A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 154

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 154

 

 

 

 

 

“Ha, the gap just won’t narrow.”

 

While the album’s initial sales somehow managed to reach a stable range, ‘s chart ranking was still outside the top 10.

 

Last time when our promotions overlapped, at least went back and forth with Altair, but this time it was a complete defeat.

 

If the music hadn’t been leaked, could my song have beaten ?

 

Looking at firmly holding the #1 spot on the charts and way down below, I craved the cigarettes I had quit.

 

At least it was some small comfort that thanks to album sales scores, we were nominated for 1st place alongside Altair.

 

‘Well then, what was bound to come has come.’

 

Today’s routine Search Quest. While scanning through entertainment news headlines, I clicked my tongue.

 

 

 

[TK’s new boy group survival program ‘Select My IDOL’ first broadcast]

 

 

 

TK was one of the big 3 major entertainment companies where Ryu Jaehee had been a trainee. They held an in-house survival show to select trainees for a new group.

 

And before my regression, two perpetrators who essentially drove Ryu Jaehee out of TK debuted from that survival show.

 

The combination of TK and a survival show drew attention even before debut, and as soon as they debuted, they swept 1st places and openly mocked him by casually greeting Ryu Jaehee as if nothing had happened.

 

The current Rev isn’t at a level where we’d be laughed at by some green rookies, but if our chart rankings keep maintaining this state, who knows. Those kids who can’t read the room will inevitably piss me off again.

 

The only difference from back then is that I can’t freely unleash a string of curses due to my Initial Intentions score.

 

Considering the recoverable range of my Initial Intentions score, if I set aside about 14 points for deductions, I calculate I could manage about seven curse words.

 

Combined with moderately provocative words, seven curse words would be enough to completely crush their spirit.

 

Well, if Ryu Jaehee wants it, I could pull some strings before their debut.

 

‘Come to think of it, those Navy guys are really lucky too.’

 

They took my song, and their debut date didn’t overlap with TK’s new group by just a subtle difference, so they didn’t get their buzz stolen and had a smooth debut.

 

Thinking of those guys who were so friendly and bright, I chuckled, then seeing the members coming out of their rooms to the living room one by one, I also got up from the sofa.

 

It was a day with Rev’s group variety show schedule after a long time.

 

Specifically . Finally, Rev had received an appearance offer too.

 

At the studio, we warmly greeted MC Cheong and MC Baek, whom we were meeting after a long time.

 

We held up our profile boards that the broadcast team had printed in advance, finished brief self-introductions, and moved on to the talk segment.

 

“Before on the On Top special, Eden said he was a strict leader who goes by the book, right? Finally today we can verify the truth of those words. Rev members, is that true?”

 

“I agree with the strict leader part… but I’d need to know what a leader ‘by the book’ means before I can agree with the ‘by the book’ part.”

 

When Kim Dobin scratched his head and spoke, MC Cheong immediately pounced as if he’d caught something.

 

“Eden, it doesn’t seem like you’re a leader by the book? The kids should immediately agree, but they don’t even know what a leader by the book means.”

 

“Rather than a leader by the book, how should I put it… a somewhat unique leader type? The trustworthiness has a different meaning…”

 

I could see Seo Yehyeon working hard to figure out how to explain without causing controversy.

 

While naturally moving past various topics, MC Baek brought up a recently trending video.

 

“The rapper line’s coin karaoke video became an issue again.”

 

The [What Songs Do Rapper Lines Sing at Karaoke?] video that Ryu Jaehee hastily filmed with me and Seo Yehyeon to calm public opinion recorded 3 million views, though I’m not sure what algorithm it got caught in.

 

Seo Yehyeon and I each received two types of admiration in the comments.

 

Seo Yehyeon got admiration about how a person’s face could look like that, and admiration that with that face and vocal range, God really is fair.

 

I got admiration that I really rap well, and admiration that hearing me squeeze out high notes made them understand why I went with rap.

 

Since my tone-based approach got exposed by high notes, there was essentially no winner in our singing battle. Of course, in rap alone, I won by a landslide.

 

“Actually, to call it the rapper line is a bit much, since Yehyeon hyung’s parts are more vocals than rap.”

 

“Then why is he in the rapper line?”

 

“Well, he does rap. Sub-rapper and sub-vocalist.”

 

Seo Yehyeon answered awkwardly.

 

“Then between Rev’s two rappers, who sings better?”

 

“As someone who witnessed it firsthand, I’d say both of you were pretty similar.”

 

At Ryu Jaehee’s answer, Seo Yehyeon and I stood up without hesitation.

 

“Youngest, honestly I’m better!”

 

“No, honestly I’m better! I didn’t make pterodactyl sounds!”

 

“Right, instead you made falsetto at ghost-level!”

 

Clap! MC Cheong clapped once to calm us down and demanded:

 

“Then let’s have a high note battle between the rapper lines right here!”

 

Seo Yehyeon and my faces went pale. It was one thing for our own content, but to reveal our singing skills to the whole world on terrestrial variety…

 

Rappers should just be good at fucking rap…!

 

“Stage 1, here we go!”

 

But since we were in the position of having to do what we’re told, we obediently warmed up our voices.

 

Stage 1 was manageable. This much was fine. But problems started arising from Stage 2.

 

“Your voice is shaking right now! Yehyeon’s pitch is trembling!”

 

“Eden, you wavered a bit too?”

