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

The four returned to the base and, finding no trace of them, entered the garden to deactivate their transformations.

Xingyu suddenly felt weak all over and knelt on the grass as if she had wilted.

"Sister Ruoyu! How come your main body is also affected so much?" Xiao Ba helped Ruoyu step by step to sit down on the recliner in the courtyard.

The fairy Yui came out of the small house carrying a tray and handed them water and pastries.

"You're back... Lin Ruoyu, why do you look so bad? You're enveloped in a strong, unpleasant aura of the void!"

As soon as Yui flew to Lin Ruoyu's side, she involuntarily stepped back.

"Yui! Sister Ruoyu got caught in the cracked bubble and almost died!" Xiaoba complained.

Aside from her mandatory work, Yui spends most of her time at the base eating, drinking, and watching TV. How come this spirit is getting lazier and lazier? Where did her intelligence and thoughtfulness go?

While Xiao Ba was still silently grumbling about Yui's disrespect towards her older sister, Xunfeng had already transformed back into his original form, touching Lin Ruoyu's shoulder and unleashing a green light from his hand.

"Your physical body is fine, but I can sense that you are terribly weak. Let me use my mental healing."

As the magical aura flowed through Lin Ruoyu's body, she felt her spirits recover slightly, no longer feeling as dizzy as when she deactivated her transformation.

As expected, the illusion did have an effect on the physical body. The mental damage she had been suppressing within the magical girl's body was simply being released now.

Lin Ruoyu took out the jade pendant hanging around her neck from her collar. It was inlaid with gold wire around its edges, and the warm luster flowed within the jade. It was clearly no ordinary piece at first glance.

"Why are there black fluff inside?" Xunfeng, who was close by, noticed the anomaly at a glance.

Lin Ruoyu said uncertainly, "Perhaps it's due to excessive depletion of magic power and damage to its essence. Does Yui have any good solutions?"

"Let me see..." Yui, suppressing her discomfort, leaned against Lin Ruoyu's chest, carefully examining the jade. "Not only is its origin damaged, but because it stayed in the Void Tremor Land for too long, some void alien matter has even eroded into it."

"Normally, foreign substances shouldn't be able to corrupt magical girls, but your innate resistance is weak, and with external stimuli, the balance is shifting..."

"The cotton fibers inside are cracked, and the foreign material is trapped in the middle."

Yui pointed her little finger to the inside of the jade. Although the others didn't quite understand, they sensed that it was very serious.

"Can we find a jade expert to break it open and clean it?" Xiao Ba asked anxiously, grabbing the jade and scratching at it with her fingernails, trying to remove the impurities inside.

Several people surrounded her as if she were an idiot. Li Shuang, having deactivated her transformation, patted Xiao Ba on the shoulder earnestly.

"Xiao Ba, do you think you can easily crack open the magical girl's transformation stone?" She pushed Xiao Ba away, "Kid, go play somewhere else. Don't lower my perception of college students' intelligence."

Xiao Ba was a little annoyed, but seeing Lin Ruoyu and Sister Xunfeng looking at them speechlessly, she could only slink away to the side with her head down.

"Yui, is there any way?" Kaoru asked.

"Hmm, I'm not too sure either. Let's reduce our magic output for now and see if the contract projection can 'wash' it away. I'll contact Magic Thoughts later to see if there's a solution."

"Ah Xun, let's go inside. It looks like it's going to rain outside." Li Shuang stretched out her hand and glanced at the sky.

Xunfeng deactivated her transformation, and a light and elegant dress twirled around her. A delicate butterfly ribbon was fastened at the neckline, and two long ribbons were tied to her twin ponytails, swaying with her steps.

Magical Girl Kaoru, whose real name is Hoshino Kaoru, is the owner of the Magical Girl Base, which is this little villa.

The ability to secretly establish a base for magical girls in Fangzhou City without relying on funding from the Demon Department is entirely due to the financial resources of the Hoshino family.

