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?' he mentally grumbled, opening the book

his fate of being Keith's dog. Although Slater wasn't spared from Keith's deathly glares all day, Keith didn't step into

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

in her past

invited to teach in universities

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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little

she had to tilt a little. When she saw him, her face twisted in an ugly

of him. It was as though his brain went into overdrive and he automatically went into default

his blank

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

even the first

"Not even the introduction!"

the bridge of

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 from his interviews

just a

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

he didn't end up at the bottom of his class in his new school. Although not at the

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what

even have the slight

chair closer to her and

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

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

was still a fighting spirit left in him. "Got

the

at it. He only had a glimpse of it

placed the pen on top of the paper. "Try to analyze it and answer. I want to determine what grade you left

to answer this."

seen this problem ever in my

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

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time Slater frowned. "Are you

two!"

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