This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 386

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Maya desperately tried to get some kind of reply from the cold chip.

“Alfred,” she said while hugging the doll and burying her face into its yarn hair.

Inside it was the chip Alfred had installed. Talking to it felt like talking to him.

Maya remembered how, whenever she cried as a child, he would panic and tell her not to cry.

“Alfred,” Maya said in a voice so weak it barely carried. She told it, “I am very sad now. I am crying.

“Can you comfort me?”

Maya waited for a long time.

No answer came.

The last part of her voice was carried away by the wind.

She pressed the doll against her face.

“Alfred.” Maya called his name again and again.

The cloth doll stared at her quietly, then finally reacted.

It said, “Don’t cry.”

“You are always crying, Maya.”

It was Alfred’s voice, even the tone matched perfectly.

Maya tapped the doll’s face.

Finished

You took so long to answer.” The fabric sank slightly where she poked it. Her voice was thick with tears, out she still tried to sound annoyed. “You’re not smart at all.”

After a long pause, the doll spoke again in a comforting tone. “The real me is with you! It doesn’t matter if

I’m not smart.”

It stayed quietly in her palm.

Using Alfred’s voice, it said things Alfred would have said.

Maya looked at it. “You are not.”

She pressed the doll against her chest, curling her body forward into a small shape. She repeated, “You are

not…”

The person who had always said he would protect her since childhood…

Maya bit her lip. Then broken sobs burst out from her throat like a broken dam, and she cried loudly.

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“You’re not here anymore…”

There was no more Alfred.

He would never respond to her again.

No one could ever replace him again.

Maya was far less calm than she appeared.

She hugged the doll tightly, even forgetting how to restart, how to save him.

Until the system’s cold voice interrupted her as if following a routine.

“Do you want to go back?”

Maya suddenly tightened her grip on the doll. Hearing the system, her collapsing thoughts were slowly pulled back.

Go back.

I could start over.

Maya swallowed the sob in her throat and forced herself to regain control. Panicking, she wiped her tears away. Her fingers trembled across the screen twice before she finally opened her contacts and dialed a

number.

She reached Ernest.

“Ernest, do you know Snowfinch?” she asked immediately after the call connected.

“He is a very famous assassin. His whereabouts are unstable, and he is one of Asterio’s core members. If you want information on him, I would need proper leads.” Ernest paused, then lowered his tone. “Little assassin, are you alright?”

He was used to her being confident and reckless. This was the first time she had sounded so lost.

Maya didn’t respond.

She sent him Snowfinch’s photo instead. “Do you have details on this man?”

With a photo, things became much easier. In the past, the Imperial Order’s intelligence network had penetrated almost every corner of the city. Even though it had been dismantled, Ernest still had access to other channels.

Soon, Ernest sent back a full file.

No confirmed identity. He worked at a taekwondo studio.

And that studio belonged to Arrabella’s family.

Maya stared at the screen and silently memorized his contacts, address, routine, and usual locations.

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Her phone also showed countless missed calls.

Messages from her parents, uncle, her brothers, and even her friends all filled the screen.

The notifications almost overwhelmed her.

Maya turned off her phone.

She replied to no one.

Night had fully fallen. Streetlights cast warm orange circles onto the ground.

Maya walked alone through the night, empty and lost, as if she no longer knew where she came from or where she should go.

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