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

student." He looked down at

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

before disappearing into the

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as the door closed, the silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at ease. What

Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife is

with a sense of time,

themselves.

my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were

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 trying to make things better would indeed be miserable. It

from my wife's

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

the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my

or

desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just

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

flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how

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mother, going over

had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like

again using

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had

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

and nodded.

money a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead