A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 148

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 148

 

 

 

 

 

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

 

Comeback D-5.

 

It was a very important time when we needed to maintain our best condition, but I ended up waking up in the middle of the night after hearing Kim Dobin’s terrible scream.

 

I rubbed my ears that were ringing from the scream that seemed to reach my eardrums and opened my eyes.

 

Damn, if he had screamed that loud in the Recording Studio, I wouldn’t have had to lose my temper in the Recording Studio.

 

Why is he doing Voice Training and going crazy at dawn?

 

“Doby… what time is it right now…?”

 

I knew it was 3:24 AM after checking the time on my Cell Phone as soon as I woke up, but when I asked with the intention of scolding him, Kim Dobin gave an irrelevant answer.

 

“Hyung, on the Ceiling… on the Ceiling…”

 

Kim Dobin kept repeating “on the Ceiling” and pointed at the Ceiling above him with his trembling finger.

 

“What’s on the Ceiling? Is there a bug stuck there? If it’s not a centipede or cockroach-level bug, you’ll pay the price for waking me up at 3 AM by screaming-”

 

Following Kim Dobin’s finger with my gaze, I spotted a pitch-black hole on the Ceiling and stopped talking.

 

Was there such a hole in Our Room? Did the wallpaper get stained or something?

 

My reality-escaping questions were brutally shattered by the moving hole, no, the cockroach.

 

Kim Dobin, that lucky bastard. If that wasn’t a cockroach, he would have gotten beaten up by me. I’ll let it slide because it’s a cockroach.

 

Here’s one confession at this point.

 

I hate cockroaches. No, it’s not just hate, I fucking hate them.

 

Where in this world would there be someone who likes cockroaches, but I’m confident that no one in this world hates them more than me, someone who had a flying cockroach stick to my face.

 

Thanks to that, I even developed a deep trauma about Mr. Cockroach with spread wings.

 

“119! 119! No wait, this isn’t 119, is it pest control?”

 

As I habitually looked for 119 and muttered in a panic state, Kim Dobin, who had already run to my Bed to avoid the cockroach stuck on the Ceiling above his Bed, grabbed and shook me in a mentally broken state.

 

“Hyung, how can you do this when you’re not afraid of ghosts! I screamed trusting only in you!”

 

“Hey! If there’s a cockroach, no, if Mr. Cockroach is there! You should catch it yourself! Do the body disposal properly! And then report to Hyung!”

 

I was afraid it might fly over thinking I was calling it, so I even added extreme honorifics to the bug bastard while shaking Kim Dobin who dared to make me see that thing, when the cockroach started moving.

 

Right toward where my Bed was.

 

“Huhhh, Sanity Check, Sanity Check… It’s the advent of Cthulhu…”

 

“What are you saying! Sanity Check or whatever, just try catching that thing!”

 

“Hyung, it’s Sanity Check, not mountain check.”

 

“Is that important right now!”

 

“And how am I supposed to catch that! I can’t even catch dragonflies!”

 

“I can’t even catch centipedes, you bastard!”

 

As the cockroach got closer and closer, we fell into panic and waved our hands toward the cockroach, begging it to please get lost.

 

“Hyung, you caught moths well! You caught Tinkerbell and spiders well! But why can’t you catch Mr. Cockroach…!”

 

“Those guys never stuck to my face!”

 

“Kyaaaaaaah! How horrible!”

 

Kim Dobin screamed as if he had imagined it. While we were doing that, Mr. Cockroach was getting closer and closer toward us.

 

And then, slam! The door opened.

 

“What are you trying to do at dawn-”

 

Seo Yehyeon stood there with a heavily frowning face covered in sleepiness.

 

When the door opened, Mr. Cockroach spread its wings wide. The terrible memories of the past were coming back to life.

 

“No! Yehyeon Hyung!”

 

At the same time I flipped the Blanket over myself, Kim Dobin threw his body to grab and pull Seo Yehyeon, who was still standing there blankly because he hadn’t fully grasped the situation yet. And the cockroach landed with a thud on the wall right next to the door.

 

Seo Yehyeon glanced at where our gazes were directed, finally realized what was happening, and squeezed himself between me and Kim Dobin, pulling the Blanket I was covering myself with to cover himself too.

