Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 259

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 259

64. Fire

“Start with sealing!”

“Yes!”

Wood and paper. Since they deteriorate easily, contact with air must be minimized as much as possible.

Verification can be done after moving to America without being too late.

Emily, who had been blankly watching the people moving busily, opens her mouth.

“What happened with Sound Cloud?”

Over a million sheet music pieces had been sleeping here.

Yet on Sound Cloud, Strauss’s pieces were uploaded. Even unreleased songs.

“…In the past, there was one person with talent that would remain in history.”

A person whose talent surpassed his father and brother, rivaling Elder Uncle Johann Strauss II and Younger Uncle Josef.

However, a person who wasn’t even given the chance to bloom that talent due to his father’s opposition.

Eduard Strauss’s second son, Joseph II Eduard Anna Strauss.

“He was a genius who memorized all the sheet music composed by my grandfather, elder uncle, younger uncle, and father.”

However, a genius who couldn’t even receive the opportunity to bloom that talent due to his father’s opposition.

Nevertheless, he was a tragic genius who loved Strauss the most.

“My, my goodness!”

Emily, Rick, Lynch, and Toru Iwata turn pale.

“Th, that’s too tragic! Why on earth!”

“Because Eduard didn’t want his children to become musicians.”

He hoped they wouldn’t feel the same despair as himself.

While he had no choice but to make his eldest son Johann III walk the path of a musician because of his elder brother Johann II, he forced his will upon his child, hoping that at least his second son wouldn’t walk the same path as himself.

“Josef II, who loved his father so much, had no choice but to live with his talent buried…but”

He couldn’t give up playing Strauss’s pieces alone.

“The sheet music he used then might have been passed down to descendants unknown to the world. Perhaps over time, someone completely unrelated might have obtained that sheet music.”

It meant that whoever uploaded Strauss’s pieces to Sound Cloud was likely someone who had somehow obtained Josef II’s sheet music.

Lynch, who had been silent for a moment, nods his head.

“We should keep in mind that this could also be a subject of negotiation.”

The descendants of the Strauss family remaining in the world.

To cleanly resolve the ownership issue of the sheet music, it was necessary to have conversations with them.

However, Johann shakes his head at that story.

“That won’t be necessary.”

“Pardon?”

“Don’t you know about what Eduard said when he burned the sheet music?”

“Ah, surely…!”

When Eduard fabricated the situation that he had burned over a million sheet music pieces and records, he explained that it was done with the permission and agreement of his brothers Johann II and Josef Strauss.

In reality, he didn’t burn everything but hid it all in a secret villa, but the fact that he received his brothers’ permission wasn’t a lie.

Johann points to the boxes with a smile.

“It should be in there.”

Documents where Johann II and Josef Strauss pledged to entrust all their sheet music to Eduard Strauss.

“And also documents where Eduard himself gave up all rights.”

Even if these sheet music pieces were discovered by later generations, he left documents giving up all rights out of selfish desire that they wouldn’t be passed down to people of the Strauss family.

Documents written out of excessive inferiority complex toward his brothers and selfish desire that at least his children wouldn’t bear the same burden.

However, through the library, through Johann, these documents had become meaningless as Eduard Strauss and Josef II confirmed each other’s hearts.

‘Are you satisfied now, Josef?’

Although he himself gave up music, Josef II loved Strauss so much that he wished for the family’s treasures to be passed down to the world.

It was the moment when the wish he had only kept in his heart until the day he died was being fulfilled.

* * *

“Then we’ll see you at LA port in a month.”

‘Master.’

After Toru and Inoue’s smuggling and excavation team left with those words, Johann looks up at the sky.

“It’s night.”

The operation that started in the morning finally ended at 9 PM.

Johann looks at the deserted old town street with only sparse streetlights on.

“All the restaurants would be closed…”

“The mart is open.”

“You want me to cook?”

“Don’t you want to?”

“…No. Come to think of it, spending the night in this mansion where we discovered treasure doesn’t seem bad either.”

Since Victor Esterhazy had been continuously managing this place, the bedding would be clean.

“That’s why I suggested it!”

“Oh?”

“Oh, are we finally going to taste Johann’s cooking?”

Lynch making a fuss.

Rick also quietly brightens his eyes.

“Haha. Is there any food you’d like to eat?”

Western, Chinese, Japanese, Korean – just say the word.

“Austrian food!”

“That sounds good?”

Eating Austrian food in the mansion where Eduard of the great musical family Strauss born in Austria buried everything about Strauss.

It seems like it would be quite special.

