A little girl at a magic school, she's a goofy troublemaker who can do anything.

"Senior, senior, senior!"

Xing Rui was abruptly brought back to her senses by Li Wenyin's call. She blinked and looked at her with a slightly bewildered expression, but this confusion did not last long and was quickly replaced by a sharp gaze and a carefree demeanor.

Xing Rui put on a smile: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just that you seemed to be lost in memories and feeling sad," Li Wenyin said after thinking for a moment. "The truth might not be what you think."

"What would I be afraid of? I'm not afraid," Xing Rui shook her head, her words sounding somewhat bluffing. "My little brother is growing up, he's become rebellious, it's normal that he doesn't like to stay by his older sister's side."

"His rebellious streak is indeed quite strong."

Li Wenyin nodded in agreement. These words may have touched on Xing Rui's thoughts, causing Xing Rui's eyelashes to tremble almost imperceptibly.

However, Li Wenyin continued, "But his rebellion is the other extreme. I apologize to you first; I actually took advantage of you before."

"...What?" Xing Rui's fingers curled up.

-

Li Wenyin briefly recounted Xing Qi's story, intentionally omitting and keeping some student council secrets confidential. She explained to Xing Rui in general how her younger brother, mixed with demon beast blood, fought against the student council, clearly outlining the logic and cause and effect. She also explained that Xing Qi had now changed his identity and become Rui Yuan, serving his sentence in the student council.

"...That concludes the entire process of his disappearance."

Li Wenyin thought for a moment, then spoke again.

"I visited him not long ago. He wasn't doing well while he was in prison, and he still seems unrepentant. He's suspected of secretly plotting to curse those who get in his way by making eerie paper sculpture lamps."

"Moreover, I feel that he only regrets that his unorthodox and unethical methods have affected you, which is why he admitted his mistake and accepted punishment. He is probably still thinking about whether he can find a legal and compliant way. His overall moral standards still need to be improved. His atonement and imprisonment are not over yet, and he still has a long way to go in prison."

Xing Rui was stunned.

In an instant, the tension that had been hanging in the air relaxed, and a sense of despair and confusion crept in as he murmured helplessly as he looked at his hands.

"Isn't that because of me...?"

"How could that be?" Li Wenyin continued calmly, "If you really want gold, does that mean he has to rob a bank? Or is his method wrong?"

"However, he truly loves you," Li Wenyin softened her voice, "Don't worry, he loves you very, very much. He has never blamed you, nor has he ever considered not loving you."

I have never considered not loving you.

Xing Rui paused for a moment, but those few simple words brought her immense comfort. She smiled faintly, feeling relieved and at peace: "Thank you. I see..."

-

After Li Wenyin finished explaining Xing Qi's situation, it was Xing Rui's turn to answer Li Wenyin's questions.

"Senior, I want to know the details of the magical artifact that Si Zeyi has that can predict the future."

After a brief period of confusion and bewilderment, Xing Rui calmly regained her composure, swallowing all the turbulent emotions she felt and keeping them tightly hidden in her heart, not letting a single trace of them leak out.

Li Wenyin truly admired her. Such a thing happened to her closest relatives, and when faced with the truth, she showed no anger, rage, or breakdown. Only she herself knew what her true feelings were.

Li Wenyin is a very capable senior student, and she can understand why Xing Qi loves her so desperately.

It's just that people can be a little unserious sometimes.

"Wait a minute, let me think... should it be black or white...?"

Li Wenyin glanced over and saw Xing Rui pinching her chin, carefully examining the starry sky chessboard, frowning in thought, looking like a student who hadn't tidied up and was frantically looking for homework under the teacher's nose.

Li Wenyin had a bad feeling: "Senior, you're not thinking of breaking the contract, are you...?" So she turned around, grabbed her chessboard, and ran away immediately.

"No! I remember now, it's Black."

Xing Rui quickly tried to salvage some of her credibility by taking a round, black chess piece from under the base of the Starry Sky Chessboard and pressing it onto the board with one finger.

The moment the round black chess piece was removed from the chessboard, the entire board began to shimmer with a shimmering blue light. Then, Xing Rui pressed her fingertip against the piece and pushed it forward, causing the star map to shift and change.

Broken starlight lit up from the four corners of the chessboard, slowly emerging and seeping into Xing Rui's palm.

