A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 229

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 229

No matter how much we aimed to benefit from Seo Yehyeon’s visuals, I couldn’t let him be completely humiliated by his lack of skill, so I mentally went through a list of pop songs that Seo Yehyeon could sing reasonably well with his abilities.

As for dancing, well, Kim Dobin would probably make him practice intensively. As long as he doesn’t just stand there stiffly, it should be okay, right?

” seems like the safest choice? No high notes, and the pitch itself is low.”

Seo Yehyeon nodded at my words and replied.

“Low pitch and no high notes would be really good for you to sing.”

“Wow, the mind games are killer.”

Kim Dobin, who was practically the cause of this situation by suggesting the penalty in the first place, was clapping as if it had nothing to do with him.

Surprisingly, after Gyeon Hajun, Kim Dobin was the one who made the fewest NGs during these kinds of shoots. There was a reason he had confidently suggested the bet.

We started filming with our eyes blazing at each other, trying to catch NGs.

30 minutes into the shoot, filming everything from group choreography to group scenes.

‘What? Seo Yehyeon hasn’t made a single NG so far?’

Feeling a sense of crisis, I exchanged glances with the youngest line. Even if Gyeon Hajun, who had talent in acting, had nothing to worry about, we were different.

Seeing Seo Yehyeon not even mess up the choreography he had hastily learned in just a few days before filming, showing how much he had been sharpening his blade internally, I started to feel anxious.

“At this rate, isn’t one of us three really going to get caught?”

After safely finishing his individual cut without any NGs, I asked Ryu Jaehee, who had to shoot together with me, in a voice lowered as much as possible so the camera wouldn’t pick it up, and got a heavy affirmative response.

“Exactly. I thought Yehyeon hyung would be the first to get an NG by now.”

Ryu Jaehee also seemed to be feeling anxious, nervously glancing at Seo Yehyeon who was waiting for the next filming sequence.

The shot we had to film was a scene where we cut the leash of a tied-up French Bulldog, wrap it in a jacket, and run away with it.

“Damn, me being a dog thief.”

At my lament, Ryu Jaehee whispered in my ear like he was brainwashing me.

“Think of that tied-up dog as Podo. Hyung, you’re not a dog thief, you’re rescuing Podo.”

“The fur color is completely different, man.”

Grumbling lightly, I cut through the worn-out metal chain connected to the leash with pliers.

Now, as Ryu Jaehee reached out to wrap the dog in a jacket and run for the scene, the puppy lifted one of its hind legs.

That pose was quite familiar to me as someone who raises a pet dog.

“Hey hey, wait!”

I instinctively grabbed Ryu Jaehee’s arm. At the same time, the puppy began relieving itself refreshingly on the floor.

Of course, this wasn’t a scene in the storyboard. It wasn’t a scene that could go into the music video either.

Should I say thanks for taking care of business before we wrapped it in a jacket and ran?

As we stared blankly at the puppy that finished its business and was frantically scratching and kicking at the floor with its hind legs, suppressed laughter burst out from behind the camera. Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin’s laughter was the loudest.

“NG!”

And so we became the protagonists of the first NG in such a futile way. Due to the puppy’s mistake, not even our own mistake.

“Wow, the puppy saved Yehyeon hyung!”

Kim Dobin, who avoided the first NG penalty thanks to us, was holding his stomach and laughing.

“Woof woof, did Yehyeon hyung perhaps bribe you?”

As I lightly held and gently shook the front paw that was placed on my outstretched hand, the panting puppy saw Seo Yehyeon’s face peeking out from behind me, immediately shook off my hand, and ran toward Seo Yehyeon.

That human says he’s a cat person. That guy won’t love you as much as I do!

I watched Seo Yehyeon with narrowed eyes as he touched the puppy and was surprised at how firm it was.

Did he really bribe the puppy with that face to pee during filming and cause an NG?

Since it came to this, I should at least see Seo Yehyeon being thrown into the street dance scene, so Ryu Jaehee and I sat side by side watching Seo Yehyeon’s next individual cut with eagle eyes.

The wind swept through Seo Yehyeon’s silver hair as he sat precariously on the rooftop.

“Isn’t hair getting disheveled by the wind an NG since it’s not in the storyboard?”

“If we go by that logic, our hair getting disheveled while running would also be an NG, hyung.”

Stumbling once while walking on the rooftop railing, breaking chalk once while graffiti-ing on the wall,

and the magazine separating while fiddling with the model gun were all the NGs Seo Yehyeon made.

Looking at Seo Yehyeon turning toward us with a triumphant face, I stared at him and asked seriously.

“Who are you? Who are you to be possessing Yehyeon hyung’s body? I thought he could act a bit, but you’re even good at acting like Yehyeon hyung.”

“Yoon Eden, have you been influenced by Dobin too?”

“There’s no other explanation for this!”

Now I understood why the members shouted about possession every time I received a penalty. Seeing it firsthand, it really seemed like he was fucking possessed by a ghost.

“Your evil schemes must have awakened my potential.”

Seo Yehyeon shrugged his shoulders with a particularly annoying face, laughing smugly.

Gyeon Hajun wouldn’t make any NGs, and if Kim Dobin just made two or fewer NGs, we could achieve what we wanted.

“Dobin, finish with just one NG!”

“Doby hyung, fighting! You’re usually good at this!”

“Dobin, feel free to make about 3 NGs!”

