Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 207

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 207

Crash! Bang!

Flash and his friends stare blankly at the construction site.

“…This wasn’t a house for living together, but a newlywed home?”

“Huh? Why? Why are they already doing construction?”

Everyone looks at Joy.

“You know my father has a construction company among his businesses, right?”

“Don’t tell me you didn’t leave it to your father…”

“No way. Usually this kind of construction takes 6 months just for permit issues, you know?”

In other words, they shouldn’t have even broken ground yet.

But the first floor is already going up.

And there are over a hundred workers.

“Money and connections are meant to be used at times like this.”

“Crazy. They really threw money around…”

Joy and all the other friends who were turning their heads drop their jaws.

Seeing Johann with a towel around his neck and Emily in her bare face wearing dust and sweat-covered clothes, their previous questions completely disappear.

“You, you two?”

Fairmont High School’s prom queen and king.

Emily was even the queen who hadn’t stepped down from the queen’s position for a whopping 10 years since sophomore year.

Sophisticated, beautiful, elegant, and healthy.

Seeing her in such a disheveled state was shocking enough.

But why does Emily’s face look so beautiful as she smiles saying you came to live here?

“There’s a cafe down there, so go there first. I’ll wash up roughly and come.”

“Mm-hmm.”

While going to the cafe Johann told them about, they who hadn’t said a word sit at a table in the small cafe and open their mouths.

“Those guys… they’re serious.”

About living together. About living together.

“Johann is being Johann…”

Surely Johann would have rushed in with red eyes saying it was a new experience.

Snicker!

Lucy, awakening from the shock, lets out a chuckle.

“Well, Emily is just as serious as Johann.”

Wet blanket (a serious person who’s no fun).

“Huh? Emily?”

“Didn’t you know?”

Ding!

While Flash and his friends are laughing and chatting, Johann and Emily, who had washed up and come down, enter the cafe.

“Oh, the noisy residents have arrived!”

The elderly man in his 60s who was making coffee spots Johann and Emily and grins mischievously.

“Thanks for the food yesterday. The sweet stuff suited my taste?”

“Wasn’t the braised ribs tough? Should I make more for you?”

“Oh. Could I ask you to?”

“What do you mean ask? It’s give and take.”

The price for tolerating the noise generated by construction until late evening.

“Two cold blacks, please.”

“Sit down.”

Johann and Emily, who smiled brightly, sit in empty seats.

“Ahh. I’m alive!”

Emily flops onto the table and rubs her face.

This was it. This air conditioning breeze was what she wanted.

“What’s going on? Are you already trying to set up house?”

“Ah, I have quite a lot of stuff.”

Johann explains the situation.

“There’s also the paparazzi and fans problem.”

“Aha. You’re not even thinking about breaking up?”

“Wouldn’t it be strange to think about it?”

“You’re really talking nonsense, nonsense.”

The friends who glance at Flash getting scolded for saying useless things nod their heads.

Now that he puts it that way, it makes sense.

So it’s a bit disappointing.

Lucy furrows her brow.

“What. Then we can’t be together during vacation. I was going to suggest we all go volunteer together.”

‘Volunteer work?’

The friends are confused by this story they’re hearing for the first time, and Johann, who makes eye contact with Emily, quickly corrects the error.

“We can go. It’ll be finished within a month.”

“…You guys are really crazy.”

At Joy’s fed-up face, Johann and Emily grin.

“I guess they liked the idea of 18-year-old kids directly renovating a house to live together.”

If there had been complaints and interference from neighboring residents, it might have taken more unnecessary time, but luckily all the neighbors were good people, making it possible.

“Anyway, so we can go after a month.”

“Really? Oh. That’s great!”

When Lucy claps at Johann’s words, Emily narrows her eyes.

“But what’s the reason for suddenly wanting to do volunteer work?”

They had already accumulated more than enough volunteer points through fundraising activities for burn victims and Paralympics. If college admission was the goal, there was no reason to do more volunteer work.

“Even if volunteer work done before 12th grade gets lower points.”

“Then what are you going to do just playing around?”

They had already taken the SAT before April and received high scores. They had also earned many points for social activities through career experience courses and summer camps, winter camps each semester, so they didn’t need to spend time on such things during vacation.

“To just use the leftover time for playing around…”

“No, wait. Hey, hold on.”

Joy looks at Johann and Emily and narrows her eyes.

“Spill it.”

“Huh? What?”

“Don’t try to subtly create an atmosphere and lead us later, just say it. Haven’t we known you two for more than a day or two?”

Johann and Emily, who would normally just let insignificant matters slide, but are persistently asking why they want to go volunteer.

Johann and Emily were clearly following steps.

When everyone looks with surprised eyes, the two scratch their heads.

