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."

for a moment,

looked down

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

time before disappearing

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

taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name

a sense of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

get over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in

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

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

and the day that you will teach

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

or

the

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

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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been just a child, sitting with mother, going over

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

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

They ha

the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before

ledger for a long moment. After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the human realm for those trapped on

and nodded.

had to be