Nanook: It Takes Seven Aeons to Beat Me? I've Been Set Up by Capital! (11K1 “Are You Ready?”)

Yes, definitely!

As Phantylia kept brainwashing herself to distract from the endless pain, this seemed... to have become an obsession.

And with Chen Li gone, that obsession only continued to deepen.

Holding the Death Note Blade had left behind in her left hand, Phantylia suppressed her urge to kill Aqua, warmly bid farewell to the Astral Express crew, then brought Aqua back to Tingyun's residence.

Tingyun's residence was filled with all kinds of exquisite little trinkets, which successfully drew Aqua's attention. Having temporarily escaped the endless pain Aqua brought her, Phantylia had not even had time to catch her breath before she froze at the sight of the huge pile of documents delivered by Tian Bo Division employees.

"Lady Tingyun, the Helm Master knows Lord Jing Yuan has entrusted you with an important task and that it would be inconvenient for you to return to the Tian Bo Division to report on your duties, so I was specifically sent to deliver these official matters to your home for you to handle personally," the Tian Bo Division employee said.

"This isn't the work of a Sky-Faring Commission Envoy like me, is it?" Phantylia hurriedly searched through Tingyun's memories and reached that conclusion.

"General Jing Yuan praised you highly before the Helm Master today, so Lady Yu Kong intends to appoint you as a provisional Helm Master. She wants you to familiarize yourself with this work in advance."

"A provisional Helm Master? I... am deeply grateful." Phantylia had just been about to refuse when she remembered her current persona and replied with a gentle smile.

Although this mountain of official business had indeed caught her off guard, not having to face one of Tingyun's closest acquaintances still made Phantylia breathe a sigh of relief.

The hardest part of impersonating someone was not