Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 215

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 215

Thwack!

A muffled gunshot rings out.

Unable to travel far, it gets swallowed by the trees and forest.

A comrade who stops mid-collapse.

Beyond his shoulder, indifferent eyes are visible along with the body of a silencer protruding from under an armpit.

“…?!”

His frozen mind snaps awake in shock.

His body moves.

The young man who had dropped his gun reaches for it, while the comrade who hadn’t dropped his gun lifts it up.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Four more muffled gunshots swallowed by the forest.

The comrade with three holes in his chest and head collapses, and the young man with a pierced thigh rolls on the ground.

“Kraagh! Aaaagh!”

Thwack!

“…Graaaagh!”

His other thigh is pierced.

A red-hot stick stirs and churns through his thigh.

Step! Step!

He approaches. The grim reaper.

“The ghost that herded you to me was right.”

A CIA secret special forces unit whose name isn’t even known to the world.

‘What, what?’

“I don’t know why the CIA is protecting Johann Jefferson to this extent, but….”

Originally, this special forces unit should have finished killing these terrorists before they reached this place.

But when they got within hearing distance of gunshots, they stopped pursuing and herded them this way. They didn’t want to let Johann know they had killed these terrorists.

“Just think of it as the price for having unrealistic greed.”

These guys should have just kidnapped doctors like before. Like in 2010, when they kidnapped two Spanish members of Doctors Without Borders working at a Somali refugee camp in Kenya.

“You bastard…!”

‘Do you think I’ll die like this?!’

The young man barely reaches and pulls up his rifle, and just as Tanga is about to pull the trigger.

Thunk!

A spear embedded as if sprouting from the young man’s neck.

Tanga turns around in shock, and Johann and Rick walking out of the forest come into view.

“So you were CIA after all.”

‘When? How?!’

When and how did they follow him?

Since when was he discovered?

“Wait.”

Flinch!

Johann walks over, takes the pistol from Tanga’s hand, and aims it at the young man.

“Gurgle! Gurgle!”

The young man’s eyes shake with resentment, fear, confusion, and regret.

Sticky killing intent flows from Johann’s eyes.

“What did you say you’d do to my girlfriend, to Emily?”

Then you have to die.

Painfully.

Johann pulled the trigger.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Bullets embedding starting from his feet.

Rick and Tanga are horrified by Johann’s twisted face as he quietly watches the dying eyes after piercing the heart.

Click! Click!

“That’s enough now.”

Rick hastily takes away the gun.

“…Let’s go. Please tell the CIA thank you.”

But it’s a bit disappointing.

‘If they had left them alone, I would have made them all food for nature myself.’

Food for beasts.

Food for soil and trees.

Rick and Tanga quietly watched Johann as he walked away.

Rustle rustle!

The return journey, leisurely unlike when they came.

Johann sighs.

“I’m fine.”

“Are you really okay?”

As far as Rick knows, what just happened was Johann’s first murder. Despite his usual expression, or rather slightly angry face, he might be suffering some mental anguish.

“I said I’m fine.”

He just killed beasts, so why would there be reason to be shaken?

No, even calling them beasts is too generous. Those guys were trash worse than beasts.

“People don’t get shaken from cleaning up trash, do they?”

Flinch!

‘Trash?’

Tanga’s heart grows cold.

‘Dangerous.’

While such thoughts can easily be conceived in one’s mind, putting them into action is an entirely different matter.

As Tanga decides he must report this part, Rick sighs.

“Still, please get counseling. There’s a hospital that works with the CIA.”

“Fine. Oh, and I suspected Mr. Tanga from the refugee camp.”

Essentially saying he suspected him from the beginning.

“You kept watching me at the camp.”

Flinch!

“I photographed everyone else too, but….”

“Still, your attention was constantly directed at me. I’m sensitive to such things.”

“Hmm.”

‘I’m going to get an earful.’

An agent’s identity was discovered by a civilian. It would be fortunate if it ends with just a scolding.

Tanga covers his face with his hands.

“Can’t you just pretend you don’t know?”

“It’s punishment for deceiving me.”

“…Argh!”

Johann, who had been giggling, suddenly wrinkles his nose and brings his forearm to his nose.

“Sniff sniff? …Rick, do I smell like gunpowder?”

“Very strongly.”

“…If I say Rick brought a gun and I used it to chase animals, would Emily believe me?”

“That’s an unlikely story.”

Johann used a gun but didn’t catch a single animal? It’s an unbelievable story.

He had to catch at least a few animals before returning.

“Because Johann would definitely have done so.”

He must have been very excited and bragged about it.

“Damn it!”

It was a mistake. He had overlooked that the smell of gunpowder doesn’t fade easily.

“It can’t be helped.”

Just as Rick had said, they had to hunt wild animals.

Johann slowly closed and opened his eyes, then looked in one direction.

“Follow me. Since it’s come to this, let’s massacre those hyena packs.”

Those bastards the village elderly had talked about.

Thud!

“Phew. Let’s go.”

