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

Xingyu rummaged through everything in the cabinet and laid it out in the living room to check it one by one.

She disregarded Tang Ming's presence, picking up these familiar objects one by one, disassembling them, smashing them, and throwing them aside.

……

"If we want to break through illusion-type spells, the root cause lies in the loopholes in the illusion. Only by finding the anchor point that can completely separate reality from illusion can we have a chance to escape the illusion."

When Hoshino first became a magical girl, she saw Kaoru constantly practicing constructing illusions and couldn't help but ask her how to break them. This was her answer.

"Unlike ordinary people, magical girls can quickly realize they are in an illusion, not reality. But that doesn't mean you can break free just because you know it..."

"Ordinary people, when caught in a magical incantation, will become completely absorbed in it without realizing it, and will not feel anything unusual at all—your physical body is the same."

"During your previous training, your ability to detect illusions relied entirely on the [projection] from beyond the realm of magic after you transformed. This projection can make all magical girls notice something amiss."

"Don't forget, your true self doesn't have this ability. The illusion doesn't need to trap the magical girl. As long as your true self falls asleep, you'll be like a kite on a string, unable to escape."

Hearing Xunfeng's explanation, Xingyu couldn't help but ask, "Why are our original forms trapped in an illusion? I'm the one who transformed; aren't our original forms and the magical girl forms the same body?"

"I don't know the answer to the first question either, and of course not the second one."

Xunfeng shook his head and pulled out a book to explain.

"Didn't you ever think about how we managed to transform successfully? And to have an even more slender and delicate body after transforming, it's impossible that we just used magic to put on a layer of skin."

"Our magical attire, spell weapons, and even the magic we use at will are all projections of the magical realm onto us; the contract with the elves is the process of this."

"So, as for my true form, perhaps it was covered up, not disappeared, nor was it enveloped in magic. Where did it go...?"

Xunfeng scratched her cheek as she finished speaking. She had searched through the books but couldn't find it. She couldn't continue her lecture halfway through.

"It's not in the book... I'll ask Yui later. Oops, I'm getting off-topic. Don't disturb my practice."

……

Xingyu knew that even though she was fully aware that she was in an illusion, her memories were too strong to break through, so she would be locked in here. The enemy was also maliciously stealing her memories and building the most familiar house to deceive her.

She won't let them succeed.

"Hey, stop pretending to be stupid. You can understand what I'm saying, right...? Where did you come from?" Xingyu's voice came from among a pile of junk.

Tang Ming, who was secretly looking around, froze and looked in Xing Yu's direction.

Was he really that bad at acting?

"Didn't you hear me?" Xingyu raised her head, squinted, and raised her voice several decibels, as if lasers would shoot out from her eyes and pierce Tang Ming through the heart in the next second.

Tang Ming made a gesture, pointing downwards.

"From...the void below?"

Tang Ming nodded.

"I've always felt something was off about you. You acted very curious in people's houses. If you couldn't read, ha!"

Xingyu chuckled and lowered her head again: "From where in the void?"

Tang Ming was a little confused, so he could only pretend to make some random hand gestures.

Xingyu stared at it for a long time, but still couldn't understand. "Forget it, I've never been to the void, not even to the legendary Voidquake Land... I'm still far from what I've learned."

Xingyu sighed, lowered her eyelids, and with a wave of her hand, everything around her flew to the side of the sofa.

"Get off the sofa. What are you doing sitting on it, you beast?"

Tang Ming, looking completely innocent, was pushed by the magic and shoved off his spot, falling to the ground.

Tang Ming decided to endure it... He was in a weaker position and wouldn't bother arguing with the female thug.

He sat silently on the balcony, gazing at the illusory cityscape.

"Are you unable to speak?" After a while, Tang Ming heard Xing Yu's voice again.

He nodded, looking at the other person with a puzzled expression.

"Then when I ask you a question, you just need to nod or shake your head. Do you know what nodding or shaking your head means?"

"..." Tang Ming silently rolled his eyes.

"Don't try to fool me. I'm not stupid. Otherwise, I'd kill you before I get out of here."

Tang Ming nodded hastily.

Nobody would believe that; only a fool would tell the truth.

"Do you know how you got in here?"

Tang Ming shook his head.

"Did you spring out of a void bubble?"

Tang Ming continued to shake his head.

He doesn't seem like a virtual beast now; he's more like a robot.

"You can understand me... Have you ever lived in the human world?" Xingyu asked after thinking for a moment.

Tang Ming couldn't help but admire the other person's quick thinking, and could only nod silently.

"And...were you human before?"

Xingyu stared at Tang Ming, feeling as if the other's gaze could almost pierce through his thick shell and touch his body.

How should this question be answered? Tang Ming was caught off guard, paused for a moment, then spread his hands and shook his head.

"Shaking your head? Does that mean you still don't know?"

Tang Ming continued to shake his head. The advantage of transforming was that his expression was invisible, allowing him to remain unchanged in the face of any change. He only needed to play dumb.

"I'm still wondering if the Void Beasts might be humans in disguise..."

Xingyu looked for a while but couldn't find any clues: "Never mind, it's not important right now. Have you noticed anything unusual?"

Tang Ming shook his head again.

"Then why don't you smash this room up?" Xingyu looked around at the messy floor. "Let's go to another floor and check it again."

This task was very new to Tang Ming. Smashing his own place, even though it was just an illusion, made him feel inexplicably excited.

Xingyu crossed her arms and coldly watched as Tang Ming smashed the house in front of her with a single punch and kick. The sound of shattering glass and scattered papers filled the air as the neat and orderly house was reduced to ashes by the disturbance of the alien force.

The two stood in the neat and orderly 1801 again. For a moment, Tang Ming even hallucinated that when he left home in the morning, the person standing in the living room was not Xing Yu, but his wife.

Shaking off the distracting thoughts, Tang Ming stepped into the room and headed towards his designated target. Xing Yu followed him. Tang Ming walked to the desk in the bedroom, and with a forceful pull, he ripped down the entire row of bookshelves nailed to the wall.

"What's wrong?"

Tang Ming pulled out the comic books one by one, ignoring Xing Yu's questions.

"Why is it another comic book? You like reading comic books? Are you kidding me?" Xingyu stared at the back of Tang Ming's head strangely, seemingly making a connection to something.

Tang Ming rudely picked up one book, then threw another away, filtering through dozens of books after glancing at their covers. He didn't want to reveal his familiarity with the house; if they managed to escape successfully, the magical girl would definitely notice Tang Ming and Lin Ruoyu in that photo frame.

In this situation, he couldn't afford to reveal any flaws. Just in case, he deliberately used even more aggressive and violent actions to cover up his habit that might be exposed.

This wasn't something taught by his predecessors... it was his experience from infiltrating countless magical organizations.

Xingyu waited for a while and saw Tang Ming pick up a comic book, pause for a few seconds, throw it aside, and slide it in front of Xingyu.

"This one..."

—It feels somewhat familiar.

Xingyu stopped herself from saying the next sentence. She glanced at Tang Ming, who didn't react at all, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After confirming that the beast could understand human speech, she had to be careful. Her identity as Xingyu had always been public knowledge, but she knew nothing about the beast's background.

Although she doesn't need to be on guard against life-or-death threats, an intelligent virtual beast will definitely bring unknown risks to Fangzhou City.

Xingyu wrote down the book, left the room, and walked towards the TV cabinet.