A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 214

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 214

At Gyeon Hajun’s fierce reaction, Kim Dobin flinched and gulped down his dry saliva.

The content wasn’t really the problem, but was the speaker the issue after all? Should he have gotten the more trustworthy muggle youngest member to do it instead?

“Of course I know.”

Kim Dobin quickly nodded his head and looked up at Gyeon Hajun with eyes filled with as much sincerity as possible, but as soon as their gazes met head-on, he timidly lowered his eyes.

There was a reason why Gyeon Hajun and Yoon Eden were friends. Why had he completely forgotten the immutable truth that to stand beside someone intense without issue, you also had to be intense yourself?

“You want me to believe that now?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s question accompanied by a hollow laugh, Kim Dobin replied in a shrinking voice.

“Even a ghost possessed him once, so there’s nothing you can’t believe…”

“Haa…”

At the sigh that clearly showed his irritation, Kim Dobin hastily explained.

“I’m really not joking around! Honestly, Eden hyung has been weird lately! Why would I joke around with hyung in this situation!”

After desperately shouting, a combination of injustice and fear made Kim Dobin unknowingly burst into tears.

But what was scarier than this situation where the truth was being treated as mere pranks was Gyeon Hajun, who was still looking at him with cold eyes without blinking even once despite someone crying so pitifully right in front of him.

“What’s going on?”

Kim Dobin’s shouting must have been heard all the way to the room across, as Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee came running urgently.

Ryu Jaehee, who spotted Gyeon Hajun’s stern expression, inwardly sighed and pulled Kim Dobin behind him. This hyung finally crossed the line.

After hearing Kim Dobin’s situation explanation mixed with sniffling, Seo Yehyeon patted Gyeon Hajun’s shoulder to calm him down.

“No matter how tactless Dobin can be, he’s still not the type to keep joking around without reading the situation.”

Yehyeon hyung, from now on Rev’s light and salt isn’t Hajun hyung but you.

Kim Dobin sniffled and mentally transferred the nickname he had given to Gyeon Hajun over to Seo Yehyeon.

“It’s also true that Yoon Eden has been weird lately. Don’t you remember how he just stood there blankly like he forgot everything during practice the other day? Plus he hasn’t been participating in practice lately.”

At the eldest hyung’s words that supported his opinion, Kim Dobin peeked his head out from behind Ryu Jaehee’s back and quickly added.

“Right, and he suddenly started smoking too. Someone who cared so much about his health!”

“The smoking isn’t particularly surprising. He looks like someone who would smoke.”

Seo Yehyeon shook his head.

“So to summarize, Eden hyung got possessed again? Shouldn’t we really go to a shaman house? Does Eden hyung have weak spiritual energy despite how he looks? He gets possessed often.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s summary that accepted the current situation within a normal person’s common sense, Kim Dobin urgently interjected.

“No, this is a bit different from ghostly possession, the current state is Eden hyung from a parallel world…”

“Isn’t that also something possessing him?”

“No, that’s a bit different?”

“What’s different about it?”

After listening to the youngest line’s comedy-like conversation, Gyeon Hajun rubbed his throbbing temples and left the room.

Within his common sense, Yoon Eden suddenly becoming affectionate and shedding tears while watching Animal Farm was definitely ghost possession.

But Yoon Eden avoiding people then suddenly grabbing collars and making a scene when caught smoking on site was just the appearance of a friend desperately trying to bury the smoking issue.

Kim Dobin spouting such nonsense also only looked like he had been bought off by Yoon Eden.

‘Is there really a need for him to react to me that strongly just because he got caught smoking?’

Yoon Eden wasn’t the type to bring up a story that was already over. Especially if it was a story that could hurt each other.

Even in his view, the current Yoon Eden was strange. However, the problem was that within his common sense, he absolutely couldn’t accept stories about parallel worlds and such.

Unable to sleep, Gyeon Hajun tossed and turned on his bed in his private room until late at night.

There was no way Gyeon Hajun could feel good after being suddenly grabbed by the collar and even hearing harsh words from his closest friend.

‘I should apologize to Dobin…’

Since it was no different from taking out his anger on his younger member for no reason, Gyeon Hajun felt awkward and pulled his blanket over his head when his room door burst open without even a knock.

The current time was 3 AM. Seeing Kim Dobin’s face in the dim light, all thoughts of apologizing vanished.

“Hajun hyung! Eden hyung still hasn’t come back to the dorm and we can’t contact him!”

“He’s probably out smoking somewhere.”

“The thing is, Eden hyung said he was going to do something that wasn’t legalized, and then contact was cut off!”

From Kim Dobin’s appearance – trembling hands with a tearful face unable to actually cry – and the content of what he said, Gyeon Hajun immediately realized this wasn’t an ordinary matter.

“I’ll go check Eden’s studio, so Dobin, you wake up the other members and look for Eden too.”

Gyeon Hajun immediately put on his outer clothes and left the dorm without hesitation.

-Eden? He had an entry record at the agency building? Isn’t he in the practice room? Wait, let me check.

Thanks to Seo Yehyeon immediately calling the manager, Yoon Eden’s location was easily secured.

-He’s in the practice room. Why did this guy go without telling you guys? You didn’t fight, did you?

“What would we fight about at this point in our careers? Sorry for the late hour. I’ll make him apologize to you tomorrow.”

-It’s fine, man. I’m grateful to death that he went to the practice room instead of a club.

After hanging up, Seo Yehyeon tilted his head.

“Dobin, since when was going to the practice room at dawn illegal?”

“No, not dawn but before that…”

Meanwhile, Gyeon Hajun, who arrived at Yoon Eden’s studio and immediately received word that Yoon Eden was in the practice room, finally let out the breath he had been holding and slumped down in the chair in front of the monitor where Yoon Eden always sat.

Feeling vibration in his hand, he lowered his gaze toward the phone he was holding.

[✆Yoon Eden]

It was a call from the very person who had made him suffer until now.

* * *

While the call connection tone continued, Yoon Eden stared blankly into space.

[System Stabilization 89%]

Staring intently at the blue status window that appeared before his eyes, Yoon Eden recalled the conversation he had with this system thing or whatever it was.

[It’s a regression of the mind, so once it stabilizes, it just returns to normal.]

[Your memories may be erased, but your existence won’t disappear.]

[Either way, you’re the same Yoon Eden.]

He didn’t understand why the past of twenty-three became the future, but if this kind of future was waiting…

When the call finally connected, he took the initiative and spoke before the other person could open their mouth.

“Just listen and forget it like a midsummer night’s dream. I’m not talking to you, but to that damn thirty-year-old Gyeon Hajun.”

After letting out those words mixed with a sigh, Yoon Eden leaned his back against the practice room mirror and brought out those words he had kept deep in his heart.

“Couldn’t you have replied just once, you damn bastard.”

Yoon Eden swept up his bangs and let out a bitter laugh mixed with moisture.

“That one thing really would have been enough for me.”

Realizing he was taking out his anger on someone who knew nothing, he was able to speak his mind relatively calmly.

If thirty-year-old Gyeon Hajun had been in front of him, well… he couldn’t expect the same calm atmosphere as now.

-What debt is there between us that you said it was settled so we had no reason to see each other’s faces? Was our friendship just a debt relationship to you?

At Yoon Eden’s question heard through the receiver, Gyeon Hajun suddenly recalled his trainee days at LnL.

Unlike his leisurely appearance at New Born, Yoon Eden had been sharp and extremely irritable.

The guilt he had built up watching him like that, and the burden he felt mediating between members who seemed ready to explode at any moment.

The night he was bedridden with the flu, his heart had become much lighter only after Yoon Eden directly told him not to feel guilty.

And he recalled how Yoon Eden always acted as if he would cut him off from his side at any time.

At the time, he had only felt frustrated wondering why he acted so confident when such a thing would never happen, but if that wasn’t just premature worry but confidence based on his experience.

If it had been Gyeon Hajun who hadn’t heard those words about not feeling guilty, he knew best that he would have really accumulated all of that as debt in his heart.

“That idiot probably wasn’t avoiding replying because he didn’t want to, but because he was too scared to reply. Scared to look back at someone he let go of first.”

The sound of Yoon Eden snorting could be heard clearly through the receiver.

-That’s ridiculous. Hey, don’t I know you? I know better than anyone that you’re not someone who’s scared of that kind of thing.

“I would have been with other people, but you’re not other people.”

-How would you know? The current you hasn’t even cut ties with me yet.

Gyeon Hajun answered the blunt question.

“Just as you are Yoon Eden, I am also Gyeon Hajun.”

Spinning his chair around and looking up at the studio ceiling once, Gyeon Hajun muttered in a voice tinged with hollow laughter.

“Right, actually even now I’m thinking maybe I should look up a good shaman house right away.”

When no answer came back from Yoon Eden, he added.

“But if this really is a midsummer night’s dream like you said, I can at least say this much.”

The smell of cigarettes still lingered in the studio. At least it was fortunate that there wasn’t something so difficult that he’d resort to smoking.

“So don’t resent that cowardly bastard too much. Instead, I’m sorry.”

Not looking light at all, Gyeon Hajun apologized solemnly. Just thinking of it as a midsummer night’s dream that would pass, apologizing for something that wasn’t his fault didn’t feel particularly unfair.

-…Wouldn’t you resent it if you were me?

Hearing Yoon Eden’s voice that seemed to have let go of his emotions, Gyeon Hajun could finally smile comfortably.

Back to the practice room.

-When are you coming back to the dormitory?

At Gyeon Hajun’s question, Yoon Eden tapped the practice room floor with his finger and replied.

“It might not be bad to pull an all-nighter practicing for the first time in a while. We can’t keep practicing with one spot in the formation empty forever.”

-Right, just take it easy and watch your condition so you don’t hurt yourself.

After the call ended, Yoon Eden put his cell phone aside and turned the music back on.

The music style ringing in his ears was damn familiar, making his mood quite strange.

* * *

The next day, practice room.

Facing Yoon Eden who had stayed up all night, Kim Dobin barely swallowed the question he wanted to pour out about what illegal activity he had committed that prevented him from coming back to the dormitory.

Just as they were about to practice with Yoon Eden’s spot in the formation empty as usual, Yoon Eden entered the formation.

Watching Yoon Eden perform the choreography so naturally with only slight deviations in movement lines, Kim Dobin was momentarily seized with terror.

‘Is this possible…? And in just one day…?’

It felt like doing a sanity check in the Cthulhu universe.

Am I crazy, is Eden Hyung crazy, or is this world crazy.

‘This makes it look like I was really just messing around…!’

Kim Dobin sent urgent signals of injustice to Ryu Jaehee, who was looking at him and shaking his head, then narrowed his eyes at Yoon Eden.

He absolutely wasn’t glaring, just observing. Misunderstandings would be troublesome.

‘Has our Eden Hyung come back?’

Looking at those still lifeless fish eyes, it seemed he was still Demon Eden. Though there did seem to be a bit more light in them.

Practice ended smoothly without any problems, and as soon as they went to the studio, Kim Dobin clung to Yoon Eden like a monkey clutching a tree branch.

“Hyung, can’t you just tell me what you did yesterday? I’m really so anxious that I couldn’t sleep yesterday and I won’t be able to sleep today either.”

“I didn’t do anything that would make the 9 o’clock news headlines, so don’t worry.”

“So what exactly did you do, please…”

When he pleaded with the most pitiful expression he could manage, Yoon Eden chuckled and peeled Kim Dobin off before rolling up his right sleeve.

Kim Dobin’s mouth automatically fell open at the sight of the exposed forearm.

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