A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 349

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 349

At my simple and straightforward answer, Gyeon Hajun blinked with a confused expression, as if this wasn’t the response he had expected.

“Why?”

“No, wasn’t there some reason or something like that?”

“There was.”

“Yeah.”

“But it’s gone now.”

Even though I was clearly only telling the truth, the more I answered, the more uncomfortable Gyeon Hajun’s expression became.

“I just became confident now. That as long as the burden I place on you isn’t too excessive, our relationship won’t fall apart.”

As soon as I spoke those confident words, a system window appeared before my eyes.

[You have achieved 100 relationship improvement with member ‘Gyeon Hajun’.]

[▶Relationship improvement with members

-Seo Yehyeon(100%)

-Gyeon Hajun(100%)

-Kim Dobin(100%)

-Ryu Jaehee(99%)]

Only after both Gyeon Hajun and I let go of our excessive expectations toward each other could we achieve 100% relationship improvement again. This must mean the path I chose was right.

“Don’t you have anything you’re curious about? Something you haven’t been able to ask me until now?”

I gulped down the water I had bought along with the alcohol and asked Gyeon Hajun. After pondering for a moment as if scanning through the past, Gyeon Hajun posed a question.

“During the time you were going through your slump, I mean, before preparing for the Mongyu Byeolgok album. Was there something I did that disappointed you?”

I thought I had hidden that disappointment well, but it seemed he knew and just pretended not to notice. I let out a short sigh and answered.

“When you said it would be okay to buy songs from outside sources.”

“I didn’t say that because I didn’t trust your abilities, I just wanted to reduce your burden…”

“I know. I understand. But while you and Jaehee probably meant to reduce my burden, for me that was the worst possible option.”

Gyeon Hajun rubbed his forehead and muttered.

“…I didn’t know.”

Then he poured more soju into his mouth again. The amount of soju in Gyeon Hajun’s hand, now on his second bottle, was gradually reaching the bottom.

“Of course you didn’t know. I never said anything.”

“Why didn’t you say anything?”

“Because theoretically, and rationally, you and Jaehee were right about that choice. I agreed with this part too. The problem was that this part absolutely couldn’t compromise.”

I tapped my head and heart area in turn with my fingertips.

“I hope this will be the last time you have a slump.”

Gyeon Hajun smiled bitterly.

“Because if you have a slump like this one, there won’t be anything I can do to help. This time too, Yehyeon Hyung and Doby did everything. Jaehee and I just gave you more burden under the guise of advice.”

“Instead, Yehyeon Hyung and Doby are several times more annoying than you and Jaehee during recording. If you think about it that way, we’re even.”

I shrugged my shoulders, finished emptying the fourth bottle of soju, and opened the fifth soju bottle.

[※Warning! One more drink until your drinking limit]

Though the system gets criticized for being inflexible, I quietly put down the bottle I’d been blowing into at the warning from the system window that actually does its job. This kind of flexibility is welcome.

I still vividly remember waking up next to Podo’s doghouse, and experiencing crawling back to my family home as the same species as Podo was more than enough for one lifetime.

When the endless flow of alcohol stopped, the drunkenness hit me even harder and I became tired.

Come to think of it, the filming at Achae University, the argument, and the fight all happened in just one day. Oh wait, since it’s dawn now, should I say yesterday?

Looking at it laid out like this, it was certainly enough to be tired.

“I want to go home now.”

“I’m starting to want to go home now.”

“That home isn’t by any chance your family home, is it…?”

“That house isn’t by any chance the main family home, is it…?”

I remembered Gyeon Hajun shaking his head with a haggard face the day after Rev’s New Year drinking session to celebrate all members becoming adults, saying he tried his best to stop me.

It seemed he had been properly tormented by my drunk homing instinct toward my family home.

He remembered Kyun Ha-jun shaking his head with a haggard face the day after the New Year’s drinking party they had to celebrate all the Rev members becoming adults, saying he had tried his best to stop them.

“But how do we get to our dormitory? If we drive, it’ll be drunk driving.”

