Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 144
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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 144
University research that cannot be invested in unless it’s deeply connected with corporations, individuals, and government support.
The way to break through this is simple.
Just become affiliated with the university you want to invest in.
-Even if you take the GED right now and get the minimum score, Stanford will allow your admission.
Johann is a Billboard star and a knight who received a papal decoration from the Catholic Church.
A talent who will bring glory to the school.
They’ll be desperate to recruit you as a special student.
-Honestly, you don’t even need to actually enroll.
Flinch!
“…So just making the gesture would be enough.”
-That’s right. You wanted to come to Stanford, but if another university hijacks you with better conditions, there’s nothing we can do.
Then they’ll have something to say too.
That it’s the fault of you, the university administration, for losing someone who was trying to come even while making such investments.
“It would be even better if I left room for enrolling in graduate school later, right?”
-…How about taking the GED right away?
“Haha. I’ll think about it. I’ll also send you the investment proposal within a week.”
The equity adjustment can be done when the time comes.
-I’ll wait with a joyful heart. But what are your impressions of touring the school?
Johann looks at Paula.
“It’s good. Very much so.”
Even more so because he found a good investment opportunity.
‘How many capable talents are there within this huge campus?’
Students like pearls buried in mud.
-It’ll be even more fun when you become a Stanford student.
“Haha. I’ll try my best.”
After ending the call, Johann gestures quietly to the graduate student who’s staring blankly at him, then looks at his friends.
They heard the entire conversation since it was on speakerphone.
‘Something… something feels exciting!’
‘Are all adults like this? It feels like I learned something I shouldn’t have…’
‘Stanford… hmm.’
Johann looks at Paula.
“Shall we get up then?”
“Huh? Where to…?”
“We need to draft a contract first. Oh, don’t tell me?”
Is she planning to back out after just listening to the story?
“Oh, no! I’ll accept it!”
Honestly, she had doubts because it was coming from such a young child.
But the people who made investment contracts with Johann were Professor Richard and Professor Craig.
Two professors whose names even she, from a completely different department, had heard of.
‘This is an opportunity!’
Even professors want this young child’s investment.
She had to abandon her suspicion that Johann was playing with her.
When her eyes changed, Johann smiled and picked up his phone.
“Yeah, Ada. I just picked a good investment opportunity… Yeah, yeah. I’d appreciate it if you could send a lawyer. Here? Stanford. Two hours? Got it.”
Johann looks at Paula and his friends.
“Shall we go then?”
“Wh, where?”
“To Paula’s laboratory.”
To that place where there would be samples, whether failed or successful.
“Hey, what about those geeks?”
“…Ah?”
He had completely forgotten.
Johann rolled his eyes.
The place she headed to was the dormitory.
“Th, they’re neighborhood kids and they’ll just take a quick look and go back!”
“Hmm…”
The strict-looking dorm supervisor looks at Johann and his friends, then holds up one finger.
“One hour. Don’t be loud or do any weird experiments.”
“Yes!”
Worried her mind might change, she quickly headed to her room.
When she opened the door and entered, the smell of chemical substances brushed past their noses.
“You really did experiments in the dormitory?”
“Yes… places like clubs are too much for me.”
Club rooms that you can use if you join a club.
For her, who had been afraid of even people passing by until now, it was absolutely impossible.
Also, she was afraid her inventions might be stolen if she used such club rooms, so she couldn’t join clubs.
“A, and this is a two-person room… so my roommate hardly ever comes in…”
Even when she does come in, she comes in completely drunk and leaves immediately after waking up.
So she could experiment with peace of mind.
“Huh? University dormitories are divided into two-person and larger rooms?”
Emily and the girls’ eyes light up.
“Yes. It’s first-come, first-served though.”
Stanford has over 70 dormitory buildings, but not everyone who wants to enter a dormitory can get in.
It’s absolutely first-come, first-served.
After deciding which dormitory you want to enter, you have to click like crazy.
