Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 49

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 49

 

 

13. Major

 

 

Andrew Pearson’s prediction was accurate.

After a week passed, the interest disappeared as if it had never existed.

The reporters and paparazzi who had been camping in front of Larry’s house also vanished without a trace, and Brian McKnight, who had been staying at Joe Walsh’s mansion, returned to his original residence.

And so, Friday. Johann, having finished filming, jumps out of the stopped car and rushes into Rocky Management.

“Hello!”

“Hi, Johann!”

The people in the lobby smile upon spotting Johann.

Seeing their faces with lips twitching, Johann’s steps quicken even more.

And he arrives at the planning team.

“…Larry!”

Larry and Johnny are standing in the planning team office as if they had been waiting for him to come. Not only that, but members from the sales team, planning team, newly established PR team, and even the manager team are all gathered in the office.

Andrew Pearson pushes up his non-prescription glasses.

“Now that the main character has arrived, let’s check again.”

As Andrew Pearson flicks his finger, Johann takes a deep breath and stands beside him.

The people also stand behind them.

And…

Click!

The refresh button is pressed.

 

Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart

18: Dream – Journey on a Ship

25: Earth as Seen by the Moon Rabbit

 

“Uh…”

“Congratulations, Mr. Johann Jefferson. You’ve charted on Billboard.”

All time in his body stops.

Billboard, which compiles results from the previous Friday through Thursday and announces them every Friday.

Based on download numbers, he had expected it, but actually seeing it with his own eyes leaves his mind blank.

That was the moment.

“Wooooooooh!”

Cheers burst out from the people.

“We did it-!”

“We did it! We really did it!”

Rocky Management’s first-ever Billboard chart entry since its founding.

Although it’s not the main chart but a niche chart, a chart entry is still a chart entry. And this without a single radio broadcast or TV appearance.

It was an incredibly encouraging achievement.

“How do you feel?”

Johann looks into Larry’s eyes, which are warmly smiling and full of trembling.

“…Wow.”

His tongue has malfunctioned.

 

* * *

 

11-year-old genius charts on Billboard!

Is rock’s golden age returning!

Boy promoted by stars! Chart entry is nonsense.

Future rock star born in LA!

 

“…Hehe.”

In the moving car, laughter escapes from Johann’s mouth as he checks internet news.

Although there aren’t many articles due to the Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart being niche, each article has substantial views and comments.

Of course, there were comments disparaging or criticizing, but most were supportive or praised the songs as good.

“It’s all thanks to those people.”

The stars who attended Giselle’s wedding and recommended the two songs. Without them, this wouldn’t have been possible – it would have happened much later.

Naturally, he could only be grateful.

‘I’ll have to work my hands quite hard.’

If you receive kindness, you repay it with kindness.

That’s the law of humans and nature.

“We’ve arrived.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Rick.”

“Please contact me immediately if anything comes up.”

The moment Johann nodded and got out of the car.

Ding ding ding!

Guitar accompaniment flowing from the school’s external speakers.

“…Wow.”

His song is playing from the school. And this is on a Saturday when regular students don’t come to school.

 

* * *

 

“Hi, Johann!”

“Johann! I heard you’re appearing on Grey’s Anatomy?”

“Did you see Mel? What about Derek?!”

“Are Izzy and Lexie sexy in person too? How sexy are they?”

As he enters the locker room, the children roll their eyes and swarm toward him.

They didn’t gather like this for training. They gathered for a scrimmage game.

With the start of March in earnest, the scrimmage season has begun.

The curtain has risen on scrimmage season, conducted as warm-up and power analysis before the regular season starts in April.

Whether because of that, or because of curiosity about the actresses, Flash approaches Johann as he answers the club members’ questions, who are more excited than usual.

“Congratulations on charting! This is a congratulatory gift!”

“Oh?”

“You can’t hurt your hands when batting!”

What Flash handed over was black batting gloves.

Moreover, gloves with the H&M logo crookedly embroidered in white thread.

“Mother said since you’re H&M’s exclusive model, this would be better, so I tried it!”

“You, you embroidered it yourself?”

“…If you don’t like it, give it back.”

