Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 2

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 2

 

 

Rumble!

Suddenly the universe shakes.

It means someone is giving stimulation from the outside.

The boy who opened his eyes looks puzzledly at Wolf Mother licking his cheek.

“Growl.”

“Ah.”

The boy turned his head and discovered Larry who had come out the door and frozen stiff, then got up.

‘My, my goodness!’

Larry opens his mouth.

He was frightened by the wolves lying here and there in the clearing, but also because of the boy approaching him while tying up his long hair.

The boy’s appearance that he properly faced under the sunlight.

Bright brown eyes like looking at top-grade topaz, sharp and large eyes uncharacteristic of a child his age, a straight nose bridge and jawline.

With ash-gray streaked dark blue hair harmonizing together, he gives off a mysterious atmosphere like looking at a wolf.

No, this place just seems like the world of Mowgli from a fairy tale.

So it does get him a bit excited.

“Why. Come out? Walking. Not good.”

“I came out to say I finished eating… K-kid. Where is this place really?”

“…?”

‘Tsk. How annoying.’

Languages he had variously learned from browsing through countless lives.

Moreover, within the boy’s memory, this was the first time having a conversation with a person, so words don’t come out properly and it’s also hard to understand.

He knew that what Larry was using was English, so if he just absorbed the life of someone who could properly speak English, the problem would be solved, but currently he was almost at his limit with just ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’.

‘Is there no way to increase the limit.’

Though it had increased little by little as he aged, it was a part he hadn’t thought about before because he hadn’t felt the necessity.

But suddenly a shortage arose.

It seems he’ll need to think about it seriously from now on.

“Ah!”

Larry, who understood the situation from the boy’s frowning expression, spoke clearly, breaking it down word by word.

“Here. Where?”

“Ah! Rockies.”

The Rocky Mountains located in the west of the country called United States of America, USA.

“Rockies? Rocky Mountains?! Oh Lord!”

Thank goodness. It was still America.

“R-right. I introduced myself as Larry, didn’t I? What’s your name? I’m Larry. You?”

He understood what he was trying to say.

But the boy crossed both hands in front of his chest and drew an X.

‘As if I’d have a name.’

If he had known his name, he would have already opened his own life long ago.

Then he would have found out who his parents were too.

‘Well, even if those beings called parents saw me now, they wouldn’t recognize me.’

No, he didn’t particularly want to meet them either.

For him, his only parent was Wolf Mother.

Since they were people he couldn’t even remember, neither longing nor resentment particularly arose.

“Go. Walking. Not good. Quickly.”

The boy pushed Larry’s back.

“W-wait! How long was I unconscious…!”

 

* * *

 

The boy’s day started late.

A child who stealthily got up only after noon, chewing dried fruit while sharpening spear points and stringing his bow.

Only then did he stir the completely burned ashes in the fireplace to light a fire, and took out the meat hanging from the ceiling, throwing most of it outside the door.

Then the wolves would drowsily get up and tear at the meat.

Only after that did he roast meat and take water from a clay jar placed in one corner of the cave to boil in another pottery bowl.

Water used for both drinking and washing his body.

There was even soap. Though it was crudely made as if he had made it himself.

Watching him move without any waste like following a set route made one’s tongue click in admiration.

‘Who could have taught him.’

He had definitely lived with someone who had professional knowledge.

Either that someone had abandoned the boy here, or they had lived together here and after dying, the boy was left alone.

Larry glanced at the clay tablets and wooden boards with various countries’ languages written on them.

Then a question suddenly came to mind.

A situation where he wanted to ask but couldn’t.

“Kid, how long have you been with those wolves?”

“Don’t know. Memory.”

“Y-you don’t know how long you’ve been here? Right, winter! White snow, how many winters have you experienced when that falls?”

Larry pointed to the snow that had fallen during the night.

Thanks to that, he had to sleep with the wolves in the wide cave.

“Hmm. 8 times?”

‘Really Mowgli!’

That jungle boy Mowgli, who fell into the wild as a baby and survived among animals.

“W-with who? You alone? Or…”

“With Wolf Mother.”

Gasp!

‘T-that’s impossible!’

“You’ve been with that Wolf Mother since you can remember? Without any other people?”

“…No. Father was there.”

The boy created a fictional character.

At this young age, growing up alone in the mountains without receiving any education, yet knowing English however clumsily, and even making iron weapons – this didn’t make sense.

Moreover, the situation had been revealed that he knew various countries’ languages thanks to the clay tablets and wooden boards.

“T-then where’s Father?”

“4 years ago. Didn’t wake up. He’s up there.”

“My goodness.”

He definitely had to take him away. He had to save him.

The boy thought of those wolves as family, but wolves were wolves in the end.

If he had lived like a beast like them it would be different, but the boy was already living like a human. Humans should live with humans.

