Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 109

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 109

 

 

31. Movie

 

 

“Where do you think you’re going!”

As soon as he climbed onto the ladder truck, flames burst through the window.

If he had been even one second later getting up, he would have died.

Johann grits his teeth and closes his eyes at Oliver’s approaching fist.

Thwack!

“Senior! …Damn it!”

When he cautiously opens his eyes, Oliver’s senior is quietly looking down at Johann.

“You know you almost died, right?”

Not just Johann himself, but the person who needed rescuing too.

A civilian, not even a firefighter.

If Johann had died, how much would they have suffered?

“How sad would your guardian have been?”

Thump!

His heart sinks as he imagines Larry crying.

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

“Don’t even think about becoming a firefighter in the future.”

A mere civilian who recklessly jumped into a fire pit.

If he’s this reckless now, how much more would he rampage if he became a firefighter?

He would surely end up killing not only colleagues but also the lives he’s supposed to save someday.

No matter how capable, such a person should never become a firefighter.

‘Ah.’

He’s right.

‘It was the same with Smokey.’

Even during ‘Firefighter’s Prayer, Alvin William Lynn’, there were many who trusted only their own abilities and rampaged, killing colleagues and lives.

Not just Oliver’s senior, but in the eyes of the firefighters who were either calming their anger or feeling troubled while looking at Johann, he must have looked exactly like those guys.

“I’m sorry….”

“…Still, you did well.”

“Huh?”

Oliver’s senior points to the ambulance.

“Waaahhh!”

“Oh, Mom’s here! Oh, my baby! Thank you, thank you so much!”

Laura bursts into tears as she tightly hugs Ross, who’s crying.

“You saved him, little firefighter.”

“Ah….”

He saved him.

This time.

‘But little firefighter is a bit….’

Smack!

“Ugh!”

“That’s the end of your punishment. Forget about what you saw today too.”

Today, he didn’t save anyone, and from now on, he won’t even go near fire scenes.

“Can you promise that?”

“…Yes!”

“Good. See you next week.”

He’d like to give him a ride, but the fire suppression isn’t over yet.

It will take more time to wrap up the scene.

“I’m sorry! Everyone worked hard! I’ll be going first!”

Johann, who took off his fire suit, rubs his head that just got hit and approaches the ambulance whose back door is just closing.

“Going to the hospital?”

Broadcasting station cameras are positioned on both sides of the street.

The eyes of reporters following his movements are shining desperately.

‘I can’t go there.’

Today’s incident must absolutely be kept secret from Larry.

 

* * *

 

“Simply put, oxygen was supplied in time before the smoke reached the brain, so you don’t need to worry about aftereffects.”

Although his lungs were damaged from inhaling a large amount of smoke, since he’s still young, he can recover sufficiently.

He’ll need to be hospitalized for about a month for treatment, then he can be discharged.

“If you’re a low-income family, you should be able to get help from children’s health insurance and Medicaid.”

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid for Children, the hope of low-income families.

The burden from hospitalization will also be greatly reduced.

“Ah!”

Laura let out another sigh of relief.

“Thank you. Thank you….”

He’s alive.

My child, who I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world, is alive.

“You can give your thanks to the firefighter who provided timely emergency first aid. Well then.”

Laura watches the doctor leave the hospital room, then approaches sleeping Ross and brushes his sweat-soaked hair.

The burnt smell that won’t go away no matter how much she wipes with wet tissues.

“Thanks to that firefighter….”

She saw him too.

The young hero who climbed the building like Spider-Man and saved her son.

He took off his own fire suit to wrap around Ross, and as soon as they escaped, the house exploded.

‘If it hadn’t been for him, Ross would be….’

Dead.

Caught up in that explosion.

Even if that explosion hadn’t happened, he would have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and even if he had somehow survived, he would have had to live with disabilities for life.

“Ugh!”

Laura hugs her arms and shivers from the rising nausea and terrible cold.

‘No, no.’

She has to endure it.

She needs to be a strong mother for Ross, who will wake up soon.

“Hoo. Hah.”

Slam!

