A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 209

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 209

 

 

 

 

 

Kim Dobin flinched reflexively at the shouting voice and opened his mouth with difficulty while trembling.

 

“Why is coming up here…? That’s Altair’s song.”

 

Yoon Eden furrowed his brow and asked back with a disbelieving expression.

 

“What?”

 

He had said he remembered the choreography, but then stood there blankly as if hearing the song for the first time, and now suddenly looking for Altair’s song – something was strange.

 

But Kim Dobin’s thoughts were forcibly cut off by Yoon Eden suddenly bursting into laughter.

 

The laughter that burst out inappropriately in a situation that wasn’t funny at all created an unsettling atmosphere, and beyond that, it was scary because he seemed crazy.

 

“I don’t have good feelings about .”

 

Still letting out snickering laughter, Yoon Eden began to speak.

 

“It’s fucking annoying that they got famous with that kind of song, and it’s fucking annoying that I never got a chance but my opportunity disappeared forever just because they hit it big with that one song, and it’s fucking annoying that because of that song, that bastard Seo Yehyeon who I can’t stand to look at didn’t improve his skills but only got more confident, fuck, it was all fucking annoying.”

 

Of course, Kim Dobin couldn’t understand any of it.

 

Yoon Eden’s face lost all traces of laughter as he irritably swept his bangs up.

 

“But now that I hear it was stolen by Altair of all groups, fuck, this feels the worst?”

 

His pupils, devoid of any light, flashed eerily.

 

“Those petty thief bastards weren’t satisfied with just patchworking songs and switching composer names, now they’re stealing songs too?”

 

Bang!

 

Unable to contain his anger, Yoon Eden’s foot violently kicked the desk.

 

He kicked it so hard that the desk shook and miscellaneous items like water bottles, perfume, and pens that were on top rolled down to the floor.

 

While Kim Dobin was frozen in excessive fear, Gyeon Hajun’s voice could be heard from outside.

 

-Eden, Doby, is something wrong in the room? What was that loud noise just now?

 

It seemed he had rushed over, startled by the sudden loud sound.

 

Kim Dobin was trying to calm his startled heart, and Yoon Eden was just glaring at the door, so when no response came back, the door handle rattled as if someone was trying to open it.

 

Just when Kim Dobin felt relieved thinking that Hajun hyung would somehow handle it, Yoon Eden roughly grabbed the door handle and locked the door.

 

A low voice that wouldn’t be heard beyond the room hit Kim Dobin’s ears.

 

“Hey, that thing. Make him stop bothering me.”

 

“That thing…?”

 

Did Eden hyung just refer to Hajun hyung as ‘that thing’?

 

It was already shocking that he called him by his full name instead of Juni, but who knew there was an abyss beneath the floor.

 

“Make it so Gyeon Hajun and I don’t have to face each other.”

 

Yoon Eden dragged Kim Dobin roughly to the front of the door with an annoyed expression, still gripping his neck as he tapped the back of his head and spoke boredly.

 

“What are you doing. Open your mouth quickly. If that thing comes in, you’re dead, right?”

 

Kim Dobin realized anew that the person in front of him was the uncontrollable Demon Eden.

 

From beyond the door, Gyeon Hajun seemed to be continuously pulling the door handle, as the inner handle also rattled.

 

-What’s going on in there!

 

Finally, at Gyeon Hajun’s shout with a raised voice, Kim Dobin hastily opened his mouth and blurted out anything.

 

“E-Eden hyung bumped into the desk corner so he kicked the desk!”

 

The excuse Kim Dobin spat out strangely meshed well with Yoon Eden’s usual temperament and behavior, so it was accepted by Gyeon Hajun without suspicion.

 

-Why did you lock the door?

 

“We’re cleaning the room and Eden hyung said if Hajun hyung sees this mess he’ll nag, so we locked it.”

 

Perhaps because he was in an extreme crisis situation, quick-witted responses that he normally couldn’t have imagined came out smoothly.

 

-Doby, are you crying?

 

“No!”

 

Perhaps a sobbing sound had leaked out without him knowing, as Gyeon Hajun asked with a worried tone.

 

Under the stinging gaze, Kim Dobin hastily answered while wiping away tears that had trickled out.

 

-Eden, you’re not bullying Doby, are you?

 

Yoon Eden, who had been silent for a moment at the question directed at him, chuckled briefly and replied curtly.

 

“As if.”

 

As soon as the presence in front of the door disappeared, Yoon Eden released the hand that had been gripping Kim Dobin’s neck and forcibly turned his head to face him again.

