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

down

the man inside. The boy glanced back at

last time before disappearing into

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

simple as acknowledging someone by name is

have found that those with a sense of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

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

to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things better would indeed be miserable. It

lot more from my wife's human

day that you

my way to my father's office. The office was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The

or

traced the lines

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 to understand. Someone was siphoning money, and they were doing it well enough to

a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't

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just a child, 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

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

They ha

the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

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

had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds

and nodded.

missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive?