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.

this book?'

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, that was already freedom, and after having a taste of it, he wanted to

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

often invited

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

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back a little to check on him. The stacked

blocked her view, so she had to tilt a little. When she saw

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

asked quietly, watching his blank eyes veered in her direction.

the book as he harrumphed. "My brain's not

the

"Not even the introduction!"

bridge of

remembered was very clever, humorous, and a critical thinker. Or so what she knows

just

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

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

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me what you don't

have

closer to her and said,

do you want to be a slave?" because if he did, Keith would have to go. Where? That would

great distress. "I don't want that, but I also know this is not

and was slightly pleased there was still a

saying that, Penny grabbed the paper and

only had a glimpse of it before she slid it

placed the pen on top of the paper. "Try to analyze it and answer. I want to determine what grade you left your brain. This is an example problem from last year." Slater

to answer this."

I've seen this problem

it to the clean page. She wrote in

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time Slater frowned. "Are you mocking

two!"

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