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Dear Oreki Houtarou ...

Now, I'm ...

... staying in Benares.

Houtarou ...

This is a great town ...

The town of the funeral ceremony ...

Where ever you go, you can meet a funeral.

It seems like ...

... whoever dies here can ascend directly to heaven.

This place is said to be free from the wheel of reincarnation.

It might bit late ...

... congratulations for being admitted into high school.

It is Kamiyama High School after all, isn't it?

What a boring choice.

As your big sister ...

... that ever became high school student, I'll give you advice.

Please, enter the Classic Club.

The Rebirth of the Classics Club

Morning!

Morning!

When you think about high school life, the word rose-colored comes to your mind.

And when you think rose-colored, high school life comes to mind.

I thought it wasn't turn out too far.

Nevertheless ...

It doesn't mean ...

... that all high school students ...

... would have a desire for a rose-colored life.

Whatever it's studying, sport or love ...

... surely there must be people who aren't interested on all of that.

There also a student ...

... who want a gray life.

Don't you think that way too?

I didn't know you had such self-hatred.

Self-hatred?

Whether it's studying, sports ...

Or what was the other one?

Fallen in love?

Those kinds of thing, which you've ever been looking forward.

That's makes you a grey-coloured person.

Doesn't that describe you, Houtarou?

It's not like I'm against those.

I'm not exactly backward-looking either.

I'm just not interested in things that are would make me bothersome and waste my time.

Yeah.

You just wanna energy-saving, right?

But ...

In this huge variety of clubs that Kamiyama High School has ...

You don't participate in any club.

It makes you looked like a gray-person.

There're too many clubs you want to join, huh?

Yeah, something like that.

Monday is the Handicraft Club.

And on Tuesday, Go School Club.

Thursday is Painting Club.

Friday, going to the magic lovers meeting.

Well, you have nothing to do these days.

Read this ...

No way, it's ...

The club entry form?

Houtarou joining a club?

The Classic Club?

My sister sent it from Benares.

She sent it from India.

My sister used to be Classics Club in the past.

This club hasn't had a new member for three years.

If no one joins the club this year, it will be disbanded.

Houtarou ...

You can't refuse a request from your sister, huh?

I have no responsibility ...

... to guard my sister memories.

But ...

I can't resist Oreki Tomoe's request.

She specialties were ...

... Aikido and Taiho jutsu.

I would in trouble when she gets angry.

I'm impressed ...

... to the person who used the energy of life that much.

I don't think that the saving energy lifestyle ...

... is the best option.

I don't think, those people who are full of energy as fools at all.

But ..

I ...

...would to stick to own principle.

My principle ...

If I don't have to do it, I won't.

If I do have to do it ...

... make it quick!

It's so far.

The most remote place in Kamiyama High School.

The distance to that place is a waste time.

Hello ...

Oreki-san!

Who are you?

I'm Chitanda Eru.

You don't remember me?

Chitanda?

Sorry, never heard that name...

You're Oreki Houtarou-san, right?

In class 1-B?

I'm in class 1-A.

That doesn't really explain anything ...

Wait ...

Class 1-A?

Have you seen me in the school's opening ceremony?

Perhaps ...

Are we in the same music class?

Yeah!

We've only had that class once...

This girl ...

How good is this girl's memory?

You joined the Classics Club, right?

What?

Eh?

Yeah.

I joined the Classics Club ...

and I came here to introduce myself.

Like just I thought.

When she joined the Classics Club ...

My sister's order is done.

Then, I don't need to come here anymore.

Why have you joined the Classic Club?

I have personal reasons...

She even evaded my question.

Since someone joined the club ...

... I'll be going home then.

Huh? you're not having any activities today?

Don't forget to lock up the room.

Wait a minute!

What?!

I don't have the key.

Oh, then ...

The key ...

... I borrowed it.

Why do you have this key?

I can't enter a locked classroom without the key ...

Hey wait ...

Weren't you ...

I mean ...

... how did you get in here?

The door wasn't locked when I came in.

But, when I got here ...

... it was looked.

Which means ...

... was I locked in?

How could it happen?

Weren't you ..

Excuse me ...

I mean, didn't you lock it from the inside?

I didn't do anything.

Well, perhaps you forget whether they've locked the door or not.

No, I didn't do that.

Why did it happen?

I don't know!

There's no way, the door can be locked from the inside.

Satoshi?

Didn't you went home already?

Because I'm curious about why you joined the club.

Look over there!

In Kamiya, there're the classrooms here can be locked from the inside.

To prevent students from doing strange things.

How can you know about this stuff?

Well, last week I was too busy ...

... doing some experiment.

I was trying to sneak in and found out I couldn't lock the door from the inside.

Well, listen up.

Well, The school want to prevent ...

... the strangest thing like you do.

Oh, I see.

Whatever ...

... probably just someone's mistake.

I'm going home.

I'm really ...

... curious about it!

Why was I locked up?

Please help me figure this out!

Why I've to do it?

Well, it looks interesting.

Houtarou is a type of person who likes to think before he takes a move.

... he'll come up with something conclusion.

Please, you can do it!

Well, I will ...

... think about it.

When Chitanda entered this room ...

... the door wasn't locked.

And when I came here ...

... the door was locked.

Although, the room can't be locked from inside ...

Though the room can't be locked.

But accidentally it was locked up.

Summary ...

When Chitanda arrived at the room ...

The door is semi-locked ...

... and after she entered the room, the door was locked.

Hey, It's such an impossible thing!

