A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 364

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 364

Hmm, if the system is being this firm, it really means it’s not an aviation accident. But even so, accepting Cha Yeonho’s advice at face value still felt unsettling.

“What’s the reason we absolutely have to leave today? Is there a typhoon coming?”

Seo Yehyeon, who seemed to have fallen for Cha Yeonho’s prophet cosplay, muttered worriedly before turning to look at me and said.

“Should we also try to get flight tickets for today if we can?”

“Hyung, do you believe what he said?”

Do you believe Cha Yeonho, who’s trying to make me withdraw from Reve despite me being Reve’s top contributor and an indispensable member?

When I looked at him with extremely pathetic eyes, Seo Yehyeon got flustered and retorted.

“It’s not like we’re strangers who’ll never see each other again, nor are we complete strangers, so would he really give us empty words? Honestly, what loss would Senior Cha Yeonho suffer if we left Hawaii a day earlier than scheduled?”

“Be careful of sweet talk, hyung. Do you think pyramid scheme sales are done by strangers? They all target people they know, you know?”

You still don’t know how the world works, tsk tsk.

While I was having my usual pointless argument with Seo Yehyeon, Ryu Jaehee, who had checked the Hawaii weather forecast, called us with a dark expression.

“Hyungs, tomorrow…”

Ryu Jaehee’s face as he called us seemed somehow ominous.

“Tomorrow what?”

“They’ve issued a flood warning.”

What? Cha Yeonho really gave us advice out of genuine goodwill?

But my intuition was telling me.

If genuinely helpful advice like this accumulates, I’ll unknowingly let my guard down around Cha Yeonho, and from the moment I drop my guard, Cha Yeonho will start manipulating me.

So when it comes to Cha Yeonho specifically, maintaining a suspicious attitude first wasn’t bad. Isn’t there a saying about testing even stone bridges before crossing them?

Even if I can’t trust my brain and the schemes I devise, my intuition is trustworthy.

He seems to underestimate me, but humans can survive not just on intelligence but also on intuition, heh.

While I was patting myself on the back, Seo Yehyeon grabbed us and said urgently.

“Cancel all today’s schedule and absolutely get flight tickets for today first!”

“No, hyung. Instead of this, let’s split into two teams – one team packs luggage and the other gets flight tickets. If we book on short notice, we’ll need to check out too, so we won’t have time for everyone to pack individually.”

“Why pack luggage? Can’t we just close our suitcases and go?”

When Seo Yehyeon asked with a confused expression, Ryu Jaehee shook his head with a serious face.

“That might be possible for the hyungs’ room, but it won’t work for our room.”

Seo Yehyeon immediately looked at Kim Dobin and me, sighed, and scolded us to live more organized.

It was unfair that he suspected us first without even asking who was the cause, but since most of the clothes scattered around the room and hanging everywhere belonged to Kim Dobin and me, I had nothing to say.

“Then the youngest member and I will pack the luggage in the hotel room you three are using and move to our hotel room, so the rest of you get the flight tickets.”

Seo Yehyeon dragged Ryu Jaehee into our hotel room. Worried that Seo Yehyeon might chase us out and pour out nagging after seeing the state of the hotel room, I hurriedly moved to the hotel room Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun were using.

“Wow, there are no seats on direct flights.”

“What can we do, we’ll have to find connecting flights.”

Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee, who returned after finishing packing and dragging three suitcases, also joined the flight ticket search. Whether everyone had been watching the weather forecast, flight tickets leaving Hawaii today were absolutely impossible to find.

After searching for about an hour, Gyeon Hajun’s calm voice rang through the room where only occasional breathing could be heard.

“I found one with two connecting flights.”

“Two connecting flights?”

Everyone seemed shocked but somehow accepting. What choice did we have? If we didn’t want to be stranded, we had to endure two connections.

“But there’s a problem… They say there’s only one seat left?”

“Then we can’t take it.”

If it wasn’t five seats, it was meaningless. It’s not like one person would go alone. Wait, alone?

“Who among us has the most urgent schedule? Let’s have that person take that one seat and go first.”

At Gyeon Hajun’s suggestion, the looks we exchanged became sharp. Showing the virtue of yielding or displaying friendship by all staying together? Like hell. Without saying it, we all knew we were eyeing that one seat.

That’s just how we are. But even as I said this, I’d rather just go to Korea quickly than be stranded at the airport due to flight delays or cancellations from heavy rain.

“I have a CF meeting in a week.”

Seo Yehyeon, who raised his hand first, looked around at us with an expression asking if anyone had a more urgent personal schedule than this.

Meeting Seo Yehyeon’s gaze head-on and smiling confidently, Kim Dobin raised his hand and said boldly.

“I have a Travel Trouble filming in six days. So I need to go early to pack and prepare for the trip.”

Six days with travel preparations is more urgent than a week. But…

“I have DTB concert rehearsal in four days.”

Smoothly, I raised my hand and revealed my most urgent schedule. Could anything beat a concert rehearsal in four days?

Looking at the defeated faces of the two, I smiled, intoxicated with victory. Farewell, my beloved members. I’m going ahead-

“I have drama script reading in three days.”

Gyeon Hajun’s voice cut through my elated mood like a knife. It was a calm voice, but I couldn’t miss the underlying joy in it.

