She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 495 When Athena arrived, she found her grandmother had passed away peacefully, a serene smile still resting on her face.

Athena couldn't help but think that her grandmother had probably met the grandfather she'd never known in her dreams.

She truly believed that her grandparents had been deeply in love. Only that kind of love and happiness could have kept her grandmother so warm and forgiving, even after losing her husband so young. "Miss Donovan, please accept our deepest condolences, the nurse and doctor said kindly. "This is a joyful sorrow. Your grandmother would want you to smile as you say goodbye." Athena wiped away the last of her tears and nodded, her voice steady. "Yes, she's just fallen asleep... into the most beautiful, eternal dream." She had prepared herself for this moment. What she wanted most was for her grandmother to leave this world without any regrets.

Over the past few days, Isaac's family had visited daily, doing everything they could to keep Athena's grandmother happy. And they had succeeded-her grandmother was truly happy.

In addition to Athena and the Kennedy family. Matthew and the Donovan family had also made regular visits. Every tAthena's grandmother opened her eyes, she was surrounded by the people who loved her.

The love and attention had worked wonders. Athena's grandmother had been in great spirits these past few days. She ate more than usual, smiled more, and even her wrinkles seemed softer.

Her grandmother had always been afraid of goodbyes. Athena was too-especially the final, in-person kind. But knowing that her grandmother had passed peacefully, lost in a dream, almost felt like a relief. Once the nurse had left and the door to the room closed behind her, Athena was alone.

She turned off the lights, leaving only the soft glow of the bedside lamp. Sitting down beside the bed, she gently held her grandmother's cold, wrinkled hand, her heart full of memories. She spoke softly, as if her grandmother were still there to hear her. "Grandma, I've been keeping something huge from you. It's not because I wanted to hide it-I had to. My mentor insisted that unless it was gone from this world, I could never tell anyone. You always taughtto keep my word, and I couldn't break my vow to him. "I'm telling you now because you're not just anyone-you're my grandma, the one I love more than anything. You won't believe this, but when I was five, I met something amazing. I met a cat in the park that could write. And it really could, Grandma. Athena's voice softened as she continued, "It was injured at the time, lying in the grass, mewing weakly. I was about to pick it up and rush it to the vet when it surprised me-it started writing on the ground with its paw, tellingwhere it was hurt. "Then it said it was thirsty and askedto give it swater first. After drinking, it madepromise not to tell anyone that it could read and write. Of course, I agreed" She paused for a moment, her eyes reflecting the depth of the memory before she went on. "Once it was better, I took it home: Since you're allergic to cats, I kept it in my room, out of your way. It was unbelievably smart.

"It learned how to use the toilet, flush it, and even shower on its own. When it was hungry, it found its food. It never once ruadeworry." Athena smiled, her thoughts drifting back. "It even knew how to use a computer. It could type faster than anyone I knew and often helpedwith my homework by typing out explanations 08:19 Mon, Dec 2 buu.

Chapter 493 249241 "It taughtall my computer skills-even my hacking skills. It shared everything with me-medicine, physics, astronomy chemistry. It knew it all, like a living, breathing encyclopedia. It becmy mentor She took a deep breath, as though bracing herself for what cnext. Then, one day, my mentor bechuman. Well, not exactly human. The consciousness of my mentor transferred from the car's body into a human one Her voice dropped lower. "It toldit cfrom a place beyond even alien worlds-a dimension higher than the three-dimensional space humans live in. Its hhad been invaded by a more advanced civilization, and to escape, it and its people had to lower their dimension and enter our three-dimensional universe.

"It was like the idea of dimensional reduction in The Three-Body Problem. Their level of technology and knowledge was beyond anything humanity could imagine. My mentor didn't explain much more than that, and I didn't ask Athena's expression softened, her gaze distant as she relived the tale. "What it did explain was that a physical body is too fragile to survive traveling through tand space. Only consciousness can move freely between dimensions.

"That's how my mentor and its people managed to survive-they stored their consciousness in higher-dimensional objects, lowered their dimension, and entered our universe, hoping to find a new home? She sighed, her voice quiet as she continued. "But the new hthey found wasn't suitable for living. Sof them boarded spaceships to search for a better place. After a long journey across tand space, they finally reached Earth, thousands of years ago. But by then, their ships were barely functioning-out of resources and in terrible shape.

"When they landed, the ships broke apart. The fragile parts were destroyed, including the core that held all their important technology and the map to their homeland-the so-called ancient civilization, or what we might call the ancient codes or treasure. That scattered across the Earth."