The locks in Kamiya High have a semi-locked design and the keys won't come out.

You really know about this stuff, huh?

Did someone lock the door on purpose?

Hey ...

When did you enter this room?

I think it was about three minutes before you.

That's too short.

If someone borrowed the key from the office and locked the room ...

... it would need to put it back before I could have borrowed it.

What's wrong?

Oreki-san, did you lock it?

I wouldn't do that.

Then, can I trust to you?

It's not easy to believe him.

Hey! Why do I have to lock the door that I will enter to inside?

And then ...

I'm not interested in locking you up, it doesn't benefit me.

There's nothing was wrong.

We don't have a clue?

Clue?

Is there anything that's different from the usual?

Speaking about that ...

A while ago, I heard some sounds coming from beneath this floor.

Ahh ...

You realized about something, right?

This's the scenario scene, that should be able to see directly what the actually happen.

What do you mean?

It's not the regular keys that lock the door.

I thought the only other one is the master key.

Summary, the key that students can't use that.

What do you think about the sound that coming from the third floor?

I see.

It's the sound from the ceiling of the second floor.

The only person who on the classroom after lesson time ...

It would be people who work on ceiling.

It would be ...

In other words ...

What he going to do is ...

... unlock the classroom door.

... and then checked the lamp.

Then, he unlocks the next clasroom door ...

... and checked the lamp on inside the classroom.

Then, he repeats the same thing in another classroom.

Accidently, a student enters the classroom when the door was unlocked.

Didn't find it the door was locked.

After he finished fixing the stuff ...

He locked all the doors ...

... on the third floor.

That's the way it is.

It's amazing ...

It's amazing, you figured that out!

Well, once you start thinking about it, you're suprisingly reliable.

The only thing I still don't understand is ...

... why Chitanda didn't hear the sound of the door being locked?

Oh, I can explain about it.

I was looking at that building.

That building.

I wonder why that building still staying?

It could be.

Because that buiding pretty old.

What happen, huh?

Is it the Dojo Building?

By the way ...

... we haven't done introductions yet.

I'm Fukube Satoshi.

The person that know a lot of much the counterfeit thing.

Just call me a database.

What is your name?

I'm Chitanda Eru.

Chi-chitanda?

Did you mean ...

... that Chitanda?

Are you know about her?

Houtarou ...

At least, don't you know about that families name?

There are plenty of old families in Kamiyama City.

The Chitanda family is famous for being one of rising power families.

And the daughter of Chitanda's family is supposed to be a top student, stunning beauty, and the purest of nobility.

And I heard, She's held the top scores in the prefecture in simulation exams since middle school.

I see.

I was ...

I was just lucky...

That's very interesting, Chitanda joined the Classic club ...

Uhm ...

What about you?

Will you join the Classics Club?

It sounds interesting.

I'll join.

Fukube-san, what kind of things do you want to do when you're in the Classic Club?

I think I'll ride a bike together.

... and travel along the back road.

Hey Sis ...

Are you satisfied?

Woah you like ride a bike, huh?

The classic club that the place of your youth, it will survive.

Congratulation ...

I'm finally out of the burden.

We still haven't decided the President, right?

Oreki-san ...

What do you think?

It's not good, if it's Houtarou.

Chitanda-san, you've to be the President.

I understand.

Then, I'll be the president.

By the way, Houtarou ...

What about your club entry form?

As the President of Club, I accepted you.

So, I'm officially saying ...

I'm begging on you.

Oreki-san.

I've got an ominous feeling.

The Activities of the Prestigious Classics Club

The prestigious of Classics Club it has been resurrected.

Although that's what I can say.

The Geology Preparation Room is nothing than a club room.

This room had nothing else inside ...

There's only a table in the middle of the room that we could see.

The table made from a piece of plywood that placed on a stacked box.

The more importantly ...

We've nothing to do anyway.

How barren.

Those have two crops that grown a year.

It's called a semi-annual.

You'll have two crops that grown a year, if the crops semi-annual.

As expected from a daughter of a farmland owner.

It's no worth to praise me.

That's not what I was saying.

What it is?

We're a club ...

... so we should be doing club activities.

Club activities?

Yeah.

What does the Classics Club should do?

I don't know.

There're no seniors.

I don't know what kind of activities that club usually do.

It's my intention.

If I don't have to do it, I won't.

If I do have to do it ...

I've decided.

We're going to publish an anthology for the cultural festival in October.

Hello!

Fukube-san!

I just had a discussion with Oreki-san, we have to make an anthology.

We have to publish an anthology for the cultural festival.

The cultural festival?

Yeah.

The Kamiya Cultural Festival was the greatest culture around this area.

The Kamiya Cultural Festival traditionally forbids exhibition booths.

So, it might have to be an anthology.

The Classics Club to publish an anthology has more than 30 years of history.

We should make an anthology, and doesn't want that to end.

First, we need to find a back issue first.

Oreki-san.

This way.

Where's the catalogue book?

Oh, if it isn't Oreki.

Oh ...

Ibara, long time no see.

I didn't want to see you.

Is she your classmate?

Ibara Mayaka.

She's from Kaburaya Middle like me and Satoshi.

The poisonous tongue she had, it has been forced guys to be sunk instantly.

This's a public space.

You should get out of here.

You guys are getting along great as usual, huh.

I'd expected from the best couple of Kamiya High.

Fuku-chan ...

I'd rather date a slug than this gloomy guy.

Besides that, Fuku-chan ...

You know how I feel, so you should know you've got some nerve to make a joke like that, right?

