After Desperado told Hiromu about his eye condition, Hiromu repeatedly said that he wanted Desperado to give him detailed updates on his health situation, and it seems like he meant it. He brought it up immediately on the first day of the current tour and hasn't given up yet.
"The backstage comments are getting stupid again"
Hiromu in the QRT said: "El Desperado, can you hear me? Your eye, your eye surgery, please tell me if it has been completed successfully and safely. ....Yeah, this part of my backstage comment will probably be put onto "X" I think. So please quote it and comment, Desperado-senshu."
Desperado quoted it to say: "You know that if you tell me to do something, I will absolutely never do it."
Undiscouraged, Hiromu continued in the next day's backstage comments:
"First things first. Desperado! Thanks for the comment! But I still want to hear how your eyes are doing, and what % of normal vision you're at right now. Please reassure me! I want to hear the words "I'm 100% healedpiii~!" directly from your mouth, please. I think this part of what I said today will be put onto 'X'"
Desperado didn't respond directly to Hiromu, but he did post an update:
"It hasn't even been a week since my surgery so I'm having terrible double vision, even worse than before the surgery
When I have both eyes open, even if I'm somewhere flat, my balance feels weighted backwards, and the visuals make me nauseous
So I've been wearing an eyepatch everywhere, and traveling by taxi and train instead of driving
But that narrows my field of vision so much that I keep crashing into things and getting in peoples' way...
This suuuucks"
Still not getting the answer he requested, Hiromu escalated.
His wrist tape for today's match read "Despe" "are your eyes" "okay?"
And in his backstage comments, he said that since Desperado isn't talking to him about this on twitter, he wants Desperado to reach out to him directly on the Japanese chat app LINE.
Desperado QRTed a reply, but to the NJPW World account instead of directly to Hiromu.
"My eyes aren't the problem, it's the muscles that move my eyes that are the problem
The muscles that move my eyes are still warming up and getting used to working
I've still got total double vision
I see two people, like the distance between a stand and their stand user"
"So basically, after the muscles that move your eyes are done warming up, you'll intensely train those eyeball-moving muscles so you'll become even stronger than before, okay 🙆 ? "
"I will not do anything to train those muscles after they're done warming up"
"Why did you suddenly start replying to me on X after I said on my backstage comment "Tell me your LINE"?
This twitter conversation between Desperado and Hiromu is from 2018. This was right before that year's BOSJ, which was the first BOSJ they were in together, and what would (technically speaking) be their first singles match.
Desperado deleted this twitter account in 2019 so his side of this conversation doesn't exist any more. Also, Desperado is drunk-tweeting so his tweets have some typos, which I've reproduced in the English translation.
"Well,
Well well
The thing is
I’m kinda drunk
But
I’d say the same thing drunk or sober
I absolutely do not want to lose to Takahashi Hiromu, and to him alone
And so, I won’t lose to him
I did an official interview with New Japan the other day and said this, but I’ll say it again
Hiromu
Because it’s you, I know you’ll see this
This is a declaration of war
I will not lose to you and only you"
"Porque? "
"porque si
estoy luchar en njpw
Why?
Because I have no choice.
I’m fighting in the world’s best Jr. Heavy division.
IWGP Jr.
Right now it’s Ospreay,
And the challenger is KUSHIDA.
I won’t make any more mistakes.
Next is youu and me.
At full power.
I won’t losee, to you and only yuo.
And tomorrow’s a 10 man tag but,
I don’t care who beats the hell outta me
As long as it isn’t you"
"Ok!"
"Is that so
Understood
i’ll tenderly make love to you
Only you can kill me,
And only I can kill you
I’m gonna kill you
I’ll kill you"
"Let's live!"
"You look like thatt guy who sprinklles salt"
[note from me: I'm like 90% sure he means Salt Bae]