A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 126

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 126

“Since this is an album we truly prepared with all our heart and effort, this award holds really deep meaning for us. I’m grateful to all the countless people who willingly lent a helping hand until [CHASE] came into the world….”

What I chose was to compete with quantity.

I figured if I spoke at length, at least one line would remain in the fans’ memories for a long time, so I worked hard writing and memorizing from the night before.

Fortunately, thanks to winning the main album award, this preparation didn’t end up being premature celebration.

I had prepared roughly 5 minutes’ worth of material.

“We will always strive to become a Rev that never loses our initial intentions and continues to move forward with even better music-“

When there was no sign of my acceptance speech ending, Seo Yehyeon approached me with an awkward smile and naturally stole the microphone from my hand.

Since it would be awkward to broadcast a microphone fight at an awards ceremony, I obediently handed it over.

“Ilmong-ies, we love you!”

With a bright smile, Yehyeon finished the acceptance speech with the usual predictable words.

As we came down from the stage receiving applause, Ryu Jaehee sidled up to me and whispered.

“Hyung, even if it’s stream of consciousness, giving an acceptance speech for over 4 minutes is a bit….”

“What stream of consciousness? Do you know how hard I worked writing and memorizing this yesterday?”

“Wow, you really memorized all of that? What a legendary waste of memory skills….”

If only there were no cameras, I would have put him in a headlock right away. What a shame.

“The grand prize goes to… Altair’s [Stolen]! Congratulations!”

The album grand prize went to Altair. It was an expected result since we lost in both digital chart performance and total album sales.

Altair had won the grand prize before my regression too, so it wasn’t particularly concerning, but it was quite disappointing that we were their rivals.

I sent perfunctory applause while watching Altair walk to the stage with expressions of disbelief as they got up from their table.

However, KJ’s face streaming with tears was really unpleasant to look at.

“We’re so grateful for giving us such a big award, *sob*, our members who always followed well, and our truly grateful and beloved Aquila-“

I tried not to burst out in cynicism watching KJ shed tears and unable to continue speaking before passing the microphone to Cha Yeonho.

What a damn act, seriously. That bastard didn’t cry before my regression, I think. Are tears flowing because he’s thinking about the copyright fees he’ll get to share?

Cha Yeonho continued the acceptance speech. Seeing his brightly smiling face made me feel sick.

“Hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee called me in a small voice. Well, he’s probably going to tell me to manage my facial expression since cameras are rolling.

Thinking that, I glanced back without answering, and Ryu Jaehee firmly gripped my sleeve.

“Next time….”

It was a murmur that didn’t form a complete sentence, but I felt like I knew what he meant, so I lightly ruffled Jaehee’s hair out of habit and replied.

“Yeah, next time for sure.”

They say you shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep, but I was confident I could keep this one.

Gyeon Hajun reached out and smoothed down Jaehee’s hair that had gotten slightly messed up from my touch.

Our eyes met briefly, but we both turned our heads away simultaneously without either going first.

No, we really didn’t fight, but when you act like this, it really seems like we fought. Is asking you to tell me before cutting ties really that hurtful?

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DaydreamOrDead @DaD000

I felt like I was listening to the principal’s moral instruction…

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Dream♥Daydream @revedream

Eden gave a historically long acceptance speech, but what I remember from today

: Yehyeon awkwardly smiling while stealing Eden’s microphone + Yehyeon’s bright smile and “Ilmong-ies, we love you.”

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Dream♥Daydream @revedream

I was a bit disappointed that only Yuje called us by the nickname even though Ilmong-ies obviously exists, but my disappointment is resolved as of today

Kim Pillow @pillowkim

I was writing down what Eden said to make a compilation but gave up and just changed it to “Ilmong-ies, we love you”

It was too long

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Eden(Good_Virtuous) @eden0801

After being a filial piety idol, now he’s a moral instruction idol damn

Why are my oppa’s nicknames getting like this

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Thanks to the posts I saw while performing the weekly Search quest, I had a premonition of quest failure.

To think that Yehyeon’s smile and one line of acceptance speech was more impressive than my acceptance speech that I worked hard on for 5 minutes. Thinking about all my hard work the night before made me feel bitter inside.

No, how could not a single word from that long, long acceptance speech leave a lasting impression.

While grumbling, I remembered that I didn’t particularly remember the principal’s moral instructions when he had students lined up in the sports field during school days, and I meekly accepted the failure.

When midnight came, a red status window appeared before my eyes.

[QUEST FAILED due to unmet conditions!]

[A random penalty will be imposed.]

Twice it was coughing up blood, last time it was vision blocking. Not knowing what would come this time, I lay obediently on the bed with a towel covering my mouth.

I considered waiting in front of the emergency room of a nearby hospital in case I got the blood coughing penalty, but even I thought that was too much of an overreaction, so I gave up on that idea.

[For 24 hours, ‘nya’ will be attached to sentence endings.]

Surprisingly, today’s penalty was far removed from the previous penalties that made me worry about my health. I removed the towel from my mouth and grumbled while relaxing.

“What a useless penalty to attach, nya.”

I bit my tongue hard at the horrible sentence with just one extra ending attached.

