Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 198

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 198

Rattle rattle!

Inside the car driving along an unpaved road overgrown with vegetation, showing how long it had been neglected.

Only silence lingers in the car.

Johann, Larry, and Ada are looking out the windows, while Emily tightly grips Johann’s hand.

“That seems to be the place.”

At Rick’s words breaking the silence, everyone stares beyond the front windshield.

Screech!

As they get out of the stopped car, tall grass greets them.

Among the grass, traces of a fence that had not just decayed but completely collapsed.

Beyond it, a wooden house standing precariously as if it might collapse at any moment.

A strange sense of unease makes Johann shake his head.

‘It doesn’t feel unfamiliar.’

This place.

This location.

That blue sky.

‘Could this really be the place?’

Rustle! Rustle!

The sound of grass being trampled underfoot makes his heart beat faster.

The closer they get to the house, the stronger the musty smell of mold, moss, and dust becomes.

Before he knows it, Johann is standing in front of the house, pulling open the half-open, dangling door and entering inside.

‘The inside of the house doesn’t feel unfamiliar either.’

The corridor covered in spider webs, the fireplace in the living room.

All the doors standing open.

A single painting hanging next to the fireplace catches Johann’s attention.

It captures everyone’s gaze and forces their steps to stop.

“…You guys.”

It’s unmistakably Johann, looking about 10 years older than now.

Next to him sits a white woman, and in their smiling embrace are two children.

Happiness conveyed through the mold growing here and there.

With their unmistakable appearance, Larry and Ada speak to James Han in the painting with trembling eyes, while Emily burrows deeper into Johann but doesn’t take her eyes off the painting.

“…That must be your great-great-grandmother?”

“I heard she had a sister.”

Johann, who had been looking around the living room, meets Larry’s eyes.

What he was about to say was something Larry absolutely needed to know.

“The sister’s name was Claudie Brooke.”

Thud!

With the shock of blood draining from his head, Larry’s eyes fill with horror.

Ada’s face turns pale.

“What, what?”

“Is, is that really true, Johann?”

For Larry and Ada, it’s a name they could never forget.

A name they must never forget.

But that can’t be right.

This doesn’t make sense.

To them, Johann drives the final nail.

“After marriage, her name was Claudie Jefferson.”

Larry’s grandmother’s name.

“That’s right. We were destined, Father.”

It was a fate that could only lead them to each other.

“My, my God…”

Thump!

Larry collapses.

Ada covers her mouth.

She looks back and forth between Johann and the painting in bewilderment.

Johann also looks at the painting.

‘One of the reasons I was in pain was because of this.’

Because of this amazing destiny.

Johann walks to the window and rubs the dust under the window frame.

Where the Hans began.

Where the Brookes and Hans were connected.

Emily’s trembling is transmitted through her body.

“It all started here.”

James Han’s father, who had immigrated, arrived here after taking any job he could find to make money.

The kind-hearted farm owner treated James Han’s father, an Asian, like family, and eventually he became real family by marrying the farm owner’s daughter.

And James Han was born.

They were happy.

But the happiness didn’t last long.

“He went out to sell crops and cattle, and was shot and killed by racists who despised Asians.”

They said they couldn’t forgive a white person who married an Asian either, and fired bullets at his wife, James Han’s mother.

Afterward, those who murdered James Han’s father and mother said they couldn’t forgive the farm owner who accepted an Asian as a son-in-law, so they came after him with guns and farm tools, forcing the farm owner to flee to the city with his four-year-old grandson James Han.

“James Han was said to be a genius from a young age.”

He read difficult books easily, spoke coherently, and was multi-talented.

‘He obtained a library like me.’

The most likely place is this house.

“But the tragedy didn’t end there.”

The farm owner, James Han’s grandfather, died after falling while working at a construction site.

“An Asian left alone in those times.”

Higher education was naturally out of the question.

Owning property was also restricted.

So he joined the military.

To be recognized as an American.

“After discharge, James Han, who was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, returned to this place and decided to cultivate the farm again.”

His status as a veteran made it possible.

Then he met May Brooke, who came to work. May Brooke, who needed to earn money to find her younger sister Claudie Brooke, whom she had lost at the market when they were young.

“But…”

“Those who hated Asians wouldn’t have left them alone.”

“Right.”

Johann nods at Larry’s words.

James Han and May Brooke had to flee again and settled in Tacoma.

They got married and had Alex Han and Christina Han, and Alex Han had John Han.

“This is the person.”

Johann shows a photo of someone other than John Han.

‘There’s no need to show that person’s face.’

Even though it was seven years ago, since Larry might remember, Johann had to get a photo of a complete stranger.

Larry, Ada, and Emily hold their breath.

“…This is the person?”

“Yeah.”

“So this is the person… The one who raised you in that forest.”

Johann feels his heart sting as he watches them stare intently at the photo.

But he tries to ignore it.

