[This guy, seriously... given what he said just now and a moment before, Hijikata doesn't know if he should admire his calculatedness or shake his head at his folly.]

I noticed nothing out of the ordinary so far. If they are indeed organising themselves somewhere in the city, they're being very covert about it.

[Little does he know just how many underground levels exist under the surface that could be used for secret meetings...]

I suppose we could provoke them with something like a public celebration of the otherworlder power holders, but that'd not only bring the risk of something happening that gets people hurt, it might also sway the public opinion even without any attempts at interference, if they feel that such festivities aren't warranted.