 He spent the next weeks teaming with several wrestlers against his old enemy faction Voodoo Murders, until he announced Masamune as his next tag team partner in his quest for the tag titles.On January 1, 2018, Sugi officially joined Zero1, and the same day, he and Masamune won the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship from Sugawara and Hidaka.Their reign ended in June, when Sugi and Masamune lost the titles to the new team of Ikuto Hidaka and Fuminori Abe.