Chapter 84: Damn You, System! (First Sub Request)
After reading the letter, Leon carefully folded it and tucked it into his pocket.
The contents weren’t long, but the hidden implications made him pause in thought.
It seemed the old man had realized he wasn’t the same grandson he had once known. Yet, he didn’t seem to care—in fact, he emphasized that he would still treat Leon as his own. Leon couldn’t figure out why.
From what little the wizard Rasmodius had mentioned when they last met, Leon gathered that the old man’s soul now resided in the Spirit Realm and was watching over him. That alone was intriguing.
According to what Krobus had once told him, the Spirit Realm was where the souls of Forest Magic holders went after death. If the old man was living there, it meant he, too, possessed Forest Magic.
Whether it was the same kind Leon had was uncertain, but it couldn’t be too different. Krobus had said Forest Magic users tended to live long lives. Yet Evelyn, who had shared a special bond with Leon’s grandfather, looked no more than eighty or ninety at most. So why hadn’t the old man outlived her?
Something must have happened—what exactly, Leon didn’t know. But piecing together all the clues, he thought of an even more intriguing possibility.
Perhaps his grandfather was somehow behind the Community Center restoration tasks.
After all, the offerings required for those tasks touched on nearly every aspect of what Stardew Valley could produce.