Hearing the question, Suyan became pale as a ghost, shaking her head in a nervous fit, her doe eyes turning misty and red as she stared at her friend who was smirking at the obvious results. Suyan would certainly lose.
"Fine...You win; I'll send you the email and the pass. Don't you try ruin the relationship I'm trying to nurture, you merciless villain!"
Ting...
The oppressor's phone vibrated after the poor friend admitted defeat. A message containing the email and password of the long debated account was send with the recipient id of 'Cotton Candy'.
After all, as much as cotton candy valued that account it wasn't important than her 'lonesome fragrance waiting to be appreciated' love life. Cotton Candy Suyan was a single sweetener who never found luck in finding a perfect other half. She had a ton of relationships in the past especially during her college days that either last a week or less due to unfortunate circumstances.
One had to go abroad...
One had to go back to the countryside...
One had to go to prison...
One had to go to a mental institution...
The others have strange interests....
And the last one died from an allergy shock...
Aiyoo! Although there a sufficient supply of different flavored candies, only few are susceptible to her taste, and these few still needed to be check of their defects and expiration dates.
Thus, the 27 year old Single candy Suyan felt bitter- extremely bitter.
"Don't you dare do something funny! Only a look through, do not change anything!"
The great oppressor enthusiastically nodded, fiddling her mobile device. Thousand thoughts roamed her head after hearing the cotton candy's warning. As if the car turned into a wonderland, the great oppressor let out a Cheshire smile.
Suyan momentarily felt the oddness but decided to dismiss the doubts. She still needed to conquer someone's love route in real life. Then maybe, her fragrance will soon attract bees, eh no no butterflies. Wait for me Daniel, I will make our love bloom into a sea of roses!
Suyan's dreamy lovesick expressions were witnessed on the monitor, as the other single audience did her best not to laugh.
Love bug version is logging in...
Suyan drew a long sigh as her soul returned to earth. "Return it after you're done, and keep your bugs to yourself otherwise I'll call the exterminator to end our contract." Raising her hand to encourage the other one in pledging an oath.
CEO oppressor chuckled once and attempted to raise her hand only to paused midway and tapped the exit button instead. Staring at the desktop background, she imagined some scenarios of a furious individual gaping at a blank screen. Such a waste, maybe I'll secretly install some surveillance cameras on my next visit.
Dispelling the thoughts, she quickly opened the message notification, viewing its contents;
Hidden Lineage
Suyankawaii@worldj.com
Pass:********
P.s. don't do anything funny, really don't do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
The exclamation marks on the text occupied half of the contents that Suyan typed which was ignored completely by Vierre. Checking the road ahead for any signs of her destination, she increased her speed once more with an impatient pace at full throttle.
Shifting in her seat, she busied herself in surfing for the Otome game's site. She scanned the search results containing numerous topics about the famous game. Some reviews, comments, and images made her frown. There were indeed many positive responses from the masses; a majority of them evaluated the game with astonishing scores. The game also got first on multiple recommendation and gaming sites. In addition, famous bloggers also featured some teasers from the game.
After a few minutes of torturing herself, she finally found the game's main site and did a short observation. Finding it hard to accept, a sigh escaped her lips after unwillingly praising the graphics on her mind. Their development team sure has some skills.
Even after scrutinizing the main pages, there wasn't a single indication of any gaming company's logo or names of the developers. These made her fixated on the poster where a girl surrounded by a group of male characters was featured. A mixture of Asian and western theme, there were magical creatures in the background spewing fire and other kinds of elements. The girl in the middle was surrounded by flames, her peerless looks and striking red hair was able to capture Lilian's immediate attention.
The graphics were indeed aesthetically pleasing and also exudes some mystic charm at the same time. However, what made her utterly confused was there was not even a shadow of the company's logo or credentials.
No company would neglect such an important thing.
The curiosity became puzzlement. With no clue on hand, she planned to do a quick play through for five minutes hoping to catch a glimpse of it.
After tapping the red link 'Log in', she typed the email and pass and the game begun to load. Not even a minute pass when the game's scenery changed into a virtual auditorium and a soulful enigmatic song played in the background.
But before she could enjoy the tune, another option box popped.
Would you like to enter the game?
>Yes
>No
After clicking the 'yes' option, another menu box appeared.
Are you really sure?
>Yes
>No
Vierre clicked the 'yes' again only to be pestered by another string of words.
Young Lady, are you really sure?
>Yes
>No
Her eye twitched for some good seconds while staring at the dumb question. Traces of doubt were showed on her face as she begun to wonder if this was the game. Making a mental note, she decided to hire Suyan to do some background check. Deciding to continue, she clicked the 'yes' option again.
Two seconds passed and a loading bar emerged. Lilian was somewhat giddy waiting for the game to finished downloading. But when the bar reached to '78%', her phone unexpectedly shut down. All Lilian could was cursed inside her car.
Preoccupied with her incoherent mumbling, Lilian didn't notice the ray of light slowly swallowing the back of her vehicle. It was then when her phone slipped through her hand and fell on the car floor did she found out that there was something wrong.
Baffled, she tried to pick up the device only to find her hand passed through the solid phone. Her hand paused before doing it again- and again. But, her hand only passed through. Freaking out, she retrieved her hand abandoning the idea. But when she thought the oddness ended already, she sucked in a mouthful of air while staring at the pitch black scene ahead. The road and light posts were nowhere to be seen. Instead, she saw speckles of tiny orbs glimmering and dancing in the air. Tracing the trail of light, her eyes followed them until it landed on the back of her car.
Thud!
What the crap is going on?
Lilian in her panic state collided with the car roof. That hit was a resolute proof that was happening was not just her imagination. But it didn't make her feel any better; it instead worsened the horror and anxiety written all over her face.
Unbuckling the seat belt, she was going to unlock the door but her hand felt nothing-
Shivering at the creepy situation, Lilian couldn't keep her composure and shouted 'help' in her hoarse voice. With only darkness around her, no one came.
To make the matters worst, some huge force from affront knocked her head sinking her consciousness into sleep.
She didn't know if it was just her mind playing tricks, but she definitely heard the same soulful enigmatic song before she passed out.
Ting!
Near Lilian's unconscious form, the long forgotten device unexpectedly lit up playing the game's tune. In the screen of the phone, the loading bar has reached a '100%'.