If Erald Sparrow wished to provide a deeper education and guidance for Bai Jingxuan, she would inevitably have to invest more ti and energy on her, resulting in less ti for other affairs.
However, the criterion for this decision wasn't her own "spare capacity."
Whenever Erald Sparrow recalled the look in Bai Jingxuan's eyes as she gazed at her in a black dress, that expectant look, hungry for a response, craving recognition, all such rational thoughts beca trivial details.
Only she could do this, she told herself.
It wasn't a matter of being presumptuous but rather a clear perception that when Bai Jingxuan's magic power revealed its beastly side, its connection with "humanity" had beco incredibly fragile.
Having lost her parents, abandoned her ideals, and with the Magical Girl who had saved her dead in an accident, the identity of "Magical Girl" was in jeopardy. Bai Jingxuan's link to her "human" side was almost nonexistent, like a kite with its string cut, ready to drift off to an unknown place at any mont.
At that ti, the only thing Erald Sparrow could do was to beco that "kite string." She had conford to Bai Jingxuan's expectations, accepting the identity of "mother."
While this act could call Bai Jingxuan back for a mont, barely maintaining her connection with "humanity," the side effects were also real: without Erald Sparrow maintaining the existence of this "kite string," even this last connection would disappear.
In other words, until Bai Jingxuan established a new connection, Erald Sparrow was the only one who could guide the child. Whether she would embark on the right path or stray was closely related to her.
What she contemplated was no longer "whether to do it" but "how to do it."
But this question was destined to have no standard answer; re speculation couldn't lead to a aningful conclusion. Everything had to be grounded in reality first.
After bidding farewell to Molu, Erald Sparrow left the institute with Bai Jingxuan, lifted her into the car, and drove her on the road ho.
The ti was already evening, the dimming sunlight filtering in through the front window of the car. Bai Jingxuan, who had been sound asleep, awoke on the red-tinted rear seat, looking around in a daze, then, through the rearview mirror, saw Erald Sparrow in front.
"Teacher?"
She first called out in so confusion, then as if rembering sothing, she said sowhat oddly, "What's going on with now?"
"You fell asleep, so I drove you ho," Erald Sparrow explained calmly.
"I fell asleep?"
Bai Jingxuan instinctively looked at her hands, appearing bewildered: "I rember my hands seed to have grown claws? I think I defeated the villains and saved everyone at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau? Was all that... a dream?"
"It wasn't a dream. All of that was real."
Erald Sparrow's voice was cool yet gentle: "You just fainted in the end. You did well, and I'm proud of you."
"It's all real?"
Bai Jingxuan was briefly stunned, then blinked and suddenly hesitated to say:
"Then I rember, didn't I also call the teacher 'mommy'? And then you, teacher, you... acknowledged it?"
The car fell silent for a mont.
Honking constantly emanated from outside the car windows, but it was all isolated outside of this space, creating two worlds.
"...Yes, it wasn't a dream."
Erald Sparrow, holding the steering wheel and looking at the flow of cars ahead, finally revealed a sowhat resolute expression after a long silence and seriously said:
"You're right, from now on, I'll be your mother. Bo Xue... no, Xiao Xuan."
This was the first ti she had abandoned the codena while in her Magical Girl form, calling Bai Jingxuan by her na directly. After saying this, she instinctively glanced at the rearview mirror to see if Bai Jingxuan would accept this declaration.
But what she hadn't expected to see through the rearview mirror was the girl's smile.
It was a smile that she had never seen on the child's face before.
It wasn't the well-behaved and understanding smile nor the manic grin that unconsciously erged during battle. Instead, it was a truly joyful smile of a child of her age, as if she truly had sothing worth rejoicing over.
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