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 as he

student." He looked down at Kai. "Are

let go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at

before disappearing

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

simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation.

of time, understand

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

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 human experience

that you

way to my father's office. 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 often he'd

or

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

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

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 like this. The

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

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

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

They ha

but who had my father given access to

over the years?

deer with a

require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before

After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated

and nodded.

there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still