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

As Kouichi turned and went after Mei, Yuuya and Naoya shared a look momentarily before looking back towards the team ahead of them.

"I didn't mean to upset her." Lin muttered getting a sigh from the two non-SPR members.

"Don't worry about it. Her mother's death is still recent, and it is extremely hard for her to forget her sister's death. But you should not doubt her. We-..." He sighed before he changed how he was going to word the sentence. "Most, if not all of our class that had lived to be able to go on the class trip made that mistake even without knowing what her eye can see." Yuuya said regretfully looking at the group with a serious expression that he knew his friend was mirroring.

"How can I believe that someone can see when people are about to die? It is impossible!" Masako exclaimed her eyes hard as she truly did not, no could not believe in Mei's ability.

"It is something you have to accept. We know that she has this ability and that it saved us in the end. If she did not have that ability there would most likely not have been any survivors of the class trip." Naoya said glaring at the medium who just kept denying one of his best friend's abilities, he did not understand how Mei worked with her.

"How would there have been no survivors?" Naru asked wanting to know what the younger teen meant.

"Well, when we found out how to end the curse for the year we found the line 'Send the dead back to death' so even though it took us a while, Mei and Kouichi ended it and did send the dead back to death. They found the extra person and sent them back to death." The dark blonde teen said making eye contact with Naru as he spoke up.

"Do you know who the 'extra' was that year?" Naru asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"No. We cannot remember as the curse messes with our heads and memories." Yuuya answered softly. "Do you have any more questions, or can we go back to what we were working on?" Both Yuuya and Naoya just wanted to go back to the library to see how Mei was doing, and to hopefully find a name that matched one of the ones in this year's class. It was a long shot; however, it was better than nothing.

"Yes. I have one more what did you mean about her mother's death being recent and it being hard to forget her sister?" Yasu asked not meaning to pry however he was curious.

"Her sister was her twin Misaki who was the first death of our class curse. Misaki always had liked Mei's eye and had her keep her eyepatch off when she was around. One night, Mei saw the color around her. Misaki had collapsed the next day when she was walking back home with Mei and ended up in the hospital needing a kidney transplant. The surgery that happened a few days later went horribly wrong and she ended up dying. It was the day we began the class counter measures. It was also the day she first met Sakaki. Her mother's death happened just before the dynamic duo had been able to end the curse for the year and was the last death of the curse. She died just after finishing her last doll." Naoya said before turning around ready to go back to the library. "Well, it was interesting to meet you all, and if you need us, we will be down the hall in the library." He said as he and Yuuya walk out the door and down to the library to see Mei.

The SPR crew was all silent thinking about the information that the teens had given them before Ayako spoke up. "I feel bad for that girl, if this really is a curse then she had lost two people to it and yet she had still come back to help as much as she could. I find that really admirable." The red-haired priestess said softly with a sad smile as the girl despite the doll's eye, reminded her of Mai, which she did not really understand as Mai and Mei act and sound completely different.

"That girl is a liar! There is no possible way for a doll's eye to do what she claims it can do." Masako said stubbornly not believing anything the girl had said about what she could do not caring how strongly the boys had been defending her abilities.

Monk frowned at the medium. "If you remember, dolls can be used as vessels for spirits, so it truly is not that far of a stretch for an eye that was originally meant for a doll, to be able to see things like she claimed." He said thoughtfully to which Yasu nodded in agreement to that.

"I must agree with Takigawa. In theory the eye would be able to do what she had claimed, and as of now we must at least take what they had said, as they had ended the 'curse' one way or another. Besides they gave us absolutely no reason to doubt them, for now at least." Surprisingly Lin spoke up in defense of the four teens which shocked most of the team besides Naru.

"I agree with Lin. We will give them the benefit of the doubt until a time comes when we can either prove or disprove their claims." Naru said seriously looking at Masako who looked like she was about to complain. "If you disagree with my judgement then you are free to leave."

The reason he decided to believe the teens is the same as Lin's, he also decided he needed to investigate his female assistant's background as despite the differences in the tone of her voice it still sounded like Mai. And even if she hid who she really was, he would still trust her if this girl turned out to be her. He felt like he would owe at least that much to the girl as she still trusted him even after she found out he had been under an alias himself.

Masako paused and thought for a moment on his words before quieting down as she did not want to be kicked off the case for her comments towards the girl from this town. She huffed softly but did not say anything more.

"So... Boss, what are we doing about this case? Evidently it is not like our previous cases." Yasu asked looking at the young boss of the group who appeared to be in thought.

"Lin and I will be going to check out that classroom, and since Tanaka-san left us we will be going to ask those four to see if one of them would show us to the classroom." Naru explained before walking towards the doors of the meeting room with Lin following, before pausing at the door. "The rest of you wait here for us to return." Once he finished the sentence, he exited the room with Lin who closed the door once he exited the room.

The duo walked down the hallway until they got to the door to the library which Nau knocked twice to let them know someone is entering so he did not startle them, and then opened the door entering the small library where the four teens were sitting at the table with different books and papers scattered about. The only one who looked up when they entered was Mei as she had just stood up about to go put a few of the books back. She pushed her chair in and walked over to the bookshelf which was next to the door where they got the books from.