Johann, who had been turning his gaze away because he couldn’t bear to meet their eyes, discovers something and becomes puzzled.

‘Why is only that door closed?’

A small door next to the fireplace.

‘No, why didn’t I notice that door before?’

Strange.

His feet move as if enchanted.

“Where are you going… Huh? There’s a door? Wait. Why is there a door next to the fireplace?”

It’s called a fireplace because it’s built against the wall.

But Larry’s words don’t reach Johann’s ears.

Though bewildered by his body moving on its own, he places his hand on the door that has no handle.

That’s when it happens.

Rumble! Rumble!

The library shakes violently.

‘This feeling is… longing?’

His instinct cries out.

‘This is the place.’

There was a library here.

Johann pushed the door and opened his eyes wide.

“Oh. It’s not big. Huh? Only this place has no dust?”

A small space of about one pyeong.

Johann steps into the space that’s clean without a speck of dust and walks to the end of the wall.

He reads the writing at eye level.

“Congratulations on obtaining the star.”

But remember this.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Thoom!

That’s right.

There was a library here.

‘And this is where I obtained it…?!’

Johann’s eyes, which had been calmly settling, suddenly shake and then glare at the wall beside him.

At the faint scent brushing his nose, he rushes out of the space.

“Jo, Johann?!”

Ignoring Larry and the others calling from behind, Johann runs to the back of the house, to the forest spread out behind the house, and stands at its boundary.

His eyes grow hot at the familiar scent.

“Johann!”

“Don’t come!”

It’s full of mixed unfamiliar scents.

Johann urgently reaches back with his hand and slowly closes and opens his eyes.

He uses Absorption Reading on ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon’.

That’s when it happened.

Rustle! Rustle!

“Gasp!”

“Huh?!”

The bushes between the trees shake, and wolves emerge.

One, two, twenty wolves.

Johann kneels before the old wolf leading the wolf pack, the wolf breathing heavily.

“How… how did you come here…”

Even though much fur has fallen out, even though her body has become frail, even though her eyes have grown cloudy, how could he not recognize her?

“Mother.”

Meeting the mother he thought he’d never see again in his lifetime, tears flow.

Wolf Mother also sheds tears.

“Whine.”

My child. My child.

Have you formed a pack?

“Yeah… I have. Those people are it.”

Instead of her clouded eyes that can’t see, her nose turns toward Larry.

“Father! Ada! Emily! Rick!”

It’s okay. As long as Wolf Mother is here, it’s fine to call them.

At Johann’s call, Larry approaches without hesitation.

Ada, Emily, and Rick follow behind.

Larry looks at Wolf Mother.

“I’m working hard to keep the promise I made back then.”

The promise to raise Johann well.

“This person is my girlfriend.”

When Johann takes Emily’s hand, who is shedding tears profusely, and extends it forward, Wolf Mother, who had been sniffing, smiles.

“Whine!”

Yes. You’ve formed a pack.

“There are actually more, but they couldn’t come together. In total, there are twenty of us.”

Larry and Ada, Rick, the Emilys.

“Sniff?”

“No, we don’t have children yet… Humans are naturally a bit late, you know?!”

“Bark!”

You’ve become strong.

Well done.

“…Yeah. I can easily beat those guys now, you know? They’re not even a mouthful.”

“Growl!”

“Grrrowl!”

The Old Brother Wolves, who have now each formed their own families, and their descendants lower their bodies and bare their teeth. They glare at Johann as if finding him ridiculous.

In response, Johann also lowers his body and bares his teeth.

“Youngest, you come at me first. I said I’d get revenge someday, right? Today’s that day. Go ahead and be humiliated in front of your children.”

“Howl!”

“No! Mother knows too that Youngest bullied me terribly…!”

“Bark bark!”

“…Fine.”

Lick!

Well done. A wise wolf doesn’t fight.

“There’s still more for you to teach me?”

Laughter comes out without him knowing.

Everyone watches this scene while holding their breath.

“Sniff sniff.”

Wolf Mother’s head turns toward the house.

“So the place where you found me was near here after all…”

He must have been wandering the forest, consumed by the ego of ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon’, when Wolf Mother saved him.

Wolf Mother had surely come here following the memory of that time, the memory of when she saved Johann himself.

Tears flow from Johann’s eyes.

“Did you go to the nest?”

“Grrrr!”

“Ah, it’s all destroyed. Well, it’s already been 7 years… Yes. I pulled out all the grapevines. I needed them.”

“…Sniff!”

If that’s the case, then it’s fine.

Wolf Mother, with all her curiosity and lingering attachments resolved, turns her body around.

Johann’s eyes shake greatly.

The grass from the ground that he gripped tightly gets torn away.

“A-are you leaving already?”

Wolf Mother doesn’t even answer and starts walking.

She burns her last strength and steps firmly on the earth.

Wolf Mother has already far exceeded the average lifespan of wolves.

