[ No, it really didn't have to mean that. And it wasn't Hokuto's afterlife, either. ]

Maybe a lot of people are wearing the proper contact lenses to see us, or got a rise in spiritual energy.

[ He doesn't feel that much of an unusual level in spiritual energy, though. Not in quantity, or in quality. It should be more obvious if that was the case. ]

Times change quickly, anyway. Who says it has to be impossible or even difficult to download people. You never watch shows like that?

[ Then he shrugs because really, he didn't have a proper answer to that question. ] It's impossible to see everything there is to anything.