“It’s not that, we were also seriously thinking about volunteer work.”

Even without Conner Watt’s proposal, they had been thinking about it.

“She still hasn’t decided on a college and major.”

Rather than worrying at home, they were going to worry while doing volunteer work.

In the midst of that, they received Conner Watt’s proposal, and were considering Africa as a candidate destination for volunteer work.

“Lucy, where were you planning to go?”

“Me? Africa.”

Flinch!

“Uh…?”

Everyone’s eyes widen.

Johann and Emily mean something different.

“Since we’re volunteering anyway, I thought it would be good to do it for people who are really struggling and having a hard time.”

For those who desperately need someone’s help, like burn patients.

For people who would truly die without external help.

That’s why Africa.

“I was going to seduce you guys now that I’ve hooked Flash…”

It was ruined because of Johann and Emily.

“Sigh. Where do you want to go?”

Where exactly did they want to go that they were trying to build up to it?

Johann and Emily looked at each other and scratched their heads.

“We also…”

Ring! Ring!

“Wait a moment. This seems like a call I need to take.”

It’s Engel Barber.

Johann excused himself, left the cafe, and answered the phone.

“This is Johann. What’s the matter?”

-I’m calling because additional expenses are needed for the pharmaceutical company acquisition.

It’s a problem that can be solved with the additional 10 billion dollars Johann spent, but he’s reporting like this to be certain.

“Yes. I’m listening.”

-The acquisition is currently about halfway complete, and we need to generate 100 million dollars in sales to verify our business capabilities.

Gasp!

“If we purchase 100 million dollars worth of pharmaceuticals?”

-They promised to sign the acquisition agreement immediately.

“…The management has great loyalty to the company.”

-As I mentioned before, all the management who share the entire stake are friends of 40 years, and since they built this from the ground up to where it is now, their company loyalty seems great.

So even if they hand over the company, they want the company to continue surviving.

-What would you like to do? Should we ignore this demand and…

“No.”

Johann looked at Lucy inside the cafe, then looked up at the sky.

‘You’re telling me to go, aren’t you?’

Though it’s purely coincidental events coming together, it seems like heaven is telling him to go to Africa.

So he laughs.

“I’ll handle those pharmaceuticals myself.”

-You will, Mr. Jefferson?

“Well…”

Johann explained the situation, and Engel Barber burst into hollow laughter over the receiver.

Ding!

“What call took so long…?!”

“Hey, guys.”

His friends grimaced when they saw Johann’s face.

“Ah, damn it. Look at this bastard’s eyes.”

“Ugh, shit.”

They’re screwed. They don’t know what’s going on, but they can’t stop it.

Johann grinned.

“Let’s go. To Africa.”

All together.

It definitely won’t be dangerous.

* * *

Thud!

The shovel strikes the moistly wet ground.

The memories of the past two months of major construction flash through the minds of interior designer Oliver and about a hundred workers gathered around the giant tree.

Moments when they had to work day and night but didn’t feel the hardship because massive bonuses were promised.

But as the end approaches like this, their throats tighten, and fatigue that started from their soles surges up to the back of their necks.

At the same time, a tingling, intense sense of achievement resonates throughout their bodies.

Such people stare intently at Johann and Emily, who are pounding the ground under the tree with shovels in hand.

Under their gaze, Johann calms his heart that feels like it might burst and swings the shovel once more with great force.

Thud!

“…Done.”

‘Ah!’

“Woohoo!”

“Yeah! It’s finished!”

The workers embrace each other and make a commotion, but Johann can’t hear them.

Whoooosh!

‘It’s rushing in!’

The massive and magnificent wind that had surged like a tsunami right after demolishing the existing wall.

The energy of prosperity that came over the lowered wall.

Sweeps fiercely between the buildings, trees, rocks, and water.

“Ugh?! Where’s this wind coming from?”

“Whoa?!”

“Kyah!”

‘It’s growing.’

The earth, the trees, the people.

It roughly penetrates all life standing on this land.

Pushing out bad energy while filling what’s lacking, caressing what’s hurt and encouraging growth.

And it flows out.

Through the open main gate, the overflow passes through the low wall and heads downward.

Downward, downward. Widely, widely.

Warmly caressing all areas of Beverly Hills as it heads toward the ocean.

‘It’s calming down.’

Originally, a water channel is only rough the moment it breaks through; the wind that had been sweeping through the entire estate grounds gradually subsides.

Now the buildings properly receive and release the energy, the trees soothingly absorb it, the rocks sternly press it down, and the water soothes like a mother.

It flows majestically and circulates.

Only then do the people who were startled by the sudden typhoon raise their heads. And they’re surprised once again.

‘What, something feels fresh?’

