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?"

forgot about the

why haven't we talked about it before? It would have

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very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let

still existed and we had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't going to be as

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

in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have

it out of some misplaced sense of

working on these records for their families. I want to at least have most of the money trail together before they get back to make

it would be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

stood and sighed. "I need to

duty 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 best to convince his father

why everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to

him in his office looking

said, my voice barely a whisper. "We

"What's wrong? I

What are you

the palace. Where'd you

eyes turned

going?" I asked, my voice barely a

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good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who

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

said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes widened in disbelief. "Are you

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've

his head. "I can't. We don't

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