Financial District

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You and Pixie travel to the Financial District. With nothing above ground, you move into the subway. You are attacked by a Will O'Wisp but kill it. You reach a place called the Club Inferno. You're pretty sure it the subway didn't have such a place before the Conception. Pixie wasn't kidding about time passing since the Conception. You see wearing some kinda samurai setup and has a sword and guns on him.

", is that you?" you ask.

"How should I act at a time like this?" asks "Should I be happy? Like, "I'm glad we're both okay"? It's you, right?"

"How can you tell when I'm a Demi-fiend?" you ask.

" I can tell. But what were you doing all this time? It's been decades"

"To me it's only been been a few hours. Wait, you've in this Vortex World for decades?"

"Yeah, for some reason I haven't aged at all. Don't worry. Not much phases me anymore. I was trapped in that hospital by Forneus for months but only because It took me that long to realise he would be fooled by the oldest trick in the book. I realised something. Whether I scream or cry, it won't wake up up from this nightmare. I'm just tired of dealing with it. I thought about killing myself but I'm sure I'll end up anywhere better. What happened to us, {first_name)? To the world we used to know?"

"the Conception happened" you say.

"the Conception" says "Yeah, New City was destroyed. What was written in that article actually happened. My god, I was actually sick when I saw what was outside. You saw the way it way, out there, right? I couldn't even tell where my house used to be. All tis time, I've seen nothing but ghosts and demons. oi thought I was the only one on earth left alive. But seeing you changes everything. Maybe there's still hope. There have to be other survivors vows, don't you think? Mr. , , what if they made it out too? I want to go find them? Giving up on them means giving into despair. Yeah, there's no way they're gone. Fate can't be that cruel, can it? If it is, I don't know what I'll do. Don't worry about me slowing you down. I've had a lot of time to get stronger"

{chaos)name} joined your party!! You are approached by a brown haired girl. She is wearing a black mask with white whiskers on the bottom half of her face. She has a white fur coat and black leggings. She also has a white tail. You can't tell if she's a catgirl or not dressed like one. You analyse her.

Nekomata. Incarnations of long-living cats in Japanese mythology. They can speak to humans and, depending on their power, can do various things. Some can turn into humans, while others can have the dead do their bidding.

"I just so happen to know the name of a very important organisation in the Shopping Distract" the Nekomata says "I have an idea. You satisfy me and I'll tell you the name. Think you can scratch me in just the right spot? Morrow?"