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

"Ah—it smells so good."

A melodious, enchanting voice echoed through the office. A sophisticatedly dressed woman savored the delicious dessert before her, her neatly tailored suit clinging to her voluptuous figure.

"As expected, Hachiko is the best. How about I take care of 70% of these?"

She rubbed her hands together, drooling and looking utterly lustful. If it weren't for her delicate face that gave her some beauty, her expression would have been downright lewd.

"You're a pervert, Li Shuang!"

The girl, called "Xiao Ba" by the mature woman, put her legs on the armrest of the chair, chewed on potato chips, and cursed loudly.

The woman made a fierce face: "You should call me 'senior,' you little brat!"

Lin Ruoyu walked in and saw the two of them banging their heads together, forehead to forehead, and couldn't help but facepalm...

"Senior Li Shuang, Xiao Ba, I'm here."

Lin Ruoyu greeted them and obediently sat down at the table with her legs crossed.

"There's no one from the Anti-Demon Department here, why are you being so serious? Look! This is a cake that Hachi brought from the hotel. She flew all the way here for it."

The one who spoke was Li Shuang, whom Lin Ruoyu called "senior," although she did not have any senior demeanor at the moment.

The girl next to her looked displeased: "This is what I brought for Sister Ruoyu, don't eat it all!"

"Alright, Xiao Ba, she's our senior, a whole cycle older than you... let her have her way."

Lin Ruoyu covered her mouth and chuckled, then opened her mouth to "mediate" the fight.

"Where's the 'older' age?! Magical girls are eternally young, so you're not allowed to mention their age!"

Xiao Ba stopped arguing with the spoiled senior and walked behind Lin Ruoyu, braiding her loose hair on her own.

"Sister Ruoyu, do you have any clues about that 'pen holder' from yesterday?" Xiao Ba asked softly.

In front of Lin Ruoyu, the voice that had been deafening just moments before became soft and docile.

Lin Ruoyu took out a uniquely textured "penholder" from her bag and said:

"Nothing unusual was found last night... but my husband said it glowed for a short while."

"You didn't see it with your own eyes?" Xiao Ba frowned.

"I was taking a shower at the time, and my husband told me what kind of light it was... From his description, it was very pure and very eye-catching." Lin Ruoyu sighed.

"It's hard to imagine anyway."

Then she turned her head and saw Xiao Ba say incredulously:

"Sister... how can you show something like this to outsiders?"

She puffed out her cheeks, like a hamster hoarding pine cones.

"I found that after my battle with the Void Beast. It's definitely a very dangerous thing. Those incompetent people in the department are just talking nonsense!"

Lin Ruoyu stroked Xiao Ba's ruffled feathers and comforted it:

"Don't be angry. It's your fault for always bringing back all sorts of trash. Plus, the lab spent ages studying it but couldn't detect any magical fluctuations. It's probably just like usual, just being treated as trash."

Xiao Ba complained angrily, "Hmph! Everyone treats me like a child, and even though I'm so strong, they still don't respect me."

"Haha, who told you to be the youngest of everyone!" Li Shuang laughed unrestrainedly.

"I'm an adult! Not a child anymore. I just don't understand, aren't we magical girls? Aren't underage girls even more so? Aren't high school students the most suitable to be magical girls?"

Xiao Ba became more and more convinced of his own reasoning as he spoke, and questions came out one after another.

"I have a question..." Lin Ruoyu raised her hand to interrupt her, "What if high school students have to attend classes, and a mission comes up during the day?"

"Of course, it's skipping class..."

Xiao Ba had just finished speaking confidently when Li Shuang flicked his forehead: "Run away my foot!"

"If a girl who frequently takes leave always appears at the same time as a Void Beast, her true identity as a magical girl will be revealed within a few weeks. Please, have some common sense!" Li Shuang pinched Xiao Ba's chubby cheeks.

"So it's a generally accepted fact that magical girls can't choose students..." Lin Ruoyu concluded with a smile.

"Diweng (asking a question)! I'm a university student, why can I?"

