A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 30

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 30

Before we knew it, the song was heading toward its end.

[Remember our pink-colored love story]

After neatly finishing the final ending pose where he cutely brought his hands together to make a heart, Kim Dobin came down from the stage with the Adora members.

I had gestured for him to hurry up and come over, but that fourth guy was dawdling and showing no intention of coming, so I was just about to step forward to go grab him myself.

Ryu Jaehee, who had been looking down at his phone screen, beat me to it and opened his mouth, blocking my steps.

“Hyung, Dobin hyung is asking if you could bring him some paper and a pen.”

“That bastard is making me run errands?”

“No, he specifically told me not to dump it on you and asked me to bring it.”

“That damn guy is just ordering the youngest member around?”

“Since when have you cared about me like that, hyung…?”

“What did you say, youngest?”

“Nothing at all!”

I decided it was better to pair him with the textbook idol youngest member who at least had some sense rather than leave him alone.

I handed Ryu Jaehee a pen and paper and sent him toward Kim Dobin and Adora.

Even if Kim Dobin tried to do something crazy, Ryu Jaehee would stop him.

“I told them to get out of there quickly so they wouldn’t get involved, but now they’re even taking selcas.”

Seeing Ryu Jaehee join in and take selcas, I grumbled without hiding my displeasure, and Seo Yehyeon waved his hands dismissively.

“If you’re jealous, go join them and take some photos.”

“I never said a single word about being jealous.”

“Then why are you so low-pressure like this? I thought you were jealous of the youngest members for not being able to take photos together.”

“Haaa…”

Instead of answering, I let out a deep sigh and looked back at Seo Yehyeon.

“Listen and don’t get upset again, please.”

“No, just don’t say it. Don’t speak. You’re going to say something that’ll burst my blood vessels again, aren’t you?”

I narrowed my eyes as I watched Seo Yehyeon shake his head and cover his ears, then opened my mouth with an attitude of not caring whether he listened or not.

“Just imagining you making mistakes on stage, whether it’s rehearsal or the actual performance, pisses me off.”

I turned my head to look at the stage. KICKS’ rehearsal was in full swing on stage.

“Especially in front of those bastards.”

“…”

Whether he heard my words despite covering his ears, or felt the serious atmosphere, Seo Yehyeon quietly removed his hands from his ears.

“Showing a stage with lower quality than KICKS, in front of those KICKS bastards, to fans and the public – that itself is humiliating to me.”

My voice naturally broke with the rising anger.

I glared at KICKS performing their knife-sharp choreography with even their finger angles perfectly aligned, grinding my teeth.

Even their parachute isn’t a weak link, damn it. Meanwhile, we can’t even dream of knife-sharp choreography because of someone.

I started to sweep up my bangs but realized my hair was already styled and lowered my hand.

On any other day, I wouldn’t have cared if Seo Yehyeon got his hand movements wrong, messed up his foot direction, or created new choreography.

But today is different.

We’re already performing right before KICKS. Just imagining lifting KICKS up with our stage made my blood boil backwards.

“We just need to do it intensely and coolly. That’s our specialty, isn’t it?”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been reading the frozen atmosphere that greeted them after returning from excitedly getting autographs and taking selcas, jumped in with perfect timing.

“That’s right, with this dancing machine Kim Dobin’s skills, I can easily cover one or two mistakes from Yehyeon hyung.”

With Kim Dobin’s shamelessness added as he puffed out his chest, the Siberian atmosphere thawed enough to breathe.

“Hey, Yoon Eden.”

At Seo Yehyeon’s voice calling me, I turned away from KICKS and looked back. A serious face came into view.

“Why is that humiliating only to you?”

Seo Yehyeon asked with a stiffly hardened face. Facing that hardened expression suddenly made my heart shrink.

Worried that my Initial Intentions would be deducted again for hurting this person’s feelings.

At this rate, I might develop an automatic reflex of flinching just from seeing Seo Yehyeon’s face, remembering the pain of losing Initial Intentions. Like Pavlov’s dog.

“Aren’t I part of Reve too? Those bastards insulted our entire group, so why are you acting like only you got insulted? I’m just as pissed off at those bastards, you know?”

Seo Yehyeon paused briefly, grinding his molars, then stared straight at me.

Meeting those firm eyes.

‘Oh?’

Seeing me chuckle, he frowned and declared:

“So don’t worry unnecessarily. I’ll create the absolute best stage today.”

I laughed heartily and lightly patted the shoulder of Seo Yehyeon, whose face was burning red with either embarrassment or anger, then looked around at all the members.

“You all heard that, right? Since even our mistake machine is going to focus hard today, let’s update our legend stage so thoroughly that those guys’ stage won’t even be mentioned.”

[Speech promoting discord among members has been detected.]

[Initial Intentions –1]

Wasn’t I just incredibly cool? Wasn’t I the very embodiment of a cool and reliable leader?

No way…

‘Just because of the word “mistake machine”?’

Just what kind of durability does that guy’s mental state have?

“Reve, get ready for your turn!”

Without time to resent Seo Yehyeon’s mental state that’s more fragile than glass, I trudged backstage for rehearsal.

After waiting for one more team ahead of us, our turn came and we went on stage as the familiar intro played.

Even while doing my part’s choreography, I watched Seo Yehyeon with eagle eyes and finally caught him hastily changing his foot direction, grinding my teeth.

You’re making mistakes, you mistake machine bastard. Give me back my deducted Initial Intentions.

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“At 2 minutes 10 seconds, ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity~’ the foot direction for this choreography is left, left. Got it?”

“You know that’s the tenth time if you say that once more, right?”

