"It's a big ass skeleton youkai." He reaches up to scritch the top of Helvetica's head as they walk before continuing. "Err...which are types of spirits and supernatural creatures where I'm from. I guess you could call them monsters, but they don't actually exist in my world. They're just stories you tell to scare kids and the gullible. Anyway, a gashadokuro is a skeleton made up of the bones of people who starved to death. They wander around at night, biting off the heads of lone travelers and drinking their blood."

So...big, grumpy skeletons isn't too far off the mark, really. Though, hey, at least Fuyuhiko can tell that Papyrus isn't the kind of skeleton who would enjoy something like blood sucking or decapitation. He continues scratching the top of Helvetica's head, still making is way towards the docks.

"Or that's how the legends go, anyway. So humans are the ones that trapped you all underground, then?"