Even my friends who had experienced my drinking habits before my regression used to be fed up and say it was too much.

“Right. Should we just sleep here? Ugh, why is this floor so cold? My mouth’s going to freeze.”

I sprawled out on the practice room floor but immediately sat up at the cold air climbing up my back. No matter how unparticular I am about sleeping places, if I slept in this cold pit without even a blanket, I’d probably get body aches on top of a hangover the next day.

It was too late to call their manager just because two members had been drinking.

“That doesn’t seem right. No, Eden, wait a minute.”

I sprawled out on the practice room floor, but the cold creeping up my back made me bolt upright. No matter how unparticular I am about where I sleep, spending the night in this freezing place without even a blanket would probably give me body aches on top of my hangover the next day.

-What, are you sleeping over?

“No, come pick us up. The car’s here so just come and drive my car back.”

“That doesn’t seem right. No, Eden, wait a minute.”

“How proud. You said you’d definitely get it this year. It’s December now, human.”

-What, you’re going to sleep over?

Seo Yehyeon spoke in a voice that wasn’t regretful at all, but we had Manager Kim.

“I never thought of making hyung do designated driving, so bring Kim Dobin.”

-Don’t you know I still don’t have my license?

“Are you going to send just him alone to take care of two people who’ve been drinking? In this dark dawn? Hyung, no matter how bothersome it is to go back and forth at dawn, that’s not right.”

-No, I wanted to get it too, but this year’s schedule… Anyway, unfortunately that became impossible. Just sleep over at the practice room for one night.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Our Doby was reborn as the best driver thanks to the Spartan training he did with me!”

-Just how much did you drink? You’re properly drunk.

“I never planned on having you drive for me, so bring Kim Dobin.”

-You are drunk. For a moment I thought our father had drunk and called me.

“So you’re going to send just him alone to take care of two drunk people? In this dark early morning? Hyung, I know it’s annoying to go back and forth at dawn, but that’s just not right.”

Seo Yehyeon, who knew about my drinking habits from hearing about them from Gyeon Hajun, seemed convinced and stopped insisting I was drunk.

-No, but are you telling a sleeping kid to wake up and come drive?

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Our Dobin has become the best driver thanks to the Spartan training he did with me!”

The sound of footsteps followed by a door opening came in sequence, then the conversation between Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin could soon be heard through the receiver.

“I’m not drunk.”

-You’re drunk. For a moment I thought it was my dad calling me after drinking.

“If I had been drunk, I wouldn’t have asked you to come pick me up to go back to the dorm – I would have made a fuss about going to my family home.”

Seo Yehyeon, who had heard about my drinking habits from Gyeonhajun, seemed convinced and stopped insisting that I was drunk.

-No, but how can you wake up someone who’s sleeping and tell them to come drive?

“There’s no way Kim Dobin would be sleeping at this hour.”

The sound of footsteps followed by a door opening could be heard in sequence, and soon the voices of Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin in conversation came through the receiver.

-Dobin. You’re not asleep? What are you doing up at this hour? Jaehee is sleeping.

-I was just going to watch this and go to sleep. But what’s going on? The hyungs said they gave up drinking all night in the practice room?

-Seems like it. Yoon Eden is asking you to come over to where they are and drive his car for him.

-Ah, I’m confident about that. I took my driving lessons with Eden hyung’s car anyway, so I’m familiar with that car. I’m also familiar with the route to the agency building.

-Yoon Eden! I’ll be there soon, so don’t drink any more! If you can’t control your body, forget about supporting you—I’ll just leave you on the practice room floor!

Click, the phone hung up.

In the meantime, perhaps judging that his drinking limit was precariously close, Gyeon Hajun set down the soju bottle he was holding with a thud on the floor.

Gyeon Hajun shifted his gaze to the two empty soju bottles placed beside him, let out a long breath, and completely leaned the back of his head against the mirror.

“This is the first time I’ve drunk this much since New Year’s when I turned twenty.”

“Right. Come to think of it, you never drank more than a bottle and a half.”