At the sound of the door opening, Laura hurriedly wipes her tears and turns around, then freezes.

It’s because of a middle-aged man in his 50s who entered, breathing heavily.

“Are, are you hurt anywhere?”

“…Father?”

“Are you hurt!”

“No, I’m not. I was at the mart before the fire started… Wait, why am I telling you this?”

Laura’s eyes sharpen as if asking why he’s worrying about her and talking like this.

“Oh, God.”

The middle-aged man’s legs suddenly give out, but he forces himself to walk over and pulls Laura into his arms.

Today’s fire in the Eagle Street apartment complex that turned all of LA, no, all of California upside down. The man’s heart nearly disappeared when he received that news during a meeting.

“Thank goodness, thank goodness.”

Laura’s eyes waver.

Her trembling lips close shut.

Though she had hated this father her entire life, today somehow she couldn’t push him away.

“Wait. Then why is he in a hospital room instead of the emergency room…”

The middle-aged man’s face turns pale as he turns his head toward the hospital bed.

“Oh my God. No. No…”

Why is that child lying there?

Why is he wearing an oxygen mask?

Laura is shocked at his trembling figure as he approaches Ross.

“What, what is it? Why are you acting like that? When did you yell that he was a child born recklessly by your bastard daughter…”

“Laura Warner!”

“It’s true! Why are you acting like this!”

Why does he keep confusing her?

The middle-aged man bites his lips at his daughter’s frustrated appearance.

But he doesn’t open his mouth.

He and his daughter who had walked too far a path, missing each other.

No, it was probably wrong from the beginning.

‘I should have known about Laura’s birth even a little sooner.’

If so, their current relationship might have been even a little different.

Suddenly, the second woman he had loved in his life comes to mind. The woman who had hidden his daughter’s existence from him.

He turns his gaze from his daughter and looks at his grandson.

At first, he disliked Ross.

Because he would be a burden to his daughter who was already living a difficult life.

But gradually, seeing his appearance that resembled himself more and more, his attention began to turn. He started to find him cute, and before he knew it, Ross had occupied a corner of his heart.

“What happened? Why is Ross lying here?”

“…Phew.”

Laura explains what happened today.

“You, as a mother! If you had just used the money I gave you, this wouldn’t have!”

The middle-aged man who was shouting angrily closes his mouth.

Because he realized he had no right to say such things, and that his daughter was suffering more than anyone else right now.

“We owe a great debt to that firefighter. Who is that firefighter? Which fire station does he work at?”

It seems he should give a reward.

After all, he saved a Warner bloodline.

“…He’s not a firefighter.”

“Hmm?”

Even when riding the ambulance together, she had been uncertain.

But coming here, she completely remembered.

Johann Jefferson.

The genius boy who stirred California four years ago, and the singer who sang ‘Dream – A Journey on a Dream Ship,’ the song that miraculously calmed Ross who used to cry constantly back then.

It was definitely him.

“Johann Jefferson…? The Wolf Boy?”

The middle-aged man couldn’t understand his daughter’s words.

 

* * *

 

Eagle Street fire, miraculously 0 deaths!

Terrible devastation with seven apartment buildings completely burned, who is the mysterious commander?

He was like a superhuman.

Command as if he had X-ray vision! LA Fire Department remains silent!

Hero of Eagle Street fire, crawling up through the inferno!

 

-Huh? Huh?

-Kyaaaah!

-Suddenly the firefighters are getting busy! A citizen is trapped… Oh my God! As I speak, one firefighter is climbing up into the flames!

Waaaaaaah!

-He saved them! The firefighter who entered the inferno has rescued a child and is handing them over to another firefighter…

Kwaaaaang!

-…Did, did you see that? If that firefighter hadn’t rescued them in time…

“Phew, what a relief.”

Johann watches Larry, who is patting his chest while watching the kitchen TV.

Ada, also shocked by yesterday’s incident, watches TV with trembling eyes instead of her usual zombie-like appearance.

“But who could it be?”

“That firefighter? Or the mysterious commander?”

“The mysterious commander.”

