Bakugo hadn't seen Midoriya since the incident but he had been watching the news. Specifically the news about the Quirkless Killer.

It made him nervous, though he would never actively show it. His mom kept checking in on the Midoriya family, however the conversations were empty and short.

Once, Katsuki and Mitsuki visited the greenettes' house, only to find no one was there.

The one thing that Mitsuki got from the few phone calls was that Inko's shifts at work were picking up and that Izuku was hardly ever home.

But he wasn't missing. And he wasn't killed.

That in itself was a relief.

Yet the absence still unnerved the Bakugo family. Katsuki began walking passed their house at night, only to find none if the lights visibly on, except for a few select days. It was as if the house had been abandoned for the most part.

But if Izuku was hardly ever home, then where was he?

Bakugo was nervous. He had a bad feeling in his gut, however he could do little to nothing about it.

He couldn't check on Izuku at school because the greenette never showed up. He never even saw the greenette out and about.

The cold hard truth was he never saw the greenette.

And he probably wouldn't ever again.

Tsukauchi was researching middle schools in the area. He mulled over cases where a quirkless suicide has occurred. Afterall, the voice of Hero Belief said they had witnessed a quirkless suicide in their school growing up.

Tsukauchi shifted through the online system. Since the voice was thought to be a kid, Tsukauchi put in a time frame.

Ten years to now.

And all quirkless suicides located at a middle school would be limited from ten year old cases to recent ones.

Over fifty three results popped up, and Tsukauchi felt like throwing up. Usually he wasn't assigned the cases about local suicides and murders.

Most commonly, he was given larger, more controversial cases.

As sad and unfair as it was, quirkless deaths was not considered a large case. Even though these cases were high in numbers.

Slowly Tsukauchi began skim reading the cases one by one. He marked each and every one on a map, and then wrote the names on a sheet of paper.

The left column was the least likely to be the death related to Hero Belief. The middle was questionable, as there were some cases with little to no information. And the right were the cases Tsukauchi planned to look further into.

After he finds and helps Hero Belief, he plans to take a month off and return to these cases in his free time.

These families needed an apology.

And probably more.

Way more.

Approximately four hours later, Tsukauchi was still sitting at his desk as Toshinori arrived.

Toshinori was upset, bags under his red, puffy eyes and hands shaking. He was holding two cups of coffee, trying desperately not spill them.

But Tsukauchi didn't look up, he was too busy reading the final case. After a few moments, Toshinori set his friend's cup on his desk and sat in one of the corner chairs.

He would wait until the detective finished his work, as he was immersed into whatever case he was working on.

After four minutes, Tsukauchi scribbled down his notes on a piece of paper before sitting back, sighing, and rubbing his eyes.

They were burning.

When he pulled himself together, he was startled to find Tohsinori sitting in one of his chairs, looking half beaten to death and sipping a coffee.

"When did--what on Earth happened to you?" Tsukachi asked, eyes blown wide at his friend.

Toshinori has never entered his office like this. Sure he has had a few bruises and scrapes from being a Pro Hero--but he had never come crying.

Something was wrong. Severly wrong--

"I um--" Toshinori coughed into his elbow, clearing his throat. "I got us coffee." He motioned to the desk in front of his frazzled friend.

--because Toshinori also loathed coffee.

Slowly, the brunette picked up the coffee from his desk and opened the lid. He looked inside and took a quick sniff before deeming it un-poisened.

He put the lid back on before taking a sip. It was--oddly enough--exactly how he liked his coffee.

Squinting at the hero accross from him, he began his interrogation. "What happened?"

Toshinori sighed, "I uhm...I did something I regret."

Now Tsukauchi was flabbergasted. Toshinori had done a lot of things wrong, and usually he tried to immediately apologize without anyone's help. He was a firm believer that if he did something horrible, that he himself apologize for his deed.

But...coming for help or to talk about it first....

Tsukauchi's mouth fell open slightly in shock.

"What..." He re-composed himself, sitting back in his chair and took a sip of coffee. "What happened?"

There was silence as Toshinori looked down at the floor.

It was a floor. Nothing fancy.

"Remember the Sludge villain?" It was a rhetorical question so he didn't wait for his friend's answer. "Well it had attacked another kid before the blonde. It attacked a kid as they were passing through a tunnel. The kid was suffocating--they were dying--but I was able to help them and put the sludge villain in a stray bottle I found. However the kid was unconscious, so I patted his cheek to wake him up--I was almost at my limit at the time." Toshinori took a deep breath.

So far, Tsukauchi didn't see anything wrong with the story--if he overlooked the fact that Toshinori should have reported this event when he made his statements on the case.

Dangit, Toshinori.

"Eventually he woke up and told me he was a big fan." He chuckled, before sobering up. "He told me I was his hero. When asked to sign his notebook, I complied, but before I left, he asked me a question."

Tsukauchi felt a lump in the back of his throat.

This is important...

Very very important.

Time slowed as Tsukauchi gripped his coffee cup, leaning forward in his seat, ingrossed in the hero's retelling.

"He asked if a quirkless person could be a hero."

"And what did you say, Toshinori?"

"I said... no."

Dangit Toshinori.

Everything was slowly coming together.

And Tsukauchi wanted to scream.

But instead he settled to aggressively throwing his empty coffee cup at an unsuspecting Toshinori.