A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 146

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 146

 

 

 

 

 

[Last week!]

 

[The team achieved victory in assault-type trench combat thanks to next-generation ace Eden’s performance]

 

 

 

Last week’s highlight quickly passed by, showing Yoon Eden with a red headband tightly tied around his forehead, successfully breaking through by pushing past the opposing team and pulling out their trench flag.

 

“He should’ve just cut his hair before going.”

 

When Ryu Jaehee clicked his tongue at Yoon Eden’s awkward sports-cut wig, Gyeon Hajun casually replied.

 

“But wouldn’t the length have been awkward then? At least by wearing that wig at the time, his hair grew to just the right length for styling.”

 

“Ah, is that so?”

 

As Ryu Jaehee nodded in understanding, Yoon Eden growled.

 

“Cut my hair or whatever, aren’t you going to untie this?”

 

Yoon Eden’s upper body was tightly wrapped in the pink blanket that Ryu Jaehee had bought for the recording studio’s ‘Everyone Be Happy Project’ pink therapy, restricting his movement.

 

The project of wrapping a blanket around the leader’s body—a task as difficult as putting a bell on a cat’s neck—was successfully completed thanks to the participation of all Rev members except the target Yoon Eden, especially with Gyeon Hajun’s active cooperation.

 

“But hyung keeps trying to steal the remote control.”

 

Ryu Jaehee replied while preciously hugging the remote control from the far end of the sofa, away from Yoon Eden.

 

With even his hands tied up tightly with his torso, unable to habitually sweep back his bangs, Yoon Eden could only sigh as he looked down at Seo Yehyeon’s upper body heavily pressing down on his thighs.

 

“Hey, hyung, won’t you move your body? You’re someone who usually leans against the sofa back and sits on the floor, so why are you lying on someone else’s thighs making a fuss?”

 

When Yoon Eden spoke through gritted teeth, Seo Yehyeon snorted.

 

“You keep going toward the TV trying to turn off the power. And either call me ‘hey’ or ‘hyung’—pick one, will you?”

 

“Hey, move.”

 

Seo Yehyeon reflexively tried to sit up, then realized Yoon Eden had deliberately provoked him to make him get up, so he lay back down and glared.

 

“Hey? Hey?”

 

“Oh my, how scary.”

 

Yoon Eden smiled crookedly with a face that wasn’t scared at all and leaned back against the sofa.

 

“Really, staging a coup against the leader just to watch this one thing. Look, just watch. I won’t interfere.”

 

“Don’t untie the blanket. This guy says this now, but the moment you untie the blanket, he’ll immediately steal the remote and unplug the TV.”

 

At Seo Yehyeon’s warning, Yoon Eden, whose true intentions were exposed, clicked his tongue.

 

 

 

[Round 2, circular trench combat!]

 

[Five representatives selected from each team]

 

 

 

Yoon Eden went out first, then four of the panel members joined next.

 

 

 

[Instructor: You win by pushing as many opponents as possible out of the trench. Understood?]

 

 

 

Watching Yoon Eden on screen jump into the trench filled with muddy water without hesitation, Kim Dobin shuddered.

 

“Ugh, look at that water, it’s completely brown-yellow. Wasn’t it gross?”

 

“It was pretty gross.”

 

Yoon Eden replied while watching himself on screen grab the waist of an opponent who rushed at him at the start, trying to push him to the trench edge, lift him up and push him out of the trench.

 

 

 

[Truly the next-generation ace in name and reality!]

 

 

 

When Yoon Eden ran to join the original ace cast member who was struggling against a large soldier, the opponent who had been barely holding on against attacks from both sides finally couldn’t endure and was eliminated.

 

Currently in , there were two left—Eden and the original ace—while the opposing team had three, making it an unfavorable 2-to-3 situation.

 

After high-fiving the original ace and running to find the next target, another opponent attached to Yoon Eden.

 

The original ace couldn’t go help him because of the opponent attached to himself.

