Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture (Light Novel)
1 primary work • 4 total works
Book 3
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 3 (light novel)
by Mikage Sawamura
The difference between damnation and celebration is paper-thin. At the same time, Takatsuki and Naoya learn of the urban legend about "Library Marie". Apparently if you solve a hidden cipher in the library collection, you'll be cursed. "The unlucky letter and cursed cipher." Upon investigating the legend of a demon god in a village, in a grotto they find a skull with a hole in it. Soon after, Takatsuki is plagued by unexpected suffering. How will Naoya help him out of this one?!
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 1 (light novel)
by Mikage Sawamura
Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. But when he writes a paper about a strange festival he wandered into as a child, he catches the fancy of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man with a passion for all things mysterious. Soon, Naoya finds himself working as Akira’s assistant, helping him to interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena, from haunted objects and cursed effigies to urban legends. As this odd couple continues their investigations, however, Naoya realizes that his professor has had a few bizarre childhood experiences of his own…
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 5 (light novel)
by Mikage Sawamura
During the summer of his second year of university, to find out the truth behind his uncanny ability to detect lies and the “Festival of the Dead,” Naoya decides to head out towards the old village of Koyama in Nagano with Takatsuki and Sasakura. It was a village he visited many times as a child, the village where his beloved grandparents lived. But now, it’s no better than a ghost town.
Reconnecting with his cousin, Naoya then hears of the ominous saying his late grandmother whispered until the day she died: “Naoya was taken by the mountain gods.” Arriving at the village where, according to the rumors “the dead walk,” the group begins their investigation.
But suddenly, Naoya and Takatsuki are once again invited back to that midnight festival where it all began…
