"Let's see what kind of video games that you are trying to develop this time."
He started sitting in a chair to be more comfortable after standing for so long. He then began to open the folder that contained Emma's work at that time. He laughed for a moment because the name of the game included the word 'mafia', which sounded very familiar to him. What he and Emma always talked about making a 'mafia' type of game, she finally tried to make it come true with this project. Shamelessly, this game will never be on the market. It's him to keep as a memory.
"Oh, the final name of the game is changed to 'Mafia boss needs to level up'. It's like you want to dedicated this game to me,my sister. I'm feeling very honored."
He then diligently read every report, drawing, storyboard that was clearly done by Emma and her teams in detail. The smile never left his face. He always felt proud of his sister who lived in her dream that came true. Never once, he resented her for shifting the responsibility of continuing the family legacy to him as he loved what he was doing and had a talent for that, and Emma was happy. It's all that matters to him.
"You are too good with all this Emma and you are gone too soon... You can archive many more top successes." His voice was gloomy now. He was overcome with the fate written for them where he still had difficulty accepting it.
Throughout the investigation until today, nothing foul about Emma dead. There was no other evidence to the contrary. Just like the hospital report said, she just died naturally. But even if he was already stuck at the dead end, he still had difficulty convincing himself to stop. After all, he was not the only one who still couldn't accept this bitter reality.
"Should I click it?" Hans said to himself while looking at the computer screen that showed the mafia game icon. He felt a little hesitant. But apart from that, not gonna lie, he was also curious about this game that his sister made. After all, he cannot sleep at night, so this kind of entertainment is also good to accompany him at night.
Thinking for a minute, he made sure first that the video game console that was also there was already connected, and it did. As usual, his people a very thorough as he didn't like to do trivial things on his own.
Not going to wait anymore, he clicked on the game icon.
Login.
Access denied. Please insert the disk and retry.
His eyebrows are raised a little as he is already ready to play some game but looks like the disk is not in the game console. His feeling of laziness started to arise because of this obstacle and he began to lean on the chair thinking what else he could do until the night ended.
But his mind started to remember the previous one, he already rummages to some of Emma belonging and he remembers there is a big box that houses many Blu-ray disks, USB Flash Drives, Solid State Drives (SSDs), and also External Hard Drives (HDDs), which is very common for the development of the game like Emma to have that much. Well, she probably got more where he didn't know.
Forcing himself up. He went to the box and rummaged inside it. It took quite a long time for him to find the right one as there are tons of it. Also, he was very careful with the search as he didn't want to ruin his sister's hard work. If he didn't consider that he will just throw everything inside the box, scattered everything on the floor, just so that he can find the Blu-ray more quickly, but he tries to be patient when 'patient' doesn't really describe himself.
"This is probably it."
He finally got a hold on the right one and went back and put the Blu-ray inside the game console and prepared himself again. He gets excited and curious to know about the game that Emma left which he decided to think that the game was made as a gift from his sister for him. Well, they did talk about that before anyway and now, the game is coming true.
Now, this game is one of the other items that became her memorable items as she passed away and he is the one and only person who will inherit all of this according to her will. Whatever she left behind, nothing so grand or valuable, and they are a family that already has everything, still, he promises himself to protect what he has gotten.
"Now, lets play all night long."
Being the head of The Anderson Organization, making him being a serious adult so fast, but sometime, he admits, the childish side of him is still there all along and will appear in a rare case as this one.
The first step is to open this game because he thinks, it will become an insult to Emma, if he didn't even curious about this.
WRITE YOUR NAME
"Hmm?" Hans typing his online nickname that he always uses when he plays any games but the 'write your name' sentence keeps popping out again and again, each time he tries.
"Is this game broken or something?" In asking he typing his real full name and suddenly the 'next' button became green when before it was red.
He finds this kinda odd but still follows the instruction. But, before he clicked the 'next' button the screen suddenly shook for a split second making him rub his eyes for a moment thinking that it might his eyes do the trick as he is losing sleep all this time.
But, it's not over yet. One question after another that he realizes only he can answer come out one by one each time the 'next' button appears in a green color.
"Why are you asking so many personal things?" Still, he answered despite complaining.
START THE GAME
"Finally! Why are you making this so complicated Emma?" He can't understand but relieved in the end after seeing this button as he can stop answering questions now.
Clicking the start button and seeing the loading symbol Hans began cracking his fingers, loosening it, ready into his battle mode for this game. He is sure there will be a lot of fighting and so on as its a mafia games after all.
But then,
Zap!
Every light in his house suddenly turned off.
"What the! Blackout suddenly?" But seeing the computer still on he thought that wasn't the case.
'Maybe the lights are starting to break down because I'm rarely here,' he thought to himself.
Unbeknown to him that it's not the case at all.
Then,
Zap! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
A loud sound that he heard this morning while he was at Emma's office at the Pro-Play Gaming Studious came back, but this time it was ringing too much as if the sound was coming from his ears so much that he had to close both of his ears with both of his hands but still the sound didn't stop.
Because he was in discomfort, he didn't even realize the entire hotel building and its surroundings were now in pitch darkness. This time it was a blackout for real and only his penthouse was giving off light at that time.
From the computer.
Trying to move, Hans tried to pull the computer switch like he had done before but how shocked he was when he found his hand turning into a pixel and gradually becoming more and more miserable and sucked into the computer screen.
Being in this kind of situation, he can't even think straight. Whether this is reality or just a dream. Of course, if he can choose the answer he will pick the latter as there is no logic that can explain what is happening to him.
Right there, the penthouse now becomes empty without any body or soul, and the light returns.
THE GAME MAFIA BOSS NEED TO LEVEL UP IS STARTED [Voice]
Hearing the announcement in his ears made Hans start to wake up. He realizes he is unconscious at some point somehow or sleep, and now he tries hard to open his tired eyes. He was thinking that he will be greeted by the ceiling of his penthouse but turns out he is now lying outside in the open air looking at the sky full of stars.
"What... Cough, cough!"
He tried to speak, but his throat felt so dry. Not only that, his whole body feels so sore and weak where it's been a long time he didn't feel like this for such a long time now.
WELCOME HANS ANDERSON
CHAPTER 1: THE WHOLE NEW WORLD
LEVEL 1
Out of nowhere, his eyes suddenly can see something popping in front of his eyes just like the notification that he always gets when playing a game. Then, everything went blank.
"What the f***!"
His whole body was still lying on the floor and he tried to get up even though his whole body didn't seem to want to cooperate. Once he managed to sit down, he started looking around to understand where he was now. Turns out he was lying in an alley that really looked eerie. Something like this according to his feeling as a mafia, is not that good.
"How?" He didn't understand and tried to search his memory all over for what had just happened to him. He remembered that his body was pulled into the computer but dismissed the idea quickly because that couldn't possibly happen!
"Was I drunk earlier? Or did the enemy kidnap me?" He tried to think in a more logical way even though he knows he didn't drink anything apart from water today.
Suddenly,
Ding! Ding! Ding!
He can see something popping, the notification things just like before. This time it surrounds him, but he cannot read anything. It's a white canvas all around him and after a few second, all of that disappear again.
'Am I getting crazy because I don't sleep enough?' He began to ask himself.
To say that he is not afraid at all of what is happening is a lie, but he is a 'trained person' who always needs to be quick in thinking rather than feeling 'afraid' so, for now, he was able to keep maintaining his composure.
First things first that he needed to know is,
"Where am I?"