Sorry, Mayaka.

Did that hurt you?

You always brush me aside with a joke.

She's had feelings for Satoshi since middle school.

Woah!

Ah, Mayaka ...

Did they keep the anthologies that written by Classic Clubs here?

The anthology book?

We plan to write an anthology for the cultural festival ...

Are you going to distribute it at the Kanya Festival?

Festival?

Kanya literally to Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival.

It's what everybody calls for it.

Ah, I guess ...

Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival turned into Kamiyama Festival ...

Then Kanyama Festival ...

... turn into Kanya Festival.

I don't know.

Well, we might find the anthologies if we look up the archives.

But the librarian is at a meeting right now.

I think she'll be back in half an hour.

Do you guys want to wait?

We've to wait for a while, right?

What a beautiful book!

That book has a strange story.

Kamiyama High School Walking Together for 50 Years

How could it be?

Every Friday I come in for duty, this book is always being returned.

It has been the fifth week in a row.

This's a popular book, right?

Then, does it looks like that ...

I don't think anyone wants to read this every week.

And our library's loan period is only two weeks.

So, there's not necessary to borrow it weekly.

The book borrowed by different people every time.

All of them are girls.

Not only that.

They all returned the book on Friday.

What?

Borrowed and returned on the same day.

Machida Kyouko borrowed it today.

Then she returned it on the same day.

Suzuki Koshie and Yamaguchi Ryouko, from Class D borrowed it too.

The book was borrowed and returned on the Friday.

And it happens five weeks in a row.

What the hell ...

Did they have time to read?

I'm ...

... curious!

So, let's think about this ...

Orieki-san ...

Why me?

Anyway, we still have to wait for librarian ...

I thought you should think about it.

Was Oreki actually smart?

Not really.

But he's pretty useful when it comes to useless things.

Damn you ...

You guys annoyed me.

I'll ...

... think about it.

Every week ...

... different people borrow the same book.

... and returned on the same day.

And this happened five weeks in a row.

It's the possible thing to happen.

But ...

I don't want to believe that it was a coincidence that arranges by God.

Beside of that ...

Chitanda wouldn't believe that as an explanation.

The important thing isn't the truth ...

But to convince her about that.

Let's change our perspective.

Why a book to be borrowed on the same day by different people every week?

And the fact that they're all girls.

There were two possibilities.

First, they've nothing in common.

And ...

It's just been very popular, they borrowed it during Friday afternoons.

Your fortune in this month's, fortune in the school.

"If you borrow it on Friday afternoon and then return it on the same day.

I'll go well with my boyfriend!"

That's so stupid.

Second ...

They've something in common.

They've needed to work together to use the book.

And take responsibility for borrowing the book.

The common all they have is that they're all girls ...

... and all in second year.

But ...

... they're in different classes.

It seems, this book has some sort of smell.

What kind of smell?

It smells quite pungent, like paint thinner

Houtarou, did you think of something?

Please tell me!

If you go, you'll know.

Let's go!

I don't want to go ...

... too far.

Where is it? Tell us!

This book supposed to borrowed isn't for to read ...

But the book's being used for ...

... the Friday afternoon lessons that held together.

Summary ...

This book was used between the fifth and sixth periods every Friday.

Probably over these two periods.

This scent ...

This book was used by all girls in the second year.

The lessons which involve different classes from the same year.

Arts lessons.

It used as an elective subject.

It turns out that five girls borrowed books for this class.

That's amazing. Houtarou!

The book that didn't suppose to take it home to read.

So, it was borrowed on the same day every week.

I never thought that such a reason.

Well, Houtarou still useful, right?

Yeah.

That's acceptable.

If he's Oreki-san ...

Maybe ...

Are you a new student that on duty today?

Nice to meet you.

Sensei ...

Itoigawa sensei ...

Itoigawa sensei ...

What's the matter?

The member of Classics Club.

Oreki Houtarou.

I'd like to read some of the back issues for the anthology.

Classics Club?

You're in the Classics Club?

I'm looking for the anthologies.

I see.

Too bad.

There aren't any back issues of the anthology in here.

Are you sure you didn't see them ...

... in the library archives?

Yes, sure.

There aren't in the library archives.

The Descendants of the Eventful Classics Club

I was invited out by Chitanda.

She said she wants to meet me outside the school.

I'm sorry to invite you out.

Welcome.

I want a Vienna Cocoa, please.

Certainly!

Do you want to have one too?

No, thanks.

Then ?

Huh?

Why did you invited me out to this cafe?

Does it mean?

You're the one who picked out the cafe.

I'm going home.

Ah, wait please!

I'm sorry.

I'm just a bit nervous...

Nervous?

Are you going to confess to me?

Thank you for waiting.

May I have a cup of coffee?

Please wait.

This could be a confession.

And this might be isn't a confession.

I've ...

... a favor I'd like to ask to you.

I had an uncle.

My mother's younger brother ...

His name, Sekiya Jun.

He was disappeared ten years ago ...

We still don't know where he is right now.

My uncle was knowledgeable enough to answer any question that I ask.

Though I don't even remember it now.

What I wanted to request from Oreki-san is...

... to help me remember what it was that my uncle said to me.

Do you ask me ...

... to help what you've said?

Yeah.

That's too ridiculous!

I know this's a ridiculous request.

But, I really want to remember what my uncle said to me.

It was when I was still in kindergarten.

By coincidence ...

I managed to learn, that my uncle used to be in the Classics Club.