“Hehe. Right?”

“Let’s hurry and go.”

‘I’ll make the food that Eduard ate back then.’

They crossed the quiet street toward the mart.

* * *

Click!

The White House in America.

The fountain pen held in the large white old man’s hand stops.

The old man who became the owner of the White House this January 2017.

“What kind?”

“Everything about Strauss.”

The great musical family representing Austria, Strauss.

Original sheet music composed by the great musicians of that family, numerous unreleased songs, and even incomplete sheet music and composition notes.

Literally everything about the Strauss family.

“Over a million records.”

“…What useful things does Austria have.”

The President, who had been squinting, looks at the CIA Director.

“Who discovered it?”

“An anonymous treasure hunter.”

He also left word to use the published songs right away for diplomacy with Austria, and to use the remaining materials like unreleased songs later when relations with Austria deteriorate.

‘If I reveal Big Star’s identity to this person, he would definitely use it for his own advancement.’

The new owner of the White House is exactly that type of person.

“Hmm.”

The President’s eyes narrow further as he twists his lips.

“What a shame. This is someone who deserves to receive a medal.”

Austria is in a geographically very important position, bordering as many as 8 countries including Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Hungary.

There was much room for utilization in various ways.

“…”

“Understood. You’ve done good work. You may go.”

“Then.”

As the CIA Director leaves, the President picks up the phone.

“It’s me. Right now, compile what Austria has that America needs and conversely, what America has that Austria needs. I’m giving you 3 hours.”

After ending the call, the President tapped the desk with his index finger before picking up his cell phone.

“It’s me. Can you open a hotel in Vienna, Austria within six months? Even if it’s impossible, make it possible.”

The lights in his office didn’t go out for a long time.

Meanwhile, the CIA Director who left the White House chuckles softly.

‘In the records left by the agent who became a star, there’s Norton I’s gold coins, La Purisima Mission’s holy relics, Inoue’s treasure, James Han’s legacy, Starburst’s foundation, and…’

“This time it’s everything of Strauss.”

Every single one was something the CIA couldn’t even track down.

It just makes him laugh.

Besides these, how many things had Johann done for the country.

‘As expected, big stars should be kept hidden.’

Johann, who would do nothing the moment he sensed someone trying to use him. That’s why he must be hidden and protected as much as possible.

If they do that, he’ll continue to do many things for America in the future.

‘Who knows.’

He might discover another treasure comparable to Inoue’s treasure or everything of Strauss. Or maybe invent a new substance like the dream material Starlight.

“So we need to show sincerity too.”

Sincerity that says please continue to work with us in the future.

‘The big star gave up everything of Strauss for the country, but…’

Those receiving can’t just wipe their mouths clean.

“Would money be better, or interests like stocks…”

The CIA Director pondered very seriously.

* * *

Whirrrr!

LAX International Airport, where countless planes take off and land.

Emily, who exited the airport, looks up at the sky and mutters blankly.

“It was fantastic.”

Everything from discovering everything of Strauss to the drama filming and the sights and food of the country where filming took place.

She had an experience that made the two months completely worthwhile.

“Originally I was thinking of doing an internship at Black Rock, but I’m glad I didn’t!”

“Then that’s fortunate.”

“Of course, when you were fooling around with women, I wanted to kill you.”

“Wasn’t that settled when I got scolded back then?”

Emily snorts at Johann’s startled reaction and looks toward downtown.

“…Now we’re sophomores too.”

“That’s right. It happened so quickly.”

It feels like they just entered as freshmen yesterday, but a year has already passed.

‘What will happen during sophomore year.’

She feels excited and expectant.

“Then I’ll go first, so you come separately.”

“Huh?”

“Hmph!”

Emily headed to the taxi stand dragging her suitcase, and Johann followed shaking his head.

“Women really are difficult.”

“Hang in there.”

Rick patted Johann’s shoulder.

Johann, who discovered Mozart’s treasure, enters the country!

Johann and Emily taking separate taxis. A breakup crisis?

Johann made LA noisy from the moment he entered the country.

* * *

Tap!

“Contact me after class.”

“Okay.”

Smooch!

Johann, who kissed loudly enough to make a sound, looks around and gets in the car heading to the art department.

“Ugh!”

Johann, who parked in the art department parking lot and was stretching after getting out, notices a student staring blankly at him and grins.

“Art department freshman?”

“Yes, yes. Art history…”

“Welcome. Study hard.”

“…What the f*ck-!”

