Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 100

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 100

 

 

”For making a great contribution to promoting the school, this certificate is hereby awarded!”

“Give it here.”

Johann snatches the certificate from Flash and puts it in the display case in the living room.

It’s the display case that Larry and Ada pooled their money to buy when Johann received a commendation from school after the incident with washed-up catcher Andy Clark.

“Wow!”

“There are so many!”

Wednesday, when they only have morning classes.

Friends who came to Johann’s house look at the certificates with sparkling eyes.

Johann also looks at the certificates.

‘Twenty of them…’

When he became an exclusive model for H&M.

When ‘Dream-Journey by Ship’ charted on Billboard.

When Grey’s Anatomy aired.

When he made it to the California West Roster.

When he provided clues to rescue Mason.

When he won the violin competition.

When he drew ‘Fire Always Targets Us’ commissioned by City Hall.

When his name was credited as composer for “We Go,” the lead single by Joe Walsh & Jimmy Page, Robin Joel.

When he won the monthly quiz competition.

When he ranked first in the entire school for both midterms and finals.

And finally, this school promotional material.

In about 7 months since coming down from the forest, he had almost filled the display case.

Even though elementary schools are known to hand out certificates liberally to boost children’s self-esteem and academic performance, the density of what he had experienced was on a different level.

‘There really were so many things…’

Looking at it this way, it seems like so much had happened.

Each one an amazing experience.

‘Among them, the one I like most…’

Johann looks at the trophy that reads “Family Chart Annual 1st Place.”

A trophy that looks exactly like Billboard’s.

On Father’s Day, when he gave Larry a dedication song, Larry made this for him the next day.

‘That day when Ada gave him a bouquet, Larry’s expression was worth seeing.’

His startled, wavering expression.

Remembering that scene makes him smile naturally.

“How much did admission and transfer inquiries increase?”

“Almost double, they say?”

From kindergarten to high school.

All schools under the Fairmont Education Foundation reportedly received more than double the application inquiries compared to last year.

“Wow…”

“By the way, our elementary school got three and a half times more.”

All because people saw photos of Emily, Flash, and other friends and made admission and transfer inquiries.

That’s why he received not only a commendation but also a scholarship.

“B-because of us?”

“Ha! You shouldn’t start dating already…”

“You’re going to hit on first graders?”

“Ew! Get away!”

“N-no, that’s not what I meant!”

Friends backing away in horror and the friend chasing them.

Emily, pretending not to notice, quietly approaches and offers snacks.

“Summer break is coming soon.”

“That’s right.”

One more week.

After one more school event, they’ll have 5 weeks off.

In other words, 4th grade will be over in a week.

“I hope we’re in the same class in 5th grade too.”

“…Yes! Hehe!”

Emily, who was grinning at Johann’s words, suddenly catches herself.

“So what will you do during summer break?”

His schedule excluding drawing murals for Lewis & Boris Law Firm and lessons.

“I don’t really have any plans?”

Honestly, he’d be busy even without those two things.

He needs to send the legacy that ‘Tragic Genius, William James Sidis’ intentionally didn’t reveal to Professor Daniel Collo, solve the world’s 7 major mathematical problems, and upload the Strauss pieces that Josef II remembers to SoundCloud.

He’d like to visit the safe houses that ‘The One Who Became a Star’ hid throughout America, but Larry probably wouldn’t allow it, so he gave up.

All of these are things he can’t tell Emily about.

“Except for taking photos that Rocky commissioned, there’s nothing?”

Rocky Management, which registered a total of 1,500 students while acquiring the Star Model Agency building.

Because of Fairmont’s great results from the promotional materials, various schools in California are requesting photo commissions, but it’s uncertain whether those will even materialize.

It’s because Johann is too young.

“R-really?”

Emily’s face brightens considerably.

“Then let’s go to a concert in August!”

“A concert? You mean an orchestra concert?”

“…Right! You must have heard from Teacher Salonen!”

“Yeah.”

The title of this concert is ‘For Strauss.’

It’s a 3-hour performance combining published and unpublished pieces by Strauss II and Josef Strauss that Johann uploaded to SoundCloud.

Amazing performers like Martha Argerich and Kyung-Wha Chung will appear as soloists.

Because of this, tickets sold out in one day as soon as the news was announced.

The concert running for a total of 5 days was completely sold out.