Rick also sighed and kicked off the ground, while Tanga gritted his teeth and followed behind.

* * *

“Wh-what?!”

“Wh-what is all this?!”

People were shocked by the hyena carcasses that Johann, Rick, and Tanga brought back.

Hyenas, who were natural enemies and mortal foes to them.

“So, you’re saying you caught their scent near the fields outside the village, lured them far away, and killed them?”

And they couldn’t bring them all back, so they only brought some.

“Yes!”

Smack! Slap!

“You’re crazy, crazy! What if you had gotten hurt!”

“Ow! I didn’t die! Look! I killed them all… Ow!”

“Don’t make me end up alone!”

“…Yes. I’m sorry.”

‘Oh no. I made her cry.’

Johann hugged Emily and comforted her.

Emily was trapped in his embrace, pounding his chest while sobbing.

“Ah, Rick.”

“Yes.”

Whine! Whine!

“Eek?”

Strange sounds and something wriggling from Rick’s embrace surprised not only Emily but also the villagers.

Rick pulled out what had been wriggling in his embrace.

Four baby hyenas that hadn’t even opened their eyes yet.

Not only the villagers but also the Branch Manager and Doctor rushed over to examine the little ones, and Rick placed them on the Boy and Young Girl’s hands.

“Wooooow.”

“I heard that if you raise hyenas like livestock from when they’re nursing babies who haven’t opened their eyes, their wildness almost completely disappears.”

At Johann’s words, the Village Chief and elderly nodded vigorously.

“That’s right! Of course!”

Hyenas that are loyal and intelligent, and if raised well, can become guardians of the village.

However, hyenas have such strong attachment to their cubs that even if you discover a pack, you can’t just take the cubs, and even if you’re lucky enough to steal cubs and escape, the hyenas will chase you to the ends of the earth.

That’s why hyena cubs are traded at extremely high prices.

“I was so envious when I saw someone in the neighboring village raising one of these!”

Because they could raise livestock. Livestock they couldn’t raise because they never knew when hyenas and other beasts might take them away.

But this wasn’t just one, but four whole cubs.

“There are even two females and two males?!”

“They’re gifts.”

“…Thank you! Thank you so much!”

The Village Chief gripped Johann, Rick, and Tanga’s hands tightly with tears welling in his eyes.

How frightened and troubled they had been by the hyenas that occasionally prowled around the area.

Not only had that danger disappeared, but they had also been given guardians to protect the village. Johann, Rick, and Tanga were the village’s benefactors.

“What are you all doing?! Get the pot ready!”

“…That’s right! Of course, that’s what we should do!”

“Hohoho! Another feast today!”

“Yay!”

Johann scratched his chin while watching the villagers who were so delighted.

‘Are they not going to get massages?’

The massage that seemed likely to be postponed to this afternoon or tomorrow.

That was the problem.

‘I have many other things to do besides massages.’

From village maintenance to various other tasks.

“Ugh.”

Johann scrunched up his face.

* * *

Crackle! Snap!

“Uhahahaha!”

“Hohohohoho!”

Laughter that didn’t cease even as the sun set.

The elderly clapped their hands watching the children playing with the hyena cubs, young Women danced around the bonfire, and several elderly rolled stones using the bonfire as light.

“Those people… they say they ran away.”

Emily pointed to the single mothers circling the bonfire.

Yesterday, while Johann was massaging the elderly, Emily had many conversations with the elderly who were waiting outside.

Although it had to go through the Branch Manager’s interpretation, she learned quite a lot.

Young people who couldn’t endure village life with nothing and left for the city. This was why there were no young people in this village.

And those single mothers had left for the city long ago like that, but got pregnant, and when their boyfriends or families died or ran away, they lost their place to go and returned to the village.

Fortunately, the village elderly welcomed them warmly. Because they were their children, because they were granddaughters born by the children who had left, they couldn’t turn them away.

“I thought so.”

He had expected it, but it was inevitable to feel bitter.

“But things will be different now.”

The village would become prosperous by raising livestock they couldn’t raise before. Someday electricity would come, and they’d be able to use water freely.

“Will it be okay?”

Emily looked at the baby hyenas that had fallen asleep as if fainting from being petted so much.

“You said wild animals are wild animals.”

Even if their wildness mostly diminished, it was only mostly – some would remain. Since hyenas had jaw strength that could chew bones, they didn’t know what kind of accident might happen.

“Those people are willing to take even that risk.”

To continue living in this forest, for the single mothers who had returned to their embrace and the children they bore, they were willing to take some risk.

“Since the hyena pack that was the king of this area has been wiped out, other predators won’t approach for at least 2 years.”

It was more than enough time for the baby hyenas to grow into adults.

“Really… this is a world I don’t know.”

“Isn’t it fortunate then?”

That you came to this unknown world.

That you learned about this world.

“Yes.”

Emily, who had answered, leaned on Johann’s shoulder and watched the peaceful yet bustling village scene, and Johann embraced her shoulder and stroked it.

“Don’t ever do that again without saying anything. I was worried.”

