A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 366

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 366

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“I think we were tired from making three transfers and collectively saw things that weren’t there…”

Gyeon Hajun covered his eyes and muttered in a weak voice as if lamenting.

“Did we really get bewitched by something? Not one of the four of us noticed that we misread the boarding gate number?”

Seo Yehyeon buried his head against the suitcase placed next to his seat and let out hollow laughter as if he’d lost his mind.

“Yehyeon Hyung was walking with his eyes almost closed, so I had to support him. If someone saw us from the side, they would’ve thought I was taking my grandfather on a filial piety trip.”

Kim Dobin, who was the most clear-headed among us thanks to his habitual all-nighters, added as if making an excuse.

“I couldn’t look at the board letters carefully because I was filming.”

Fortunately, I also had an excuse.

Even in the midst of chaos and being out of it, I steadfastly captured with my camera even the scene of hearing the devastating news that this boarding gate wasn’t our boarding gate, so no one could deny my professionalism.”I guess it’s because we were spacing out when we should have been alert. These two are just extras anyway.”

Seo Yehyeon glanced at me and Kim Dobin, then rubbed his face dry while blaming himself. Still, calling me an extra when I’m supposedly the leader.

“If the youngest member had been here, would we have avoided this situation, or would the youngest have gotten caught up in it too?”

“After waiting 12 hours and then three transfers, even Jaehee would’ve spaced out like us, don’t you think?”

“If it weren’t for his schedule, the youngest would be suffering through this with us. What a shame.”

“Exactly. It’s through accumulating memories like this that relationships become stronger.”

“Plus, Yehyeon Hyung isn’t at the dormitory right now either.”

“Which means, delivery food free pass…! I’m so jealous…!”

While Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon were blaming themselves for their mistakes, the two extras were discussing what it would have been like if Rev’s brain had been there.

“At least we only missed the last connecting flight. If we had missed a middle connecting flight or the very first connecting flight…”

“Then Yoon Eden wouldn’t have been able to participate in the rehearsal.”

I shook my head toward Seo Yehyeon, who glanced at me while continuing Hajun’s words.

“I could easily make it even if I missed one more flight before the run-through rehearsal.”

“Please, could you not say such ominous things? Don’t you know words can become reality?”

“It’s the last flight, what could we possibly miss?”

“We could miss it here too.”

“Oh, please. Words become reality, Hyung.”

“Now you understand how I feel, right?”

Seo Yehyeon, who taught me the spirit of putting myself in others’ shoes, buried his head in his suitcase again.

Anyway, due to our mistake, the plane had left, and we had to buy new plane tickets to Korea again.

“Oh my god, there’s only one transfer!”

“What did you say? We only need to transfer once? Really?”

We were moved to tears when we received tickets that would take us to Incheon International Airport with just one transfer. After experiencing three transfers, one transfer seemed no different from a direct flight.

“Let’s all really stay alert this time.”

“I was planning to anyway. If we get delayed any more here, I’ll get all the criticism I’ll ever deserve in the hip hop scene for the rest of my life.”

Meanwhile, Gongchul Hyung was calling again.

As soon as I answered the phone, I swallowed the sigh that naturally wanted to escape from the flood of complaints and pleaded desperately.

“I didn’t miss it because I wanted to flake out, we missed the flight. Have you hyungs ever done three transfers? I’m about to do four now.”

Yeah, I’m the sinner, the crazy bastard who scheduled vacation days just a few days before the concert.

“If I mess up the lyrics at the concert, I’ll return my DTB 4 winner title.”

-Hey, how hard was it to get that title and you want to return it! If you return that, our team’s title as a winner-producing team will drop too!

As if I’d really do that. I’m just saying, just saying. Even if I said I’d return the winner title, Dub Net probably wouldn’t accept it anyway, right?

Since Gongchul was already on the phone, he tried to persuade me to practice 【LOST part.1】 if I had nothing to do while waiting for the plane.

“Here…? This isn’t even a hotel, it’s an airport. Ah, hyung-nim. Please.”

Only after I said I’d take on the remix production work could I avoid being filmed and circulated as an attention-seeking rapper at the airport.

After arriving at the layover destination, checking the letters several times and finding our boarding gate, we confirmed through our agent that this was the correct gate before finally waiting comfortably until boarding time for the Incheon flight.

“Four layovers. This is going to be a story that comes up as drinking snacks for the rest of our lives, seriously.”

“They won’t deduct the delay from the flight from our next vacation days, right?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s worry, Kim Dobin came up with a pretty decent alternative for once instead of nonsense.

“If the agency says they’ll do that, let’s make a deal. If our Hawaii vlog gets over 500,000 views, honestly ask them to count this as a schedule.”

“300,000 is too high. Let’s make it 100,000, 100,000.”

“No, 100,000 is too high too. Let’s go safely with 10,000.”

Seo Yehyeon, who was looking at his phone screen with eyes that were about to close from drowsiness, seriously insisted on 10,000.

“We need to set a standard that’s worth making a deal over. 10,000 views would easily come from just episode 1 where we played around without any worries.”

Finally, there was one hour left until the plane’s departure time. In one hour, we’d be able to fly to Korea.

“We probably couldn’t borrow a charter plane even if we told the agency, since it’s vacation and not a schedule, right?”

