A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 171

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 171

Why is this guy suddenly getting all serious? Anyone would think there’s a water ghost lurking in the valley.

As I frowned at the awkwardness, Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon also tried to dissuade me.

“That’s right, Eden. Going to the waterside in the middle of the night could be dangerous if you slip, and even if an emergency happens, we can’t get help quickly in such a remote valley area. You’ve been drinking too. What if you miss your footing?”

“Right, don’t you know that going to the waterside after drinking in the middle of the night is the most dangerous thing to do?”

Come to think of it, they had a point.

“Ah, that would be terrible. Let’s eat the watermelon tomorrow.”

It’s not like we absolutely had to eat watermelon right now. When I obediently gave up, Kim Dobin protested with a dejected face.

“Stop the discrimination against non-Gyeon Hajuns!”

“Then you should give a reasonable explanation like Jun did. That creative work nonsense isn’t reasonable at all, man.”

Everyone got up, finished cleaning up, and headed to their sleeping places.

I desperately wanted to sleep in the master bedroom to avoid being disturbed by coward Kim Dobin like yesterday, but the bed was barely big enough for two people, and it would be awkward even laying out blankets to sleep, so I obediently gave up.

The next morning, after sleeping soundly without waking up.

Seo Yehyeon, who looked quite pale as if he hadn’t slept well, asked Gyeon Hajun who was coming out of the room with me.

“Hajun, did you… happen to hear any whispering sounds?”

“No? I didn’t really hear any sounds. You know I’m a light sleeper. But if it was loud enough for you to hear with your heavy sleeping, it must have been quite loud.”

“No, I barely slept yesterday. I had serious sleep paralysis.”

Seo Yehyeon rubbed his dark under-eyes and frowned. I got ahead of Kim Dobin before he could make a fuss about ghosts over the sleep paralysis.

“If you had sleep paralysis, you must have been quite tired? Well, you did overdo it with the water activities. Take it easy today, considering your age.”

“You and I are only 8 months apart in age, you know?”

“Oh, if it’s only 8 months apart, can I drop the honorifics, Yehyeon?”

“Would that work? And you’re already being casual! On top of that, you want to drop the hyung title too? Do you have any conscience?”

“But question! Eden Hyung dropped honorifics with Yehyeon Hyung even though they’re 8 months apart in age, so why does Hajun Hyung use honorifics when he’s less than a month apart from Yehyeon Hyung?”

“That’s true? Jun, you should drop honorifics with Yehyeon Hyung too, just do it.”

“No, it’s fine. I’m more comfortable with honorifics.”

“Won’t you ask for my opinion too, guys?”

With that, the Rev hierarchy breaking issue took over and Seo Yehyeon’s nonsense heard in the room came to an end. After finishing breakfast and going to the valley, we immediately looked for the watermelon.

“Why did the watermelon roll all the way here? The current must have been quite strong.”

The watermelon was in a place a bit away from where we had originally secured it. If we had gone looking for it yesterday, we would have had to go directly into the water.

Today we brought a cutting board and knife, so we enjoyed our last water activities to the fullest, taking breaks to cut and eat watermelon in between.

Today was the first broadcast of DTB Season 3, so after washing up in the master bedroom bathroom, I immediately turned on the TV.

The door handle was still stiff today, but after putting strength into it and shaking it vigorously about ten times, it opened.

At that long-awaited moment when Yongcheol Hyung appeared, the TV suddenly made crackling noises and the screen became heavily distorted.

The audio also became heavily broken and slow as if in slow motion.

“Ah, this is an important moment!”

I strode over and hit the TV hard, and Yongcheol Hyung’s face appeared on a clean screen without noise.

As expected, machines need to be hit to be fixed.

I giggled while recording and taking photos of the scene where he performed rap in front of G1 and received a PASS.

[(Video)]

[Live viewing complete] 11:46 PM

[Yongcheol Hyung- Don’t watch, you bastard] 11:47 PM

[As expected of a strong championship candidate, the screen time is incredible]

[Looking forward to Wnet’s evil editing] 11:48 PM

[Yongcheol Hyung- Damn, I got evil edited right now] 11:49 PM

[Yongcheol Hyung- I definitely said it to Junyeop but it got edited to look like I said it to Kill J hyung, damn, aren’t those Wnet bastards crazy] 11:50 PM

No wonder he was so confident about being eliminated. It was evil editing after all.

“Eden, the room light went out.”

After DTB 3’s first broadcast ended, where I occasionally saw familiar faces, when I entered the room, Gyeon Hajun, who was lying on the bed with his phone flashlight on, told me.

Seo Yehyeon said he absolutely couldn’t sleep in this room after having sleep paralysis once yesterday, so he gave up the room to me.

