Few people know how clingy loneliness can be. When you have no family and no friends. And the only close creature in this world is a brazen, fluffy cat of a “noble” breed—who, by the way, doesn’t value you at all. That’s how life slips away into nothing: remote work, seclusion, and online games. People around you think you’re an arrogant grouch. Everyone keeps saying that loneliness will eventually just kill you. And then the world makes a wild turn into apocalypse—and an anxiety disorder unexpectedly saves your life.