Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 1 (light novel)

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION...
Naoya Fukamachi is a university studentwhose ability to infallibly detect lies has lefthim friendless and isolated. When he writes apaper about a strange festival he wandered intoas a child, though, he catches the fancy of hisfolklore studies professor, Akira Takatsuki, ahandsome and eccentric man with a passion forall things mysterious. Soon, Naoya finds himselfworking as Akiräs assistant, helping him interpretan array of unexplainable phenomena, fromhaunted objects and cursed effigies to urbanlegends. As this odd couple continues theirinvestigations, however, Naoya realizesthat his professor has had a few bizarrechildhood experiences of his own¿