This happened even though not only America’s Big Four orchestras but also world-class orchestras were all holding summer concerts with Strauss themes.

“Wait. Gasp! D-don’t tell me you’re also participating as a performer?”

“No.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen strongly suggested it, but Johann declined.

“If I get mixed in with people like that, it becomes troublesome.”

Even as a simple orchestra member, the media would go crazy talking about it.

“Paparazzi would probably follow too?”

“That wouldn’t be good.”

“Right.”

That’s why he refused.

“Teacher Salonen must have been very disappointed.”

“It’s okay. Teacher’s daughter Sophia will attend as one of the soloists…”

“Johann! Johann, Johann, Johann-!”

Crash bang clatter!

Friends run down from the second floor and present a leather bundle.

“Wh-what is this? Is this possibly a treasure map?!”

Leather with world geography and dots marked here and there.

It’s a treasure map recording places he thought he should excavate when he goes out into the world later.

“Ah…”

‘How did these kids find this?’

After excavating ‘The One Who Became a Star’s’ Safe House, he had hidden it deep in the closet thinking it would be troublesome if discovered, so how did these kids find it?

Rather than resolving that question, the problem right now is to play it off.

“Well, I found it while wandering around Rocky Forest, so I’m not really sure.”

“Ooooh!”

“Treasure! It’s treasure!”

“Set sail-!”

“First, bring the laptop! Let’s compare it!”

“Old story!”

The children instantly became noisy.

 

* * *

 

“Woah!”

“Whoa!”

On a large ship crossing the vast ocean.

Cheers burst out naturally from the cool sea breeze hitting their entire bodies.

“Don’t lean your bodies outside the railing!”

“Yes-!”

The children quickly step away from the railing when the chaperone gives a warning.

A chaperone refers to an adult volunteer who accompanies and supervises young students when they go out or travel, usually volunteered by the students’ parents.

Flash wrinkles his nose.

“Tch. We should just go to Disneyland like last year.”

“Disneyland…?”

The fantasy land, Disneyland.

They say it’s a theme park that 100 percent of people who’ve been there are satisfied with.

“You go to Disneyland as a school event?”

“Oh, Johann, you probably haven’t been there.”

“We’ve been there so much we’re sick of it! We probably go three or four times a year?”

They go with school, and they go with their families too.

“Let’s go together next time!”

“Mr. Kellner gave us Disneyland tickets too!”

Disneyland tickets with no date written on them, so they can go anytime.

He also gave Universal Studios tickets.

“My goodness.”

‘The expensive tuition is worth it.’

This is why it’s a prestigious school, I suppose.

‘Wait, then?’

Could this camp place they’re going to now be comparable to Disneyland?

The island tour, the final school event of the second semester of 4th Grade.

Johann’s eyes lit up as he looked at the island rapidly approaching from far away.

That’s when it happened.

“Oh, Johann! There you are!”

“Teacher?”

The Basic Scout homeroom teacher approaching with a bright smile.

For some reason, he suddenly felt uneasy.

 

“Now, now, get off carefully!”

Two Harbors, located on the north side of Santa Catalina Island.

About a hundred 4th Grade students and adults who carefully disembarked took pre-prepared buses and arrived at a place called Camp Cherry Valley.

“Wow! It’s a fire truck!”

“Ooh! A police car!”

“There’s a slide too!”

An inflatable slide facing the beach and large fire trucks and police cars set up in a V-shape.

The children with eyes turned upside down rush toward the fire trucks and police cars.

Firefighters and police officers, the most admired professions by Americans.

Naturally, the fire trucks and police cars they ride in had to be the vehicles that boys most wanted to ride.

“Mister, can we ride it?”

“Mister, have you put out fires with this?”

Johann also peers around in front of the fire truck he’s seeing for the first time in his life.

‘Hmm. No matter how I look at it, it seems like a boot camp…’

Besides the facilities that look like entertainment scattered throughout the tan-colored ground, there are square buildings of similar color to the dirt ground standing here and there.

‘That’s a watchtower, that’s an obstacle…’

He feels anxious. Ominous.

Starting from when the Basic Scout teacher approached earlier, he’s been feeling uneasy.

“Look, even the clothes of the people coming out over there are military… Ah.”

Peeeee-!

“Ugh!”

Everyone covers their ears and looks for the source of the noise.

-Did you come here to play?! Hurry up and get over here-!

Johann smiled.

