I couldn't sleep last night. My head kept replaying the image of the white haired girl leaving the bar. Why did it have to be on the anniversary of her death? I know I said I had a little too much to drink but I can still see her in my head clear as day. It was Zella. No... it can't be. How could it?

I pulled out my phone and texted the group chat still named "Class A" after all these years.

I immediately called Tokoyami afterwards since he also saw her leave.

"Hello?"

"Tokoyami! I know this sounds crazy but-" I started to blurt out before I was interrupted by him.

"I know. I couldn't sleep all night cause I kept seeing Mikio in my head."

"Thank GOD you saw her too I thought I was going crazy." I said breathing out a loud sigh of relief.

"I saw your text and I'm coming over right now instead. We gotta talk about this just the two of us so we can make sure we're on the same page about what we saw."

"Yeah sure, see you soon."

I was shaking and sweating. Tokoyami who is usually calm, cool and collected was also just as stressed.

"Thank you all for coming in such short notice. Tokoyami and I have been discussing about something, or actually someone we saw last night at the bar."

I looked over to Tokoyami who signaled me to continue before I did.

"W-we s-s-saw..."

I struggled to get the words out. It didn't feel real. I couldn't say it, cause what if it wasn't true? Luckily, Tokoyami took over and finished my thought.

"We saw Mikio."

Everyone gasped and a few stood up from their seats.

"WHAT THE HELL? WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE IS THIS???!!!" Bakugo yelled with his hands up like he was about to blast us.

But before he did, Iida stood up in between him and us. He looked down to the floor for a few seconds before looking up with a serious face. Iida has always been a little more serious than everyone else but this time we all knew it was different.

"I spoke to a girl last night. She wore a dark hoodie covering her face so I couldn't see much. But still, she seemed familiar. It wasn't until she said something that made me realise why."

Everyone was silent, waiting for him to proceed.

"She said - she seemed like a nice girl, but also a girl you used to know. And that's when I realised she was someone I used to know. I couldn't say anything cause it would spook her and it wasn't logical that she would appear 4 years later on the anniversary of her death. But I was the class rep, I know my old classmates in and out and I can tell when I hear the voice of one."

No one could get a word out. Not even Bakugo who now sat back down on his seat, speechless.

"H-how?" Momo asked with tears filling her eyes.

"She has been dead for 4 years! Her body was found in that alleyway left there to rot."

Before anyone could say anything she stood up and ran to the bathroom with Mina following her right after. It was quiet short after.

"H-how could it possibly be Zella though?" Midoriya asked breaking the ice.

"Like Yaoyorozu said, her b-body was found."

"Look, it's a lot to take in. Why don't we all return home or to our hotels and meet up again same time tomorrow to discuss this?" Todoroki suggested.

Everyone nodded in unison.

- - -

As I walked through the front doors of the hero agency I worked at, I saw the captain and chief of police talking to principal Nezu and eraserhead.

"What's going on?" I asked and looked at their faces of disbelief.

"Ah, Deku" the captain said.

"An old, sensitive case has just been reopened."

I look him in the eyes, waiting for a response.

"The case of Zella Mikio."

I froze. My head was exploding with questions, anxiety and fear. This couldn't be true, could it?

"I know it's a lot to ask of you to be on it since you knew her, but we need your investigation skills. However, I understand if you don't want to do it. No one else who was that close to her is on this case except for invisible girl, the others are getting kicked off since it's a lot to handle."

"Wow, I-I can't believe this is happening right now. What's going on?" I managed to get out.

"We found out the two detectives who found her faked the whole thing. They even got the medical examiner on it and used another body and said it was Ms Mikio." the chief said.

"It was a well thought out plan that wasn't going to be exposed if one of the detectives didn't turn himself in last night while screaming that someone was after him." he continued.

"Shigaraki and his new league of villains." I said in a serious tone.

They nodded.

"This means Zella could still be out there waiting to be rescued." Nezu spoke, slightly shaking.

Poor man has had to live with the guilt of losing a student of his own school for 4 whole years. This was huge.

"I have to tell you something my old classmates saw last night."