“My dear eldest hyung, if you hadn’t messed up during rehearsal, I wouldn’t have had to say it ten times, would I?”

“Can’t you please drop that damn ‘dear’?”

But if I spoke to you in my natural personality without cushioning words like ‘If you don’t want to hear it, don’t mess up the choreography. You said you’d create the best stage and then made mistakes within 5 minutes, yet you have a lot to say,’ my Initial Intentions would be deducted again.

I do have learning ability.

Peek, Ryu Jaehee stuck his head out from backstage to look outside, then rushed back backstage making a fuss.

“Wow, there are really so many people.”

“Of course there are. It’s a pretty big festival, and the lineup has some class to it.”

We were currently waiting backstage before the main performance.

Our turn was right after the group currently on stage finished.

The song was gradually building to its climax.

Suddenly Ryu Jaehee clapped his hands to gather everyone’s attention and asked out of the blue:

“Hyungs! Can’t we do that too? Shouting our team cheer before going on stage!”

His bright eyes were overflowing with anticipation.

Our cheer is ‘Dream of me’. Literally translated, dream of me.

Fans might be one thing, but for guys to say this to each other as encouragement and fighting spirit was extremely embarrassing and didn’t suit us.

Gyeon Hajun must have had the same thought as me, making a sour face as he indirectly refused:

“Saying ‘dream of me’ before going on stage is a bit much, isn’t it…?”

“Then how about we at least do a fighting cheer before going?”

His persistence in not giving up and suggesting alternatives was admirable.

“What embarrassing figh…”

I was responding half-heartedly while checking my in-ear monitor when I made eye contact with Ryu Jaehee’s puppy-dog eyes.

Before my regression, when all the members had cut ties with me, I used to lean on Ryu Jaehee quite a bit, as he was the one who stayed by my side until the very end.

He was also the second easiest member to deal with in the group, after Gyeon Hajun.

Moreover, the appearance of seventeen-year-old Ryu Jaehee—youthful, smaller than me, and with soft peach fuzz—who appeared before me after so long, was quite different from the disgustingly taller version with sharper facial features that I was more familiar with. There was something about him that made one’s heart soften.

I sighed and nodded my head.

“Alright, let’s do it. Nothing gets worn out just by trying.”

Ryu Jaehee’s expression brightened at my agreement, and he was the first to extend his hand, palm down.

Four hands were placed on top of his in sequence.

“Two, three! Reve fighting!”

“Fighting.”

“Fighting!”

“…Fighting.”

“Uh, fighting.”

Ryu Jaehee clearly shouted “two, three,” but everyone’s timing for shouting “fighting” was completely off.

Among them, only Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin shouted with spirited energy.

‘…Damn, we’re so out of sync.’

When I deliberately ignored Ryu Jaehee’s whining about doing it again, we heard the MC’s voice calling us at just the right timing.

As we walked onto the stage, a cool breeze lightly tousled our styled hair.

I adjusted my stage costume, which seemed slightly better quality than during our main promotions—perhaps the agency’s finances had improved somewhat—and took my position in formation.

I noticed the telephoto cameras and camcorders pointed at us.

During our first fan meeting, there were only two telephoto cameras aimed solely at Seo Yehyeon. We’ve grown a lot, our Reve.

The intro to , which I’d heard so many times I was sick of it and practically memorized, began to play.

“Yoon Eden! Seo Yehyeon! Gyeon Hajun! Kim Dobin! Ryu Jaehee! We are One Chance Reve!”

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the fan chant that rang out powerfully from the audience seats. I quite liked that my name was at the front.

Looking at the telephoto camera aimed at me, I lightly winked with one eye.

[The One Chance given to you, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Always approach it as if only One Chance remains]

I don’t think I ever danced this intensely, as if my body would break, even during our actual broadcasts.

Listening to Ryu Jaehee’s razor-sharp high notes, I executed the powerful choreography.

We couldn’t afford to lose in this pride-driven battle against KICKS.

2 minutes and 10 seconds.

The moment we entered the chorus again, I changed my movement path and watched Seo Yehyeon.

Unlike during rehearsal, he didn’t stumble and headed left in one smooth motion. I was smiling with satisfaction when my eyes met Seo Yehyeon’s.

I quickly wiped the smile from my face, and Seo Yehyeon looked at me and grinned back.

What are you smiling so proudly about? Don’t let your guard down. There are still 48 seconds left until the song ends.

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Daydream Eden @daydreamEDEN

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#Reve #Reve #Eden #EDEN

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-No way, is it real that he updates his legendary status every time a preview gets uploaded?

-I was curious because Eden had his hair all wrapped up in that previous selca, but aside from getting an undercut, nothing much seems different?

└I wanted to see the bleached hair thoughㅠ

-Yehyeon’s preview also got over 10,000 likes. Today’s outfit was better than usual, seems like the stylist worked hard for once

-Wow, Yehyeon finally did the choreography perfectly without any mistakes after so long ㅋㅋ

-Eden looking fondly pleased while watching Yehyeon, then immediately wiping away his smile the moment their eyes meet, and Yehyeon grinning back at Eden is so cute

└This is the part where Yehyeon always messes up hahahaha

└Goyeong who’s proud that hyung didn’t mess up but too embarrassed to show it, and Puppy who’s just purely proud that he didn’t mess up

-The fancam is insane, our girls’ intensity is crazy. Is this really the skill level of rookies who haven’t even debuted for a year yet?ㅠㅠㅠ

-Huh? Ilmong-ies, did you see this? The YouTube algorithm recommended this… kind of thing… https://yxxtu.be/VLJDSFn23

-Why is Dobin coming out of there…? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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