Bodega Cat (System Apocalypse, Deck Builder, Litrpg)

It wasn't until six hours after the dungeon surge that the line died down.

When the first person was able to walk in and immediately order food, Bagel relaxed. The tension he had been holding evaporated like yesterdays kitten farts.

He knew that if he went outside that he would probably see the same thing with the Amish market. Not that he wanted to go but it was an indicator.

Also, it was dark.

The street lights were still working. It was visible and noticeable which ones had been destroyed.

Many of the buildings still had most of their lights on as well. Bagel called it a night later than he had wanted to.

With all of the land he was able to buy through his, shop and the barriers still up, for the fire time in a long time nothing spawned on his little stretch of second avenue. He knew that it was the same around the corner of fort fifth Street.

He loved the feeling of being inside a place where nothing would spawn. He could not be attacked in his domain. According to the system, his domain extended almost to the entire block.

He was close.

It would be a few more deals and get the adventurers guild to forward him some of the credits from the day. There really wasn't a use for credits except for paying for rent from him or buying things from him so that he could buy it more in New York City.

He supposed that the system wanted it this way.

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"So here's what we're going to do this time. We're going to box them in. If we can use the drones to see where they spawn, then we can put cages there."

"That's not going to work. And I tell you why. They've tried it before and the spawns just move to a valid location. As if they just ran there," Kate said.

"Where did you find this out?" Bagel said.

"Kate dodged a hunk of what looked like cheese."

The further they got, the more likely they were to find ridiculous mobs. Bagel needed somebody else to go over there and they wanted to scope about Hell's kitchen to see what was actually going on there.

Apparently it was a tight knit neighborhood that included Broadway and due to a lot of factors, Kate hadn't really been there much but he wanted to accompany her to see if we can get a special cards. He'd seen the mascot card before before a time or two in person but there were so many.

"Super cheese man?" He said. "I don't know that costume."

"It's the uh cheesiest superhero in metropolis?" Kate replied.

"Not ringing any bells," Bagel said.

They passed around several people battling mosque mascots as they made their way down forty second street. She wasn't exactly in the center of the city but it was an area that everyone like to think it was the center. It was times square, the home of iconic views.

"There's a reason why the mascot is the mob here," Bagel said.

"Some of these seem like they were picked on purpose and some of them were definitely not lined with a neighborhood in question. Do you know that outside of the city, that's usually about the size of a county that has a single mob?"

Bagel had no idea of the size of a county. He understood that Manhattan itself with supposedly a single county even though nobody treated it like that. There were five counties that made up the entire city which again was the size of a state on its own. It was part of a larger State which was also called New York.

"Yeah you know what I think? I think humans need to stop naming shit after people. Whoever this York guy is, wouldn't need enough after him. He can rest."

Kate chuckled. "That's the spirit. You know all those movies and books set in future? They used to call it new New York or something like that? Like people would just take the same city and then name it. Something else but just add a new in front of it just for laughs. I never really got why that was funny."

They pulled up in front of a normal looking apartment building. "This is it. Look...there's the reason I didn't ask Ashley to come with me. I could have put out a mission for being escorted out here cuz I didn't want to go out here alone with all the advanced mobs up. I appreciate your help. And your continued silence about whatever we find up there."

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"Honestly, I don't care what it is, but I think we need you to be around. If you die I'm taking your cards as agreed."

"Deal."

Kate pulled a set of keys out of her jacket and pushed through the doors. It was another one of those buildings with marble floors.

Bagel had never walked on marble before. It was cool under his paws and he was tempted to try running and sliding on it immediately.

He looked around and made sure nobody else was looking. Besides Kate and then began to run and slide. He got halfway across the floor before he realized that there was something inherently problematically with it. Something he had really thought about before he'd started this up.

He didn't know how to stop. He was going fast.

He sped up, sliding. Instead of slowing down like he would have on a normal floor or any other place, he kind of kept the same speed.

Bagel yowled as he hid into the wall on the other side.

Kate burst down to laughter. That was entirely to be expected after his showing.

"I'm so sorry you weren't supposed to see that," he said. "So maybe turn them away for this next part?"

This time, he expected it and he didn't go all out on his sprint. He aimed himself between Kate's legs, hoping that she would pick him up.

