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.

know these lessons from this book?' he mentally

he didn't, then he should 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

only every flip of the pages resonating

in her past life, Penny could remember

She was often invited to teach in

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

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her head back a little to check on him. The

view, so she had to tilt a little.

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

the book as he harrumphed. "My brain's not functioning! I couldn't

the

"Not even the introduction!"

bridge of her nose

not just because she believed in Slater, but because the adult Slater she remembered was very clever, humorous,

that just

might try to visit him or reach out to him, but he

after 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 sighed.

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Tell me what

didn't even have the slight

dragged his chair closer to her and

a slave?" because if he did, Keith would

course not." His tone calmed down, but still in great distress. "I don't want that, but I

slightly pleased there was still a fighting

Penny grabbed the paper

something. Curious, Slater glanced at it. He only had a glimpse of it before

what grade you left your brain. This is an

to answer this."

don't think I've seen this problem ever in

quietly retrieved the paper and flipped it to the clean

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"Are you mocking me? I know

two!"

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