Ten years have passed, and Bing is now ten years old. He tells his father that he misses his mother, who has been gone for ten years. He wants to see her, even if he has to risk his life to do so. He asks his father to wait for him at the ice citadel, but his father refuses. He reminds him that he taught him how to use the magic scroll when he was a child. He says that if he can teach him more, he will become a great firemage on the continent. His mother once said that if it were a boy, he would learn fire magic, and if it be a girl, she would learn ice magic. Bing says that he feels like her words are still around his ears, but she has gone. He swears to stop the ceremony of the high priestess, and to get his wife back. Three days later, he hears the sound of a water bomb. He curses his father and his mother for giving him such a bad name.