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

looked down at Kai. "Are

go of my hand. Kai followed the man

last time before disappearing into

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as the door closed, the silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but

respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name

have found that those with a sense of time, understand

themselves.

my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in

that they were always running out of time, they would naturally want to conserve as much of it as

from my wife's human

to it, and the day that you will teach her something that she will

the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a moment, how often he'd

or

sat behind his wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures,

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

back in the chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how

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just a child, sitting with mother, going over

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

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

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had my father given access to

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

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

and nodded.

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 them for