[Hijikata actually has to mull over his own words - if anglerwisps eat souls, how could he revive via standard procedure after being eaten by one? Doesn't that prove that otherworlder bodies and souls are virtually immortal? It's not exactly a shock, but it's still something he never thought about in detail before.

He needs to stay in the moment, though, and offers a non-committal hum at the Master Chief's question.]

Maybe. Chances are it was sleeping somewhere when they came barging in. Let's check the direction it came from.

[As they move, they encounter some large caterpillars, and he makes a face.]

Zapperpillars. I wonder what they even eat out here. You may not have been here yet, but a couple of months ago we had the first blackouts in the city because these damn things got into our power supplies. Sabotage.