After winter began, you devoted all your energy to researching ways to alleviate Entropy Loss Syndrome.
During this time, your colleagues noticed some changes in you. For example, you started paying attention to your appearance. You shaved your stubble more cleanly than before, dressed more neatly than before, and even the dark circles that often hung beneath your eyes had disappeared.
They also noticed that your daily meals were no longer convenience store fast food. Instead, they came in insulated containers, hot meals that carried the warmth of home cooking.
They reasonably suspected that you had found yourself a young girlfriend.
But you vehemently denied it, saying only that your research subject prepared them for you every day. They did not believe you, thinking you had simply made up an excuse.
But in truth, Firefly really had prepared those meals for you.
Because of her physical condition, Firefly normally could not leave Entropy Ashes headquarters. And with nothing much to do in the laboratory, she began personally preparing your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
This also gave you the chance to make sure she was eating properly.
However, perhaps influenced by your remarks about bitter melon, every meal Firefly prepared for you included bitter melon. She seemed to genuinely enjoy its taste as well.
Time flew by. Your research into Entropy Loss Syndrome did achieve some progress. The drug named the Entropy-Boosting Compound could significantly ease the symptoms of patients with Entropy Loss Syndrome, but that was all.
You still had a long way to go before you could eradicate the effects of Entropy Loss Syndrome...
But time was pressing. If you wanted to speed up the experiments, there was only one way—conduct live experiments on genetically modified infants suffering from Entropy Loss Syndrome, just as you had done with the