The freshman who encountered Johann Jefferson, the avatar sent by the god of art and America’s star, right in front of him was flipped out, and Johann, who smiled gently at him and was entering the art department building, looked puzzled at the main entrance.

“Ah, he’s not here I tell you! He didn’t come!”

“Just let us see his face!”

Two groups of students trying to enter and pushing each other away at the main entrance.

One group of students catches his eye.

‘Those guys aren’t art students?’

Their clothing, standing posture, even the calluses on their palms.

Decisively, they’re faces he’s never seen before.

“Over there! It’s Johann!”

“Block them! Protect him!”

‘Huh? Me?’

Whoosh!

Art department students who rushed over urgently surround Johann, and students from other departments who were a step late scrunch their faces and urgently shout.

“Johann! Professor Sybil Ulrich from Vienna National University of Music said you have Mozart’s viola, what are you planning to do with it?! You’ll donate it to the school, right? Right?”

‘Aha.’

They seem to be music students.

But it’s a bit annoying.

“Why should I?”

“What? Ah, no, that’s obviously a treasure of the music world…”

“Treasure of the music world or whatever, I bought it with my own money.”

Just returning the sheet music to Austria was enough to fulfill his moral responsibility.

“I’ve decided to display it in a Malibu hotel lobby starting tomorrow, so if you want to see it, go there. And don’t come looking for me about issues like this anymore. It’s unpleasant.”

How much better would it be to practice during this time.

Johann clicked his tongue and pushed through them left and right heading to the art department building, and the art department students burst into laughter following behind Johann.

“Ha! Refreshing!”

“Johann sir, please tell us some stories.”

“Hey, Johann! So what did you do during vacation! You didn’t just go to Austria! Are you really appearing in an HBO drama like the articles said?”

Johann smiled at his still noisy classmates even though he was now a sophomore and had become a senior to the freshmen.

Now he finally felt like he had returned to LA.

* * *

“So when will the drama air?”

“The first and second episodes will air simultaneously in the first week of October. It’s a drama about Casanova’s life story, so please refrain from watching with minors.”

“Oh! Casanova! I’ll watch the live broadcast!”

“Thank you.”

Students who finally resolved one question through the Q&A with Installation Art Professor David Paul exchange five dollars. It seems they had made bets on whether Johann would appear in the drama.

When Johann looked at that scene as if it was absurd, the first lecture of Installation Art’s sophomore first semester began.

“Ah, lastly I have to deliver some unfortunate news. Due to participating in the installation art exhibition hosted by the city government, I won’t be able to lecture for two weeks.”

‘Yes!’

Everyone clenches their fists.

“As an apology, I’m thinking of recruiting 2 assistants from each grade level….”

Swoosh!

Johann and everyone else raise their hands. They dislike lectures, but practical work is always welcome.

“Ah, Johann. Put your hand down. We can’t afford your fee.”

“Tch.”

“Puhahahaha!”

“Anyway, interested students can submit applications to the assistant by today, and we’ll have practical sessions during the lecture in 3 weeks, so please decide on your topics. That’s all.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

As Professor David Paul leaves, the students who stood up rush toward Johann.

“So what kind of role is it? An Asian can’t play an important role in early 18th century Europe.”

“Don’t tell me it’s color washing?”

“It’s the role of a potter kidnapped from Asia.”

“Oh! That’s plausible!”

“Are there lots of steamy scenes? Did you film steamy scenes too?”

“Why do you think I said minors shouldn’t watch it?”

“Ooooh!”

Being 19 years old, at an age overflowing with passion, both male and female students’ eyes sparkle with excitement.

Bang!

The closed classroom door opens roughly as someone bursts in.

“Why! Why didn’t you register for my class! Blue and white porcelain, Ming dynasty ceramics, Japanese ceramics too! There’s so much we could make together-!”

It was Professor Evelyn Nova from ceramics.

“Uh… because I took it last semester?”

‘Taking the same major consecutively is a bit….’

Johann scratches his cheek while looking at Professor Evelyn, who’s sobbing like a betrayed lover.

* * *

“Professor, you can’t do this here!”

“You must! You must take my class in the second semester! We’re making a promise-!”

“Oh my, really! Johann, sorry! You guys listen well to your next lecture too!”

Johann and his classmates shake their heads at the intrusion incident that ended with her being dragged away by the assistant.

Before moving to his next lecture, Johann heads to the installation art professor’s office.

“How can you suddenly say it’s difficult to supply materials! We have major practicals starting in just 3 weeks!”

‘What’s going on?’

The assistant holds the telephone with a troubled expression.

Johann blinks his eyes.

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