 

“Fine, let’s say was stolen by those Altair bastards, what about ?”

 

“That’s a song you composed, so why, why are you like this.”

 

“Right, I fucking composed it, so why is it a Rev song?”

 

“If you ask why a song that was originally a Rev song is a Rev song, how am I supposed to answer that…”

 

Kim Dobin, who had been faithfully answering while sobbing at the incomprehensible question, noticed something strange in Yoon Eden’s words.

 

“Wait, so you’re saying your Rev has but doesn’t have ?”

 

Kim Dobin, who had carefully retraced and compiled what Yoon Eden had said, came to a conclusion.

 

The Rev that this hyung had been part of and the current Rev were completely different.

 

“Then, it’s not regression but a parallel world…?”

 

Kim Dobin suddenly thought of CEO Kim Nodam, who had insisted so much on the parallel universe worldview.

 

Had the CEO foreseen this situation and earnestly pushed the parallel universe theory?

 

There was no way Kim Dobin could know that it was actually Yoon Eden’s mental regression due to a system error.

 

“What a fucking dream.”

 

Yoon Eden, who had arbitrarily concluded it was a fucking dream based on his last actions, lay down on his bed with a deflated expression.

 

“This isn’t hyung’s dream… If you really can’t believe it, try bending your finger to your hand. It’s a method used to check lucid dreams – if your finger bends all the way to touch the back of your hand, it’s a dream.”

 

Watching Yoon Eden bend his middle finger as he said, Kim Dobin continued.

 

“If it only bends that much, it’s not a dream.”

 

Yoon Eden’s middle finger clearly looked far from reaching the back of his hand.

 

“So this fucking dream-like situation is actually real?”

 

This situation seemed quite complicated as Yoon Eden kept dry-washing his face and stared intently at Kim Dobin.

 

“What are you thinking…?”

 

“I’m thinking it’s fortunate that you’re an otaku.”

 

Whether Kim Dobin was dumbfounded or not, Yoon Eden opened the concert setlist he found in his phone’s music app and muttered while connecting earphones to his phone.

 

“It’s been a while since I used wired earphones.”

 

“Are future earphones wireless or something? Who would actually use something without wires? If you just stick them in your ears without wires, it would look completely ridiculous.”

 

Imagining that scene and barely holding back laughter, Kim Dobin received Yoon Eden’s indifferent reply.

 

“Yeah, everyone uses them.”

 

It was surprising that there were people who used such things, but the fact that they became popular was also surprising. Fiddling with the earphone wire, Yoon Eden quietly added.

 

“I thought earphone wires were absolutely necessary, I thought we couldn’t do without them, but everyone managed fine without them.”

 

It didn’t seem like he was just talking about earphones. Was there a reason to talk about earphones so cynically?

 

He realized the identity of the discomfort he felt every time he faced Yoon Eden.

 

That hyung’s eyes are dead.

 

Unlike our Eden hyung who always maintained lively eyes with a gleam in them.

 

Our Eden hyung was someone who would slap his own cheek to maintain that gleam in his eyes, so how did this Eden hyung end up with such abyssal dead eyes?

 

After turning off the room lights, Kim Dobin secretly glanced at Yoon Eden, who was lying on his side wearing earphones and staring only at his phone screen, trying not to get caught.

 

The face dimly lit by the phone’s light was filled with clearly complex emotions.

 

He wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, but it seemed like the gleam in his eyes had returned for a moment.

 

Feeling like he had secretly peeked at something he shouldn’t have seen, Kim Dobin quickly closed his eyes, afraid their eyes might meet.

 

About an hour later, Yoon Eden sat up and grumbled.

 

“Damn, I can’t sleep even with this body.”

 

Rubbing his eyes, Yoon Eden approached Kim Dobin’s bed and roughly shook him awake.

 

“Do you have sleeping pills at the dormitory?”

 

The fact that Yoon Eden avoided sleeping pills was something all Rev members knew.

 

‘If this gets found out, it’s really a trip to the shaman house…’

 

Even while getting the sleeping pills for him, Kim Dobin trembled with fear that other members might find out.

 

“Hyung, don’t take them here, go to your room and take them. But you absolutely have to put them back. If these are found in hyung’s room, it’ll be big trouble.”

 

“Then why bother with the hassle. I’ll just take them here and go in.”

 

While hurrying, they happened to run into Ryu Jaehee who was coming out of the bathroom. Yoon Eden already had several sleeping pills placed on his palm.

 

“Hyung, what are you taking?”

