Considering that "Kensei" was going around wearing that lacquer mask most of the time, it could turn out that Hiro will actually wind up taking over his identity and becoming the Kensei of legend himself--or at least impersonating him long enough to perform some of his more heroic deeds.

Did I miss some reference last season to the alleged plague which deprives people with the metagene (or whatever it's called in the Heroesverse) of their powers? Or was that whole spiel just a red herring Mohinder cooked up as bait to attract the Company's attention more easily to his bogus lecture tour?