Chapter 7

(Time skip to 10:00 PM)

The family had a great dinner, which also had some special dishes from Sweden cooked up by Lars himself. Then, he took them to the 200th floor of the tower, and showed them their rooms and the office of Jin and Asuka.

"Well then. I have to go now. Let's meet tommorow, Jin."

"Sure. Sayonara, Lars."

Then the siblings looked around the office. The table was huge enough to provide space for 10 office clerks to do their job. The two chairs were huge and comfortable, and quite ergonomic too. It had a transparent glass wall behind, offering a splendid view of Tokyo that made them feel like as if they owned the city along with this huge tower of an office. Jin was quite satisfied with it; until he looked at the opposite wall.

This particular wall had a photo of Heihachi, who was sitting on something that looked like a throne made out of pure diamond, and was smiling proudly. It made Jin's blood boil with feelings of hatred, and he couldn't stand looking at the old man's face. He looked around for something heavy and sturdy, and found a paper weight, made out of gold. He threw it at the photo, sending it down to the exquisite marble floor with some gold inserts, with a loud noise. Just then, a woman entered the room looking quite annoyed.

"Sir, what do you think you are doing at this time of the night?" Jin looked at her angrily. He wasn't in the mood to answer such questions, the ones made by some unknown person.

"First, you tell me. Who the hell are you?" He shouted back. The woman was taken aback at his tone, and understood that he wasn't in a good mood.

"I-I am sorry, sir. I am Reiko Iwase, your and Ms. Asuka's secretary and personal assistant. May I help you in any way?" She tried to sound as sweet as possible. Jin calmed down a bit and walked away while Asuka answered on behalf of him.

"Get this damn photo away from our sight! If you can, get someone to burn it too." Asuka replied in the same tone as Jin. She was just as annoyed at the photo like Jin was. Reiko agreed and took the photo and ran away filled with fright at such a speed even Usain Bolt himself would be envious of her.

'My my, though they are around the same age as me, they have just as much anger as their predecessors.' Reiko sighed at that thought and handed the photo to a soldier and told him what to do with it.

Jin and Asuka sat in their respective chairs. Jin took out his laptop and Asuka stared at it, and both calmed down fully. Jin was trying to hack into G Corporation's server, for any intel about Ryo's whereabouts and started typing down lines of code. Asuka read it, but wasn't able to make a head or tail from the lines of code, which seemed to have no meaning to her.

"Why are you typing down all of these meaningless lines, Aniki?"

"To get some information from G Corp.'s servers about Oji-chan's whereabouts. Obviously, I am not authorised to get the information, so I'll get it the hard way : Hacking it out."

"How long can it take?"

"I don't know. Depends upon the level of security they have now. After Oyaji had hacked their server with ease to find about mom, they are rumored to have military-grade encryption technology installed on their servers, along with an equally tough-to-crack firewall. So, I guess maybe 7 hours?"

"Is it really that hard to do so?"

'My sister is so foolish when it comes to such matters.' Jin thought to himself.

"Hacking military grade encryption is not a child's play! I'll need some expert help this time. And stop bugging me with such stupid questions, sis." Asuka was quite annoyed at Jin's words.

"Sure, Mr. Technocrat, Have it your way. I won't speak a single word, even if you beg me to!" She replied back angrily and stormed off to her room. Jin wasn't least bothered, as he knew his sister's nature quite well enough.

"She'll forget about it after some time..." He muttered to himself and continued on his job.

An hour passed. Jin cracked the firewall, but he was still trying very hard to crack the encryption on the CCTV feeds of the CEO's office. He banged his fists to the table in frustration, as he had reached his wit's end. He started to walk around the room and started thinking of people who could help him, and checked his electronics and security departments' employee's list to see if anyone was up to the task. He scrolled down the lists furiously and stopped when he had found the right fellow to do the job: Jin's adoptive uncle, Lee Chaolan.

Jin literally ran to the elevator with his laptop, and went down towards sub level 9-F, to Lee's laboratory. Violet Systems had become bankrupt and as a result, it was bought by the Zaibatsu at a cheap price, for a company that is. Lee was locking the laboratory's door when Jin reached him.

"Uncle Lee?"

Lee glanced back at his nephew. He just frowned at him and continued with his routine.

"What is it, Kazama?"

"I know you are still annoyed with me and my sis getting the ownership, and you are reluctant to speak with me. But I am in a pinch this time, and I need your help in cracking some encryption on information about Heihachi and uncle Ryo, which I got from G Corp. "

When Lee heard the words 'information about Heihachi', all his feelings of hate and anger against Jin were literally thrown out of the window, and a big smile found its place on Lee's face. Jin smiled back, knowing his plan had worked.

"All right, where is the data?" Lee asked curiously.

"In this laptop with me, uncle. It has the CCTV feeds of the last 31 days, straight from the CEO's office. Can you get it done by tomorrow noon?"

"Sure, no problem. Just share the info with me too, all right?"

"Of course, uncle." Jin was surprised at Lee's happiness.

"Excellent!" Saying this, he took Jin's laptop and went away grinning like a monkey. Jin too went back to his room happily, eagerly awaiting to know about Ryo's whereabouts and prepared himself for a sleepless night.