“Guys, let’s definitely succeed. Let’s become hugely successful and buy a private jet with our group name on it. Then we can take the private jet even on vacation. So tragedies like four layovers never happen again.”

“We’d probably get globally criticized for carbon emissions.”

“How about just checking the weather forecast carefully, hyung.”

Even though his words were refuted, Seo Yehyeon was so happy about the fact that we could return to Korea on this plane that the smile wouldn’t leave his face.

That smile was transmitted so clearly that it came through even the mask covering two-thirds of his face.

“Oh, we’re boarding now.”

Joining the long line, we lightly high-fived each other in the joy of returning home. We’re finally going home!

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Beep beep beep beep-

The sound of entering the door lock password rang out, then the Rev dorm door swung wide open.

“We’re back…!”

Kim Dobin prostrated himself flat on the dorm floor with a face full of emotion, as if bowing.

“Home…”

Seo Yehyeon, who unusually entered the dorm leaving his shoes scattered carelessly at the entrance, looked around the dorm that felt like we’d arrived after 10 years with the face of someone seeing the most beloved lover in the world.

Ryu Jaehee, who had been eating jajangmyeon ordered from a Chinese restaurant while watching TV at the living room table, quietly stuffed the remaining dumpling into his mouth and greeted the members.

“Hey, hyungs. You could have contacted us in advance when you arrived in Korea.”

“We were out of our minds too, Jaehee.”

Gyeon Hajun, who came in dragging two whole suitcases and lined up Yoon Eden’s suitcase and his own side by side, replied with a quite tired face.

“The schedule went well without being late, right?”

“Thanks to the hyungs. I really thought you guys were joking at first when I heard you had to do three layovers.”

“I wish it had been a joke too.”

Gyeon Hajun smiled weakly as he played along with Ryu Jaehee’s brazenness. Seo Yehyeon’s gaze swept around the dormitory he had missed so much, finally landing on the bowl of jjajangmyeon that Ryu Jaehee was eating.

“Delivery food… jjajangmyeon…”

Seo Yehyeon, who hadn’t been able to maintain proper sleep hours, was practically a zombie. His language couldn’t form into sentences. Kim Dobin was about to crack a joke about how Yehyeon looked like No-Face, but gave up since he didn’t even have the energy to joke and laugh.

“If I don’t eat this and try to cook for myself instead, I’ll starve to death. You all know my cooking skills well.”

Ryu Jaehee skillfully wrapped the noodles around his chopsticks and shrugged his shoulders with a nonchalant face, defending himself.

The problem was that the delivery food was jjajangmyeon, but Seo Yehyeon no longer had the energy to question it further and trudged into the bathroom first with an exhausted expression.

After scanning Kim Dobin sprawled out in the living room and Gyeon Hajun opening his suitcase to gather laundry, Ryu Jaehee asked about the whereabouts of one person who wasn’t visible.

“Where’s Eden Hyung?”

Gyeon Hajun answered Ryu Jaehee’s question while looking for his drama script.

“He went straight to the studio after dropping us off. Said he had to work on remixes.”

“Straight there without even resting? If it weren’t for my Inkigayo MC schedule, I would have given it up for Eden Hyung who has a concert coming up…”

“Still, having Eden there made conversing in English much easier.”

“Eden Hyung must have had quite a hard time too. You hyungs should rest. I’ll go check on Eden Hyung.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s words, Gyeon Hajun felt much more at ease and comfortably leaned back on the sofa to rest.

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DTB concert run-through rehearsal.

“Wow, it’s a good thing we scheduled our vacation to end three days before rehearsal. If we had scheduled our vacation to match the rehearsal, we almost wouldn’t have been able to get on the concert stage… Really lucky.”

I let out a sigh of relief while watching AJA’s stage from backstage. Gongchul approached me and put me in a headlock while grumbling.

“Hey, you missed several full days of concert practice because of vacation, so what’s lucky about that?”

“Ugh! That’s why I made the 【LOST part.1】 remix version that you wanted to do, Hyung, staying up all night as soon as I got to Korea! Do you know how hard it was for me to get back to Korea! Have you ever made four layovers from Hawaii to Korea!”

But thanks to that, our Hawaii vlog that would have only been fun for us got quite a lot of views starting from episode 2 where we suffered hardships. It was a whopping 10 times more than episode 1 where we played and ate without a care in Hawaii.

As expected, people find it more entertaining to watch others’ misfortune and hardships rather than others’ happiness. There’s a reason why makjang dramas where the protagonist’s path is filled with hardship after hardship are popular.

BQ9, who had come to my side at some point, also added a comment.

“In the end, we couldn’t practice the remix track even once and only did it twice during the concert rehearsal.”

“Come on, hyung. Why are you being like this when we’re all players who can handle freestyle easily? There were no mistakes back then either.”

When I deliberately acted brazen, BQ9 moved on with a face that said he had a lot to say but wouldn’t.

“Still, a person should always secure enough buffer time so that schedules don’t get twisted. So you can definitely come no matter what happens.”

Skoen, who was waiting for his turn after me, gave me advice.

“Ugh, I thought that way too, but natural disasters and accidents really can’t be helped.”

I omitted mentioning that it was a self-inflicted misfortune caused by not checking the weather forecast.

Following the MC’s comment announcing my turn, befitting the run-through rehearsal where everything is done like the real thing, I loosened my neck lightly and stepped onto the stage.

D-1 until the DTB concert.

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