A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 359

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 359

I watched Kim Dobin seriously argue his theory about ‘KJ stealing Cha Yeonho’s girl’ only to get his head pressed down by Ryu Jaehee, while I sucked the drink in my cup through a straw.

Like Kim Dobin suspected, the probability that KJ and Cha Yeonho fought over romantic issues was… well, it could be possible, right? Now that I think about it, it doesn’t sound completely impossible?

“No, why? This has some possibility too, doesn’t it?”

“No, hyung. If he stole his girl, it would’ve been ‘how could you do that to me’ instead of ‘why didn’t you tell me.'”

I became a pushover again and nodded at Ryu Jaehee’s rebuttal. Hmm, now that I think about it, that seems right too?

As the members’ whispered theories kept increasing, my curiosity about why those two fought also grew.

If it were KICKS, I could have subtly probed Kwon Yunseong, loose-lipped Choi Hyeonmin, or Parachute who I used as an internal informant, but unfortunately Altair didn’t have any members I could use like that.

‘Cha Yeonho must have resolved the composer issue, right?’

I was tapping the sunbed with my finger when I suddenly stopped at a thought that came to mind.

There’s a reason they say a leopard can’t change its spots.

Composing idol, producing idol.

The fame and satisfaction that came with the title of being in charge of music, the most important element in a group, was bigger than expected. And of course, so was the money that came in.

Would he really want to keep sharing that pie with others?

The thoughts going through the heads of guys who do petty stuff like that are obvious, right? ‘Everyone else does it, so it’s fine as long as I don’t get caught.’

What if the information KJ didn’t share with Cha Yeonho was exactly what had a huge impact on Altair’s downfall before my regression?

“Can’t we go to that beer pub over there? We had seafood yesterday.”

“Doby, think about your alcohol tolerance. Imagine getting filmed throwing up at an overseas restaurant. What do you think people would say?”

The members had apparently gotten tired of theorizing, as their conversation topic had long since moved from the fight between the two Altair members to tonight’s dinner menu.

I opened my eyes, which I had closed while conducting sharp deduction using my own intelligence without borrowing the youngest member’s brain for once, and glanced over at Kim Dobin.

What Kim Dobin had shown would have been enough to arouse suspicion from Cha Yeonho, that terminal paranoia patient. And unlike Gyeon Hajun, who was dismissed as talking nonsense because he was a fan, Kim Dobin wouldn’t be brushed off like that.

Now I needed to call Cha Yeonho out and make just the two of them, Kim Dobin and Cha Yeonho, face each other…

“Hyung.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s call with his voice lowered as much as possible, I emerged from my thoughts and looked up to see him secretly gesturing toward Seo Yehyeon.

O. Cean. Th. Row.

Seeing Ryu Jaehee mouth the words silently, I lightly stretched my arms and got up. Gyeon Hajun was already filming us with his phone camera turned on.

What answer would I get from worrying about this under this blazing sun? It would just give me a headache. This was a problem I could think about after cooling my head in the refreshing water.

I quietly held my breath and approached Seo Yehyeon. Seeing Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee each grab Seo Yehyeon’s arms, I also lifted up Seo Yehyeon’s legs.

“Hey, hey! What is this! Let go! Hey, you guys aren’t trying to throw me in the ocean!”

Seo Yehyeon struggled, but naturally he couldn’t escape the grip of us three.

“Since we came all the way here, we have to do this once.”

“I already went in the ocean! If I hadn’t gone in the ocean even once after coming all this way, that would be different! I’ll walk in on my own, so put me down quickly!”

“But you’ve never been thrown in before.”

“Why me!”

“Well, because hyung is the lightest. It would be hard to handle Doby flailing around.”

Being last in arm wrestling rankings also played a part, but if I brought that up, Seo Yehyeon would probably go crazy trying to show his strength, so I quietly swallowed those words.

“Ugh, I can’t even gain weight to avoid being thrown in!”

Seo Yehyeon was turning his head frantically looking for an escape route when he spotted Gyeon Hajun, and desperately called out to Gyeon Hajun who was filming us with his phone camera.

“Hajuuuun!”

Gyeon Hajun, who had waved his hand, beautifully shattered Seo Yehyeon’s last glimmer of hope.

“Go in first, hyung. I’ll follow you in.”

“Right, you’re Rev too…”

Seo Yehyeon, who had now given up completely and stopped struggling, letting his body go limp as he dangled there, felt around his head and then covered his face with his palm as he shouted.

“Hajun! If you’re not going to save me, at least pick up my hat and bring it to me!”

“I can do that much for you.”

Gyeon Hajun picked up Seo Yehyeon’s hat that had fallen on the beach and shook it lightly. Before we knew it, the sandy beach had ended and seawater was wetting our ankles.

After swinging Seo Yehyeon around a couple of times, he threw him refreshingly into the ocean.

As soon as he hit the water, Seo Yehyeon immediately stuck his head out and roughly wiped his face soaked with seawater with his hands, then ran toward me with his eyes gleaming menacingly.

Seo Yehyeon threw his whole body at me to grab me and managed to push me into the seawater, then ran toward his next prey with gleaming eyes.

“Ugh, it’s salty.”

I spat out the seawater that had gotten into my mouth from being dunked while laughing, and watched Kim Dobin whose pants almost got pulled down by Seo Yehyeon’s touch, and Gyeon Hajun who came to deliver the hat but got caught in Seo Yehyeon’s resentful grip and dragged into the seawater.

