A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 344

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 344

I turned my attention away from Kim Dobin and Seo Yehyeon, who were having an unnecessarily serious discussion about the unnecessarily trivial topic of where to place something that could be written as a lucky totem but read as a photo of the CEO—something whose actual luck-bringing abilities versus Kim Dobin’s firm delusion remained unclear—to achieve optimal effectiveness while staying out of camera view, and draped my arm over Gyeon Hajun’s shoulder as I asked.

“How about it, do you feel like calling me hyung-nim now?”

When I looked back at Gyeon Hajun with a grin, he similarly smiled mischievously, crinkling the corners of his eyes, and shook his head slightly.

“It was cool, but still not enough to overcome the 7-month gap between us.”

“How much would I have to perform in the soccer finals to get you to call me hyung-nim?”

“If you want to hear it that badly, I could call you hyung once. Should I call you that now?”

“No no, I want to hear hyung-nim coming from a sincere heart, not be called that in a prostrating-for-bows kind of way.”

It’s not like I could reveal the fact that I regressed after turning twenty-seven just to hear Gyeon Hajun call me hyung-nim once.

More than anything, even if I revealed that fact, Gyeon Hajun’s reaction was obvious. He’d probably call me that once as if doing me a favor, asking if I really wanted to hear hyung-nim that badly.

“I guess I’ll have to show another amazing performance in the finals. It’s hard to hear hyung-nim just once.”

When I grumbled as if lamenting while brushing back my bangs, Gyeon Hajun lightly patted my back, saying he was looking forward to it.

“I’ve decided. Whether I put it in my uniform pocket or pants pocket, neither directly touches skin anyway, so it’s six of one, half dozen of the other, right? So I’ll just put it in my uniform pocket.”

“No way. There’s a t-shirt under the uniform, but there’s underwear under the pants. Since underwear is thinner than a t-shirt, putting it in the pants pocket would be more effective.”

“Hmm, is that so?”

Meanwhile, Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin’s discussion was gradually coming to an end. With Seo Yehyeon leaning toward buying it.

But knowing how powerful Kim Dobin’s ability to spout nonsense with a serious expression was, I didn’t mock Seo Yehyeon.

When bullshit goes beyond a certain degree, it attacks your mind and makes even nonsense sound right.

“Listening to that conversation makes me feel like my intelligence is dropping in real time. Do I really need to know about other people’s underwear thickness?”

“I agree. Even Yehyeon hyung is getting influenced by Doby hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee, who lived carrying the brainpower of 2.5 people total, lamented in disgust. Since it wasn’t his group, Jung Iseo seemed to find that conversation not frustrating but simply funny, as he let out a small laugh.

But that was brief—when we all turned to look at him in unison, he quickly composed his expression as if he’d never laughed.

“But are you going to keep staying with us? We won’t be able to look out for you carefully. This is a gathering of guys who are all far from delicate.”

Jung Iseo nodded at my question.

“It’s fine. As long as you don’t blatantly ignore me or dismiss me to my face.”

The atmosphere became solemn in an instant at Jung Iseo’s response.

They were the ones who agreed to directly place him in the parachute debut group, so why are they treating him like that? If they find parachutes so disgusting to look at, they should leave the agency like I did. Seriously, these incomprehensible bastards.

“Still… wouldn’t it be better to send him to his own group? We might get swept up in it too.”

Seo Yehyeon said while rubbing his brow with a troubled expression. Seo Yehyeon seemed quite reluctant about this situation where Jung Iseo was sticking with us instead of going to his own group.

“Let’s just let him stay. If he doesn’t want to go to his own group, forcing him to go seems wrong.”

Having finished whatever calculation in his head, Ryu Jaehee was on Jung Iseo’s side. Kim Dobin, who had the softest heart among the members, also nodded in agreement with Ryu Jaehee.

“Archery preliminary participants, please come this way!”

At the staff’s shout, Ryu Jaehee quickly linked arms with Gyeon Hajun, who was just about to open his mouth to say something, and turned around.

“Hyung, let’s hurry. Remember last time when we went late and all the good bows were taken? This time we should try shooting with something less worn out.”

“I wonder if that would make much difference in the results.”

“Hey, if equipment didn’t matter, why would people keep talking about equipment?”

Seo Yehyeon was receiving the laminated photo of the CEO from Kim Dobin with an unnecessarily solemn expression. After roughly shoving it into his pants pocket, Seo Yehyeon suddenly looked like reality had hit him as he ran his palm down his face.

“Is using the CEO’s photo like this really the right thing to do…?”

“You’re just realizing that now? Amazing.”

“It’s just an experiment, what’s the big deal.”

Seo Yehyeon looked back and forth between me and Kim Dobin, who were casually waving our hands, then shook his head and headed toward the archery set where the preliminaries were being held.

[Archery Group A, Rev!]

The first batter was Ryu Jaehee. With sharp eyes fixed on the target, Ryu Jaehee took a deep breath and drew the bowstring.

Watching him, I was reminded of the time when Ryu Jaehee claimed he was a hamster and that claim was somewhat accepted.

Time really flies. Kim Dobin next to me has only grown a few centimeters taller, but so many other things including his mindset remain exactly the same.

While I was lost in nostalgia, the arrow that shot out quickly hit the 7-point section of the target. His archery skills haven’t improved and remain the same.

Ryu Jaehee, who scored in the 6-8 point range just like before, lowered his bow with a dissatisfied expression. He walked over to where Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon were and said something.

Seeing Seo Yehyeon reach out and lightly ruffle Ryu Jaehee’s hair, I figured he probably said something like he’d leave the remaining scores to the other two.

This was Gyeon Hajun’s first time participating in an archery event competition.

With a slightly nervous expression, Gyeon Hajun nocked an arrow to the string and seriously drew the bowstring toward the target.

