Magical girls—girls who protected cities and their residents.
They possessed youthful and stunning appearances, gorgeous and elegant ceremonial vestments, and the favor of the high-heaven stars. Using the power granted by the Guardian Stars, they defeated monsters, saved citizens, and protected countless cities.
...Yet in places the stars failed to notice, amid the gloomy backdrop of the Star Realm, unclaimed Guardian Stars instead bestowed upon another group of girls that very same magical power:
They accidentally picked up Guardian Stars without earning the stars' recognition, yet still managed to transform into magical girls by virtue of extraordinary talent and unshakeable conviction, putting their own resolutions into practice.
Stargazers called magical girls transformed by unclaimed Guardian Stars [Nebulae], referring to star-realm clouds that had yet to form shining stars, but among the general public they had a much simpler and easier-to-understand name—
[Villain Magical Girls]
"In other words, there isn't actually that much difference between ordinary magical girls and us..."
In the center of Rongcheng, upon a specially cleared battle arena, Golden Fox Fox stood in the middle of the ring and grinned lightly.
She gazed at the two delicate girl silhouettes opposite the arena, unable to conceal the surging pleasure in her heart and finding herself unable to stop a villain-like smile from forming on her face.
Although this smile might have looked quite pretty to others, to the two people on the opposite side it was hardly any different from the smile of a hellish fiend.
It was even more terrifying than a fiend.
"What do you think, Miss Bai Lili~?"
"..."
The pristine magical girl remained completely silent, the expression on her face shifting between light and shadow. Her gaze stayed fixed on the golden-furred fox-girl in the center of the arena, yet she couldn't help but look