Goosebumps rose on my arms. What kind of speech pattern is this?

It was fortunate that Yehyeon had briefly gone to the kitchen to drink water.

If Yehyeon had heard it, I would have seriously considered regression.

After carelessly letting one sentence slip out, my resolve to absolutely not open my mouth for the entire day only grew stronger.

I was going to hole up in the studio all day, but when I woke up in the morning, snow was falling heavily like a blizzard, so my plans to go out were canceled.

It would take 10 minutes on foot, but 10 minutes by car is a bit….

Looking at the two people sitting at the dining table with a fully prepared meal, I turned my head away and shouted loudly.

“Ryu Jaehee, Kim Dobin, aren’t you eating!”

At my shout, Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee burst out of Jaehee’s room.

“You guys should come out quickly and set the utensils when food is prepared on the table, what are you doing?”

“We were gaming so we didn’t hear you calling us to eat….”

Kim Dobin made a timid excuse. Yehyeon, who had been sitting with his chin propped up crookedly at the dining table, spoke up.

“Yoon Eden was the first one to call you to eat.”

“Ah, so you didn’t mishear.”

“But it’s breakfast time, and when the hyungs are preparing the meal, you should come out on your own, right?”

Kim Dobin, who had been breathing a sigh of relief, stiffened again at Yehyeon’s pointed words.

“We’re sorry. As an apology, we’ll prepare lunch.”

Jaehee cheekily winked and bowed his head.

The meal only began after I picked up my utensils. I don’t know when this started either. At some point, this is how it’s been.

I don’t know about the other members, but it was really a mystery why Yehyeon, who’s even older than me, was following along.

Are they all acknowledging that I’m the young head of this household now? But before my regression, when Yehyeon was the young head of household, there weren’t really these kinds of dining table rules.

Then what is it?

After finishing our meal and immediately sprawling on the sofa, Seo Yehyeon’s signature line about gaining weight from lying down right after eating came flying at me.

I let the familiar nagging go in one ear and out the other, tuned the remote to an American crime drama, watched for a bit, then closed my eyes.

“Doby, aren’t you going to put the remote down?”

Kim Dobin, who had been stealthily trying to take the remote from my hand, froze.

Despite my resolution to spend today in silent meditation, I found myself having quite a lot to say.

“Jaehee, how about bringing hyung a cup of water too.”

I could even make the youngest member run errands for me. I was really grateful that this was my usual way of speaking.

If Gyeon Hajun had acted like this, they would have found it strange, but since it was me doing it, no one suspected anything.

“Aren’t you going to the studio today?”

As I occupied the sofa and lounged around, Seo Yehyeon, who was sitting on the floor leaning against the sofa, asked bluntly.

“Hyung, with my eyes looking like this, do you think I’d want to go outside?”

Despite answering in the most gentle tone possible, Seo Yehyeon’s expression crumpled.

“I was just asking, why are you picking a fight again?”

“Yehyeon hyung, does this seem like picking a fight?”

I even politely added his name, but the sentence ending didn’t neutralize my tone. I should have just lied about having a sore throat and communicated through my phone memo app.

“Just drop that damn ‘-nya’ from your sentence endings, will you?”

Seo Yehyeon, thinking I was picking fights with him until the end, let out a short sigh and got up from his seat.

Unfortunately, I can’t drop it. I want to drop it too. But I can’t say “Does it seem like picking a fight?” to my hyung like that. Just imagining it makes me want to throw up.

This was definitely the system’s heinous scheme to lower our relationship improvement and lead me down the path of infinite regression.

“Hyung, did you perhaps get cursed to add ‘-nya’ to your sentence endings?”

I responded dryly to Kim Dobin, who was making a deduction close to the correct answer while twitching his lips, as expected of an otaku.

“Doby, is this funny?”

That’s the right answer, dude. But I find it quite annoying that you’re finding the tragedy that befell your hyung amusing.

“No!”

Kim Dobin answered loudly and didn’t ask any more questions. Instead, Ryu Jaehee brought up a different topic.

“But hyung, when exactly are you going to make up with Hajun hyung?”

“We didn’t fight, does it seem like we fought?”

“Yes, totally. Even if you didn’t fight, at least try talking to each other. The atmosphere between you two is too cold.”

I said we didn’t fight. I responded nonchalantly, scratching my head at his firm answer.

“If we just live our lives, won’t it work out somehow?”

“Don’t use a hoe when you could use a spade, hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee shook his head and gave me advice. Oh, our youngest member knows proverbs well too.

He’ll have no problem with variety show proverb quizzes later, huh?

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The team that garnered the most attention at the Music Awards special stage was On Top, which gathered all the leaders, and thanks to the fake chemistry shown in the making video, we were occasionally mentioned together.

And now, introducing a variety show.

, shortened to My Idol Intro.

It was a typical variety show where they’d call an idol group to introduce themselves, have talks, play games, and such. However, since they only called groups with a certain level of recognition, it was also a measure of a group’s popularity.

I was going to appear on that My Idol Intro show that even Reve hadn’t been cast on yet.

Specifically, as the youngest member of On Top.

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