Chapter 25: Meteor
Everly attended the public elementary school in Lemot Town—a small, rundown old school.
It couldn’t be helped—old story: their home was too remote. Aside from the Lemot school, the nearest other schools were in Micano City. Driving there would take over two hours one way. A morning drop-off and an afternoon pick-up would mean eight hours on the road each day—basically leaving no time for anything else.
Old John felt guilty about this, but Everly always knew how to persuade him.
“I know the people in town, so I’ll make friends quickly. If I went to school in the city, everyone around me would be strangers, and I’d feel out of place. Besides, the stuff they teach in elementary school is so simple—I’ve already taught myself everything. It doesn’t matter where I go to school.”
And she wasn’t lying.
In her previous life, Everly had actually graduated from college. Even though her memory wasn’t completely intact, what she had learned was deeply ingrained—almost instinctive. When she encountered it again, a little thought was enough to recall it fully, allowing her to master it again and connect it seamlessly with other knowledge.
For someone with that kind of “study hack,” the material taught to American elementary students was truly nothing.
Old John couldn’t argue with her logic, so he finally sent her to the school in Lemot.
The elementary school was named after a well-known local natural landmark: Volcanic Gorge Elementary School. Almost all of its students were from Lemot Town itself. The town was very small—just over a thousand residents—so the school only had six classes: one per grade, with each class having just a dozen or twenty students. The student body was very tiny.