A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 271

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 271

After finishing the reading, I turned another page of the sketchbook.

My signature took up a large portion of the sketchbook. It was a bonus gift.

Of course, I wasn’t sure if Toohyeok would accept this as a gift, but that wasn’t my concern.

I thrust the sketchbook at Toohyeok, who had softened the thorns he’d been raising ever since getting harsh criticism from Jiwon hyung during the mid-evaluation.

If four guys only sang ballads in a karaoke room, they’d probably slap on a subtitle like [The typical awkward karaoke scene of men] and edit it all out.

But if we’re filming Love Actually related to song work in a karaoke room, could they really edit this all out? Really?

This was even cost-effective.

Other teams would burn through hundreds of thousands of won on team-building overnight trips and get 5-10 minutes of airtime, but we’d get similar screen time for just 20,000 won for an hour of karaoke.

This is one of our team’s most important narratives, so they can’t carelessly edit it all out. Not unless they want to completely kill our team’s screen time.

But would the PD really kill the screen time of a team with me as the leader? Our team that even won the mid-evaluation privilege?

“Actually, after receiving sharp advice from G1 Producer during the mid-evaluation, I really thought about it a lot.”

Still clutching the sketchbook I’d given him, Toohyeok awkwardly scratched his head and spoke up.

“Honestly, I could feel that my rap wasn’t bringing the beat to life, so I was wandering around wondering what I should do. And because of that, I felt sorry for ruining the team atmosphere…”

Yeah, it’s fortunate he realized it now. If that realization had come even a little later, his unlikeable image would have been properly etched into the public’s minds.

Even if I recreated the Love Actually sketchbook scene several more times to make him the female lead, it wouldn’t have saved him.

Even if our team topped the music charts and avoided elimination, he would have been eliminated immediately in the main competition.

So in a way, I was no different from Toohyeok’s benefactor.

“Now that it’s clear the problem is that my tone and rap style don’t match the beat, it’ll be difficult but I have to try changing it.”p>

Toohyeok said with a slightly embarrassed squint. Under the words of acceptance I’d so desperately wanted, a sweet melody played like movie background music.

It was perfect Hip Hop Actually.

With 10 minutes left in our karaoke time, we resumed our ballad party.

Since there wasn’t a single person who could hit high notes, we created gloomy ballads brewed by rappers.

The most enthusiastic response was still for the Age of Heroes OST. Seeing even Nijeous get excited, masterpieces truly don’t discriminate by generation.

“Oh, bonus time started.”

After playing mind games with each other, we let our hair down and started singing hip hop from the second bonus time. Since we were filming DTB anyway, we belted out songs from DTB 3.

That’s how we got a bonus hour and only left the karaoke room after singing ballads for an hour and hip hop for another hour.

“Since this is a team-building event, it’d be a shame to disband like this. Let’s have a meal together with our budget before we part ways.”

“Budget? Did we get separate team-building budget besides our fight money?”

I deliberately said budget because I didn’t want to mention fight money on the street, so why are you so clueless, Gyuchan?

Fortunately, this wasn’t a busy downtown area.

Pork belly came up first as a candidate, but due to Nijeous’s refusal since he had pork belly yesterday, we drifted to rice soup. There was even a 24-hour rice soup restaurant near the karaoke room.

“No… I meant let’s eat beef, not pork belly…”

“Right, that restaurant has beef head soup. We can eat that.”

Gyuchan, if we eat beef, our title of lowest budget will fly away!

Unless they want a complete edit-out, would there be anyone who spent less than 50,000 won on team-building?

That’s how we decorated our perfect cost-effective team-building event with four bowls of rice soup as the finale.

The rest of the fight money should be poured into stage equipment.

The day right after team-building ended, we started revising our work song.

“The reason the middle part where the verses connect sounds boring is because you and Raizo hyung have similar rap styles, Gyuchan.”

“Oh, really?”

Having Nijeous respond in a soulless voice right in front of me served as mirror therapy, making me want to bestow the system’s blessing on this guy too.

“Yeah, really. So we probably need to change the order. Gyuchan, you take verse 1.”

“Oh, reall— Huh?”

Nijeous, who had heard me emphasize the importance of the first verse almost like brainwashing, stopped his habitual “oh really” and opened his eyes wide.

Why do you think I emphasized the importance to you like brainwashing instead of to Toohyeok, who originally had the first verse?

“You two can’t be next to each other. Toohyeok hyung needs to go in the middle to ease it somewhat.”

Nijeous was better at catching ears than Raizo. So it was better to place Nijeous in the first verse.

Toohyeok also followed my advice, lowering his tone and slightly slowing his rhythm to match the beat. Just that much was enough to harmonize with the beat.

The problem was that demanding ‘just that much’ itself was an issue that could cause sufficient conflict.

To show I was leading by example, I changed my flow to off-beat just this once.

Of course, this was still enough to bring the beat to life, so it wasn’t particularly a loss for me.

Though I was strict, the team members remembered that I took concentrated fire from Jiwon hyung thanks to wearing the leader’s hat, so they followed along obediently.

Blocking conflict situations that would have me filmed as an unlikeable leader who only provides frustration at the source, our team’s song gradually completed under my direction and producing.

It was reborn at a level incomparable to the first completed version.

“Did your team go into song revision?”

“Of course. Would you like to listen?”

When I answered confidently to Jiwon hyung’s question, Jiwon hyung shook his head.

