A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 333

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 333

What I chose was the tarp.

I figured it would be better to have a tent to light a fire for meal preparation and block the wind even a little when sleeping at night.

I opened the pack, laid out the poles and ropes, and moved away from the sandy beach to kick at the ground where the soil was much firmer than sand.

This should be enough to set up the tarp. If I set up the tarp on that sandy beach, it would surely collapse easily even in a light breeze.

“Doby, Kim Dobin. Let’s go collect stones.”

“Wait a minute! Let me finish washing this camping pot first!”

“Washing? Do you have detergent?”

“No? We’re going to cook ramen in this again anyway, so I’m just rinsing it with water once. This is the only pot we have, and it feels gross to leave it with ramen broth stuck on it.”

Kim Dobin washing the dishes right after eating – if Gyeon Hajun had seen this, it would have been quite a touching scene.

“Can’t you scrub it hard with tree leaves?”

“Wouldn’t the tree leaves be dirtier than the pot?”

“Is that so? Then just rinse it once with water. Don’t dump that water in the ocean.”

“What do you think I am, hyung?”

After Kim Dobin finished washing the dishes with a grumble, I dragged him toward the island interior, to the place where we had dug up kudzu. Since the ropes were in the pack, we just needed a shovel to dig the ground and stones to secure the ropes.

“We need four stones to secure the tarp and four stones to secure our sleeping place, eight stones total.”

“If we each carry two, we’d only need to go back and forth twice.”

“From what I can see, you can’t properly carry even one.”

I clicked my tongue at the future I could picture with my eyes closed, and Kim Dobin rolled up his sleeves with an enthusiastic face, asking what I took him for.

I grabbed two shovels and looked around for suitable stones. Then Kim Dobin lightly tugged at my clothes and pointed to a stone.

“Hyung, how about a stone this size?”

“Too small.”

“…This one? Just how big a stone are you looking for…?”

“This size.”

Horror appeared on Kim Dobin’s face when he saw the stone I pointed to.

“This isn’t a stone, it’s a rock!”

“A rock is a stone, man. And what kind of rock is this? Have you never seen a rock? This is a rock.”

I pointed to a huge rock and corrected Kim Dobin’s mistake, making his pupils shake wildly.

“How are we supposed to carry this?”

“Why can’t you carry it?”

When I lifted it up to demonstrate, Kim Dobin’s mouth fell wide open. I thought I heard some muttering that contained a firm resolve not to mess around.

“Ugh, it’s too heavy! I really can’t lift it! Hyung, can’t we carry one stone together?”

“Then would we be able to set up the tarp and prepare our sleeping place by today?”

Of course, Kim Dobin made a huge fuss about carrying even one stone, stopping to rest every three steps.

“Hyung… can’t we rest for just a bit…?”

“Damn it, you’re two years younger than me, yet you’re whining so much about carrying just one stone? Can’t you see this hyung carrying two shovels plus a stone?”

“First, this isn’t at a level where you can call it ‘just a stone.’ Second, I’m the guy who got crushed in arm wrestling by you in 2 seconds… You can’t compare me to hyung who has Saitama-level strength…”

“What’s that supposed to be? And why, didn’t you say it was 3 seconds before? Why don’t you try insisting it was 3 seconds this time too?”

“There’s this thing called One Punch Man, the strongest in that universe…”

Now lacking even the strength to respond, Kim Dobin mumbled his words and shook his head back and forth. After going back and forth several times and barely managing to bring eight stones, Kim Dobin collapsed onto the tarp.

“Don’t just lie there, you bastard! I’m using my brain, I’m using my body, and after bringing you here, instead of supporting me, you’re just making me do all the work! Get up quickly and dig!”

I shouted loudly at Kim Dobin, who was resting peacefully by himself even though I was currently digging. Since this was related to the image we’d built up so far, there was absolutely no way rumors of discord would spread from something like this.

Startled, Kim Dobin immediately ran over and started digging. After putting the rope-bound stones into the moderately dug ground, leaving only one rope sticking out, we buried it well with soil again.

“After attaching the carabiner to the rope, connect the main tarp spring to the carabiner and…”

“Hyung! Eden Hyung! The knots keep coming undone, what should I do?”

I was now curious about what kind of state Kim Dobin would have been in on this uninhabited island if I hadn’t come.

Sighing, I untied the obviously sloppy knot and carefully retied it.

After burying all four rocks like this, we firmly drove in the poles connected with rope and properly secured the tarp over them with main tarp springs, completing the tarp installation.

Roughly speaking, Kim Dobin’s share was about 1 percent, and mine was about 99 percent. Even though I suffered like this, the next travel planning rights or whatever would go to Kim Dobin. Thinking about that somehow made me angry.

Fortunately, the tarp was holding up reasonably well against the strong wind.

“Oh, something I brought.”

The Variety Entertainer said as if talking to himself while lightly shaking the tarp pole.

Seeing the pole firmly planted in the ground, shaking slightly then returning to its position, the Variety Entertainer smiled with satisfaction and nodded, then took his eyes off the pole, turned to look at me, and asked.

“You installed it well. By the way, are you sleeping here? It’ll still be cold though.”

