 While searching for an exit, Aiba meets a hacker named Yuugo, the leader of the hacker team "Zaxon"; Yuugo teaches Aiba how to use their Digimon Capture and tells them that Arata is, in fact, a skilled hacker himself.Arata hacks a way out of Kowloon, but the three are attacked by a mysterious creature that grabs Aiba and corrupts their logout process.Aiba emerges in the real world as a half-digitized entity and is rescued by a detective named Kyoko Kuremi (暮海 杏子 Kuremi Kyōko), head of the Kuremi Detective Agency, which specializes in cyber-crimes.