The Eagle Street fire disaster that turned not just LA but all of America upside down.

The identity of the firefighter who risked death to save the child was revealed to be from Station 3 Fire Department.

However, even though two days had passed since the accident, the identity of the mysterious commander still hadn’t been revealed, and the firefighters who responded to the fire scene were also curious about the mysterious commander’s identity.

The commander who suddenly interrupted the command radio and directed like a superhuman.

The LA Fire Department and state government were crying out for him to please appear, offering commendations, bonuses, and medals.

“Did you see him, Johann?”

Johann who followed the firefighters’ gathering and ended up at the scene by accident. You don’t know how much she scolded him after hearing that.

“No. I just watched from far away, like I said.”

He just got the burnt smell on his clothes.

‘If it weren’t for the smell, I could have said I never even went to the fire scene!’

Johann who told Rick Bottom not to come because it was a gathering.

Since he wasn’t there either, it was disappointing that he couldn’t finish it as a perfect crime.

“Tsk. Making people curious…”

“More importantly, what about the production company?”

Johann quickly changes the subject.

Andrew Pearson who said he would establish a new production company and complete all settings within a month.

He was curious how far it had progressed.

“…The corporation establishment is complete, and we’ve found all the staff too.”

As mentioned before, the CEO would be taken by the benefactor of film director Matthew Payton, and they found an office building too.

The company name is Wolf Pictures.

It was a name with considerable personal interest, and a production company with 100 percent Rocky’s capital.

‘Already?’

It’s only been 2 weeks.

It was a moment where he could feel Andrew Pearson’s abilities once again.

“But?”

Larry’s reaction is a bit strange.

“I never thought that person would take on the action director role.”

An action director that the Rocky Management of 4 years ago wouldn’t have dared to even meet with.

“He even contacted us first.”

“Who is it?”

“Nelson Pelligan.”

In the past 10 years, the works he directed action for include ‘300’, ‘Transformers’, ‘Iron Man’, and more. He’s truly a big-name action director that all Hollywood directors wouldn’t refuse.

Especially in ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ produced and released by Disney 3 years ago, he received praise for making people experience everything about ancient Persia.

‘Huh? Nelson?’

Suddenly, one person’s face comes to mind.

“Could it be the dread style guy?”

“How did you know?”

“Well…”

There’s some connection.

‘Could it be because of me?’

Something makes his mind feel complicated.

“Hmm. Well, he is a famous person so you must have heard his name. Anyway!”

Nelson Pelligan is surprising, but what’s more surprising is the actor who will play one of the three protagonists and Johann’s father.

“You’d be shocked if you knew who it was?”

He guarantees it.

Even Johann, who shows little emotion, would be shocked to hear this person’s name.

“Curious?”

“Larry.”

“Haha. It’s…”

As soon as Johann heard the name of the actor Larry mentioned, he acknowledged it.

It was an actor who couldn’t help but be shocking.

‘Why would that person?’

 

* * *

 

A week ago, at a charity auction party somewhere in LA.

Chris Panning, a white Old Man in his 70s who was the former CEO of the now-defunct New Line Pictures, looks around the party venue with a nostalgic expression.

A party venue where American Stars like Will Smith, Giselle Buncheon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Bruno Mars are walking around.

‘I’ve come back here again…’

He’s not talking about this annual charity auction party.

He’s talking about Hollywood itself.

Hollywood, which he had to leave when New Line Pictures went bankrupt.

‘It’s all thanks to Matthew Payton, that friend.’

“That bad guy.”

Chris Panning recalls what happened a week ago.

Matthew Payton, who suddenly appeared after about 8 years and lit a fire in his heart.

He didn’t explain at length either.

With the words ‘You’re the only one who can produce this scenario,’ he poured gasoline on the heart of an old man who thought only ashes remained, and after three days of reviewing the scenario, he finally decided to come back.

The fact that Rocky Management, currently the hottest management in LA, would provide all the funding also played a part.

‘It was such a disgusting place…’

But coming back like this, his heart begins to flutter again.

He realizes this is where he belongs.

