Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 42

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 42

 

 

”You must not move.”

“Yes.”

Whirrrrrr!

Johann being pushed into the cylindrical machine making a loud noise.

‘I’ve seen this before.’

When he came out of the Rocky Mountains forest, Larry and Ada took him to the hospital after seeing his scar-covered body. It was the MRI machine he saw then.

‘Still noisy.’

The noise that made his ears feel stuffy and the magnetic field that disturbed his senses. He probably would never get used to it in his lifetime.

“We’re done.”

“Thank you.”

As he came out wearing slippers, Giselle Buncheon greeted him with a strange look in her eyes.

The scars covering his entire body that were revealed when he was about to change clothes for the radiological examination.

When she invited him to the house party and saw Johann wearing short sleeves and swimming, she felt sorry seeing the many scars on his arms, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Her eyes turned toward Larry and Ada.

“I told you it’s not like that.”

All the wounds and scars were from surviving in the forest.

“Larry and Ada treat me so well.”

Then that was a relief.

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine.”

It was a situation that could easily be misunderstood.

“The scars don’t have any special meaning, do they?”

“Except for one?”

Three streaks of scars running from shoulder across the chest. Traces from being hit by a bear’s front paw while hunting with Wolf Mother and his brothers one day.

The scar that made him hover between life and death but made him realize the existence of the library, making him enter the library again.

It could be said to be a very meaningful scar for Johann.

“It’s a wound I got when I first succeeded in bear hunting.”

“B-bear?!”

“…Johann, are you talking about that bear hide?”

The bear hide that Johann brought when he came down from the Rocky Mountains.

“Yeah. But when will the hides be sold?”

He had looked around the entire flea market, but there was no place selling raw leather.

“We, we’re still looking into it…”

As expected, perhaps due to the terrible economy, buyers weren’t readily appearing.

‘He really hunted a bear and even skinned it?’

Her head spun from the incredible conversation.

“Then, let’s get scar removal surgery.”

“Scar removal surgery?”

“For a model, the body is an asset and a business card, so you can’t work with a body like that.”

In that sense, models shouldn’t get tattoos either. Nothing should stand out more than the clothes.

“If we remove them little by little, they should be clean before you reach the age to start working in earnest. I know someone who’s good at that…”

“Ah, I’m also looking into that part.”

However, Giselle Buncheon might know much more about that area. As Giselle said, for models, the body is an asset.

“I’ll ask for your help.”

“Not at all.”

It was natural as a teacher.

They went to meet the doctor like that.

 

“Thank you for making time like this.”

Today was Sunday when all hospitals were closed. He owed them a debt.

“When I heard you came here to Stanford University Hospital, I was so surprised…”

“Haha. It’s Giselle’s request, so of course I had to listen.”

The bald white doctor smiled warmly and looked at Johann.

“Is this child perhaps your student?”

The child who made even that Giselle Buncheon make a request. If not family, it could only be a student.

“You might be surprised later.”

“Oh…”

That was quite a surprising statement.

His eyes changed.

“You’re handsome. You’ll make quite a few girls cry later, won’t you?”

“Thank you.”

“Haha. Could you please look at these photos?”

When the doctor displayed X-ray images of the knee on the monitor, Johann’s eyes widened.

‘Please!’

“Can you see this area here?”

Above and below the knee joint.

“This part is commonly called the growth plate…”

‘It worked!’

He would need to see photos of other areas like feet and ankles, hands and elbows, pelvis to be certain, but for now the growth plates in the knees were thick.

It meant high growth potential.

‘Dennis Eckersley, even without absorbing any being to know the exact body condition, if it’s this much…”

Among the beings he had absorbed so far, ‘Rack, Dennis Eckersley’ was the tallest.

Johann nodded after checking the rest of the photos.

“He’ll grow to at least 6 feet…”

“The average height of American males is easily… Huh?”

The doctor and people’s gazes focused on Johann.

“Do you happen to know what this means?”

“Yes. It means that if appropriate and adequate exercise for growth plate stimulation, rest, and nutritional intake are achieved, he’ll easily grow to 6 feet.”

6 feet (about 183cm). It was insufficient height for a model, but 6 feet was just the minimum.

