A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 280

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 280

“Hey, you’re going to ruin your eyes. Stop looking at your phone so much.”

At my scolding, Ryu Jaehee, who had been burying his head into his phone screen as if he was about to dive into it, lifted his gaze and let out a sigh of relief with a face that looked ten years older.

“Uaaaah… This can only be explained as heaven truly helping us…”

“What happened now? Did our fans get into another fight with Altair fans or Kicks fans?”

Remembering how Ryu Jaehee had been glued to his phone all day, nearly going crazy during a similar incident, I asked. With a haggard face, Ryu Jaehee turned to look at me and said.

“What happened, you ask. A lot happened. From Hyung’s plagiarism controversy to getting involved with G-TE, that person.”

Ah, so that’s what he was talking about. I don’t know about heaven, but the system did help.

Burying his head into the cushion he was holding, Ryu Jaehee muttered as if lamenting.

“I could never have resolved this. The key was that G-TE person. How did Hyung know to apologize in advance? Were you expecting controversy because of the diss battle?”

As if.

Even apologizing to Choi Hyeongjin was just a lucky guess. I never imagined that guy would hold a grudge against me over that one question filled with pure curiosity.

“Hyung, you said this was a 12-part series, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“If Hyung gets elim-“

As soon as he tried to utter the temporarily banned word within Rev, Ryu Jaehee quietly shut his mouth under Gyeon Hajun’s sharp gaze.

Gyeon Hajun now looked at me with those eyes even when I mentioned the word ‘elimination.’

I had tried several times to tell him I was fine, that such things wouldn’t negatively affect my victory at all, but when I heard his bitter smile-mixed response of ‘Yeah, maybe I was too harsh… but just in case…’, it became awkward.

Ah, no, well, if my friend says he doesn’t want to hear that word until I win, I can accommodate that one thing.

“Anyway, as long as you don’t do that, there are seven more broadcasts left, right?”

Ryu Jaehee, who had vaguely glossed over the forbidden word, asked while counting on his fingers.

When I nodded to confirm, Ryu Jaehee let out a deranged laugh.

“Haha, since we’re on break anyway, should I drag Doby Hyung to some temple?”

“Why a temple all of a sudden?”

“I’ll do 108 bows asking that please nothing happens until DTB finishes airing. Hyung is at the center of issues right now, you know? If controversy breaks out in this state, we’ll face hardships incomparable to what we’ve overcome so far.”

Suddenly mentioning 108 bows reminded me of the 108 bows Ryu Jaehee did on his college entrance exam day.

Would that guy steadfastly do 108 bows, or would he count one deep bow as ten bows like we did?

I’d bet Seo Yehyeon’s chances of advancing to DTB’s main competition that if Kim Dobin goes with him, it’ll be the latter.

“I’m Catholic, you know?”

“What kind of Catholic are you when you haven’t been to church since you were ten?”

“Even if I don’t go to church, my heart is always there. And why are you dragging me along?”

Kim Dobin, who had retorted to Ryu Jaehee’s words, asked what I had been secretly curious about.

“The other hyungs are old so their knees will give out. The youngest hyung should come along.”

“Hey, I’m the main dancer! My knees are important too!”

“Youngest! I’m only twenty-four!”

“Jaehee…?”

Ryu Jaehee, who had launched an area attack on all of Rev, rubbed his forehead and continued.

“Haah… And we all need to get matching azalea friendship tattoos. Right now, after Eden Hyung revealed his tattoo, people are misunderstanding this azalea tattoo as a debut anniversary tattoo we all got together.”

Seo Yehyeon raised his hand slightly with a pale face.

“What if I absolutely can’t do it? After seeing Yoon Eden’s post about hepatitis C risks on From, I vowed never to get a tattoo in my life.”

“Well, I got a tattoo and didn’t get hepatitis C, so if Hyung is lucky, maybe you won’t get it either?”

“Is that what you should be saying right now? Should the tattoo elimination ambassador be saying that!”

“Everyone fighting. We can get tattoos and all go for health checkups together.”

“It’s because of you, you!”

More precisely, isn’t it because of thirty-year-old Yoon Eden who randomly got tattoos on someone else’s body, not me?

I gently removed Seo Yehyeon’s hands that were shaking me and went into my room.

“How much do you know?”

I flopped onto the bed and quietly asked the system. The system didn’t answer.

Like with , it would have been enough to just restore the deleted music file.

But thanks to the hint to apologize to Choi Hyeongjin, the unexpected pseudo-bullying allegations were safely resolved too.

If I hadn’t apologized, Choi Hyeongjin wouldn’t have taken that photo with me or posted that clarification-like message.

