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."

faltered for a moment, warming as he bowed his

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

my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy

before

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shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

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

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

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,

running out of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the

will learn a lot more from my wife's human experience than I

and the day that you will teach her something that she

made my 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 into my own office. I wondered, for a moment, how often he'd

or

latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in

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

through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the

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mother, going over the

taken care of it. This felt

who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

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

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

and nodded.

money 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 them for