‘No, with growth plates this size, he’ll grow to 6 feet even without doing anything.’

It was really fortunate.

“I looked it up on the internet. …Research papers too.”

“…You understood research papers?”

“I didn’t understand everything, but growth plates are cartilage that exists at the ends of long bones, right?”

The epiphyseal plate that plays the role of growing long bones, which are responsible for length growth.

In the epiphyseal plate, cell division constantly occurs to form bones and increase length, but at a certain age, the epiphyseal plate itself also calcifies and turns into bone.

This is commonly referred to as the growth plates closing.

“Then, do you also know what today’s examination was?”

“Hmm. The Greulich-Pyle method… or the Tanner-Whitehouse method? I’m not sure exactly which one the examination was based on.”

He knew, but here he pretended not to know.

“My goodness.”

Terms and tone that couldn’t come out without real understanding.

The surprised doctor soon smiled warmly.

“Do you have any favorite food? Want to eat pizza with uncle?”

His eyes began to gleam dangerously.

 

* * *

 

“I almost hit him.”

That look in his eyes when the Youngest was targeting him. He almost smacked him in the snout.

“Good job. Even if that person asks you to eat together later, you must never agree. Got it?”

“Why?”

The Doctor had also done tests like blood work that wouldn’t show immediate results, so they made an appointment to return in a month.

Ada gritted her teeth.

“Johann, when you do well at School, you get praised by the Teacher, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Then what happens when a college student does well?”

“They graduate quickly?”

“No. They become a graduate Student.”

“Cough!”

As Larry and Giselle, who had been listening intently to what Ada was saying, coughed violently, Ada grabbed Johann’s shoulders.

“If those professor bastards say you did well and suggest eating together, run away. Never, ever hesitate. The reason I’m weak in the mornings is because I couldn’t sleep during graduate school!”

“…Good lord.”

This was Ada, who wandered around like a zombie in the morning and only came to her senses when it was time to put on makeup. Until then, she was so inhuman that someone had to bring food right to her mouth for her to eat.

It was the moment when the formula ‘graduate school = place you shouldn’t go’ was carved into Johann’s mind.

“Don’t say weird things to the kid, Ada.”

“I’m serious though?”

“…Miss Giselle, what would you like for lunch?”

Today’s examination wouldn’t have been possible without Giselle. He was prepared to buy her anything.

“Really? Then… a Hamburger?”

“…!”

Johann suddenly found Giselle adorable.

 

* * *

 

‘It’s cheap?!’

IN&OUT, the representative Hamburger franchise of the US West Coast.

Johann’s eyes widened as he looked at the menu board above the counter.

$2.25. That was the price of a Cheeseburger, not even a basic Hamburger.

Almost an $8 difference from the burger he’d eaten with Giselle before. Even the Double-Double Burger with two patties and two slices of cheese was only $3.30.

“Larry, this place is weird. They must use low-grade ingredients.”

They had come to LA because IN&OUT was supposedly delicious here. He should have just visited a Hamburger Shop in San Francisco instead of coming to LA for nothing.

“…Puhaha!”

Larry, Ada, and Giselle all burst into laughter.

“Come to think of it, all the places where you ate hamburgers were expensive places, weren’t they, Johann?”

The Department Store Food Court near Rodeo Drive. After that, he’d only eaten ones that Larry and others had bought for him.

“Those places were expensive, but hamburgers are normally this price, Johann.”

“…That’s impossible.”

‘Then how many tens of thousands of hamburgers did I earn yesterday?’

How many hundreds of thousands of hamburgers had he earned so far?

All his calculations up until now were thrown off.

Suddenly he felt like he’d become rich, or rather, he’d been rich all along but had become even richer.

“Next customer?”

“I’ll pay!”

“Huh?”

“I want to pay today!”

Partly because he felt like he’d become richer, but also because of Giselle who had gone to trouble for today’s examination. Plus, Larry and Ada couldn’t rest even though it was their day off because of him today.

He felt sorry. He wanted to repay this debt even a little.

“I earn money too!”

“Puhaha! You want to do that?”

Johann nodded vigorously and looked at the Clerk who was trying not to laugh.

“Would you like to order?”

“Yes! Five Double-Double Burgers, three French Fries, one extra-large Coke, and two Milkshakes!”

