Niou had been carefully monitoring his radar system since they left Yomi, occasionally glancing up to check that there still was no sign of sandworm activity around them. He looked up properly as Hiyoshi spoke and laughed... yep, definitely dead according to the radar. And when he looked closer... it was just lying on the sand, its body ripped almost completely in half. Definitely dead according to that too.

"I actually don't understand how he's not dead. Or do you think he'd be the type to be able to rip his way out of a sandworm if he got eaten?"