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."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment,

down at Kai.

the man

last time before disappearing into the

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

Tarofu said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a

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

themselves.

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

want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying

more from my wife's human

forward to it, and the day that you will

way to my father's office. The office was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led

or

sat behind his wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures,

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

better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like

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mother, going over the

I recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it.

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

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who

over the years?

deer with a

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

was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips

and nodded.

to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until I