This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 273

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This Time, I’ll Be the Villain’s Favorite Daughter

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It had been turned into this boring game of chase.

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“That’s true.” Maya touched her face and muttered, “If he wanted to go easy on us, there’d be no reason for him to do something like this.”

Maya and Alfred made excellent hunters.

Especially after they got their hands on a gun.

It was only a tranquilizer gun without much stopping power, but having a weapon was still much better than being forced to run all the time.

The two worked together flawlessly. Using the tranquilizer gun, they took down several people who tried to block their path.

By dawn, the fog still hadn’t fully cleared, and the forest remained shrouded in gray mist.

After several failed ambushes that ended with their own side getting taken down instead, some of the children finally got smarter.

Four of them hid along a route they knew Maya and Alfred would likely pass through. They remained completely still and silent.

The moment Maya stepped into the area, a dart flew out from the darkness, barely visible as it cut through the air.

Maya twisted her body and dodged. The tranquilizer dart grazed her sleeve before embedding itself in a tree trunk.

Immediately afterward, figures emerged from both the front and back. Two tranquilizer guns were aimed directly at them.

“Come on already. Once we’ve caught you, this is over,” one boy said, lifting his chin impatiently. “Stop wasting everyone’s time.”

He looked young, but his eyes carried a level of experience that didn’t match his age.

The moment he spoke, Alfred lunged forward. One hand grabbed the barrel of the gun and shoved it upward while his other hand struck the boy’s wrist.

The tranquilizer gun flew from his grasp and bounced twice across the dirt.

This boy wasn’t slow to react.

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Unlike the useless kids they’d encountered before, he wasn’t easy to deal with.

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Taking advantage of the moment Alfred bent down to retrieve the gun, the boy suddenly pulled out a hidden knife and stabbed toward Maya’s shoulder.

Maya reacted quickly and jumped backward, avoiding a direct hit.

The boy attacked with surprising force. When the first strike failed, he didn’t hesitate at all. Using the momentum from his charge, he lunged forward again and sliced through the fabric on Maya’s shoulder.

The sudden sting in her arm immediately made Maya tense up.

She grabbed the boy’s head with one hand and slammed it downward. His head smashed into the ground on the spot.

The impact echoed like a heavy, hollow thud.

Blood from his nose splattered across the dead leaves as the knife flew from his hand.

Maya withdrew her hand and frowned. She could feel blood seeping from the wound on her shoulder.

Her knee was hurting too. Her eyes became slightly watery as she seriously thought about it. Being an assassin really wasn’t easy.

Mom definitely hadn’t been as delicate as she was.

Alfred used two darts to take down the remaining children.

The moment he noticed something was wrong, he crouched beside her.

“You’re hurt.” The change in Alfred’s expression was obvious. His usually blank face had darkened considerably.

“Yeah, but it’s okay. It’s not deep.” Getting injured on the island was normal. They had been constantly running through rough terrain.

Alfred also had plenty of cuts and bruises. His pain tolerance was high, so he didn’t think much of it.

But Maya thought it hurt way too much. She had originally wanted to smile, but after enduring it for a moment, she still felt the pain. Her mouth drooped downward. “And I think it’s bleeding.”

She bit her lip, but the corners of her mouth still turned down uncontrollably, looking so miserable she could barely hide it.

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“It hurts.”

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Inside the monitoring room that night, the glow from the screens flickered across the room.

Edric’s face had gone pale as paper. His lips were pressed tightly together. The moment he saw Maya get cut by the knife, panic seized him before he could mask it.

His uncle had never seen him like this before.

Edric resembled Raymond more than anyone. He had always been calm and composed. At sixteen, he had been capable of forcing seasoned veterans at the negotiating table to slam their fists down in frustration. He was impossible to pressure and always maintained the same calm smile no matter what happened.

His emotional stability was almost frightening.

The uncle couldn’t understand why Edric suddenly looked so unsettled.

“This exercise is ending now.” At first, Edric had tried to remain calm. After all, getting cut a few times wasn’t unusual. But after hearing Maya say, “It hurts,” his hands had started trembling.

Before he could stop himself, he stood up and made a phone call. His words came out in rapid succession. “Prepare the evacuation helicopter. Right now. Immediately.”

Silence followed.

After hanging up, Edric finally realized what he had just done. He fell silent.

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