Chapter 58: Not for Sale
Watching Penny flee in embarrassment, Leon couldn’t help but chuckle.
After all, teasing a sheltered girl like her—seeing that mix of shyness and fluster—was always amusing.
Of course, Leon wasn’t only teasing Penny for fun. He genuinely thought she was a walking lucky charm.
In the Stardew Valley Fair event of the game, if you find Penny near the spinning wheel game and talk to her, she’ll tell you that after she won ten times in a row, the stall owner stopped letting her play.
Ten wins in a row—who could claim Penny’s luck wasn’t extraordinary? Even Leon himself usually lost nine out of ten spins when betting star tokens, which made the contrast all the sharper.
Cracking open a geode was basically like opening a mystery box—luck played a huge role in what you got. This was the kind of thing that came down to superstition. The difference between finding a rock and unearthing a prismatic shard was enough to make you believe that lucky people could do anything.
Now that Leon had made up for the “superstition” part, it was up to fate to see if it favored him.
He hopped on his bike and continued north. The library wasn’t far from the blacksmith’s shop, so it didn’t take long before he arrived at its door.
Even from outside, the heavy stone building radiated heat.