What are you looking at? You're the female lead too!

"I think we can cooperate."

Just as he was about to be thrown into the incinerator after being killed by Ye Wen for the 78th time, Qiu Bi suddenly spoke up: "I've thought about it carefully, and it seems that we have absolutely no need to be enemies."

Ye Wen's hands didn't stop moving; he smoothly tossed the trash into the incinerator, and a few seconds later, a brand-new Cupid appeared behind him.

"By your human standards, I am indeed not a good person, but Ye Wen, you don't seem to be a good person either."

"You don't seem to have any particular attachment to justice or rules, do you? In that case, we can each get what we need."

Ye Wen tilted his head, and instantly, Qiu Bi's head and body were forcefully torn apart, revealing the grim white bones covered in flesh and blood.

"Cooperation? What do you want to cooperate with me on?"

"Of course, it's about raising magical girls together."

The brand-new Kyubey skipped and hopped up to Ye Wen: "All I need is the fruit of magical girls. After the harvest, I don't care what happens to them or how they should be."

"Cooperate with me, and all the girls in the world will become your property. After you reap the rewards, I will hand over the control of your mind to you. You can freely edit those girls who are no longer worth anything."

"Willpower, thoughts, emotions, body, memories... all of them can be modified."

"In your human terms, it's a complete hypnotic device."

Kyubey wagged its tail: "How about it? As a normal male going through puberty with surging hormones, this offer should be very tempting for you, right?"

Ye Wen lowered his head, looking as if he was deep in thought.

Clearly, Cupid had already regarded him as the kind of self-propelled cannon whose mind was full of lewd nonsense and who would fantasize about even the cracks in the roadside.

A hypnotic device? Does he need something like that?

Ye Wen isn't so down on his luck that he needs a hypnotic device to attract girls.

The same goes for everyone here.

Therefore, his choice was naturally...

"Sri Lanka, that's certainly very tempting, your terms."

Ye Wen revealed a wicked expression: "What I, Ye Wen, like to do most is to toy with the minds and bodies of innocent girls and disrupt their lives as much as possible."

"The thought of those girls' lives being completely changed by me, and that they can never be the heroine again, makes me so happy that I can't help but want to kill you again."

After saying that, Ye Wen used his invisible hand to slap Qiu Bi flat.

"You have a really unique way of expressing happiness."

Qiu Bi appeared at Ye Wen's feet, looked up at him, and said, "So, you've agreed to cooperate with me?"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush."

Ye Wen lowered his head, his deep eyes fixed on Qiu Bi's eerie face: "Cooperation is based on equality."

"At least, you have to answer one question for me first."

"you."

"What exactly is that?"

Although I know this thing is a Kyubey, it is still different from the Kyubey in Ye Wen's memory.

More importantly, in this world filled with female protagonists' corruption, what ecological niche does Kyubey occupy?

Is it a byproduct of the female protagonist's pollution? Or...?

"What? So that's what you wanted to know."

With a leap, Cupid landed on the cabinet next to Ye Wen: "You humans really do know how to seek trust in some strange places."

"Okay, there's nothing to hide. Let me formally introduce myself."

"I am Kyubey, the Root One, a collective consciousness from the universe whose duty and instinct is to monitor and capture the irregular fluctuations between celestial bodies."

"From your world's perspective, about 10 years ago we observed extremely counterintuitive fluctuations on this planet, which descended from a distance of thousands of light-years, and began long-term monitoring."

"We conclude that there are multiple stellar-level reality warps in this world. They exist in this world, and their ripples intertwine, resonate, and influence each other, ultimately producing the scene we see."

"This is an unprecedented spectacle, a major bug in the existence of the entire universe, and how to capture these intertwined energies has become our challenge."

"Just recently, we finally came up with a feasible solution."

"It's 'magical girl,' right?"

Ye Wen interjected, "The existence of magical girls is merely a tool you use to capture [Twisted]."

"So-called demons are just artificial enemies you create to provoke magical girls, aren't they?"

Cupid blinked.

"You understand very quickly, and you don't seem surprised at all."

"However, I still need to defend ourselves. We did not create demons; we merely personified them."

