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."

moment,

He looked down at Kai. "Are you

my hand. Kai followed the man

before disappearing into

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silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation.

that those with a sense of time, understand the

themselves.

over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's

conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things better would indeed be

more from my wife's human

Look forward to it, and the day that you will teach her something

shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door

or

My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order,

were meticulously kept-or they were supposed to be. But as 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 trace all of the amounts at the moment, but I could see

through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like this. The last

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mother, going over the books, learning

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

was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could bet they weren't a

They ha

member of the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

closed the snap and stood, my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the

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 realm

and nodded.

a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until I caught