 

“Hey you, are you discriminating against people?”

 

“But…! Yehyeon Hyung is my first disciple!”

 

While I was shaking Kim Dobin, Seo Yehyeon, who had been catching his breath, pointed at Mr. Cockroach with a trembling hand and whispered.

 

“That thing, shouldn’t we close the door before it goes out of the Room?”

 

“Doby, go close it.”

 

“Can’t you go close it, Hyung? You’re closer to it.”

 

“Our Doby has gotten quite comfortable, hasn’t he?”

 

“Comfortable or whatever, instead of acting like an old fogey, hurry up and someone go close it.”

 

“Let’s have the person who brought it up go close it.”

 

Looking at the two who sat firmly without any intention of moving, I closed my eyes tightly and stood up.

 

At least the Room was small so it would come out eventually, but if that thing went out to the Living Room and rummaged through the entire house, we wouldn’t even be able to find it.

 

“Cowardly bastards…”

 

As I gritted my teeth and muttered, Seo Yehyeon, who would normally have made sarcastic remarks asking if I was talking about others, sent sincere cheers with silent applause.

 

“Wow, brave. Our Leader, fighting.”

 

Since I knew better than anyone that this person was terrible at Acting, I could feel that cheer was sincere, so I couldn’t say anything and moved my heavy steps.

 

It was exactly the feeling of going up on the Debut Stage knowing I would fail and be ridiculed.

 

But rather than facing Mr. Cockroach this close, I’d prefer hate comments, damn it.

 

I stayed as far away as possible and stretched out my trembling hand to push the open door.

 

I even went on tiptoes while pushing the door, but there was still distance left, and the moment I leaned my upper body forward,

 

“Ah! Ah!”

 

Mr. Cockroach flew up again. I jumped onto the Bed in shock and frantically grabbed the Blanket, but the Blanket wouldn’t budge.

 

It was because Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin were covering themselves so tightly with it.

 

“Ah, come on! Hey, you ungrateful bastards! Isn’t it normal to at least give me the Blanket when I closed the door!”

 

Mr. Cockroach, who had been flying around the Room, landed on the Ceiling again.

 

The three of us, trapped in one Room with the cockroach, were trembling with fear under one Blanket, not knowing when Mr. Cockroach might attack.

 

It was either catching that thing, or continuing this standoff with the cockroach here until Manager Hyung called pest control.

 

No, how is it that not one of the five members can catch a cockroach…?

 

“Youngest Member…!”

 

Like a miracle, the image of Ryu Jaehee easily catching cockroaches before regression came to mind. I quickly turned to look at Seo Yehyeon and asked.

 

“Hyung, didn’t Jaehee wake up?”

 

“If I woke up, of course he did.”

 

Right, according to roommate experience, once Seo Yehyeon fell asleep, he slept really deeply. If such a Seo Yehyeon woke up, it meant the commotion we made was no joke.

 

Then Gyeon Hajun, who’s sensitive to noise, must have woken up too.

 

 

 

[Jun are you awake right now?] 3:36 AM

 

 

 

Even though I knew the bugs Gyeon Hajun could catch were only fruit flies and mosquitoes, I sent a Text Message with false hope.

 

“But why didn’t Ryu Jaehee come and only you came alone?”

 

“I told him I’d go talk to you and to go back to sleep. He’s probably sleeping again.”

 

“He should have come together! Together!”

 

“Did I know there would be a cockroach in your Room!”

 

“Yehyeon Hyung, you can’t call Cthulhu’s true name! They understand names!”

 

At Kim Dobin’s urgent restraint, I got heated and pointed at Kim Dobin’s Bed while threatening him.

 

“If you make one more incomprehensible otaku sound like that, I’ll catch the cockroach with your Pillow!”

 

“I’m sorry!”

 

Kim Dobin immediately apologized.

 

A reply from Gyeon Hajun arrived. As soon as I turned on the phone that was blinking and showing message arrival notifications…

 

“Hyung, Eden Hyung. Quickly turn off the Cell Phone light-”

 

Mr. Cockroach landed with a thud on my Cell Phone. And I gained my second trauma since childhood.