"As I mentioned before, the ripples of multiple distorted individuals are intertwined and colliding with each other, and each interweaving generates a special energy body, which we will tentatively call the 'Fate Value'."

"What we did was simply pull the [Fate Value] out of nothingness, turn it into an independent entity, that is, a demon, and let it be killed and absorbed by the magical girl, thus completing its cultivation."

"This is the work we, the Rooters, are doing now."

Ye Wen: "..."

He has fully understood.

Gu Jiangyi was not one of the wild female protagonists she had met before; she was an artificial female protagonist created by Cupid.

Because the artificial female protagonist's nourishment comes from the pollution generated by the activities of other female protagonists, Gu Jiangyi is also a female protagonist in Ye Wen's golden finger detection, but she does not have the ability to pollute common sense and reality, or rather, she pollutes herself.

Ye Wen's fist hardened.

You guys spend all your time and effort dealing with the female lead, and all you bastards are doing is secretly mass-producing female leads???

Is there no justice left? Is there no law left?

Ye Wen, I'm really getting angry.

Just to be on the safe side, he specifically asked, "How long have you been doing this kind of thing?"

"The magical girl plan is a recent development; in reality, we don't have much successful experience with it."

Qiu Bi shook his head regretfully: "Talent is very important. [Destiny Value] is not so easy to absorb, and Gu Jiangyi is an excellent seed. Her adaptability to Destiny Value far exceeds that of the previous experimental individuals."

"We plan to train her to level three before we start harvesting her, but she's currently at level two and still needs to accumulate some experience."

Ye Wen was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "So, what about those failed experimental subjects? What did you do with them?"

Cupid smiled but said nothing.

Ye Wen: "If you laugh again, I'll shove your head up your ass."

"They fulfilled their dreams."

Kyubey finally spoke: "In every sense, although physiological functions have ceased, I think this can be considered a mutually beneficial arrangement."

"Alright, that's about all for my introduction. I think we've been on equal footing. As for the collaboration..."

*Splat*

Ye Wen beat up Qiu Bi.

Its flesh and bones were mushy, looking from a distance like the entrails that had been carelessly discarded in a market. Soon, a brand new Kewpie emerged, stepped on its own corpse, and tilted its head in confusion.

"Could I interpret that gesture just now as your expression of joy about the upcoming collaboration?"

"Yes, yes, I am joyful, I am joyful."

Ye Wen spoke perfunctorily, then continued to crush Qubi's body, repeating the process over and over again until Qubi finally reacted after a hundred times.

"It seems you don't want to cooperate with me."

"Can you tell me why?"

Ye Wen replied matter-of-factly, "Because there is no future for humans and beasts."

"Humans and animals are different, my friend."

Humans cannot, or at least should not.

It can only be said that Kyubey is indeed Kyubey; no matter where he is, he is a qualified beast and never disappoints Ye Wen.

"It seems you rejected me for some reason I can't understand."

"Unfortunately, I can only force Jiang Yijiang to ripen, making her suffer as she bears fruit."

Qubi rarely showed signs of irritation.

"Really."

"Why do humans, such inferior beings, always have to make things so complicated?"

It noticed Ye Wen squatting down and helping the faded Gu Jiangyi up, letting her lean against him.

"You want to save her? You can't."

Kyubey shook his head: "To stop the forced ripening, she needs to be released from her magical girl state, and only she and I can do that."

"I hate troublesome things. Ye Wen, think about cooperating with me again."

"If you agree, I will immediately stop forcing Gu Jiangyi to mature."

"Sigh, what a beast you are. I've told you there's a difference between humans and animals, why can't you understand?"

Ye Wen sighed, raising his eyes to look at the Soul Gem hidden in Gu Jiangyi's battle skirt, which served as a receiving device: "As long as the magical girl transformation is deactivated, it'll be fine, right?"

He raised his palm.

"Then I'll show you."

Ye Wen gently patted Gu Jiangyi's back.

"What is meant by a stroke of genius?"

Ability activated.

The next second, a crisp sound rang out.

The chains and soul gem that were wrapped around Gu Jiangyi's chest were blown away.

I think this is underwear (jpg).

Amidst the shattering, she reverted to her magical girl form, leaning against Ye Wen as she opened her eyes.

Those eyes were brimming with tears.