Link nods. "They belonged to the other Champions." Belonged, as in past tense. They were all dead now. Dead for one hundred years.

Link still had their gifts, the abilities their spirits had gifted him - but he'd had to get the chip removed first.

As for the curious item, Harley will be able to see on the screen a kind of inventory listing of weapons - there appears to be space for 17 weapons, but right now there's only the broom and the spear included. "It's the Sheikah Slate," Link says, not very helpfully.