After dinner, Penny dragged Slater to the library for a briefing. Seated on the chair, Slater's jaw hit the floor at the stacks of books in front of him. This sight was too overwhelming for him.

"This..." Slater scoffed, averting his dilated eyes at the little sister standing behind the table. "I have to read all of this?"

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"There's more. Don't worry." -

"There's more?!" his face drained of colors as his face twisted in dismay.

Looking at him, Penny wondered if she even made the correct

decision. These books were just too basic. Even Penny in the first life understood them quickly.

"Penny, I can't do this," Slater confessed, while shaking his head vigorously. "This is too much for me! I can't do it like this or I'll die - ack!"

Slater nearly bit his tongue when her hand struck the back of his head. He gasped in disbelief, looking at her with dilated eyes.

"Did you

did you just smack my head?"

"I did. So what?"

"Penny!"

"You said you want to die or just be Keith's slave for the next year until he mysteriously goes missing." Her expression died and her tone was cold. "You hadn't even opened one book and you're saying you can't do it? Goodness."

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He wouldn't need to be a slave if she didn't bring it up!

Slater rubbed the back of his head as he sulked. "I don't want to be

a slave," he mumbled. "Fine. I'll read."

"Good. Start with this one." Penný casually picked up one book from the stack and dropped it in front of him. "Go, chop chop!"

He thought once she said that, she would leave. But Penny sat right next to him and started writing on a piece of paper.

these lessons from this book?' he mentally grumbled, opening

Keith's dog. Although Slater wasn't spared from Keith's deathly glares all day, Keith didn't step into his personal space. For Slater, that was already freedom, and after

every flip of the pages resonating

in her past life, Penny

was often invited

and he's

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little to check on him. The stacked

a little. When she saw him, her face twisted in an ugly

at the open book in front of him. It was as though his brain went into overdrive and he

you still alive?" she asked quietly, watching his blank eyes veered in her direction. "I see. You're not."

book as he harrumphed. "My brain's

the

"Not even the introduction!"

Penny pinched the bridge of

Slater, but because the adult Slater she remembered was very clever,

just a

when they were adults, she rarely met Slater. She might try to visit him or reach out to him, but he was too busy to

that bullying incident, he didn't end up at the bottom of his class in his new school. Although not at the top, he wasn't on

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me what you don't

didn't even have the slight reluctance

his chair closer to her and said, "Penny, this isn't gonna

did, Keith would have to go. Where? That would be her darkest secret

calmed down, but still in great distress. "I don't

there was still a fighting

the paper

glanced at it. He only had a glimpse of it before she slid it in

you left your brain.

to answer this."

this

paper and flipped it to the clean page. She wrote

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frowned. "Are you

two!"

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