Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 213

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 213

“You can sleep here!”

Johann’s eyebrow twitches once as he looks around the house, watching the 9-year-old boy blush while glancing at Emily.

There are no electric lights, but windows have been cut out so the interior isn’t too dark.

On one side there’s a fireplace that doubles as a stove, and a bamboo bed raised 2 feet (about 60cm) from the dirt floor takes up more than half the house.

“That must be the bed and living space. You go toward the wall.”

“Okay!”

This isn’t a house where just the two of them will sleep.

It’s a house where Rick Bottom, the branch manager, Tanga, and the doctor all need to sleep.

“I’m glad we bought that cloth just in case!”

The wide cloth they bought for bedding just in case.

When Johann hangs the cloth Emily hands him from the wooden ceiling and Emily takes out and spreads two sleeping bags, a decent private space for just the two of them is completed.

“They said we could leave our luggage here…”

Small Village 30. They said the people live so simply that they’re all innocent enough not to know crime.

‘Yeah right.’

The more closed off a community like this is, the more twisted it tends to be somewhere.

‘Still, if anything gets stolen, we’d know right away…’

“Let’s go out. Let’s go out.”

When Johann exits the house with Emily and Rick, the boy who had guided them here quickly stands up.

“Did you finish unpacking? Where should I show you around? The village chief’s house? The general store?”

“There’s a general store?”

“Of course! Our village has as many as 60 people living in it!”

‘Only 60 people?’

There are 30 houses, but only 60 people living here. The numbers are quite small.

“What do they sell?”

“They sell everything! Snacks, candy, uh… you’ll know when you see it!”

The boy grabs Emily’s hand and leads them to the village’s only general store.

“Sister!”

“Shh! I wasn’t sleeping… Eek?”

A small wooden house that couldn’t even be 2 pyeong.

A girl around the boy’s age who had been dozing with her chin propped on the railing of a large opening like the street shops often seen on American streets wipes her mouth, then sees Johann and hurriedly hides her body below.

A small clattering noise occurs.

“Wh-who are you?”

“They’re people who came to volunteer! I brought them to show them around the general store!”

“Oh…”

The girl who finally pokes her head out cautiously had changed quite a bit from before.

Her face flushed red, her hair neatly tied back unlike before, her eyes shining shyly.

This time Emily’s eyebrow twitches, and Johann smiles.

“He bragged so much about the general store. Could we see what you sell?”

“We don’t sell much… We sell things like that.”

The girl quickly points to the products displayed on the wall one by one.

Empty display shelves except for salt and sugar, spices, and a few canned goods. The largest number of items are junk food placed in front of the counter.

‘No expiration dates written.’

Literally junk food that you don’t know what would happen if you ate it.

Johann nods toward the boy whose eyes are sparkling as he says ‘Look, there’s so much!’

“You’re right. You sell a lot.”

“Of course! The general store is our village’s pride!”

While saying this, the boy stares intently at the candy placed in front of the counter.

Johann picks up some candy and a few snacks.

“How much?”

“T-two hundred shillings.”

‘Cheap!’

He picked five items but it’s only 200 Tanzanian shillings, barely 10 cents.

Johann takes out a 10,000 shilling bill and holds it out.

“When the village kids come, let them eat whatever they want with this money.”

“…Wow. Did you hit the jackpot?”

“Huh?”

“Ah! There are six kids in our village, but three are really babies!”

Excluding the girl herself and the boy, there’s only one other boy who can walk around.

“I can eat candy and snacks for free anytime by helping grandmother with the general store like this, and the other kid doesn’t really like candy and snacks… So in the end, all the money big brother is giving will go into his mouth.”

10,000 shillings was an enormous amount that would let the boy in front of them snack for almost 2 years.

“…Eat in moderation. Your teeth will rot.”

“Are you an angel, hyung?”

“Puhaha!”

Not only Johann but Emily and Rick also burst into laughter.

“Well, I’ve paid the price, so will you continue showing us around the village?”

“Yes! Just trust me! Sister, see you later!”

“W-wait! I’m coming too!”

“Huh? Yeah! Great! Hurry up!”

The girl who hurriedly left the general store stands next to the boy taking the lead and glances at Johann.

At her obviously clear intentions, Emily pokes Johann’s side.

“Nice, right?”

“Should I ask you the same question?”

“…No.”

Calmed down, they wandered around various parts of the village guided by the boy and girl.

The more they did, the more Johann and the others’ expressions hardened.

“D-doesn’t the village seem too quiet?”

As if everyone had gone somewhere, no signs of people could be felt at all.

“And the last place we’re going is the village chief’s house…”

“Ah, they’re gathered over there.”

Bustling!

“Come on, come on! Form a line!”

“How long do you want to live that you’re rushing to see the doctor?!”

“I want to live longer than you, so what!”

“Oh my, the mother with the baby should go in first.”

“Oh, you don’t have to… Thank you.”

“Waaah!”

