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 he

looked down at Kai. "Are you

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the

last time before disappearing

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

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

have found that those with a sense of time, understand the value of using

themselves.

that, trying to get over in my mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom?

much of it as possible. Repeating

more from my wife's human experience than I ever

and the day that you will teach

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

or

from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order, but there was something

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

and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first

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been just a child, sitting with mother,

of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so

again using the same techniques,

They ha

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

over the years?

deer with a

would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if

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

and nodded.

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