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

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

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

time before

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shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at ease. What was

taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick

a sense of time, understand the

themselves.

mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom?

as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things

learn a lot more from my

day that you will teach her something that

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 palace. The door to the left led into my own office.

or

traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but

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.

through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the

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sitting with mother, going over the books,

it. This felt like the same pattern

was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques,

They ha

a member of the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I

had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened

and nodded.

among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive?