Not if Hijikata kicks the stool over first (this is how they both end up in the hospital, claiming they got mauled by wyverns or something else overpowered...)

But yeah, I think these two will just bow out of the cool boss battle!! (I'm remembering how, in Gintama, Hijikata and Okita arrived at the Justaway factory as it blew up and acted like they were at school and had forgotten their protractor/flute at home...) Let's have them rummage through the metal junk outside (quietly) and just steal part of the hoard!