A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 326

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 326

“Gasp, the fan tore.”

“How hard do you have to fold it for the fan to tear? I told you to fold it gently.”

Coming down from the stage, I scolded Kim Dobin while adjusting the short hanbok-style outer garment draped over my black turtleneck. Ryu Jaehee, who had been gently waving his fan beside me, turned to look at Kim Dobin and asked.

“Isn’t this the third time hyung has torn a fan?”

“It’s because they’re paper fans, isn’t it? It’s not that I’m careless, it’s that the paper is too weak and tears easily.”

“That’s what you say, but we also have paper fans and none of us except hyung have ever torn one.”

“Let’s just all switch to cloth fans.”

At Kim Dobin’s bold demand, I simply raised my head and said just one thing.

“Are you buying them?”

“I’ll just tape it up and do a self-repair.”

As Kim Dobin backed down, this time Gyeon Hajun, who had been examining his fan, spoke up.

“Mine’s torn here too. Did I use too much force when opening it?”

“Really? Then since we’re replacing them anyway, let’s just switch to cloth fans, all of us.”

“Please stop the discrimination against non-Gyeon Hajun. The non-Gyeon Hajun who suggested the same thing and was told to pay out of his own pocket is sad.”

“Hey, did you really think I’d make you pay for it? Of course I’ll bill the agency.”

“Woo woo woo, cowardly excuse OUT!”

I subdued Kim Dobin, who was booing with his thumb pointing downward, with a headlock.

“Haha, Doby. Hyung has gotten much more comfortable, hasn’t he? You’re booing me with your finger right to my face? It’s no use trying to point your finger back up now, man.”

“Still, being more comfortable is better than being uncomfortable all this time! Save me!”

Since our stage was the very last performance, we had to go back up on stage for the first place announcement without even a moment to catch our breath.

Standing in a line next to the MCs, we made the number 1 with our fingers for “Cheongryuga” and waved at the camera.

“Text voting has ended! Now, we’ll announce the first place winner for Music Center’s first week of November! First, the album scores.”

The MCs continued to rattle off the evaluation criteria one by one. Since the other first place candidate didn’t appear on today’s music show, our first place win was practically a foregone conclusion.

“Today’s first place winner, combining the live text voting scores, is!”

Pop!

As confetti scattered in the air, the MC announced today’s first place winner.

“Rev’s ‘Cheongryuga’! Congratulations, Rev!”

I bowed deeply as I received the trophy. Ryu Jaehee, who took the microphone instead of me, gave thanks to the members and agency staff in his first place acceptance speech.

“Lastly, Rev’s eternal partners Daydream! We’re always grateful and love you!”

While Ryu Jaehee made a hand heart toward the fan section and waved, the encore stage instrumental began to play.

After greeting the other idol groups and MCs who were leaving the stage, we prepared for the encore stage.

Since there was the incredibly difficult penalty of the aegyo triple set at stake, the atmosphere among the members was very tense.

Ryu Jaehee easily sang the opening part that Gyeon Hajun was responsible for.

Since Kim Dobin and Seo Yehyeon were only targeting each other’s parts or my parts anyway, Ryu Jaehee wasn’t a target for their interference.

Seo Yehyeon sang Kim Dobin’s part with an openly relieved expression. It meant he had successfully managed to sing one part.

With the experience from the cypher mission where I jumped in immediately with 15 seconds left, I entered one step ahead of Gyeon Hajun before he could sing Ryu Jaehee’s part and snatched it away.

Singing by only lowering the vocal range from the original to suit me was a piece of cake for me, the main composer of this song.

This kind of flexibility and sense is necessary too. If I had sung in the original range, it would have made a metallic sound beyond squeaking, and I definitely would have had to perform the aegyo triple set.

Even though I expected that Gyeon Hajun would steal Ryu Jaehee’s part, which I had composed but seemed quite insanely difficult in terms of difficulty, while lowering the vocal range, instead of the easy-to-sing parts of Kim Dobin and Seo Yehyeon that wouldn’t expose the bottom of my vocal skills, I did this because I needed to find out what Gyeon Hajun’s breaking point was.

In short, it’s correct to say I’m doing this on purpose to get on Gyeon Hajun’s nerves.

Please understand, Gyeon Hajun.

I’m doing all this for my future. If I can’t raise our relationship improvement back to 1%, I’ll have to regress to the beginning of debut again and go through this hellish ordeal once more.

Of course, I’ll somehow prevent regression to the beginning of debut again, but since life is unpredictable, for that 1% chance that might happen, I’ve already thought of lyrics to use when I go on DTB 4 and face off against Yupi again in the third preliminary round.

I’m curious what the reaction would be if I blurted out ‘I know you’re all going to drop me and promote Yupi’ and I actually got eliminated like this time. Not that I want to regress just to see that though.

And my current stealing of Gyeon Hajun’s opportunities wasn’t for purely selfish reasons just for myself.

It was simply to fulfill the wish of Gyeon Hajun’s biggest fan, who said while doing a search that Gyeon Hajun had never properly shown aegyo once from debut until now, and that seeing Gyeon Hajun do serious aegyo was their wish.

When I exchanged glances with Ryu Jaehee and subtly pointed at Gyeon Hajun with my finger while winking, Ryu Jaehee also gave a thumbs up as if to say just trust him and nodded with a confident face.