I think it was similiar to the dessert (Hyouka) that I like.

I became interested in the Classics Club.

That time, my uncle currently working in my house.

He always took care of me.

One day, I ...

... ask him something about the Classics Club.

... unlike other question, he didn't answer me quickly.

... on that day, he seems hesitant to answer.

I was asking him terribly.

And finally he answered me.

But, when I hear his answer ...

What happens to you?

I cried a lot.

I don't know if I was scared or sad ...

... but I cried out loud.

My mother freaked out and ran over to me.

I can't remember.

That all I can remember ...

My uncle didn't come to coax me as usual he would do.

He just stares at me.

That's the last thing I remember ...

... about my uncle.

Why did my uncle ...

... not comfort me.

... at that time when I cried a lot.

So ...

Is that your personal reason for joining the classic club that you mentioned before?

I think ...

... you could find an answer to my question that I couldn't even found out.

Probably, you can remind me something a forgot.

This's a bit shameless to say ...

I think that you ..

... have a hunch and can lead me to the answer.

It's not less of a test.

Chitanda's entire outlook on life.

This could quite possibly affect it.

I'm the energy saver ...

Should I stick up for such trouble like that?

I think ...

I can't help you.

I want ...

... to remember what he told me before my uncle dies.

Dies?

Seven years ago ...

My uncle's disappearance statement was released.

People who have been missing for seven years ...

... can legally be declared as dead.

The Sekiya family has a plan for holding a funeral.

Something that my uncle told me ...

I really want to know it.

There's no way I can ask someone for help.

Please ...

Please help me.

I can't take responsibility for you.

But ...

I'll keep what you've told me in mind.

If I find anything clue that can help you ...

... I'll definitely ...

... tell you.

Thank you so much.

Oreki-san.

If I don't have to do it, I won't.

That obviously I've been always followed my principle.

Have I taken a responsibility for this case?

According to my energy-saving?

Dear Oreki Hotaru ...

I'm currently ...

... staying in Istanbul.

There's been a bit of a mistake,

I'm holding out at the Japanese consulate now.

I haven't had a chance to see the city yet.

What the hell did you do?

This trip ...

... very interesting.

I'll look back ten years from now ...

... and view every day, I'm sure that I won't regret it

Houtarou ...

You should have a meaningful high school life too.

How about the Classics Club?

Had the members increased?

I'll give an advice.

If you want to publish an anthology ...

... you can read the back issues.

What is it?

Why did Oreki Tomoe can read my mind?

You should look it up in the club room.

There's an unused medicine box in there.

Then, you can able to find the back issues inside.

The key was broken, and you can open the box right way.

It's so fast.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

Because, Chii-chan have a big eyes.

Not really.

Chi-chan?

The women creature.

Well done!

A little inattention that you do, they'll make the best friends so fast.

Cute!

Without knowing it ...

Ibara, the member of Comic Book Research Club ...

In fact she joined The Classics Club.

Morning!

Chii-chan is the type that starts from the outline to draw.

Don't take a look!

Morning!

It's so cute.

Not really, Ibara-san!

Sorry!

The back issues of an anthology seem to be in this room.

Finally they noticed me.

I have looked for it everywhere.

Were you being fooled by your sister?

You can say like that.

But ...

We haven't search it properly in the whole place.

Oreki!

Chitanda, move over there!

We found it.

So this's what they're looks like.

The thing that's you looking for, it right in front of your eyes.

Hyouka?

That's such a strange title.

Those all are amazing!

The pictures of the cover ...

A dog and ...

The rabbit?

That looks a bit scary.

Oreki-san?

This's ...

What's wrong?

That day ...

I had ever found this before.

Then, I show this up to my uncle.

And asked him what this is.

Jun?

This year ...

... we also held a cultural festival.

It has been one year passed since Sekiya senpai left us.

In this past year ...

... he has turned from a hero into a legend.

This year's cultural festival will be held as usual.

I think ...

... would be there're people still remember the hero's story ten years from now?

The struggle and the sacrifice ...

... will it pass with the passage of time.

But, perhaps ...

.... it's would be better if no one remembers it

Because

It's not planned to be a heroic tale.

Once the subjectivity is taken away ...

... this story will become a classic as it transcends all historical perspectives.

Kooriyama Youko

Sekiya-senpai

I'm afraid, he's must be my uncle.

What happened in 33 years ago?

What did my uncle tell me that day?

It had something related to the Classics Club.

What the answer that my uncle told me.

What happened to my uncle 33 years ago?

Let's investigate it further.

The anthology Hyouka Volume 2.

So, we just have to look the first issue.

It should be easy to find.

It shouldn't be remembered.

I'm sure that even if we investigate it, we don't find the truth.

I thought, there's the truth that we've to forget.

Would you like to forget what all happen in your life until now?

Don't you ...

...really want to remember, right?

I'm ...

... really curious about that.

What the hell?

The first issue is missing!

The Hidden Seal of the Pedigree Classics Club

That day, we didn't find the first issue that recorded everything.

I feel like ...

... she can't give up.

In fact, Chitanda had a lot of spirits.

I want to know ...

What happens to my uncle 33 years ago.

I hope you guys still optimistic to find out the truth.

Guys ...

I'm counting on you.

Your uncle should have so many stories.

The fictional heroic tale to be solved ...

... by their juniors 33 years later.

How good story right!

We should find out the truth!

Yeah. We've to do it.

I'm very interested in the cover illustration, if there's a chance, I want to know.

If it going well, it might be some materials for our next anthology issue.

