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."

a moment, warming as he bowed his

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

Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at

last time before disappearing into the

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familiar shroud, but

my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for

time, understand the value of using that time to

themselves.

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

much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles,

will learn a lot more from my wife's human experience than

the day that you will teach her something that she

The office 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

or

wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but there was something

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

documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was

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mother, going

had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then

palace again using the same techniques,

They ha

member of the royal family, but who had

over the years?

deer with a

than a casual investigation, and

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 for those trapped on the other

and nodded.

was money a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One