The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

"Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~"

"The exam is over. Please stop writing immediately. If any candidate continues to answer..."

The examination room was completely silent.

The students stood up and left one after another, and Nan Jiayu was no exception.

The cat-like orc lazily propped herself up on the desk, her tail swinging behind her from its drooping position. She raised her chin, stretched, and relaxed her stiff body, which had become stiff from sitting for so long.

As soon as they left the examination room, the corridor erupted in enthusiastic cheers and chatter.

This was the last exam of the freshman year—"Orc Physiology" and "Human Physiology." The two joint exams lasted four hours in one afternoon, leaving everyone mentally exhausted.

With such extensive preparation, coupled with Tianqing's hands-on teaching and her excellent performance during the exam, Nan Jiayu was confident that she could pass with a score of 80.

...Of course, the main reason was that the exam was conducted in class format, and I happened to be sitting in the same exam room as Tianqing.

"Little fish~"

A soft voice suddenly came from beside me, and a furry touch came over my arm, followed by the scent of gardenias.

"The sky...the sky is clear?" Nan Jiayu's whole body tensed up, and she forced a smile, feeling a little apprehensive and embarrassed.

The golden-haired fox girl said nothing, but simply stretched out her tail and wrapped it around the cat's tail that seemed to have been placed somewhere, her lips and eyes curving into an arc that Nan Jiayu was very familiar with:

This expression only appears when something funny happens or when you're about to have fun.

"Heh heh heh, Little Fish, did you peek during the exam?"

"No, I was doing my homework very seriously—" Nan Jiayu nervously looked away, not daring to meet those emerald fox eyes.

"Oh? Really?"

"Really? (Feeling guilty)"

The fox girl smiled and clung even tighter, her head moving closer to her, her fox ears gently touching the exposed neck of the girl's school uniform collar.

Nan Jiayu felt her body tense up even more, her heart suddenly racing. The furry touch combined with the summer heat caused sweat to pour out. She stammered, "..."

"The sky is clear, and there are still quite a few people around. Let's... "

"I've heard that liars have a racing heart, sweat profusely, and their speech becomes incoherent... Little Fish, are you really not lying?"

Su Tianqing tilted her head, her smile widening.

.

Nan Jiayu finally admitted all her mistakes: because she couldn't remember them, she peeked at the last two fill-in-the-blank questions.

Fortunately, there were only two fill-in-the-blank questions, which prevented a major mistake—so he was punished by being forbidden from eating snacks and dried fish for two days.

As for Xia Taotao...

"Bunny!"

"Huh?! (Feeling guilty)"

"Are you sure you didn't use magic to cheat and peek?"

"N-no, that's not it (feeling even more guilty)."

Watching the rabbit ears gradually droop from their high-held-up position, Su Tianqing's suspicions grew even stronger. However, she couldn't find any evidence, so she had no way to deal with the rabbit. She could only appeal to her emotions and reason with her by emphasizing the importance of the exam.

Under the fox girl's barrage of gazes and words, Xia Taotao finally bowed her head and admitted to peeking at three fill-in-the-blank questions, and was also punished by not being allowed to eat snacks for a day.

In fact, Su Tianqing had no idea when Rabbit was peeking.

She recently came up with a brand new spell during a discussion with Alice and Jack, which Alice calls "Lady of the Lake"—a name taken from a famous British legend.

Upon hearing about the effects of this magic, Su Tianqing marveled that Alice truly lived up to her reputation as the top magical scientist in the villain interest group; she had managed to conceive of such an incredible spell.

It's called the "beggar's version clone," but it's not quite that beggar-like.

It can use magic to form a "phantom" that possesses all the magical characteristics of the caster. Even Su Tianqing cannot tell the difference between the real and fake at a glance; she needs to take a closer look.

However, if combined with Bunny's unique invisibility magic, and given the extremely low magic power she emits when she enters invisibility, the illusion's magical characteristics can perfectly conceal Cheshire Bunny's magic power while she is invisible...

If it weren't for a seasoned magical girl, it would be almost impossible to discern the rabbit's true location while the illusion was present.

"Kitty."

"uh-huh?"

"Do you think Rabbit's progress lately is a bit too fast?" Xin Yuehu expressed her concerns.

To be fair, although Bunny has broken his cane to swear allegiance, whether it's the Cheshire Rabbit or the March Hare, Bunny's abilities are almost tailor-made for him.

Invisibility can cause the witch's defenses to lose their ability to detect enemies, short-distance teleportation can directly break through the defenses, and the explosive destructive power of the hammer can break through one's own close-range defense in one move.

Not to mention this time there's an additional Phantom Bait, and every move he makes screams "Heart Moon Fox Noble Phantasm".

Hellcat glanced in Cheshire Rabbit's direction. Little Jack was swaggering around in front of her, eating a bag of snacks with a mischievous grin like Heart Moon Fox. Cheshire Rabbit clasped her hands together and silently chanted "Namo San" to try and suppress her desire for the snacks.

No wonder they say Jack is the dark side of Aurora's magic; he really is quite dark when he's being dark.

"Snapped!"

"Listen up, everyone!"

Su Tianqing clapped her hands, stood up from the sofa in the lounge, and addressed her companions.

Fenrir was playing a fighting game with Alice when he heard Heartmoon Fox's voice and immediately turned around. The two characters on the screen stood facing each other, motionless.

"Now that everyone has finished their exams, we should make thorough preparations to deal with any possible attacks!"

After saying that, the fox girl flicked her tail, and a magical light screen unfolded in front of her, showing the conversation between her, Akashi, and Shiro to the cat and rabbit.

As the first two members of the villain interest group, Cat Rabbit, who was well-versed in Heart Moon Fox's hospitality, immediately understood the Golden-haired Fox Girl's meaning, and Cheshire Rabbit spoke first:

"Fox, do you mean we could try to sneak into the millennium and cause trouble, then create a huge spectacle that will shake the world?"

"?"

Fenrir perked up its wolf ears, tilted its head, and quipped with a question mark in its eye:

"Ber, is that what you mean? Aren't we kicking someone when they're down? Are we really going to become the villains?"

"But aren't we supposed to be villains?" Little Jack whispered to Fenrir, and Alice nodded in agreement.

Fenrir had no other choice but to turn his attention to Hellcat, hoping that this catgirl, who was on the same wavelength as Heartmoon Fox, could stop Cheshire Rabbit's plan.

The deep blue hellcat stroked its chin, pondered for a long time, and then spoke:

"I don't think this is appropriate."

"First, we haven't figured out the exact location of Millennium yet. Second, the immortal jellyfish imprisoned inside has been absorbing magic power for over a decade, and its strength is now unfathomable. To completely eliminate it, we'll probably have to work together as a whole."

Fenrir breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that there was finally a normal cat in this interest group.

But what she said next made the expression on her face vanish instantly:

"This jellyfish should be a very rare and powerful punching bag. We can have a really fun time hitting it. After we figure out how to eliminate the jellyfish, we can take over Millennium and make some changes, and bring the albatrosses in for some fun too."

"Great idea! I think this is a great way to have fun..." Cheshire Rabbit chimed in.

“…………”

Fenrir pursed his lips and remained silent, his shoulders slumping in quiet despair.