‘And…’

Chris Panning, with tears welling up in his eyes, firmly grasps the hand of a handsome Man in his 40s.

“Let me say it again, thank you so much for deciding to appear.”

An actor whom even if New Line Pictures had been thriving, they wouldn’t have dared to attempt casting.

As soon as he read the scenario, only this person came to mind, so he tried making a casting offer once, and he accepted immediately without any hesitation.

He can’t express how grateful he was for that.

The man with impressive forehead wrinkles smiles warmly.

“I told you. I’m repaying a favor.”

Chris Panning not only recognized the potential of a pathetic guy who lived with an inferiority complex toward his successful brother, but also gave him a significant role.

Moreover, he continued to recommend him for various movies afterward, allowing him to establish his position as an actor.

“Without you, Chris, there wouldn’t be the me of today.”

He’s repaying that favor.

“Oh. That’s not true, Mark.”

Even without him, he would definitely have become a famous actor like he is now.

“I can guarantee that.”

“Haha!”

Chris Panning’s praise always makes his heart flutter.

“Oh. But don’t fall for me, Mark.”

“Hahaha!”

“Chris? Chris Panning?”

“…Oh, who is this? Isn’t it Cutie?”

The poet of hemoglobin, the master of B-grade films, Quentin Tarantino.

“My goodness! Are you back, Chris?”

If he’s the master of B-grade films, then Chris Panning is the godfather of C-grade films.

When Quentin Tarantino hugs Chris Panning tightly, the middle-aged actor quietly slips away.

Because directors and Actors who spotted the two were quietly approaching.

It was a place an actor should never leave, but he was being considerate so Chris Panning could fully enjoy the reunion.

Moving to a corner of the party venue like that, he takes out his phone.

“An Asian…”

An Asian whose only filmography is a minor role in Grey’s Anatomy.

Honestly, he doesn’t like it.

Even more so because he’s a Singer who charted on the Billboard charts.

“Tsk. If it weren’t for Chris’s request, I would have refused…”

He would have asked to remove the young Boy named Johann.

“I can only hope this work gets released quickly.”

Next year, Transformers, directed by the master Michael Bay and starring him, will be released.

It needs to be released before then to minimize the impact.

‘Still, let me take a look at his acting first.’

Just as he was about to play Johann’s acting video that his Manager had downloaded for him.

“Hey!”

“Hal?”

Jake Gyllenhaal, who’s always ranked among Hollywood’s sexy male Actors.

“I heard you’re doing another movie? And it’s directed by Matthew Payton? Aren’t you going to collapse?”

“…This damn Hollywood has no secrets.”

“Haha! Who’s your co-star? What’s the movie genre?”

“The genre is disaster action, and as for co-stars… there aren’t any, you could say.”

The Wife role hasn’t been decided yet, but even if it were decided, the role is so minor it couldn’t be called a co-star.

“If I had to say, this Kid would be my co-star.”

“Oh, disaster! I heard an amazing disaster movie is being released next year… Huh?”

Jake Gyllenhaal looks at Johann on the Middle-aged Man’s phone and opens his eyes wide.

“This Kid is your co-star? Puhaha!”

“You know him?”

“Should I say I know him, or should I say I don’t…”

A very brief encounter.

That’s exactly the extent of Johann’s and his relationship.

But if he were to talk about what kind of ripple effect that created, one day wouldn’t be enough.

To mention just the representative examples, he was nominated for the Stunt Action Award along with ‘Iron Man 2’ at the American Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for music awards at various ceremonies including the Academy, no, the Oscars.

Unfortunately, he failed to win due to the blockbusters ‘Avatar’ and ‘Iron Man 2’.

‘Still…’

“I can guarantee this. If you underestimate him, you’ll get eaten alive, Wahlberg!”

“What?”

“Well then, I have someone to contact, so I’ll be going! Yes, Nelson! That Child is finally about to start!”

Mark Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg, who became known as a great actor by starring in ‘Double Target’, ‘Perfect Storm’, and ‘Ted 19 Bear’, frowned.

 

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