Even Double-Double Burgers were only $3.30 each. He didn’t need to worry about appearances anymore.

“I’ve ordered everything. Larry, Ada, and Giselle, you order too!”

“…Wow.”

His appetite was still amazing.

 

Giselle watched Johann quickly demolish one Hamburger.

“How did you think to look that up?”

“Because you need to know to understand.”

And the internet was developed for exactly that purpose.

The internet was developed to more easily search for, share, and communicate information and knowledge that I don’t know.

“I-is that so?”

‘I just look up gossip though…’

She felt somewhat ashamed as an adult.

Giselle quietly turned her head, and Ada asked with an “oh right” expression.

“Johann, but how did you read the research papers?”

“Huh?”

“You need authentication for those.”

Flinch!

“…Right! Wait a minute?”

Johann quickly turned on his Mobile Phone and held it out.

“Larry.”

“Don’t change the subject…”

“Listen. It’s a song I made for Larry.”

Johann had tried to gift a song to Giselle, the interesting kid who had tried to do anything for him.

‘I was thinking wrong.’

If he was going to gift a song, Larry should have been first.

Larry who had pulled him out of that Forest. The guardian who gave him infinite love incomparable to Giselle.

Ting!

Like a single drop of water falling in a Cave, the dark, cold, high Guitar sound made the surrounding noise from the many people bustling during lunch time disappear.

 

* * *

 

‘This is…’

His breath stopped.

This wasn’t to avoid Ada’s question about how he had done the authentication and payment.

Drip, drip – a dark, damp Cave where water drops were falling.

The low Piano was the struggle of a Small Creature.

What could be at that end?

When would this darkness disappear?

I’m cold. I’m scared.

The anxious and uneasy struggle of a Small Creature who didn’t know where or how to go.

Just listening to the melody painted such a scene naturally.

That was the moment.

Boom!

‘Wind?’

Short and thick, yet warm bass.

Following that, the drums’ hi-hat is softly struck.

‘Light has fallen.’

A single ray of light brightly illuminating the cave.

Come here. Come with me.

The small creature stops crying and looks at the light.

It perks up its ears and sniffs with its nose.

Then it smiles brightly and rushes toward the light.

“When on earth did you make this…?”

“I’ve been thinking about it all along, but finished it yesterday?”

Since I had the guidelines perfectly set, completion was easy.

“I haven’t written lyrics yet, but the song is…”

Swoosh!

Larry gets down from his chair and hugs Johann.

“Thank you.”

For coming to me.

For giving me such a wonderful gift.

“…I’m grateful too.”

For coming to me.

For loving me.

The two shared each other’s warmth like that.

“Ugh. How can non-parents live with such sadness? I’m envious, Larry.”

“Haha.”

Johann shakes his head at Giselle’s teasing words.

“There’s one for Giselle too, you know?”

“…Huh?”

“There’s one for Ada too.”

There were three dedication songs composed in total.

 

* * *

 

Ada, who always stepped forward first to become a reliable wall.

Giselle, who reigns at the world’s peak as a queen yet gives generously.

Having heard the gifts made just for them, the dedication songs, they press down their reddened eyes.

“I received my Christmas gift too early…”

“Even if I try to think of it as a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gift, it’s way too early.”

But thinking of how he must have recorded it by touching each instrument one by one with those small hands made it feel like an even more special gift that would remain in their memories forever.

“Well, I haven’t written lyrics yet, but…”

‘I couldn’t because I haven’t found a lyricist I like.’

Coincidentally, many of those I selected were black lyricists who also worked as rappers. That’s why I completed the dedication songs first.

“I’ll definitely write lyrics and give them as gifts by then!”

Drawing portraits to go with them should make perfect gifts.

“Really? I’m looking forward to it?”

“Am I a mother too?”

It was a moment when the three were feeling pleased.

“Um, if it’s not rude, could I write lyrics for that song?”

“Excuse me, by any chance… huh?”

“Huh?”

The people who suddenly approached from both sides looked at each other, then smiled brightly at Johann again.

“Hello, little one? I’m a singer…”

“Do you watch dramas? I’m a drama director…”

The two, whose words overlapped again, glared at each other.

 

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