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."

faltered for a moment, warming as he bowed

looked down at

the man inside. The

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 ease.

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

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

themselves.

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 general, but I could see his

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, never trying to make things better would indeed be miserable. It

lot more from my wife's

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

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 the portal that led to my mother's

or

desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of

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

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

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child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning

the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same

sure who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but I could at

that it had started recently. I opened it again,

and nodded.

missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A