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I do believe that the father->son->spirit routing is probably the fastest; the anti shield is honestly kinda underwhelming until I re-balance it.

As a dev there's this small hidden system I can tell you about, if you're interested in taking a small "shortcut"

Random encounters RNG starts to roll after X amount of steps has been taken in the overworld. However, if you interact (even if you don't sit) with a saving point, the step counter used for random encounter is set to a number lower than that X amount, giving you some safe time. If someone is fast enough, with some slight luck, they can chain to multiple save spots while avoiding any and all random encounters. At the time of writing this, the latest release has save points without a spark bugged, not resetting the step counter, but it should be fixed in the update I'll release after this 

For the credits, at the end of the credits you just get sent to the main menu, there isn't any kind of check or switch, so, If you want to jump back instantly to the main menu, you can press F5 to reload the game.