I remembered the memo saying to sprinkle salt in the window corner if the small room’s light didn’t work, so I rummaged through the refrigerator and brought salt. But the problem was it wasn’t regular salt, but seasoned salt.

“Do ions come out even with seasoned salt?”

I sprinkled seasoned salt generously on the window sill, but the seasoned lighting showed no signs of turning back on. Apparently, ions don’t come out when MSG is added.

Since I was going to sleep with the lights off anyway, I posted FROM posts and official account posts for the Weekly Quest, then turned off my phone and closed my eyes.

I wondered how bad it could be for Seo Yehyeon to give up even the bed, but I didn’t know about the whispering Seo Yehyeon heard yesterday.

I thought I heard some mumbling in my sleep, but when I ignored it, I couldn’t hear it, so I fell into a deep sleep and woke up refreshed.

Sleep paralysis, my foot. This all happens because your mental strength is weak.

After thoroughly emptying the refrigerator for our last breakfast-lunch meal.

“Alright, let’s clean up!”

After finishing the cleaning thoroughly, we packed our luggage and got in the car to return to Seoul.

“Oh, they really came to film?”

While exiting through the forest path, we saw broadcasting station vehicles heading toward the pension.

“I wonder what they’re filming.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s curious words, Kim Dobin stuck his head out the window and read the sticker letters on the vehicle.

“Caught! Exorcist filming team…”

Kim Dobin’s voice gradually got smaller. Kim Dobin screamed.

“That’s it! Jaehee, that’s the thing you showed us when Eden Hyung got possessed!”

“Caught Exorcist? That’s a fake documentary. It’s all scripted, you know?”

“But Hyung really got possessed!”

I’m in a dilemma.

Should I get caught crying while sober, or remain as someone who was possessed by a ghost?

“Oh oh, then it must be a real documentary.”

Sorry, Dobin. But this hyung can’t have his dignity diminished just to reassure you, right?

* * *

After returning to the dormitory, on the last day of vacation, I turned on OA Live for clarification.

Because the photo I posted was the cause of it all.

“Hello, Daydream.”

-Eden, what was that photo you posted on FROM on Thursday?

-What was the photo before editing, oppa?

“I actually came because of that.”

The issue was the Rev group selfie taken in front of the karaoke machine on the first day. How did this become an issue, you ask…

-Why did you post a ghost photo?ㅠㅠㅠ I thought my heart was going to drop outㅠㅠ

-It’s fake, right? It’s fake, right? Please say it’s fake, quickly

-No way the kid would post it on purpose to mess with fans

It became an issue as a ghost photo.

Some blurry figure was captured in the right corner of that photo. The problem was that the figure looked mysteriously like a human face.

Because of that, there was a heated debate online about whether it was a real ghost or not.

“If something had happened to us at the vacation spot, we might suspect it’s a ghost, but since absolutely nothing happened, it’s highly likely it’s not a ghost. Isn’t it just a light flare phenomenon?”

-You’re saying it was really captured by coincidence? It must be a ghost, damn

-Please just tell me it’s photoshopped…

-Isn’t it too exquisite to just call it light bleeding?ㅠ

-Salt red bean salt red bean salt red bean

I placed my index finger over my lips and earnestly pleaded.

“But this is a secret from Doby. Doby won’t be able to sleep. We’ve been desperately hiding it until now too.”

-I couldn’t sleep either after seeing that ghost photo, worried it would appear in my dreams

-Now that I’m hearing it’s real, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep either, Eden

“Oh, since some of you seem scared, I’ve changed it to a version covered with stickers for now, ta-da.”

I showed them the photo with the light bleeding phenomenon covered by heart stickers.

-But Eden, aren’t you scared? We’re just looking at a ghost photo, but you’re the one who actually took a photo with a ghost

-This guy doesn’t even realize it’s a ghost photo right now, he firmly believes it’s light bleeding phenomenon, just look at that face

-Covering up ghosts in spirit photos with heart stickers lololol that’s so funny lmaooo

“I’m telling you nothing really happened. If something had, Doby would have already made a fuss to Daydream.”

-I think I’ve heard the story about the karaoke machine turning on by itself at dawn about seven times on live streams

-And about five times about instructions written to sprinkle salt on the window sill?

“Anyway, conclusion! It’s not a ghost photo, case closed. So don’t be too scared, Daydream.”

Living life, I’ve now done everything including explaining that a non-ghost photo isn’t a ghost photo.

After some time passed, Catch! Exorcist Hongcheon Pension episode was broadcast. Thanks to that, we all gathered in the living room at midnight.

I thought Kim Dobin would make a fuss about not watching, but apparently his curiosity was greater than his fear.

