Urging for more updates, then turning into a magical girl.

In a secret base undetectable by any detector, lies the home of the magical girl Arc Moon.

Under the laboratory lights, a huge cylindrical culture jar stood. Inside, a young girl floated quietly in the light green nutrient solution.

The girl looked to be about eighteen years old. Even in such a desperate situation, her face still radiated purity and tranquility.

She wore a black Lolita dress, the skirt billowing out like a blooming black datura flower under the buoyancy of the liquid. A vest was draped over her shoulders, and a pair of pale yellow hairbands were tied on either side of her short hair. These were the only vibrant accents in her otherwise dark outfit.

Judging by her beautiful appearance alone, one would immediately assume she is a delicate young girl. However, beneath the culture tank, a cluster of slender red tentacles are stirring restlessly, seemingly ready to commit wicked acts against the girl above at any moment.

"Magical Girl Arcuki..."

Looking at the magical girl inside the incubation jar, Cheng Qi reached out his right hand and stroked the outer wall of the jar. Yet, his mood was calmer than ever before.

The magical girl, Crescent Moon, who symbolized hope and justice, has now become his plaything. And Cheng Qi, the victorious villainous leader, is freely examining his spoils.

"She is indeed very strong."

A cool, clear female voice came from behind.

Zhang Menglin, the chief scientist of the laboratory, had her hands in the pockets of her white coat and looked up at the culture jar.

"Commander, you deployed four of our magical girls at once to deal with her, didn't you?"

Cheng Qi snorted coldly and slowly turned to look at Zhang Menglin: "Of course, this is necessary. After all, to achieve the goal of world domination, our current strength is far from enough. We must absorb fresh blood and increase the number of magical girls under our control; this is the key to breaking the deadlock."

Zhang Menglin stroked her chin: "But... deploying 'Himetou Four' all at once is still a bit too much, isn't it?"

"...If possible, I hope you will call them the 'Four Heavenly Kings'."

Faced with the strange nickname Zhang Menglin had given him without his permission, Cheng Qi didn't bother to argue and instead turned to look at the culture tank again.

"Forget about the details. With the brainwashing device you developed, Dr. Zhang... soon I'll be able to build an army of magical girls who will be completely obedient to me."

Zhang Menglin nodded slightly. She turned around and walked straight to the control panel. "In that case, can we begin?"

"Yes, let's start the brainwashing right away, lest things get complicated."

Cheng Qi put his hands behind his back and looked up, this was the first time he had ever witnessed a magical girl being brainwashed. He had to watch this process, which was full of blasphemy and the thrill of conquest, and savor it carefully.

As Zhang Menglin began typing on the keyboard at the control panel, the tentacles that had been slowly wriggling at the bottom of the culture tank received the command and began to spread upwards.

The tentacles first bound the limbs and waist of the crescent moon, fixing the girl who was floating in the water in place.

Then a thinner, longer red tentacle darted through the water, climbed onto the crescent moon's shoulder, and stealthily probed into her ear along her neck, heading straight for the depths of her brain.

A few minutes later, the large screen hanging above the laboratory flickered and gradually showed a first-person perspective image.

"Dr. Zhang, this is..." Looking at the images flashing on the big screen, Cheng Qi frowned slightly and asked in confusion.

"This is the memory of the crescent moon."

Zhang Menglin didn't even look up, her hands still busy on the control panel. "Brainwashing requires reconstructing the target's original mental and personality structure, so before overwriting new instructions, we need to scan and organize her past memories. Moreover, the data writing process for brainwashing takes quite a long time. To keep you from getting bored, I've specially brought up her memory extraction screen to help you pass the time, just like watching a movie."

"You've thought of everything very thoroughly." Cheng Qi was very pleased with this unexpected surprise.

To thoroughly examine and trample upon the secrets, tender feelings, and cherished past of a magical girl is indeed very fitting for his current identity as the leader of the villains.

The life of the crescent moon begins to unfold on the screen.

When the girl was about 10 years old, she encountered a "seed fairy" by chance, and from that moment on, she signed a contract and became a magical girl.

Immediately afterwards, the scene switched to a brutal battlefield, showing her arduous battle against those "cruel beasts".

Then, the scene turned heartwarming. It showed the deep bond that Arc Moon had forged with his comrades-in-arms under the starry sky after teetering on the brink of death time and time again.

These past lives, filled with laughter and tears, played out one segment after another on the screen.

Judging solely from her life experiences over the first ten years or so, she must have been a perfect magical girl.

The thought that this magical girl would soon fall into evil also gave Cheng Qi a sense of pleasure.

As the memories unfold, the timeline reaches recent times. The girl's memory takes her to an ordinary room...

It looks a lot like a young girl's boudoir.

In the first-person perspective of the memory, she was sitting in front of the computer screen, her hands typing on the keyboard.

Cheng Qi had absolutely no interest in the dense text on the screen. According to previous intelligence gathering, Arc Moon was just an ordinary college student in real life.

So it's perfectly normal to sit in front of a computer and write a paper or something.

However, after casually glancing at the paragraphs on the screen, the text on the screen immediately caught Cheng Qi's attention.

Novels? Arc Moon is still writing novels?

As a seasoned bookworm, Cheng Qi was naturally surprised by the hobby of the crescent moon. Following the gaze of the memory's owner across the screen, Cheng Qi read the few lines of text that had just been typed.

As he continued reading, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

--Wait a moment?!

This plot seems so familiar...

Surely it's not that much of a coincidence!

Cheng Qi's smile vanished instantly.

As if to confirm his suspicions, the owner of the first-person memory on the big screen finished writing, stretched, and then exited the writer assistant to the main account interface.

At first glance, Cheng Qi noticed the novel's title and the author's name.

Becoming a Magical Girl, and Then Going Home

Author: Excessive salt intake.

Cheng Qi lost his composure for a moment and almost spat out his drink on the spot.

This...this is the very novel I've been staying up all night every day to eagerly await its updates!