Well... It's 3 months later since my last release and 9 months since the last raw chapter was released and we have zilch new releases. I'm 95% sure this project by this mangaka is dead. 5% of me is hopeful it will come back from the dead since the manga "Hello, I'm a witch and the person I loved asked me to make a love potion" went on a 1 year and 3 months gap for the next chapter release
But that mangaka may have been sick and unable to work. This mangaka is clearly working on another manga so my guess is dispute with the publisher or sales short of expectation. So that would mean either that this manga will stay in the graveyard of the dead without any announcement like so many do, or they will reboot it with another mangaka. I really hope they resolve their issue. I like this mangaka's drawing and the story is quite nice and ends satisfactorily. A shame if it doesn't continue.
So anyway, the whole doll thing might be confusing for now but it will make sense further in the story.
And iirc, Cecily's dad really did consider killing her off for real. That's when Nelia spoke up to him.
Also, I don't do sfxes for action and fight scenes. Not worth the effort and the translated sfxes adds to nothing.