No, I still can’t just give up this good opportunity. I need to make a good remix version and practice with Gongchul & BQ9. I also need to coordinate with Yongcheol hyung.

“Three days means even one day late would be fine. Just read some script at the airport, Jun. That should work.”

“I left my script at the dormitory. In case I lose it and the script gets leaked. Eden, why don’t you practice with the people you need to perform with through video calls or video chat?”

“…Are you joking?”

Rap at the airport with my phone propped up in front of me? Do I want to end up on YouTube as an attention seeker rapping at the airport and get roasted?

When I asked with a sour expression, Gyeon Hajun relaxed his serious expression and shrugged.

“Isn’t script reading more important? I should show that I’ve studied the script to some extent, right? Especially since people won’t look favorably on an idol trying acting.”

“Eden hyung has to perform with other people, so wouldn’t it be awkward if only Eden hyung is missing?”

“Doby, you seem different. Why are you suddenly taking Yoon Eden’s side like that?”

“They say a teacher and student should share the same will. Since Eden hyung teaches me composition, Eden hyung could be considered my teacher.”

“By that logic, you and I should also share the same will.”

“No, in our relationship I’m the teacher, so you should follow my will.”

“…”

Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin, already pushed far from candidacy, were having a discussion about who between me and Gyeon Hajun was more urgent – though it was impossible to tell if it was serious or pointless.

Kim Dobin’s argument, which was confusingly logical or illogical even to the listener, was gaining the upper hand. Thanks to Kim Dobin, I was getting happy about that single plane ticket getting closer to me.

“You all seem to have forgotten. The reason we booked this as a 5-night, 6-day trip.”

Ryu Jaehee’s voice, full of laughter, rang out. I felt a chill down my spine as I sensed the thick defeat that fell in an instant.

Ryu Jaehee slightly lifted his chin and said with a grin.

“I’m MCing Inkigayo in two days.”

K.O, it was a perfect defeat.

“Definitely send the youngest member!”

“Right, what if he gets fired from his contract job for missing it!”

“Go earn money, money!”

“Isn’t that the youngest member’s individual earnings though?”

“Ryu Jae’s popularity directly leads to Reve’s popularity.”

In the end, Ryu Jaehee ended up getting the last flight ticket. What could we do when a flight delay would mean a complete schedule disaster?

“Did you get it?”

“I made a reservation just in case. If no one takes this flight, I can cancel it right away.”

“Oh, that’s a relief. But what time is it?”

“In two hours.”

Without even having time to soothe our upset stomachs, we hurriedly headed to the airport in a rental car to safely send Ryu Jaehee back to Korea.

“Hyungs, get back to Korea safely without any incidents.”

“Yeah, take care.”

After confirming that Ryu Jaehee had safely boarded the plane, we headed back to the hotel.

With the sky being so blue, it was hard to believe that a flood warning had been issued for tomorrow.

I just hoped that nothing would happen and Ryu Jaehee would be the only one who had to endure two layovers on his difficult journey back to Korea.

* * *

The next day.

“We’re screwed…”

After checking out and holding our suitcases forlornly, we looked at the torrential rain pouring outside the hotel and let out a lament.

Following Seo Yehyeon’s argument that we needed to catch the next day’s flight immediately if our flight got cancelled, we gave up staying at the hotel and departed for the airport.

Gyeon Hajun, sitting in the passenger seat, was looking up business hotels near the airport.

“But how did that senior know about this? Does he have prophetic abilities or something?”

Seo Yehyeon gave a realistic answer to Kim Dobin’s otaku-like speculation.

“He probably checked the weather forecast. Has any of us checked the weather forecast even once since we got here?”

That’s true.

We came to Hawaii and didn’t make plans by checking the weather forecast in advance – we just lived day by day, going out and dealing with rain when it rained, sun when it was sunny.

There was a fifty percent chance that Cha Yeonho remembered because he was also caught up in this incident, and a fifty percent chance he gave us advice after checking the weather forecast.

I was curious which one it was, but I didn’t particularly want to ask.

“So we, well, it’s true but… does that mean we looked like people who wouldn’t even check the weather forecast to Cha Yeonho… senior?”

“Thinking about how we acted during 20,000 Won of Happiness, that’s entirely possible. We only showed thoughtless behavior. Except for me.”

“They were probably filming that too, and our extremely… ah, damn, hyung kept saying ‘extremely wicked’ so much it rubbed off on me. How could he watch that happy pizza party?”

“He probably watched the actual broadcast, you idiot.”

I was already sad about my brain being inferior to Cha Yeonho’s, but when Seo Yehyeon called me an idiot, I became even sadder.

I was so sad that I felt like I needed to eat some high-calorie delicious food right in front of Seo Yehyeon.

As expected, our flight was showing as delayed. We didn’t know when that delay would turn into a cancellation. Looking at the intensity of the rain that showed no signs of letting up, it seemed unlikely we’d be leaving Hawaii today.

Originally, we planned to rest for a day tomorrow to recover from accumulated fatigue before returning to prepare for the DTB concert, but thanks to the flight delay, that rest was ruined.

“Think positive, hyungs. The vlog that would have originally ended in 1-2 episodes can now have one more episode about being stranded at the airport due to flight delays.”

What would we film while waiting indefinitely at the airport? Us getting progressively grubby in real time?

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