[Catch! Exorcist: Nightmare Pension]

Even the subtitle was ominous.

[The place we received a tip about today is OO Pension located in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province]

[Multiple people who stayed at this pension experienced strange things…]

Photos of the pension exterior and screenshots of comments on Hongcheon Valley pension recommendation posts appeared as reference material.

The comments mentioning the pension we went to all seemed to have a discouraging tone.

[What exactly happened at this pension]

[The Catch! Exorcist production crew directly visited and met with guests who experienced strange phenomena at this pension]

[Jung Minsu (pseudonym)❘Last summer pension guest: I was washing in the master bedroom bathroom when suddenly the lights went out. At first I thought my friend was playing a prank and told him to turn them back on quickly, but they wouldn’t turn on. It’s scary when the lights suddenly go out, right? So I just stood there frozen with the shower still running, and I kept hearing what sounded like a woman’s laughter mixed with the water sounds. We came as just guys, so there was no way there could be a woman there.]

[Park Seongjun (pseudonym)❘20xx summer pension guest: The master bedroom bathroom door wouldn’t open. No matter how much I pulled the door handle, the door wouldn’t open. But I could hear a woman’s laughter coming from somewhere. When I heard that, I got goosebumps all over my arms. I was trapped like that until they broke the door handle with a hammer from outside so I could barely get out.]

[There’s more than one or two people who had similar experiences to Mr. Jung Minsu and Mr. Park Seongjun…]

[What they all said in common was that they heard a woman’s laughter!]

I didn’t hear any woman’s laughter at all. See, I told you it’s a fake documentary. Those broadcasting station guys really go overboard with the seasoning.

I was scoffing when Ryu Jaehee poked me and asked in a trembling voice.

“Hyung, come to think of it, didn’t you tell me the master bedroom bathroom lighting and door handle were broken?”

“I didn’t hear any woman’s laughter.”

“Maybe hyung just couldn’t hear it…?”

“My hearing is fine.”

Starting with that interview, strange phenomena experienced by pension guests were listed one after another.

TV that suddenly got noisy and turned off by itself, whispering sounds heard while sleeping in the master bedroom, sleep paralysis, karaoke machine operating by itself, etc.

Things that apply to us? None.

You should think about fixing machines even if you have to hit them, not insist that broken machines are possessed by ghosts.

“Whispering sounds! Sleep paralysis! I experienced those!”

“We experienced the karaoke machine operating by itself too.”

“Juni who slept with hyung didn’t experience it. I slept in that room too and didn’t experience it. And the karaoke machine got fixed after hitting it a few times.”

At my rebuttal, Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin, who had been trying to insist there were ghosts, became quiet.

[Lee Minjeong (pseudonym)❘Pension owner: I kept fixing the door handle. The lighting too. So many complaints came in. But it kept happening. We bought it because it was so cheap. We didn’t hear anything about ghosts appearing. If we knew it was this kind of place, we wouldn’t have bought it.]

“It’s the lady!”

Kim Dobin exclaimed happily seeing the middle-aged woman’s face on the TV screen.

Now they showed bringing a shaman to visit the pension directly. Seeing the pension that had been fine appear quite gloomy on broadcast, I realized once again the great power of editing.

[The karaoke machine that doesn’t turn off and selects songs by itself at night without anyone touching it]

[Production Crew: It’s not turning on?]

[PD: It’s not turning on?]

[Production Crew: No, it seems completely broken.]

“Isn’t it because hyung punched it?”

“I don’t know, man.”

[Shaman: Oh my, it’s really angry. The people who came recently had such strong energy that it got suppressed. Now it’s taking out its anger.]

Watching them say this valley had a death incident due to sudden heavy rain a few years ago, that it’s not a place to build a pension but where evil spirits have settled, I listlessly tapped the sofa armrest.

By that logic, water ghosts would appear in every valley in our country and we couldn’t go to any valleys. Valley accidents aren’t just one or two cases.

[Shaman: The one inside here is strong too. But the one in the valley is much stronger. The one inside here does have the purpose of tormenting, but its original purpose is to make people go toward the valley. Anyone who goes near the valley gets bewitched without fail.]

“Nobody got bewitched, right? See. That’s all a fake documentary stirring up controversy for ratings. This story ends here! Why are you all acting like this when we had such a good time?”

Everyone had somewhat unsettled expressions, but our vacation ended with such a minor incident.

* * *

Called by CEO Kim Nodam, I entered the CEO office with a tense face.

The CEO himself wasn’t scary at all, but the infuriating things that came out of the CEO’s mouth were scary for my blood pressure health.

“Do all our Rev members speak English well?”

My suspicion was confirmed, damn it.

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