 

Though we panicked at the vocal range that jumped up from Stage 2, human pride exists, and with the mindset that I couldn’t lose to Seo Yehyeon publicly, I somehow managed to get through safely.

 

And then the anticipated Stage 3.

 

“Don’t resent me-e!”

 

“Don’t resent me, cough!”

 

Having squeezed out the high notes to the maximum, Seo Yehyeon and I both hung our heads and coughed without hesitation.

 

When the MC suggested deciding the winner and loser by show of hands, I kept my head down but glared at the youngest line. Choose well, kids.

 

And the result was…!

 

“Oh, it’s overwhelming. 3 to 0, Eden wins!”

 

“That’s ridiculous! We need to redo this with a secret ballot!”

 

Seo Yehyeon protested and demanded a secret vote, but the result couldn’t be changed. I gave a thumbs up to the lovely youngest line.

 

“Now, to cleanse our ears, we can’t not hear a high note battle from the vocal line too.”

 

“Hey, cleanse? It’s not like we polluted anything…”

 

My meek protest wasn’t accepted.

 

Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee’s high note battle, unlike ours which was neck-and-neck or rather neck-and-neck at the bottom, truly deserved the word ‘battle.’

 

Unlike us who were practically squeezing them out, listening to them smoothly go up to Stage 4, I was impressed, and when the MC asked us to decide who won, I quietly cast one vote for Gyeon Hajun’s side.

 

I was a tone-first advocate.

 

” part-switching singing!”

 

“The rules are simple! Not your own parts! This is most important! You sing other members’ parts! But more than one person can’t sing it. Definitely whoever claims the part first!”

 

“And there’s a penalty for anyone who doesn’t get to sing any part. So you’ll need to play the timing game well?”

 

My target parts were 1st priority: Seo Yehyeon’s part, 2nd priority: Kim Dobin’s part. Since Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee would definitely switch each other’s parts, I just needed to aim for these two members’ parts.

 

But the problem was that Seo Yehyeon would definitely target Kim Dobin’s part, and Kim Dobin would definitely target Seo Yehyeon’s part.

 

The conclusion was that it would be an intense timing battle.

 

“Hey, my part! Why is nobody doing my rap part!”

 

As expected, my rap part became the avoided part, and Kim Dobin, who kept missing his timing and was in danger of penalty, tearfully performed it.

 

“Show just begin! reverse in reverse!”

 

I kept having Kim Dobin’s part stolen by Seo Yehyeon who rushed at it like his life depended on it, and eventually tearfully sang Ryu Jaehee’s part.

 

Gyeon Hajun, who had his Ryu Jaehee part stolen by me, looked devastated. Sorry, Jun. But I also paid my karma by nearly slitting my throat, so please understand.

 

Still, since everyone managed to sing at least one part, the penalty was waived.

 

“Wow, is it already this time? It’s almost time to say goodbye to Rev.”

 

“We can’t miss this! The flower of ! We’ll finish with random play dance! If you succeed, you get a Korean beef set!”

 

Everyone’s eyes lit up as they looked at Seo Yehyeon. Seo Yehyeon avoided their gazes and pretended not to notice.

 

First, played smoothly. Since ‘s choreography was on the easier side, everyone smoothly completed the first verse choreography. The next song was .

 

We had practiced this to death, so even though some time had passed since the promotion period, everyone, even Seo Yehyeon, performed the choreography perfectly.

 

“Now, speeding up! Double time!”

 

Double-speed started playing. Since it was our current promotional song, remembering the choreography wasn’t a problem, we just needed to speed up to match the double time.

 

Right, that should have been fine… but I forgot we had one choreography weak link on our team.

 

No matter how much that choreography weak link had improved his dance skills, the only thing Seo Yehyeon could smoothly handle was the original version.

 

Facing movements and formations that were twice as fast, Seo Yehyeon desperately tried to keep up by hastily moving positions and ended up colliding with me.

 

If we had just bumped into each other while standing still, with our size difference I never would have fallen, but the collision happened while I was stepping to change positions, and with my foot caught, I lost my balance and fell flat on the studio floor.

 

Should I praise him for barely managing to follow along well and then causing this accident at the very end of the song? Still, he only missed the positioning by one beat, but his movements weren’t wrong.

 

Since I had already fallen and failed anyway, I just rolled my body and lay flat on the floor in a spread-eagle position. Seo Yehyeon, who had been reading the room, carefully lay down next to me.

 

Was this consideration so I wouldn’t be embarrassed lying on the floor alone? I was truly, tearfully grateful.

 

Then the other members also started flopping down on the floor one by one. Kim Dobin, who was lying on top of Ryu Jaehee, boldly declared:

 

“We changed our ending pose to this!”

 

“That’s right, Eden Hyung didn’t make a mistake!”

 

This is so unfair. It wasn’t my mistake – Seo Yehyeon made the mistake and I fell because of it.

 

But since I could pass it off as an ending pose if I just kept my mouth shut, I didn’t bother to correct the facts.

 

“Wow, Rev is so heartwarming! Alright, I’ll count it as a success! Rev’s Random Play Dance success!”

 

At the belated success declaration, I bolted upright. I watched the youngest line hugging each other and making a big fuss, then turned to look at Seo Yehyeon beside me.

 

We looked at each other, grinned, and gave each other a refreshing high-five. Even though he was the cause of the mistake, just this once I acknowledge his judgment!

 

We received the Korean beef set and hugged the members again, putting on another ceremony.

 

And so we were able to head home with the Korean beef set as a commemoration of successfully completing the Random Play Dance.

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