> “Steel clangs and fire roars, the heat melding with my sweat, the overwhelm is a bitter pill.
I remember a whisper of the Batal Stone, how it spoke of inevitable fires and unyielding steel, of a destiny forged in flame.
Tomorrow, I will rise with the dawn, resolve tempered, ready to face the heat once more.
✴”
— Scene 1, *The Hero’s Stone* ⟁
_Batal Vol.2 · Ep.2 · Scene 1 – Factory Manager · Unknown_
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📖 **Excerpt from the book:**
> Factory Manager: It’s defective. Again, it’s defective. What on earth is the problem!
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