Dormitories that were built recently or were luxuriously built from the beginning get filled in less than 5 seconds, and if you’re unlucky, you might end up living with five roommates in an old, shabby dormitory that’s over 100 years old.
Compared to that, she had to consider herself really lucky.
“If you’re really lucky, single rooms are possible too.”
By the way, the dormitory with these single rooms was built less than 5 years ago, and male and female rooms are arranged together on the same floor.
“…Wow.”
“Universities are really different…”
‘High school was better though.’
Looking at the girls making envious expressions, she licks her lips and turns around.
“H, here’s my room.”
When she opens the door, navy blue wallpaper, all kinds of experimental equipment, and miscellaneous trash greet Johann and the others.
‘Wow.’
‘It’s dirtier than my younger brother’s room?’
But Paula, either not recognizing that it’s dirty or not caring, casually enters and brings a small box from under the bed.
“Th, this is it.”
The sample she made recently that could be called a finished product.
“I, it’s basically silicon-based synthetic fabric that’s been dyed and coated with adhesive material… it’s pretty crude, right?”
She made the fabric by secretly infiltrating the university laboratory, but the dyeing and coating had to be done in this room.
“B, but it has good waterproof and breathable properties…”
“This is certain.”
She has absolutely no sense for color.
The color scheme seems like it would be less dizzying than the rivers of hell.
It doesn’t resemble her skin color even 1 percent.
“Ah….”
Her disappointed face naturally evokes sympathy.
But Johann didn’t mind.
“Did you make the fabric yourself?”
“Well, for now, yes….”
She couldn’t guarantee that there wasn’t fabric made with the exact same materials and ratios.
Because there are too many patents on special fabrics.
“I’ll have to look into that too… What about the adhesive substance?”
“That too….”
She had searched all databases within the university to find adhesive substances that wouldn’t irritate the skin, but finding nothing satisfactory, she made her own, though you never know.
Still, she had gone through countless trials and errors to create the current adhesive substance, making various adhesive materials in the process, so maybe one or two of them could be patented.
“I’ll have to look into this too.”
If there are no matches, she’ll need to file patents too.
“Won’t the lawyer handle all of that?”
“That’s true.”
Johann, who answered one of his friends’ questions, falls into thought.
“Ah, do you have any attachment to your degree?”
“…I graduate in two months.”
It would be too wasteful to quit now.
“But, but if you say you’re starting a business, it counts as attendance!”
She had already passed her graduation thesis too.
Snap!
“Okay.”
Johann, who snapped his fingers, looks at Paula.
“Initial investment of $500,000 plus providing research space and company housing, factory setup and workforce supply, and advertising – my shares will be 80 percent. Will you accept?”
Setting all this up would easily cost 2 million dollars.
“Gasp!”
Her invention, where she still couldn’t be certain how long it would take to complete production or what the market reaction would be when released.
Paula was dazed by the unexpected contract terms.
Moreover, she had never thought that so much would be needed to produce the product.
“I’d, I’d rather sell my idea….”
“Good. Then let’s aim to make samples within two months.”
Paula becomes stunned by Johann’s firm words cutting her off.
“You should throw your graduation cap with a clean appearance.”
“Ah….”
Paula’s eyes heated up intensely.
* * *
“Thank you! Thank you!”
“I hope you’ll speak comfortably next time.”
After the research lab was set up.
As they left Stanford like that, Aaron sighs.
“Haah….”
Johann ignores Aaron, whose face had turned red from whatever he experienced in Professor Craig’s research lab, and looks at Emily who has her arm linked with his.
“What?”
“No… Well.”
Emily looks at Lucy and Joy.
They nod their heads.
“If it’s an adhesive substance that can stick to skin without irritation like that, couldn’t it also be used as a mirror?”
“Hm?”
“You can stick it anywhere.”
For instance, on a mobile phone case, or on a wall.
You could stick it on your palm, or buy a pretty picture frame and stick it inside.
“You just need to coat it with reflective material like inside mirror glass.”
