A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 358

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 358

“Hmm, I see.”

“Why are the Altair seniors here?”

“Weren’t you a fan of Adora seniors? So what you liked wasn’t Adora seniors but Altair seniors?”

“You’re talking about ancient history. Now I have more of a junior’s mindset than fan feelings, you know?”

The fact that our vacation spot overlapped with Altair members wasn’t particularly problematic, nor was it something to treat like top-secret classified information, so Kim Dobin’s fuss was being treated as an overreaction by the members.

Among them, Cha Yeonho was someone I had completely forgotten about, despite being a strong candidate for fellow regressor, because his significance had been overshadowed by KICKS Parachute Jung Iseo who had dropped a massive bomb.

As for KJ, hmm… thinking about him was annoying so I deliberately didn’t think about it. Besides, as long as Cha Yeonho had made his move, he wasn’t someone I needed to worry about yet.

Anyway, whether just two of them from the group came on a friendship trip or all the Altair members came together like us, it wasn’t worth making such a fuss about.

It’s not like Altair and us had a past like KICKS or were on terribly bad terms, and we weren’t particularly close either.

Of course, I did have a past with Altair, but since I regressed, all of that had disappeared and become a future that hadn’t arrived yet, so that was beside the point.

Kim Dobin, who lowered his already floor-level voice even further, whispered in a small, low voice that seemed like it would burrow underground any moment.

“No, I’m saying Cha Yeonho senior and KJ senior were fighting!”

Since they were famous as best friends in the entertainment industry, and I also knew well how special they were to each other, I was slightly surprised to hear that.

But I was the only one surprised here. So our members don’t care at all when others fight.

“Why isn’t anyone surprised? You don’t happen to not know that Cha Yeonho senior and KJ senior are in the same group, do you?”

Kim Dobin voiced the question I had been curious about.

“How could we forget when they’re the number one contributors who made it possible for us to come to Hawaii? It’s Altair. They competed with us in 20,000 Won Happiness and lost.”

When the 20,000 Won Happiness story came up again, Seo Yehyeon’s shoulders shot up as he answered with a dignified expression.

After another round of self-praise about the miracle created by lettuce and cucumber and a speech about the heinous pizza party that ruined it all, Kim Dobin, who had been spacing out until all that nonsense ended, brought up his original question again, and Seo Yehyeon shrugged and replied.

“Yoon Eden and Hajun fought too, so what. People can fight with friends while living their lives.”

“Honestly, since it’s about someone else’s team that has nothing to do with us, even if those two fought, hmm… it was more shocking to see Eden hyung and Hajun hyung raising their voices and getting into a fistfight.”

Ryu Jaehee also agreed with Seo Yehyeon’s words with an indifferent expression. What I focused on wasn’t that they fought, but a different part.

“Who threw the first punch?”

When I asked casually, Kim Dobin looked at me, let out a deep sigh, and shook his head.

“Please abandon the stereotype that everyone fights by throwing punches like hyung.”

“Aw, what? Then it wasn’t even a serious fight.”

Fighting without even getting into a fistfight, which was a process that Gyeon Hajun and I had also gone through, didn’t make sense. I was an idiot for believing Kim Dobin’s fuss at face value.

I thought that persistent friendship was finally cracking when I heard they fought, but it’s just bickering.

Just as I was about to lose interest with a deflated expression.

“Wait a minute.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been indifferent to the story about those two fighting, suddenly hardened his expression seriously and called Kim Dobin.

“But if hyung saw that, doesn’t that mean they fought in a public space where other people could see too?”

Thanks to the point Ryu Jaehee picked up on, my interest began to pique again.

“That’s right. Unless Dobin mistook the hotel room number and entered those seniors’ room. Though of course he couldn’t have entered without a key.”

Even Gyeon Hajun, who had been so uninterested that he hadn’t said a word until now, opened his mouth, so that said it all.

“It was the hotel corridor. To be precise, they opened the door and came bursting out? They were on the same floor as us? I was wandering the corridor looking for our room and accidentally went the wrong way.”

“If it’s just a light argument, that level wouldn’t matter, right?”

“I’m telling you it wasn’t just a light argument. Would I have brought it up if it was just bickering level?”

“Then how serious was it?”

At Seo Yehyeon’s question, Kim Dobin slightly frowned his right eyebrow, hesitated for a moment, then answered.

“Like the level when Eden hyung and Hajun hyung fought. Just imagine that but without the punches. The atmosphere was completely murderous.”

Hmm, the situation when I fought with Gyeon Hajun was pretty serious. If they fought to that extent, it seems like it wasn’t an ordinary matter on their side either.

“Unless they were deliberately trying to create discord rumors, fighting to that level in such a public place means it was such a serious situation that they couldn’t even be aware of it, right?”

As soon as Ryu Jaehee finished speaking, everyone’s gaze turned toward Kim Dobin. Perhaps annoyed by the belated interest, Kim Dobin pouted.

“Why are you all asking when you weren’t interested before?”

