This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 356

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

Chapter 356 Enjoy Being a Servant

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Then again, if the young heiress didn’t have enemies, her family wouldn’t have gone through the trouble of hiring assassins from the Silent Archive to serve as bodyguards.

When Ned assigned the mission, he’d been annoyingly vague and never explained why Somalie needed protection in the first place.

Maya was really curious about Somalie’s background.

So one afternoon, she simply skipped school for the day.

Silent Archive Headquarters, Top Floor.

Maya didn’t bother knocking.

As always, she kicked Ned’s office door open.

The heavy door slammed against the wall with a dull crash. The office itself was sealed off from sunlight. Thick bulletproof glass filtered the bright noon sun into something closer to twilight, casting the room in a gloomy atmosphere.

Ned sat behind his desk. Judging by his appearance, he had clearly stayed up many nights without proper sleep.

His skin was pale. A fountain pen spun lazily between his fingers. Even that small movement looked half–hearted. He appeared as though he might die in his chair at any moment.

Hearing the door crash open, he slowly lifted his eyelids. His expression practically said, Here we go again.

“Uncle Ned, why does Somalie have so many enemies?”

Maya had spent weeks quietly cleaning up one problem after another on Somalie’s behalf.

Meanwhile, Somalie remained completely oblivious to the fact that people were actively trying to kill her.

“Who?” Ned’s brain lagged half a beat behind.

“…The aristocratic girl with the absurdly long name.” Maya stretched out her hands to demonstrate the length.

“Oh, do you mean Somalie Maria Isabel de Fernando Silva?” He recited the name from

memory.

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“Wait.” Maya looked mildly stunned, as if something had just flown past her ears like a spell. “You actually remembered her name?”

Most people froze for a second after hearing Somalie’s full string of names.

“I’m not an idiot,” Ned replied.

Maya felt like she’d just been looked down on.

“Didn’t you know? Her family has ties to organized crime. There are several smuggling routes in Aradune controlled by her family. Not small operations, either.

“She’s the only child in the family, which basically makes her the legal heir.

“All those relatives are watching the inheritance like hawks. Once word got out, various groups in domestic and overseas started making moves. They’d love to kidnap her or get control of her before she comes of age.

“The people you’ve encountered so far are only the leftovers. Her bodyguards already filtered out most of the serious threats.”

Maya fell silent for a second.

Ned continued, “If she unfortunately dies, the Silent Archive might run into a little trouble. Not too much trouble, though.”

If Somalie really died, it didn’t matter that much anyway.

Anyone making deals with an assassin organization should be prepared for failure. They were an assassination company, not a security company.

Getting paid to kill people was their flagship service. Getting paid to protect people was more of an experimental side business.

If it worked, it was a pleasant surprise. If it didn’t, that wasn’t exactly an unexpected outcome.

With absolutely no sincerity, Ned raised a fist in encouragement. The gesture was so small that it could basically be ignored. “Anyway, I hope you and Iris do your best.”

Keeping this energetic girl occupied was better than letting her run around causing chaos.

Changing the subject, he folded his hands together. He carried a faint smile now, and the concern in his voice was noticeably stronger than when they’d been discussing the mission.

“How does school feel, Maya?”

“Pretty fun, actually. I kind of enjoy being a servant.”

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Every day, she and Iris practically swept for landmines around Somalie, watching and listening for trouble from every direction. Maya hadn’t skipped school in a surprisingly long time.

At first, she had strongly objected to the servant thing.

Later, she discovered that following Somalie around was actually pretty entertaining.

Ned’s fingers paused. The pen between them stopped moving.

“…She treats you like a servant?”

Maya corrected him. “Iris and I. Oh, and Kaia too. We’re all her servants.”

Looking at it that way, everyone was equal.

Ned didn’t respond.

Leaning back in his chair, he began reevaluating the side effects of this mission.

He’d sent his niece to protect a client, and somehow she had been recruited as a servant by a completely unimportant client.

How was that acceptable?

“So she told you to be a servant, and you just agreed?” he asked. His tone remained flat, but the slight downturn at the corner of his mouth revealed his displeasure.

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