About 50 people are gathered in front of the village chief’s house, but something’s strange.

“Jo-Johann.”

“Yeah. We’re not seeing wrong. It’s almost all elderly people and women.”

Among the forty or so elderly people, three young women holding babies and four women in their 40s and 50s.

Even the youngest-looking man is a frail elderly man in his 60s.

“Now I understand why we came here.”

And what needs to be done here too.

Johann approached the branch manager who was struggling to get people to form a line.

“Branch Manager.”

“Oh! You’re here?!”

The look in his eyes that said ‘I’m saved’ pierced his heart.

* * *

“Ow. My knee has been killing me for a month now, Doctor.”

“How does it hurt? Does it hurt here?”

The Black Man doctor in his 70s touches various parts of the Grandmother’s foot as she sits in the chair, then touches her back and hips.

Despite his stern yet dignified appearance, his touch is delicate.

“Owww!”

The Grandmother flails about.

Johann, who was entering, mutters.

‘Her back is strained.’

“It seems your back is quite strained.”

“Wh-what? Does a strained back make your knee hurt?”

“Sometimes this happens. Take the medicine I’ll give you today and come back tomorrow. I’ll loosen up the strained area and teach you exercises that are good for your back.”

“Sigh. What good does it do for a woman to have a healthy back? Men should be the ones getting healthy.”

“That damn old hag?”

Hahaha, hohoho laughter erupts.

The Doctor also laughs warmly.

“Next person…”

“Could I help loosen up that person’s back?”

The Doctor looks at Johann with wide eyes. Emily and the Branch Manager do the same.

“Are you a medical student?”

“Not exactly, but I learned it while working on my body.”

Starting from the Forest.

In the Forest where even slight physical decline could threaten your life. While training and hunting, he had to loosen muscles and ligaments that would tense up and tear, so he learned it naturally.

Johann extends his leg, telling him to feel it, and the Doctor, who had been staring intently at Johann, presses his thigh.

“…Huh?”

Press! Squeeze! Press!

The Doctor presses various parts of his thigh with bewilderment.

Soon he looks at Johann with disbelief in his eyes, who is smiling as if to say ‘see?’

“…Give it a try.”

“Grandmother, please come this way.”

“Huh? Oh…”

The Grandmother lies down while watching the Doctor’s expression. With the Doctor standing beside her and gazes gathering, Johann slowly closes and opens his eyes, then grasps both her feet and aligns them neatly.

“Your pelvis is quite misaligned. I’ll correct this too.”

The Grandmother is startled as Johann’s thumb is placed on the sole of her foot.

“It’s dir…”

“This will hurt a bit.”

Squeeze!

“Ahhh?!”

The small-framed Grandmother flails about even more violently than when the Doctor pressed her hip earlier.

The Village people are shocked at the Grandmother’s face contorting in pain.

“Hey? Hey?”

“Ow. He’s killing someone, kill… huh?”

The expressions of the People who were getting angry and flustered soon become strange.

“Ohhhh. Ohhhh.”

The Grandmother’s face relaxes and she lets out gasps.

However, the Grandmother herself was overwhelmed by the tingling sensation that shook her entire body and this new world, not even realizing she was making such sounds.

This was a body that, since birth, she had never allowed anyone to touch except her Father, Husband, and Son.

When various parts of her body ached and hurt, she had massaged and tapped herself, but this was the first time receiving a massage from someone else like this.

The pain in her sole, no, her foot felt like it would shatter, soon becoming sparks that raced through her entire body, making even her head tingle.

Unfamiliar sensations raised their heads and greeted her.

Lightning made of ice raced through her rock-hard body.

“Ahhhh! Ahhhhh!”

A dizzying sensation that made her whole body tremble.

What kind of sensation was this?

It was a sensation she had never felt in her life.

Though she was scared, she couldn’t bring herself to tell him to stop.

Johann doesn’t mind even if someone might look at him strangely.

‘This can happen when receiving a massage for the first time.’

Thick calluses like an elephant’s sole and muscles harder than dried tendons. The trajectory of a life that had become this tense was being released, so such a reaction was understandable.

“This part hurts too.”

Johann’s hand, which had been pressing the sole, moves past the heel toward the Achilles tendon.

“Ahhhhh?! …Ahhh! Uhhhhh! Ahhh! Uhhhhh!”

As he moves up to the calf, knee, and thigh, the Village residents’ eyes become brighter, and the Doctor nods before sitting back down.

“Next person?”

“C-cough! Cough! I’ve been coughing continuously for several days…”

The Village Chief’s House became busy again.

“…”

“H-honey, are you okay?”

Dazed eyes look at her Husband.

“You’ll probably have body aches and chills for several days. But it’s a natural phenomenon, so you don’t need to worry.”

Muscles that had been tense for a lifetime had been released. Naturally, there would be a backlash in a body that had adapted to that state.

“You used a lot of energy receiving the massage, so as soon as you get home, you should drink lots of warm water.”

