"Dad? What...? How...?" Kisa floundered for a coherent sentence. She had difficulty talking to her father at the best of times, but this was something else entirely.

"Kisa? What are you doing on this...? Were you the one that hacked into John and Yoko?" The man on the other end said.

Kazuma stepped in, interrupting the awkward conversation between the parent and child. "We were trying to see if we could find some way to contact you. I'm assuming that you're the one that developed that Emerald Gate?"

"The Emerald Gate? What do you want with that? It's an old program I left years ago." Kisa's father said on the other end.

"The Emerald Gate downloaded itself onto my phone the other day, dad." Kisa said. "That AI, Love Machine, it wants it, and we think it might have its back up files. We need to get into it."

"Kisa," the man said, sounding exasperated. "I don't want you getting involved with this. Leave it to the adults." Kisa gritted her teeth. "I'll be having a long talk with you about hacking into other people's things later, and I would very much like to know what kind of people you've been associating with, if they actually encourage you to do this kind of thing." Kisa dug her nails into her hands. "They put you up to this didn't they? Kisa Koiso, I am not having you associate with such people. Tell we where you are and I-"

"Shut up..." Kisa interrupted in a low voice.

"Don't mumble Kisa. I can't hear you when you mumble." Her father ordered

"I said 'Shut up'!" Kisa shouted, surprising everyone.

"Don't you talk to your father that-"

"'Father'?!" Kisa interrupted again. "You made it very clear a long time ago that you had no interest in being my father! And let's just get this straight! In case you haven't noticed, dad, I am not a child! You have absolutely no say in my life, or in who I choose to 'associate' with! And on that note," Her voice became frighteningly calm. "I don't care what you say about me. I'm used to it by now. But, don't you dare say anything bad about my friends. They've been a better family than I've gotten from you or mum in a very long time." There was a long silence as Kisa let her words sink in. "You said to leave this to the 'adults'? Well, guess what? I am an adult."

With that said Kisa shut down the laptop and then started it up again, cutting the connection. Natsuki bit her lip and look worriedly at Kisa. Kazuma placed a hand on the angry woman's shoulder, making her jump.

"You okay?" Kazuma asked.

"Yeah." Kisa said with a strained smile. "Sorry you had to see that."

"Are you sure it's okay?" Natsuki asked. "I mean, we don't want you and your father to fight because of us."

Kisa shook her head. "Don't worry. That fight's been a long time coming. Like I said, it's been a long time since he took any real interest in me." She turned to her phone and picked it up. "Well, now we know who it is that made this thing. Hopefully, Ayane was right about it recognising all members of the family."

*In OZ*

Keji walked up to the Gate, stopping when the screen from before reappeared. She carefully reached out and placed a hand on the screen. A message appeared on it reading, 'state your name'.

"Kisa Koiso." Keji said, the line on the screen waving to the sound of her voice.

As soon as the wave ended a new message appeared reading, 'Voice recognised: Kisa Koiso'. The Emerald Gate creaked and began to open.

"Keji!"

Keji spun around at the warning. When she saw what was behind her, her heart sped up. There, coming at her at tremendous speed, was Love Machine. Keji started to panic. What was she going to do? The door was opening and Love Machine was heading her way. He must have just been waiting for them to open the gate. Keji tried to make a brake for the Gate, but Love Machine was faster. Kisa braced herself for the attack she knew was coming, squeezing her eyes shut. When no attack came she opened her eyes to see the last thing she'd been expecting. There standing between her and Love Machine, the AI's fist in his hand, was a male avatar with white hair, wearing a business suit.

"You get away from my daughter." Said an, oh so, familiar voice.

"Dad?!" Keji said in surprise.

"Get going." The white haired avatar said. "I'll keep this guy busy. You and your friends get through the Gate. Delete this bastard."

Kisa blinked a few times before giving a firm nod. Then she turned and ran to the Gate, King Kazama, Ayane, Natsuki, Saita, and Hajime close behind her. As they entered the gate they found themselves in a room that looked like a large hollowed out tower. There were monitor screens all along the walls. Keji walled over to one and looked at it.

"'Firewall operations'." She read aloud.

King Kazama went over to another of them that read, 'Account files A-C'. Keji walked over to the screen that read 'L-N'. When she placed her hand on it, another screen appeared with a 'Search' message on it.

"Um... Love Machine?" She said.

The 'search' disappeared, and the screen under Keji's hand was now displaying Love Machine's files. She pressed the button marked 'delete', and another voice recognition screen appeared. Keji tapped it and a message appeared.

"This... It's the name of one of our band's songs. It needs to both recognise the voice and the song?" Keji said aloud, nervously.

"Well," Ayane said. "Let's get started."

Keji gulped as the other members of her band got out the music instruments that their avatars had in their inventory. Taking a deep breath, she began the song. The gentle music echoed around the room, slowly becoming stronger. When she was half way through her song, Love Machine came crashing into the room, lunging at Keji. KK rush in and snatched Keji into his arms, pulling her out of danger, Keji's song never once faltering. Keji looked down in surprise as she heard a new voice join her song, and saw King Kazuma singing in harmony with her.

*Real world*

Kisa felt her face grow hot and she felt Kazuma wrap his arms around her, pulling her close and singing into his own phone. Their voices harmonised perfectly, creating a beautiful sound. Kisa's face felt like it was on fire and her heart was pounding wildly. Why was Kazuma holding her so close like this?

*In OZ*

As the song began to come to its close, Keji and KK began to glow slightly. The light radiating off of them made Love Machine flinch back. As the last syllable came to an end, the voice recognition screen changed to read 'Voice recognised: Kisa Koiso. Now deleting'. Love Machine made one final lung at Keji and KK, but dissolve before it could reach them. Keji gave a sigh of relief, it was finally over.