Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 8

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 8

 

 

Click!

As the camera shutter goes off, Johann trembles.

‘Hmm.’

The muscles in his spine are pulled, and his facial muscles move.

The feeling of his body being coordinated down to his fingertips.

This is the phenomenon he experienced as ‘survival expert Johann Jaeger’ – his body changing to fully demonstrate the talents and abilities of the absorbed and accessed being.

Even so, what surprised him was the thrilling pleasure that pierced through his entire body when the photo was taken.

The excitement that had shown no response even when Larry pointed the camera at him before now blazed like wildfire, urging him to smile more brightly.

Asking him to strike such poses.

‘Come on. One more time.’

Press the shutter.

Take my picture.

The emotion called joy makes his whole body stir.

‘This person is interesting.’

How much must he enjoy being photographed to act like this.

‘He was shining so brightly…’

Truly an interesting person.

So he doesn’t suppress it. Since he’s going to leave memories anyway, he wants to leave them more joyfully.

Johann looks at his companions with a bright smile.

“Larry, Ada, Johnny. Let’s take one together.”

“Huh?”

Sudden French-accented English.

“Sh-shall we? Would you take a picture of us?”

“Yes, of course!”

Larry and Ada, already knowing that Johann had learned multiple languages, compose themselves from their surprise and stand beside Johann.

Johnny also stands awkwardly behind them.

“Taking the picture! One, two!”

The moment they’re about to be captured by the camera.

Johann sticks out his tongue and smiles like a cute villainess.

Click! Click! Click!

“Did it turn out well? Wow.”

‘How did it turn out?’

Johann, who had become curious about Larry’s reaction, turns his head in surprise.

A tall woman walking over while wrapped in tremendous aura.

Larry, Ada, Johnny, and everyone in the hair salon stand up in surprise.

The woman who approached lowers her sunglasses and smiles.

“Hello, little one? Do you know me by any chance?”

“…I know you. The Body.”

The most perfect body in the world, The Body.

One of the greatest models of the current generation, Giselle Buncheon.

‘She was only about torso-sized, right?’

A woman living a life of a size that exceeds Johann’s current capacity limit.

‘She’s not even thirty yet…’

She deserves to be called one of the greatest models.

Such a woman is surprised by Johann speaking with a French-accented English pronunciation, feeling someone’s nostalgia.

‘That smile and that pose just now…’

She knows this person too.

“You… what’s your relationship with Miss Ines?”

Flinch!

‘How did she know?’

Ines de Fressange.

The being Johann had just absorbed.

 

[The Talking Mannequin, Ines de Fressange]

 

After the death of Coco Chanel, the founder and designer of the high fashion brand Chanel, when a new head designer was appointed, she was the first muse to sign an exclusive contract with Chanel.

A figure who became the catalyst for opening the golden age of supermodels, led by Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer.

But…

“Who is that person?”

“What?! That can’t be. Just now clearly…”

“Haha. Hello!”

“Ah, hello!”

Giselle Buncheon furrows her brow then smiles.

“Who are you?”

“I’m late with introductions. I’m Beck Kurtz, the representative of Star Model Agency who requested a lecture this afternoon. If I had known you were here, I would have greeted you already! Ah, you’ve seen this person at New York Fashion Week, haven’t you? She’s our agency’s representative model.”

“Don’t you remember me? We were in the same show…”

“Ah, Mr. Kurtz. Nice to meet you. Today’s lecture was from 4 PM, right? Let’s meet then. I’m a bit busy right now.”

She firmly cuts off the conversation and turns her gaze from the flustered Beck Kurtz to look at Johann, then is shocked.

‘He became ordinary!’

His spine curves gently, and the liveliness that filled his entire body has disappeared.

What remains is just a puppy-like appearance that seems to have received plenty of love and calm eyes.

‘To change so instantly!’

As if there’s a switch inside his body.

Is this possible at this age?

Goosebumps rise all over.

‘My thought was right!’

This child was definitely a disciple raised by Ines.

And a properly taught disciple at that.

“You…”

“Hello. I’m Larry Jefferson, this child’s guardian.”

Larry blocks Johann’s front, shielding him from view.

He reproaches himself for reacting only now.

Even though Giselle Buncheon is a world-class model, she’s still a stranger.

Not knowing her purpose, he had left Johann too unprotected.

“Thank you for looking favorably upon my child. But you seem to have some misunderstanding. Johann has never learned about modeling.”

He’s never met Chanel’s princess either.

“W-wait a moment. You mean…?”

“Yes. It seems…”

He was born with talent.

Tremendously overwhelming talent.

Larry’s trembling eyes reach Johann.

Giselle also looks at Johann.