“Hmm, Dobin looks like he’ll definitely go over 3.”

“Jun, you shouldn’t say such ominous things. Our Dobin will be able to do it.”

“If Dobin had heard what Yoon Eden just said, he would have already made 10 NGs from trembling in fear. Too bad.”

“He does seem to be trembling in fear already though.”

Gyeon Hajun’s finger pointed at Kim Dobin.

Kim Dobin, who had suggested the bet…

“Isn’t this iron plate too old? Rust is falling off right now? What if I get scratched and get tetanus? Is this properly secured? It’s shaking too much? It keeps creaking?”

was trembling on the high fixed iron plate.

Although it wasn’t as dizzyingly high as the cranes you see at construction sites, it was still quite high.

The volume that clearly reached us below was no joke. Why can’t he make sounds like that when recording?

Of course, for safety reasons, Kim Dobin had wires attached to his body, and thick firefighting mattresses were installed below in case of emergency.

I clicked my tongue while looking up at Kim Dobin, who was frozen and couldn’t even take a single step, let alone dance.

“When he got the storyboard, he said he could even tap dance up there, so why is he like that?”

“Doby hyung is just being Doby hyung. I knew he’d be like that. In his head, he probably imagined himself looking awesome dancing coolly in a high, precarious place, but once he actually got up there, he faced reality.”

Ryu Jaehee delivered a bone-hitting truth bomb with an indifferent face.

And so Kim Dobin became the person who made the most NGs.

“If he was going to be like that, why did he suggest the bet in the first place? Did he think Yehyeon hyung would make more NGs than he would make up there?”

“I vote for ‘Doby hyung thought he wouldn’t make any NGs at all.'”

Perhaps because it was quite annoying that he had unnecessarily suggested a bet and dragged us into the swamp of busking, today’s Ryu Jaehee was almost like Kim Dobin’s dedicated counter.

“That’s impossible!”

Kim Dobin, who had barely finished filming and came down from the fixture with trembling legs, screamed while pulling at his hair.

“When you got the storyboard, you said it was okay to switch because you were 100% sure I couldn’t do it.”

“I thought I wasn’t afraid of anything.”

“Dobin, what’s with that sound like Yehyeon hyung binge-eating chicken and pizza in the middle of the night.”

Being conscious of the camera filming the music video making film, I softened my words as much as possible instead of asking what kind of bullshit that was, and Kim Dobin’s eyes drooped.

“Even though I’m scared of ghosts, I thought high places like that would be okay. The suspension bridge we went to during the school trip was fine.”

It was the end for someone who lacked self-objectification.

Ryu Jaehee and I say it was because we had shitty luck, but Kim Dobin was just a disaster he brought upon himself.

So the final result of the bet was that Ryu Jaehee and I, who made the first NG, would do street busking, and Kim Dobin, who made the most NGs, would be thrown into street dance busking.

3 out of 5 people got caught. What kind of situation is this.

“Good luck, guys. It’ll be tough preparing for busking in just a few days.”

Gyeon Hajun, one of the two who didn’t get caught in the penalty, offered words of encouragement with his usual leisurely expression.

As the three of us who had been confident that we would never get caught as long as Seo Yehyeon was there were looking dejected, Seo Yehyeon approached us with a grinning face.

“This is why you shouldn’t carelessly make bets, you brats.”

Speaking in a confident voice and patting my shoulder, Seo Yehyeon made a thoroughly contemptuous expression and added.

“There’s no such thing as 100% in this world.”

But according to big data, the probability of Seo Yehyeon getting caught in both penalties was 99%. That 1% miracle happened to Seo Yehyeon.

Damn, if we do busking, will it create buzz like Kim Dobin planned? Seo Yehyeon at least has a face buff, but for us to create buzz, don’t we need to be fucking master singers or like 25-year veteran b-boys?

‘Can’t help it. Let’s make Ryu Jaehee suffer.’

If I make him do about 4-tier high notes, wouldn’t that create at least some buzz?

Since we have a comeback and concert coming up, I shouldn’t make him do 5-tier high notes since it would strain his voice.

Youngest, you know this is all for the group, right? I’ll just use my voice to earnestly lay down harmonies.

As I made that resolution and looked to the side, Ryu Jaehee was looking at me with the eyes of someone eyeing an easy mark.

“As expected, hip hop should be done in hip hop’s homeland. I’ll do the featuring well for you, hyung. Even if there’s featuring, don’t feel too burdened and just pick whatever song you want to do comfortably.”

“What are you talking about, youngest? You need to hit at least a 4th level high note to draw in the busking audience. Unless I challenge the local rapper hyungs to a diss rap battle, me rapping on the street won’t even be newsworthy.”

“That sounds good. Let’s have you do a diss rap battle locally.”

“You want me to get shot?”

While we were pushing it off on each other as much as possible, Kim Dobin, who had to crash someone else’s busking performance, was pulling at his hair and crying out in despair beside us.

“I’m going crazy! It’s been quite a while since I did breaking…! Should I do popping instead? Why did I suggest doing this kind of penalty?”

Regardless of all that, Seo Yehyeon was in his own flower garden.

“Guys, the world is so bright! Right?”

While doing group activities, I watched Seo Yehyeon with hollow eyes as he spread his arms wide and smiled with the most innocent expression I’d ever seen in my entire life, both before and after regression, then muttered as if lamenting.

“The sun has already set, so what’s bright about it, my ass…”

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