Because this is truly a son she can never see again.

Because this is a son she met on a path she traced through memories, thinking she would never see him again.

As the former leader of the pack, as a mother, she had to show a strong appearance.

With that resolve, tears finally pour from Johann’s eyes.

‘Why! Why won’t you show me!’

Why won’t she show him her final moments?

Does an independent child cease to be a child?

But in the end, only one thing comes out.

“Mother-!”

“…”

“I was happy to be Mother’s son! Sleep well!”

Thump!

At the words that strike her heart, tears also drip from Wolf Mother’s eyes.

She lifts her head and opens her mouth toward the blue sky.

Toward the clear blue sky, just like back then.

“Awoooooooo!”

I felt the same way, my son.

I love you.

‘I love you too. Rest peacefully, Mother. Farewell to you all.’

Awoooooo!

Awoooooooo!

“Awoooooooo!”

Johann’s sorrowful farewell cry also echoed through the sky.

* * *

Whoooosh!

They were silent while driving through the rain.

“You really worked hard today, Rick.”

“…Not at all. Well then.”

Rick pats Johann’s shoulder and leaves, while Johann and the others enter the mansion.

The mansion is quiet with no one around due to the late hour.

Larry looks at Johann.

“You’re going to purchase the Tacoma Estate, right?”

“I have to.”

Even if James Han sold it while he was alive.

“…Right.”

Fate, inevitability, farewell.

Larry, who had been moving his lips at all the things he learned today, pulls Johann’s hand.

“Son. Johann.”

“Yeah…”

“Don’t think about anything today and just rest. Take your medicine.”

“…I love you.”

“Sorry, but I’m entrusting Johann to you, Emily.”

“D-don’t worry.”

Larry handed Johann over to Emily, and she supports Johann as they go up to the 3rd floor.

The heat transmitted through their touching skin.

As soon as she gets him upstairs and lays him down, Johann’s body trembles. Terrible chills set in and his vision becomes blurry.

“I-it’s fine now. Y-you should go back…”

Johann, who was trying to send her away in case she caught his cold, opens his eyes wide.

Emily climbs onto the bed and hugs Johann tightly.

Tears suddenly well up in Johann’s eyes.

“…Just today. I’ll show my weak side just for today.”

He had roots too.

He had bloodline. He had family.

“Okay.”

“…I love you.”

“Me too.”

Johann hugged her tightly and closed his eyes, while Emily stroked Johann’s head with eyes that had much to say.

‘I’ll ask when you come to your senses.’

About everything I saw today.

“Phew.”

Larry runs his hand through his wet hair.

“It’s hot.”

Is his body weakened from receiving many shocks today?

Or is it because he showered with hot water?

His hot forehead makes him worry about tomorrow.

“To think we were destined…”

Destined to meet each other.

His heart is still trembling and he can’t collect himself.

The cloudy eyes of Wolf Mother, who looked back as if asking him to take good care before disappearing into the bushes, are also stuck in his brain and won’t disappear.

Larry picks up his mobile phone.

He wants to confide in someone.

He wants to confide in anyone.

“Yes, Mother. Johann was destined to meet me.”

Larry explains to his mother Melanie about the day when countless fates intersected and swirled, about the facts he learned today.

After talking for a long time, stopping her from coming over in shock, he hangs up the phone.

Thud!

He lies down on the bed and looks at the ceiling.

Chuckle!

“Well, it really was fate, wasn’t it?”

Johann, whom he wouldn’t have met if he had arrived there a day later.

Himself, who would have been bitten by the black panther if he hadn’t injured his leg and fallen.

The feeling that boiled up when he learned of Johann’s situation, that he had to take him away.

“All of that was fate…”

Inescapable fate.

That’s why other fates come to mind, making his head feel heavy.

Knock knock!

The sound of knocking on the door breaks through.

“Ada… they say we were destined to be connected. Then does this mean I should reconcile with Father?”

Johann, who shares the bloodline of sisters that Grandmother mentioned several times while she was alive.

“It’s not certain until we do a paternity test, but…”

Even the CIA can make mistakes.

However, looking at James Han’s face, he can’t deny it.

“What do you want to do?”

Ada sits next to Larry and strokes his hair.

“I don’t know.”

The family members who became half-reconnected because of the sacred relics Johann discovered at Lapurisima Mission.

Those people he wouldn’t have even contacted if it weren’t for Johann.

Was it destined to turn out this way from the beginning?

Was thinking he had severed the relationship just his own delusion?

“I really don’t know.”

He doesn’t want to think about anything.

“Should I hold you?”

“…Please.”

It seemed like he wouldn’t be able to sleep alone tonight.

Rustle, rustle!

The sound of clothes brushing past his ear and falling to the floor.

Larry tightly embraced the warm skin that wrapped around his body.

It had been such a complicated day.

And so Johann and Larry suffered for a whole week straight.

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