I feel it being more and more interesting!

That's it.

Solved and investigating the incident of the Classics Club ...

... became the Classics Club's priority.

33 years ago ...

What happens to Chitanda's uncle, Sekiya Jun?

Then, Chitanda's uncle ...

What did he tell Chitanda related to Hyouka?

We've gathered information that could be the clue.

Houtarou!

I'm sorry!

Sorry to keep you waiting.

What's up with you, Houtarou!

Shut up! Don't you have any sense of shame?

Hey, wait!

We had a meeting that its purpose to solve the Chitanda's problem.

The mystery that happens 33 years ago to Classic Club President ...

... Sekiya Jun.

It has to be solved by their juniors of Classic Club.

We held an investigation meeting.

Welcome!

This place ...

... is my uncle house.

Chitanda, the someone who always thought Sekiya Jun is her lovely family.

33 years ago ...

What happen ...

... to him?

Well, then let's begin the meeting.

Investigating and speculate as to what happened to Sekiyama Jun 33 years ago.

Anyway, what do you think Hyouka means?

It's the Japanese word for ice dessert, right?

So, it must mean ice cream!

Why that supposed to ice cream, huh?

Time : 1967

Location : Kamiyama High School

Object : Sekiya Jun

This week, everyone shall gather any data.

Then, we should take turns reporting our findings ...

.... and summarizes those all to the reasonable hypothesis.

Now, for the first report ...

Chii-chan?

Who's should report their data first?

It doesn't matter who starts.

Chitanda, you go first!

Oh, yes.

Then, It starts with the clockwise ..

... from me.

I'm distributing data about ...

... investigated of Hyouka itself.

I looked through all the essays I found in the Club room.

This preface only reference to Sekiya Jun.

There're no initial issues.

I've explored the clues from here.

Since Sekiya senpai left us ...

.... It has been one year.

In this past year ...

... he has turned from a hero into a legend.

Did your uncle ...

... had dropped out from high school?

My uncle had dropped out of Kamiyama High School.

His final degree was Junior High School.

So, the sentence of the foreword since Sekiya senpai left us ...

... it means drop out of Kamiyama high school.

Drop out from school.

Sekiya Jun used to become a hero.

And then ...

...he fought and was sacrificed as a result.

My concern is on that ...

"It's been a year" that write on here.

That would mean My uncle dropped out one year before the Kanya Festival.

That's mean, it happens during the previous Kanya Festival.

Anyway ...

Do you know that there was an accident occurred at another high school cultural festival last year.

Oh, perhaps you mean The Festival Bandits.

Threatening the cashiers and stealing the proceeds.

Yeah, that's it.

This my hypothesis.

Do you want popcorn?

Buy one get one free will pass by. Don't miss it.

33 years ago.

The previous Kanya Festival.

... unfortunate, may have been targeted byThe Festival Bandits.

The students were attacked by such people.

And at that time, it could be that ...

... my uncle fought them.

He fought whoever from the The Festival Bandits.

And because of that ...

He was dropped out of school.

Sekiya ....

He became a hero, that who protect the students from The Festival Bandits ...

... and sacrificed himself.

I'm sorry, Chitanda ...

Rejected.

Is it not a good hypothesis?

Please, tell me why!

When you suggested we publish ...

... an essay anthology this year

Do you remember what Satoshi said?

Kamiyama High School prohibits open the shops.

If there's no money ...

The Festival Bandits won't come, right?

Chi-chan, sorry!

I shall say, according to my data, your hypothesis isn't tenable.

Really?

Ibara-san, I want to see your data.

Okay. Now, It's my turn.

So, you've to read this.

This's the mural of the Kamiyama High School 33 years ago.

Last week, two students were suspended from school.

The riots between Movie Club and Photography Club members ...

... surely damaged the morale of The Kamiyama High School.

The Legendary President of Classic Club, Sekiya Jun to refute the teachers ..

... was expelled from School.

He never succumbed to the imperiousness of the teachers.

Because, He's not here now ...

We should firmly inherit this spirit.

Refute the teachers?

Yeah.

It's not the The Festival Bandits that Sekiya Jun pure confronts.

... but the school teachers.

This's my hypothesis.

Like this ...

33 years ago.

We don't know, why the teachers are suppression the students.

Then, with any reasons, the students and ...

Sekiya Jun who lead the movement.

Then, the confrontation between the students and the teachers begun.

The result of the struggle ...

... made Sekiya Jun dropped out from the school.

No, that's not it.

Precisely, The teahers were forcing him to drop out of the school.

That's strange.

Where was it strange?

No ...

It's too abstract.

Though I understand, somehow I don't get it.

It's not really specific ...

But, I didn't really read it that much.

Why the teachers suppression the students?

I'm curious.

We've been ignored the important thing, huh.

What do you mean?

The time background.

At the time the school isn't the same as with another school that everyone thought.

Then, you've to report your data now!

Yosh! Now, It's my turn.

I found this in the General Committee Room.

There's a description of the Sekiya Jun inside.

The Solidarity and Salute Magazine that published in 1967.

We're ...

Ah!

We resolutely uphold the autonomy o the anti-bureaucracy.

Then, we've never succumbed to the school suppression.

The struggle happens in June.

Under the heroic guidance of President Classics Club, Sekiya Jun.

The struggle movement ...

... even it will desolate, it still fresh in our memory.

What is this?

What are you trying to say?

Which means ...

... we've been suppressed by the radical forces.

Then, there was a struggle in June.

