cH14171B}Midterm Exam {\cH0D1213}Schedule 274)}period" "362)}period 455)}period" "271)\frz0.01685}Contemp." "Lit. {\cH162328}Contemp." "Soc. {\cH20282C}English I {\cH12181B}Math A 359)}Contemp." 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"284)\frz60.38\cH030E14}Hyouka" "40)}Sekitani" "553)}Past Days of the Classics Club and Its Glory" "let it be our love" "I beg you drifting in and out of sleep" "200)\blur2}This sprouting warmth confuses us" "150)\blur2}Don't you understand this feeling yet?" "150)\blur2}Normally such random glances hold no meaning 450)\blur2}Isn't it the same when making friends?" "vanishing into the dawn 150)\blur2}are a magic that only unfolds in the night let it be our love" "I beg you drifting in and out of sleep"