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

"...Because that boy dressed as a statue just stood there, I stayed in the sky for a long time before I came down!"

Gun Red lay sprawled on the sofa, picked up a bag of snacks, and complained.

Sitting at the other end of the living room, Ye Jingjing was intently reading the complete guide to magic spells that Yui had given her, with Yui perched on her shoulders. Xunfeng, standing nearby, occasionally answered her questions and demonstrated intricate magic to help Ye Jingjing understand the spell circuits.

"It's past midnight, and there aren't any couples left. That guy must have run out of the dorm. He was wearing a t-shirt that looked like pajamas, carrying a suitcase, looking up at the sky and pretending to be deep in thought... I almost thought he could see me, but it turns out he's an idiot."

Gun Red shook her head in a spiral motion like a Shiba Inu, muttering to herself. Wu Shao couldn't help but reach out and grab her "dog head" to stop her from shaking. When Gun Red looked over with displeasure, she quickly asked seriously:

"Couldn't you transform somewhere else? Does it have to be in the woods?"

"You don't know! Almost everywhere else has surveillance and magical detection devices. Although it's not impossible to hide, the grove by Lover's Lake is the only place without anything. I thought that guy would leave soon, but I didn't expect him to stay for more than ten minutes..."

"He's probably heartbroken and looking up at the stars all by himself," Wushao commented shrewdly, before turning to criticize her junior, "By the way, little... Gun Red, can you please stop transforming just to buy something? It always leaves a trace."

"You want me to climb over the wall to get back to school? It would be ridiculous if I got caught... By the way, I heard some boys say in my required class that a hidden path for climbing over the wall that has been hidden for many years has been blocked. Fortunately, I never climb over walls. Only stupid mortals need to."

Qiang Hong was not intimidated at all and boasted to Wu Shao about her "great achievements" at school.

Meanwhile, Fangzhou City's strongest magical girl is sitting alone in a corner, lost in thought.

Although she didn't want to hear what Qiang Hong said, the voice was so loud that it still got into her ears. The boy carrying the suitcase... could it be Tang Ming? This strange thought popped into her head, and after thinking about it carefully, she felt that it was quite possible.

Instead of going to stay with his friends or hanging out somewhere, he went back to his old school... Xingyu shook his head to himself, not wanting to think about the reason.

She realized she hadn't been careful enough; her emotions had changed too drastically. She used to be obedient and gentle, but now she'd become scheming. What if she scared Tang Ming?

When I woke up this morning, the other half of the blanket was still lying there, and no one was in the living room. Tang Ming hadn't come back by morning, and now it was almost noon, and there were still no messages on my phone...

After Xingyu got up, her unbearable headache returned. She didn't think she was being dramatic by missing Tang Ming. She often didn't go home at night, and it had nothing to do with Tang Ming.

She directly activated the Soul Jade Tablet, but after a whole night, the black cotton-like substance hadn't diminished at all; it was exactly the same as last night. Xingyu sighed. Even when the purification process was slow before, she could always sense the progress; now, there wasn't a single change…

She was hesitating whether to ask Yui again.

"Speaking of heterogeneous substances, these are substances that are the complete opposite of magic, naturally antagonistic to it. They lack the mystery and laws of magic, but they are still incredibly versatile and possess extremely strong corrosive capabilities."

Meanwhile, Xunfeng happened to take out his own soul jade fragment and share knowledge with Ye Jingjing.

Gun-Red, who originally wanted to take on the role of the junior, and Uso, who wanted to project a composed image, were both slacking off. Hoshino spent most of the day daydreaming, so Kaoru had to take on the role of teacher herself.

"Be careful when facing Void Beasts. Don't engage in reckless close combat. Even though Gun Red cast several layers of [Nature Formula] before engaging in close combat, there is still a risk of her magic barrier being eroded," Xunfeng earnestly reminded her.

Ye Jingjing placed her hands on her lap and answered politely, "I understand. I've seen it... some wizards on TV have had their bodies corrupted by foreign substances."

"Yes, after eliminating the Void Beasts or the evil elements that have successfully coexisted with the Otherworldly matter, you can absorb the ownerless and non-aggressive Otherworldly matter into the [Soul Fragment], and then purify it using projection."

"Can we absorb it?" Ye Jingjing asked, drawing inferences from one instance to another.

"Unfortunately, it won't work." Xunfeng shook her head and said in rejection.

