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,

looked down at

Kai followed the man

last time before disappearing into the

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wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but

me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled.

a sense of time, understand the value of using

themselves.

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, but

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 things better

more from my wife's

day that you will teach

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

or

the lines of figures, just checking to make sure

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

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

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sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to read

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

enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques,

They ha

royal family, but

over the years?

deer with a

closed 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

I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the human

and nodded.

someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I