I suppose beauty sleep can wait... [R-18]

"So... Who's this Dhalad guy?" Tisha asked as she placed the spaceship on auto-pilot and turned to face Hiro, grabbing a tray of fries which Hiro had dropped for her.

"Nova? Can you answer that? I'm trying to focus on this game," Hiro replied, his eyes not leaving the screen as he used the joystick.

"[You could have said 'Please,' but I'm gonna overlook that.]" Nova replied, and Hiro just rolled his eyes and scoffed.

"[We are looking for... For my father.]" Nova said, and Tisha paused with a questioning look, her hands stopping midway as she was about to feed herself another strand of fries.

"Your father?" Tisha asked with a skeptical look. "No offense, but I had no idea AIs have fathers."

"[Well, it's a simple way to put it. We're looking for the owner of 'Me' who is after Hiro, and to find him, Dhalad is the bridge we hope that would link us to him.]" Nova explained.

"Ohhh... Now I get it." Tisha said as she nodded slowly in apprehension.