[Mervin's POV]

"Your brother, He made a game."

"I see. That's normal then because he used to play games very often."

"Indeed, he's still too young, there's still more space for him to improve."

Both of them nodded their heads.

One idiotic adult and one clueless boy, even though they found out Andy made a game.

In the Old Man's mind.

'Later when he woke up, I'll teach him how to make this game more interesting.'

Meanwhile, in Mervin's mind.

'Though I don't want him to play games, doing what he enjoys to do should a priority. As his brother, I should support him. '

After the Mervin received his answer, he left Old Man alone to play his games.

As for Old Man, he resumed playing Hero, returning to his own world, playing Hero on the computer.

"By the way, Old Man, where's my father?"

It's impossible for Father to go back to work and this situation.

Could he be searching at that place by himself?

"I'm not sure, he said he went to buy stuff. Now that you ask, indeed it took him too long."

Hearing what the Old Man said, Mervin got a gist where Lee could be.

He must have gone there, I should go and check him.

Arriving at his old house, he found Lee was rummaging the piles of scraps. His instinct is spot on.

"I'll help out."

When Lee saw me, he shook his head.

"No need to search anymore. Most of them can't be reused. I'm not rummaging the scraps but I'm cleaning this place."

"We should clean these up so I could sell this plot of land for money."

Father has decided to sell this place since he's in need of money as soon as possible.

"Un."

I immediately went to help out, cleaning the area by picking up the trash and threw them in the bin.

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[Andy's POV]

Ha...

I took a nice nap.

Now that I have slept, I'm not as tired as before.

"Oh, you're awake!"

The Old Man's eyes brighten up when he see that I was finally awake.

Andy who forgot what happened earlier wanted to re-explain everything to Old Man.

When I tried to explain to him from the beginning again, Old Man interrupted me before I could say anything.

"You should've told me that you make games!"

Huh?

Did I forget to hide all the files?

"What are you talking about?"

"I already found out. You left your account login when you fell asleep, there's no need to be shy."

"But really, I have to admit it, your game is quite addictive but you're still an amateur. You need to add more characters and more artifacts into the game."

"There's only ten characters and only over twenty artifacts that existed in the game."

While Old Man was excitedly talking about Hero I was devastated to hear that he found out.

I carelessly fall asleep and left the account there.

Since he found out already, there's nothing that could be done.

"Yeah, I'll add more things when I have time. More importantly, Have you entered your account number?"

"You did it already. You don't remember?"

"Let me see."

I opened up my profile and there are over 999 notifications, the game I made must have entered the top ten games already.

I didn't go and read the notifications as it was not important. I directly went to see my income money.

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Opening the income section, there are over three hundred US dollars in my balance and it's still increasing.

This is just for Newgrounds.

I unhesitantly withdraw the money and send them to the Old Man account.

"I've sent the money to your account, you should withdraw the money out."

"How much you earned?"

"About four million rupiahs."

"Really?!? I didn't know making games would be this profitable..."

It does earn you tons of money but that's if people kept playing your game everyday.

"Alright, I'll go to the bank to withdraw the money then."

As the Old Man left, I'm finally alone in the store.

The next thing I did was check my e-mail, sign in to my account, and check the inbox.

There are already over twenty unread letters.

On the description of the game, I did mention that I need cooperation from someone to promote the game.

I didn't expect that it'll be this less, I was expecting more than twenty letters.

Anyway, I started checking the letter one by one.

Thinking that I'm an amateur, most of the people that tried to contact me, wanted to scam me or trying to get me to sign an unreasonable contract.

Out of all the twenty-three letters, only one was really trying to cooperate with me. He started off with a simple introduction and went straight to the point.

[My name is Daniel James, I'm just a guy that has money but don't know where to spend it]

[If you want, I can invest my money on you. You can use the money to host a website or do whatever you want. In return, I want 51% of you to earn from the game]

This guy seems naive and inexperienced. I can definitely use him.

My plan is not really hiring someone to promote the game.

I don't really care about that as at this age, there's no need promotion to make games famous.

Moreover, this is temporarily made to get me enough money to buy necessities.

Once I received what I need I don't even plan to continually develop the game anymore.

I'll just sell the game to someone else or let someone else manage it.

Do whatever they want I don't care.

[This is LEE123, I have read your letter and it sounds very suspicious to me]

[You said you wanted to invest money in this game, just how much money you're willing to invest for 51% of the profit?]

While waiting for him to reply, I went to create more sprites for the new characters and other features that I need to add.