As Flash reaches out his hand, Johann quickly steps back.

“No. Thank you, Flash.”

Thinking of that big frame struggling to embroider these small gloves doubles the emotion.

‘This guy has this side to him too.’

Flash as a friend is always surprising.

“I really like it. I’ll hit a home run wearing these today.”

“…Tch!”

Flash, whose lips purse at the rising laughter, looks toward the captain.

“Everyone listen up-!”

As the captain’s shout echoes thunderously through the locker room, everyone stops what they’re doing and looks at him.

“Today is the game against Heritage Oak!”

Heritage Oak, last year’s county league champions where the Fairmont Little Pumas belong, and one of the teams being promoted to the AAA League this year.

They were one of the teams that consistently blocked their league championship, and last year’s league record was one win and losses in all other games. Last year had to be seen as a particularly devastating defeat.

“We need to get revenge for last year, right?!”

“…Yeah!”

A response that seemed to burst the locker room.

As everyone’s expressions became serious, the captain turned around.

“Let’s go.”

They needed to warm up before Heritage Oak arrived.

 

“Johann-!”

Johann and Flash, along with other club members looking at the stands, open their eyes wide. The members momentarily doubt even their eyesight.

It’s not because of the parents who arrived first and took their seats. It’s because of Emily, Joy, and Lucy in front of them, waving their hands while wearing cheerleader outfits.

“Ch, cheerleaders are coming to a friendly match?”

“My goodness! The sun must have risen from the west today!”

Moreover, Emily Sherman is the queen.

Johann looks puzzled at their fussing.

“The cheerleader team mostly goes to cheer at basketball and football games.”

Baseball, basketball, and American football all have games on weekends, Saturday or Sunday, but since the cheerleader club’s homeroom teacher likes basketball and football, they mainly go to cheer for those two sports.

Coming to cheer at baseball games is mainly after the mid-league period.

Johann expresses puzzlement at Flash’s explanation.

“Can teachers do that?”

“Basketball and football have won the league championship several times, so it’s okay.”

Since they go to cheer for sports games with good performance, even parents who have children as members of the baseball club couldn’t express complaints. Because they don’t completely avoid coming to cheer.

“What have you been doing all this time without winning championships?”

“…Don’t ask me.”

These guys are hopeless.

“Go on. They came because of you.”

He could warm up his body later when the manager came.

Johann nods and approaches the Emilys.

“You came, traitor?”

Joy and Lucy are thoroughly sulking because he didn’t take them to the filming location. It was the result of losing at rock paper scissors, but Johann smiles for them.

“Thanks for coming.”

“…Tch! Here!”

Joy and Lucy hold out paper bags full of candy and cookies.

“It’s a good luck charm gift!”

The three people who hurriedly prepared candy and cookies after talking with Johann yesterday. The emotion he felt from Flash comes rushing back again.

“Wow… This is my first time eating cookies!”

“What? Really?!”

Johann nods.

It’s only been three months since he came down from the forest. Also, Ada was someone unrelated to cooking, and Larry wasn’t at the level of making cookies either.

“I did eat snacks once when I appeared on the radio station…”

It was a snack called Twinkie, a soft and chewy bread-like snack.

At those words, Joy and Lucy urgently look at Emily. A silent question asking if she didn’t give anything on Valentine’s Day.

Emily’s eyes shake greatly.

“I, I couldn’t help it!”

Queens don’t care about things like Valentine’s Day.

“I might not know if I received something!”

That’s why she only found out on Valentine’s Day itself.

“And Johann probably doesn’t know what Valentine’s Day is either?!”

‘I know though…’

A day to give cookies, candy, flowers, or kisses to someone you’re interested in.

He knew well because it was information in the memories of countless people he had accessed through reading.

“Thank you. I’ll eat them well.”

He was sincere. It felt like today was his birthday.

“Moon, thanks for coming too.”

Surprisingly, Mason Moon also came to cheer.

“N, no! Th, that’s…”

“Hoho. You must be Johann? Nice to meet you. I’m Cathy Choi, Mason’s mother.”

“Hello, Choi.”

“Hohoho! Yes. You should get along well with our Moon, okay?”

