A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 104

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 104

The music video set where the music video shooting was taking place.

“Wow! Hyungs. Look at this.”

Kim Dobin, who had come out after changing into his costume, made a fuss and drew our attention.

A cape with a formal suit seemed like it would be too much when I first heard about it, but Kim Dobin was surprisingly pulling it off well.

But I still couldn’t shake the thought that it would have suited Seo Yehyeon better.

Kim Dobin, who was fluttering his cape like bat wings by himself, repeatedly threw and caught the jewel he was supposed to steal, then held it up to the lighting to examine it.

“I thought this would be some completely fake-looking glass giant diamond, but doesn’t this look like a jewel actually worth stealing?”

The jewel used as a music video prop was a gorgeous piece with a large sapphire in the center surrounded by small diamonds.

Of course, they weren’t real diamonds and real sapphires, but fakes.

“Hey, you can’t just sell stuff like this anywhere since it’s stolen goods. It just becomes a burden until you find a broker.”

“Doby hyung’s comment made him seem like a phantom thief purely after jewels, but when Eden hyung brought up stolen goods and brokers, you suddenly became common thieves.”

Ryu Jaehee shook his head at my words.

Snap, Kim Dobin pointed at Ryu Jaehee with his finger and shouted confidently.

“The culprit is among us!”

“No! That’s what I, the detective, should say! Not you, the phantom thief!”

I let out a stifled laugh while sitting in a chair on set, watching Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee running around the set, with Dobin claiming he would arrest the phantom thief.

“Seriously, they have better stamina than us who exercise every day.”

Aren’t they hot in those clothes? No matter how much the air conditioning was blasting on set, the coat outfit provided extreme heat in the weather approaching summer.

“Speaking of exercise, come to think of it, are we going to participate in the Idol Athletics Championship this time?”

Gyeon Hajun muttered to himself while fanning himself beside me.

Idol Athletics Championship. An abbreviation for the idol sports competition program hosted by terrestrial broadcasting during holidays like Chuseok and New Year.

Considering they usually film in late July to early August, it was coming up soon.

We couldn’t participate last Chuseok or this New Year, but this time we’d probably definitely participate.

Since our agency was a mid-sized company, not a major one, refusing would be impossible if we didn’t want to antagonize the broadcasting station.

‘Didn’t Seo Yehyeon get injured there once?’

I remember he fell during a relay race and slightly twisted his ankle.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a serious injury and he recovered quickly, but it caused an uproar among fans—or so I heard from Ryu Jaehee.

I also had a record of participating intensely and performing well in the early days after escaping being a flop idol, but as years passed and I saw cases like Seo Yehyeon getting hurt, I started taking it easy.

Our bodies are our assets, so what if we get hurt? Seeing injury issues happen every time made me more cautious with my body.

Of course, performing well at the Idol Athletics Championship did create buzz. But rather than me scoring ten consecutive baskets in basketball, photos of Seo Yehyeon doing archery with comments about him looking like an elf became a bigger issue.

Any handsome guy holding a bow gets called an elf. I knew well that I wouldn’t be called an elf just for holding a bow, so I never even considered archery.

‘I’ll think about it when we get the Idol Athletics Championship notice.’

Break time ended and music video filming resumed.

Given the concept of a chase between detective and phantom thief, this music video had many action scenes. When filming the scene where I throw myself to catch the phantom thief, I almost got injured.

The tragedy was foretold from the moment Kim Dobin pounced on me and I got pinned under his body, unable to move, when he was supposed to escape leaving only his cape behind.

I didn’t know this guy was such a slow runner. He definitely can’t do relay races.

“Hyung, you’re heavy…”

“Hey, your elbow is stabbing my side right now, I can’t breathe…”

Kim Dobin, pinned under me, muttered in a dying voice, but my condition was more serious.

I barely swallowed the curses rising with my rough breathing and rubbed my throbbing side.

“Action scenes are tough…”

I squeezed my eyes shut listening to Kim Dobin’s voice lamenting as if he’d gained some enlightenment.

Is that really something you should say after elbowing your hyung in the side?

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Around the time when fans were gradually getting tired during a fairly long hiatus, despite appearing on variety shows and uploading self-content to the YouTube channel.

REVE_official @LnL_reve

[NOTICE] REVE Official Fan Club Daydream 1st Generation Recruitment

Recruitment Period: 20xx.06.21(THU) AM 10:00 ~ 20xx.07.17(FRI) PM 11:59

bit.ly/5DAvMK4

#REVE #Rev #DayDream

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A paid fan club recruitment notice appeared on the official account. Fans complained about why they were only recruiting now, but quite a few were also contemplating whether to join.

Paid fan club. A double-edged sword that gives fans joy and pride in becoming official fans, but makes the money spent feel wasted the moment they lose interest.

As if to ease their concerns a little, a preview of the fan club kit was released.

The fan club kit had a refreshing ocean background concept, as if compensating for letting the summer refreshing concept slip by during the hiatus.