We VS Powers Struggle in June Guided by Sekiya Jun.

The President of Classic Club, Sekiya Jun guided us.

Under the Sekiaya Jun guidence, we're struggle around.

So, the Powers being in troubled

What's is Tousou mean?

This should read as "conflict".

That's mean, in this era ...

In 1960's is the age of student's radical movement.

For the example ...

The struggle and radical campaign in 1960.

Demonstration and Strikes.

Set up the roadblocks.

The aim of the radical movement that according to school is anti-war, anti-separation, etc.

But, the root of the students radical movement is ...

... to cut off the restraint from the school and for the autonomy satisfy.

... and for the autonomy satisfy.

I others words ...

"We" refers to the students.

"Powers" refer to ...

... the school.

Sekiya Jun isn't fighting the teacher.

But, there's a struggle between the school and the students.

Was Sekiya Jun the leader?

That's such an era, huh!

But, what is the purpose of that struggle?

What about your hypothesis?

Heh?!

Hey!

Uhm ...

I'm a database, right?

The database can't come to a conclusion.

Let Houtaro to think about it.

Yeah.

This's your turn.

Please, let us listen to your hypothesis.

I'm sorry ...

I don't have a hypothesis.

Oreki!

I'm not trying to fool the past.

I didn't found same data too.

I'm looking forward to other data today.

But with the whole data that I get today ...

I still can't find a plausible hypothesis to make a conclusion.

Though...

It's good if you thinking in a different direction.

But we haven't know the motive for the struggle.

So, I don't know why he've to sacrifice, and even the Kind Hero meant.

The whole my hypothesis, they were just a boring fact, right?

And it wasn't connected each other.

To figure out what happened at school 33 years ago.

That's impossible.

It can't be helped.

Honestly, if just only with these ...

Can I use your bathroom?

What?

I'll go to the bathroom.

The important thing isn't the truth ...

But to convince her about that.

I'll think about it.

I should think about it.

When?

In 1967, 33 years ago.

Where?

At Kamiyama High School.

Who?

Sekiya Jun

Is he the one who purely guided the students struggle movement?

There's a confrontation between the students and the school.

Why did the Kamiyama High School students struggle with the school?

The struggle and sacrifice.

What can that connect these things?

There was a struggle in June.

June?

Houtarou, you found something, right?

My hypothesis ...

No.

I straight to the conclusion ...

Oreki! What is that?

Ha?

This's my data.

Kamiyama High School, Walking Together for 50 Years.

You took the school history with you.

It says what happened in June.

A fire broke out in some school buildings.

That's mean, we figure out that the student movement happen in June.

It happened at Dojo.

Dojo?

The school building that you saw the other day.

It's very different from other school building, it's pretty old.

The building that can be seen from Classic Club room.

The thing that more important than this,

On this book, there wrote May.

The Cultural Festival Review.

The reason for the struggle movement in the cultural festival itself.

And the reason for the struggle lies in the cultural festival itself.

The Cultural Festival?

This is ....

... my conclusion.

33 years ago, at 1967

The student struggle movement that broke out in Japan at the time.

In May that year ...

Kamiyama High attempted to suspend the school activities and the cultural festival.

Perhaps, it's a trend that it's considering to reduce the number of student activities.

Then, the teachers to exerting them.

The school wants to stop the cultural festival ...

... that it was the pillar of the student activities.

The School decided to suspend the cultural festival.

What are you joking about?

The students are fighting ...

... against the school decision.

Get out of my way!

The central student is ...

Sekiya Jun

We would never agree to this pressure decision.

That's right!

Let's make them withdraw their decision with our power.

That's right!

We've never succumbed to the oppression of the school.

That's right!

Let's stay together.

We're going to fighting back!

Yeah.

Let's save the cultural festival.

Revoke!

Regain the student's autonomy!

Sekiya Jun lead the students to protect the cultural festival.

And the students started a protest campaign.

The Struggle in June.

The fire went out of control.

The Dojo was burned out.

The building was damaged by struggle the June.

That means the Dojo, it's been rebuilt before.

At the different times from other building.

So, the time of the Dojo be rebuilt is different with the other building, huh?

Until now next to the Dojo building ...

... there're the traces of burning.

Then, take a look here!

12th The cultural festival will be held for five days this year.

The cultural festival isn't suspended?

The decision to suspend the cultural festival in June was canceled.

The students won out the cultural festival from the school.

Thanks to the kind hero, Sekiya Jun.

Hero : Guardian of the Cultural Festival

And then, The Kamiyama High cultural festival was guarded.

On Oktober ...

The Dojo was renovated.

Someone has to take responsibility for this commotion.

The victim is ...

The leader of the struggle movement, Sekiya Jun.

Sekiya Jun was sentenced to drop out of school.

The students who stayed ...

..they praised him off as the Kind Hero, Sekiya Jun.

That year, The Kamiyama High cultural festival began renamed ...

... to Kanya Festival.

Sekiya Festival

Kanya Festival

The pronunciation, Sekiya Festival, right?

It's a pun.

The students afraid, and hiding it from the school ...

... and then they managed to left behind the hero's name.

That's when it starts that Kamiyama Cultural Festival ...

... is called Kanya Festival.

Senpai has turned from a hero into a legend.

This year's cultural festival will be held as usual.

The cultural festival was called the Kanya festival, that means to turn Senpai from a hero into legend.

It's awesome, Houtarou!

With only these paper data, you can interpret so many things.

It's hard to believe you've solved it, Houtarou.

