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."

moment, warming

is a great student." He looked down at Kai.

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

last time before disappearing into the

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like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even

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

sense of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

father's wisdom? I couldn't say that

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

my wife's human experience than I ever

it, and the day that

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

treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order,

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

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

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child, sitting with mother, going over the

of it. This felt like the same pattern as then

again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had

over the years?

deer with a

possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to

I opened

and nodded.

be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until I caught them for