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 he

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

of my hand. Kai followed the man inside.

last time before disappearing into the

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like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more

said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife is

a sense of time, understand the value of using

themselves.

in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very

one knew that they were always running out of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never

will learn a lot more from my wife's

it, and the day that

with ledgers, records, and scrolls 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 he'd

or

traced the lines of figures, just checking to

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 trace all of the amounts at the moment, but I could see enough to understand. Someone was siphoning money, and they were doing it well

documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly

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

quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then

enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but

They ha

family, but

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

a long moment. After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the human

and nodded.

there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive?