A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 213

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 213

Yoon Eden took the cigarette from his mouth and glanced at Gyeon Hajun, then looked straight ahead again as if it wasn’t worth answering, exhaling smoke.

Gyeon Hajun easily detached Kim Dobin, who was desperately clinging to him, and strode toward Yoon Eden, snatching the cigarette from Yoon Eden’s hand.

The cigarette butt fell to the floor with a thud and was crushed under Gyeon Hajun’s shoe. Yoon Eden looked down at it with dark eyes, impossible to read his thoughts, and spoke.

“Do I need permission from group members to smoke at this age?”

Though it was truly unexpected, his question and expression were plain without any hint of sarcasm, considering how desperately he had been avoiding them, so Kim Dobin felt somewhat relieved.

Now it depended on how Gyeon Hajun would react. Gyeon Hajun let out a heavy sigh and spoke calmly.

“When did you start smoking? Was there something difficult enough to make you smoke?”

As expected, Rev’s light and salt are different. Even Kim Dobin, who wasn’t the target of the gentle question instead of scolding or anger, felt warmth in his heart.

Kim Dobin looked back at Yoon Eden with relief and was startled.

“No, why?”

Yoon Eden’s expression, which had shown no particular reaction even when caught smoking by Gyeon Hajun, was now terribly twisted.

“Jun, Gyeon Hajun.”

The end of his voice calling Gyeon Hajun’s name while suppressing his emotions trembled very slightly.

Perhaps because it wasn’t his usual nickname, the three syllables of Gyeon Hajun’s name from Yoon Eden’s mouth sounded awkward.

It seemed the same for Gyeon Hajun, who was being called, as his hand reaching toward Yoon Eden’s shoulder hesitated.

Looking up at such Gyeon Hajun, Yoon Eden spat out as if chewing.

“Mind your own business.”

Only four words floated in Kim Dobin’s mind as he watched this scene anxiously from behind.

It’s a disaster.

If he had told a scolding Gyeon Hajun to mind his own business, he could at least make excuses that emotions got heated, but doing that to someone who was worried made it impossible to fix.

“Why, you’re good at that.”

With those sarcastic words as the end, Gyeon Hajun snatched the entire cigarette pack from Yoon Eden’s hands as he opened it again, not wanting to talk anymore, and asked with a hardened expression.

“What are you trying to do now? If you have complaints, don’t be sarcastic and speak properly.”

“Would you even understand if I told you?”

Yoon Eden let out a short laugh and roughly grabbed Gyeon Hajun’s collar.

“Fuck, why now! Why are you doing this now! Was I that disgusting to you? Were all those times we built together just fucking past you didn’t even want to think about, Gyeon Hajun?”

Oh, collar grabbing. Oh, drama queen. When it escalated to collar grabbing, Kim Dobin gave up thinking altogether.

I never thought I’d live to see Eden Hyung grab Hajun Hyung’s collar.

“Was it really because of guilt that you stayed close? Because of that damn guilt you had all by yourself? Tell me!”

At those desperate shouts, Gyeon Hajun finally showed a flinching reaction.

“Eden Hyung! Even if Hyung says that, Hajun Hyung can’t understand!”

Kim Dobin snapped to his senses and desperately stood between them, barely calming down the explosive Yoon Eden and urgently said to Gyeon Hajun.

“Hajun Hyung! I’ll explain everything! I’ll explain everything later, so please go to the dormitory for now!”

Gyeon Hajun let out a deep sigh and looked down at Kim Dobin, asking in a tone devoid of his usual gentleness.

“Doby, are you Eden’s spokesperson? Can’t you see that Eden and I are having a conversation right now?”

Kim Dobin had once had a conversation with Ryu Jaehee about ‘which hyung among the hyungs is the most difficult.’

Unlike Kim Dobin who chose Yoon Eden without hesitation, Ryu Jaehee thought for a moment and chose Gyeon Hajun.

‘Huh, why is Hajun Hyung more difficult than Eden Hyung?’

‘Listen carefully, hyung. People whose inner thoughts you can’t read are the most difficult. Eden Hyung is transparent in a different way from you. But I really don’t know about Hajun Hyung. If you underestimate that type of person and cross the line, you’ll really be in big trouble.’

Now he could understand Ryu Jaehee’s words. The person hardening his expression in front of him wasn’t the parallel world’s Gyeon Hajun, but felt unfamiliar despite being a group member he’d lived face-to-face with for four years.

As Kim Dobin froze and could only open and close his mouth, Yoon Eden, sitting with his head deeply bowed, roughly waved his hand.

“No, go. I really can’t stand to see your face right now, so please just go.”

“Fine, we’ll talk when you calm down. You don’t seem in your right mind after getting caught smoking.”

Gyeon Hajun let out a short sigh and left the studio.

Watching the door close silently, Kim Dobin finally exhaled the breath he’d been holding and belatedly checked the text message that had arrived while he was distracted.

[Nutria Ryu Jae- Hyung I sent Hajun hyung so you two talk when Hajun hyung comes you should quickly leave] 3:21 PM

So it was you, Ryu Jaehee, who created this damn tragedy.

[Don’t know it’s ruined] 3:40 PM

Kim Dobin sent a reply full of resentment while glancing at Yoon Eden, who was still sitting on the sofa with his head down.

