Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 6
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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 6
”We’re here!”
“Ugh!”
Larry flies onto the sofa and lies down.
It had been quite an eventful outing.
Ada also muttered ‘I guess I’m getting old too…’ as she sat on the sofa and leaned her head back before getting up.
“No, no.”
Even if she rests, she needs to organize Johann’s things first before resting.
“In a bit… I got it.”
And so they head to Johann’s room.
“Johann, watch carefully.”
Today they’ll do it for him, but from now on these are things Johann will have to do.
Ada folds the clothes she bought and puts them in the closet and hangs them up.
“Underwear and socks go in the bottom drawer, pants and shirts in the top drawer.”
Long-sleeved clothes like jumpers and hoodies, and long pants go on hangers.
“For the computer, you turn it on with this power button here. But if you use it past 12 o’clock, I’ll scold you. Oh, you don’t know how to use a computer, do you? Come here. This thing is called a mouse…”
Larry helps with computer and mobile phone usage and SNS registration.
“Internet installation will probably take about 2 weeks, so use this laptop until then. Our house wifi works well everywhere.”
‘This is difficult.’
Clearly he knows all this content thanks to Larry’s and ‘The One Who Became a Star’s’ memories, but when he tries to do it directly, his hands fumble.
“Ah, wait a minute!”
Larry suddenly runs out of the room and shouts from the first floor.
“Johann! Try calling me!”
“Ah!”
Johann looks at the palm-sized mobile phone.
A mobile phone that’s mostly screen.
‘Smartphone.’
A product of modern science that compressed a computer into this small size.
Johann turns on the mobile phone and dials the saved number.
“H-hello?”
-Puhaha! Hello? Is this Johann?
‘Wow…’
The smartphone he’d encountered quite a bit through the lives of various people he’d accessed.
However, using it directly inevitably feels different from the start. Indescribable emotions swirl within him.
Seeing this, Ada quietly slips out of the room.
And soon Johann’s mobile phone rings.
-Johann, what do you want for dinner?
“…Hamburger!”
That was the only thing he could think of.
After Larry and Ada burst into laughter and left, Johann enters the library.
“As expected…”
The capacity limit had increased.
Though it was infinitely small compared to the journey from leaving the forest to reaching Larry’s house, it had definitely increased.
New and diverse experiences were the answer.
“It’s a shame.”
He feels regret wondering what would have happened if he’d revealed ‘The One Who Became a Star’s’ abilities a bit more.
‘No. If I had gone that far, they would have seen me as a monster.’
Larry and Ada already think of Johann as an incredible genius.
But if he had shown abilities beyond that, there was a high possibility they would now feel he was something other than human, not just a genius.
So he stopped.
His instinct told him so.
It might be due to the influence of ‘The One Who Became a Star’, a spy who must blend into his surroundings anywhere, anytime.
‘It was the same when that black girl was struggling desperately.’
He thought she was a person harmful to America. It was a thought he wouldn’t have had if ‘The One Who Became a Star’ hadn’t influenced him.
Johann clicks his tongue and falls into thought again.
“There were basic language books for Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and other languages in Larry’s study.”
Larry and Ada who misunderstand him as a genius.
They might accept and move on even if he said he studied in the study for a few days and learned them.
It wouldn’t take long until he could freely reveal ‘The One Who Became a Star’s’ talents.
“The more I think about it, the more useful it is.”
He should maintain the absorption for a while.
“Ah, I need to contact Emily.”
‘What will happen tomorrow.’
Johann was very curious about that.
* * *
“…Dawn.”
Johann smacks his lips looking at the window where the sun hasn’t risen yet.
From when he escaped the forest with Larry until now, he can’t get used to sleeping when the sun sets.
The soft bed is also hard to adapt to.
Today too, Johann wakes up from light sleep and turns on his smartphone to access SNS.
An SNS with only 3 followers now.
Among them, he checked the SNS of the young girl he met yesterday.
I wish sleep didn’t exist in this world.
The wasted time is such a shame! Don’t you think?
“No way.”
Sleep is extremely important.
It’s time to relieve the fatigue accumulated during the day, regenerate the body, and grow.
