A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 106

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 106

The first song Yoon Eden chose was an alternative pop song with impressive smooth rapping.

Contrary to fans’ concerns, it was a clean song that didn’t contain any of hip hop’s chronic problems like profanity or misogynistic lyrics.

[Wow, I was worried he’d do some hardcore profanity rap, but the content is fine]

[Eden, please go on DTB, if you go you can totally win]

[Does anyone know the song title?]

[I’m not fine, Thanks]

His husky mid-low voice, rhythmic melody, and bouncing beat formed a perfect trio.

Moreover, since the chorus was in melody format rather than rap, you could appreciate Yoon Eden’s vocals too.

Since it was in a comfortable vocal range rather than high notes, combined with his tone, it created the illusion that his vocals were quite good.

Objectively speaking, his vocal skills were just slightly above Kim Dobin’s. Instead, his tone was incredible.

The next song was a Korean hip hop track famous for emotional hip hop. It was a gentle singing rap with a calm melody that was approaching its 10th anniversary since release.

[Wow crazy crazy, it’s been so long since I heard this]

[Oh, this is a song I heard in dad’s car]

[I can’t believe the day has come when this song is called a dad car song]

Miss Kim, who had both songs selected as requested tracks, let out a joyful scream while watching, but let’s just skip over that.

For the high notes in the chorus that were a bit high for his vocal range, Gyeon Hajun subtly joined in to help naturally. Yoon Eden pretended to hit the high notes while providing harmony.

[Look at that trick lol]

[For the next live broadcast, duets or featuring each other like that might not be bad either]

With Yoon Eden safely finishing his requested songs, finally it was Yuje’s turn.

The first song was rock that boasted refreshingly belted high notes.

Getting up from his chair and grabbing the mic, Yuje swept around the studio as if he were on stage at a rock festival venue, belting out high notes while the hyungs sat in their chairs watching him fondly.

[This is the dignity of a main vocalist]

[Wow, the high notes keep going up, so refreshing]

[A band concept next might be good too?]

And the second song was…

Yoon Eden, who had been quietly listening to the MR, had his expression change subtly, then hastily turned off the MR before Yuje could even finish one verse.

“Huh, hyung? What’s wrong?”

Yuje turned to look at Yoon Eden in confusion at the suddenly cut song, but he seemed busy looking for a different MR.

[What’s wrong, why is Yoon Eden acting like that?]

[Wow… if it wasn’t for the leader, that would’ve been big trouble…]

[I mean, even if it’s a fan live, didn’t they review it?]

[Let’s just bury it, Yuje didn’t even sing one verse]

[But would this really become controversial?]

[If they wanted to make it controversial, there’s enough material]

[What is it? What happened?]

Yuje was about to say something more, but Gyeon Hajun, who read the ominous atmosphere in the chat, quickly waved his hand.

Yuje quickly caught that signal indicating something was wrong and closed his mouth.

Soon, the MR of a foreign band song that Yuje liked played. Fortunately, it was a song he had memorized all the lyrics to.

[Aw, our youngest is excited]

[What are we gonna do about that honest pronunciation lol]

[Yoon Eden really looks like he aged ten years…]

[Let’s not mention it unnecessarily~]

Thanks to Yuje showing rock band performance season 2 like a fish in water and Yoon Eden’s quick response, fortunately it could end as a minor happening before reaching the controversy stage.

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“Goodbye, see you again, Daydream!”

“Dream of me!”

As soon as the fan live ended, I grimly frowned and whipped around to look at Ryu Jaehee.

“You bastard, what were you thinking having a minor sing a 19+ song on a live broadcast!”

At my scolding, Ryu Jaehee blinked and then his mouth fell open. It was the face of someone who finally realized why I had reacted that way.

“It was 19+? It was on a YouTube playlist so I naturally thought it would be fine. Geez, no wonder Seongjin hyung kept asking if this was okay.”

That Seongjin guy or whatever should have asked if he knew it was 19+ when giving a minor a 19+ song.

Of course, I had been listening to 19+ songs well before I turned 19, but having a minor celebrity openly sing it on a live broadcast carried different weight.

That YouTuber should have at least marked that the song was 19+, damn it.

“You didn’t know this? You didn’t know it was 19+ even while looking for the MR?”

“I outsourced the MR editing to a hyung I know. That hyung also handled finding the MR for me…”

My head was throbbing. I thought he was better than Kim Dobin and trusted him with it, but the youngest backstabbed me like this.

Now Ryu Jaehee, you’re also on special management.

“Didn’t you think to look it up on a music site, or at least on the internet?”

“The lyrics show up as subtitles on YouTube anyway.”

Is this the generation gap…?

I let out a deep sigh and pressed Ryu Jaehee’s head with my fingertips as if giving him a scalp massage.

“Next live broadcast, you absolutely must get it reviewed in advance. I really think you’ve shortened my lifespan by about 10 years, you bastard.”

Ryu Jaehee also seemed to know that he, that our team, had almost been screwed, so he obediently nodded.

“I mean, trying to sing a 19+ song on an all-ages live broadcast is ridiculous enough. But the one who was going to sing it was even a minor? Wow, it really gives me chills.”

Kim Dobin shook his head.

“I mean, if it had been a Korean song, I would have filtered it out thinking ‘the lyrics are a bit…’ but since it was a pop song and I couldn’t understand the lyrics…”

“If it was a pop song, you should have checked the lyrics even more. How would you know what the content was?”

