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 as he bowed

down at

my hand. Kai followed the

time before disappearing into the

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a

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 chuckled. Your wife is quite

sense of time, understand the value of using

themselves.

mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in

it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles,

more from my wife's human experience than

Look forward to it, and the day that you will

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

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

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

better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like this. The

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over

I 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 it was likely

palace again using the same

They ha

royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

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

for 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 funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the

and nodded.

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