Is this going to be a self-insertion?  Sounds awfully close to it, if you
ask me...

On the other hand, it's a fairly interesting idea.  If you went beyond it
to have the stranger start doing things on top of helping Ukyou, just to
look good, it'd be even better.  

By that's just my $.02.

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