A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 114

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 114

When the music video was released, the reaction was even more explosive than the previous teen music video.

[A music video with twist after twist ㄷㄷ]

[I’ve seen many thief vs detective setups, but this ending is a first]

[Rev’s thief vs detective concept this time is insane]

[Rev sharpened their knives and brought knife-sharp choreography]

It was thanks to word of mouth spreading about the so-called twist-upon-twist reversal music video.

-Wow the visuals are insane ㅇ3 what’s going on?

-Let’s preserve Yehyeon’s coat, it’s insane for real

-Everyone has good proportions so the coat outfits fit perfectly

-So it wasn’t Eden and Doby on the same side, but Yehyeon and Doby on the same side?

└Wow so that’s why Yehyeon kept being wary of Eden even though they were both detectives…

└I thought it was because Yehyeon knew Eden-Doby were on the same side

-So is Eden really a detective or a third force trying to get the jewel?

└Hajun and Yuje are definitely detectives but Eden is kinda ambiguous

-Eden is a detective https://blog.naxxr.com/alslk25/565264615 if you look here it gives a detailed music video interpretation linking the objects that keep appearing with the bible verses from the bible Eden was holding

Thanks to not only the visuals but also the hints scattered throughout the music video, the view count kept rising steadily.

The knife-sharp choreography performance MV video, which wasn’t their usual light choreography but with full power, also gained attention as “Rev finally attempted knife-sharp choreography” and contributed to the rising view count.

[20th-new ‘Reve – Escape’ ♥48,121]

entered the top 20 just one day after the music release. At this rate, reaching 1st place on the chart didn’t seem difficult.

[25th-new ‘Reve – Off the Record’ ♥40,726]

“Wow, is also ranking pretty high on the chart? It really lives up to being a song we considered for the title track.”

Even as he said that, relief was evident on Ryu Jaehee’s face—the one who had pushed for as the title track—seeing that ranked higher.

Looking at the chart rankings, it seemed like as the title track wouldn’t have been a bad result either.

Our first music show was M Countdown.

The stage for the B-side track was pre-recorded.

My short rap part with a heavily lowered voice quickly passed, and the song began with Gyeon Hajun’s falsetto as he grabbed the stand microphone on the circular stage.

As soon as Gyeon Hajun’s part ended, I took over the rap part again.

Kim Dobin and Seo Yehyeon’s short parts passed in turn, and I swayed my body sitting on the prop chair to the rhythm following the brass section chorus that made good use of Gyeon Hajun’s falsetto.

Unlike usual where we gave the chorus to Ryu Jaehee and the killing part to Gyeon Hajun, this song gave the chorus to Gyeon Hajun and the killing part to Ryu Jaehee.

Gyeon Hajun was better suited for the falsetto high notes that needed to be maintained consistently, while Ryu Jaehee was more advantageous for the killing part’s definitive belting high notes.

And since the vocals in this song were falsetto except for Ryu Jaehee’s killing part and Kim Dobin’s part, Seo Yehyeon’s part could also pass quite smoothly.

If we had made this the title track, there would have been choreography, but since it was a B-side track, all we did was sit or stand with props while singing.

The only thing that could be called choreography was slowly walking around the circular stage where Gyeon Hajun was standing?

After the pre-recording of ended.

“I won’t make mistakes, right…?”

In the waiting room, Seo Yehyeon muttered with an anxious face while watching the performance video on repeat.

Seo Yehyeon had kept his word about learning the choreography even if it meant staying up all night. I knew he was really a tough person from when he only chewed on greens even with chicken in front of him.

Everyone was so worried he’d collapse that they forcibly dragged him from the practice room back to the dormitory.

When Seo Yehyeon insisted on staying longer, I nodded beside him and told them that guy has A-rank stamina so he won’t collapse from that much, but I was the only one treated like a heartless person.

I even generously gave the anxious Seo Yehyeon the ‘Lucid Dreaming’ item that had appeared before so he could practice even in his dreams.

From the way he groaned in bed that night, it seemed he practiced diligently even in his dreams.

Thanks to that, all five of us were able to learn the choreography that changed in just one week.

As the live broadcast time approached, we changed into the stage costumes.

They weren’t the music video costumes, but outfits faithful to the thief and detective concept, though neither the thief stood out too much nor did the detective get buried.

Instead, there were enough detail differences to distinguish between the two.

Finally, our live broadcast turn approached.

We stood on stage and got into formation. The props we would use for our performance were already placed on stage.

[Let’s Escape]

The song began with my short whisper.

was a song where even the chorus wasn’t particularly high notes, competing only with Rev’s vocal line’s tone and my rap. This meant we could handle such intense choreography and live performance without any problems.

Only when we reached Kim Dobin’s solo dance part in the relentlessly driving choreography could we finally catch our breath.

Considering Kim Dobin didn’t even have time to breathe, he was really amazing.

We safely completed the most difficult part using chairs and desks without any mistakes and immediately returned to the group dance.

The cheers from below the stage grew louder at our knife-sharp choreography with perfectly aligned angles.

Now the song reached its final climax.

[No one would believe it

No matter how wary you are, you’re in my grasp]

[catch me if you can

This obvious chase is boring]

Listening to Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee’s parts that seemed like a vocal volume battle with their call-and-response vocals, I synchronized with Seo Yehyeon.

