I’d probably use the word “subsequent”.
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But seriously though, none of the movie references are clues. Just what actually happened in my math class. And in physics, we spent a week watching documentaries about psychics while the teacher was away, and when he came back he tried to pretend like he didn’t order the wrong DVDs.
That aside about psychics and physics was also not a clue, by the way, just a sad fact about my education.
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Is this a clue though?
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I suppose you could take it as a clue and just believe me when I say there probably won’t be any difficult math or physics in any of these clues.
Probably.
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Okay, fine, I’ve sent you your clue directly.
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Now we just have to figure out which of these is the red herring
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Re-ordering characters or character substitution???
This means something. Or not.
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It means nothing. We’re not sufficiently going down the wrong path yet to get a clue. That’s probably because we’re not sufficiently going down any path, but 
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Lol… I didn’t see that coming. Then again, I suppose that’s the point (literally!) 
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Tell us the clue Findley!
Sorry about this, we all appreciate what you’ve done for this community but durtles are serious business.
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Probability is commonly indicated in percent.
Percentage signs are used when writing certain characters in URLs.
六 = %E5%85%AD
乙 = %E4%B9%99
泣 = %E6%B3%A3
競 = %E7%AB%B6
薬 = %E8%96%AC
Interesting that they all start with %E, and the digits after %E line up in a neat sequence once you shift 六 and 乙.
No idea if that’s significant or if that’s just where kanji are in this space.
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That’s just the UTF-8 encoding. Most kanji will start with E.
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Ah, dang.
Still, the 5,4,6,7,8 thing is interesting. I tried converting them all to decimal values, but don’t see any interesting patterns.
六 = %E5%85%AD
229, 133, 173
乙 = %E4%B9%99
228, 185, 153
泣 = %E6%B3%A3
230, 179, 163
競 = %E7%AB%B6
231, 171, 182
薬 = %E8%96%AC
232, 150, 172
I’m going to try shifting all the bytes (or whatever a hex doublet counts as) so that they’re all in descending order and see what happens.
Update: Preliminary result - this won’t go anywhere. Will report back when it’s gone nowhere.
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… Via the PM system?
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nope
Via telepathic communication? Did he learn psychic powers from watching documentaries about psychics during physics?
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nope. I’d tell you, but I don’t want to stab Koichi in the back. Or have him stab you in the back. 
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You’re separate personalities in the same person, and Koichi is the superpowered evil side?
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I thought this was alluding that there is likely simple math or physics involved (difficult being relative).
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Result: This went nowhere.
Putting the hex values so that they’re all in descending order (column-by-column):
蹶 = %E8%B9%B6
糭 = %E7%B3%AD
櫬 = %E6%AB%AC
喣 = %E5%96%A3
䅙 = %E4%85%99
Most of these aren’t even used in Japanese, and I don’t see any radicals shared among all of them.
This seems like a dead end.
Result 2: Putting them in descending sequence row-by-row didn’t produce anything interesting, either. Two of the kanji were unchanged, the remaining three are Hyōgai.
孅 = %E5%AD%85
乙 = %E4%B9%99
泣 = %E6%B3%A3
綫 = %E7%B6%AB
謖 = %E8%AC%96