Of course, the Hoshino family's sphere of influence extends to other distant cities, and they do not own any assets in Fangzhou City. As the eldest daughter of the family, Hoshino Kaoru was "targeted" by the spirit Yui after arriving in Fangzhou City by chance.

She naturally signed a contract and became a magical girl.

Hoshino Kaoru is the one who has the most motherly role among them. Compared to Li Shuang, who is the oldest but always laughing foolishly, Kaoru is more reliable.

The resources that Kaoru provided to their team allowed the magical girls to remain as independent as possible from the Fangzhou City authorities, just in case...

"We all fell into a trap on this impromptu trip... There's a traitor in the Demon Extermination Department," Lin Ruoyu said weakly, rubbing her forehead.

"Ah! Is it really the Anti-Demon Department?" Li Shuang covered her mouth in surprise.

"The four of us traveled together, which should have been foolproof, but it just so happened that each of us was tripped up by the corresponding enemy... It was really too coincidental, and the timing of these two bubbles appearing was also just right."

Kaoru brought a cup of tea and placed it in Lin Ruoyu's hands. The four of them sat side by side on a sofa, with Yui sitting on Hachi's head as usual.

"I had no idea there was a trap waiting for me at the intersection before I stepped into the bubble; it must have been very meticulously planned."

"When I fell from the bubble into the Voidquake Land, I was also trapped in the enemy's illusion... I almost couldn't escape." Tang Ming's image appeared in Lin Ruoyu's mind. The origin of this Void Beast was extremely strange.

"By the way, let's name that purple humanoid Void Beast I was chasing Number 6. It's a special Void Beast too," Lin Ruoyu said to Yui.

"Huh? Oh, okay, I'll have the Anti-Demon Department register it." Yui wiped the cookie crumbs from her mouth.

"Yui...don't eat on my head..." Hachi shook his head resentfully.

"Hey, stop shaking, I'm not eating."

Lin Ruoyu withdrew her gaze and said seriously:

"The enemy is centered around a middle-aged man in a gray robe, with dozens of servants, all of whom are infected with the void anomaly, that is, [symbiotes]."

"They are very familiar with the area affected by the airquake, and their power is likely greater than we imagined..."

Afterwards, Lin Ruoyu explained in detail to her teammates what she had seen and heard, as well as her speculation about the hidden forces and strength of the other party in the city. However, she slightly omitted the fact that the humanoid beast had rescued her and its behavior in the illusion of her memory, which she felt was a bit off.

She planned to investigate first and not tell her teammates about anything she wasn't sure about.

"If it's such a large organization... it's undeniably culpable to the Demon Department. Shall we question them now through the liaison officer?"

Xun frowned, her tone filled with displeasure towards the official departments.

"Never mind, it's getting late. I'll go to the minister's office myself tomorrow," Li Shuang said casually, arms crossed. "I'll go with Xun."

Lin Ruoyu shook her head. "I'll go with you. Xun should show herself in front of them as little as possible. Your identity is very important and it's easy for them to find out."

Hoshino Kaoru was about to retort, but after thinking about it, she lowered her raised hand.

"Regardless, Fangzhou City's reputation as a peaceful area attracting outsiders has been shattered by two consecutive severe void disasters. How will the authorities deal with this mess tomorrow?"

The four humans and the elf looked out the window at the increasingly chaotic torrential rain, feeling somewhat worried. The cleanup work at the disaster site would be made much more difficult by this rain.

The sky was gradually darkening. "Let's go home when the rain stops. Xiao Ba, you don't need to come tomorrow morning. Li Shuang and I will go to the Demon Extermination Department."

Aside from Hoshino Kaoru, who already lived here, everyone else had to go back to their own places. Xiao Ba was going back to her school dormitory, Li Shuang was going to continue her partying, and Lin Ruoyu was going to make it to dinner with Tang Ming...

Taking advantage of a brief respite from the rain, the group left the base.