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."

sternness faltered for a moment, warming as he bowed his

down at Kai. "Are you

hand. Kai followed the man inside.

time before disappearing into the

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

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

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

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

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

lot more from my wife's human

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

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 walked into my office... taken the portal that

or

his wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but there was something

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

back in the chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning

out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This

palace again

They ha

the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but I could

that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds

and nodded.

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