And now Cha Yeonho, who fought with KJ, is coming to this peaceful Hawaii…

It won’t be boring while we’re in Hawaii.

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“The best thing about this Hawaii is that we don’t have to tremble in fear from horror phenomena like at Hongcheon Gwigok Pension where we went.”

“Hey, I told you that was all fake documentary. Did any ghosts appear when we went there?”

“No, the karaoke room! The karaoke machine!”

“It got fixed when I hit it. Machines get fixed when you hit them. Do you think I performed some kind of physical exorcism because it was possessed by a ghost, Doby?”

We were on our way back to the hotel room after finishing Seo Yehyeon’s revenge play disguised as water activities on the beach.

As soon as we got on the elevator that had just arrived, a man holding a cell phone to his ear came running frantically from far away.

“Jeongjun hyung asked to change rooms? Ah, thank you.”

The man who passed through the elevator door we were holding took out his room key and spoke to the person on the other end of the phone, then briefly thanked us.

Recognizing the familiar face, Ryu Jaehee poked me and whispered in my ear.

“That’s an Altair member, right?”

When I nodded to confirm, Ryu Jaehee fell into deep thought. I also listened carefully to the phone conversation. Unfortunately, the sound from the receiver was so faint that it was barely audible.

The Altair member looked at the floor number button that lit up to see if it was the same floor as ours, then put his room key away and grumbled.

“I have to sleep with Jeongjun hyung? You already switched? Then you’re with Yeonho hyung right now? What’s going on all of a sudden? Did you two fight…”

The Altair member’s eyes widened as he trailed off and glanced back at us.

“Oh, aren’t you Rev?”

Damn slow to notice. I was wondering when he’d figure it out.

Since our comebacks had overlapped several times and we’d even done a collaboration stage together, it would be absurd for an Altair member not to recognize our faces.

“Hello.”

“Are you juniors here on vacation too? We’re also here on a group vacation. Wow, what a coincidence.”

It was Seo Yehyeon’s job to deal with the Altair member who was being friendly, since he was closest to him.

“Yes, we’re finally using the prize from ‘20,000 Won of Happiness’ that we won together back then.”

“Come to think of it, that prize was a Hawaii trip! But wasn’t ‘20,000 Won of Happiness’ filmed quite a while ago? You must have been really busy all this time.”

“It was a bit difficult to find the time.”

After briefly ending the small talk, the Altair member continued the phone call.

“Huh? Ah… I met Rev juniors in the elevator. Yeah, they said they came for vacation. I’ll go to that room. Let’s talk after going in. Or do you want to come? Wouldn’t it be better to be with Jeongjun hyung?”

Was KJ’s real name Kwon Jeongjun? Does that mean KJ is more comfortable than Cha Yeonho?

“Yeonho hyung is a bit scary, you know.”

The Altair member who spoke while letting out a deep sigh suddenly stiffened and started rambling.

“It’s not that Yeonho hyung scolds us, but his natural expression is so cold, haha. Yeonho hyung treats us so well.”

The theatrical tone that was so conscious of us just made me laugh. Since it wasn’t our member but someone else’s business, I could laugh instead of sigh.

Does every team have one member like Kim Dobin? Come to think of it, that person was the member who had that Rev greeting mockery controversy or whatever.

Honestly, it wasn’t even something worth causing controversy over?

As soon as we got off the elevator, after watching the back of the Altair member who lightly bowed to us and quickly fled to his hotel room, we also returned to our room. It was a room shared by three of us: me, Ryu Jaehee, and Kim Dobin.

Seo Yehyeon, who had almost no sleeping habits and slept quietly, and Gyeon Hajun, who was a light sleeper, usually shared a room when we went overseas. This combination remained unchanged this time too.

“I thought seniors like Altair would get suite rooms, but they have the same hotel rooms as us.”

“Still, they’re a six-member group, so they won’t have to cram three people into one room like us.”

I spoke as if lamenting while lying down on the extra bed that looked no different from a sofa.

Using my power as leader and hyung to send either Kim Dobin or Ryu Jaehee to the extra bed was something that would lower my dignity by my standards, so I just volunteered to take the extra bed myself.

“Anyway, it means what Doby hyung saw was true.”

“Ryu Jae, don’t tell me you suspected I made up the story?”

“No, I thought it wouldn’t be as serious as your level of fuss… I guess it really is serious.”

Ryu Jaehee scratched the back of his head while avoiding Kim Dobin’s gaze, who was looking at him with wide eyes as if asking how he could do such a thing.

Seo Yehyeon, who had gone to his own room alone and come back, was lying on Kim Dobin’s bed with a face pack on his face, waving his hand in the air as he spoke.

“Let’s not worry about other groups’ business, just. We’re not even close with Altair in the first place.”

“Hey, but we’re still people who did a year-end collaboration stage together.”

“So what. Is there anyone here who has Altair seniors’ phone numbers right now?”

There was – Cha Yeonho’s phone number.

[Cha Yeonho- I heard you’re in Hawaii]

[Cha Yeonho- Can we meet briefly?]

And a text message had just arrived.

Why is he asking to meet me? Don’t tell me Cha Yeonho didn’t make the wrong guess about Kim Dobin and noticed that I’m the regressor?

Most importantly… even if he asks about future events, I can’t tell him because I don’t remember unless it’s something really major?

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