‘This kid, this kid is still a rough diamond? That appearance just now?’

Larry’s eyes are too truthful to call it a lie.

Johann’s face that really seems not to know.

Chills!

Giselle pulls up her trembling lips.

“Hey, do you have some time?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Huh!”

‘Crazy!’

A sudden approach and a firm rejection. People’s mouths fell open.

Giselle Buncheon closed her eyes and opened them again.

“Why?”

“I have to go eat a cheeseburger.”

A conversation with a top model. It would surely be an incredible experience.

But he said he was going to eat the best cheeseburger.

A cheeseburger he couldn’t eat if he talked with the model.

‘And annoying people would probably stick around too.’

“…Wow.”

This was the first time she’d been rejected for such a reason.

Her mind became confused.

“M-Miss Buncheon? I’m sorry, but Johann is probably serious right now.”

For Johann, hamburgers were the ultimate food. He could eat hamburgers three meals a day if asked.

At those words, her eyes became strange.

“What if I told you about the best cheeseburger place in LA?”

“Huh!”

The best cheeseburger certified by the top model.

Gulp!

That sound and expression became his answer.

“Puhup!”

Right. That’s how it was. The boy in front of her was a boy.

A boy of an age who liked toys and food more than meeting someone. She had overlooked that point because of his unreasonable appearance.

Warm emotions filled Giselle’s eyes as she came to her senses.

“Princess, shall we go then? Oh, the price is taking photos with me.”

She wanted to know if what she had just seen, this child’s talent, was real.

Johann, reading her mind, frowned.

“I’m not a princess… Well, if we’re all taking them together, I’ll be okay with it.”

If they were going to take photos anyway, all together.

He wanted to leave unforgettable memories for everyone.

“Ahahahahahat!”

What a bold princess indeed.

 

* * *

 

“…Hm?”

“Wow.”

People passing through Rodeo Drive stopped in their tracks.

Their gazes fixed on the small Asian approaching and moving away. Even though he was an Asian commonly seen in LA, their suddenly captured gazes couldn’t turn away.

‘Why is that.’

Even though this was Rodeo Drive with many luxury boutiques and designer stores. Even though it was a place with many attractive and beautiful people.

They found themselves staring at the Asian boy taking photos with a white middle-aged man in front of a golden statue.

They watched him pretending to shoot at each other with a white middle-aged woman.

At the sight of him face-to-face with a tall white woman, laughing playfully.

They felt love in the affectionate scene of four, five people.

‘Wait, is that really a boy?’

He was strangely feminine. Such thoughts arose from his long extending legs and arms.

That might be why.

They couldn’t take their eyes off him.

They ended up turning on their mobile phones.

 

‘My goodness.’

Giselle’s words were true.

Though the blue vegetables were missing, the rich and salty cheese that replaced them, the crispy onions that surprised the mouth with their slight roasting, the tangy tomatoes and the sweet yet slightly spicy homemade sauce combined with the rich beef patty to give indescribable happiness.

Johann could guarantee it.

‘LA’s best cheeseburger!’

It was the best cheeseburger in LA, no, in America.

“Haah.”

Johann let out a happy sigh and took another big bite of the cheeseburger, while Giselle put down her diet cola and swallowed a hollow laugh.

‘It was real…’

Amazing.

That’s why it was suspicious.

“Are you sure this child really hasn’t learned anything?”

Looking again, it was Ines.

Ines’s characteristic smile and signature posing.

Just now, Johann had been the very Ines that Giselle had learned from as teaching material when she first started modeling.

“Hmm.”

Larry’s mouth wouldn’t close. Ada and Johnny were the same.

The aura that turned Sunset Boulevard into a fashion show runway. That could be attributed to talent.

But the model walk with freely moving hands and feet and lots of hip movement was absolutely not something that could be attributed to talent.

‘But…’

“I learned it though?”

“Huh?”

Everyone looked at Johann.

He had already finished an entire cheeseburger.

“I learned it earlier while touring the company.”

“…Wait.”

Larry gasped.

“Y-you’re saying you learned it at the directing studio? It would have been an hour at most?”

“It wasn’t difficult though?”

It would be easier to make them understand if he said he learned at least the basics.

“S-so in one hour… My goodness.”

Ada and Johnny were also shocked.

Giselle narrowed her brow.

“What’s a directing studio?”

“Let me introduce myself again. I’m Larry Jefferson, CEO of Rocky Management.”

Larry handed his business card to the questioning Giselle and explained about the directing studio.

“…Oh, God.”

She understood Larry, Ada, and Johnny’s amazement.

‘What kind of talent were you born with?’

Power entered her eyes. Filled with greed and desire.

