I wondered about that too.

Someone's had too late a night down in luca. caught the late late (or early early) s.s. liki I'm sure, and collapsed out in town, and had to be drug into the temple by one of the remaining monks (or more likely an acolyte) before anyone noticed.

Perhaps they then ran off to join the youth league, or seeing how the temple took them in, new yevon. . . or maybe they're just sitting in the building weaving cloth to sell.