A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 369

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 369

“It won’t be difficult to kill time. We could do a talk show or something until Skoen hyung arrives.”

Yoon Eden wasn’t particularly pleased with the current situation where he couldn’t perform the finale either.

However, rather than suddenly appearing near the end of the concert and dampening the concert hall atmosphere with a meaningless group talk show that would just waste time, it was much better for him and Skoen to switch orders and have MC and himself do a short talk.

As Yoon Eden shrugged his shoulders as if it was nothing, D.I who was sitting next to him nudged him and asked.

“Don’t you have a talk segment in the middle? I think I saw it during yesterday’s run-through.”

“That’s right. So I have to just grab the microphone and ramble by myself? Is this a standing talk show or what?”

“Instead of that, just do one more song.”

“Hyung, please consider my voice and stamina too…”

【Graffiti】 and 【Masterpiece】, 【LOST part.2】 and 【LOST part.1】, 【Villain】 and 【DTBF】. A total of six songs made up Yoon Eden’s stage playlist.

Among them, 【Graffiti】 was a featuring participation and 【LOST part.1】 had Gongchul and BQ9 featuring together, but the remaining four songs were almost entirely sung by Yoon Eden alone.

No matter how good Yoon Eden’s stamina was, anything more than this would be difficult without rest.

Moreover, Yoon Eden had already finished performing 【Killing Beat】 and the first main round competition song with Seven Kick once.

“And I don’t have any more songs to sing before going down.”

Rev had many songs, but Yoon Eden’s solo songs were all there was, combining DTB competition songs and solo songs altogether.

“That’s true. We’ll just have to hope Skoen comes quickly.”

D.I, who immediately understood, clicked his tongue in response. Life is unpredictable like Sae-ong’s horse, and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise, D.I was comforting Yoon Eden when he noticed Yoon Eden’s grinning expression.

“But why are you smiling? You’re not happy about this situation, surely. What are you plotting again?”

“No, I just remembered how Skoen hyung once advised me that I should always secure enough buffer time so schedules don’t get twisted, no matter what happens.”

Even D.I, who was listening nearby, wasn’t sure if that was a sarcastic remark.

Since Skoen had built quite a friendly relationship with Yoon Eden from the DTB filming days, it seemed unlikely he would have said that, but Skoen’s famous hatred for breaking appointment times made it not entirely baseless speculation.

“Well, you don’t know until you experience it yourself. This way he might become more tolerant of other people’s mistakes too.”

This is why words have consequences and you shouldn’t speak carelessly, G1 giggled from the side.

G1 was enthusiastically encouraging Yoon Eden to show something so amazing that it would surpass even the sound accident recovery before going down.

Blood is thicker than water, and D.I was more concerned about his junior not receiving the winner’s benefits due to this accident than about other people’s unexpected mishaps.

“Do it so coolly that you won’t even think about the next act, coolly.”

D.I patted Yoon Eden’s shoulder encouragingly.

On stage, Seven Kick’s performance, who were TOP 4, was almost finishing. After TOP 3 Yupi’s turn ended, it would be Yoon Eden’s turn.

“Sigh, but just in case…”

Yoon Eden played a beat saved on his cell phone, turned up the volume so only he could hear it, closed his eyes tightly, then opened them and stood up. The beat that had been playing through the cell phone speaker had already stopped.

Although it was an unfinished version, it would be fine for killing a bit of time. After all, isn’t a standing talk show just slow freestyle? If he was going to show freestyle anyway, it was better to do it stylishly.

Pulling the zipper of his Adidas jersey, which had also been his stage costume during DTB 4 featuring, all the way up, Yoon Eden smiled confidently as always.

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Yupi, who had successfully finished the last stage, the semi-final competition song, together with special guest Seo Raon, wiped away the flowing sweat and entered backstage.

After they left, on the empty stage, MC was giving comments to heighten expectations for the next act.

‘Was he a fan…?’

Seeing Yoon Eden approaching Seo Raon, who had come backstage with him, holding a pen and paper, Yupi blinked. He had seemed like someone who would only be deeply into foreign hip gangster rappers and a few first-generation Korean hip-hop rappers, so this was unexpected.

But I soon realized that was a misunderstanding from Yoon Eden’s words that immediately followed.

‘Ah, it’s not him but a member who’s a fan.’

Seo Raon clearly remembered the young man who sheepishly held out a pen and paper, saying his group’s youngest member was her fan but he had forgotten to get an autograph during the DTB semi-final because things were so hectic.

She also remembered signing each and every album he had brought in abundance.

Back then, he was a green rookie male idol who was just starting to make a name for himself, but now he had become a Billboard chart group member and a celebrity recognizable to most of the general public in various fields, which made her quite sentimental.

While carefully signing the paper, Seo Raon said jokingly.

“Now I can’t casually ask for featuring anymore. It would be difficult to ask Jiwon to put in a good word for me, right?”

“If it’s Senior’s song, I’d rush over to do the featuring right away.”

“I’m not someone who can take those words as empty promises. I’ll really ask for featuring later, okay?”

“I’m not the type to carelessly throw around empty checks either.”

Yoon Eden playfully responded while neatly folding the signed paper he received back from Seo Raon and putting it in his jacket.

“Skoen!”

No matter what the MC was chattering about on stage, the audience was chanting for Skoen.

“The stage created by DROP THE BEAT’s two most popular stars starts now!”

After the MC finished his final comment and went backstage, the intro to 【Graffiti】, D.I’s semi-final competition song from Season 3, began to flow.

The audience stirred briefly at the unexpected song choice.