“No, I’ll listen when the music comes out. I’m curious how much synergy will explode with lowered expectations.”

“Wow, but hyung, you really acted well. I almost got traumatized.”

At my brazenness, Jiwon hyung blinked and asked.

“What acting?”

“When you concentrated fire on me during the mid-evaluation. I told you to point out Toohyeok’s part during our prior meeting, but I forgot to mention that.”

Even without me saying it, you beat me up well in front of the team members just for being the leader, making me look bad.

“Thanks to that, the team members cooperated quickly and efficiently, probably feeling sorry for making you say such things.”

When I laughed, Jiwon hyung slyly avoided my gaze and played dumb.

“Hyung? Why are you suddenly quiet? Don’t tell me you were serious…?”

“Mm, mm… Acting was tiring.”

“Looking at you now, this hyung is terrible at acting! You really were serious!”

Anyway, thanks to that, things went as I wanted!

* * *

Finally, DTB Episode 4’s broadcast day approached.

The day my shocking outfit and tattoo would be revealed. Of course, the tattoo would definitely be mosaicked, so it’s more accurate to say the existence of the tattoo would be revealed.

“Youngest, crop tops won’t become a trend too, will they…?”

I asked anxiously to Ryu Jaehee, who was taking pictures of my azalea tattoo located close to my left shoulder with his phone camera.

The text tattoo on the inside of my right forearm I could take myself, but for the azalea tattoo on my left arm, mirror selfies were the only option if I wanted to shoot it myself, so I entrusted the photography to Ryu Jaehee.

“In my prediction, that will 100% never become a trend. So stop worrying about useless things and stop shaking your leg, hyung. It’s shaking so the picture won’t come out well. Or take your arm off your thigh.”

Ryu Jaehee scolded me while pressing down on my thigh, then concentrated on taking pictures again.

Since it came to this, he was photographing with the momentum to capture the best shot of the tattoo so I wouldn’t hear that I got some weird-looking tattoo.

“Ah, no. The chest-revealing open shirts became trendy too. I thought that would absolutely never become a trend. So crop tops might also…”

“Chest exposure and abs exposure are different. Everyone has a chest, but not everyone has abs.”

Now that I heard it, that was true. So I decided to relax and stop worrying.

After selecting the best shot, Ryu Jaehee handed me the phone, saying he’d leave the editing to me.

“When will you post it?”

“It’ll be mosaicked on the broadcast, so I’ll post it after today’s DTB live broadcast ends. Saying I’m revealing the tattoo’s identity. Explain the tattoo’s meaning well too. If you just speak well like that Inbyeol style post you revised back then, it might go smoothly?”

While writing a FROM post on the fan cafe, I confirmed it was broadcast time and loudly called for Seo Yehyeon.

“Yehyeon hyung! You have to see the moment when hyung’s refreshing fantasy becomes reality!”

“The blank screen direction isn’t a refreshing fantasy, it’s just a fantasy of screwing you over!”

Seo Yehyeon came bursting out of the room, fuming. Same thing, same thing.

* * *

[DROP THE BEAT SEASON 4 EP.4]

[It would be very regrettable to be eliminated like this!]

[Moltic: This guy absolutely has to get in. It doesn’t make sense for this friend to drop out here.]

[D.I: Personally, I’d like to see this person’s rap again. It was pretty good.]

[BQ9: Definitely (this person).]

[Young Billy: I agonized over this one too. I choose this eliminated contestant.]

The scene showed the producers putting their heads together to select who among the eliminated contestants would compete in the revival round.

[Six rappers selected for the revival round after the producers’ careful deliberation]

[Who among them will be the protagonist to succeed in their comeback]

-Damn Yoon Eden

-If they eliminate Yoon Eden even in the revival round, I’m boycotting DTB forever

-Don’t show the other guys, show us Yoon Eden first

-If you eliminate Eden, be prepared – Dubnet Daydream will boycott you for life

[The first revival match is BT Vs Baekfree!]

-Acorns competing with acorns again

-Please BT, don’t get nervous this time and crush him coolly

After BT was eliminated and BT’s opponent earned the revival spot, the person everyone had been waiting for finally took the stage.

[Gongchul: Ah, choosing between these two wasn’t easy either.]

[Wonbaek: How could they pit them against each other like this!]

[Yoon Eden (1st place) Vs December (5th place)]

-In the 3rd preliminaries, their opponents were tough, but this… is this even a competition?

-Even if Yoon Eden raps while half asleep, Dissemble would still win ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Someone give me info on that jersey

-Aw, today’s outfit is too ordinary,,, just looks like a regular hip-hop wannabe

└But his face isn’t ordinary

[December’s first attack!]

-If December wins here, does that make G-TE the one who beat December who beat Yoon Eden who beat G-TE?

-December is too good to be eliminated here, but why did they have to match him with Yoon Eden?

└He’s probably the only one who can even slightly compete with Yoon Eden?

-Oh, December really sharpened his knife for this?

As December finished his first attack and his turn approached, Yoon Eden coolly unzipped and threw off his sports jersey jacket.

[AJA: (covers mouth)]

[BQ9: Oh, whoa… That’s hot…]

It was the moment the black turtleneck sleeveless crop top he was wearing underneath made its appearance.

-Ah shit my eyes!!!!!!

-Oh fuck Eden!!!!!!!

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