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."

moment, warming as

down

my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy

before

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like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation.

those with a sense of time, understand the value of

themselves.

father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in general, but I could

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,

will learn a lot more from my wife's human experience than I ever

and the day 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. I wondered, for a moment, how often he'd walked into my office... taken the portal that led to my mother's

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

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

better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time

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a child, sitting with mother, going over

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

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

They ha

to be a member of the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the

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

and nodded.

there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until I caught