A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 207

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Regression Manual for an Idol Who Lost Their Original Intentions Chapter 207

 

 

 

 

 

I threw the crumpled tissue stained with blood into the trash can and clapped my hands together. Kim Dobin, who had been dozing off on the sofa at the back of the studio, suddenly lifted his head and opened his eyes.

 

The other members who saw me suddenly looking fine after groaning in pain just moments ago also gaped in shock. Gyeon Hajun, who had been continuously checking on my condition, narrowed his eyes and asked.

 

“Eden, weren’t you suffering in pain just until now?”

 

“Me?”

 

I decided to brazenly push through. What could they do when the person in question said he was all better?

 

“What the…? Eden Hyung, are you perhaps a vampire by species? The kind that only regains energy at night?”

 

“Doby, stop talking nonsense and hurry into the recording studio.”

 

I pushed Kim Dobin, who was spouting ridiculous otaku-like nonsense, toward the recording booth. Grabbing onto the booth door frame and resisting to avoid going in, Kim Dobin desperately shouted.

 

“Please save me! I came here to take care of Hyung, not to experience hell!”

 

“Entering the gates of hell? It’s not the main recording today, so we’ll just do it lightly. Hurry up and get in, man. I need to refine the song.”

 

“Really?”

 

“Yeah, you fool. Have you been living your whole life getting deceived?”

 

Five minutes after entering the recording studio, I clicked my tongue while listening to Kim Dobin’s wailing cries about how I had lied to him. As if your standard of ‘lightly’ would be the same as mine.

 

Seo Yehyeon, who was next in line, already had a pale, terrified expression on his face. Watching me energetically drilling Kim Dobin while shouting ‘again,’ Seo Yehyeon lamented with a voice full of regret.

 

“You look absolutely fine. I shouldn’t have worried and followed you here.”

 

“Well, since you worried about me, I’ll go easier on you than I did on Kim Dobin.”

 

“Am I… supposed to be grateful for this…?”

 

“Yeah, be grateful.”

 

And exactly five minutes later, Seo Yehyeon was screaming through the microphone in the recording booth, asking didn’t I say I’d go easier on him.

 

How noisy.

 

As I clicked my tongue and picked at my ear, Ryu Jaehee, who was sitting next to me, looked at my energetic state and muttered with a displeased expression.

 

“Usually when someone recovers from being sick, it’s after a good night’s sleep…”

 

“Abandon the prejudice that everyone would be like that.”

 

“That’s right, Hyung is the health fanatic Eden Hyung.”

 

After pulling an all-nighter at the studio, we had breakfast bowls of rice soup at a 24-hour rice soup restaurant near the studio and returned to the dormitory.

 

“I’m dying…”

 

I was clearly the one who had left the dormitory groaning in pain, but it was the members who were lying down and moaning.

 

“Kim Dobin, you were sleeping soundly sprawled out on the studio sofa.”

 

“But I was overworked before that.”

 

At Kim Dobin’s words, Gyeon Hajun, who had worked the hardest—well, not quite overworked but worked diligently—because he had the vocal tone I preferred, silently turned to look at Kim Dobin.

 

Realizing that even he thought it was a shameless thing to say in front of Gyeon Hajun, Kim Dobin quietly shut his mouth.

 

“Living like this for days and being sick for exactly that amount is also a talent, a talent.”

 

Seo Yehyeon, lying face down on the sofa with his face buried in a cushion, mumbled something that could have been either admiration or sarcasm.

 

Since there wasn’t particularly a sarcastic tone, I decided to think of it as admiration directed at me.

 

This penalty, which gave me the complete three-piece set of difficulty breathing, nosebleeds, and coughing up blood, had risen to the rank of worst penalty number one so far.

 

It was truly a penalty I never wanted to experience again. Being treated like a virus once was enough.

 

 

 

Dream Heart Daydream @revedream

 

Someone said these look like students trying to stop the principal’s lecture lmaooo

 

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All Rev @allreve

 

I was curious how many minutes Eden would record for his acceptance speech this time

 

He should have lived up to his name as Hunhwadol before leaving ㅠ

 

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Neutrige @UJham

 

Why were the members physically blocking the leader from giving his acceptance speech?

 

Because our leader is the legendary Lecture Idol who once gave an acceptance speech alone for over 4 minutes…

 

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The youngest line’s behavior at the award ceremony stage, which accounted for about 80% of why I received that penalty, had become a meme circulating as animated GIFs.

 

Of course, it was uncertain whether I could have succeeded in the Quest even if those two hadn’t stopped me.

 

‘Still, the worst penalty of all is definitely regression.’

 

And I currently had one Quest with not much time left, carrying regression as its penalty.

 

A Quest I had no fucking clue how to approach, so I just kept maintaining the status quo.

 

But would they really make me regress again just because I failed to complete one mission?

 

By my standards, it wasn’t such a grand or important Quest, so I wondered why they even attached a regression penalty to such a Quest.

 

‘I don’t know why it won’t go above 95%, but I’ll try my best for now, and if I fail, I’ll deal with it then.’

 

Thinking so optimistically, I put all my effort into preparing for the concert and the new album. The work on title track candidates that incorporated all my preferences was also going smoothly.

