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.

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

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 live like

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

in her past life, Penny could

invited to teach in

in grade 7 and he's in grade 8, so she could easily follow the

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her head back a little

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

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

still alive?" she asked quietly, watching his blank eyes veered in her

is insane!" Slater slapped the book as he harrumphed. "My brain's not functioning! I couldn't understand a

even the

"Not even the introduction!"

Penny pinched the bridge of her

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 a

Slater. She might try to visit

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. "This is gonna be a piece of

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me what you don't

didn't even have the slight reluctance

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

because if he did, Keith would have to go. Where?

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

there was still a fighting spirit left in him. "Got

Penny grabbed the paper and

only had a glimpse of it before she

I want to determine what grade you left your brain. This is an example problem from last year." Slater looked at it up close and then back to her. "I don't know

to answer this."

seen this problem ever in

paper and flipped it to the clean

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Slater frowned. "Are you mocking me?

two!"

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