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."

for a moment, warming as

is a great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are

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

time before

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

respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I

sense of time, understand the value of using that

themselves.

that, trying to get over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in general, but I could see

of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating

my wife's human experience than I ever

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

was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace.

or

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

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 enough to understand. Someone was siphoning money, and they were doing it well enough to avoid detection-until

a better sense of things and how

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child, sitting with mother, going

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

the palace again using the

They ha

family, but

over the years?

deer with a

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 Convening, but I could

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

and nodded.

had to be involved, too. A dead one? One