The leaves and grass blades, the pebbles, the rocks, the streams of water winding here and there throughout the grounds seem to sparkle and emit a pleasant fragrance.

“Oh, wow. It seems God has given His blessing?”

Johann is a member of the Order of St. Sylvester. It seems God just celebrated a bit too enthusiastically.

‘Then perhaps I too?’

Maybe he received even a fragment of the blessing God bestowed.

Everyone grins.

“Thank you for your hard work!”

“What work did I do? It’s all thanks to Boss Oliver and everyone here. The payment will be made by the end of today. And use this to buy gifts for your families on your way home.”

Oliver and the workers are startled and their lips tremble at the $50,000 check Johann extends.

“Please contact us anytime, client!”

“We’ll pray for your even greater success!”

People blessing Johann and Emily as they rush out in a crowd.

As the bustling space becomes quiet, Johann wraps his arm around Emily’s shoulder and points to the grounds.

“Look, Emily. This is our home now.”

“Our, our home…”

The home where the two of them will live from now on.

The two standing under the giant tree brushed each other’s shoulders as they gazed at the mansion.

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Bang! Crack!

The muzzle spits fire, and the thick smell of gunpowder pierces into the nostrils.

Pierced targets and a lightening magazine.

As the hammer clicks in the air, Johann lowers the rifle with the dot sight and presses the button placed beside him.

With the sound of chains winding overhead, Larry approaches from the next lane, lowering his goggles and headset.

“How was it? Manageable? How many hits did you get?”

“What about you, Larry?”

“I…”

Larry, who discovered Johann’s target as he approached, quietly hides his own target behind his waist.

“Right. You should shoot the torso area like this with guns. Hmm. You didn’t shoot well. I guess shooting is awkward since it’s your first time?”

Holes clustered three each in the torso and outside the torso.

‘Larry doesn’t know much about guns.’

He doesn’t seem to know about shot grouping. Looking at his hands trembling from the shock of firing, it becomes certain.

“But Larry. Can’t you only buy firearms from age 21?”

“Rifles and shotguns can be purchased at your age too.”

Under federal law, handguns can be purchased from age 21, but long guns can be purchased from age 18.

However, California has very strict gun regulations compared to other states, requiring gun purchase permits and registration, with separate regulations on magazine capacity and weapon types.

“From now on, you have to protect your own body, and you have to protect your woman too.”

Since you’re independent, you never know what situations might arise. Larry himself can no longer protect him.

“So that’s the intention…”

He wondered why they suddenly came to the shooting range.

‘He really teaches everything.’

All the knowledge a father should pass on to his child.

The past two months flash through his mind.

‘That would be good for the gift after all.’

The upcoming Father’s Day gift.

“This should be enough. Clean up and come out. Let’s go buy a gun. Then the timing will be just right.”

For when the moving company comes to give an estimate.

“…Let me empty one more magazine before we go.”

“Alright. The gun store is right next door, so come over.”

“Okay.”

Larry goes outside, and Johann, receiving a magazine from the staff, stands in the lane again.

Bang crack! Bang crack!

Two shots to the chest, one to the head.

The most effective shooting method to subdue an enemy, the Mozambique Drill.

‘I’ll kill anyone who breaks into my house.’

His wild instincts awakened after a long time, and his senses began to sharpen.

* * *

“Please take that luggage up to the second floor. Oh, those are sensitive items, so you can’t move them carelessly!”

“Clothes go this way! That box goes over there!”

Sandra and Ada, who were just watching Johann and Emily running around frantically with the moving company people, smile warmly.

“Those kids really finished it all in two months.”

It took only two months to tear down and rebuild all buildings and walls except for the main building used for residence.

“Johann knows how to spend money.”

He bought time with money. It was excellent.

“How long do you think it will take to finish organizing, Ada?”

“Two days?”

Because Johann’s important items were moved first.

Items accumulated in the basement and third floor over the past 7 years.

When the basement and third floor laboratory opened for the first time in 7 years, Larry and Ada couldn’t help but be shocked. There was just too much stuff.

Johann had to move everything himself since nothing wasn’t sensitive.

“Emily will take a bit longer.”

It’s a new house, and it’s a house for two people, so they had to discuss and arrange everything.

Something she also did when she married Edward.

“Oh, it seems like everything’s finished.”

“Then we’ll be going.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Greeting the departing moving company staff and entering the first floor living room, Johann and Emily sprawled on the sofa send resentful glances.

“It’s your house.”

“…I know!”

That’s why they’re not saying anything.

Ada and Sandra, who chuckled at their cute appearance, sit beside them. They brush back the sweat-soaked hair of the two.

Is it because they helped with the mansion renovation?

Or is it really because they’re becoming independent?

Their eyes well up looking at the children’s faces that have become somewhat more mature.

