He reached the penalty box. The screen began to tear horizontally. Arjun heard a sound from his PC speakers—not the stadium ambience, but a low whisper, almost inaudible.
The celebration animation was wrong. Vrana didn't run. He walked to the center circle, knelt down, and placed his palms flat on the turf. The crowd went silent. The scoreboard flickered: 1–0. Then 0–0. Then 1–0 again.
The game forced kickoff. Vrana took the ball. He didn't dribble. He glitched —teleporting two meters at a time. The CPU players couldn't tackle him. They passed through him like smoke. pes 19 pc
There he was. K. Vrana. Sitting in full kit, head down, not looking at the pitch.
Arjun closed the game. He tried to uninstall the patch. He couldn’t. Every time he deleted the VirtuaRED folder, it reappeared on reboot. He reached the penalty box
The stadium was empty. No crowd model. Just grey seats. The scoreboard read:
That’s when things got strange. He started a Master League with a relegated Sunderland. The first transfer window was dry. No budget. He simmed through a 0-0 draw against Bristol Rovers. Boring. The celebration animation was wrong
Arjun frowned. He went to his squad list. K. Vrana wasn’t there. He checked "Other Players." Nothing. He checked "Free Agents." Empty.
Arjun’s cursor hovered over him. Substitute. But the game didn’t let him. A red text box appeared, a font he’d never seen in PES: "This player cannot be substituted. He must play." Then the controller vibrated—once, hard. The game auto-subbed Vrana on. No confirmation. Just a blurry cutscene of a pale man with hollow cheeks jogging onto the pitch.
He saved the game. The save file name wasn't "Sunderland_1" like usual. It was: The Phone Calls The next day, he resumed. Sunderland vs. Aston Villa. In the 67th minute, the ball went out for a throw-in. The camera cut to the bench.