Aika responded.  "Take<em>this</em>!"  She yelled at the Boss, as green arcs of lightning began to spark in the air and around her as she pressed the index and middle fingers of her left hand together, the lightning surging between them to form a glowing green strip that looked an awful lot like an electrical version of those prayer strips you saw used in anime sometimes.  "Eightfold Prayer Binding!"  She cast the strip at the Tong Boss, and it hit him in the middle of the forehead - and then long lines of what were actual overlapping prayer strips shot out of his arms and legs and held him firmly in place.<br/><br/>The green lightning that had served as the initial medium of the attack now surged into him from everywhere, racing along the prayer strips and draining the rest of his health bar before disappearing, leaving the stage boss to crash to the ground in a heap, defeated by the martial and mystical might of the two girls.  The last pair of goons ran out the back door, the door slamming with a loud noise as the level completed.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">STAGE 1-1<br/>-Shopping District A-<br/>COMPLETE</span></div><br/>And a short tune played as the words hovered in front of their eyes.  A pop-up then appeared in its place.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">Do you wish to continue to the next Stage?</tt><br/><br/>Below it were two obvious blocks labeled<tt class="bbc_tt">YES </tt>and<tt class="bbc_tt">NO</tt>, as well as:<br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>Number of stages left in this time slot: 2</tt><br/><br/>"I think I remember this," Aika told Joy.  "It was a quick detail, but I think when we read that time management stuff, it said we can complete up to three stages in a single time slot."