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?"

"I forgot

about? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the

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

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

a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do

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

misplaced sense of loyalty or love for the kids that

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

be the easiest

"And what about you?"

stood and sighed. "I need to go

Tsuneo at this point made the most sense. He was the future King, and it was his duty to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make a bunch of

the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem

office looking harried as he poured over

barely a whisper.

"What's wrong? I

What are you

palace.

turned frustrated.

it going?" I asked, my voice barely

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eyes scanning 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 in time."

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

out to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who

"Not an option?"

one we would have ever

the easiest

"Which is?"

out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice

can't. We don't

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