“What a mess.”

If he had absorbed and accessed military figures, he would have gotten PTSD.

Johann tapped the dazed Flash and Emily and launched his body.

“What are you doing? Run.”

You have to move first to get praised.

The experiences of the soldiers he had accessed so far were telling him that.

 

* * *

 

“One! Two! Three! One!”

“Match the rhythm with the person next to you! Rhythm!”

“Kyahaha!”

“It’s weird! My body won’t move as I want!”

“Teacher! This kid is running strangely!”

Children whose smiles don’t disappear from their faces, finding something so amusing.

The instructors aren’t serious either, only scolding children who are playing around, not grabbing and shaking them like a real training camp.

After warming up like that, they split into each class and scatter to various parts of the camp.

The place Johann and his classmates headed to was inside a fairly spacious building.

“Nice to meet you all! You know who the teacher is, right?”

“Yes!”

The homeroom teacher for Basic Scout class.

Johann glances at him dressed in the same outfit as the instructors and tilts his head looking at the things placed on the table.

“I feel like I’ve seen these things somewhere before…”

Stones and long sticks, flat leather pieces, leather straps, whetstones.

Memories of when he first made a hunting spear slowly come back.

Johann’s narrowed eyes turn toward the Basic Scout teacher.

The teacher, whose eyes met his, grins.

“Does everyone know how primitive people hunted?”

“They caught and ate dinosaurs with spears and arrows!”

“What were those spears and arrows made of?”

“Stone! …Oh? Then?!”

“Wow!”

“Everyone seems to know what the teacher wants to say. Then shall we all go back to being primitive people and make stone spears?”

“Yes!”

“Kyahahaha!”

‘Sigh.’

It seemed like they pulled this stunt because he wasn’t participating in Basic Scouting class.

Johann looked at the homeroom teacher who was giving out samples to his friends with expectant eyes, then picked up stone and leather and closed his eyes.

‘Absorption Reading. Weaponry researcher.’

A Weaponry Professor who researched, developed, and recreated all types of weapons that existed on Earth, from ancient stone tools to modern firearms.

‘Almost like a vintage weapon enthusiast.’

He was someone who loved weapons from before gunpowder was developed – cold weapons – so much that he never let them out of his hands.

For him, cold weapons were alpha and omega.

It wasn’t simply about buying materials to make them.

He was someone who liked to go directly into the wilderness and build forges using the methods of that time, extracting metals to create weapons.

If he couldn’t extract metals, he wouldn’t be satisfied unless he made weapons from stone or bone.

‘Thanks to this person, I was able to make spears and swords.’

He could make all weapons starting from stone up to iron.

“Huh? Don’t you need to look at the sample?”

“I’ve made stone weapons to the point of being sick of them.”

“Ah.”

Johann wrapped the stone that would serve as a spearhead in leather, placed it on his thigh as if showing Emily, then picked up a stone to use as a hammer and struck down.

Crack!

 

“Wow!”

After some tapping and hammering, a spear was quickly completed.

The children who had gathered around were excitedly stomping their feet, and the Basic Scout Teacher was also breathing heavily with excitement.

“Done.”

Johann sharpened the blade with a whetstone, then placed leather on the table and drew across it with force.

Then….

Slice!

The leather was cut through like magic.

“Wowwwww!”

“Me too! I’m going to make one too!”

“I’m going to make one even cooler!”

The Basic Scout Teacher’s breathing became even more intense.

“Jo, Johann. Could you make a weapon with this too? I found this nearby when I came for a preliminary survey recently….”

“Are you serious?”

What the Basic Scout Instructor held out was obsidian.

A mineral that becomes sharp with just a slight chip. It could easily cut through animal hide and was even sharp enough to be used as surgical scalpels.

He was telling a student to try handling that dangerous mineral.

“Ahem! Le, let’s pretend you didn’t hear that. Instead, this is a gift.”

The Basic Scout Instructor pressed a chunk of obsidian larger than two fists into Johann’s hands and quickly disappeared, leaving Johann puzzled as he looked at the obsidian chunk.

“Why?”

“Emily, is this place an island formed by volcanic activity?”

Usually obsidian is natural glass formed naturally when volcanoes erupt lava.

“We, well? I haven’t been here long since moving… But more importantly, should I do it like this?”

Anyone could see she was changing the subject, but Johann understood.

‘She might not know.’

