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."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment, warming

He looked down at Kai.

hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at

time before disappearing

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

Tarofu said. Much like respect... my Pyrn taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife is quite

that those with a sense of time, understand the

themselves.

secret to my father's wisdom? I

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 better would indeed

more from my wife's human

it, and the day that you will teach

the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a

or

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

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 to avoid

and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first time I'd found errors

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

the issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern

sure who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same

They ha

member of the royal family, but

over the years?

deer with a

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

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

and nodded.

had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive? I wouldn't know until I