Larry gritted his teeth. His eyes became serious.

“Kid. As you can see looking at me, you and I are the same.”

“I know. Larry human. Me too human.”

“Humans should live with humans in this forest, not with those animals.”

“…?”

“Let’s go there together. To where other humans are.”

“Ah!”

He seemed to understand what he meant.

‘He’s saying let’s leave the Rocky Mountains together and go to the city?’

Going outside was something he had hoped for.

Though he couldn’t leave immediately because Wolf Mother prevented him from leaving the forest, if he ever became independent from the pack, he had planned to go outside the forest.

“What do you say? Will you… come with me?”

The boy looks back and forth between the outstretched hand and Larry’s eyes.

As time passes, the desperation in his hand and eyes grows deeper.

‘Please…’

He cries out that you shouldn’t stay here.

The boy had no choice but to make a decision.

“…Alright. Wait. Talk with mom.”

“Ah, you need to get permission?”

“Yes. Might not work.”

It sounds like he’s saying it might not be allowed.

‘Right. They said wolves need the pack leader’s permission to become independent.’

Wolves don’t abandon even sick and old members.

Larry swallowed dryly as he watched the boy get up and approach the wolf mother.

“Mom.”

The boy places his hand on his mother’s face.

“Time to leave now. It’s come.”

The startled wolf rises to her feet.

The inadequate child who couldn’t run or chew hunted prey when she first saw him.

The child who at some point became different from them, breaking branches and striking stones to create new forms of fangs.

That child is finally leaving. Leaving this mother’s embrace to form a new pack.

A moment she knew would come someday.

“Grrrrowl.”

The wolf’s large tongue licks the boy’s face.

The boy grits his teeth and hugs his mother’s neck as sadness fills her large eyes.

“Thank you. I’ll live well.”

“…Awoooooo!”

The wolf howls toward the sky.

The other wolves, already awakened, shed tears and raise their heads to the sky. The boy also raises his head with reddened eyes.

“Awoooooo!”

The sound of farewell echoes through the forest.

Wolf Mother pushes the boy’s chest away with her head.

She turns toward the forest and takes a step.

The siblings follow behind their mother.

“Gruff.”

Don’t look back. Don’t become weak.

The sibling wolves sigh and keep their heads fixed, resisting the urge to turn back.

Wolf Mother grits her teeth.

My child. My inadequate child.

Form a pack. Become strong.

With fangs stronger than anyone’s, wisely overcome all threats.

“Awoooooo!”

“Awoooooo!”

‘Yes. Mom needs to stay healthy too.’

May the younger ones live long lives.

May they die as wise wolves.

The boy turned and looked at Larry.

“Mom said… huh? Larry?”

“Oh, no.”

‘Damn.’

For some reason, his eyes are getting red.

Something hot surges up from his chest.

Is this right? Is it right for him to separate them?

That thought is brief. The farewell is already over.

‘I’ll take good care of him.’

Larry, who had been moving his lips toward where Wolf Mother disappeared, looks at the boy.

“Did you get permission?”

“Yes! Now Larry. When ankle heals, okay. One day.”

It’s already been a week since his ankle was twisted.

By tomorrow, he’d be able to move around sufficiently.

“Larry.”

“Yeah?”

“Outside need money?”

“Uh… I guess so?”

The boy nods as if he expected that and goes into the cave, bringing out a rolled-up bear hide.

“This become money?”

“…Probably?”

The cave had many hides – bear, wolf, leopard, rabbit, and more.

The bear hide spread on the floor had almost no damage. If sold, it would probably fetch a decent amount.

“Really? That’s good.”

Settlement funds – the more, the better.

In the forest, weapons and instinct are directly linked to survival, but outside, money and awareness are essential conditions for survival.

The boy, who learned this through the library, had been steadily collecting hides for days like this.

The boy’s eyes lit up as he clenched his fist.

‘Let’s go!’

Into the world.

Finally.

 

* * *

 

“Larry-!”

Larry, who came down the mountain with the boy, spots Ada, a woman who is both his investor and friend, and his eyes widen.

“Huh? How did you know to come here? And who are those people…”

Ada finally couldn’t hold back at her bewildered friend’s appearance and lunged at him.

“Hey, you bastard!”

Thwack!

“Gueek!”

“Die! Die!”

“Ack! Ack! It hurts! I said it hurts!”

“Even if it hurts, shut up and take it!”

A friend she couldn’t contact despite time passing.

That friend went to the Rocky Mountains in the dead of winter.

She really thought he was dead.

So she found the point where Larry started climbing the mountain and organized a rescue team to search the Rocky Mountains.

To find his body if he was dead.

To find his belongings if there was no body.

But to appear in such perfect condition like this.

Ada poured out tears while stomping on Larry, and the rescue team sits down with sighs of relief.

The search had been going on for three days already.

With the tension released, laughter flows out.