I continued to annoyingly block Gyeon Hajun with the vocal range adjusted for me, Gyeon Hajun repeatedly lowered his microphone with a calm face, and the encore song random part change pledge mission gradually headed in an unexpected direction.

Shit, this isn’t right.

Why does this group always do this? Since I’m the leader, it can’t be a leader problem, right?

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-It’s kind of dreamlike, two out of three first place candidate songs are Rev songs

-Oh the pledge was a bit boring yesterday but today’s encore stage looks worth watching

-Who’s gonna get the penalty hahahaha

-I want to see our Bambi being cute after such a long time…ㅠ Yehyun, go back to your roots and make just one mistake, that’s this fan’s wish!

-Will I be able to see Hajun’s aegyo before I die, how can he keep avoiding aegyo that even Eden did until now in his 4th year

-Ahh lol Dobin’s fan tore again lol At this point, doesn’t Dobin only get defective fans? lol

-Hajun’s fan tore too

-Even when the fans tear, neither of their expressions change, just pure professionals…

└Dobin is used to it now ㅋㅋㅋㅋ He was really flustered when it first ripped ㅋㅋㅋ

-Let’s just change to fabric fans that don’t tear, guys

-The outer garment hems fluttering softly like flower petals is so pretty

-Ilmong Girls who became fans in the recent 1-2 years don’t know why old fans admire Rev’s knife-sharp choreography

└There was a time when if you said Rev wasn’t a performance group, nobody would believe you lol

-Some people say vote for #1, others say vote for #2 haha How many times do I have to send texts anyway

-So the vocal line gets cheered on by Yeonha and the rap line and main dancers get cheered on by Cheongryu? lol

-Oh Cheongryoo is #1 congrats congrats

-Yuje successfully claimed Hajun’s part lol it’s nice to hear it in our giant hamster’s voice

-Yehyeon successfully stole Doby’s part! Then will Eden or Doby do Yehyeon’s part

└We saw Eden’s version so I want to see Doby’s version

-Hajun will probably do Yuje’s part anyway

-Eden…? You’re going to do the main vocalist part…?

-How low is the vocal range going?

-Just looking at his face, he’s belting out the original song with full passion lolololololololololol

-Eden’s aegyo confirmed ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ As expected from our filial piety idol!

-99.9999999% chance Yoon Rida will insist there was no talk about vocal range so since it’s not a mistake, he doesn’t have to do aegyo

└Eden experts agree

-Oh Yehyeon even took Eden’s part lol Doby’s expression is getting more and more anxious lol

-It’s okay Doby, Yehyeon’s part comes right after so you can do that

-Yehyeon… let go of your greed and just do your rap part…

-Our Yehyeon… isn’t at the level to go on DTB 5

-hahahahahahahahahaha

-Yehyeon? Yehyeon…?

-Yehyeon ended up doing his own part too lol

-Actually Yehyeon wanted to show aegyo too, not doing aegyo with that face is a national loss

-I don’t know whether to laugh or cry… did he practice so much that it comes out automatically when his part comes?

-Look at how his expression became stunned when he realized he was doing his own part in the middle lol

-Doby’s expression is literally a puppy who got his snack stolen right in front of him

-Doby tried to do Hajun’s part but the youngest member’s block was amazing lol

-The youngest member must have decided to make all his hyungs do aegyo today lol He even did Doby’s part himself to prevent Hajun from doing it lol Youngest member, you’re supposed to breathe while singing right?

-Yoon Eden blocked Hajun again by doing Yuje’s part first lol

-No wonder the leader and youngest member were exchanging signals early on lol So it was a signal to block Hajun lol

└They were trying to corner Hajun but two more ended up self-destructing lol

-The hook getting lower in the chorus is so funny lol

-The song ended, Doby and Hajun couldn’t sing until the end lol

-All Rev members are funny, they’re all laughing without any hurt feelings, but what are these evil fans writing Gung Ye novels about their inner thoughts while dissing Yuje and Eden

-Please do it one more time tomorrow or Thursday without penalties, I’m curious about Hajun’s version of the chorus and Doby’s version of Yehyeon’s rap

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“So, that’s how these three members won the aegyo triple set performance.”

After finishing my comment in front of the camera and clapping, two of those three members rushed at me like lightning.

“No way! Why three people! It should be four!”

“Right! Why aren’t you including yourself!”

“Well, I successfully sang the youngest member’s part and didn’t make any mistakes.”

“Your vocal range was digging into the ground, what do you mean no mistakes.”

“There was no rule saying we had to match the vocal range exactly.”

I tried to argue shamelessly, but in the end I was dragged by hands pulling from the front and pushing from behind, trudging to stand in front of the camera.

“Why did I do that? Why did I sing my own part?”

“Why did you do that, hyung.”

“I don’t know either. It came out so naturally. I guess I practiced too much.”

Seo Yehyeon’s dazed lament and Kim Dobin’s resentment could be heard from beside me.

I glanced to the side to check Gyeon Hajun’s expression, but his face was very peaceful without a trace of resentment toward me.

I guess this level wasn’t enough to get under his skin. If he had been the only one to get the aegyo penalty it would be different, but since everyone except Ryu Jaehee got the penalty together, there was nothing particularly upsetting about it.

I watched Gyeon Hajun performing the cheek poke wink with his still peaceful face.

When my turn came, I mechanically shook my fist up and down next to my cheek. Right, this isn’t aegyo but a technique to confuse the opponent about which fist I’ll throw.

Now what should I do for the other two?

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