Hyouka:Blu-ray Bonus CD Track 19
Impossible Intermission #19: Master of Deduction?
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Oreki Houtarou: So you're saying that I'm a master of deduction?
Chitanda Eru: Is that wrong?
Oreki: Yes, it is. Sometimes, I have no inkling of how I came up with the theories, myself.
Chitanda: That's because you haven't taken a good look at yourself, right?
Oreki: Then how about this, Chitanda. Come up with some sort of situation. I'll prove that you can't make a theory for anything so easily.
Chitanda: That sounds fun! Then... what should we go with?
(Announcement sound)
Announcer: Anyone who, on October 31st, shopped at Koubundou in front of the station and who knows something, report to Shibazaki in the Staff Room immediately.
Chitanda: I wonder what that was about.
Oreki: No idea.
Chitanda: Let's use that announcement! Please come up with a theory about what that announcement just now was about!
Oreki: By the way, what do you think, Chitanda?
Chitanda: What I think? Hm...... I see...... Firstly, I'm curious about the phrase "Koubundou in front of the station". It's a stationery shop that mainly sells stationery for elementary school students, so why would a high school student go all the way there to shop?
Oreki: Because they were asked to buy some stationery by their younger brother or sister?
Chitanda: That's a possibility, but that's probably not it.
Oreki: What do you mean?
Chitanda: The shop has a few toys, and they also sell Kamiyama Ranger Cards, which are popular with elementary school students.
Oreki: Kamiyama Ra...... eh? What did you say?
Chitanda: Oh? You don't know about Kamiyama Ranger cards, Oreki-san?
Oreki: No, this is my first time even hearing the phrase "Kamiyama Ranger".
Chitanda: These cards are so widely popular that any toy shop owner in Kamiyama City knows it. Of course, I am also one of the card collectors.
Oreki: Eh?
Chitanda: And yesterday, October 31st, was the first release of a new card.
Oreki: Is that so......
Chitanda: Yes. I made a reservation with the shop, so I managed to get my hands on the card without any problem.
Oreki: You made a reservation?!
Chitanda: Let us call the student being called up now "X-san". X-san forgot to make a reservation, and when he went around the other toy shops, they were all sold out. Remembering that Koubundou also sold those cards, he ran off to Koubundou. But then......
Oreki: But then?
Chitanda: Having successfully bought the card, X-san was relieved. But then, with that sense of security, he made a regretful mistake.
Oreki: Mistake?
Chitanda: He accidentally left the card that he went out of his way to buy in the shop! However, since he was wearing a Kamiyama High School uniform, the card was safely delivered to the school.
Oreki: That's a good thing, isn't it? That's the problem solved, right?
Chitanda: There is still one problem with this.
Oreki: What is it?
Chitanda: As I said earlier, this card is extremely popular. Those who didn't manage to buy the card would do anything to get it.
Oreki: That's ridiculous......
Chitanda: I also understand why the vice principal intentionally used the phrase "shopped at Koubundou and who knows something".
Oreki: Why is that?
Chitanda: If he had said something like, "those who bought a Kamiyama Ranger card but left it in the shop, it has been delivered to the staff room, so report to Shibazaki to collect it.", a struggle for the card would occur in the staff room!
Oreki: There probably aren't any Kamiyama High students who would want that card beside you and X-san. Anyway, is the Kamiyama Rangers really that popular?
Chitanda: What are you talking about, Oreki-san? Isn't it showing on evenings everyday? Could it be that...... you don't watch it?
Oreki: It isn't a program that only people living in the vicinity of the Chitanda family watch, right?
Chitanda: Haah! While we're talking, there's trouble brewing in the staff room!
Oreki: No, there isn't!
Chitanda: Let's go, Oreki-san. We must protect X-san's card! Move out! Kamiyama Ranger~~~~~~~!!!!!
Oreki: Oi, oi, don't drag me along! What the heck is the Kamiyama Rangers, anyway?!
Translator's Notes and References
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