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,

looked down at

go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy

time before disappearing into the

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

Tarofu said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name

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

themselves.

froze 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 general, but I could

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

more from my wife's human

day that you will teach

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,

or

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

ledgers were meticulously kept-or they were 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

through the 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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just a child, sitting with mother, going over the books,

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

from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

a member of the royal family, but who had

over the years?

deer with a

snap and stood, my mind already working 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 least

a long moment. After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should

and nodded.

the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I