 

While struggling in a 2-on-1 situation at the trench edge, seeming about to be pushed out at any moment, Eden delivered a decisive blow by grabbing the leg of the person holding his waist, lifting him up and throwing him out of the trench.

 

Without time to catch his breath, Eden started wrestling again with the remaining opponent, and the moment he struggled to push the opponent out of the trench, a whistle blew to signal the end of time.

 

The score was 2:1, with the team winning.

 

“At this point, Eden hyung could easily shake off Yehyeon hyung and get up, but maybe he’s just going easy on him…”

 

Ryu Jaehee muttered while watching Yoon Eden on screen splashing muddy water refreshingly in the circular trench and embracing opponents in greeting.

 

At those words, Seo Yehyeon, who was lying sideways with his back pressing against Eden’s thighs, glanced back at Yoon Eden. Yoon Eden grinned and asked.

 

“Oh, should we try it once?”

 

“Don’t. Yehyeon hyung will get hurt if he rolls off the sofa.”

 

“Got it, I won’t.”

 

At Gyeon Hajun’s dissuasion, Yoon Eden clicked his tongue but obediently agreed.

 

 

 

[Q. You could have skipped trench combat, so why did you participate?]

 

[Private Yoon Eden: Everyone else was participating, so it would be a bit awkward for only me to skip out.]

 

 

 

Everyone looked at the real-world Yoon Eden while watching him smile sheepishly during the individual interview on screen.

 

“Really? The Eden hyung I know wouldn’t be like that? Our hyung isn’t someone who’d feel uncomfortable over something like that?”

 

“If he skipped that, he couldn’t get the combat training king title, man. And he wouldn’t get screen time either.”

 

“As expected. But why are you so obsessed with the combat training king title…?”

 

“Because I didn’t want to become the guy who quit after doing combat training once because it was too hard.”

 

Watching Yoon Eden eating deliciously on screen, Seo Yehyeon glanced at the Yoon Eden he was lying on and said.

 

“You said the military food was disgustingly tasteless.”

 

“After going through all that chaos, anything tastes good.”

 

As if vividly remembering the hardships of that time, Yoon Eden shook his head and replied.

 

After the wooden staff exercise that made shoulders and arms ache just from watching ended, the next course, rappelling training, proceeded.

 

At the long-awaited appearance of Kim Woochan Instructor, the Rev members each threw in a comment.

 

“Oh, Eden hyung’s friend!”

 

“Hyung, did you write a letter to your friend?”

 

“Yeah, I wrote that he should be prepared when I get leave. This bastard worked me so hard under the excuse of making me the combat training king. Just wait until I get leave.”

 

Yoon Eden gritted his teeth. He still hadn’t forgotten Kim Woochan’s misdeeds(?) carried out under the pretext of maintaining FM standards.

 

Yoon Eden, who had been listlessly watching himself on screen climb the ladder lightly and stand atop the 11M model tower where humans supposedly feel maximum fear, suddenly thrashed about.

 

“Ah, damn it! Hey, turn it off! Turn off the TV!”

 

“Oh, this must be it! The super interesting part!”

 

“What on earth did he do to react like that?”

 

“Eden hyung, I keep telling you, the more you react like that, the more our curiosity and interest will grow.”

 

“I’m getting curious too.”

 

 

 

[Kim Woochan Instructor: Do you have a girlfriend!]

 

[Private Yoon Eden: No!]

 

[Instant answer]

 

 

 

“If he had said yes here, it would have been chaos.”

 

“He really doesn’t have one, so why would he say he does when he doesn’t.”

 

“No, hyung. Here he should have said yes. Say yes and while saying what you want to tell your girlfriend, descend! Then he’d shout ‘I love Daydream!’ and descend.”

 

Ryu Jaehee presented the textbook idol answer with a crisp voice. At Yoon Eden’s darkening expression, Seo Yehyeon narrowed his eyes and asked.

 

“What on earth did you say before descending to make you act like that?”

 

The TV was finally showing the scene that would satisfy Seo Yehyeon’s curiosity.