Dream Heart Daydream @revedream

Oh damn Eden in a sleeveless shirt

I absolutely must get this

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Hyeoni Hyeoni @Yeah1217

Yehyeon, who told you to wear a white shirt and get soaked like that

This leaves me no choice but to open my wallet

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Bambi Hyeon @bambbii

Wow Yehyeon’s pure look is really legendary

Damn what am I supposed to do about Eden’s arm muscles

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(Daydream 1st Gen Recruitment) Honey Sleep @honeydaydream

Wow Gyeon Hajun really has such an innocent face but not-so-innocent body

Look at those broad shoulders, did this guy always have such a good body

(GyeonHajun_FanKit Photo_Preview.jpg)

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Neg @ADKL25FMLD

The youngest line are totally like puppies who found water lol

If the hyung line is hot+refreshing, the youngest line is youth+refreshing

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The photos taken against an ocean background, either soaked with water or fully revealing arm muscles that had been hidden under long sleeves until now, were enough to open Daydream’s wallets.

Even fans who had been wary, remembering the Sponge Science Man, semiconductor employee, and poor astronaut outfits from , felt much more at ease and joined the paid fan club.

Miss Kim was also one of the fans who joined immediately when the 1st generation fan club opened.

No matter how much she rewatched the unreleased epilogue of the Jeju Island trip from uploaded to the YouTube channel, Doby’s birthday surprise camera operation, , , etc., the hiatus couldn’t be easily filled.

In this situation, the fan kit was like sweet rain on parched earth.

“Aren’t they going to film daily self-content like My Idol Observation Camera…?”

Just as Miss Kim, who couldn’t be satisfied with just this, was grumbling, a notification popped up that her bias had posted a From message on the official fan cafe.

[From. Eden]

Daydream, have you been doing well during the hiatus? For our Daydream who might be bored during the break, Rev is planning our own music show. We’ll probably take song requests and sing them, so please post the songs you want and the member whose voice you’d like to hear in the comments and we’ll refer to them.

ps. If you request rap (Korean hip-hop, foreign hip-hop songs), please request songs without profanity (ex. fxxk)

A song request fan live!

The comments were already busily flooding in with song requests.

There were pop songs, indie band tracks, female or male solo songs, male idol group songs, foreign hip hop, and basically songs from various genres were being posted.

Miss Kim knew that the probability of her song request being selected from nearly 1,000 comments was like finding a needle in a haystack, but just in case, she posted a rap-style pop song she’d been listening to lately and a somewhat older hip hop track.

They were all songs she wanted to hear at least once in Eden’s voice.

As soon as she uploaded her comment, Eden’s comment appeared right below it.

-Song requests end here. Please request again next time.

At the insane timing, Miss Kim clutched her chest in relief. Now if only her bias would select her song request, she would have nothing more to wish for.

No wait. She should at least hope for LnL to come to their senses.

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The song request fan live was Ryu Jaehee’s idea.

If the hiatus gets too long, fans will leave, and there’s no time to film self-content, and since we’re currently preparing for a comeback, things like Vlogs could accidentally become spoilers, so let’s take song requests like a radio show and do a fan live in the practice room.

It was an opinion he could confidently suggest as the main vocalist who was confident in his singing.

“Hey, there are more song requests for Yehyeon Hyung than expected? But here’s the problem. The notes are pretty high. Very high.”

“Filter them appropriately for me. I’m asking for songs that are as safe as possible with no high notes.”

“Is there anyone who requested a children’s song?”

“Hyung, don’t look down on children’s songs. Do you know how high the notes in children’s songs are?”

Ryu Jaehee replied listlessly to me as I searched for children’s songs that might match Seo Yehyeon’s level.

Everyone was busy finding their names and song requests in the comments on the From post I had uploaded and selecting songs.

Ryu Jaehee and Gyeon Hajun were the type confident in their skills, so they could handle any song, but Kim Dobin could only naturally cover songs that weren’t too high-pitched or didn’t require too much technique.

Seo Yehyeon couldn’t do rap, couldn’t do songs with even a little bit of high notes, and anyway had the most demanding selection criteria.

I decided to pick my song requests first and then help select Seo Yehyeon’s song requests.

I nodded as I looked at the two songs posted right above my comment announcing the deadline.

Oh, both of these are pretty good? Since one was a pop song and one was a Korean song, I didn’t really feel like they overlapped, and both were songs familiar to my ears.

I kept those two songs for now and scrolled up looking for my name.

Everyone had submitted song requests covering both domestic and foreign hip hop, but songs with profanity were eliminated due to my initial intentions, so the songs I could actually sing from the requests were really very few.

Hey, System. Can’t you be a bit lenient about profanity in songs? This isn’t because I want to swear, but just to respect the original artist…

[‘fuck’, ‘motherfucker’ are all prohibited words.]

Yeah, I know the latter is going too far with the insults. But ‘fuck’ is just an ad-lib in hip hop, you know?

[It is a prohibited word.]

The System, which didn’t understand real hip hop, was annoyingly firm.

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