Then you wouldn’t need to carry around a heavy hand mirror, and you wouldn’t have to look at your face with a small mirror like a compact. You’d just need to unfold a mirror that rolls up to take up little space.
“…Wow.”
Johann stares at Emily blankly.
“Doesn’t it seem good?”
“Really? Does it really seem good?”
“Yeah.”
‘Investor Leicester Barber’ is also surprised.
“Did the three of you think of this?”
“Yeah!”
Johann looked at Lucy and Joy with fresh eyes, and the two snorted as if to say this is our level.
“Right. Can we also invest in those shares?”
“If you help with coloring and dyeing?”
It would take quite a while to do it alone.
“Good!”
“Ooh. Can we earn pocket money this time too?”
Behind Lucy and Joy, who started getting excited like that.
A friend with a sturdy build looks at each other with his girlfriend.
“Honey.”
“Yeah?”
“Do you understand all the conversation we just had?”
Investment, shares, fabric, adhesive substances – words too complex and difficult for a mere 16-year-old to understand.
Johann, who had led the conversation, seemed like an alien.
But while she couldn’t understand a single word, her boyfriend nodded as if he understood, exclaimed in admiration, and his eyes sparkled.
“Um… to some extent?”
“What? Really?”
She had started dating her boyfriend simply because she fell for his masculine side. The side her boyfriend showed today was so unexpected it was even alien.
“Ah.”
The friend bursts into laughter and looks at Johann.
“I have no choice but to understand. No, I have to understand. I’ve worked like hell to walk alongside that amazing guy.”
And he’s still working hard now.
“I have to understand even if it’s just because that effort would be wasted. Right?”
“Well… that’s true. Ha, how did I end up being friends with such a bastard. I don’t even have time to hang out in the evening, what is this.”
“But Mother likes it?”
“Mothers originally like it when their child just gets good grades.”
“Isn’t it because you don’t cause trouble?”
“You think we don’t cause trouble?”
“Ah….”
It’s just overshadowed because Johann sometimes causes big trouble, but they were causing quite a bit themselves.
“Hmm. Does this side of me look a bit lame?”
“No! Not at all!”
He looks cool like an adult man over 20 that they admire.
The girlfriend grabbed her boyfriend’s face and covered his lips, and the couple next to them quickly kissed as well, not to be outdone.
Johann’s group ahead also saw this and started a kiss relay, with only Aaron making a sad face out of envy.
Like that, they headed to LA.
* * *
Swoosh!
A passing teacher makes a gesture indicating they’re watching.
“Ugh.”
Johann and his friends let out groaning sounds.
They had no choice.
It turned out that 16 students skipping school all at once was the first time in Fairmont School’s history since its founding.
They even went and played at the beach.
Because of that, the school was turned completely upside down.
If they hadn’t gone to Stanford University with Aaron, it would have been a tremendous incident that wouldn’t have ended with just writing reflection papers.
After that, they lost the trust of the school and teachers.
“Still… I have no regrets!”
“Me neither!”
“It was absolutely killer!”
“Yeah!”
The troublemakers bump their forearms together.
Only Mason mutters anxiously to himself.
-Pasca-!
“Oh, they keep playing this?”
The Saint Rock version of ‘Praise the Sacrifice of Pasca’ that became the dismissal bell after the Aerosmith concert.
Rumble rumble rumble!
“Run! Run!”
“Let’s go!”
Watching the students rushing out of the classroom, they look at each other and purse their lips.
“Should we go too?”
To meet Paula Diaz.
To the place that would serve as their hideout for a while.
“Yeah!”
“Let’s run too!”
And so they headed to downtown LA.
* * *
“…This is really the last time.”
Doing something this ridiculous.
In front of the closed door of some factory.
Johann hugs Ada, who has sharp eyes.
“I’m always grateful, A… da?!”
Johann flails as his side gets mercilessly pinched.
“This is also the last time you’ll get away with being so wishy-washy.”
Even after doing everything from A to Z, he only brought back 80 percent of the shares.
