8th Stage ☢ A triumphant return [VIDEO]

[deathboss]

[For those who might remember him, Eikichi's beautiful face gracefully showed up in the halls of Smash Academy last year in February before disappearing for no reason. Yet now he is back, looking all the more confused.]

Hey uh...babes? [He's distressed, by the sound of his voice, but most of his facial reactions display complete and total confusion.] Michel's kinda confused that his clock says it's March 2014. Sure he's not that great with electronics but he's sure that's a year and month later than what the time's supposed to be!

Did the Hands pull a prank on everyone? Cause I don't see my roommate anywhere either...

[Dude had just stepped out to buy melons, what the hell had happened. If only he knew...]

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[deathboss]

'99. I was still in middle school in '96! That's pretty cool [Well now he doesn't feel as ancient. It makes sense in his mind.]

So you got a name or somethin'?

[cowardlyjustice]

[Did he just say he was in middle school during 1996, as oppose to not being born yet or even conceived? He felt a sign of relief because -not counting Nanjo, the stubborn guy- there's finally another teen who'd probably get where he's coming from.]

Can't be any other way, I am the great and ever-so amazing Hidehiko Uesugi.

... Most people think that's a mouthful so Brown does the trick better, mwuahaha!

[deathboss]

[OH. OH SHIT. So that's why this guy sounded so familiar. No wonder his persona was all trying to tell him something!]

You're...you're....younger!

[cowardlyjustice]

What are ya tal- Wait do you know me somewhere or somethin'?

[Doing the math, this guy comes from 1999, Brown himself would be in university at the time. Assuming he had gotten there.

Unless...]

... Did I get held back?

[deathboss]

Hell no! I ain't from Lunarville Mikage-cho, I'm from Sumaru City!

I just know you when you're older. [How can he even explain this.] Yukino introduced us to each other with we visited the TV station.

[cowardlyjustice]

But... Why would I be at a TV station? And on some big place like Sumaru city, at that.

[THERE'S A CRAZY POSSIBLE IDEA ON HIS HEAD, BUT IT'S ALSO LAUGHABLY IMPOSSIBLE. IT ISN'T LIKE SOMEONE HAD ALREADY DROPPED HINTS AT HIM FOR AWHILE. They flew by his head. All of them. It's hard to focuse when a glorious butt a classmate three years older and three years maturer was talking in front of you.]

[deathboss]

[Is this really. The guy that everyone kept comparing that had similar personalities? No way!]

Because...you're a TV host?

1/man idek

[cowardlyjustice]

[Blank stare. Give him some time to process this.]

[cowardlyjustice]

[For real? He's the same time-frame as Nanjo, and didn't the no1-boy had something similar before?]

[cowardlyjustice]

[Then again he was too focused on other things.]

[cowardlyjustice]

[OTHER THINGS LIKE THE FACT NANJO WAS THREE YEARS OLDER, ALRIGHT.]

[cowardlyjustice]

[HE THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING, HE THOUGHT NANJO WAS JUST TRYING OUT SOME OTHER WEIRD EXPRESSION ABOUT HIS WHEREABOUTS IN THE FUTURE.]

[cowardlyjustice]

N-No joke, really there?

[EXCUSE THE NARRATION FOR USING A CERTAIN SOCIAL NETWORK'S LINGO, BUT BROWN WAS PRACTICALLY HEAVY BREATHING.]

done

[cowardlyjustice]

[Although he makes a note to telephone a certain asshole very soon.]

[deathboss]

No I'm pretty certain there's no two people who have the same name. You know Yukino, right?

[cowardlyjustice]

[He nodded.] Yukino Mayuzumi, ex-boss, has a pair of killer legs that could knockout a guy's balls in both senses you might've thought; big sister-type of girl nowadays with a habit of lookin' out the other kids. That Yukino right?

1/3

[deathboss]

Yeap, that's the one!

[deathboss]

Wait, an Ex-Boss?! Yukki was a yanki?!

...now that I think about it, that does explain a lot of things.

[deathboss]

Anyway, it's a good thing she isn't here to hear what you just said. She'd probably tear your head off for half of what you said.

[cowardlyjustice]

No argument there, killer legs, remember? Enough to land a guy to the medics.

[cowardlyjustice]

--Not sayin' I had first hand experience of that, but high school, rumor circuit floats around. [NERVOUS LAUGHTER.]

So- your name, Michel was it?

[deathboss]

That's right, bro! The one, the only, head singer and band leader of Gas Chamber!

[cowardlyjustice]

With that kind of look? Definitely one and only.

Come to think of it, are you into that kind of thing?

[Vis... whatchamacallit. He got this, he got this.]

Vocalize-kei?

[deathboss]

See I know you'd get it!

[Man maybe he wasn't so bad younger.]

Visual Kei! It's the proper way to rock the casbah these days!

[cowardlyjustice]

Pfgh-- with a pair of guys lost travelers of time like us, you might wanna be more specific when you mean 'these days'.