Ding*

He replied faster than I thought.

This time he skipped the formalities and got into the point.

[It depends, I'm currently playing your game and I've entered 140th area. I supposed you know what this means as the developer]

[It need more contents, I'm waiting for your update and I'll decide how much money I'll invest]

[However, I can say that the money I'm willing to invest will be no less than a ten thousand dollars]

Interesting reply...

[I have to say... you misunderstood what I'm trying to tell you in the last reply]

[I'm not asking you to judge the worth of this game. I'm asking how much you're willing to invest]

[I can assume that you'll be investing ten thousand dollars, is that correct?]

As soon the letter was sent, in just ten seconds he made another reply.

[Forty thousand US dollars, in cash, and we'll sign a life-time contract.]

Forty thousand huh? Not a bad deal for the first game I've made.

Though I know my game worth more than that, there's no harm letting him earn the extra cash.

In the future, I won't care about money anyway.

[Deal, meet me in Indonesia, Tanjung Balai Karimun. Notify me through this e-mail if you have arrived]

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[Australia, Melbourne]

On the other side, in front of the computer "Daniel James" was frowning when he received LEE123's reply.

Though he's happy that he sealed the deal, where the heck is Tanjung Balai Karimun and out of all, it's Indonesia?

"Indonesia... Tanjung Balai Karimun..."

Checking on the internet, he can't find the exact location. Only by using the atlas map, he can find the so-called place that he supposed to go.

That's is a small island... and it's far from my place too.

Since that place obviously didn't have an airport, I'll need to go to the nearest airport available and then travel by ferry.

The closest place that has an airport was Singapore.

A total of eight-hour flight...

I guess I'm traveling again.

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[Andy's POV]

Ding*

[I'll be there in a day or so]

That's the only words he replied.

I don't know where he's from but I could look into it myself.

Even though my specialization is not in the cybersecurity field.

This year, the 2000s, with my current knowledge, I'm confident that I could break into any security if I tried, not that I will...

If I really tried, I could easily generate money from a private bank, I could but there's no point to do it is there?

I can just earn money by making games myself.

With that being said, I tracked his IP address and went to find out where he lived, and who he was.

It's much better to be safe than sorry.

Let's see... this type of IP address, no VPN was used, it's not a fake address and it's from Melbourne.

As for his identity, Daniel James, a fake name indeed.

His real name is James Stevens, living with his parents at Gilga Street, block X.

A month ago, he won two million dollars by luck, so he quitted school and decided to run a business with the money.

But in the end, he spent most of his money on traveling and left with only little left to invest in his business.

He coincidentally finds me when he heard that a popular game suddenly erupt out of nowhere and said that it needs someone's help.

What a lucky guy.

When his money about to ran out, he met me.

Anyway, that's about it, I should stop researching him. He didn't seem to be planning anything dangerous.

So... From Melbourne to here, indeed it'll take a day even with a plane.

Since there's no airport here, he can't fly directly to this place, He'll need to use a ferry to get here.

By the time he arrived, I'll have to meet him directly with this body and when that time comes I'll use my way to convince him.

After I've finished researching him, I deleted all the trace so no one could track me.

Including files, I obtained through an illegal method.

Next, since I'm now free, I went to update the content of Hero.

Time passed quickly as I immersed myself to draw as many sprites as I could.

I was planning to create enough content, hoping that I don't need to work again in the future.

For now, these should be enough to satisfy my audience.

Sound of motorcycle being parked outside was heard. I looked out through the glass to see who is it.

It's Father and Mervin.

I quickly saved all of the files and closed the computer.

I don't mind Old Man noticing it but definitely Father or Mervin.

I should continue when they're not watching.

"You guys are back."

Since when Mervin followed Father?

Their clothes were soaked in sweat and there's a trace of ashes on their clothes. Did they rummage our old house without telling me?

Lee was carrying two bags on his hand and Mervin was also carrying a bunch of stuff. It can be seen that they're cleaning tools.

"We went back to check the scraps, we tried to search but nothing can be reused in those rubbles. In the end, we just cleaned the place and put a sign that the land is on sale."

Mervin explained what he has done with Father.

After the explanation, Mervin went back to being a cold brother.

"Take the these and go clean upstairs.".

Mervin ordered me as he handed me a broom and dustpan.

I obediently took them and directly went upstairs to start cleaning without any complaints.

"Let Andy clean by himself first. As for you, you should rest, your body won't make it if you pushed yourself too hard."

"Then you should rest with me too."

"...O-of course, who said that I'll help him."