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."

sternness faltered for a moment, warming as he bowed his

is a great student." He looked down

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

last time before

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

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

with a sense of time, understand the value

themselves.

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

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

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

Look forward to it, and the day that you will teach her something

the palace. The door

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 make sure that

they were 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 at the first glance. I couldn't take the time to trace all of the amounts at

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

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sitting with mother,

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

from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

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

at the closed ledger for a long moment. After everything that had happened recently, it was unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again,

and nodded.

to be involved, too. A dead one? One still alive?