“Don’t hold grudges and hurry up and spill what you heard. What were they fighting about?”

While light quarrels between friends might be boring, serious fight stories between best friends are always interesting.

Most of all, it’s watching a fight across the river when our house isn’t on fire.

And even if it wasn’t just for entertainment, I was curious about why those people who were so desperate that they came to cling to us instead of their friend ended up fighting without caring about people watching and got caught by Kim Dobin.

“Hmm, where should I start from… First, the room door suddenly opened. And KJ senior came running out first. Then Cha Yeonho senior chased after him.”

“But wait a minute. They fought in front of you?”

“No way. I immediately pressed my back against the corridor corner and hid. I felt like the protagonist of a spy movie.”

“Got it, so stop doing the James Bond pose and hurry up and tell us why they fought.”

“Something about a cell phone… KJ senior was really angry asking why he looked at it carelessly.”

Seo Yehyeon muttered with a displeased face.

“Isn’t this a classic couple fight topic?”

“Oh, KJ must have been talking behind Cha Yeonho’s back through messenger.”

“Eden, just in case, let’s add the senior honorific. Since there’s a possibility someone might overhear while passing by, just like how Dobin eavesdropped on those two fighting.”

“Okay.”

It seems like calling them KJ and Cha Yeonho in his head so much has made it stick to his mouth.

“And Cha Yeonho senior chased after him asking why he didn’t say anything, getting just as angry as KJ senior.”

“What didn’t he say?”

“I don’t know that because those seniors caught me. Of all places, they had to come to the corridor corner where I was hiding.”

Kim Dobin scratched the back of his head and smiled foolishly. That’s bragging, you fool. And then you talk about being a spy movie protagonist? Do spy movie protagonists look free to you?

“So, what happened after you got caught?”

“KJ senior took the elevator down, and Cha Yeonho senior asked with a very serious face if I saw anything, so instead of answering, I just smiled as brightly as possible. I thought the corners of my mouth would cramp.”

Cha Yeonho, who hesitated after seeing Kim Dobin’s smile, didn’t pursue further and went back into the room.

“Why didn’t you answer and just smiled?”

Even though he’s a groupmate, I really couldn’t understand Kim Dobin’s mindset sometimes.

“If I said I didn’t see anything, he wouldn’t believe me and would keep questioning me. Based on my subculture experience, in situations like this, giving the other person a smile that allows for various interpretations is the best. Then they think ‘this guy isn’t easy!’ and become cautious.”

“Wasn’t he scared thinking you were either crazy or possessed by a ghost?”

While I was scolding Kim Dobin for his ridiculous nonsense, Ryu Jaehee, who had been pondering, spoke up.

“What is it? Don’t tell me KJ senior was trying to move to another agency alone without renewing his contract?”

“Not our hole-in-the-wall LnL, but Shinwol, which is one of the big three agencies?”

“There might be behind-the-scenes stuff we don’t know about. Being big doesn’t mean everything’s good. Just like how the current expanded LnL looks like a pretty decent agency to outsiders.”

Ryu Jaehee smartly countered Kim Dobin’s rebuttal. Since Ryu Jaehee was from a major agency as a trainee, it was more believable.

Seo Yehyeon also nodded and supported Ryu Jaehee’s opinion.

“For now, that seems like the most likely hypothesis. If it were drugs, it wouldn’t have ended with just ‘why didn’t you tell me?'”

“Right. No matter how calm a person is, if they found out their closest friend bought drugs like that, they wouldn’t have that kind of reaction.”

I raised my eyebrows at Gyeon Hajun, who glanced at me while adding that comment.

“Why are you looking at me like that…? I don’t have even a speck of intention to do drugs!”

“It’s just for immersion. To read someone’s mind, don’t I need to put myself in the most similar situation?”

Thinking about Jiwon hyung, who punched his close friend Riburn and cut ties because of drugs, I was curious what Gyeon Hajun’s reaction would be.

“Hmm, if it were me, in the past I would have cut ties without saying anything because I wouldn’t want to get involved.”

As if reading my mind, Gyeon Hajun opened his mouth.

“But now… I’d give them some harsh words to snap them out of it, and drag them all to addiction treatment consistently, I guess?”

I already had no intention of doing drugs or anything like that, but seeing Gyeon Hajun’s reaction like that only strengthened my resolve not to do it even more.

For now, it probably isn’t drugs like Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun think, maybe.

I definitely had no memory of KJ doing drugs. If that were the case, the word “druggie bastard” would definitely be included in how I referred to KJ.

And as far as I know, KJ doesn’t leave Shinwol. I remember seeing an article before regression that all of Altair renewed their contracts.

Memories came flooding back of being at LnL before regression, where that damn Planning Director who’s now been kicked out was holding his ground, and lamenting “Shinwol must be pretty good after all-.”

Since things have come to this, should I use Kim Dobin, who’s been marked as suspicious, to slowly provoke Cha Yeonho? Won’t he spit out some useful information? Like how to reverse manipulated memories, for example?

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