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."

for a moment,

a great student." He looked down at Kai.

Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at

before disappearing into the

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

acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong

with a sense of time, understand the value of using

themselves.

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

conserve as much of it as possible.

my

the day that

scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the

or

from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just

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 to trace all of the amounts at the moment, but I could see enough to understand. Someone was siphoning money, and they were doing it well enough to avoid

of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors like this. The last

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a child, sitting with mother, going over

of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was

the palace again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

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 get

at the closed ledger for 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

and nodded.

a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead