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

student." He looked down at Kai.

followed the man inside.

before disappearing into the

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a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at ease. What was

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

themselves.

to get over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't

much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things better would indeed be miserable. It seems

learn a lot more from my wife's human experience

that you will teach her something that she will desperately

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,

or

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

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

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 time I'd found errors like this. The last

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a child, sitting with mother, going

recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so

palace again using the same

They ha

of the royal family, but who had my father given access

over the years?

deer with a

the snap and stood, my mind 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 at least get

it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping

and nodded.

to be involved, too. A dead one?