‘Survival expert Johann Jaeger’, who explored remote areas full of dangerous elements, also greatly emphasized the importance of sleep.
Though Johann himself couldn’t properly follow that while living with nocturnal wolves.
“If you sleep late, you won’t grow tall.”
Emily seems to have slept past 1 AM.
He’s worried whether she can become a model like this.
Still, as if she’s seriously aiming to be a model, she was consistently uploading photos taken in various poses to SNS.
“She is diligent though.”
Johann nods and leaves an encouraging comment before heading to the bathroom.
If he’s awake, he needs to wash. If the waste and sweat from the night harden, it becomes a weakness called body odor.
“Isn’t there shampoo without fragrance?”
Johann didn’t like having a floral scent coming from his body either.
* * *
Knock knock!
“Johann, wake… up? You’re awake?”
“Yeah.”
“You even washed up…”
The faint scent of shampoo and soap drifting over.
“Hmm. Johann, aren’t you washing too often?”
Come to think of it, Johann washed twice a day even in the forest. It was the same after leaving the forest.
“Maybe Larry doesn’t wash enough?”
“…Johann. Men only need to wash once every two days. Ahem. So what are you doing?”
“Studying.”
Johann picks up and waves the first grade Korean textbook.
The content was so easy that he had almost finished the textbook despite reading while doing other things in between.
“You’re, you’re diligent. Ah, eat up.”
“Hamburger?”
“…Hehe! Today it’s American breakfast!”
The representative breakfast meal of Americans.
Johann quickly closed his book and stood up.
“Yaaawn!”
Johann’s eyes shake.
‘Who?’
He didn’t even notice someone coming in yesterday, but an unfamiliar woman was approaching.
Who could it be to walk so comfortably and leisurely toward the kitchen?
And why wasn’t Larry showing any reaction?
“Puhaha! Johann, it’s Ada.”
“That’s, that’s a lie!”
Ada Wong was someone with much larger and sharper eyes than this person, and skin as white as flour.
She had no dark circles under her eyes or freckles, and her atmosphere was very sharp.
Pinch!
“Johann, if you’re a man, it’s good manners to pretend not to notice a woman’s appearance before transformation. Got it? Remember that.”
“My goodness.”
It really was Ada Wong.
Johann stared blankly at Ada’s face, forgetting even the pain in his cheek that Ada was pinching.
Another formula was carved into his mind.
Ada = A woman who can transform.
“Thanks, Larry. I’ll eat well. Ah, Johann. Does the food suit your taste?”
“…Well, yeah. It’s delicious.”
“Hm?”
“The moist bread is sweet thanks to the syrup, the eggs have savory half-cooked yolks, and the warm bacon is crisply grilled well. It goes well with milk. Thanks, Larry.”
“Why does that praise sound like you’re saying it tastes bad?”
“It’s your imagination.”
‘Well, amazing food like hamburgers probably isn’t that common.’
The creator of hamburgers that he searched the library for until just before sleeping yesterday but couldn’t find.
There were several places known to have first started selling hamburgers: the 1885 Wisconsin festival, the 1900 Connecticut restaurant, the 1904 Saint Louis exposition.
However, after checking various people’s memories through reading, none of them were close enough to today’s hamburgers.
If he read all the people recorded in the library, he might eventually find the origin of hamburgers, but he couldn’t go that far just to satisfy one curiosity.
Johann, who had high expectations since it was called America’s representative breakfast menu, swallowed his disappointment and chewed his food, while Larry frowned and clicked his tongue.
Ada and Larry made eye contact.
“Larry, what will you do? Should I take him?”
“No. I should take him. The law firm is…”
Even trying to put it nicely, it wasn’t a good place for a young child.
And he couldn’t impose on Ada either.
“Alright. See you at lunch.”
The two finished their discussion and looked at Johann.
Johann tilted his head sideways.
* * *
“Johann! This is my company!”
On the outskirts of Sunset Boulevard, one of LA’s representative downtown areas. A sign reading “Rocky Management” hung on top of a 4-story building.
“This entire building is all my company!”
Just how much did he love the Rocky Mountains?
“Do you still like the Rocky Mountains now?”
“…No.”