“No, we haven’t prepared our sleeping place yet. We’re planning to clean up and make it after dinner. How are you handling dinner?”

“I’ll just have to starve. I don’t have anything left to trade. But Seongsu, you had your ramen taken too, what will you do?”

“I’ll have to grill and eat clams. I have the drum barrel, torch, and grill.”

The Comedian’s answer subtly implied that he wouldn’t need to beg from us.

Even when we prepared to grill the fish we caught by placing a grate over the drum barrel after lighting dry grass with our burner flame, even when the Actor and Solo Singer who had cleanly washed the octopus and sea snails that Kim Dobin had been eyeing sneakily entered our tarp and offered to share them, even when the Guitarist, who we wondered where he’d gone, finally caught a fish and boldly joined in.

The Comedian was silently preparing to grill clams that had finished purging sand next to our tarp, listening to the Variety Entertainer’s nagging commands.

“Seongsu, are you really not coming over here and just going to eat grilled clams?”

“I’m not going! I won’t get anything else taken from me. All I have left to lose now is my tent.”

A strong gust of wind blew, making the tarp’s waterproof cloth flutter violently.

Since we had secured it firmly with very large stones, the tarp just fluttered quite a bit but remained stable, but the Comedian’s one-touch tent, which just needed to be unfolded, was not so fortunate.

“My tent!”

Discovering his one-touch tent flying away in the wind, the Comedian abandoned his grilling clams and ran after the tent.

The Comedian looked around trying to find the tent that had disappeared from sight at some point.

Then.

Thud- thud-.

The sound of something falling onto the tarp’s waterproof cloth began to be heard.

The sound gradually shortened its intervals and created the sound of heavy rain. The tarp was firmly blocking the rain.

As the raindrops began falling steadily, the fire in the drum barrel where the Comedian had been grilling clams went out.

“Tsk, I was hoping to get some clams using the excuse of sharing water for purging sand, but that’s ruined.”

The Variety Entertainer clicked his tongue and went into his tent.

Unable to find his blown-away tent and walking back dejectedly in the rain, the Comedian stared blankly at his extinguished drum barrel, then picked up the clams with the grill and sneakily entered our tarp.

“Could clams also be traded…?”

When both Kim Dobin and I nodded simultaneously, the Comedian poured half the clams onto our grate that was starting to heat up. The other half went into the pot where ramen was boiling.

“Whoa, don’t tell me hyung… did you predict it would rain and install this?”

I slightly shook my head at Kim Dobin’s whisper. If I knew that, would I be raking in money running a fortune-telling shop instead of being an entertainer?

“This is bad. It won’t pour rain until tomorrow, will it?”

Tomorrow’s torrential rain trapping us on this island would be the worst-case scenario. The comedian, who was poking at the clams on the grill grate with tongs while saying it seemed like rain that would pour briefly then pass, reassured me.

“I’ve never cleaned fish before, can I just grill it like this…? Grilling it alive is kind of creepy.”

“To think your survival skills that have been boldly advancing would be blocked by cooking.”

Kim Dobin teased me as I pondered while facing the still flopping fish.

Exchanges weren’t necessarily only between items and items.

“Dongkyu hyung, we’ll share water and seafood ramen with you, so please help us clean the fish. You’re good at that kind of thing.”

“That’s fine with me. But do you have a knife?”

“Eden hyung brought one. Hyung, please give us the knife!”

The guitarist readily responded to Kim Dobin’s request for help. He tossed the folded MacGyver knife to Kim Dobin.

“Wait, what about us? The octopus and crab are ours though?”

“You can share the grilled fish that Dongkyu hyung cleans. Come on, hyungs. It’s too heartless to strictly divide yours and mine when it comes to food.”

Kim Dobin acted cheeky while deliberately tapping the burner with his fingertips.

Though other people had brought these items, we had temporary ownership of them.

Thanks to that, we could eat cleaned grilled fish, and ramen with octopus, clams, and shellfish without lifting a finger. Our sleeping arrangements were also upgraded considerably.

It was a feat accomplished with just six bottles of water.

So this is what they mean when they say a good head makes the body comfortable. It was a saying that never really hit home since I’d always had a good body that made my head comfortable, but today was different.

The smell of ramen and grilling fish was so deliciously fragrant that the variety entertainer who had been avoiding rain inside the tent quietly came out and entered under the tarp.

Of course, he was probably thinking about getting screen time too.

I offered wooden chopsticks to him as he licked his lips while looking at the seafood ramen bubbling in the camping pot.

“Since the tent is for two people, if you let Doby sleep in the tent, we’ll give you a meal.”

“That’s definitely possible.”

The variety entertainer nodded and readily accepted the wooden chopsticks. Kim Dobin blinked with surprised eyes and asked.

“Huh? Then where will you sleep, hyung?”

“We brought all the materials here. Even if it’s not a temporary tent woven from tree branches and leaves, I have to achieve the wild survival look you were thinking of, what else can I do.”

“Then I’ll give you the sleeping bag, hyung.”

“Why are you saying something so obvious like you’re making a sacrifice…?”

Like this, I succeeded in driving even Kim Dobin, whose sleeping habits weren’t exactly well-behaved, away from my sleeping place.

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