"There's plenty of time, anyway, and A-Zhuo doesn't mean anyone any harm... Still."
Zhang Xiu crouched down and gently stroked Bailu's cheek with his right hand. Then he summoned his power and gently swept A-Zhuo out of her body.
"Huh? What's happening to me?"
The moment that spirit fire emerged, Yaoshi drew it into her hand.
With the Heliobus gone, Bailu finally came fully to her senses. She blinked, took in the scene before her, and understood what had happened.
"Um, can I still see A-Zhuo?"
Though their time together had been brief, Bailu still cherished the fun they had shared.
She clasped her little hands before her chest, her eyes fixed on A-Zhuo.
"Of course. Besides, who said we were going to seal A-Zhuo away?" Zhang Xiu turned to Yaoshi. "Honey, make a flesh-and-blood body for it."
"Oh, I almost forgot to ask what you think. What sort of body would you like?"
"Me?" A-Zhuo's spirit fire quivered in disbelief.
It looked at Yaoshi and saw only her gentle face.
A gaze like a mother's... It seemed no one had ever looked at it that way before.
"I... I want one like A-Lu's."
"That won't do. You're an entirely new individual, so you can't go around wearing someone else's face... But we could change it a little, so you'd be like Bailu's little sister. Similar, but easy to tell apart at a glance. How does that sound?"
Zhang Xiu turned to Bailu again. "What about you, Bailu? Would you be willing to let A-Zhuo look like you?"
"Big brother, do you want to turn A-Zhuo into a Xianzhou native?" Delight leaped in Bailu's heart, and her eyes shone.
"More or less. Like Tail, it'll serve under the Ten-Lords Commission. Whenever you want to play, you can go find it."