Chapter 12

‘Even if I read books for three years, I won’t be able to read all the books here.’ It doesn’t matter if this Pennyl is winter all year round. If it was winter and snowed all year round, three years would pass in a blink of an eye just reading books in this library. “What books do you like? I’ll read you a book before you go to sleep.”

I finished dinner a little while ago, and today is the first day. There was nothing to teach the child this day at all. So today, Pia, who had chosen to read a book with the intention of getting to know Leon, looked down at the boy standing next to her. Even looking at it again, it’s pitiful to be so small and skinny as a child.

As the master of a mansion like this, he wasn’t skinny because he was poor, but he must have been so skinny because of the constitution he had inherited and because of his eating habits. ‘Allergies can’t be cured, so I have no choice but to get good sunlight and be healthy.’ Leon, whose complexion was not good, entered Pia’s eyes with pity. “Which book do you like?” Leon, who was still shy, raised his hand instead of answering and pointed to the fairy tale book above his head. “You like this book.”

Pia, who pulled out the children’s book that Leon pointed out, saw the tattered book cover. He must have read it a lot. Pia thought to herself, ‘He really likes it…’. “Then shall we go over there and read?” Pia reached out to Leon. Leon, who had been staring at her hand, gently raised his face to look at Pia. ‘Er, it’s cute…’ He doesn’t have the plump body that children at this age have, but he doesn’t know how deep his big, clear eyes are. ‘It’s blue like a lake.’ There are many blue eyes, but I have never seen such deep and beautiful eyes.

“Why? Don’t you want to hold my hand?” Leon shook his head and gently took Pia’s hand. ‘I have small hands…’ The seven-year-old’s hands are obviously small, but these hands were too small. Pia took Leon’s hand and walked to the wide, soft sofa, and sat Leon next to me and opened the book. “Once upon a time…….” The children’s book that Leon chose was the story of a couple who lost their baby to a witch. It was a children’s story book after all. Children from places where I worked before also likes to read this kind of book.