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.

isn't even studying. Does she even know these lessons from this book?' he mentally grumbled,

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

flip of the pages resonating

past

was often invited to teach in

as a professor. But this was junior 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

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her head back a little

she had to tilt a little. When she

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

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

he harrumphed. "My brain's not functioning!

even the first

"Not even the introduction!"

Penny pinched the bridge of her nose

Slater, but because the adult Slater she remembered was very clever, humorous, and a critical thinker. Or so what

just a PR

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

again, 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

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me what

Slater didn't even have the

her and said, "Penny, this

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

distress. "I

slightly pleased there was still a fighting spirit left in him.

grabbed the paper and

had a glimpse of it before she slid it

what grade you left your brain. This is an example problem from last year." Slater looked at it up close and

to answer this."

this problem ever in my

retrieved the paper and flipped it to the clean page. She

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"Are you

two!"

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