He could hear giggling the entire way through. Unceremoniously, he ran head first into the very nice ornate wooden door that had to have been from a bygone era.

"You know what? I think this is exactly what I needed." She was sitting in one of the sofas that dotted this marble entrance hallway.

Bagel let her do it. There was a small red carpet that ran on the center of it from the entrance of the door all the way to the elevator and stairs. But aside from that, the rest was all marble flooring, which meant that he could run around solo marble from wall to wall and a slide as much as he wanted. He enjoyed sliding. They spent nearly five minutes there. Her watching him slide him having the time in his life.

"We didn't come here just so that I could slide though right? Because that's a ridiculous distance to travel. Just for this."

It was growing on him.

"You know what me that kind of thing. I haven't seen anybody. So happy like that in such a long time that I just kind of needed that." Kate brushed a tear off of her face before getting up to walk all the way to the elevator and stairwells. She stood there as if making decision but Bagel knew what she was going to do. This building was less than twelve stories tall. If she was over the fourth floor, he was pretty sure that she was going to take the elevator.

After all, there was no chance of something coming by to save you from the elevator in an apocalypse.

Bagel was wary about stepping into elevators.

It was earned because that elevator was not moving no matter what he wanted to do. She pressed the button and nothing happened.

Oh, he could hear things happening like how something was moving in the background. aThat something was definitely a motorbike, a kind that had reached the end of its useful life cycle.

But no matter what actually happened, they would be taking the stairs.

Kate's apartment was on the fourth floor-not too high-not too low but now was bagel's time to relax while Kate did something. She got our keys, checked around nervously before opening it up.

Then she turned to him. She seemed to shrink into the door. Kate herself was very tall as far as human women went. And it wasn't something that you could just not notice.

He was a head taller than Ashley.

But inside, things are different. Where Ashley had lived a Spartan life that didn't require any argument about Howard she was or how much money Ashley was making, Kate's apartment was quite the opposite. It looked as if somebody with too much money and not enough sense had decided to decorate the place. Every wall was covered and immaculate paintings that not only looked expensive, but we were sent in tonight of when a wooden frames. Bagel found himself gasping at first set of paintings.

"And you've never brought Ashley here?"

"I think that if I showed her this that she would have some issues with it. It's not my money. It's my family's money and even before this we were that rich, we were just comfortable."

If he had imagined her apartment, it would not have looked half as often into this. In fact, he probably looked exactly the same as Ashley's, but this was almost the entire floor.

He scamp it around, on the hardwood floor. I don't even feel large, it was large. And it was something that he could dream about.

That was when they heard something in the kitchen. Whatever was having quiet until the lake got in but bagel was going to sit along on the sidelines inside of someone's apartment. He immediately grabbed his deck, looking at what was a cook. Crooks had knives. Wish everything they're good for killing mobs in Solo 101 fights. He could hear. Kate also pulled her deck and she summed at a pasta dragon

And of course, it was another one of those mascots and it somehow flown up, obviously undid one of her windows and then just propped itself up. Bagel threw his cook at it, hoping to get a quick, easy kill. Anymore? Any one of those points to go to goy's?

Bailed hook jumped in, slashing and trading a blow with the mascot. The mascot, in one turn fired a laser beam at the cook.

The cook, abiding him tank the hits while Ashley brought in one of her Bob's 's to deal with a close threat, she pulled out a pizza rat, using her mom to circle it and flank it on two sides.

This is going to be an interesting fight if it lasted very long, but thankfully, within 30 seconds the accommodation of their two cards took it out,

Immediately, Bagel scent is Marlboro to look for other threats. They could hide but they wouldn't be able to hide for long. Especially not when the mobs that he summoned were able to detect blobs and dungeons within a study, my proximity.

"Care to explain why your window is open? Shouldn't that be locked? We're on the fourth floor. How are these mobs getting in here? I know some can fly... but like why would they even think to come up here and there's so many juicy morsels out there?"

Kate sighed. "I'm pretty sure that this didn't have anything to do with me. There was just too many mobs around here. And if one of them escapes it makes its way here and doesn't realize the consequences and...."

Kate held up several bags that looked like they have been prepped for something.

"I think that's what I need but see how fluffy the couch is first before we go."