Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

"I'm back." Linde shouted after opening the tent.

"You're back." Kitama was the only one in the tent. Katie and Schnee were not there. Kitama was making breakfast.

"Where are Sister Katie and little Schnee?" Lind asked casually as he sat down at the dining table and prepared to eat breakfast.

"Sister Katie is working on the fields, and Schnee is hunting." Kitama answered. "Where were you last night? Why didn't you come back all night?"

"Ah, I had something to do last night. I went to Fran's place first, and then went to the monastery of the war nuns. As it was too late, I didn't want to disturb your sleep, so I slept directly in the monastery and didn't come back." Lind explained.

"I see." Kitama nodded.

After that, Kitama didn't say anything, but sat quietly beside him, watching Linde eat his breakfast like a wife.

Since the wheat had been harvested once before, Lind no longer had to rely on straw cakes. While eating black bread and meat porridge, Lind glanced at Kitama from time to time.

I don’t know why, but Kitama’s smile now seems a little weird, even a little creepy.

Soon, Linde finished his breakfast. Since he had just had milk yesterday, there was no milk today.

"Wait a moment." Just as Linde was about to go out, Qitama suddenly called Linde.

"Huh?" Linde stopped and looked at Kitama in confusion.

Kitama didn't say anything, but picked up a wet towel, walked over, and gently washed Linde's face.

"Okay." After a while, Qitama finished wiping Linde's face. "Linde, take care."

"Then I'm going out." Linde was a little confused, but still turned around and left.

After Linde left, Kitama raised the towel in her hand, put it in front of her nose and smelled it.

“The scent of Miss Cynthia…” Kitama murmured, her eyes losing their luster.

After leaving the house, Linde walked towards the main tent. In order to facilitate work, Linde ordered a special work tent for himself. While walking, Linde recalled Kitama's actions just now, and always felt that something was wrong.

Wash your face... face...

Suddenly, just like a primary school student who has just solved a case, a "piu" sound appeared in his mind, and Linde suddenly thought of a possible reason.

Last night, when Sister Cynthia and I were taking a make-up class on human medicine, Sister Cynthia washed Lind's face with her holy water to show her gratitude to me. Afterwards, due to exhaustion from the make-up class, the two fell asleep without washing.

What did Sister Kitama smell on her face?

How about a cow's sense of smell?

As more and more things needed to be dealt with, and many of them were not suitable to be handled where he lived, before the decisive battle with Mara, Lind proposed to prepare a place for himself as a dedicated office.

Originally, Ilufa suggested that they just come to his main tent to work together, so that they can discuss anything in time if they are together. However, considering his wife's reputation, Linde declined this plan.

Although last night, Linde almost desecrated a nun of the God Emperor.

With a heavy heart, Lind arrived at his office tent. He opened the door curtain and saw two figures waiting inside.

"You're so slow." Elisa, who was sitting on a chair, complained with her arms crossed when she saw Linde come in.

"Good morning, master. Did you sleep well last night?" With his hands folded on his waist and shaking his body straight, Efit greeted Lind with a bright smile on his face.

"Alisa, Efit, good morning." After seeing the two of them, Lind calmed down and said to them.

The reason why the two of them are here is because they both hold the identity of secretaries. The difference is that Efit was appointed by herself, while Elisa was given to Lind by Ilfa using his power as a lord.

When she got to her seat, Efit was very considerate and helped her pull out the chair. Everything was so natural. Linde felt that Efit was becoming more and more like a capable female secretary.

Alisa looked at Efit with a complicated expression. As expected of someone born in a tavern? He was quick in action and always managed to do things that I would never have thought of.

"Hmm?" Just as Lind sat down, Efit's eyes suddenly fixed and his movements froze.

"What's wrong?" Lind heard Efit's voice and asked.

"No, nothing." Efit shook his head and sat in his seat next to him.

When Efitt got close to Lind's hair, he smelled a special smell. Although Kitama washed Lind's face, the large amount of water not only affected his face but also his hair.

When Efit sat down, his movements were a little flustered, but it did not attract the attention of the other two. After Efit sat down, Alyssa asked, "What are we going to do today?"

"Mara is dead now, and his head is still outside to dry." Lind first made a small joke. "Now that the biggest problem has been solved, the next focus is the development of the camp."

"I plan to completely renovate the entire camp. We can't live in tents anymore. We can't live in wooden houses either. We need brick and stone houses. We also need to build an army, expand the arable land, expand the camp, and expand..."

