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 grumbled, opening the book to start

had to do this as well. If 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 personal space. For Slater,

quickly hung in the air with only every flip of the pages resonating every few minutes. Penny quietly skimmed through the

achievements in her past

often invited to teach in

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

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her head back a little to

of him blocked her view, so she had to tilt a little.

a statue, staring blankly at the open book in front of him. It was as though his brain went into overdrive and he automatically went

alive?" she asked quietly, watching his blank eyes

as he harrumphed. "My brain's

even the

"Not even the introduction!"

pinched the bridge

took this challenge not 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

just a PR

adults, she rarely met Slater. She might try to visit him or reach out to

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

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what you

have the slight

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

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

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

slightly pleased there was

the

it. He only had a glimpse of it

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

to answer this."

don't think I've seen this

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

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Slater frowned. "Are you mocking me? I know

two!"

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