phenomen a book

He talks too much. It eats trash. Together, they might just survive the System. Kai is a fast-talking, perpetually complaining brat scraping by in the toxic Undercity slums. His prospects? Zero. His Civic Credit Score? A joke. His likely future? Organ donation, involuntary. Squeaks is... well, Squeaks is a rat. A mutated plague rat, to be precise. Except, this rat is unsettlingly clever, annoyingly nimble, and somehow, impossibly, plugged into the System that overlays their harsh reality. One spectacularly messy Incident later, they''''re bound by a forced [Symbiosis Protocol]. Now they''''re sharing HP (and attitude problems), wrestling with a unique [Symbiotic Scavenger - Lv 1] class, and navigating a world where mutated monsters, vicious gangs, and corporate Extermination squads are just Tuesday. Can Kai shut up long enough to strategize? Can Squeaks''''s burgeoning System-sentience handle Kai''''s internal monologue? With shared stats, linked skills demanding impossible cooperation, and the constant threat of becoming literal gutter trash, they''''ll have to level up their teamwork or die trying. Probably both. LitRPG meets grime-punk survival! Expect: Stats, Skills, a Unique Shared Class, Scavenging, Crafting (poorly), Non-Humanoid MC shenanigans, Urban Decay, and a whole lot of complaining. (Warning: Contains scenes of rat-related competence and human-related incompetence.)