A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 203

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 203

 

 

 

 

 

They say the completion of hip-hop is dropping out, and except for the tantrum I threw in front of my parents about dropping out of high school, I take pride in having lived quite obediently.

 

Mom was probably worried I’d get drunk and cause some accident outside, so she held onto me, who had just turned twenty, and earnestly pleaded with me.

 

Even if I drank, I should never pass out outside and must come home.

 

And I faithfully followed those words. The problem was going to my family home instead of the dormitory.

 

After that happened about four times, I stopped drinking to the point of blacking out.

 

Well, at first Mom would comfort me and welcome me, asking if trainee life had been really hard, but after debut, how could I endure waking up at home to disapproving looks saying I was acting well and serious recommendations to prepare for civil service exams.

 

And not even 9th grade, but 7th grade.

 

Even when I glanced at the 9th grade civil service exam our youngest member was preparing for, it looked like it would make my head explode, so if I prepared for 7th grade, I’d never pass in this lifetime.

 

As a result of trying to stay sane and controlling my drinking, after a long time had passed since my regression, even I had forgotten the truth about this damn homing instinct.

 

System, you damn bastard, you should have stopped me before I exceeded my limit! If I said I was going home, you should have knocked me out and tied my feet to the dormitory!

 

[Understood. Next time I won’t be flexible and will definitely restrict drinking.]

 

No, I’m not saying don’t be flexible at all, I’m saying only watch me until I black out.

 

[N]

 

Hey, are you sulking?

 

[N]

 

Perhaps annoyed that I was only focused on the system, Podo jumped up and stepped on my solar plexus with his whole body.

 

Ugh, I stopped breathing for a moment from the pain, then scooped up Podo, whom I was seeing after a long time.

 

“Podo, did you miss hyung that much?”

 

Podo’s tail wagged frantically like a propeller.

 

Since he’s a dog that really likes people and acts this way even with strangers passing by, I couldn’t tell if he was happy to see me because he remembered me, or if he just liked me because I’m also a person.

 

But why am I lying next to Podo’s doghouse instead of on my bed in my room?

 

As I narrowed my eyes at this sudden question, I heard Mom’s voice from above my head.

 

“He must be so happy to see his hyung become the same species and crawl home after so long.”

 

“That’s too harsh. Even if your son came home drunk and became a dog, you should at least cover him with a blanket. He’s busy these days and can’t afford to catch a cold.”

 

“A kid who claims to be busy goes around drinking until he can’t think straight?”

 

“It’s New Year.”

 

As I groaned and sat up, I saw Dad bringing out a pot from the kitchen.

 

“Why is Dad home at this hour? Did you get fired from the law firm?”

 

“It’s a holiday.”

 

Bean sprout soup was placed on the dining table. Should I eat the hangover soup and run, or just run?

 

Setting aside my burning stomach, every breath I took felt like the air was soaked in alcohol, so I obediently sat at the dining table.

 

As I hurriedly took a spoonful of bean sprout soup because I felt like dying from the hangover, Dad scolded me.

 

“You’re eating before your father has even picked up his spoon?”

 

“What household follows those rules when eating these days.”

 

I replied indifferently and continued eating. After eating in silence for a while, Dad spoke up.

 

“You, that iron from the graduation photo.”

 

“What iron?”

 

The only iron I know is Dragon Iron hyung.

 

“The golf club you were holding in the photo, you brat! Where the hell did you swing that thing to make it look like that! And you just rinsed it off and put it back without saying anything? Shouldn’t you at least tell me you broke it!”

 

Ah, right. That graduation photo got discovered.

 

If I remember correctly, I swung that golf club several times at a rock near the filming location, experimenting to see whether the rock or golf club was stronger.

 

And when the golf club broke, I secretly put it back in Dad’s golf bag and kept my mouth shut.

 

“If I told you, you’d obviously beat me with that golf club grip, so why would I say anything.”

 

I’ve been hit plenty with golf club grips. Of course, there were almost no times I was hit unfairly without doing anything wrong, so I never particularly resented Dad.

 

“I’ll let the golf club thing slide, so come home this New Year to see Grandfather.”

 

You want to make this kind of deal? But now I have the financial power to buy you 100 golf clubs.

 

“What if I don’t go?”

 

“I’ll file charges for property damage.”

 

Hearing this, Mom mercilessly smacked Dad’s back.

 

“What are you doing threatening to sue your own son? Ignore your dad’s nonsense and hurry up and eat.”

 

“Oh, I got material for a story on broadcasts. If you’re going to sue, do it before promotions start. I’ll be a bit busy once promotions begin. Even if Dad is the plaintiff, you’ll introduce me to a lawyer to hire, right? Our agency’s legal team is kind of…”

 

This time Mom smacked my back.

 

“Still, your grandfather says he misses you and watched the variety show you and Jeonga appear on all the way to the end.”

 

“I heard from Yoon Jeonga. But Grandfather watched all of that? Really?”

 

Grandfather watched all the way to me bowing at Rev’s five-member joint ancestral rite? I thought he watched the first 5 minutes and changed the channel, not that he watched to the end.

 

Did he miss me that much? Surprising. Well then, I suppose showing my face once wouldn’t hurt.

 

After finishing the meal, I went straight to my room and called Gyeon Hajun.

 

“Hey, Jun! Why didn’t you stop me from going to my family home! I didn’t sneak out without telling you, did I?”

 

-I definitely tried to stop you.

