Parris nodded with a livid expression. "I understand."
"Don't worry, Young Master Linde." Ted softly comforted the somewhat at-a-loss Linde. "You did very well. These clues are enough to find her!
Rest assured, she isn't as strong as she made herself look. Otherwise, she wouldn't have merely been secretly impersonating Parris."
Ted and Earl Ster exchanged a glance... They both understood very well that someone capable of reducing Dieter, already at the upper mid-tier, to this state in a single blow would not find it all that difficult to deal with a level 10 Parris.
What would be difficult was keeping up the impersonation indefinitely.
That meant her disguise could not last very long, or there would be some sort of flaw... And the maids the Ster Family brought into the castle had served them for three generations. Ted and Parris knew every one of their names and faces.
Parris understood that herself, so she would certainly start by investigating the low-ranking maids who rarely appeared before everyone.
For example, the chopping-block maids in the kitchens, who specialized in slaughtering and cleaning chickens, ducks, fish, and meat.
Their work looked simple, and they did not need to do anything else... But providing food for so many people in the castle took quite a while and consumed a great deal of stamina.
So basically, as long as they finished their assigned work, they could return to rest.
Though higher-ranking kitchen maids watched over them while they worked, they generally did not pay attention to the appearances of the rough labor maids.
There were also the garden cleaning maids... Once the identities of these servants, who lived in the castle basement, were confirmed, nobody usually paid much further attention to them.
They were not allowed into the upper levels of the castle,