After keeping her eyes closed for a long time, Xing Rui slowly opened them and uttered a few words: "That so-called Precognitive Artifact is a Black Artifact."

"Black magic weapon?!"

"Li Wenyin exclaimed in surprise."

"Seriously, senior, this is so unethical! How could you sell someone a black magic weapon?"

"I'm so innocent!" Xing Rui cried out in anguish. "That's not mine. It's a magical artifact stored at the trade fair. I was just an intermediary. Si Zeyi chose it himself. If I hadn't sold it, someone else would have sold it to him."

Li Wenyin: "Did you know it was a Black Magic Artifact when you sold it to him?"

"I don't know. The information memory is another item in the transaction. I only took it out because you asked me today," Xing Rui said. "Moreover, the originator of this black artifact said that it can be given away unconditionally as long as someone wants it."

Xing Rui rambled on, "I was wondering why I stored this information in my memory. It turns out it's so serious. It would be dangerous if this information were leaked. I feel like I didn't have enough."

"Why are you still thinking about asking for less now, you shrewd businessman," Li Wenyin complained, then asked, "What kind of information would you specifically save?"

"Our trade fair is already in a gray area, and some transactions inevitably involve some prohibited items, so I will save any information that I think I 'shouldn't know'."

Xing Rui explained.

"This information is also a commodity in the trade. Generally speaking, after selling it, I will also delete and destroy this part of the memory myself. This is to ensure my clean identity as a middleman and to minimize any subsequent entanglements. I value my life very much."

"Walking on the edge of breaking the law and still claiming to cherish life..." Li Wenyin was almost speechless. How could she not praise her for being principled?

She spoke while seriously considering the matter.

-

Black magic weapon...

Compared to the more common and eye-catching black magic, black magic artifacts are indeed a relatively niche and rarely seen thing, but their power should not be underestimated.

Ordinary magical artifacts are made of normal materials and rely on magic to function.

The core of a black magic artifact is black magic power. The biggest difference between it and a normal magic artifact is that its existence only depends on a portion of the black magic power in its core. Its subsequent operation does not require magic power, but rather absorbs other things.

For example, a person's emotions and rationality will be affected by prolonged use of the Black Magic Device. Users will become increasingly extreme, go astray, harm themselves, and lose their humanity.

Therefore, such dangerous magical artifacts, whose core contains dark magic but which do not rely on magic to operate, are defined as dark magical artifacts.

This is somewhat similar to the difference between magic and black magic. The most fundamental difference is their source: one uses magical power, and the other uses dark magic. The key point is that magical power is harmless to the human body, while dark magic is extremely harmful to the human body, whether to oneself or others.

As for what exactly this dark magic is, perhaps only the dark magician knows. It may be a mutation of ordinary magic, or it may be another kind of magic that arises naturally.

As a result, many famous black magic spells were born.

For example, love. There are many kinds of magic related to love, but the most famous magic, which can make someone fall head over heels in love with you, can only be accomplished by dark magic, and is therefore defined as dark magic.

Similarly, there are things like rewinding time, immortality, and resurrection, all of which can only be accomplished using dark magic, and the cost of casting these spells is extremely high, thus becoming dark magic.

Another important characteristic of the Black Artifact is that once it is used, subsequent users gradually lose control of it and are instead led astray by the Black Artifact.

-

When Li Wenyin connected this to Si Zeyi's situation, she felt that some of the seemingly inexplicable doubts suddenly found an explanation and made sense.

"Does Si Zeyi's futuristic magical artifact absorb...?"

Li Wenyin's gaze was intense.

"His memories?"

Xing Rui nodded: "Yes."

Li Wenyin's heart skipped a beat.

No wonder he seemed dazed and confused; he clearly had the medicine, yet he still went to the medical department every day and completely forgot about his own sister...

Li Wenyin pursed her lips in thought. She was now thinking about Si Zeyi's later situation in the novel. He was mentally unstable, did not recognize his sister, and had marks on his body from being abused by dark magic.

The source was not Yuchi Quan, nor anyone else, but himself—was it the Black Magic Weapon within him?

It was his own innate magical talent, "Chance," that led him to encounter and purchase this prophetic artifact.

The truth is... Si Zeyi ruined himself?

No, that's not right.

Since Si Zeyi always had the Black Magic Artifact on him, why did no one in the novel discover it, and why was the Black Magic Artifact not removed even after he was imprisoned by the student council?