 

Deep fatigue was evident in Gyeon Hajun’s voice.

 

“…You tried to stop me?”

 

What the hell happened that night that made Gyeon Hajun give up on me and let me go to my family home?

 

 

 

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+Behind the scenes of that day that Yoon Eden doesn’t remember

 

 

 

“Eden, I’ll support Jaehee, so you support Yehyeon hyung-”

 

Before he could finish speaking, Gyeon Hajun was flustered seeing Yoon Eden suddenly stand up and head toward the front door with a perfectly steady gait, so he put down Ryu Jaehee he was supporting and hurriedly grabbed Yoon Eden.

 

“Where are you trying to go in the middle of the night?”

 

Yoon Eden, who was gripping the front door handle tightly, blinked a couple times and gave a very concise answer.

 

“Home.”

 

Unable to interpret what the hell he meant by wanting to go home while already at home, Gyeon Hajun stared at Yoon Eden blankly.

 

When he tried to stop Yoon Eden from opening the front door, Yoon Eden thrashed around like a live fish with his whole body, then opened his mouth again and muttered.

 

“I have to go home.”

 

“This is home.”

 

At Gyeon Hajun’s response, Yoon Eden shook his head and said.

 

“I’m telling you I have to go home. If I get wasted and pass out outside, making it embarrassing for my parents to show their faces, my mom said she’d cut off my allowance and parental ties and everything…”

 

 

 

[Profanity detected.]

 

[Initial Intentions -2]

 

 

 

“Ah shit, something keeps stinging…”

 

Could the home he’s talking about mean his family home…? Watching his friend wave his hands in the air trying to catch non-existent bugs, Gyeon Hajun realized what Yoon Eden meant by ‘home.’

 

“Eden, first of all, this is the dormitory which is like home, and you don’t live on allowance anymore.”

 

Knowing that talking to a drunk person like this was like playing music to a cow, but hoping with 1% chance that hearing this might stop this nonsense, he kindly stated the facts, and Yoon Eden lowered his hand from the air and opened his eyes wide.

 

“Oh, really?”

 

Yoon Eden nodded as if pondering what Gyeon Hajun had told him, and just as Gyeon Hajun felt relieved thinking he still had enough sense to understand, he dropped another bomb.

 

“Still, I have to go home. Take care, Jun.”

 

With one hand in his pants pocket, he lightly waved his other hand and tried to open the front door again, so Gyeon Hajun desperately held him back and asked.

 

“Do you even know your family home address right now?”

 

“Why are you asking something so obvious?”

 

The address he recited fluently without slurred pronunciation was indeed Yoon Eden’s family home that Gyeon Hajun had visited once.

 

“Take me home! I’m telling you I have to go home!”

 

Since he kept being stopped, now he was lying down in the entrance in protest, and Gyeon Hajun looked down at Yoon Eden and let out a deep sigh.

 

Gyeon Hajun hoped Yoon Eden would just fall asleep like that. Supporting a friend who had passed out in the entrance and throwing him in his room would be better than stopping a friend who kept making a fuss about going to his family home.

 

But Yoon Eden showed no signs of falling asleep and seemed energetic enough to keep up this chaos until sunrise, so eventually Gyeon Hajun accompanied him to prevent any potential problems.

 

Throughout the entire process of calling a taxi, reciting the address, and finding the apartment complex, Gyeon Hajun didn’t intervene in a single thing. Yoon Eden handled everything perfectly on his own.

 

It was suspicious whether he was really drunk. It was like watching an AI that only had the algorithm for finding home programmed into its head.

 

Only after watching him properly enter the building entrance passcode, press the door lock code correctly to open the door, and enter the house did Gyeon Hajun turn around and return to the dormitory.

 

“When am I going to clean up this whole mess by myself…”

 

Looking down at Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee sprawled in the living room, and the liquor bottles and drink glasses rolling around everywhere, Gyeon Hajun rubbed his face tiredly and went into their rooms to bring out blankets.

 

“This is how you learn not to drink until you black out.”

 

After roughly covering the two with blankets, Gyeon Hajun entered his private room with a strangely satisfied expression and went to sleep.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, Yoon Eden, who had entered the family home he so desperately wanted to go to thanks to his homing instinct…

 

“Mom! Dad! Your son is here! Podo, hyung is here! My Podo! Did you miss hyung?”

 

“Woof woof! Woof woof woof!”

 

“Oh, Podo, I’m not a thief. It’s hyung, hyung. My Podo, it’s been so long-. Oh oh, right. Podo missed hyung too?”

 

While continuing what seemed like a one-sided or possibly two-way conversation with the fiercely barking Podo and petting him, he soon stuck his head into Podo’s dog house and fell fast asleep.

 

But that was only for a moment – driven out of the dog house by Podo’s merciless attack, furious at having his home stolen by a drunk, he collapsed next to it and passed out again.

 

Yoon Eden’s parents, awakened by the commotion their son made after crawling home drunk from New Year’s, came out of their bedroom to discover their son sprawled next to the dog house.

 

“Finally getting to see our famous celebrity son in person once again. And on New Year’s no less, soaked in alcohol, waking up the whole family in the middle of the night. We really raised our son well. I wonder who he takes after.”

 

Yoon Eden’s mother sighed, and his father quietly added his comment.

 

“Father-in-law was exactly like this. Whenever he drank, he’d wake up the entire family.”

 

“You’re exactly the same, so why are you talking like only Father-in-law was like that? All three generations are identical, really.”

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