Rather than that, his attention was more drawn to the obsidian.

‘I think it was called a protection stone somewhere….’

Protection from negative energy and psychic attacks.

He vaguely remembered that people made crafts from it to wear on their bodies or keep in their homes.

‘I should collect some.’

The obsidian was in good condition too.

It would be nice to carve it round and make accessories like bracelets, necklaces, or earrings.

“No. You’ll get hurt doing it that way. Wrap the hand axe with leather and….”

Johann directly guided her hands and corrected her posture, teaching her carefully step by step, and Emily’s face turned bright red.

 

* * *

 

After that, they threw axes at targets and learned how to determine direction using constellations.

All content taught in Basic Scouting classes.

The children listened intently with shining eyes at the mysterious knowledge they were learning for the first time, and after eating lunch prepared by the school, they began island trekking disguised as treasure hunting.

“Ugh, it’s hot!”

The weather was a whole 2 degrees higher than June.

It was quite cool in the morning which was nice, but after eating lunch, the sunlight beat down as if it would burn their entire bodies.

“Ugh, I can’t let my skin get tanned….”

“Apply sunscreen before saying that.”

“I did apply it?”

“You look the same as usual though?”

“If I apply it thick, I look ugly.”

“You’re ugly to begin with.”

“Hey!”

Flash kicked off the ground and Lucy chased after him.

Whether they did that or not, there were boys having spear fights with the stone spears they’d just made, and Joy taking care of Mason who was already panting even though they hadn’t walked much.

Johann smiled drowsily while touching his stomach at the peaceful scene.

“Already hungry?”

“Yeah.”

He had always eaten large portions, but ever since realizing he had grown a whole 3 centimeters, he felt hungry every time he turned around.

It seemed like he was about to start growing in earnest.

“And I’m sleepy.”

With the hot sunlight and muggy air, his body felt increasingly sluggish.

In the Rocky Forest, he would get in this condition when the real heat began.

“Johann is weak in summer….”

“The Rocky Forest is cold.”

“Mm. So will you be able to do water play later?”

After the treasure hunting and trekking ended, they would immediately do water play at the beach in front of the camp. Then they would return home.

“I’ll do it.”

There was one reason he brought a spear even though there were no threatening elements.

To hunt.

Hunting sea fish.

It was his first experience ever.

‘Like this.’

Thunk!

Johann thrust his spear tip under a rock beside his foot and flipped it over.

“…Wow! Johann, it’s treasure! Treasure! It’s a gift card!”

The hidden note said it was a book exchange gift card that could be used at the biggest bookstore in LA.

It was worth a whole 100 dollars.

“Huh, how did you find it?”

“Traces left by humans are visible even with just a glance.”

It seems like they tried to cover their tracks, but they’re just amateurs after all.

Compared to cunning animals, they’re bound to fall far short.

Clap clap clap clap clap!

“Ahem.”

“Then I want the Cosmetics Exchange Voucher!”

There was definitely supposed to be a Cosmetics Exchange Voucher among the treasure.

While school rules don’t allow makeup, basic cosmetics like cleansing products and lip balm are permitted at Fairmont School.

Mascara is also allowed.

“Teachers don’t even notice mascara! You can just say your eyelashes are naturally long… Wow.”

Johann’s eyes widen too.

From the LA Passenger Terminal, the view that had been slightly obscured by this island opens up completely.

The vast ocean stretching to the horizon.

The brilliantly blue expanse of water penetrates his entire body along with the wind.

‘This is the real ocean.’

An impulse arises to just dive in without thinking.

“So this is why sailors of old fell for it…”

“Huh?”

“Never mind.”

It’s nonsense.

Just as he was about to shake his head and turn away.

“Emily.”

“Yeah?”

Emily’s eyes widen as she turns her head in the direction Johann is pointing.

“How long was our treasure hunt?”

“T-two hours?”

And it only took 20 minutes to get here.

“Aren’t you hungry?”

“…I’m hungry!”

She wasn’t hungry just a moment ago, but she’s planning to be hungry from now on.

“Deal?”

“Deal!”

“Hey guys!”

Their friends who turned their heads while walking along the walking trail widened their eyes when they saw the direction Johann was pointing.

Below the low hill where they’re standing, there’s a small beach and a large coastal cave.

“Ooh!”

“Wowwww!”

It was the beginning of an adventure.

 

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