My wife is a magical girl, how can I be the villain?

"Ahhhhh!"

Hua Lingyou cried so hard that her eyes were filled with tears, which gushed out like water from a water gun.

"..."

Tang Ming approached her, staring blankly at Hua Lingyou's genuine emotions. After a moment, he interrupted her:

"Senior Hana... the tears you simulated are a bit strange, and it's kind of creepy for a grown man to have so many coming out of his eyes."

Hua Lingyou slowly raised her head, wiped away a tear, reached out and closed the captain's half-closed eyelids. After confirming that he was completely dead, she stood up and glanced at Tang Ming. Her disguise disappeared, and her tall figure transformed into a graceful, pure black figure covered with deadly sharp blades.

With her entire body's unusual properties becoming more prominent, Hua Lingyou sprinted forward, hooked Tang Ming's shoulder, and threw him over her shoulder. Tang Ming made intimate contact with the sand on the ground, his upper body constantly rubbing against the ground due to the inertia from Hua Lingyou's actions, and his entire crystal armor was covered with a layer of grayish dust.

"He's dead! Senior... Senior! You don't have to get so into it."

"I was just taking this opportunity to get revenge. How many times did you hit me just now? Huh?!" Hua Lingyou's tone became flippant and casual, completely lacking the "pain" she had just displayed.

"When I hit you, it was all just for fun. Your crystal armor is so thick, I didn't even feel a thing if I stood still."

Tang Ming twisted his neck, raised his hands to his chest, and begged for mercy.

"I'm holding back when I hit you. I could plow you around in the ground a few times without any problem. You can easily withstand bullets from the armor shells of Void Beasts, so why would I be afraid of this?"

After saying that, Hua Lingyou threw Tang Ming into the air and gave him a good beating with her fists and feet.

"No, no... I feel dizzy and nauseous."

After Tang Ming begged for mercy repeatedly, Hua Lingyou finally withdrew her hand, shook off the dust, and deactivated her transformation. Her entire body of armor turned into fluid and gathered in her left hand, transforming into a silver briefcase.

"Don't get cocky just because you've made a little progress. If you want to train, go find a magical girl to train with."

Hua Lingyou pointed at Tang Ming and glared at him before turning and heading towards the captain's corpse, leaving him with her back turned.

Tang Ming deactivated his transformation, scratched his head sheepishly, and jogged to catch up with Hua Lingyou.

"Going to fight magical girls is just asking for death..."

"You had a good time killing people today, didn't you... How awesome! You took care of more than twenty people from one branch. Your crimes are heinous." Hua Lingyou looked at her apprentice with a half-smile and teased her.

"I..." Tang Ming was still a little uncomfortable when he said this. "I'm not that bloodthirsty... It was you who asked me to. I'm sorry, I won't make excuses."

Tang Ming was about to offer an explanation, but once he spoke, he didn't continue to argue.

Hua Lingyou was stunned at first. She thought the other party would try to justify their behavior. She had seen many newcomers do this at first... except for that shameless Xiao Zhang.

But to her surprise, Tang Ming apologized to her. She smiled slightly and casually put her arm around Tang Ming's shoulder. His shoulder blades were wider than her arm, so she had to stand on tiptoe to get closer.

"Don't take it too hard, I understand... Your impulse isn't an excuse. Devouring and evolving are the most fundamental desires of the alien. I've told you before, the alien is alive."

"You didn't just make that up? How can anomaly be life? Isn't it just a kind of magical ability?" Tang Ming felt that Hua Lingyou was just making things up because she sensed his emotions.

"Of course not!" Hua Lingyou denied it outright. "Each individual that coexists with the heterogeneous entity has a fatal attraction for you. By devouring them, you can evolve. You already had a great boost at the branch, so you probably absorbed this person's as well."

Hua Lingyou was referring to the captain lying on the ground, already dead. Hua Lingyou had slit his throat with her hand, a fatal blow. Having lost the life-sustaining anomaly, it slowly floated into the air, waiting for a more powerful force to attach itself to it.

"In that case, you should be able to break through the first stage and begin the [Breaking the Cocoon] process." Hua Lingyou stroked her chin and estimated, "But you might still be one step away; this person's strength isn't enough."

She fiddled with her newly recognized "brother," who had been in agony just minutes before, carrying on his legacy, but now he was looting her bag, taking out his talisman and putting it away, and not forgetting his useful signal transmitter.

The ball of light she had just fired had long since vanished, so she decided to fire again. Since she was already here, she figured she had to find out where the cult's altar was located.

Tang Ming transformed again, and the drifting alien matter sensed the powerful alien matter cluster around him and was immediately drawn towards Tang Ming's body.

The crystal armor on the back of his hand automatically transformed into purple tentacles, which "grasped" together with the captain's alien aura. The ownerless alien aura instantly changed, merging with Tang Ming's crystal armor and disappearing.

"There's a strange feeling, but it's still a little short..." Tang Ming sensed it and felt the crystal armor showing a "desire" to bloom. The skin it touched felt a burning heat and restlessness. It seemed that the transformation stage was just one step away.

"So, Hana-senpai..."

Tang Ming deactivated his transformation and squatted down next to Hua Lingyou. The other party had already turned the corpse over and was groping inside the body without any fear of bad luck.

"you say."

"That bloodthirsty, reckless urge to kill when I fight my followers, is it really due to some kind of anomaly... or am I just a pervert?"

"Of course, your level is too shallow, so you can't control the heterogeneous 'emotions'. Well, I call them 'emotions'. I also experience this during my physical body stage," Hua Lingyou said indifferently.

"So the reason I couldn't help but keep attacking you was because of the strange substance in your body. That's not my fault, is it...?" Tang Ming's eyes lit up as he pressed for an answer.

"No, it's because you're a pervert, taking this opportunity to get revenge. It's already a favor that we didn't accuse you of hitting a woman."

Before Tang Ming could even utter the last word, Hua Lingyou immediately denied it, giving him a forced smile and a knowing look.

"No, senior, don't slander me. Besides, if you're going to put it that way... those who oppose magical girls are all hitting women, especially underage girls."

"Who said they're underage girls! Underneath their skins might be an old woman, no, maybe an old man."

Hua Lingyou still harbored resentment towards the real person behind the magical girl's skin. Tang Ming rolled his eyes; every time magical girls were mentioned, she had to make a fuss about them, and this time she went even further, changing the magical girl's gender as well.

"So, you're saying that fighting magical girls is about bringing these perverts hiding under pretty faces to justice, and that's perfectly fine!" Hua Lingyou grabbed the signal transmitter, spread her hands, and made a face.

"Senior, you're really amazing... I've learned something from using this method to hypnotize yourself into being a villainous magical girl." Tang Ming raised his thumb and nodded in approval.

Hua Lingyou knew the other party was being sarcastic, but she didn't care. She picked up the transmitter and the talisman, and while imitating how to fire it, she earnestly said:

"You think being a bad guy is that easy? Everyone wants to be a savior, but they just don't have the chance! The boss is the best example... Since you've accepted your fate, you have to convince yourself, give yourself some legitimate reason, don't you think?"

Tang Ming had initially thought he was just listening to his senior's nonsense, but after the other person finished speaking, Tang Ming's gaze became serious, and he did not respond for a moment.

"Whoosh—"

A beam of light streaked across the chaotic blackness, illuminating a small area around them. After a while, the beam began to sway and drift towards the altar.

Hua Lingyou examined the launcher in her hand; it was too bulky to carry, so she threw it on the ground. She glanced at Tang Ming beside her and asked casually:

What is your reasoning?