Season One, Episode Sixteen: Old Faces

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Third Person P.O.V...
August 12th

"It's been a long time, Mii."

That one sentence from the man with greasy red hair was enough to leave the other students in a stupor. Said stupor only became more intense when konori replied in a rather familiar manner.
"Kurozuma." she greeted. "you're really alive." she said in surprise. "Sure looks that way." the man now identified as kurozuma mused. "But why? Why didn't you bother to contact me after all this time?" konori asked, clearly upset. "I thought, you were dead." The two of them exchanged a look, as if to silently communicate to one another. Kurozuma's eyes then drifted downwards towards konori's arm, where she wore her armband. Noticing this, she quickly covered it, trying to keep kurozuma from seeing, but it was too late. Kurozuma simply laughed to himself quietly before starting to walk away. "Don't worry about me," he said with a dismissive tone as he walked past konori. "I can easily disappear again." "Come back!" konori yelled as she watched as he silently continued walking, seemingly ignoring her. "Please don't go." konori whispered as she watched kurozuma leave.

As kurozuma continued on his way, he passed by (y/n), who was still standing a few meters behind konori. The two boys' eyes met, albeit briefly. A look of surprise appeared in the red headed boy's eyes before disappearing just as fast as it appeared. When they finally broke eye contact, all (y/n) could do was watch kurozuma leave. 'Looks like he hasn't changed much.' (y/n) mused inwardly.

Timeskip...
August 13th
Joseph's Coffee and Restaurant

The next day, (y/n), mikoto and kuroko told saten and uiharu about the apparent connection between konori and kurozuma. They were having lunch at Joseph's, as per usual. The only person not present was index, who elected to stay at saten's dorm to watch television since saten had left some food for her. Of course, elaborating the situation was no easy task as uiharu and saten kept interrupting with outbursts of disbelief and questions that (y/n) and mikoto were already trying to answer. It also didn't help that kuroko didn't feel like chiming in as she preferred to stay an outside observer regarding konori and kurozuma's relationship. Eventually, saten had enough and decided to just go straight to konori for answers. Unfortunately, the Judgement Officers revealed that konori never showed up at the office. Not only that, but they couldn't contact her on her cell phone either. It was strange. It just wasn't like konori to disappear during a big case like the Esper Hunts. With her off the radar, they didn't have many leads for her relationship with kurozuma.

"I might know someone who could help us." (y/n) admitted with a sigh. "Who?" the girls asked in either curiosity or desperation.

Timeskip...

Konori's Apartment...

"Nice to see you again, (l/n)." the long brown haired girl greeted. "Same, yanagisako." (y/n) replied with a nod. 'His friends were right, he does get around.' the girls thought among themselves. Not long after leaving the diner, (y/n) had led the girls to konori's dorm they were introduced to yanagisako, konori's roommate. After the usual bit of everyone else accusing the mismatched haired boy of picking up girls behind everyone's backs and explaining their concerns regarding konori, yanagisako invited them all in to talk in a more comfortable setting.

With everyone sitting down at the kitchen table, the group explained the recent discovery of wataru kurozuma, something that surprised yanagisako.
"So, he's alive." yanagisako mused.
"You know him?!" saten and mikoto yelled, jumping out of their seats. "It shouldn't be that big of a surprise." (y/n) reasoned. "Konori did tell me that she had a complicated history with Big Spider." he took a sip of his drink. "Complicated is certainly one way to put it." yanagisako agreed. "After all, until two years ago, she was a member of Big Spider." she said.

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