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

Xingyu fell into the apartment building, landed on the ground, and rubbed her sore buttocks.

"It hurts so much..."

She dispelled the magical barrier, stood up, and looked around. She was in the lobby of a building, looking at the decor and elevator shaft; it seemed to be a residential apartment building.

The hall was very quiet, and there was no one else in sight except her. The marble floor was spotless, and the mirror reflected Xingyu's image.

Is this floor... really that sturdy? Even a magic barrier would have a hard time keeping the floor tiles completely undamaged after being hit at such high speed.

Xingyu narrowed her eyes slightly, pondering the question.

"Never mind, let's go home and see."

After a while, she gave up thinking hard. She was already downstairs at home, so why was she still standing stupidly at the door?

It would be nice to go home, take a nice, relaxing shower, then chat with my husband and vent my frustrations. In the evening, I'd open a bottle of plum wine from the cupboard; I haven't had any in a while and I'm really craving it.

Thinking of this, she slowly walked to the elevator, pressed the button, and waited for the elevator to descend.

Ding Dong!

As the elevator descended to the first floor, Xingyu watched the door open and was about to enter when a sudden noise from the side interrupted her.

With a bang, Tang Ming appeared out of nowhere and crashed into the lobby outside the elevator. Xing Yu's pupils shrank as she saw the massive body of the virtual beast smash into the ground, yet the marble floor remained spotless.

Wait, that doesn't seem to be the main point. Suddenly, Xingyu's confused thoughts exploded...

Why would a humanoid virtual beast appear in the building?

Tang Ming lay motionless on the ground, completely disoriented from the fall. Although the crystal armor he was wearing after his transformation prevented him from fainting, the dizziness was enough to give him a hard time.

He remembered that he was almost caught by Xingyu at a traffic light intersection. The distance between them was closing strangely and rapidly. In the end, he could see the other person, and the cage constructed by magic spells crashed down from above.

Tang Ming's position has become a predicament.

He didn't feel despair, but rather a sense of relief and a hidden regret.

This feeling didn't last long. He discovered that the magical girl Hoshino, who was clearly following behind him, suddenly disappeared from the spot, and the cage that was about to smash into him also vanished at the same time.

Before he could react, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, the ground seemed to disappear, and Tang Ming's hair stood on end and began to fall.

The bizarre blackness enveloped him, making it impossible for him to distinguish up from down from left from right. His limbs thrashed about like a toad, finding no foothold.

During this process, he could only vaguely see some faint white lines in the distance, like some kind of pillar, but they were blurry in the distance, and he could no longer see them clearly while he was rolling around.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but he felt the void-like substance on his body being constantly pulled and ripped apart, as if it had been completely peeled away.

Tang Ming instinctively hugged himself, harboring an instinctive fear of this possibility.

For some reason, the alien substance on his body expanded and contracted like biological armor, trembling like breathing, clinging tightly to Tang Ming's body.

He sometimes had the illusion that he was embracing the alien, and the alien was embracing him...

Then, he fell from the darkness into the blinding hall.

hall?

Tang Ming lay on the ground, turning his head to glance at the main entrance on the left and the service counter on the right...

Isn't this the lobby of his apartment building? How did he end up here from another area?

Before he could recover from his shock and realize what was happening, he saw a reflection in the distance emerge from the elevator doors. The reflection was reversed, and he couldn't make out the face.

He struggled to lift his head and finally saw clearly.

Xingyu cautiously approached, holding a golden talisman, the spellbook already unfolded beside her. A talisman even appeared behind her, burrowing into the wall and sneaking around to Tang Ming's back.

Why are you still here?

Tang Ming was on the verge of tears. He thought he had been rolling around in the darkness for a long time, and since he had come out back to his own home, the magical girl's pursuit crisis was over.

He glanced furtively at the gate behind him, preparing to slip away through it first. If a fight broke out here, not only would his house be demolished, but he himself might also be instantly killed.

He still vividly remembered the cicada-shaped phantom beast that had been smashed into the ground by the Thousand-Pound Curse just two days ago.

However, Xingyu was already in a state of high tension, and she was completely unprepared for the appearance of a Void Beast in her home, especially a dangerous humanoid Void Beast.

As soon as Xingyu saw Tang Ming make a slight move, he immediately took action.

Two talismans attacked Tang Ming from the front and back, while Tang Ming himself stepped forward, creating a barrier.

Tang Ming was prepared. He had personally witnessed the other party's proficiency in casting spells. He saw the other party lift up and grab onto the large lamp on the ceiling of the hall. Then, using the force of the lamp being pulled down, he jumped to the other side and stood on the other side, far away from Xing Yu.

Xingyu hadn't expected the virtual beast to react so quickly, as if it had anticipated the attack and found a way to dodge the moment it attacked.

Her spells had been cast, one hitting the ceiling and the other hitting the glass door in front.

Xingyu felt embarrassed and ashamed of her recklessness, which would have completely destroyed the apartment building's main entrance. Tang Ming also kept a close eye on the entrance, ready to run out through the dust and smoke the moment the glass shattered.

To their surprise, the talisman, carrying a strong wind, pierced into the doorway in an instant.

Yes, it went straight in, as if the powerful magic spell that struck the virtual beast had never existed, and the gate remained intact.

Both of them stared intently at what was happening. They didn't laugh at themselves for seeing things. The moment the talisman hit the door, a tiny wave appeared in the center, but then it dissipated.

There's something wrong with this lobby!

The two instinctively looked at each other. Tang Ming knew that he wouldn't be able to escape so easily, and he warily observed Xing Yu's next move.

Xingyu's mind was a complete mess. He didn't know if it was the work of the virtual beast, or if there was something wrong with her current hall, or... if she was dreaming?

The two men cautiously stared at each other, neither making a move.

"Why hasn't this woman made a move yet? Didn't she already lock me up in this weird hall, preparing to trap me like a turtle in a jar?"

Tang Ming's mind was filled with random thoughts.

Xingyu stood there dumbfounded, with talismans flying around her.

She felt a little dizzy, as if she had forgotten something. But the dangerous void beast was still standing not far away, and this place might even be its doing. She had considered dealing with it roughly first, then investigating the problem here, but…

She glanced at her spellbook; half of the dozens of spells had dimmed, and she was running out of spells to use.

As time passes and the magic is reabsorbed, these spells can reactivate and be used again, but she must carefully plan the order in which they are used.

Moreover, her magic power did not seem to be replenished; in fact, it was even slightly diminishing, a slight reduction that she had not yet taken seriously.

What she was more concerned about was... what exactly she had done and why she had used so many techniques.

—Didn't Lin Ruoyu leave work normally and then fly home?