But, it's not bad.

Anyway, I worked hard, too.

That's amazing.

Oreki-san!

It's just my thought.

That's amazing, Houtarou!

The cultural festival that we all rightfully celebrate every year ...

... it can be held cause includes the sacrifices of some people.

No, that's not it.

Why didn't you rejected this request?

If I don't have to do it, I won't.

The energy-saving, Houtarou ...

Yeah, today's different.

You could have chosen to run away.

But, why did you lock yourself in the bathroom to find the answer?

I'm tired of being gray-person.

What do you mean?

Ah, the Houtarou's principle life.

Every student desire the rose-colored life ...

But, Houtarou is a gray-person.

Oreki is a gray-coloured life huh?

Indeed!

I don't know it's rose-coloured life or not.

I thought I had love draw Comics.

But, I've actually known ...

The comics that I've drew ...

... it's not interesting at all.

And I've always been bored by my lack of talent.

But ...

Even so ...

I've always wanted to draw Comics.

Though it's not going well ...

But, if I keep drawing, maybe my rose-coloured life will come out.

Oreki, you just haven't noticed it yet.

I think you're actually looking forward to a rose-coloured life.

Hah, Houtarou shooked up!

I've also liked hearing fun stuff.

I also like a stupid thing.

Even though I got spun around by Chitanda ...

It was still a good way to kill time.

But ...

What if ...

I caught up in comedic acts out there and the joke.

... and become obsessed with these things waste time and energy, then I can't survive.

Isn't that ...

... more fun stuff that we can spend in our life?

The energy-saving reduction.

Have been I pursuing it to something worth?

Just like Chitanda that who exhausted all efforts pursuit of her past.

Sekiya Jun did his best to protecting the Kanya Festival.

I'm ...

... in ten years later.

... from now on.

... to gain a high school life.

...that I won't regret it.

It was wrong.

If this's a case ...

Why did I cry that time?

It was wrong.

Did I ...

... forget something important?

Senpai has turned from a hero into a legend.

I think ...

... would be there's people still remember the hero's story ten years from now?

The struggle and the sacrifice will pass with the passage of time.

it's would be better ...

... if no one remembers it

It's ...

Not planned ...

... to be a heroic tale.

Not a ...

... heroic tale?

Hello ...

Huh? Houtarou?

You're still alive?

How rude!

The Mossad is Israel's central intelligence agency, responsible for intelligence collection, covert action, and counterterrorism outside the borders of the state.

Did you think I was killed by someone in Mossad?

Probably.

Have you ready published an anthology?

Yeah, Hyouka.

We've been investigating about Sekiya Jun.

Sekiya Jun?

What a familiar name.

So they're still passing down the story?

So, Is Kanya Festival still taboo in the classic club?

What'd you just say?

That's a tragedy.

Wait for a second, I'm talking about Sekiya Jun.

I know, the Kind Hero, right?

Do you know what you're talking about?

Hey, please tell me!

What happens to Sekia Jun?

I don't have time for that. Bye!

Hey ...

Damn you, Sis!

I've been missing something important.

What is it?

What is it?

What is it?

What is it?

What is it?

What is it?

Not A hero?

He's not a hero.

He's not a hero.

What does that mean?

Oreki-san!

I haven't ...

... know something important yet.

Yeah, I understand.

I'm sorry.

My hypothesis went wrong.

Let's find out the truth together.

We just have to ask her.

Ask her?

Ask to her.

Itoigawa-sensei.

Itoigawa Youko Sensei is ...

Kooriyama Youko?

That's right.

Itoigawa-sensei.

Yes?

You're the Classic Club's member?

I'm Oreki Houtarou.

Sensei ...

We'd like to ask you a question.

Sensei ...

So, you wrote this, right?

You still have the copies of Classic club's anthology?

Yeah, Kooriyama Youko is my maiden name.

We're here to find out.

What happened to Sekiya Jun 33 years ago?

But why do you want to know about something so old?

Because, Sekiya Jun was my uncle.

Oh, I see.

I had wished to see him again.

Is he okay?

He've been missing for 10 years.

Recently, My family has prepared to hold a formal funeral for him.

I wish ...

I could see him again.

The first issue of the anthology Hyouka that isn't found in the library and the club room.

It's been sealed in my drawer.

But ...

If you would like to know the truth ...

I will tell you.

HYOUKA.

1967

We've decided to suspend the Cultural Festival.

That year ...

The school unilaterally made the decision to suspend the cultural festival.

That day, the whole school was filled with tension.

We shouldn't allow the school to suppression us.

Right!

The whole students are resistant to the school decision.

And began the objection movement.

We should take a movement now!

All right!

Crush!

And yet, Sekiya senpai wasn't the mastermind for that movement.

He was calm until the end.

What?

Sekiya Jun wasn't the student who lead the struggle, huh?

Sekiya senpai ...

... wasn't that kind of person.

He's always been a very gentle person.

So, he can't do that kind of thing.

The student movements ...

... became

... so intense.

It could ...

... be called a riot.

The students ...

... went on strikes.

They were setting fire to riot.

We have to take back a Cultural Festival.

We don't know ...

There's someone did it on purpose.

And the martial art dojo set on fire.

In the commotion ...

There's a female student was get hurt.

Because the gunpowder exploded at close range.

Her tympanic membrane damaged.

Tympanic membrane : A thin layer of tissue in the human ear.

She can't move.

- Hey,it's lit up. - Go get the fire.

- Go! - Hurry up!

- Get the waters! - Just go!

