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."

moment, warming as he bowed his

student." He looked down at

hand. Kai followed the man inside.

before

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

Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife is quite

a sense of time, understand the value of using that time to

themselves.

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

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,

learn a lot more from my wife's

the day that you will

the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered,

or

traced the lines of figures,

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.

how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like this.

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mother, going over the books, learning

mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This

enough to steal from the palace again using the

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

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

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 human realm

and nodded.

was money a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too.