“Yes.”

‘Somewhat expectant eyes… Hmm.’

“So is the filming all finished now? Did you rest comfortably at Ada’s house?”

Whether feeling the same thing, or trying to change the subject to hide her own mistake, Emily speaks up.

“The filming isn’t finished yet, and at Ada’s house… I rested comfortably.”

Though on the first day they had to do a major cleaning.

Ada’s house was absolutely not a space where people lived. The smell of food waste and sour laundry that filled the house was more terrible than the smell of rotting corpses.

“Ada must have cried.”

If she had shown such a state to a man she liked, she might have seriously considered suicide.

“Ada? …She didn’t though?”

Rather, she confidently ordered Larry around as if she’d seen this kind of thing once or twice, and Larry also familiarly started organizing the kitchen and rotting laundry first.

“…My goodness.”

A perfect friendship. There’s no sign that their relationship could develop into lovers.

“I understand.”

Now even Johann himself doesn’t know.

“Even wolves wash their bodies when meeting females and males they like, so why does Ada…”

“Re, really? Wolves bathe too?”

Everyone around perks up their ears.

“Where would there be any being that would like the opposite sex approaching while giving off a terrible smell.”

Aside from mood, smell is a problem directly connected to survival. Other packs won’t accept such smelly individuals.

So they usually clean their bodies with their tongues, and when it’s severe, they roll on the dirt ground or go into water.

“My brothers also had experiences of failure at first because they didn’t know that.”

Wolves that temporarily leave the pack to find females when they reach a certain age. And all the brothers had experiences of being rejected by females they fell in love with at first sight, not from packs, and returning at least once.

No, at first they couldn’t even approach.

Wolves have deep attachment to their young. To seduce the opposite sex, they need to avoid the surveillance of such wolves, but they got caught before secretly approaching.

“The brother who first left the pack didn’t tell them that information initially.”

He was annoyed and didn’t tell them, wanting other brothers to experience it too. Wolf Mother also didn’t pay attention to that part and only told them later.

‘It was worth watching when the youngest came back dejected.’

When the youngest, who had left confidently saying he was different from his older brothers, returned without any success, he laughed all day long.

“So next time I helped wash him…”

This time he scrubbed with soap so vigorously that even the scents needed to appeal to the opposite sex and other packs were all erased, so he got rejected.

And this time too, the brother who temporarily left and got rejected didn’t exchange information with other brothers.

“I received quite a bit of resentment then too. They asked me to wash them and then… Tsk.”

“W, wow…”

A mysterious story heard for the first time in their lives. Not only Emily but also Lucy, Joy, and Mason Moon’s eyes light up.

“Johann!”

Little Pumas manager Bob Lee Swagger is coming out.

“Please cheer for us today.”

“…Leave it to me!”

‘With cheering like that, I can’t lose.’

A tie like last time wouldn’t do either.

I had to win no matter what.

 

* * *

 

Heritage Oak arrived quickly.

“Ethan!”

“Charlie-!”

Heritage Oak warming up while receiving cheers from their parents.

Crunch crunch.

Johann’s eyes narrowed as he chewed his cookie.

“There are a lot of white kids over there?”

Over 90 percent of the club members were white. It was quite different from Alessandro Hawks, which was almost entirely Hispanic.

But something strange caught his eye. The few colored boys were running errands for the white boys, like bringing them water.

“Ha, there they go again.”

His tone suggested this wasn’t the first or second time.

“Ignore them. Heritage School is a rich boy’s school.”

“…?”

What did he mean by rich boy’s school?

“It means a school full of brats who are not only obsessed with the idea that whites are superior to all other races, but have been raised so preciously from childhood that they can’t do anything with their own hands.”

Due to Orange County’s characteristic of having many upper-class residents, Heritage Oak School had many children of wealthy white families enrolled.

Fairmont School was the same, but Heritage Oak School in particular had an invisible class system between the upper class and those who weren’t.

“So you’re saying those kids treat students without money like slaves just because their parents are rich?”

“That’s part of it, but some of it is probably voluntary too.”

“Ah.”

I understood what he meant.

