Na, they couldn't have died. Comic relief characters aren't killed off (unless you count Aeris as laughable...poor dear), and you know that even when B&W were beaten up multiple times by the party, they kept coming back. <shrugs> Persistent characters. That's probably why they earned a Card with their name on
So the whole planet knows the pair through the Card.....and they also know about the party, and the boss monsters......:S