That’s brief too. Their gazes fix on the boy who’s clenching and unclenching his fists while watching Ada and Larry.

A boy whose entire body is wrapped in animal hides, and who even carries a spear and bow.

Ada, who had grown tired of stepping on Larry, also discovers the boy.

“So who is this kid?”

“Ah, well….”

Her eyes widened at her friend Larry’s explanation.

 

“You turn this like this.”

“Okay.”

Whoooosh!

At some hotel. Ada sticks out her tongue as she looks at the bathroom where the sound of shower water can be heard.

“Mowgli…. A wolf boy….”

Since Larry has photos he took, she can’t dismiss it as a lie.

“Considering he lived in that forest with his father since before he could remember, there’s a high probability he wasn’t even registered at birth.”

“…That father guy was probably a wanted man.”

Though countless crazy people live in America, those who live in forests where even radio waves don’t reach are truly extremely rare.

Larry shakes his head.

“Or he could be one of those lunatics who blindly believe in the old ways.”

Crazy humans who throw away all the conveniences of civilization and live like primitives, claiming humans should live in nature.

They’re the kind introduced every few years, quite regularly.

Whatever the case, it’s child abuse.

Child abuse, one of the crimes Americans hate most terribly.

Ada furrows her brow as she watches Larry grinding his teeth.

“So what are you going to do? Don’t tell me you…?”

“Yeah. I have to take responsibility.”

“Larry!”

“I’m the one who brought the child.”

A boy who would still be living with wolves in that forest if not for him. A boy who would have lived without knowing the outside world.

Since he brought him out, he had to take responsibility.

He had that resolve from the beginning when he brought him out.

“…Phew. It’ll probably be quite difficult.”

Larry, who isn’t married yet.

Even as a single man, adoption was possible if he was over 25, but the conditions would inevitably be strict.

Also, the boy’s appearance, which clearly doesn’t look American.

If he wanted to adopt a foreigner who wasn’t a U.S. citizen, more procedures would be required.

“Even if you successfully adopt him, you’ll have to undergo inspections every year.”

“I’m prepared for that much.”

“Well, if you and I had a, a fake marriage, it would be easily resolved, but….”

“Ah, it’s okay. You should get married too.”

“….”

Hmph!

“Why, why?”

Ada snorts and turns her head away, then soon sighs.

“Fine. I’ll try my best.”

“Thanks! You really are the only one I have!”

Ada Wong, friend, investor, and the company’s consulting lawyer.

A friend who never disappoints, so she’ll surely do well this time too.

Ada pushes away Larry who’s clinging to her.

“So how old is he?”

“He can’t remember. Probably around 12 or 13, I think?”

“Hmm. Looking at his height, he seems even younger.”

Maybe he’s barely around 10 years old.

“This is the problem with Asians.”

It’s hard to gauge their age.

“His name?”

Larry shook his head with a bitter expression.

“Sigh. Alright. I’ll solve that problem too….”

Having heard that much, the boy closes his eyes with a languid smile.

A comfort he couldn’t feel in the forest.

He always had to be alert in all directions with one corner of his mind, and had to keep watch against the youngest who was constantly targeting him.

Though he had weapons, he was practically the weakest.

But now, soaking his body in this bathtub filled with warm water, his body and mind relax endlessly.

‘Enter.’

The library he accessed again.

“I won’t need this anymore.”

The boy places his hand on his chest and pulls.

Then the large green orb ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’ comes out. At the same time, his endlessly sharp nerves soften.

Survival instinct and sixth sense, talents unnecessary in the city.

The sensation like a third eye that detected all directions without conscious effort scatters and disappears.

The talent of ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’ that had helped him countless times was disappearing.

However, the experience and knowledge the boy had directly accumulated over the years while accepting ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’ didn’t disappear.

Though the talent of ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger’ had disappeared, fragments of it remained within the boy.

“Thank you.”

Thanks to it, he overcame many threats and could survive as a member of the wolf pack.

But now it was time to let it go.

It was time to absorb what was needed for living ahead.

The boy organized his thoughts and opened his mouth.

“Search. Language. Speech.”

What he needed most right now. Speaking well.

His tongue that spun uselessly like a broken machine and his mind that kept getting tangled made him feel like he’d go crazy from frustration.

The boy quietly gazed at the surging galactic river and the celestial bodies of the universe.

 

Click!

Larry and Ada, who turned their heads, widen their eyes.

“My, my goodness!”

There are scars on the boy’s body, flushed red as if washed with hot water.

Two streaks of scars crossing his chest as if clawed by a large beast.

Scars on his side as if bitten by a canine animal.

Besides those, there are large and small scars scattered all over his body.

“…We should go to the hospital first.”

“I agree.”

The two, whose faces were contorted as if about to cry, approached the boy, and the boy tilted his head sideways.

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