A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 170

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 170

“What is it?”

When I opened my eyes, frowning as much as possible, I saw Kim Dobin’s tearful face right in front of me.

“Hyung…! The karaoke machine started operating by itself…!”

“Oh, that’s broken. Go turn it off.”

Surely Kim Dobin, no matter how scared he is, can’t manage to go that short distance alone.

“I was going to turn it off too because the melody was so eerie, but the music video, the music video…!”

“What about the music video?”

“It keeps showing music videos where people die!”

“All music videos from that era have people dying. Those people didn’t really die. It’s all acting, acting.”

When I pulled the blanket over my head and waved my hand telling him to hurry up and go, Kim Dobin kept shaking me annoyingly, saying he couldn’t go alone again.

“Ah, if you’re scared, go with the Youngest Member!”

“He’s definitely awake, but he keeps pretending he can’t hear!”

“Those damn guys… Being born 7 months late is a sin, really.”

For me, who ended up sharing a room with the Youngest Line members just because my birthday was late, this was an extremely frustrating situation.

Being forcibly woken up while sleeping well happened from the first day. I got up, determined to somehow squeeze between those narrow beds and sleep tomorrow.

When I came out of the room, still rubbing my stiff eyes, I saw the spinning mirror ball and the karaoke screen with lyrics displayed.

The song with the slow melody was one I’d never heard before.

I glanced at the song title displayed at the top and grumbled.

“What’s this? It’s really playing anything. It’s properly broken.”

Click, click, click – no matter how many times I pressed the power button, the karaoke machine kept operating stubbornly. I guess I have no choice but to use the last resort.

When I punched the screen and main unit a few times, the screen showing the music video and the song’s MR started crackling, then finally turned off with a beep. The mirror ball spinning above also stopped and went out with a thud.

“See, machines get fixed when you hit them.”

When I said this with a proud smile, Kim Dobin asked reluctantly.

“It wasn’t broken…?”

“Why, should I turn it back on to confirm for you?”

“No!”

When I reached for the power button again, Kim Dobin desperately stopped me.

“Keep your voice down? Do you need to wake everyone up in the middle of the night?”

Seo Yehyeon doesn’t matter since he’s a heavy sleeper, but Gyeon Hajun is a light sleeper, man.

When I warned him with a frown, Kim Dobin went “hup” and closed his mouth. But that was brief – Kim Dobin, who quietly removed his hand from his mouth, asked.

“But where was it written that this was broken?”

“On the post-it note stuck to the refrigerator door.”

Kim Dobin, who dragged me along and hurried to stand in front of the post-it note with the kitchen light brightly on, went through each item one by one.

His face, which became increasingly strange as his gaze moved down, turned completely pale when he saw the last item.

“Salt? This is obviously weird to anyone. Obviously it’s for warding off ghosts.”

Unable to make a big fuss because of my warning, he spoke quickly in a whisper, and I responded indifferently.

“What does lighting malfunction have to do with ghosts? It’s all superstition, superstition.”

“Then why would they tell us to put salt?”

“Maybe sodium produces ions that fix light bulbs.”

Even though I packaged random word combinations I’d picked up while dozing in chemistry class into something plausible, Kim Dobin’s uncomfortable expression remained the same.

“Then why specifically tell us to sprinkle it in the window corners?”

“Should we sprinkle it on the light bulb then?”

At my words, Kim Dobin finally seemed convinced and muttered with a half-persuaded face.

“I guess…?”

But that was brief too – Kim Dobin trembled and pointed at the karaoke machine.

“It might really be a ghost. They say ghosts appear a lot in karaoke rooms.”

“Doby, is this a karaoke room or a pension?”

“A pension.”

“Right, it’s a pension, not a karaoke room, man. And would ghosts really have so little to do that they’d be singing with karaoke machines?”

I returned to the room with Kim Dobin still stuck to my side like gum.

After that midnight karaoke commotion passed, morning came. I slept quite well except for when Kim Dobin woke me up in the middle.

“Yehyeon Hyung, do ions come from sodium?”

Kim Dobin was still distrusting me, grabbing Seo Yehyeon, who had the highest education among us, from the morning to ask if the nonsense I’d spouted yesterday was true.

Seo Yehyeon avoided Kim Dobin’s earnest gaze and answered.

“I’m liberal arts.”

Ryu Jaehee, who was searching diligently on his cell phone beside them, told Kim Dobin.

“Hyung, it says sodium ions really exist?”

“Whoa, really?”

Kim Dobin’s expression brightened considerably.

Sigh, that paranoid patient kid. He wouldn’t believe the Leader even if I said beans could make soybean paste. But sodium ions really existed – amazing.

Maybe I really do have a brain for studying like Grandfather hoped?

Breakfast was ramen cooked by the Youngest Member. I didn’t drink enough to get drunk, so I didn’t have a hangover, but the hot and spicy ramen broth going down settled my stomach a bit.

Seo Yehyeon, who used to be on the verge of death from hangovers no matter how little he drank, gulped down the ramen broth he wouldn’t normally touch. Even in this situation, he stubbornly didn’t eat the noodles and only ate rice mixed in.

Today’s schedule was water activities and barbecue.

“Should we put this watermelon in the valley water? When I went to the valley with friends before, we did that and ate it nice and cool.”

