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

is a great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you

the

last time before

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

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.

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

themselves.

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 I could

want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things better would indeed

lot more from my

laughed. Look forward to it, and the day that you will

office. The 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,

or

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

but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at

and how much money was truly missing.

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with mother, going over

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

steal from the palace again using

They ha

but

over the years?

deer with a

and stood, my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had

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

and nodded.

be involved, too. A dead one?