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."

sternness faltered for a moment, warming as he

great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready to

of my hand. Kai followed the man inside.

last time before disappearing

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me like a familiar shroud,

simple as acknowledging someone by

a sense of time, understand the value

themselves.

at 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

want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to

lot more from my

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

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 walked into my office... taken

or

the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things

seemed. Not all at once, but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at

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

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sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to

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

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

They ha

but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the

opened it again, flipping to

and nodded.

the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one?