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."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment, warming

He looked down at Kai.

the man

time before disappearing

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

Something as simple as acknowledging

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

themselves.

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

it as possible. Repeating the

from my

day that you will

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

or

the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were

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

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

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child, sitting with mother, going over the

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

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

They ha

family, but

over the years?

deer with a

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

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

and nodded.

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