[Hijikata exhales, his frown smoothing out. It's hard to stay pissed off when Thoma has such a good attitude!]

Right... unless people came down here before us and got eaten, or took a different path and were taken out by the traps. But we didn't find any corpses or dropped items, so let's assume the best!

[He circles around the grotto once more, but there really isn't anything left to explore, so he snaps a few photos of the monster's remains as proof of their heroic deed, then turns to lead the way out.]

Let's see if we can take the same route back; it'll save us the work of having to disable any more contraptions.