“I drank way too much today.”

Gyeon Hajun made a groaning sound and squeezed his eyes shut.

Sitting next to Gyeon Hajun with his eyes closed, I looked around the spacious and comfortable practice room and blurted out.

“Do you remember? How shocked we were when we saw LnL’s first office basement practice room after only seeing the Newborn practice room?”

“I clearly remember how you, who used to lie down just fine in the Newborn practice room, never once lay down in that practice room until we debuted.”

“…It wasn’t because it was dirty, but because at Newborn, when I lay down, they’d bring me water, bring me towels, and fan me. Here, I wasn’t in a role where I got taken care of. I was even the leader.”

“True, even then you were different from me. And calling that ‘being taken care of’ is a bit of a stretch.”

Maybe if it was voluntary submission… Gyeon Hajun’s voice, which had become sluggish, carried a heavy drowsiness.

“Hey, Eden.”

My name quietly echoed in the silent air of the practice room.

“The drama. Was there a reason you insisted so much on the second script?”

“It looked much more interesting than the first one. The role was bigger too.”

After hearing my answer that came without hesitation, Gyeon Hajun was silent for a moment, then hesitated before carefully asking again.

“Does that have anything to do with you resenting me when you claimed to be thirty years old…?”

“I’ve never been thirty years old, so I wouldn’t know, Jun.”

It was an answer that cleverly spoke only the truth.

“Was that really a midsummer night’s dream like you said? I should have switched to a Galaxy phone earlier like you said… then at least there would have been a recording left.”

Gyeon Hajun laughed briefly and shook his head as if to clear it.

“Am I properly drunk? I’m really having all sorts of random thoughts.”

And he reached toward the water bottle. But what Gyeon Hajun grabbed wasn’t the water bottle, but the soju bottle next to it. He seemed to be properly drunk as he said.

“Hey, Jun. That’s alcohol-”

Before I could stop him, soju went down Gyeon Hajun’s throat. Me getting up with my heavy body to snatch the soju bottle from Gyeon Hajun’s hand and the practice room door bursting open happened almost simultaneously.

“Pay for the taxi fare.”

“And the designated driver fee too.”

Seo Yehyeon, who walked in majestically with Kim Dobin trailing behind him, first confiscated the soju bottle in my hand, closed the cap, and pushed me toward Kim Dobin. Kim Dobin, who ended up supporting me, made a tearful face.

“Hey, did you two empty six bottles of soju in three hours? Including this one and that one, it’s probably seven bottles.”

Seo Yehyeon clicked his tongue at the empty soju bottles and supported Gyeon Hajun, who couldn’t quite get his bearings.

“Goodness, Hajun, I thought you wouldn’t be drunk and Yoon Eden would be heavily drunk, but why is it the opposite?”

“So that’s why you dumped Eden hyung on me.”

“Yoon Eden is shorter-”

Seo Yehyeon’s giggling voice was cut off abruptly. Gyeon Hajun was firmly gripping Seo Yehyeon’s arm and rubbing his head against him.

“Yehyeon Hyung, I….”

“Uhhh, Hajun. First, how about you remove your head from my arm and then we talk? I’m getting goosebumps right now.”

Seo Yehyeon, who had stiffened up, tried to free his arm that was caught by Gyeon Hajun, but.

“I feel sick, urgh!”

“Okay, okay! I won’t shake my arm!”

“No, I really feel sick… I’m trying to calm my stomach… There’s no way I’d be acting aegyo toward you, hyung, urk…”

“Instead of calming down like this, wouldn’t it be better to go to the bathroom? Hajun, can you hear me?”

Fortunately for Seo Yehyeon, Gyeon Hajun’s stomach issue ended with just a couple of dry heaves.

Kim Dobin, who glanced at me looking perfectly fine compared to Gyeon Hajun, completely wiped away his tearful expression and said cheerfully.

“As they say, ‘those who are prepared to die will live, and those who seek to live will die’—old sayings are never wrong.”

Is that really an appropriate saying for this situation?

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