“From now on, you’ll have to handle everything yourselves – food, clothes, mansion management, utilities, taxes, and all.”

“For now, don’t hire any employees except security guards. You need to know how to do things before you can tell others to do them.”

“Okay.”

Advice that becomes flesh and bone.

Johann and Emily make sad faces at the encouragement to stand on their own.

Sandra hugs Emily and pats her.

“From now on, no matter how hard and overwhelming it gets, you two have to solve it together.”

By yourselves, with just the two of you.

“Even if you fight and argue, you have to sleep in the same bed. Understood?”

“Yes… I will. *sob*”

“Johann, you also need to always cherish Emily and reduce your stubbornness. She’s a woman who trusts you and decided to live with you, so you need to know how to yield to her.”

“Yeah. I’ll try, Ada.”

“Good…”

When did they really grow up this much?

From the moment independence was decided until now, she keeps having only these thoughts.

“Let me hug you.”

‘My child.’

Johann and Ada embrace each other tightly, sharing the sadness of a farewell that isn’t a farewell.

How much time passed like that?

While having conversations, everyone who checked the time gets up with an “oh no.”

“The fathers will come soon. Let’s hurry and prepare.”

“Okay!”

Today is Father’s Day.

Everyone who had set the moving day for today to treat the fathers who had worried so much for them to a meal on their first day of independence moved busily.

* * *

“I’m here.”

“We’re here.”

As if they had planned it, Larry and Edward, who were entering the mansion, stop for a moment and look around the first living room.

“It seems like everything that should be here is here?”

Carpet, sofa, TV, even gaming consoles.

“Yes. The living room is spacious and bright, which looks nice.”

Johann and Emily approach the two fathers who are looking around.

“You’re here?”

“Oh-. The food smells good?”

“Haha. Let me show you around inside first.”

Unlike Ada and Sandra who had occasionally dropped by, Larry and Edward were seeing this mansion for the first time since the day it was purchased.

Johann guides them from the basement to the 3rd floor of the main building, and then to the auxiliary buildings behind the main building.

The more they see, the wider their eyes become.

‘The money wasn’t spent carelessly.’

‘The arrangement of buildings and trees is impressive?’

Recognition gradually filling their eyes.

After nearly an hour of touring the entire estate grounds, Larry and Edward pat their children’s shoulders.

“You did well….”

“Yeah.”

“Hehehe.”

Since it was their first independence, they hadn’t helped with anything except purchasing the house. Nevertheless, seeing how properly they had decorated it made them proud, and somehow made them feel left out.

‘Now they’re really not children in my arms anymore.’

‘So this is what it feels like to half-graduate as a parent.’

Parents who are half-relieved of their duties and responsibilities as parents on the day their children become independent.

However, the feeling of being left out comes before the feeling of relief.

Larry and Edward hold each other’s hands and grit their teeth while watching the backs of Johann and Emily walking ahead.

They had been trying to suppress their feelings of being left out, struggling to hide their emotions so their independent children wouldn’t notice, but they finally break down when they see the food spread out on the kitchen table.

Mac and cheese, grilled salmon, potato soup, and French toast that Larry likes.

Rotisserie chicken, Greek yogurt, clam chowder, and bourbon whiskey that Edward likes.

“You must have been busy moving, but….”

“When did you prepare all this….”

“Huh? You can’t be moved already?”

“Right, Father. There’s still the Father’s Day gift left.”

“Haha. Right, right!”

Emily hands Edward the gift she prepared as his anticipation builds.

“What kind of gift did my daughter, who became an adult this year, prepare….”

A pair of shoes comes out of the box that was hidden behind the bouquet and card.

“I noticed before that Father’s shoes were quite worn out. I know Father wears the same shoes for a long time because you say you don’t have time to break in new shoes, but….”

“No.”

Thank you. He’s so grateful that his child has been watching over him this closely.

Edward wipes away tears as he changes into the new shoes.

“As expected, our Father. You look the coolest.”

“Hehe.”

Edward hugs Emily tightly.

Watching this, Johann also hands Larry a thick envelope.

“What is it. A drawing? A photo album?”

A photo album, a typical Father’s Day gift.

“Open it. You’ll know when you open it, Larry.”

“What on earth is it… Huh?”

Larry freezes as he takes out the contents inside.

Ada, who had approached Larry’s side with curiosity, and the Sherman family members who had been sharing warm affection, all freeze in surprise when they see it.

Adoption certificate.

Johann raises one hand toward Larry, who is staring at him blankly.

“I swear. I, Johann Jefferson, solemnly pledge before sacred law and family rules that even though I have become an adult, I will live my entire life as Larry Jefferson’s son.”

“…Ah!”

Thud!

Larry, whose legs gave out, collapsed to the ground.

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