Author's Note- Updated and Edited 10-21-19.

Naoya's laughter died down after a few seconds before he spoke up with a teasing tone as he and the other two looked over at Kouichi with varying expressions. "I hope you included yourself in that group Sakaki and are not just saying that we are the only diversities of our odd group." He gestured to the other two as he spoke.

Kouichi shook his head with a smile at his friend's antics as the SPR group looked curious as to what the blonde meant. "I was including myself. It would be a bit hypocritical if I hadn't."

"What do you mean odd group?" Ayako asked hoping for an actual answer from the teens.

"Well we have a curious city boy." Naoya said pointing to Kouichi. "A unique and kind artist." He said pointing to Yuuya. "An athlete." He pointed to himself. "And a weird girl with a doll eye." He said pointing to it Mei who shot him a slightly irritated look as she spoke up momentarily.

"Idiot." She muttered not taking his words as an insult, after all he had been clear in how he viewed her last year, and it was not a surprise to her. The SPR group however all looked at the girl in confusion.

"A d-doll's eye?" Ayako asked looking at Mei warily beginning to doubt if this girl was related to Mai.

Mei sighed before taking her eye patch off showing off her emerald green doll eye. "Yes, a dolls eye. I lost my eye when I was little because of an illness and my "mother" could not afford to pay for a fake eye so she made one herself. The reason for the dolls eye is because she owned a doll shop." She explained not looking at anyone directly and kept her gaze at the ground, which did not go unnoticed as Kouichi who was closest to her put a hand on her shoulder in support.

"Does the eye work?" Yasu asked curiously looking at the black-haired female.

"Yes." All four of the old classmates said in unison before Yuuya spoke up.

"You wanted information to help with your investigation?" He asked trying to pull the paranormal researchers back onto the topic before they ask anything else about Mei or her unique eye.

"Yes." Naru started looking between the four. "We were told that you four somehow broke the curse for the remainder of the year during your class trip?" He asked getting straight to the point as all four flinched slightly as that all remembered something different from that night.

"Yeah... About that... it was Mei and Sakaki that ended the curse. Me and Yuuya were a little busy either not getting killed by a crazy lady with a butcher's knife or getting out of the burning building." Naoya said pushing the explanation onto the former nonexistent students as the SPR crew gave him a confused look at his comment.

"A crazy lady with a knife? A burning building? What happened on that trip?" John asked incredulously looking the most puzzled out of all of them.

"Many things happened." Mei said keeping her tone neutral as she continued to look at the floor as to not look at anyone. "And to answer your question we sent the dead back to death." She said the familiar line easily, but she can tell her answer confused the group even more than anything the others had said to them so far, even without seeing their faces.

"What do you mean by that? You killed a ghost?" Masako asked indignantly looking horrified at the thought.

"No, we didn't kill a ghost." Kouichi said shaking his head as he looked at Masako. "Did Tanaka-san tell you all about how there is always an extra person in Class Three every year?" He asked getting a nod of agreement from Naru. "Well, we found out that the extra person is someone who died while in or was teaching the class in the past."

"So... Someone comes back from the dead every year?" Monk asked looking horrified and lost, as do many of the SPR group as they do not understand how it was possible.

"Yes. However, they only come back for the school year and they have no idea about it, and neither does anyone else. The memory of their death is temporarily erased from everyone's mind." Mei said still looking at the ground which has caught the attention of the ever curious Yasu.

"Interesting. And if I may ask. Why have you been looking down this whole time? Isn't it easier to look at the people you are talking to?" Yasu asks the dual eyed girl curiously.

Mei tensed ever so slightly at the question but relaxed once more, they are paranormal researchers, her eye is not the weirdest thing to believe. "It may for some people but with my eye uncovered, if I look at someone, I can see one of two things someone who is close to death, or people who are already dead." She said calmly staring at the ground knowing that they will be skeptical but that is to be expected. She can also feel the curious looks of her team (even if they do not know it), and the sympathetic looks from her friends who already know her reasons beyond that.

"Seeing someone who is close to death? How do you tell?" Masako asked skeptically sounding slightly rude as she spoke, but she just could not believe the girl.

"If the person I look at is going to die there is a specific color that I see. Since I was little, I labeled the color as the color of death seeing as the color is something I just cannot describe. And if I have my eye patch off and I see a person with the color surrounding them I know that they..." She trailed off as she remembered something that made her crimson eye water, and everyone noticed but her old classmates grew concerned.

"Okay. No more questions about what she can or cannot see from her eye." Naoya said loudly stopping Masako from asking something else. "It is bringing back recent memories that Mei most definitely doesn't want to remember."

"What memories?" Lin asked speaking up for the first time as he looked at the black-haired girl that had the same energy as the brunette that took a few weeks off. He had the feeling that she was indeed Mai, but he was not completely sure. He would need to do a little bit of research of his own, into the past of his coworker.

"Memories of my late sister and "mother"." Mei said softly before she turned around and left the room. Kouichi followed behind her while Naoya, and Yuuya stayed in the room to finish answering the team's questions.