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."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment, warming as

great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you

of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back

before

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud,

taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick

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

themselves.

father's

they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same

will learn a lot more from my wife's human experience

the day that you

and affairs of the palace. The door to the

or

flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of

I scanned the most recent entries, I noticed several 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 take the time to

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

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a child, sitting with 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

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

They ha

family, but who had my father given access

over the years?

deer with a

This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but

I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been

and nodded.

to be

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