Larry shuddered in disappointment at not getting the reaction he wanted.
The Rocky Mountains were no longer beautiful. Thanks to them he gained an adopted son named Johann, but he no longer wanted to go there.
“Ahem! Shall we go in then?”
‘Once we go inside, that indifferent expression will change too!’
Larry opened the door and entered with anticipation.
Then…
“…Larry!”
“Oh, God! Thank goodness, Larry!”
“You’re not hurt anymore, right?”
“Haha! I’m perfectly fine now so don’t worry!”
At his bright smile, people passing through the lobby sighed in relief while clenching their fists.
Where did this company president crawl into the Rocky Mountains? Did he realize how many people were depending only on Larry?
“…Ah, that child?”
“Say hello. This is Johann. Johann? These are my employees and contracted artists.”
“I’m Johann. Please take care of me.”
“I’m planning to bring him until I hire a babysitter, so everyone get acquainted…”
“Larry!”
“Johnny!”
It was that employee who came yesterday.
“If you’re at work, come up quickly, what are you doing! Hello, Johann?”
“Hello, Johnny.”
“Yeah, nice to meet you. Sorry to ask right after meeting, but can I take your guardian? There are too many overdue approval documents.”
“Of course. May I look around the company?”
“Absolutely! Follow me!”
“Huh?! Someone please show Johann around the company!”
Larry, who opened his mouth and eyes wide at Johann waving his hand, was dragged away as he was, and people gathered around Johann while being mindful.
‘My goodness. Look at those eyes.’
‘That nose bridge…’
Descending the sharp nose bridge like looking at a pointed mountain, bright red lips caught the eye.
What if East and West, the rough beauty of the wilderness were combined into one?
“Huff! Huff!”
Those whose job it was to contract with pretty and talented people and bring them work.
Johann quietly stepped back at the sight of them puffing with reddened eyes.
“This is the scout team.”
A black woman in her twenties with curly hair tied up on top pointed to an office that had only three people despite its size.
“There are rarely days when all employees are present. Except for the SNS Scout Division over there, everyone’s out. You don’t know how fortunate it is that SNS was invented.”
SNS users that exploded after the full-scale distribution of smartphones in 2007.
Thanks to this, beautiful and talented gems buried in the field kept being discovered, and the thicker Rocky Management’s talent pool became.
“Oh, you use social media too?”
“I made accounts on the two major social media platforms.”
They were social media sites called Fatalbook and Bluebird.
“Don’t do it too much. Sometimes you impulsively write stupid things and want to die later…”
It somehow sounded like a personal story.
“The entire 3rd floor here is the Directing Studio.”
It’s called directing, but they don’t actually produce or help produce anything.
“It’s a place that teaches models posing and runway walking, singers vocal lessons and instrument lessons, and actors voice projection and other acting skills.”
This is the place responsible for a large portion of Rocky Management’s revenue.
“Do you charge money from contracted artists too?”
“With a discount applied.”
The discounted lesson fees are included in the commission rate.
Johann looks through the slightly open door gap.
An instructor raising his voice and people looking at him with passionate eyes. Though the numbers aren’t many, they’re overflowing with enthusiasm.
‘Why?’
What exactly are models, singers, and actors that they make those people so passionate?
Is it to shine, as Emily had said?
He becomes curious.
“And here’s… the Sales Team, but you don’t really need to see it.”
The place where only the most arrogant people in this company gather.
However, since the remaining revenue excluding what’s generated from the Directing Studio comes from the Sales Team, there weren’t many employees who could complain even when they acted arrogant.
“Damn it! Where am I supposed to find a child model all of a sudden! And a boy at that…”
Johann’s and the employee’s eyes meet.
The employee’s eyes contort.
The employee turns his head toward the office he came out of. And opens his mouth wide.
“E-everyone come out here!”
Rumble!
Did something big happen?
The Sales Team employees who came out puzzled and turned their gaze following the finger the employee was pointing quietly picked up their mobile phones.
“…This is Rocky Management! Don’t you need an Asian male child model?!”
“This is Rocky!”
‘Not arrogant at all?’
Johann looked at the Black Woman with eyes seeking an explanation.
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