I was about to scold him more, but seeing Ryu Jaehee’s tearful expression, I sighed and lightly patted his head.

He was probably the most shocked by today’s happening, and he would have understood enough by now, so he wouldn’t make the same mistake.

Still, thanks to today’s incident, I definitely learned one lesson.

Live broadcasts are indeed dangerous. All sorts of unexpected situations happen. I should change direction toward doing other Quest items instead of the Weekly Quest OA app live broadcasts.

What’s the point of twice a week? If you make one mistake here, you have to start over from the beginning.

* * *

“So we ended up going to Sports University too.”

Kim Dobin sighed deeply while flipping through the papers Manager Hyung handed over.

At least it was filming on July 30th before activities, so as long as there were no serious injuries, it wouldn’t interfere with activities, which was some consolation.

“When will we be able to coolly refuse proposals like this?”

Before regression, I went until my 6th year. Manager Hyung responded to my muttering.

“When you guys become top class and it won’t be a blow even if you don’t appear on terrestrial music shows like this.”

“Wow, then we really don’t have to go?”

“Then only about two or three people from the team would go.”

At least he’s not saying he won’t let us participate.

The events we’ll compete in are relay race, basketball, archery, and wrestling.

As someone who was formerly in a soccer club and whose basic routine included playing soccer with friends after lunch, it was a bit disappointing that soccer wasn’t among the events.

E-sports was established a bit later, so it obviously wouldn’t exist now. That would have been perfect since you could just sit still while gaming.

Now we had to decide on the participants for each event.

“Eden Hyung will do basketball, right?”

“Yeah.”

There wasn’t really any other event that appealed to me besides basketball. And I had tried archery a few times before regression, but I had absolutely no talent for it.

My highest score was definitely 5 points, wasn’t it? I got completely edited out back then.

“I’ll do wrestling.”

Gyeon Hajun, who was the tallest and biggest, volunteered for wrestling.

If Seo Yehyeon, who was also in the 180cm range, took on wrestling, it seemed like he wouldn’t just fall over but get lifted up and thrown down.

Yehyeon’s body was more of the lean muscle type rather than solid build.

“Archery has three people per team. Let’s go to an archery experience center and have everyone try shooting once to decide who will participate.”

I would definitely be excluded there. Even before regression, everyone except me was decent at archery.

If I participated, I’d just drag down the score and contribute to trolling the team.

“Who wants to run the relay race?”

“Eden Hyung looked pretty fast when we saw him running during the music video shoot.”

“I’m not doing more than one event.”

“But sending Doby Hyung is also a bit… He’s the center for this promotion, so if he seriously sprains his ankle or something…”

Ugh, I groaned and roughly ran my hands through the back of my hair. My health was the top priority, but I couldn’t ignore the promotions either.

I couldn’t regress just from trying to protect my health.

“Then you go, Youngest Member.”

For relay race, if the person in front of me was slow, my speed would explode from frustration, so I’d rather pass.

“But are we going to practice this? I heard other groups even go to sports academy prep schools to practice.”

“What, is this the Olympics? Why is everyone so serious about a sports festival with idols?”

Of course, if you perform well there, you get attention. But that’s impossible with just mediocre performance.

For basketball, you’d need to be at the level of dunking, or for archery, getting three consecutive X-10s.

You’d need to be at this level for the public to say, “Wow, that guy was amazing.”

“We don’t need to go to a sports academy prep school. We should practice archery at an experience center. And build up basic fitness too.”

So we headed to an archery experience center for our group representative selection.

“Leader should go first!”

After putting on protective gear, I lifted the bow, gripped the handle, and lightly pulled the string.

I nocked an arrow, pulled the string back with force, and released it, sending the arrow flying quickly toward the target.

“Wow, your form was like a national representative.”

“Shut up, man.”

Looking at the arrow that barely landed on the border between 2 and 3 points, I picked up another arrow.

“Yes, Eden Hyung has been eliminated in the selection preliminaries!”

Seeing the arrow stuck in the 1-point zone, those enemy-like members clutched their stomachs laughing. Fine, let’s see how well you guys do.

Without regret, I put down the bow, took off the protective gear, and crossed my arms firmly as I watched them take turns shooting.

“Did you see that? Did you see? 8 points! Wow, I think I might have talent for archery!”

“Oh yeah, 6 points! I surpassed Eden Hyung’s score in one shot, right?”

“Hajun got 5 points. That’s fine. Better than Yoon Eden.”

“Why am I the baseline?”

“Wow, 10 points! 10 points was actually a possible score? Yehyeon Hyung’s form is insane!”

I hate to admit it, but everyone did better than me.

After the fierce selection, the archery members were decided as Seo Yehyeon, Kim Dobin, and Ryu Jaehee.

“Then now you automatically have to run the relay race, Jaehee.”

“Ah, this is why I didn’t want to do archery.”

Despite grumbling, Ryu Jaehee obediently accepted the result.

So the event participants were decided as: relay race – Ryu Jaehee, basketball – me, wrestling – Gyeon Hajun, archery – Kim Dobin, Ryu Jaehee, Seo Yehyeon.

“Show us an X-10 at the Idol Star Athletics Championships, Yehyeon Hyung!”

“The 10 points just happened by chance. Don’t expect too much.”

Right, my 1 point also just happened by chance. I still averaged 4-5 points, but my condition was just off today.

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