When I asked while tapping the watermelon that didn’t fit in the refrigerator and was placed next to it, everyone agreed.

We changed into water activity clothes that had dried roughly on the drying rack and headed to the valley like yesterday, carrying the watermelon.

“Someone grab my tube!”

We carefully placed the watermelon in the water and secured it well with stones so it wouldn’t roll away. I caught the tube Gyeon Hajun threw and started water activities like yesterday.

“We should have brought water guns. That would have been more fun.”

When Ryu Jaehee, who was enthusiastically splashing water at Kim Dobin, clicked his tongue in regret, Kim Dobin grinned and said.

“Let’s definitely bring them next time. Water gun battle!”

“How old are you guys to play with water guns? You’re not kids.”

When I clicked my tongue, Ryu Jaehee teased.

“The person who says that but would probably have the most fun playing with them if we brought them – 1st place, Eden Hyung.”

“Shut up, man.”

We tried to eat the watermelon in the middle but realized we had no knife or cutting board, and since no one thought to go into the pension to get a knife and cutting board, the watermelon stayed submerged in the valley water until we finished our water activities.

“Shouldn’t we bring the watermelon?”

“It doesn’t fit in the refrigerator anyway, so just leave it submerged. Let it get cool.”

When we came back into the pension, we decided the bathing order with intense Rock Paper Scissors like yesterday.

“Ah, seriously. Everything wet will dry before I even get to wash.”

I got last place. Right after Seo Yehyeon too.

The probability of that guy washing quickly was the same as the probability of him showing Ryu Jaehee-level vocals, so I decided not to wait and just wash in the master bedroom bathroom.

“Huh? Hyung, didn’t you say that bathroom was broken?”

“Didn’t I say only the toilet was broken?”

“Wasn’t that just something I said?”

At Ryu Jaehee’s words, I scratched my head and just grabbed my clothes and headed straight to the bathroom.

I’ll try the shower, and if no water comes out, I’ll just come back out.

The master bedroom bathroom was smaller than the outside bathroom but had a bathtub. What was unusual was that the bathtub was full of water.

‘Preparation for water outage?’

A salty smell like being at the ocean brushed my nose. I wrinkled my nose and turned on the shower – water came out fine. Just in case, I also tried flushing the toilet, but it flushed perfectly well.

Why did they tell us not to use a perfectly fine bathroom? It just makes washing time longer.

Had it been about 5 minutes since I grumbled, closed the door, and started washing? Suddenly the bathroom lights went out.

“Hey! Who is it, whoever’s playing pranks! Turn the lights back on quickly!”

I shouted angrily, but the lights had no intention of coming back on.

Thinking calmly, there was no one in Rev who would play this kind of prank on me.

Kim Dobin because he’s too scared, Ryu Jaehee because he’s smart and doesn’t do things with consequences, Gyeon Hajun because his nature is not the type to do such things, and Seo Yehyeon… that guy would never prank me.

I finished rinsing the shampoo and tried to open the door, but the door handle was stiff and wouldn’t open. This is why they told us not to use it. From the lighting to the door, nothing’s working properly.

When I pulled hard with force, the door opened.

As I came out of the master bedroom shaking my wet hair dry with a towel, Ryu Jaehee, who was waiting for his turn, asked me.

“Hyung, is the master bedroom bathroom okay? Is it fine?”

“Yeah, it’s okay except for the broken light and the door not opening well. Right now you probably can’t use it because the light’s out, but even when the light comes back on, try not to use it with the door closed.”

And we grilled and ate BBQ in the pension yard against the backdrop of the slowly setting sun.

Due to my smoking habit from my smoker days, when asked if I had a light, I habitually searched my pockets for a lighter and ended up getting a sharp interrogation from everyone asking if I smoked.

Except for struggling for a long time because the charcoal wouldn’t light, it wasn’t much different from the BBQ we had when filming in Jeju Island.

I opened a beer can and lightly clinked it with Gyeon Hajun’s.

“But Eden, you really don’t smoke, right?”

“I’m telling you it’s true. I swore on Seo Yehyeon’s rap skills that I don’t.”

“Why do you keep betting my already nonexistent rap skills!”

Seo Yehyeon, who was grilling meat, burst out.

“Well, I can’t bet my own rap skills. Think about what would happen if my rap in Reve’s music sources became like hyung’s rap.”

“Does that mean you do smoke?”

“Why does the story go that way? I’ve never even put a cigarette to my lips.”

That was really true for this timeline, so it wasn’t a lie.

After we finished eating all the meat and sausages we bought, I desperately wanted dessert. For example, watermelon that had been cooling in the valley water.

“Should I go get the watermelon?”

At my suggestion, Kim Dobin quickly shook his head.

“Why, don’t you want to eat it?”

“No, that’s not it… didn’t they tell us not to go to the valley at night?”

“Probably because you might step wrong or slip in the dark. If you’re really worried, just shine your cell phone light next to me.”

“No, hyung. Who knows what might happen if we don’t follow that rule. The person who ignores and doesn’t follow such things always gets eliminated first!”

“Who? In comics? In movies? Those are fictional works, this is reality.”

When I chuckled, Kim Dobin spoke to me with an unusually serious face.

“Don’t regret going to the valley at night for no reason, hyung.”

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