That girl was rescued ...

... by Sekiya senpai.

He bravely rushing into the fire ...

... and saved her.

It just looks like kind hero.

Sekiya senpai ...

... wasn't the one who triggered the riot.

But ...

It seems, he's a symbol of the movement ...

He seemed to be a symbol of the struggle movement.

... among the whole students.

Everyone called him ...

The kind hero.

But, it's just ...

... the beginning of a tragedy.

Dojo has been rebuilt.

But ...

Someone should take the responsibility for that riot.

Because the accident also caused the students get injured.

The school decided not to get involved with the police.

The school needs to deterrent ...

The 3rd grade ...

Sekiya Jun.

The 3rd grade, Sekiya Jun.

Please go to the principal's office now.

The one became a victim is ...

.. the kind hero, Sakiya senpai.

While the real cause of the fire is still unknown.

And he ended up became the leader of the movement.

The kind hero ...

... had to take the blame.

Sekiya senpai was dropping out as punishment.

Sekiya senpai wasn't the person who must take the blame.

But, none of the students have a grievance to help him.

They all just silent.

And watching him become a victim.

The cover shows what happened at the time is such a crime.

The dog is the school ..

And the rabbits who were in different looked ...

... are the students.

Since then, The Kanya Festival became taboo in the Classic Club.

Because ...

... in the end, Sekiya senpai ...

... wasn't planned it to be a heroic tale.

Excuse me, Sensei ...

The girl who Sekiya rescued ...

... she's you, right?

You ...

... found it.

Itoigawa sensei ...

Itoigawa sensei ...

Yes?

So, until now ...

... my right ear can't hear a sound.

The President of Classics Club, Sekiya senpai ...

... found me out, that I couldn't move.

... rashed into the fire to save me.

But ...

...I didn't do anything for him.

I just only ...

... looking at the lonely rabbit.

That's all.

If you've understood, just go home.

No, it's not enough.

Sensei, you still have something important, that you haven't told us ..

What is it?

I only have one question.

Sekiya Jun ...

... said it was all he could do, what that it meant?

I don't really know what he meant.

Because he didn't answer me.

The only thing that he left to us, is ...

Hyouka ...

It's just anthology essays that he made before left the school.

Hyouka?

The name of Hyouka.

The title that Sekiya senpai gave to our anthology.

Sekiya Jun ...

Just because of the cultural festival ...

He should end the school.

And changed his life.

When you think about high school life, the word rose-colored comes to your mind.

And when you think rose-colored, high school life comes to mind.

His rose-colored high school life was ruthlessly cut off.

Then, with his rose-colored life, that it was mercilessly cut off ...

Can he really exist in this world?

It's impossible.

I scream.

Hyouka ...

Ice cream

I finally got it.

Houtarou, what are you talking about?

It's a pun.

It's not just a code.

You've to read it with separate syllable.

I ...

... scream

"I scream."

The message that Sekiya Jun want to tell is ...

... the true voice of his feeling.

..for the juniors member of Classic Club.

This is the real meaning of Hyouka that he left behind.

Please listen.

The words that he told you ...

I scream.

Your uncle ...

He really ...

... wants to scream.

He wants to scream.

I was terrified at the thought of being alive ...

... when everyone is dead.

I remember now...

I asked my uncle ...

... what Hyouka meant.

He told me ...

Become stronger.

If you were too weak ...

One day ...

You wouldn't even be able to scream.

In that case, you'll ...

In that case, you'll ...

... live like a dead body.

... just like I do.

I was too scared and cried ...

I was afraid to thought of being alive, live like a dead body.

I remember now...

I finally remember it.

Tomorrow, I'll go to my uncle's funeral.

Thank you so much, Oreki-san.

I ...

... can finally send my uncle away.

About the publishing of anthology, I'll give it to you.

I understand.

Uhm ...

I still have one thing that I'm curious about.

On that day ...

... when I scared and cried ...

... my uncle suddenly disappeared after that.

At that time, he told me ...

He doesn't want to live like a dead body.

Maybe, my uncle ...

Your uncle ...

... in Benares.

Some place in India.

A place that will ascend directly to heaven.

To get rid it of from the wheel of reincarnation.

He's in there ...

... and still alive.

Dear Oreki Tomoe ...

I'm writing this letter to you because there's something I want to ask ...

I'm sure you're still in the hotel.

It's been almost 33 years since Sekiya Jun left.

This year's cultural festival will be held as usual followed the schedule.

How much did you know about the Classics Club?

Why do you want me to join the Classic Club.

Is Sekiya Jun ...

... at radical movement 33 years ago ...

... for sake of rose-coloured life?

If it gave birth to the anthology Hyouka ...

Then the rose-coloured life still worth to be rethinking.

In fact ...

... after knowing the truth of the incident ...

I lost my sense of discomfort at school as I did before.

I wouldn't advertise my lifestyle is good.

At least I know that gray-coloured life ...

... not that bad.

Sis, do you think, I'm ...

No ...

That really?

No, this's can't be ...

I will ...

... probably stay on gray-coloured life.

That might be good ...

... if I lived like that now.

Chitanda-san!

Chii-chan?

Hey, I thought you go back already.

Yeah.

But I found something that makes me really curious about.

What?

This way.

There's still time to at the Dojo.

What is it?

It's better to go over there and see it.

It's no good.

If Chitanda wants to do it right now, then it couldn't be stopped.

All right.

I'll go.

Let's go

Let's just say that.

Yes.

I'm ...

... curious.

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