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 bowed his

student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready

hand. Kai followed the

time before disappearing into the

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wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a

simple as acknowledging someone by name is the

found that those with a sense of time, understand

themselves.

father's

naturally want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same

from my wife's human experience

day that you will teach

that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office.

or

sat behind his wide wooden desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in

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 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

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 errors like

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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over the

I recalled, my mother had sussed out the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely

enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could bet they

They ha

member of the royal family, but who had my father given access

over the years?

deer with a

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

at the closed ledger for a long moment. After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened

and nodded.

the Elders had to be involved, too. A