The choice to<tt class="bbc_tt">INVESTIGATE </tt>didn't play out the same way as it did before, with an event that happened as part of the action; rather, it seemed that they worked their way through a series of vignettes talking with the people of the Residential District.  The couple at the convenience store; at the park; old Akira's cart...and once more, they were back at the map, and it was already<tt class="bbc_tt">AFTERNOON</tt>.  Joy wondered just what was going on - hadn't everything seemed like they'd been going well?  Both women could attest that the people living in the Residential were talking to them, openly sharing what they knew about the disappearances...but for the life of either of them, they seemed to have no memory of what that conversation was about, just that they had had it, and that it had gone well.<br/><br/>"I have no idea," Aika replied.  "It...doesn't<em>feel</em>like we've learned anything, not like previously when we did this."  And then, to answer both of their questions, they got a pop-up prompt in front of the map.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">INVESTIGATE &gt; MISSING PERSONS<br/>Talking with the townspeople, you have learned three critical facts about the disappearances.<br/><br/>1: the disappearances have happened at night - no one has gone missing while the sun is out.<br/><br/>2: the disappearances have largely been of people in their twenties and thirties, with a couple of them just reaching forty.<br/><br/>3: the last place any of the missing persons was seen was near the local school, Hisashiro High.</tt><br/><br/>There was a<tt class="bbc_tt">CONTINUE </tt>button at the bottom of the prompt.  Aika pressed it, and another appeared.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">You have also learned the following about Hisashiro High:<br/><br/>1: the school is still in session, despite the Azure Riders, but there are no clubs - everyone goes straight home after school to avoid being caught by the gang on the streets at night.<br/><br/>2: people living near the school have claimed to see lights flicker on and off at the school in the night.</tt><br/><br/>"That..."  Aika started.  "That sounds like a spirit of some sort, something gone wrong in their world...or maybe one's gone rogue and is doing their own thing," Aika offered to Joy.<br/><br/>She looked at the Mugen.  "All the disappearances have happened at night.  If we want to look into them, then we will probably need to go there at<tt class="bbc_tt">NIGHT</tt>."  Aika hit the<tt class="bbc_tt">CONTINUE</tt>button again, and a third prompt appeared.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">RUMOR ACQUIRED: HISASHIRO HIGH</tt><br/><br/>One more press, and no more prompts appeared afterwards.