The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 106

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Tsuneo

His eyes lit up and he threw his arms around my legs, squeezing tight. I pat his head.

I'll be the best little brother," he said soft and carnest.

"Of that, I have no doubt."

He looked up. "Are you going to be there for dinner too? You have lots of work to do, right?"

""I'll do my best."

He nodded. "Do you have to stay in the palace all day? Or do you get to go outside sometimes?"

"Sometimes.

That sounds boring," he remarked with a small pout. "I bet I could help. I'm really good at organizing things."

A faint smirk tugged at the corner of my lips. "Is that so?"

"Yup!" Kai said proudly. "Just you wait until I can read and right. I'll be the best helper ever."

Better than Lady Morgan?"

de flushed. "I don't know about that."

chuckled, squeezing him to my side as we reached the room.

You're a smart man."

knocked on the door. His tutor, an elderly man with a stern expression, opened the dor. He was ew and a bit unfamiliar to me, but Tarofu gave me his name. Master Neo," I nodded. "Thank you for educating him."

a moment, warming as

a great student." He looked down at Kai.

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the

time before disappearing into the

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at

Tarofu said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first

those with a sense of time, understand the value of using that

themselves.

that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in general, but I could see his

of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to

from my wife's human experience than

the day that you will

that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a moment, how often

or

from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make

inconsistencies. There were several large sums of money that had vanished it seemed. Not all at once, but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at the first glance. I couldn't

chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to

recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely the same

steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if

unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips

and nodded.

too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved,