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, warming as he

looked down at Kai. "Are you

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

last time before disappearing into

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't

acknowledging someone

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

themselves.

my father's

that they were always running out of 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.

from my wife's human experience

forward to it, and the day that you will teach her something that she will

of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a moment, how often he'd

or

from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines

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 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

leaned back in the chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how

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with mother,

taken care of it. This felt

from the palace again using the same techniques,

They ha

royal family, but who

over the years?

deer with a

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

it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where

and nodded.

money a supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't