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 know these lessons from this book?' he

Although Slater wasn't spared from Keith's deathly glares all day, Keith didn't step into his personal

resonating every

her achievements in her past life,

was often invited to teach in universities

he's in grade 8, so she could easily follow the stages. Half an hour later, Penny fully grasped Slater's lessons from the previous semester and

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back a little to check on him.

her view, so she had to tilt a

like a statue, staring blankly at the open book in front of him. It was as though his brain

his blank eyes veered in her direction.

he harrumphed. "My brain's not functioning! I couldn't understand a word from

the

"Not even the introduction!"

Penny pinched the bridge of her nose

just 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 the shows

just

wasn't that sure because when they were adults, she rarely met Slater. She might try to visit him or reach out to him, but he was too busy

in his new school. Although not at the top, he wasn't on the last.' Penny peeked at the distressed

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Tell me what you

Slater didn't even have the slight reluctance

dragged his chair closer to her and said,

he did, Keith would have to go. Where? That would

still in great distress. "I don't want that, but I also know this

was slightly pleased there was still a fighting

saying that, Penny grabbed the paper

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

it and answer. I want to determine what grade you left your brain. This is an example problem from last year." Slater looked at

to answer this."

seen this problem ever in my

paper and flipped it to the clean page. She wrote in big

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Slater frowned. "Are you mocking

two!"

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