"Robin Sear, begin!"
Robbie stroked his sister's cheek, his face filled with reluctance to let her go. But he knew perfectly well that leaving this world clean was what she wanted!
She had been in the bloom of youth, yet...
Luo Bin sighed. "All right!"
To keep the fire from attracting anyone else, Luo Bin waved his wand and cast a Protective Barrier. Then he gathered a ball of yellow-white flame in his palm, closed his eyes, unable to bear the sight, and tossed it onto the iron slab!
The instant the flames touched Robli's skin, they spread into a ring and engulfed her entire body. Robbie crouched on the floor in anguish, sobbing as he recounted their past.
Before he turned seven, Robbie had been calm and rigid, and not particularly well-liked. But that year, his parents died while out exploring, and the young boy refused to go to an orphanage founded by wizards.
His small shoulders took on the burden of the entire family. He realized that acting like a simple, good-natured chatterbox would give him and his sister a better chance of surviving.
Making someone laugh could earn him some dry bread and milk that was about to expire. He had never imagined he would keep up the act for fifteen years!
By the time the yellow-white flames burned out, leaving only a human-shaped outline of white ash on the iron slab, Robbie had already cried himself dry.
He refused Luo Bin's help and shakily stood up, using a piece of iron to gather the white ash, little by little, into a pink cloth bag.
"Robli loved pink more than anything. I have to put her in here. Robin Sear, thank you. If it weren't for you, the Experimental Base would still be keeping me in the