 

“Uaaaaaaah!”

 

I screamed and frantically shook my Cell Phone like crazy. Still, Mr. Cockroach, who had been persistently sticking to my Cell Phone, finally fell from the Cell Phone and landed on the Floor with a thud when I kept slamming the Cell Phone on the Bed.

 

 

 

[Gyeon Hajun- I can roughly guess what’s happening from the noise] 3:38 AM

 

[Gyeon Hajun- I don’t think I’d be of help, so I won’t bother coming] 3:39 AM

 

 

 

I quickly speed-read the text message and hurriedly turned off my cell phone screen, afraid Mr. Cockroach might stick to it again. Now our only remaining hope was Ryu Jaehee.

 

Mr. Cockroach sat firmly on the floor as if confronting us, staring straight at us who were huddled under the blanket.

 

“That thing seems to be having a staring contest with us?”

 

“How could mere mortals like us have a staring contest with the great Cthulhu…?”

 

“Damn it, Kim Dobin. Bring your pillow.”

 

“The moment we press that thing to death with a pillow, it’ll lay eggs!”

 

Afraid it might charge at the cell phone light again, I lowered the screen brightness as much as possible and covered the screen with my hand while calling Ryu Jaehee.

 

“Jaehee!”

 

As soon as the call connected, I desperately called out Ryu Jaehee’s name, and Ryu Jaehee on the other end of the line responded.

 

-I’m already on my way.

 

With a bang, the door opened and Ryu Jaehee appeared majestically holding tissue.

 

That damn cockroach bastard didn’t even budge when a person opened the door and entered, only moving its antennae slightly.

 

After seeing three cowards, it seemed to think humans were easy targets.

 

“Hyungs, do you know when it’s most horrifying when bugs appear in the house?”

 

Ryu Jaehee smiled and asked while covering and gripping the cockroach with a wad of tissue at lightning speed.

 

Everyone’s attention was focused on the wad of tissue Ryu Jaehee was holding.

 

“When it sticks to your body?”

 

“No. It’s when it disappears right before your eyes. How fortunate that I caught it before that happened.”

 

Thanks to the antennae peeking out between the tissue wad, we could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

 

We couldn’t bring ourselves to approach the youngest member holding the cockroach and could only clap, but when Ryu Jaehee put the tissue in the toilet and flushed it, we finally ran to hug the youngest member.

 

“Hey, really, without you…! We almost got trapped in that room and starved to death!”

 

“There weren’t even cockroaches in the semi-basement dorm!”

 

“Actually, there were some back then too?”

 

“What? There were? I never saw any!”

 

Ryu Jaehee lightly shrugged his shoulders toward us who were shocked.

 

“I caught them all. It was obvious you hyungs would freak out.”

 

As expected of Ryu Jaehee.

 

“No, how do you catch cockroaches so easily with just tissue?”

 

“I’ve been catching them a lot since I was young. So I’ve become skilled at catching cockroaches.”

 

Ryu Jaehee’s face darkened slightly as he said this, so we didn’t ask any more questions.

 

Since it was late at night and the cockroach was caught, we praised our savior Ryu Jaehee and escorted him respectfully to his room.

 

Gyeon Hajun, who had apparently been awake and came out of his room due to the commotion, also leaned against the door and applauded.

 

“Good thing you caught it.”

 

Gyeon Hajun, who received resentful looks from the three of us, smiled sheepishly.

 

“If all four of you screamed, it would be even noisier. What if the upstairs apartment, downstairs apartment, and next door apartment filed complaints? It would only damage our group’s image.”

 

When I thought about it, he had a point.

 

According to God Jaehee-nim’s words that if you see one cockroach, there isn’t just one cockroach in the house, we called Manager Hyung as soon as morning came and called Cesco. Of course, we evacuated to the practice room.

 

“Wow, I really experienced what it’s like to be a mere human facing Cthulhu. I did sanity checks every second while confirming the cockroach’s location.”

 

Kim Dobin muttered while letting out a sigh of relief. What the hell is this Cthulhu that he’s been going on about since yesterday? Is it some cockroach monster?

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