“If it’s 【Graffiti】, isn’t that starting with Yoon Eden’s stage?”

“It’s D.I’s representative song, but instead of putting it in D.I’s turn, they forcibly shoved it into Yoon Eden’s stage turn. Damn. Season 4 was a huge hit because Season 3 existed, but they’re treating the founding contributor poorly just because the ratings and buzz were lower.”

“What? Since when was the winner Skoen instead of Yoon Eden?”

“Our hyung got dissed as an idol rapper throughout DTB and I felt bad for him, but even at the concert his turn gets pushed back like this. Shit, this is so annoying.”

“Isn’t Yoon Eden the last performer? Then is Skoen not appearing today? What the hell, why don’t they explain it properly.”

Naturally, various reactions were erupting from the audience seats.

When D.I appeared on stage and sang the first verse of 【Graffiti】, loud cheers poured out from all directions as if the earlier commotion had never happened.

The representative song of DTB Season 3 and the song positioned at the very peak of D.I’s career.

And the song that first clearly imprinted the idol rapper Yoon Eden on the public.

As Yoon Eden strode onto the stage and performed his featuring part, cheers like those from the beginning shook the concert hall.

【Graffiti】 sung together by the two on stage for the first time in nearly a year. The faces of the two singing the song that became the starting point of the narrative connecting DTB 3 to 4 were filled with joyful emotions.

When the song ended, Yoon Eden pulled down the zipper he had been keeping up to his neck and tossed his Adidas jersey to D.I. The black t-shirt he was wearing underneath was revealed. It was the same outfit D.I had been wearing just moments before.

While D.I put his arms through the jersey sleeves, Yoon Eden adjusted his grip on the microphone and quietly recited the first verse of 【Masterpiece】.

After the short four bars of lyrics ended, bass sounds gradually mixed into the beat, heightening the atmosphere to the fullest.

And as if they had been waiting, Yoon Eden’s verse poured out.

The powerful rapping showed a new side different from Yoon Eden’s usual style, making the freshness stand out.

Yoon Eden, who had maximized the atmosphere by building up the excitement before D.I’s featuring part, passed the part to D.I.

Although it couldn’t create the dramatic scenes or anticipation for the featuring artist like during the DTB semi-final competition, it was still a stage that could thoroughly entertain the audience even without those elements.

Smack-!

After the song ended and D.I shared a refreshing high five before returning backstage, Yoon Eden remained alone on stage.

Next, 【LOST part.2】 immediately followed. Yoon Eden approached the microphone stand prepared in the corner of the stage and slowly attached his microphone.

Then, all the lights went out and a single spotlight began to illuminate Yoon Eden.

Although it was a song hastily prepared due to the quite tight preparation period during the competition, after being refined through concert preparation, the rap seemed to have regained much more composure than during the final when the song was first presented, maximizing the emotion and once again touching the heartstrings of the listeners.

For the 【LOST part.1 Remix】 stage, team producers Gongchul and BQ9 performed together.

Since they hadn’t practiced many times, BQ9 almost made a mistake with the still unfamiliar beat, but true to being last year’s runner-up, he naturally switched to an off-beat and made sure no one noticed his error.

However, Gongchul and Yoon Eden noticed his mistake and teased BQ9 mercilessly with their eyes.

After the 【LOST part.1 Remix】 stage ended, the MC came out and had a short talk time with Yoon Eden and his team producers.

When the MC’s small talk subtly hinted that the order had been switched with Skoen, Yoon Eden laughed and replied.

“Just because the order changed doesn’t mean the winner’s title changed too.”

“That’s true.”

That response was enough to calm the complaints of Yoon Eden’s fans.

“By the way, Eden, when is your new song coming out? Not Rev’s new song, but your solo song. Everyone’s eagerly waiting. Right?”

At the words encouraging audience response, affirmative voices rang out in unison from all directions.

“With so many people waiting, maybe just a little spoiler…?”

“It’ll come out when the time is right.”

Yoon Eden shrugged with a sly smile on his lips.

“Yes, I hope that ‘time’ doesn’t exceed a year.”

After the short talk ended, Yoon Eden’s performance resumed.

After finishing 【Villain】, his first released solo song, Yoon Eden took advantage of the short break between songs to wipe the sweat from his forehead and spoke into the microphone.

“For our DTB to have a long run without getting cursed at, the last song will be 【DTBF】. Yes, DTB Future. Everyone misunderstands, but it’s not a curse word starting with F.”

Laughter erupted from the audience seats at Yoon Eden’s audacity. Of course, everyone thought that F stood for FUCK, and very few people actually believed Yoon Eden’s excuse that it meant FUTURE.

“Everyone raise your hands, and please sing along loudly to the chorus so your wishes for DTB can reach us well. Let’s get it!”

The boldness of singing a DTB diss song at a DTB concert was something no one else could match. It was only regrettable that this wasn’t the finale stage of the concert.

The song finished and the atmosphere reached its peak, but Skoen, who had finally arrived, wasn’t quite ready to take the stage yet.

At the staff’s signal asking him to stall for just one more minute, Yoon Eden nodded and grabbed the microphone again.

“Oh right, you said you were waiting for a new song?”

When did he prepare a solo song without us knowing? Even the Rev members’ eyes widened at this comment. Yoon Eden sent a hand signal and said briefly.

“I’ll give you just a little taste.”

An unfamiliar beat flowed out, along with unfamiliar lyrics.

With just eight bars of verse, Yoon Eden instantly transformed the concert hall into a venue for promoting his new song’s preview.

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