"They might be," he says. "I'm not sure. I know when I was alive, we dealt with spirits and the like -- but nothing ever incorporeal, like ghosts. But if there are ghosts here and they aren't us, what could they be, then?"

At the second part of Eren's questions, he shrugs slightly but looks more thoughtful as he answers. "I've heard the same thing, but it's hard to know which sins those are. I've heard of a number that the people here have confessed to committing, but yet we're all still supposed to be salvageable if we're here."

After all, his father had told him he was damned since he was a child. Yet here he was, among his fellow dwellers of purgatory, trying for a better chance one day.