The stage ended with Kim Dobin in a pose as if completely surrounded by the other four.

Due to the quite intense choreography, sweat beaded on everyone’s foreheads.

The smiles on our faces from the satisfaction of a perfectly executed stage without a single mistake were a bonus.

I lightly high-fived Seo Yehyeon’s outstretched hand and grinned.

“Wow, now I can’t even call you a mistake machine anymore.”

Seo Yehyeon chuckled at my joke-like serious comment and shot back.

“Well, you don’t extort money from me with harsh words anymore either.”

That’s right. The money I extorted from Seo Yehyeon during this practice was 0 won. It was close to a miracle.

Since Seo Yehyeon was following along quite well, I didn’t need to speak harshly, and I had learned that pointing things out with a calm tone was more effective than being sarcastic.

“Sniff, sniffle…”

At the sudden sniffling sound from beside us, Seo Yehyeon and I, who had been creating a heartwarming atmosphere for the first time in a while, simultaneously whipped our heads to the side.

Kim Dobin was sniffling with tears welling up in his eyes.

“To think our group would have a day like this… A day when we practice with a good atmosphere and perform such knife-sharp choreography on stage…”

“Damn it, when hyung cries… I want to cry too…! To get to this atmosphere was really…”

Ryu Jaehee beside him also started getting red around the eyes and began dropping tears.

We hadn’t even won 1st place, just finished our first broadcast stage, yet at the sight of the youngest line members crying their hearts out, we two looked at each other with awkward expressions.

“Why are they acting like that…?”

“I don’t know, maybe hyung’s successful knife-sharp choreography was that moving. Youngest members, Yehyeon hyung will keep succeeding at knife-sharp choreography from now on.”

“Right, from now on don’t worry about me and feel free to choreograph whatever you want, Doby.”

“That’s not it, waaah…!”

“The hyungs are idiots, really!”

We tried to comfort them but at the sight of the youngest line crying even more sadly, Seo Yehyeon and I awkwardly closed our mouths.

In the end, comforting the two became Gyeon Hajun’s job.

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On the 5th day of Rev’s comeback, Altair’s pre-release song was revealed.

It was that song I had seen on the September charts. Considering there were 6 days left until the current date passed into October, it was quite chilling.

‘To think they achieved those monthly chart results with just 6 days since release.’

Their firepower was definitely strong.

And starting with that pre-release song, teasers began to be released one by one as if counting down to their comeback.

The view count for the teasers, which featured one member each in short still cuts, rose rapidly.

I tried to recall if it was like this before my regression, but back then I had no interest in how first-team senior boy groups made their comebacks, and I was busy wandering the path of a failed idol, so there was no way I could remember.

The best scenario for Rev would be to maintain this momentum all the way until October.

But with teasers already generating this much firepower, it was hard to make a judgment.

On the final 7th day, Altair’s music video was released.

“Wow, they spent a ton of money. The music video is just dripping with luxury.”

“Whoa, they really went to Hong Kong and Macau to film. I’m jealous. We’re filming domestically.”

“Wait, then isn’t this a knockoff of The Thieves?”

Remembering the past when we almost got called Interstellar plagiarism idols, I made a sarcastic comment.

“It’s more of an homage than a knockoff. By that logic, we’d be Detective Conan Phantom Thief Kid knockoffs too.”

Ryu Jaehee corrected my cynical remark.

The music source performance also boasted quite high rankings from the start, befitting a song that won a grand prize.

[18th-new ‘Altair – steal cut’ ♥57,032]

“Were we at 20th place?”

Deciding it would be more comfortable not to look, I closed the music chart app. I lightly ruffled Ryu Jaehee’s hair and gave him some advice.

“You should watch it in moderation too. Staring at it won’t make Altair’s music source ranking drop anyway.”

Despite my advice, Ryu Jaehee, who was still staring intently at the chart, spoke while keeping his eyes fixed on his cell phone.

“Hyung, you know what? You said there’s no such thing as ‘fought well despite losing.'”

“Yeah, I did say that.”

“Then does a song that competed fiercely but got pushed down in rankings become meaningless?”

Blinking at the suddenly striking words, Ryu Jaehee looked up and met my eyes, asking seriously.

“It’s not evaluated purely on musicality alone, but just because it got pushed down in rankings, doesn’t it make you a little sad that the song you worked so hard to create becomes a defeated song, a meaningless song?”

When I thought about it, he wasn’t wrong. Of course, musicality would contribute greatly to evaluation, but these rankings weren’t determined by musicality alone.

Can the value of music really be measured only by the numbers in front of the rankings?

“Hey, you’re better than me.”

I let out a hollow laugh and honestly admitted it.

“Yeah, I’ll correct that. Maybe you can fight well despite losing. But if you’re already saying things like that, this hyung feels a bit sad because it seems like defeat is already confirmed.”

I roughly tousled Ryu Jaehee’s hair with my hands.

“So save those words for October when the final results come out and this hyung is feeling down about losing – bring me a cup of coffee and say it then. Got it?”

I grinned at Ryu Jaehee who was nodding and playfully added one more thing.

“Of course, since I’m definitely going to win, there won’t be any need for that.”

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