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."

a moment, warming as he bowed his

looked down at Kai. "Are you

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside.

last time before disappearing

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

me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong

sense of time,

themselves.

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

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

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

day that you will teach her something that she will desperately

the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the

or

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

in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at the first glance.

the chair, flipping 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

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mother, going over the books, learning

and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it was likely the same

who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

but who had my father given access to

over the years?

deer with a

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

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

and nodded.

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