“Johann, was it? Johann, would you like to take lessons from me?”

She wanted to polish this enormous rough gem.

She wanted to cut it beautifully and present it to the world.

‘This child might change things.’

Male and female models with different wage gaps due to market size.

Just as black pearl Elaine Campbell and others opened the golden age of supermodels, this child might open the golden age of male fashion models.

‘Why is that.

Meanwhile, Johann wonders about their reaction.

Why is this person so fired up about how great modeling is.

Why does she like ‘The Talking Mannequin, Ines de Fressange’ so much too.

Johann frowns seeing Giselle’s intense gaze and the shocked yet expectant looks from the group.

“Hmm….”

Their gazes become even more earnest.

Johann finally nods his head.

“How many times a year?”

“Huh?”

Her proposal is certainly an incredible experience and opportunity.

But….

‘There are so many things I need to do.’

He couldn’t be tied down to just one thing.

 

* * *

 

“You’re the first man to reject me this much.”

Giselle’s lips touch Johann’s cheek.

“Will you scold me if I don’t reply?”

“Clingy people of the opposite sex aren’t attractive.”

“Ahahahahaha!”

After Giselle leaves, Larry, Ada, and Johnny come to their senses.

“Th-this isn’t a dream, right? We, we really had a meal with The Body, right?! We really exchanged contact information with Johann, right?!”

This is LA, not even New York, the fashion capital of America.

Unless it’s a Star Model Agency level, an agency like Rocky can’t even contact Giselle Buncheon’s Agency.

But not only did they have a meal together, they even exchanged contact information.

“How is this possible-?!”

“C-calm down, Larry!”

“Larry! We absolutely must seize this opportunity!”

Johann nods seeing the three people causing a commotion.

‘He was holding back because of me.’

Larry, who had shown a dignified appearance throughout.

But that wasn’t the case. He was just holding back.

Johann’s trust in Larry deepens.

“But Larry.”

“Yeah? What, Johann?”

“What time does lunch break end?”

“…Oh.”

The three people who checked the time let out deep sighs.

It was time to return to the workplace.

 

Larry and Ada finally got off work late in the evening.

When they returned home, their worries began.

“Wh-what should we do?”

They don’t know which of these photos to choose.

Even with Larry’s own lacking skills, even though they were just taken with a mobile phone, the photos came out so well they’re admirable.

Walking, waiting for signals – every movement looks like a pictorial.

“Upload them all.”

“Ada.”

“It’ll help with the adoption.”

Not only Johann’s individual photos, but there are many photos taken together with two or three people. Such harmonious scenes will have a positive impact on the Child Protection Agency’s decision.

“Mmm. Ah, Johann. What do you think? Which of today’s photos should we upload to SNS? Want to choose?”

I think I know what Larry’s concern is.

“Is there a need to choose?”

I already saw them as they were taken, but there’s not a single shot worth discarding.

“That’s right, isn’t it?”

Larry nods and uploads the photos to SNS.

Johann, who received the shared photos, also uploads them to SNS.

‘I’ll focus on photos taken with Larry.’

He wanted to help Larry.

“All done!”

There’s no turning back now.

Larry looks at SNS and gets lost in thought while looking at one photo.

A photo of Larry himself and Johann taken side by side.

‘I thought the word “child” would never apply to me.’

Life so busy that even dating felt overwhelming. So he had given up to some extent, but Johann came to him like destiny.

Looking at the photo taken side by side makes him smile. Is this what it feels like to be a parent?

Larry’s gaze turns to Johann.

“Johann, did you have fun today?”

“Yeah.”

Today too.

‘This thing called modeling… it’s fun.’

The gazes pouring from all directions and cameras secretly taking pictures.

The thrill he felt even after taking out ‘The Talking Mannequin, Ines de Fressange’ midway.

Is this what it means to shine?

It was a day when he understood Emily’s feelings.

Bzzzz! Bzzzz!

“Hello?”

-Johann-!

It was Emily.

 

* * *

 

Who is Giselle’s new boyfriend?

The Body’s hidden child?

 

“As expected….”

The pot-bellied middle-aged man, Beck Kurtz, twists his lips.

That arrogant brat who saw him as some annoying nuisance.

However, that brat possessed indescribably shocking talent.

“He has Star Quality too.”

Not only did Giselle Buncheon upload to SNS, but the photos taken with Larry and others on Rodeo Drive are also being discussed on SNS and local communities.

The talent to absorb people’s attention even while doing nothing – Star Quality.

He’s too precious a talent to be wasted on someone like Larry.

“I’ll have to steal him away.”

As always.

Beck Kurtz’s eyes began to gleam dangerously.

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