-

"Wouldn't that put him in great danger? He doesn't seem to realize that thing is a dark artifact."

Li Wenyin frowned and asked Xing Rui.

"Senior, is there any way to remove the dark artifact from his body?"

Xing Rui rubbed her temples in frustration: "Sigh, the answer to this question is the most dangerous and most important reason why this information is so precious..."

"What?"

"Li Wenyin, when you approached Si Zeyi, did you sense anything unusual?" Xing Rui asked.

Li Wenyin thought for a moment: "Aside from his somewhat eccentric behavior... I always hear a 'ding' sound. Is that unusual?"

"That's it, just as I thought."

Xing Rui sighed and spoke slowly.

"What exactly?" Li Wenyin was dying of curiosity, almost ready to pounce on her and shake her shoulders, begging her to tell her everything in one go.

Xing Rui carefully explained, "The 'ding' sound you heard is the resonance between magical artifacts. Magical artifacts from the same series, or those made by the same person, will resonate when they are in operation. This slight notification sound is a well-known resonance sound."

"No..." Li Wenyin panicked slightly, "Senior, you're not going to tell me that this disguise artifact I'm wearing is also a dark artifact?"

Her voice was trembling. "Senior Xing Rui, how could you do this...?"

"No, no!" Xing Rui quickly explained, afraid that her image would be ruined. "Yours isn't! Yours is just an ordinary magical artifact! You can feel it too, right? It operates on a magical power supply!"

"Oh, okay," Li Wenyin was quickly appeased. "So you mean Si Zeyi's precognitive black magic artifact is related to my disguise magic artifact?"

Xing Rui: "Yes, both of these magical artifacts are mobile magical artifacts."

"I know about the wandering type," Li Wenyin said in a low voice. Minister Shangguan had introduced it to her before. "It will randomly change into various clothes I'm wearing. It's very annoying. Either you have to wait for its magic to run out and it will stop on its own, or you have to take off all your clothes in an instant to remove it."

"No," Xing Rui acknowledged. "And your wandering type is not quite the same as Si Zeyi's. Yours is an external wandering type magic weapon, while Si Zeyi's is an internal wandering type."

Internal...?

Li Wenyin was shocked: "So, if that's the case, doesn't it mean that unless all his memories are completely devoured, or they all explode in an instant, he simply can't remove the Black Artifact?!"

Holy crap, what a vicious magical artifact!

In the novel, the student council imprisoned Si Zeyi to protect the other students and him. They had no choice but to let his memories be erased so the black artifact would fall off naturally; otherwise, Si Zeyi would only have one path: death!

"You really shouldn't touch this kind of thing anymore, senior, please be careful," Li Wenyin said, her lips moving slightly.

Xing Rui obediently lowered her head: "I'm sorry."

-

"Um... there's one more thing."

Xing Rui seemed to have considered it for a long time before deciding to tell Li Wenyin the truth, her gaze serious.

"Li Wenyin, didn't I just say that 'ding' sound was the resonance between your disguise magic device and that black magic device?"

"Yeah, isn't it because they're both part of the roaming type?"

Looking at Xing Rui's expression, Li Wenyin suddenly had a terrifying guess.

"you mean......"

"They come from the same source and were made by the same person," Xing Rui replied.

Li Wenyin: "But didn't you say that my transformation device came from the student council's fashion styling department? Then..."

"That's right," Xing Rui's breathing became heavier, "that black magic artifact also came from the student council's fashion styling department."

This is the most dangerous part of this message.

It was someone from the student council who created the Black Magic Device.

There are bad guys in the student council.

-

The shocking and horrifying truth left Li Wenyin speechless for a moment.

She managed to calm her racing heart and asked, "Senior, who is this person? Tell me, and I'll give you whatever you want."

"I'm sorry," Xing Rui said, her eyes darkening, "this part of my memory has been erased. It must have been part of a deal. To prevent any future repercussions and to protect myself, I deleted this memory."

I understand, I understand, but the clues have all gone this far and then suddenly they've run dry. Li Wenyin is really unwilling to accept this.

Who created such a vicious black magic weapon and traded it to a trade fair that is clearly aimed at ordinary students? Isn't this just pure harm?

The other party is still in the student council, openly monitoring the situation while secretly hiding their identity and acting covertly.

Li Wenyin clenched her fists, her gaze sharpening.

I'll find you, you bastard.