“Back then, I should have sent Juni instead of Kim Dobin. Then we would have made it to the finals. How do you even manage to score 0 points no matter how you shoot?”

“Hyung, you shot a 1 point.”

“1 point is better than 0 points, man. Can’t you feel how strange that sounds even as you’re saying it?”

After Gyeon Hajun’s turn ended with an average of 8 points, it was finally Seo Yehyeon’s turn.

“That face doing archery is just unfair.”

“Well, even if he gets a terrible score, there’s no way it’ll be edited out. He’s truly unrivaled, unrivaled.”

I could clearly hear the murmuring voices. Seo Yehyeon’s face is definitely unrivaled.

[Come to think of it, player Seo Yehyeon proved his skills in the last match by shooting three X-10s.]

[I’m quite excited to see if he can show that level of skill again this time. Yes, just as I said that, the first X-10 has appeared!]

Looking at the arrow stuck in the center of the target, Seo Yehyeon’s hand quietly moved once toward the pocket containing the CEO’s laminated photo.

The remaining arrows that Seo Yehyeon shot without hesitation also cut through the air and hit the target.

I don’t want to go into detail, but all you need to know is that with each arrow Seo Yehyeon shot, the commentators’ joyful exclamations could be heard, and when Seo Yehyeon shot his last arrow, it drew a standing ovation from the watching idols.

“Four X-10s and one 10 point… Since hyung’s best record was three X-10s, I guess there’s a 1.5x luck power buff.”

“It didn’t double, just increased by one, so at this level that luck power buff or whatever might as well not exist. It’s probably just a psychological effect that calmed his mind and increased his concentration.”

“Then are you saying I was just a naturally Lucky Dobin?”

“Yeah, just believe that. How long are you going to carry around the CEO’s photo? People might think you have a crush on the CEO.”

“Ugh, I feel sick now…”

[Archery Group D, Revolution!]

Since Revolution only had three members show up for the Sports University schedule, all the participating members came out for the archery preliminaries. I was thinking about leaving and staying in the fan section until archery ended, but since there were two familiar faces, I decided to watch just this match.

BT, whom I’d gotten acquainted with through several encounters on DTB 4, and the Revolution leader who worked together on On Top both spotted me at the same time and gave light hand greetings.

Then a shadow fell over our heads.

“How long are you going to keep hanging around other teams like that?”

The irritated voice of a KICKS member came from above. I let out a deep sigh, got up, and stood in front of the KICKS guys.

“Hey, he’s not a seven-year-old kid, he’ll come back on his own when he wants to. Just leave him alone.”

“Try thinking from our perspective. What do you think people would say if your team member only hung around with us?”

“Who cares? Our members would never do that.”

Since it absolutely couldn’t look like we were fighting, I was picking my ear and giving half-hearted responses when Kwon Yunseong finally stepped in.

“Jung Iseo, we should still go to the fan section together.”

“He’ll go on his own. Kwon Yunseong, why are you trying to take him without even asking why he’s acting like this? You don’t have the basic attitude of a leader.”

When I clicked my tongue, Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee behind me started coughing forcefully. Kwon Yunseong frowned and let out a deep sigh.

“Haah, please understand, Yoon Eden. We don’t want to get swept up in discord rumors either.”

“Then you shouldn’t have done things that would cause discord rumors in the first place.”

“Jung Iseo? That whistleblower?”

“Yunseong, I told you to ask him directly, didn’t I? Why can’t you understand and make me say the same thing twice? You know well that I hate saying the same thing twice.”

When I nagged him in the gentlest tone possible, Jung Iseo, who had been contemplating, finally headed toward KICKS first.

“I’ll just show my face in the fan section and come back.”

“Call me if they try to stop you. And Yunseong, Kwon Yunseong. I believe you’re not that much of a bad guy.”

Kwon Yunseong’s expression turned bitter.

After Kim Dobin, who had been doing massive trolling, left, Rev smoothly advanced to the archery finals as well. At this rate, could we sweep all the medals today?

“Daydream, did you see me playing soccer? It was cool, right? I know it too.”

“Me? I play volleyball!”

“Ilmong-ies, enjoy your lunch!”

After watching the reverse attack lunch boxes being distributed, upgraded from chicken steak to beef steak, we also turned toward the waiting room to eat lunch.

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After eating a filling lunch, the preliminary matches continued. There weren’t many preliminary events left now. Once those were all finished, the finals would probably begin.

“Do you know what trigger means?”

Seo Yehyeon, who had been lounging around, suddenly threw out a random question.

“Hyung, no matter how stupid I might look, thinking I don’t even know the meaning of that word – just how much of an idiot do you think I am? It’s a trigger, a trigger.”

When I kindly pronounced “trigger” syllable by syllable in case Seo Yehyeon didn’t understand, his expression changed strangely.

“I only said two characters, ‘Do you know?’, but why is the answer coming back several times longer?”

“I’m not scratched.”

“I never asked if you were scratched.”

“Even if people don’t speak directly, there’s something called context, you know? But why are you suddenly giving me surprise English vocabulary quizzes at Sports University?”

At my question, Seo Yehyeon covered his mouth and yawned once, then casually replied while dabbing away the tears that formed in his eyes with his finger.

“Because it seems like you’re pressing someone’s trigger to a precarious degree right now.”

When did I? When I looked at Seo Yehyeon with a bewildered face, he shrugged his shoulders.

“Of course, if it’s intentional, then it doesn’t matter.”

Seo Yehyeon glanced back, then returned his head to its original position and continued speaking.

“But if it’s unintentional, I can clearly see our dormitory turning into thin ice, so I’m warning you in advance.”

When I turned my head following where Seo Yehyeon’s gaze had just landed, Gyeon Hajun’s face came into view.

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