"Many people believe that magical girls can absorb and amplify their strength by recycling alien matter, but that's actually useless. Recycling is only to prevent alien matter from parasitizing other people. Successful symbiosis is just a fantasy for a very few people. Most people will be corroded to the bone."

"Ye Jingjing, you only need to remember that improving your strength is entirely linked to the [Chakras]. These are the things that Senior Wushao told you about, including the speed of purifying alien substances and other abilities. They are all determined by the [Chakras]. Five chakras represent five qualities, which is the absolute standard for assessing the strength of magical girls."

"I... I understand, I will study hard." Although Ye Jingjing didn't quite understand, she still wrote it down in her notebook.

"Can I ask you a question...?" she thought of something and raised her hand to ask again.

"Go ahead and ask."

"Such a good method for purifying void anomalies, is it only magical girls who can do it? I don't think I've ever seen any other wizards handle void anomalies, and they can't even be retrieved after being killed. Isn't that troublesome?"

Ye Jingjing recalled how she used to see a group of wizards seal off a large area for a long time without any incident, until the magical girl arrived late and the seal was quickly lifted.

She only realized after becoming a magical girl that it was because she couldn't deal with the void anomalies and had to wait for magical girls to "clean up," which was both troublesome and dangerous.

In the city, there are always fearless people who flock to the "Otherness," and greedy individuals who cannot be blessed by magic even try to merge with the Otherness by trying to obtain a card.

"As of now... no, [Purification] is not a spell and cannot be taught or learned." Xunfeng was a composed girl who studied magic very diligently and was the most outstanding among them in spell research. Hearing Ye Jingjing's doubts, she explained softly.

"You can imagine a magical girl as a clear container, holding foreign matter locked within. She draws in projections from beyond the realm of magic, 'shining' upon these foreign matter and turning them into nothingness. This is a magical girl's innate ability."

"That's so mysterious..." Ye Jingjing thought with difficulty.

"Magic is the fruit of imagination and belief, and it depends a lot on imagination." Xunfeng affectionately patted Ye Jingjing's head and smiled playfully, a rare occurrence for him.

"So no matter how abundant the magic power or how powerful the magic, it doesn't mean we can purify the alien substance. Only our transformed body is the core. Anyway, the five of us are capable enough to do more, and we can purify it in just a quarter of an hour or two. Even if we were in charge of the entire city, it wouldn't be a big burden."

"It sounds like... magical girls are like a furnace, only this one pot can burn away the foreign substances." Ye Jingjing tilted her head, thought for a long time, and then came up with her own understanding.

"...That's quite a vivid description, even better than the word 'purify.' Jingjing, you're so quick to understand and you're making rapid progress." Xunfeng couldn't help but exclaim, even calling her by her nickname in a rather affectionate way.

Because of the destructive and corrosive properties of the alien substance, the magical girl predecessors always described this process as "purification." Now it seems more appropriate to say that they boiled water in a pot and "dried" the alien substance.

"Ye Jingjing, you weren't swayed by the breeze at all. She's quite the 'old scholar,' that's great. Let's go on an inspection tour of the east side of the city at noon, and then go eat at a farmhouse restaurant!" Wu Shao gave a thumbs up and changed the subject to lunch.

The magical girl went to a farmhouse restaurant… Gunfire’s lips twitched. She still preferred a quiet and elegant Western restaurant, with all sorts of croissants, crepes, tiramisu, milk rolls…

"Hey! Little... Gun Red, do you have class this afternoon?" Wu Shao turned her head and raised an eyebrow.

"They're all electives, I can choose not to take them!" Qiang Hong still wanted to play with Ye Jingjing more, even if it meant going to a farmhouse, she could only "reluctantly accept it."

"Then we'll set off later!" Wushao stood up and stretched her limbs without asking Xingyu.

This wasn't exclusion; rather, as a four-page witch, Xingyu's strength was progressing rapidly. She never slacked off, always meditating alone and focusing on exploring new spells. No one would disturb her; when it was time, Xingyu would speak up on her own.

The stronger she is, the safer Fangzhou City will be.

Every word of Ye Jingjing and Xunfeng's conversation drifted into Xingyu's heart. She squeezed the soul jade in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and then decided not to say anything.

This had happened occasionally before, but she told herself that she could just wait a couple more days until it was completely purified, and that it was just a headache.