 Mori immediately began to try to convince him to reform the Royal Brothers with him once more.On November 28, Sugawara and Masaaki Mochizuki tried to recruit him into the Veteran-gun to take on the New Generation (which was odd, because he debuted in the same class as Naruki Doi, a member of the New Generation), and he agreed to join them, but only if Sugawara would agree to reform the Royal Brothers with him once the generation war was over.Sugawara accepted the offer, but mentioned that they were short one member, since Phillip J. Fukumasa was retired.