If it had been Ada herself, she would have brought back 99 percent of the shares or just bought the technology outright.
“Got it?”
“But… I still don’t want to handle operations?”
He still doesn’t want to be tied down by management.
And crucially, you need passion to run operations.
The one who could burn that passion the most, who could operate with affection and consistent measurement, was the person who created the product.
“Ada said this too.”
“Answer.”
“…Yeah.”
Johann pouted saying it doesn’t work, and his friends stuck out their tongues.
‘J-Johann gets dominated too.’
‘Because it’s Ms. Ada…’
‘Still scary.’
Even they, who were trying to act quite grown-up, couldn’t help but be intimidated by a real adult, Ada Wong.
They quietly moved away from Johann in case they got caught in the crossfire, and Johann clicked his tongue and smiled at Ada.
“But you acknowledge there’s potential, right?”
“…Do you think I would have helped this much if there wasn’t?”
From finding the factory to recruiting professional personnel, everything was done with Ada’s help.
“I formally commissioned it though…”
“Tsk!”
“…I learned a lot thanks to you.”
“Try doing it yourself next time. Tell me if it’s difficult.”
“I’ll just commission it.”
That’s what he realized from watching from the sidelines.
‘Leave professional work to professionals.’
Just as Johann nods, reminded of this truth once more.
Swoosh!
A black sedan approaches from afar and stops in front of them.
“Oh, hello…”
As Paula Diaz gets out of the car and greets them hesitantly, Johann takes a step forward.
“Are the school issues settled?”
“Yeah…”
She also got permission from the professors whose lectures she attends.
“Good. Then let’s go in.”
“…Yeah!”
Clang! Clang clang clang clang!
A pure white 200-pyeong space lights up.
Several machines stand sparsely around.
“The people who will operate the machines will start work from tomorrow, and we’ll increase the machines depending on the situation. Any objections?”
“…”
“Ms. Paula Diaz?”
“Yes? Yes yes yes!”
Paula answers in surprise but doesn’t realize why she’s answering.
‘This is my factory… my company…’
How should I put it.
It doesn’t feel real.
It’s like swimming through a hazy dream.
“Hmm. Then let’s go to the research building.”
They head to a small building next to the factory.
“We separated the buildings due to fire risk, and the security system is…”
Ada says something or other, but she’s still in a daze.
Soon, a space of about thirty pyeong unfolds before her eyes.
‘My goodness.’
She remembers the research lab that her supervising professor suddenly called her to see a year ago, saying ‘I’m only showing this to you’ as he secretly gave her a tour.
‘No! This is even more amazing! That machine wasn’t even in the lab! This one too! That one too!’
“…Do you like it?”
“Yes? Yes! I love it!”
“…Yes. I’m glad you like it.”
Since Johann also heard about the security rules and procedures, and where the chemical substances, fabric, and other raw materials are located, it should be fine.
“If you need anything, just tell Johann here. Well then. Don’t come out.”
“See you in the evening.”
Johann waves his hand and looks at Paula.
“Do you really like it?”
“Am, am I allowed to be this happy?”
“Absolutely.”
She’s someone who dedicated 4 years of her time for people who share the same pain as herself.
She was more than qualified to enjoy this much.
Johann patted her as she got emotional again and smiled broadly.
“I’m glad you like it.”
“Th, thank you. How can I ever repay this kindness….”
“Then let’s get started.”
“…Huh?”
“We don’t have time.”
It took a whole 2 weeks just to set up everything up to this point.
There were only 6 weeks left from now on.
They had to produce a prototype within that time.
“You remember what we practiced at our house, right?”
“Yeah!”
“Let’s start.”
“Okay!”
“Alright! Shall we begin?!”
‘Wa, wait? Re, really? Are, are we really starting right away?’
“What are you doing? If you don’t show me how to use those machines and equipment, we’ll be in big trouble, won’t we?”
“…Ah! Wait! That’s not how you handle that!”
Paula rushes over frantically.
Johann also slowly closed and opened his eyes before following behind her.
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