Submitting to and flattering the strong for survival and future prospects was a natural law of nature.

“But I’m curious how they’d react if they met someone even stronger.”

If they had subjugated someone else through force, it was also natural law that they themselves would have to submit when they met a stronger being.

“Huh?”

“Nothing. Want some?”

“…Is it okay for me to eat it?”

Flash pointed to the stands.

The Emilys looking this way while waving their golden pom-poms. When I offered Flash a cookie, all three pairs of eyes turned sharp.

“…I’ll lower my arm, so you duck down too.”

“I don’t want to eat it that badly.”

Cookies that were always available at home. I didn’t want to go through such trouble just to eat something made by the likes of the Emilys.

“But it’s delicious….”

The beautiful harmony of moist chocolate chips and crispy yet savory cookies.

Like when I first drank the milkshake, my breathing quickened, my heart beat faster than usual, and heat rose in my body. The shock of sweetness and care swept through my body.

‘Cotton candy didn’t do this to me…. Come to think of it, both times happened when I was with Emily.’

It felt like a melody was coming to mind even though I hadn’t absorbed ‘Eagles, Joseph Fiddler Walsh.’

“Everyone to center field-!”

“Let’s go.”

Johann quickly stuffed the remaining cookies in his mouth, grabbed his candy, and headed to center field.

 

“It’s been a while.”

“Oh, yeah.”

The Heritage Oak captain who answered indifferently looked at the stands.

Not only that. The other Heritage Oak club members also only looked at the Emilys in the stands wearing cheerleader outfits and waving golden pom-poms.

They completely ignored the Fairmont Little Pumas.

The captain and club members’ eyes trembled.

“Oh, what should we do? You guys don’t even have cheerleaders cheering for you like that?”

“Huh? Oh, right. By the way, what’s her name? The one in the middle.”

“…Just eat this.”

“Still vulgar as ever.”

“What did you say?”

“Never mind. Well, let’s have a good game.”

The Heritage Oak captain forcibly pulled his hand over for a handshake, then turned around, and the other club members turned around too.

“Wow, she’s pretty. Should I ask for her number later?”

“Don’t you have a girlfriend? What about her?”

“Who said we’re dating? I’m just playing around for a bit.”

“Pfft. Is that so?”

“I called dibs on her. You’re dead if you ask for her number first.”

Heritage Oak players giggling as they headed to the dugout.

Johann looked at Flash, who was gripping his shoulder tightly with clenched teeth.

“I’m not going to hit them.”

I had already learned that hitting Flash while hitting someone else would summon Larry and Ada. Since both couldn’t attend due to work, I had no intention of throwing punches.

“Just kill them with baseball.”

So they couldn’t even argue back.

Seeing Johann’s eyes turn coldly calm, the cold anger throughout Flash’s body gradually subsided.

“…Phew. Fucking bastards. Right. Let’s destroy them with baseball.”

So they couldn’t even lift their heads at the mere mention of Little Pumas.

So they’d piss themselves.

“Yeah.”

Johann nodded and headed to the dugout while looking at the Heritage Oak players.

 

“Play ball-!”

As the umpire’s call rang out, Johann stomped his feet and checked the mound condition.

Johann was starting pitcher until the 3rd inning today too.

It was Manager Bob Lee Swagger’s decision to crush those arrogant guys from the very beginning.

‘Good condition today too.’

The feeling of the spikes gripping firmly was good.

When I raised my head, Heritage Oak’s first batter at the plate was smirking nastily while wiggling his butt, and Flash wearing his mask was calling for a tight fastball inside.

The intention to intimidate was clearly felt.

‘Are you only pretending to dislike each other?’

Even if they disliked each other that much, friends were still friends, it seemed.

Johann smiled, closed his eyes and opened them, then paused briefly before lifting his leg.

Windup.

The leg that had been lifted high stepped forward greatly as his waist turned. Along with that, his torso rotated and his arm swung wide.

‘Die.’

Johann’s ball, filled with his sincere intent and full power through clenched teeth, shot forward.

And….

Thwack!

“Oops.”

Ah, sorry.

Johann pursed his lips toward the batter who had collapsed after being hit in the neck.

 

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