That means the system knew that Choi Hyeongjin had my old music file and held a grudge against me.

Even if the hints the system gives me are big data from before regression, it doesn’t make sense.

Because I never had any occasion to meet Choi Hyeongjin in my pre-regression life.

In the past when I only watched DTB 4 through broadcasts, the rapper G-TE was so forgettably mediocre that I could barely remember if he even participated, and he was eliminated before the main competition without ever getting spotlight.

If he had made it to the main competition, I couldn’t have failed to remember the rapper G-TE even if I didn’t know Choi Hyeongjin, so that was certain.

The memory manipulation that Cha Yeonho mentioned.

What if it wasn’t a small scope but quite a large scope?

During the time I suffered from insomnia due to slump, my own voice that I heard during the past life hypnosis experience that Kim Dobin recommended. And when I tried to listen again next time, the hypnosis was sharply blocked.

If past life includes pre-regression life, wouldn’t that be included? I might have actually experienced a past life.

-See, I told you I’m someone who’s wrong to change.

-Let’s give up. You and I are both tired now. I guess this is the ending assigned to me.

-It’s torture to see those guys’ faces again when they looked perfectly happy as four. I know, I know I’m partly at fault too, but I can’t help feeling resentful.

I couldn’t even guess what situation this was or who I was talking to, but I could find one clue.

The fact that I had seen Rev after my departure with my own eyes.

My last memory was the night before my last schedule as Rev, so this was also worth suspecting memory manipulation.

So to summarize, I had seen the four-member Rev without me and squeezed back into that gap. And that memory is currently absent from me.

What I remember is only two regressions due to the initial intentions road. Though both didn’t last more than a month.

It meant there existed rounds I couldn’t remember.

“Four-member Rev…”

Since I left, Rev naturally became four members. Anyway, unless the genre was hip-hop, rap wasn’t an absolutely essential part of songs.

Since I wasn’t Rev’s producer member at that time, my departure probably had little impact on the group. It’s not like I did well as leader back then either.

Rather, they probably liked that the mood-killer left on his own.

My muttering about four-member Rev and Kim Dobin bursting through the door with wide eyes happened almost simultaneously.

Since I could guess what misunderstanding that guy was having, I opened my mouth to correct it.

“What, man. No matter how I am, would I just kick Yehyeon Hyung out of Rev?”

After hearing my scolding, Kim Dobin smiled noticeably awkwardly and nodded as if creaking.

“Ah, aah. So that’s what you meant. Whew, I thought my heart was going to drop…”

I didn’t miss Kim Dobin’s muttered addition as he rubbed his chest.

“Then what did you think I said?”

“Ah, no, I thought Hyung was leaving.”

Wouldn’t it be hard to imagine Rev without me in the current situation? I’m the producing member, leader, and a member with similar, or maybe even higher recognition than Seo Yehyeon now that I’ve raised my stock with DTB Season 4.

It’s not like I’m neglecting Rev to produce for other groups like before regression, and my relationship with the members isn’t bad either.

Why did that guy naturally imagine four-member Rev with me gone?

There was only one conclusion.

Kim Dobin knows about four-member Rev without me. That guy could be the key to unlocking past memories.

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Only three days left until DTB Episode 6 airs. That means only four days left until the team music mission stage.

“We have a lot of fight money left, so let’s spend it all on a laser show or something. The more spectacular the stage, the more it’ll be imprinted on the audience.”

“Can’t we line up backup dancers?”

“If we put up dancers, the stage will become messy instead. It’s cleanest with just four people on stage. Our beat isn’t really suited for dance either.”

Our team, having practiced to some extent, was discussing how to decorate the stage.

Raizo, a DTB enthusiast who had watched every season from Season 1 like me, said with a serious face.

“The key is how long our team will be shown in Episode 6.”

DTB had a set amount of broadcast time, and DTB fulfilled their duty by releasing unreleased footage of teams that didn’t make it on air as YouTube clips.

Of course, unless you were a regular DTB viewer, there was no reason to seek out the unreleased footage, so the spotlight mostly went to teams that secured screen time on the broadcast.

Out of five total teams, it meant two teams would appear on the broadcast heavily edited.

‘After everything I’ve done for DTB Season 4 so far, surely they wouldn’t be ungrateful enough to edit out our team.’

DTB Season 4’s viewership ratings so far were high enough to be called the highest in history.

Though my memory of the pre-regression ratings was hazy, we probably surpassed the pre-regression Season 4 ratings too.

And I could confidently say that I played a huge part in those ratings. After everything I’ve done so far, right?

I was able to confirm that reward in DTB Season 4 Episode 6.

[DROP THE BEAT SEASON 4 Ep.6- Team Music Source Mission]

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