I Lost Half My Life

1.

Good news.

Of course, the source is me, Lionel.

I think there are about three of them.

The first is that a good idea came to me.

I’m going to ask the Imperial Princess for a top-grade smelting furnace as payment for the earrings.

At minimum, I’m going to ask for an ultra-high-temperature smelting furnace.

I’ve been putting myself through this misery for weeks because I don’t have a smelting furnace.

I have to wring one out of her somehow. It’d be seriously unfair to just hand this over.

The second is...