Lin Ruoyu smiled and looked at Xiao Ba without saying a word, while Li Shuang's hands, which were kneading her face, became even more forceful.

"I get it... It's normal for college students to skip classes..."

Xiao Ba suddenly realized something, blushed, lowered her head, and weakly answered her question.

After a while, Xiao Ba recovered from the shame of his own foolishness and, after thinking for a moment, earnestly said to Lin Ruoyu:

"In any case, this 'pen handle' is different. My crimson spear was broken by the deadly whirlwind and even developed a considerable crack..."

At this point, a hint of lingering fear even appeared in Xiao Ba's eyes.

"That all-shattering shockwave was so profound; I've never seen anything like it before."

Lin Ruoyu's smile vanished. She grasped the other person's small, delicate hands and said earnestly:

"It's okay, we'll do it together next time."

"Never mind, I'm very strong now, don't worry." Xiao Ba patted her not-so-ample chest, exuding confidence again.

"By the way, don't change the subject. How can you let ordinary people touch this? It's a magical item."

Xiao Ba twirled the "pen" between his fingers.

"I checked carefully and there was no danger. Besides, he accidentally found my bag. I can't make a fuss over a pen."

"Huh? How could that person have gone through your things? Could he be a spy from the Void?!"

Xiao Ba couldn't help but jump up.

Lin Ruoyu said helplessly, "You're overthinking it... He's my husband."

"What about your husband? Who knows his true character? Besides, you don't even like him..."

Xiao Ba pouted and squeezed next to Lin Ruoyu's chair.

"I don't know about Tang Ming's other things, but he certainly can't be related to the void."

"So certain?" Li Shuang, whose mouth was full of cake, looked up and asked in confusion.

"I saved his life last week. If I had been a step later, he would have been crushed to death by a goblin-level Void Beast," Lin Ruoyu explained.

Looking back on that moment, she didn't know how she felt. When she saw that the person she had saved was Tang Ming, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but then let it all out. If he had died, she didn't know what her life would have been like.

She may never start a family again, as she will dedicate all her time to her identity as a magical girl.

"Let's not talk about this. Xiao Ba, continue telling us about yesterday's information." Seeing that the other two were silent, Lin Ruoyu changed the subject.

Upon hearing that they were about to get down to business, the two immediately sat down in their seats, and Li Shuang stopped eating.

"I personally fought the humanoid virtual beast that was suspected to have appeared before. This is the sixth one to appear in Fangzhou City this year."

Xiao Ba recalled Tang Ming's transformed figure: "It was very weak, and its magical aura was not strong, but it was very fast. It was less than two pages strong, yet its speed was only slightly slower than mine..."

Xiao Ba paused for a moment, then continued, "It was because it blocked the fatal blow that I was unable to kill the Void Beast No. 4 that I had been longing to kill."

Number 4 is their mark for special virtual beasts.

Xiao Ba gritted his teeth fiercely: "Next time I see those two beasts, I'll personally cut them into a thousand pieces and drain their monstrous essence!"

"Not even two pages?" Lin Ruoyu fell into deep thought.

From the moment they are chosen by the spirits and transform into magical girls, they gain control of magic. Through the guidance and knowledge transmission from the spirits, magical girls learn spells that are imprinted in their own "magic book".

Magical girls should have their own "magic book".

Each page of the magic book can record ten spells.

The "magic book" starts with only one page. As your mastery of magic improves, the number of pages in the magic book will continue to increase. With each additional page, you can learn ten more spells.

Yes, the "page number" is not a measure of vastly different strengths; it merely indicates the level of magical spells a "magical girl" possesses within the most ancient "magic book."

A typical magical girl can grow to two pages and learn twenty spells in a month, but it becomes increasingly difficult after that.

Xiao Ba is indeed "Three Pages," capable of using thirty spells in battle. This is the source of her confidence to venture alone to the southern suburbs. Hua Lingyou's relaxation before the battle and her crushing defeat...

It all stemmed from a misjudgment of her.