"Wait a minute." Linde talked about so many expansions in one breath that Alyssa couldn't keep up. "You talked about so many expansions in one breath that I can't remember them at all. Can you write them down?"

"That makes sense." Lind nodded. "But there's one thing we need to do first."

"what's up?"

"Find the masked man."

Chapter 285 The Mysterious Masked Man

"Masked man?" Efit was stunned when he heard this, and looked at his superior, or boss, or master, in confusion. It depends on what Lind wants Efit to do. "What masked man?"

"Efit, you didn't participate in the battle at the mountain pass, so it's normal that you didn't know." Alyssa answered Efit's question. "During the battle at the mountain pass, a masked man of unknown origin appeared."

"Yamaguchi... is it the place where the master defeated that terrifying lion?" Efit said after thinking for a while.

As evidence of Lind's achievements and bravery, and to boost morale and improve stability, after Mara's head was chopped off, it was not buried. Instead, it was stuck with a wooden stick in the center of the camp and left to dry naturally. If it were a game, there would probably be a note of "Stability +1".

"Master, you are so powerful to defeat such a terrifying lion!" Efit looked at Lind with admiration.

No one doesn't like the feeling of being admired, especially by a beautiful woman, and Lind is no exception. Waving his hands with great satisfaction, Lind explained: "No, no, no, this is not just my achievement, but everyone's, especially Alisa. If she hadn't desperately poked out one of Mara's eyes, I might have been the one who died."

"Hmph~" Elisa subconsciously straightened her chest, which was beginning to take shape, with an expression that said "you're still sensible."

"At that time, Alisa stabbed out one of Mara's eyes, and Mara's other eye was stabbed out by another person." Lind continued to explain. "And the masked person I'm talking about is her."

Efit nodded thoughtfully.

"The masked man saved me, but the weapon she used was problematic." As he spoke, Lind took out the dagger that was broken into two pieces from his pocket.

"It's a beautiful dagger." Efit observed it for a moment, and admired its appearance. Then he frowned as he saw it was broken into two pieces. "How did it break?"

"Is it beautiful? But it's a cursed weapon." Linde shook his finger and said coldly. "There was originally a demon living inside it, and it was trying to seduce me, young master, and then I stepped on it and broke it, and the demon inside rolled as far away as possible."

"Cursed weapon!?" Upon hearing this, Efit, who was about to reach out to touch it, immediately retracted his hand with a frightened look.

"Don't worry, the demon inside has disappeared, and now it's just a broken dagger." Linde comforted him. "The problem now is that I have to find the original owner of this dagger."

"Huh?" Efit was stunned. "Why?"

"Because she is most likely a follower of an evil god, and most likely a follower of the evil god." Linde said firmly. "Although judging from the results, she saved me and Alisa, but according to Alisa, the masked man called out her name at first sight, and obviously knew her, and he even covered his face on purpose, except for his eyes, his whole body was tightly covered, not even his hair was exposed. She is either a bondage enthusiast or a member of the camp, and she doesn't want us to recognize her."

"A follower of an evil god, and one who holds a cursed weapon, will always be a hidden danger if left alone, so I must find her."

Elisa nodded in agreement. Although she saved herself, it was not a good idea to leave a follower of the evil god alone.

"So... after you find her out, how are you going to deal with her, Master?" Efit asked curiously. "Use fire to purify her as usual?"

Although the official option of education and reform is available for cult members, in practice they are almost always burned to death.

"... Let's first figure out her intentions." Linde thought for a moment. "Even though she's a cultist, she saved my life and Alyssa's life after all. As long as she doesn't do anything that's against the law, I can let her go."

"As for what to do...let's talk about it after we find her."

"...Master Linde, you are such a gentle person." After listening to Linde's solution, Efit commented with a smile.

"Gentle?" Lind rolled his eyes at Efit's comment.

"That being said, how are you going to find her?" Alyssa asked in confusion. "The camp is not very big, and there are war nuns who specialize in dealing with evil gods, as well as former chaos shamans. Since this cultist has been hiding in the camp without being discovered, it proves that she is very good at hiding herself. They can't find her. Do you have any good ideas?"

"Of course." Linde pointed confidently at the broken dagger on the table. "This dagger itself will tell us who its original owner was."

The dagger revealed who its original owner was. Alisa blinked blankly.

