Indeed. He was well enough to pick fights by the time I'd left.
[Admittedly, Sanzo has to be comatose to not be well enough to pick fights, but he certainly wasn't dead. Nor had he ever been as close from those burns as Hakkai had come from electrocution, although the long-term damage and scarring will be severe.]
... I'm going to have to ask just what Gojyo's god saw on his return.
[Are they all wrong? Two times when real injuries didn't lead to real deaths is coincidence; three would be a pattern.]
As for taking us for a short time, if Gojyo's memories weren't altered before, he can't have been gone for more than a day.
[Sanzo could have disappeared for weeks. Gojyo, though, hadn't gone without Hakkai seeing him at least once for longer than a day's work at any point during that time.]
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[Admittedly, Sanzo has to be comatose to not be well enough to pick fights, but he certainly wasn't dead. Nor had he ever been as close from those burns as Hakkai had come from electrocution, although the long-term damage and scarring will be severe.]
... I'm going to have to ask just what Gojyo's god saw on his return.
[Are they all wrong? Two times when real injuries didn't lead to real deaths is coincidence; three would be a pattern.]
As for taking us for a short time, if Gojyo's memories weren't altered before, he can't have been gone for more than a day.
[Sanzo could have disappeared for weeks. Gojyo, though, hadn't gone without Hakkai seeing him at least once for longer than a day's work at any point during that time.]
And he was here for a month and a half.