That's true enough in Touga's case, but so far Mikage has been shown as pretty good at what he does. He isn't a fighter, though. Well, I mean... he IS, SkU proved that, but he's primarily a wizard.

>well, at least we kind of know why Souske, Amy and Rory are there.
>But unless Akio sends some COMPETENT help, they're gonna wipe the
>floor with em without ever realising they were a threat!

Upon considering it for a couple days, I think I have to walk back my initial assessment that sending these two guys here is suicidally overconfident on Akio's part. I don't think these two are meant to get into any kind of fight or, indeed, any sort of conflict while they do whatever it is they're planning to do to the pliant young minds of the DSM institute. Among other things, they're woefully underequipped for it. They probably have a specific mission they aim to complete and then get out, and will likely be taking every precaution possible (you'll note they're going to be based out of an isolated and underused Residence Hall) to remain unnoticed.

I mean, lets break it down here. Best case scenario for Akio is that the mindwiping is still holding and the only person with direct, firsthand memories of Hideki Nemuro/Souji Mikage is Anthy; everyone else has to go off her account, rather than personal experience. In that case, Nemuro could literally walk right by any of his former Black Rose Duelists and nod to them in the hallway, with little risk of disaster. They're not even on-campus that much, and judicious use of magic and technology would serve as forewarning that he and "Kuroda" should spend a couple days sequestered in their offices.

Worst case scenario is everyone has all their memories back in full. This is bad, but not catastrophic; Utena would sure as hell know him on sight, as would Anthy, and all his Black Rose Duelists. But most of the Black Rose Duelists are scattered to the four winds or just plain old almost never show up at DSM (Shiori and Kozue have no strong connection to the school, Mitsuru and Kanae have full-time jobs in Cephiro, Tatsuya never became a Duelist and is Sir Not Appearing in This Symphony; that just leaves Wakaba) and Souji Mikage didn't really have much interaction with the Student Council, did he? I'm not even sure that Miki and Juri even met the man, I'd have to re-watch the series.

That's much trickier, but if Nemuro works really hard at keeping his head down and not being noticed, he should be okay. Using his own name is slightly arrogant (all somebody has to do is mention it in Anthy's hearing) but the man has his pride.

It is entirely feasible for both Mikage and Touga to go unnoticed for months and months. I'm not sure they could manage it for years, but that's probably not their timetable. There's still what I would consider a high probability Touga (and if someone fucks this one up it's gonna be Touga) will walk out of the admin building one day and run smack into Kaitlyn and Juri, but fortune favors the bold.

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