“…”

“Hey, answer me.”

Johann kept his mouth tightly shut. He wasn’t confident he wouldn’t do this again.

* * *

“Ugali!”

“Ugali-!”

Click!

The village residents, children, and even newborn babies are all captured in a single photo.

“I’ll enlarge the photo and send it to you.”

“Oh! Great! We can look at it later when someone dies and we can’t remember their face!”

“Cough!”

The spicy jokes of the elderly until the very last moment.

“Do you really have to go?”

Even the boy who had run away when he first saw Emily clings to their clothes, and the girl from the general store, the village’s only source of pride, smacks him on the back of the head.

Smack!

“Hiing.”

Seeing tears welling up in the eyes of the girl who had hit him for saying nonsense, the boys finally give up and step back.

Johann and Emily crouch down and embrace them.

“Let’s meet again next time.”

“I don’t believe you. Don’t come.”

“Yeah. We’re just saying this too.”

“Damn.”

They say this even if it’s just words. To cherish the memories of the past 8 days a little longer.

“Huuung! Don’t go! Live with us! We’ll be good to you…”

The grandmothers and mothers of the boy and girl cover their mouths.

They remove the hands trying to hold onto the feet of those who must leave.

“Go on now. The sun is setting.”

Johann and Emily choke up at the hands of the elderly waving calmly while suppressing their regret. The past 8 days flash before their eyes.

The moments of laughter while playing folk games with the children.

The moment when they ate the wrong fruit and suffered from stomach problems for two straight days.

The incident when they fell from the roof they were fixing and got scolded for potentially destroying everything.

The time when they fell while making mud bricks and crushed them all.

The incident when they turned the entire village upside down looking for a hidden hyena cub.

All those moments seep into their hearts warmly and sadly.

They grit their teeth and board the bus.

“Take care!”

“Travel safely!”

They leave, forcing themselves to turn away from the waving elderly.

“Will we be able to come back again?”

“Let’s try our best.”

“Huuk…!”

Johann finally let out a long breath while stroking Emily’s back as she showed her tears.

And so they headed to the slums of Dar es Salaam.

* * *

Johann Jefferson’s concert held in the slums!

Johann injured while fixing a roof! Just apply some saliva and it’ll heal.

Saint. Oh, saint. Johann.

Johann Jefferson establishes educational foundation in Tanzania!

A thousand children to be saved?

Thank you. We will never forget you, Saint.

Murmur murmur!

Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam.

“I’m telling you, no matter how I think about it, I should have gone with that bastard Johann! Then we could have caught hyenas together, seen hippos, and seen zebras!”

“And gotten eaten.”

“Damn you.”

“But do hippos eat people too? Weren’t they cute animals?”

“You haven’t seen a hippo, have you?”

“Have you seen one? Oh, Johann’s coming.”

Friends welcome Johann, who once again greeted the president.

“Hey, can we sponsor too?”

“I’ll give you the Branch Manager’s phone number later.”

“Okay.”

$100 million in sports facilities and $10 million in annual sponsorship.

The Flashes, who had learned a lot while volunteering in the villages within Kigosi National Park and in the slums, couldn’t object to Johann’s decision.

Everything was so poor that they would have done it themselves if Johann hadn’t, and they had seen flowers that should have bloomed wither away without even budding.

Even if not as much as Johann, they wanted to provide support to match the emotions they were feeling now.

When they gathered where the Salvation Flag volunteers had assembled, the Branch Manager spoke up.

“Thank you all for your hard work over the past month!”

A 27-day journey where everyone felt and accomplished so much.

It’s really fortunate that everyone followed the rules and no accidents occurred during this time.

“Please give each other a round of applause for your hard work!”

“Good work everyone!”

“Sister, don’t forget to keep in touch.”

Clap clap clap clap clap!

The Branch Manager warmly watches the volunteers applauding each other and patting shoulders.

People they might see again next time, or might never see again.

“I hope everything goes well for all of you based on your experiences from the past month! This concludes the 3rd volunteer service of the 2016 Salvation Flag Tanzania branch. Thank you all for your hard work!”

“Thank you for your hard work!”

“Woohoo!”

“Now, let’s take a commemorative photo for the last time! Our saint, please come to the center here!”

“Hahahaha!”

Click!

The final photo of the 27-day journey, filled only with bright and determined smiles.

Johann smiled similarly while looking at Tanga, who was taking the photo, and chuckled.

* * *

“Travel safely!”

“Take care!”

Volunteers waving at the departure gate, each living in different countries.

Johann narrows his eyes as he watches Tanga, who nods goodbye and quietly turns away.

“I’ve decided.”

The department I want to go to.

Flinch!

“Where? Which university? No, which department?”

Emily, Flash, Mason, and all his friends stare intently at Johann’s mouth.

“Photography department.”

Film and video production department or photography department.

A profession where, like that Tanga, you can go anywhere in the world with just one camera, and you won’t easily be suspected no matter what or who you photograph.

“…!”

At this unexpected decision, his friends showed surprised expressions.

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