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."

faltered for a moment, warming as he

is a great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready

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

time before disappearing into

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at ease.

Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife

a sense of time, understand the value

themselves.

the secret to my father's wisdom?

would naturally want to conserve as much of it as

a lot more from my wife's human

that you will teach

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 walked into my office... taken the

or

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

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

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 found

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to

fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely the

the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

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

started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the human realm

and nodded.

someone among the Elders had to be involved, too.