With his head still down, Yoon Eden muttered.

“He didn’t act like that when I got caught before.”

Yoon Eden habitually searched his pockets, then remembered that Gyeon Hajun had taken his cigarettes and irritably swept up his bangs while raising his head.

“He didn’t get angry about me smoking, didn’t ask why I smoked, and just told me to smoke moderately so I wouldn’t get caught.”

He recalled his old friend who would pat his shoulder a couple of times without saying anything.

At the time, he thought it was comfort tailored to his dislike of interference, but…

“But if his reaction is like that now, it really means he gave up on me from back then.”

Yoon Eden let out a hollow laugh.

He could have easily let it pass without making a big deal. He could have just made excuses that he tried it once out of curiosity or because things were too hard lately.

But even Yoon Eden himself didn’t know that Gyeon Hajun’s question would become the fuse for the emotions he’d been building up.

‘Do you keep in touch with Gyeon Hajun?’

When replies didn’t come back to the texts he occasionally sent, he subtly probed Ryu Jaehee, who was the only one he consistently contacted, and when a positive answer came back, that feeling was.

‘Why does he ignore my texts? I’ve contacted him several times but he doesn’t even reply.’

The truth he faced when he asked that question, putting aside all his pride, was.

‘Hyung… Hajun Hyung says it’s uncomfortable to face you. He feels guilty that you went through such a hard time at LnL because of him, and it’s just… difficult for him.’

‘What…?’

‘He says the debt is all paid now, so there’s nothing for either of you to be sorry about anymore.’

He was always the selfish one, so why was it Gyeon Hajun who selfishly decided it was the end?

“Having to keep seeing faces that are painful to look at, I want to quit regardless of the contract period. How much would the penalty fee be?”

Kim Dobin desperately clung to Yoon Eden’s arm as he lamented with a voice full of sincerity while rubbing his face with his palm.

“No! How would Rev function without Hyung!”

“No. It rolled along fine without me.”

Yoon Eden recalled the 10th anniversary concert that the four members held without him.

During the time when he was struggling with a slump after experiencing failure, he pondered for a long time over the concert ticket Ryu Jaehee had sent him before finally going there.

“They did well with four people. They didn’t even seem to notice my absence.”

The thirty-year-old Yoon Eden had his confirmation right before his eyes that he was someone unnecessary to the group, or rather someone who only ruined the group’s atmosphere without contributing anything.

The four people shining on stage, and one person watching them from the dark audience seats, wrapped up in a hat and mask in case someone might recognize him.

Even if he had lingering feelings, it was a path he chose himself, so there was no one to blame and no reason to.

However, the lack of reply even to the text he sent thinking it would be the very last one…

“…Haha, at least reply to my text.”

It was no different from being definitively told by the person he thought was his closest friend that he was nothing.

All these misfortunes combined were the beginning of his downfall.

Watching Yoon Eden’s strangely bitter appearance, Kim Dobin scratched his head.

Even if they do it with four people, it seems like they’d mess up starting with Yehyeon Hyung’s rap.

“I just need to keep my mouth shut, but how are you going to explain to Gyeon Hajun after throwing around such empty promises?”

“I’ll somehow explain this parallel world situation to Hajun Hyung and try to make him understand!”

Yoon Eden let out a bitter laugh at Kim Dobin’s confident words.

“Do you think Gyeon Hajun would believe that?”

“If I explain it well, wouldn’t he believe it? There are surreal things that happen in the world, not often, but sometimes.”

“Don’t waste your effort. Just saying that I suddenly went crazy and ranted at Gyeon Hajun about old stuff I don’t even remember would be more believable, right? Or that I went off because I didn’t want to get lectured about cigarettes.”

Yoon Eden, who had paused mid-sentence, shook his head.

“I don’t know. At some point, I stopped understanding Gyeon Hajun too. Even though he was clearly my closest friend.”

He turned on his phone screen to check the time and sat up.

“It’s time for my appointment. I need to drop you off at the dormitory and go right away.”

“Where to?”

“What are you going to do with that information?”

At his indifferent reply, Kim Dobin asked cautiously.

“It’s not something illegal, right?”

“I don’t know, is it still not legalized?”

At that answer, Kim Dobin, who had been stubbornly holding out in Yoon Eden’s car, only got out after Yoon Eden got out of the driver’s seat and physically dragged him out.

Before he could even chase after him, Kim Dobin watched helplessly as the car drove away and trudged back to the dormitory.

‘Fuck. At this rate, isn’t Eden Hyung going to be on the 9 o’clock news…?’

It was Gyeon Hajun’s call that cut off his wild imagination that had extended to the image of Yoon Eden standing in a criminal photo line wearing handcuffs.

“You know why Eden is acting like that, right? You said you’d explain at the dormitory.”

At the direct question, Kim Dobin reflexively blurted out the answer he had been thinking hard about and memorizing.

“Eden Hyung right now isn’t the Eden Hyung we know, but Eden Hyung from a parallel world. Um, since he said 7 years ago, thirty-year-old Eden Hyung from a parallel world?”

Kim Dobin was patting himself on the back, thinking there was no way to explain it more cleanly than this.

“Dobin.”

Gyeon Hajun, who had roughly rubbed his face with his hands, looked at Kim Dobin with coldly hardened eyes and asked.

“You know this isn’t a situation for jokes, right?”

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