Chapter 128

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Morgan

After I gave them an overview of everything the apothecary told me, I sent a guard to go find

Doctor Shang.

I handed the list to Anya, who scanned it carefully. Her eyes widened in shock as she recognized

the names.

"This is a bigger problem than I first thought. Bigger than we could have ever imagined. Some of these people weren't even on the list of suspects."

"I imagine that's because their families are the ones funneling the money and support."

Maya nodded. "That's more likely than not. A lot of the king's harem are noble women. They have their own money. Thrown dowries that are separate from the king's Treasury."

Do we have a way to trace that access to the kingdom's Treasury? Financial records or something?"

"Probably.What do we do?"

"We need a way to expose them. Something they can't just weasel out of."

"What if we test the royal children?"

"What?"

"If any of them are not the King's children, that would be proof they have them in loyal at minimum. We have a lot of grounds to start interrogating them about what other traitorous things they've been doing, leveraging it against their families. We could stop the money flow by

force."

Maya and I exchanged glances. "The test only tells you if the child is of the royal line though."

"There are other ways to tell lineage. What about the scroll?"

flinched. "I forgot

talked about it before? It would have cleared up the whole

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wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't

if the scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew

do it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone?

to do it when they get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't

out of some misplaced sense of

to at least have most of the money trail together before they get

would be the easiest

"And what about you?"

need to go speak to my

kingdom. With his father gone on this

but wonder why everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around Tsuneo's room before

office looking harried

barely a whisper. "We need to

looked up. "What's wrong? I felt

to that. What are you looking

the palace. Where'd

eyes turned

asked, my voice barely a whisper.

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the papers in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are capable of making the robes

They have to be right and the merchants that used to make them are all well...

a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes widened in disbelief. "Are

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one

the

"Which is?"

reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder.

"I can't. We don't

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