With the last pair of goons felled, Aika turned this way and that.  "Is that it...?"  There was supposed to be a miniboss at the end of this stage, wasn't there?  Then again, they had Kanami with them and they were supposedly on a secret route to the hideout...when there was no immediate alert prompt that popped into their fields of vision, they relaxed.  Alright; maybe they were going to need to travel a little further before they ran into the boss - supposedly Kanami would take them to the start of the secret route, and she was now moving to squeeze between them and lead the way once more.  "We're close!  We just need to travel a little further and then we'll be there!"  At the front once more, Kanami took them through another set of turns, and then a fence the width of the alley confronted them.  "This is it; go over the fence to start the route.  Here's how you'll need to travel to get to Solo Mio..."<br/><br/>After Kanami detailed to them the directions, they<em>did</em>get a message pop-up.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">STAGE 1-3<br/>-Shopping District B-<br/>COMPLETE</span></div><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">Number of stages left in this time slot: <em>0</em><br/><br/>Returning to Hisashiro...</tt><br/><br/>The next thing they knew, they were confronted with the map of the city that they had seen previously, but they were immediately diverted and zoomed into the Shrine of Takemikazuchi that was their base of operations during the game's events.  They found themselves on the street that ran in front of the steps that led into the shrine, walking towards the stairs.  Aika suddenly stopped, turning to Joy...her mouth moving without her permission.<br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>"If we're going to reclaim the magatamas, then we're going to need to know what's going on in this city.  You'll note we picked up a RUMOR while we were out; if we spend some time, we can INVESTIGATE that RUMOR and find out more about it!  But to INVESTIGATE will take time, unless we're presented with an opportunity during another action."</tt>With that, they proceeded back to the map.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">Calculating XP for stages completed...<br/><br/>Adding bonus XP...<br/><br/>XP Award (Stages 1-3): 45xp<br/>Bonus XP (No Miss): 5xp<br/>Bonus XP (Multiple Stages): 10xp </tt><br/><br/>"That's pretty good...looks like we get a bonus for doing multiple stages in a row as well as losing no lives."  The map of the city reappeared, telling them it was<tt class="bbc_tt">AFTERNOON</tt>and giving them their now<em>four</em>actions.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">KICK ASS<br/>TRAIN<br/>INVESTIGATE<br/>WORK</tt>