If it were in the past, Elisa might have mocked the knight for having only muscles in his brain and always coming up with impossible things. But Elisa has been whipped by Lind countless times. Maybe he really has a way to make this dagger speak?

Not only Elisa, but Efit also looked at Lind and the dagger in surprise, with a hint of panic hidden deep in his eyes.

"Master, are you planning to ask the Mother Goddess of Earth to perform a miracle?" asked Efit.

"Of course not. I'm going to use a more scientific method." Linde smiled. "Wait for me here for a moment. I'll go get some tools."

"By the way, no one is allowed to touch this dagger when I'm not around, not even a little finger." Before leaving, Lind specifically reminded the two.

After Lind went out, the two girls met each other.

"What are you going to get, young master?" Efit asked Elisa.

"I don't know either." Alyssa shrugged. "I've long lost track of our great Lord Linde's thinking."

After a brief exchange, the two quietly waited for Lind to come back. While waiting, Alisa observed Efit's body with her peripheral vision.

Is it her?

Because of the tight time and the fact that the masked man was wrapped up tightly, Alyssa didn't observe much valuable information. The only thing she noticed was that he was about the same height as her, had a body that made her jealous, and had pink pupils.

Efit met two of these three criteria. They were of similar height, but her figure made her feel frustrated. The color of her pupils was wrong, but it could be changed through magic and divine arts, so Elisa was a little suspicious of Efit.

Noticing that Alisa was observing him, Efit tilted his head and smiled sweetly at Alisa.

Forget it, stop thinking about it, let’s wait until Lind comes back.

Soon, Lind returned with a bowl of black powder in his hand.

Chapter 286 The True Identity of the Masked Man

Let the weapon speak for itself and reveal its original owner. If anyone else said this, it would be regarded as nonsense and pretentious. But if it was Lind who said this, the situation would be different, because Lind had done many unexpected things.

After a few months of getting along, the others have developed a blind obedience to Lind. Whatever Lind says is what it is.

What magical method would he use to make this evil weapon speak? The two girls were very curious until Lind came in with a bowl of black powder.

"What is this?" Elisa asked, pointing at the black powder on the table.

"Is this... charcoal powder?" Compared to Elisa, who lacked experience in civilian life, Efit quickly recognized what it was.

"That's right, the answer is correct, extra ten points." Lind said happily, then sat down in his seat.

"What are you doing with this thing?" Looking at the black charcoal powder, Alyssa asked curiously.

"You'll know in a moment." Linde blinked mysteriously.

Under the curious gazes of the two girls, Lind took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and put them on, then carefully grasped the tail of the broken dagger and held the dagger upright.

After holding the dagger upright, Lind pinched a pinch of charcoal powder from the bowl and carefully sprinkled it on the pink dagger handle.

"Master, what are you doing?" Efit looked at Lind's every move in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do.

"Shh~ don't speak loudly." Lin De whispered.

"Oh." Efit nodded obediently.

Carefully sprinkling charcoal powder on the pink dagger handle, when he felt it was about right, Lind held the dagger horizontally and blew gently on it.

"Cough~ cough~" Alisa and Efit were both choked and coughed repeatedly. "What are you doing!"

"Sorry, I forgot to remind you." Linde apologized. "Pay attention next time."

"What on earth are you doing?" Alisa said dissatisfiedly.

"Do this." Lind looked at the black pattern that appeared on the handle of the dagger and smiled triumphantly.

The two girls came over curiously and looked at the handle of the dagger. A vague palm shape appeared on it.

“Eh hey hey!? What is this!?” Alisa shouted first.

"Fingerprints," Lind explained simply. "They are the marks left by human hands on things that have been used."

Efit subconsciously raised his hands and looked at them.

"It's amazing." Elisa exclaimed. "No wonder you don't let us touch it."

"And then? What can this fingerprint do?"

"We can find its original owner." Linde smiled. "Let me tell you a little-known fact: there are no two fingerprints in the world that are exactly the same."

"...I understand!" Alisa suddenly realized. "If everyone's fingerprints are different! Then through fingerprints! We can find the owner of this weapon!"

Elisa did not ask Lind why there would not be two identical fingerprints, but chose to believe Lind. Efit said nothing, and although he still smiled, his smile was a little stiff.

After the fingerprints appeared, Lind frowned.

"What's wrong?" Elisa asked.

"...Not sure." After observing for a while, Lin De said reluctantly.