"I'm asking you, not the other way around. Got it?"
Jiang Yao snorted coldly.
"What, if I told you to take on Nanook, could you beat him? You don't have what it takes, understand?"
Phantylia sounded deeply aggrieved. "But I have you here, don't I?"
Jiang Yao smiled like a devil. "Hey, want to give Nanook a good beating?"
Phantylia's voice was plaintive. "For you, Master, I would try even if it meant being smashed to pieces."
Phantylia might have been cowardly, fickle, despicable, and shameless.
But she had one virtue.
She stood at attention when taking a beating.
Could she beat Nanook?
Absolutely not.
But the question now was whether she could beat Jiang Yao.
She was guaranteed to get eaten.
Phantylia chose to follow her survival instincts.
She showed him an attitude brimming with sincerity.
Jiang Yao didn't believe a word of it, but her attitude certainly pleased him.
Phantylia knew what mattered.
What did that mean?
Well, he wouldn't have to worry about cooperation issues in the future.
However.
"So, don't you have any abilities? Aren't you a Heliobus? If I use you as a cooking flame, shouldn't the food have some special effects?"
"Like glowing? Or making people's clothes burst off after they eat it?"
Being satisfied with her attitude was one thing.
You still need to improve your abilities!
Otherwise, what's the point of keeping you?
I'd fucking rather really be nothing but a flame... Phantylia was truly at a loss.
She was a Heliobus.
A born spirit flame!
An energy life-form!
She didn't need to eat!
At least, she didn't need to eat ordinary people's food.
How was she supposed to know?
"Well... perhaps?"
Phantylia's voice grew uncertain.
She desperately hoped she did.
"Oh, you'd better."
Jiang Yao had already decided that if Phantylia