"Hm...sounds like they could be the same, maybe. I mean, no one ever locked monsters up under a mountain where I'm from. We probably couldn't have even if we'd thought of it." Kotetsu's idea of "monsters", of course, also includes such creatures as the Gashadokuro and the Wanyudo. Memories of stories about the Starving Skeleton had made it especially alarming to encounter Sans in the kitchen. But they'd got to chatting anyway.

"Maybe they just know more about that kind of thing, where you're from. Sternbild still barely has any idea about what to do with NEXT."