 

 

 

[Kim Woochan Instructor: Shout what you want to say and begin descent!]

 

[Private Yoon Eden: Why did I agree to come here!]

 

[Next-generation ace Private Yoon Eden’s true feelings…★]

 

 

 

Yoon Eden on screen, with a face that belatedly realized what he had blurted out, hurriedly tried to recover the situation.

 

 

 

[Private Yoon Eden: Oh right, that’s not it. Daydream, I love youuuu! Descent!]

 

[Belatedly attached idol persona]

 

 

 

Whether Yoon Eden, who grabbed the rope and launched his body, showed a perfect landing or not, the members had burst into laughter and were all hitting the sofa or floor while laughing.

 

“Ah, his expression! That ‘I’m screwed’ expression is really the highlight!”

 

“Why did I, hic, agree to come here, puhaha! You’re too honest, hyung!”

 

“No, what’s funnier to me is that Yoon Eden said ‘Daydream, I love you’ after those words!”

 

“Still, he tried in his own way. He tried to show some fan service.”

 

“Jun, just please don’t say anything… Packaging it like that makes it even more pitiful…”

 

Yoon Eden muttered while burying his head against the sofa backrest.

 

 

 

[Q. Weren’t you being too honest?]

 

[Private Yoon Eden: …]

 

[Private Yoon Eden: I have a habit of saying my true feelings afterward. Anyway, that’s how it is.]

 

 

 

Since Yoon Eden’s enlightened expression on screen during the individual interview looked exactly like his enlightened expression in reality, laughter burst out among the members once again.

 

The only one who couldn’t laugh was Yoon Eden.

 

And finally, the last part of guerrilla training, NBC training, approached.

 

 

 

[Military Instructor: Recreate Mother’s Heart, begin!]

 

[Everyone: They say it’s the high, high sky, but I, I have something else that’s high. Ahh, thank you, teacher’s love.]

 

[Hm?]

 

[A song that changed from Mother’s Heart to Teacher’s Grace?]

 

 

 

As soon as Yoon Eden uttered the lyrics “teacher’s love,” his widened eyes and closed mouth were zoomed in.

 

 

 

[Private Yoon Eden: Come to think of it, I only sang Teacher’s Grace often, but I don’t remember singing Mother’s Heart… I suddenly miss my mother.]

 

[That name that becomes especially missed after coming to the military, Mother]

 

 

 

The individual interview screen passed and returned to the scene of the military instructor shouting angrily at the Chemical Warfare Training Ground with veins bulging in his neck.

 

 

 

[Military Instructor: I told you to sing Mother’s Heart, who told you to sing Teacher’s Grace! Again, Real Men recreation, begin!]

 

 

 

Yoon Eden’s expression rolling his eyes was captured in a big close-up shot on screen.

 

It was clearly an expression of someone who didn’t know military songs. Watching him look around, listen to one verse, put an exclamation mark on his face, and then vigorously sing along, the Rev members burst into laughter for who knows how many times.

 

“Ah, I laughed so much my stomach hurts! Ah, it really hurts!”

 

“Hey, you don’t know this? Born as a man, there’s much to do! You don’t know this? Hey, even I know this one!”

 

“Wow, he really can’t sing.”

 

Yoon Eden let out small exclamations at Seo Yehyeon’s military song. Of course, Yoon Eden’s singing ability while inhaling gas and singing military songs on screen was also on par with Seo Yehyeon’s.

 

However, Yoon Eden was breathing gas while Seo Yehyeon was breathing clean air and still sounded like that, which only added bonus points for Yoon Eden.

 

As soon as the NBC training ended, Yoon Eden was shown running outside, taking off his gas mask, and collapsing on the ground.

 

“Why is he so desperately turning his back to the camera?”

 

“Look at the other people. Can’t you see the reason why?”

 

“No way, did you also shed tears and snot, hyung?”

 

“Well, I’m human, not a robot without tears or snot.”

 

While responding to the obvious comment, Yoon Eden fell into serious contemplation.

 

What exactly do these guys think of me?

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