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,

a great student." He looked down

followed the man inside. The boy

before

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

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

with a sense of time, understand the

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

to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same

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

it, and the day that you

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

or

the lines

supposed to be. But as I scanned the 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

leaned back in the chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors

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with mother,

care of it. This

bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could bet they weren't a

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

and I

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

and nodded.

the Elders had to be involved, too. A