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,

He looked down at Kai. "Are

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

time before disappearing into

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

starts small, Tarofu said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the

found that those with a sense of time,

themselves.

Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't

as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make

will learn a lot more from my wife's

and the day that you will teach her

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

or

the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make

kept-or 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

chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing.

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a child, sitting with mother, going over

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

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

They ha

royal family, but

over the years?

deer with a

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

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

and nodded.

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