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.

even studying. Does she even know these lessons from this book?' he mentally grumbled, opening the book to

start accepting his fate of being Keith's dog. Although Slater wasn't spared from Keith's deathly glares all day, Keith didn't step into his

with only every flip of the pages resonating every few minutes. Penny quietly skimmed through the lessons Slater's grades were

achievements in her past life, Penny could

lessons. She was often invited to teach in

secondary. Fortunately, her subjects and Slaters aren't that far since she is in grade 7 and he's in grade 8,

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back a little to check on him. The

so she had to tilt a little.

there like a statue, staring blankly at the open book in front of

quietly, watching his blank eyes veered in

he harrumphed. "My

the first

"Not even the introduction!"

Penny pinched the bridge of

because she believed in Slater, but because the adult Slater she remembered was very clever, humorous, and a critical thinker. Or so what she knows from his interviews and

that just

visit him

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 the last.' Penny peeked at the distressed Slater and

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me what you don't

have the slight reluctance

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

Keith would

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

there was still a fighting spirit left in

the paper

had a glimpse of it before she slid it

you left your brain. This is an example problem from last

to answer this."

seen this

flipped it to the clean page.

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"Are you mocking me? I know that.

two!"

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