 

But that day came sooner than expected.

 

 

 

[HIDDEN QUEST]

 

[▶Improving Relationships with Members

 

-Content: Through sincere conversations and considerate actions with members, fill the relationship improvement level to 100%.

 

-Reward: Original Intentions 20, Item Selection Right

 

-Deadline: 2 years

 

※If you fail to achieve 100%, a ‘Regression’ penalty exists!]

 

 

 

[▶Relationship Improvement Level with Members

 

-Seo Yehyeon (95%)

 

-Gyeon Hajun (95%)

 

-Kim Dobin (95%)

 

-Ryu Jaehee (95%)]

 

 

 

My expression hardened as I stared at the Hidden Quest window that appeared before me.

 

The fact that this had reappeared before my eyes was essentially a notification that the 2-year grace period the system had given me was over.

 

The relationship improvement levels were still all at 95%, unchanged from when I last checked.

 

Yeah, damn it. I had failed a Quest that carried regression as its penalty. And having come this far, I had absolutely no intention of going back to our debut days.

 

The sense of achievement I was feeling now was something I could only feel because I had built it up from nothing.

 

What would be the point of repeating this round exactly the same way, thinking that doing just this would lead to success? Is that original intentions? Wouldn’t that only take me further away from the original intentions the system was demanding from me?

 

Just as I was racking my brain to somehow make a deal with the system.

 

 

 

[QUEST FAILED due to deadline expiration!]

 

[‘Regression’ penalty imposed]

 

[⚠░Abnormal external ▒interference detected█‽]

 

[#&!ERROR!&#]

 

[#&!ERROR!&#]

 

[#&!ERROR!&#]

 

 

 

My vision turned red. No, to be precise, the status window floating before my eyes was instantly dyed red.

 

The status window, with text appearing more severely corrupted than when I had taken sleeping pills, flickered frantically before my eyes.

 

My expression reflexively hardened at the situation that looked more serious than back then. But what confronted me wasn’t the same hallucination as before, but an eerie dark red status window.

 

No, maybe this was actually good. If an error occurred, there was a high probability that the penalty wouldn’t proceed either.

 

As if mocking me, the dark red status window flickered before my eyes again.

 

 

 

[※System stabilization has failed.※]

 

[Penalty is being ▛rocessed▗.]

 

 

 

My eyes hurt from the completely red vision, but I didn’t care and forced my eyes wide open. I was about to return to being twenty years old again, so what use was my eyesight now?

 

Damn it, how have I endured all this time only to regress again? This pathetically?

 

It’s not like I made some huge mistake or error, but just because I couldn’t fill some Relationship Improvement Level or whatever to 100%? Does this make any sense?

 

I clenched my teeth and repeatedly punched the Status Window as if venting my anger, then suddenly stopped at a question that occurred to me.

 

Wait, if the system is unstable, is the penalty actually proceeding properly…?

 

A feeling like something was forcibly grabbing my consciousness made my thoughts stop abruptly. Soon after, my vision turned pitch black.

 

It was hard to call it fortunate, but there wasn’t that damn terrible pain I felt every time I regressed.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

[Would you like to transfer the danger level?]

 

 

 

Finally, the message that he had been waiting and waiting for so desperately appeared before Cha Yeonho’s eyes.

 

When this opportunity first came to him, he thought he had to specify a person as the target to send the danger level to and fumbled around before pathetically wasting it, but this time he wouldn’t make the same mistake.

 

If he had known earlier that there was no need to specify a person to transfer the danger level, he wouldn’t have wasted time trying to find Rev’s Regressor.

 

“Finally escaping from this damn red vision after so long.”

 

There was a strange sense of liberation in Cha Yeonho’s voice as he rubbed his eyes.

 

He didn’t know who Rev’s damn Regressor was, but,

 

“You’re not the only one who can unilaterally screw me over.”

 

You have to return what you received, don’t you?

 

It would have been great if the Regressor happened to be Yoon Eden, who brought down Altair, but if Rev collapsed, Yoon Eden would also be greatly affected, so he should be satisfied with just this for now.

 

For the first time since regressing and facing KJ who was alive and breathing, Cha Yeonho smiled very brightly and refreshingly.

 

 

 

[Yes/No]

 

 

 

There wasn’t a hint of hesitation in the gesture of touching Yes.

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

7:30 AM at Rev Dorm, no different from any other day.

 

A loud alarm sound began ringing from Yoon Eden’s cell phone.

 

Instead of lying straight as usual, Yoon Eden, who had been sleeping face down with his face buried in the pillow, stirred.

 

He stretched his arm and fumbled around on the bed, finally grabbed the cell phone that caught his fingertips, turned off the alarm with an irritated gesture, and opened his eyes drowsily while letting out a dry cough.

 

“Damn… the sleeping pills must have run out.”

 

Yoon Eden muttered a brief curse as he raised his upper body, then paused while trying to get up from the bed.

 

His gaze was fixed on Kim Dobin, who was sleeping soundly in the bed across from him.

 

Yoon Eden looked around the room once with dark pupils that had lost their light, blinked slowly a couple of times, and muttered in a low, cracked voice.

 

“What is this…?”

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