Hyouka

[shinta|hikari]

Excuses can be valid. The term itself sounds bad, but it is there because it is necessary and meaningful.

You know, like how you were late for work because the train was stopped, or how you could not go to work because your wife died. Maybe explanation would be a better term?

In the first place, when someone screws you over like that, excuse or not, you usually talk about it with your friends. Oreki is simply not the type of person who talks of his own accord, which is probably the reason he has not told anyone about the Empress' scheme.

I am not saying making excuses would suit him better. I just feel it is quite unfair that they have a mistaken view of Oreki's true abilities because they are not aware of all that transpired. It would be great if they found out about it some other way.