 

“Sleeping pills.”

 

Yoon Eden answered before Kim Dobin could even cover his mouth. Horror flashed in Ryu Jaehee’s eyes.

 

Yoon Eden, who had swallowed the sleeping pills as if to show off, stared intently at Ryu Jaehee and shrugged his shoulders.

 

“You’re looking at me like I ate something I shouldn’t have? What, are there idiots who can’t even swallow a sleeping pill down their throat?”

 

“Yes, you hyung.”

 

With the dawn’s characteristic coolness adding to the tense atmosphere, only Kim Dobin, who was beside Yoon Eden, nervously swallowed his dry saliva.

 

Yoon Eden, who had been staring at Ryu Jaehee without averting his gaze for a moment, approached him and raised his hand to lightly ruffle Ryu Jaehee’s hair.

 

“Our Jaehee, still got that fighting spirit.”

 

When Ryu Jaehee, sensing something strange, looked back at Kim Dobin and gestured, Yoon Eden, who had been watching, crossed his arms and said a word.

 

“Kim Dobin, come here.”

 

Sorry, youngest member. But I have to survive too, don’t I? Kim Dobin, rolling his eyes, obediently followed Yoon Eden into the room.

 

When a short vibration signaling a text message rang out, Yoon Eden gave a brief command.

 

“Turn off your cell phone.”

 

 

 

[NutriaRyuJae- Why is Eden Hyung acting like that?]

 

[NutriaRyuJae- Don’t tell me it’s that thing?] 2:41 AM

 

 

 

Taking advantage of Yoon Eden closing his eyes again, Kim Dobin covered himself with the blanket, checked the text message from Ryu Jaehee, and carefully sent a reply.

 

 

 

[Not possession]

 

[I’m an expert at this stuff]

 

[It’s really Eden Hyung] 2:47 AM

 

[NutriaRyuJae- I know very well that hyung hates sleeping pills and throws up whenever he takes them] 2:48 AM

 

[NutriaRyuJae- So why is he talking like someone who’s been taking them easily since way back?] 2:48 AM

 

 

 

“Hey, Kim Dobin. I told you to turn off your cell phone.”

 

At Yoon Eden’s heavily subdued voice, Kim Dobin quickly pressed the send button and turned off his cell phone.

 

 

 

[DobinHyung- Isn’t Eden Hyung putting on airs just this once or twice?] 2:50 AM

 

 

 

Ryu Jaehee blinked as he skimmed through the reply that arrived from Kim Dobin.

 

It was strange that someone who so hated and avoided sleeping pills would act that way, but knowing that he was also someone who hated showing weakness more than death, that excuse was surprisingly convincing.

 

Kim Dobin unintentionally secured his second victory.

 

‘Were there really so many stressful things that he had to take sleeping pills…?’

 

Thinking he should subtly nudge Hajun hyung to set aside some time to have a conversation with Eden hyung, Ryu Jaehee closed his eyes.

 

He knew well that Eden wouldn’t confide his troubles to him, the youngest member, anyway.

 

 

 

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“Hey, I have a studio here too, right?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Show me the way. Being holed up in the studio seems better than being holed up in the dormitory.”

 

Since Kim Dobin had the same thought, he quickly got into Yoon Eden’s car and entered the address into the navigation. After all, there were no less than three landmines existing in the dormitory.

 

“The equipment is fucking terrible.”

 

Yoon Eden, who had put his hands in his pockets and swept his gaze across the studio, spat out a sarcastic review.

 

Kim Dobin, who knew from hearing about 200 times from the original Yoon Eden that it was supposedly state-of-the-art equipment, felt wronged for no reason and timidly defended it.

 

“It’s equipment from 4 years ago, so it can’t be helped.”

 

“Did I say I’m twenty-three now?”

 

Yoon Eden, who had been staring into space for a moment as if calculating the years, frowned and opened his mouth again.

 

“4 years my ass. It’s from 7 years ago.”

 

7 years later, Rev would be in their 11th year? The timing didn’t match the answer he had heard from Yoon Eden before.

 

“Hyung, didn’t you say it was the 8th year since debut?”

 

“I did, I left in the 7th anniversary year. After that, Rev and I have nothing to do with each other, right?”

 

Wondering what he had heard, Kim Dobin doubted his own ears.

 

“I’m going to the convenience store in front.”

 

Yoon Eden dropped that bomb and leisurely left the studio.

 

While Kim Dobin was pondering what on earth had happened in that parallel world, Yoon Eden returned and pulled an even bigger bomb from his pocket.

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