[Hijikata nods, legging it out of the beach with Sun. Once on safe ground, he looks back at the streetlights. They've stopped blinking... for now.]

...

I'll be honest, I've got no idea how to deal with this. If those creatures are individual monsters, we may have taken them out, but if they're just puppets, then there's got to be a puppeteer, and how're we supposed to get at that one?

[If said puppeteer exists and lurks under the sand, any attempts at luring it out will probably only result in more sand puppets being thrown at them.]