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."

sternness faltered for a moment,

He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready

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

time before disappearing

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returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but

me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by

of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in general, but I could see

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

my wife's human

and the day that

turned and made my way to my father's office. The office was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the

or

My fingers traced the

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

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 this.

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with mother, going over the books, learning to read

of it. This felt like the same pattern

wasn't sure who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but

They ha

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

that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have

and nodded.

to be involved, too. A dead