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 about

about it before? It would

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brought up. The king is very merciful. He

knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it

get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have

want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or love for

most of the money trail together before they get back to make sure that he doesn't have a

would be

"And what about you?"

need to go speak to

to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make a bunch of decisions. He would also be the best person to figure out how

side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security

found him in his office looking harried as he

voice barely a

"What's wrong? I felt

What are you

the palace.

eyes turned

it going?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper.

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"I can't find any other tailors who are capable of

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

"Not an option?"

one we would

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

it." I reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a

"I can't.

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