It would be better to soak her body in warm water, but if that’s impossible, wiping her body with a towel soaked in warm water would work.

Then she would fall asleep immediately, and when she wakes up, it would be good to have her eat soup made by boiling meat or bones thoroughly.

“Yes, yes.”

‘Where would we get meat…’

As worry crosses the Old Man’s face as he answers absentmindedly, Johann looks at the Branch Manager.

“Uhaha! We can use some of the meat we bought from the mart!”

That’s correct.

The pork and chicken cut with bones to distribute to the People of this Village. That would be enough to make nutritious food.

“Emily.”

“I should help support her, right? Got it, babu?”

Babu is Swahili for Grandfather.

Emily speaks one of the few words she memorized at the Camp while supporting the Grandmother and urging the Grandfather.

Johann looks at the Doctor amid the pouring intense gazes.

“This person is next.”

“Please come up.”

What kind of heaven had he experienced to make such expressions and moaning sounds?

The Elderly Man quickly lay down next to Johann.

* * *

“Snore! Phooo!”

Eight elderly People lying side by side snore with happy faces.

‘T-tomorrow I’ll definitely be first!’

‘If I push to the side, there seems to be room for me to lie down…’

As the Village residents exit the Village Chief’s House with faces dripping with regret, Johann also wipes his sweaty face and neck with a towel and goes outside.

Whoosh!

A breeze from somewhere cools his trembling arms.

“You’ve properly learned massage and physical therapy. Whew.”

Hazy cigarette smoke disperses from the mouth of the doctor who approached from the side.

Eyes filled with greed stare at Johann persistently.

‘Ah, I know that look.’

A look he’d seen many times before. Eyes that coveted him.

“Did you feel the necessity when living in the forest?”

“Oh? You know about me?”

He’s surprised since Johann showed no signs of recognition.

“There was simply no need to pretend to know you.”

But now there is a need. Because Johann had drastically reduced his workload.

Even he, who had been treating patients as a surgeon for over 40 years, would rank this skill in the top three.

Unless one perfectly understood the mechanisms of human muscles and ligaments, it would be impossible to release exactly the right spots like that. Such perfect force control would be impossible.

“Have you chosen a major? If not, how about medical school?”

‘How wonderful it would be if someone like this joined my team!’

There are many patients who, despite successfully receiving surgery, cannot stand up or move the operated area due to aftereffects.

That’s why physical therapy and rehabilitation training exist, and with Johann’s skills, that period could be shortened.

“Medical school doesn’t only have departments that cut open bodies to see blood. Like just now, there are fields that treat by pressing and manipulating the body…”

“I’ll think about it.”

“Hmm. Perhaps it’s still too early. I understand. Think about it slowly. Being a doctor is a profession where you can feel the emotion of saving lives every day.”

As the doctor turns away, Emily approaches.

“Not interested?”

“…No.”

Interest had just sparked.

‘Doctors Without Borders, who can go anywhere in the world.’

The Amazon wilderness, deserts, the Indus River which is one of the cradles of civilization, cities full of people.

If they wanted, they could go anywhere.

‘They’re even rarely touched by anyone.’

Even extreme terrorists don’t touch Doctors Without Borders. Because they could become enemies of all doctors worldwide.

‘The problem is the condition that you must treat people…’

“How about architecture?”

“Architecture?”

“You really enjoyed it.”

When building auxiliary structures for the independent house and when digging groundwater and building houses at the refugee camp, Johann was always enjoying himself.

“You could aim to establish your own architectural firm and build great buildings that will remain in history, or create architectural structures that help humanity like the Waka Tower installed at the refugee camp.”

It’s not yet certain whether his talent in architecture is exceptional or not.

But she believed without doubt that Johann would have talent in architecture too.

‘Hmm. This one’s a bit ambiguous.’

Because most places that need architecture are cities.

“I’m not trying to rush you, but there’s no time left now.”

The volunteer work that also had the purpose of choosing Johann’s major for advancement.

Only 15 days remained until August 1st, the university application deadline. After finishing volunteer work and returning home, he’d have to write applications immediately.

“I’m not rushing you, but don’t forget the purpose.”

‘Because I want to walk campus with you.’

“…Thank you, Emily.”

Thanks to her, his mind clears a bit.

The advancement issue he’d been forgetting quite a lot due to groundwater and construction.

Now he really needs to think about it seriously.

‘First, check off doctor and architectural designer.’

On the list of professions that allow traveling the world without arousing anyone’s suspicion.

It was the moment Johann grasped Emily’s hand with gratitude.

Clatter!

“Sister!”

“Brother!”

The boy and young girl who had guided them around the village today come running with extremely excited faces.

“The adults want you to come to the village center!”

“It’s a feast! A meat feast!”

‘Oh. A feast!’

So that’s why they’re so excited.

“Shall we go?”

“Yes!”

The two held hands tightly and headed toward the village center where several bonfires were lit and pots were hung.

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