A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 379

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 379

The heartwarming friendship story of Rev’s same-age duo brought back into the spotlight by this KICKS exposé

-Same Age Duo, you’ve been through so much hardship, may you live happily together for life!!!!

-I wonder if Yoon Eden’s loyalty is amazing or if Gyeon Hajun’s voice is just that much of a Pied Piper level

-If things hadn’t worked out well, they might have resented each other and felt sorry, but I’m so glad it all turned out well for both of them ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Yoon, you bastard, if you could do this all along, why did you act that way towards Jitae? ㅋㅋㅋ

-This is the modern version of the friendship between Zhiyin Zhiji and Boya Ziqi, may your friendship last forever

Thanks to this, mine and Gyeon Hajun’s image improved quite a bit.

I was being revered as almost the incarnation of loyalty, and Gyeon Hajun was being treated as something like the human manifestation of a siren with an amazing voice that made someone give up a major agency and follow him to a small company.

Most importantly, Gyeon Hajun earned extra points for quietly enduring this without revealing it until now.

Jung Iseo, who was trying to secure a victim image, ended up greatly boosting our image instead.

If only he hadn’t latched onto us at Sports University, he wouldn’t have been called a sinister planned departure. This is why people should live kindly like me.

In the end, it all comes back like this. Whether for good or bad.

“Honestly, it was the first time I saw Hajun hyung like that.”

Ryu Jaehee muttered as if recalling yesterday’s phone call.

I nodded in agreement, remembering Gyeon Hajun who stole my cell phone again and delivered verbal blows to Jung Iseo while I was refreshingly spending my precious Beginner’s Mind points despite enduring the pain.

Did he say something like if you realized you’ve fallen, stop looking down on people and figure out your position? Oh, he also said that not being able to feel sorry means lacking empathy, and empathy equals intelligence.

He had a lot built up inside, and since he couldn’t even get an apology, his anger must have really flared up. What was amazing about Gyeon Hajun was that he could express it calmly instead of shouting or using profanity.

“And it was also the first time I saw hyung curse like that.”

Of course. In this round, after debuting, I could barely curse because of that damn Beginner’s Mind score.

A total of 10 Beginner’s Mind points were deducted. The system deducted points for each profanity in the first sentence, but then showed mercy and deducted just once for the entire second sentence.

If the system hadn’t shown flexibility, at least 20 points would have been deducted, so it was really fortunate.

In the early debut days, it would deduct Beginner’s Mind points for all sorts of reasons, but now it seems to have developed some flexibility? Now it seems like I could casually drop a few light profanities in daily life…

[I thought you had grown, but seeing you think like this makes me wonder if I should downgrade back to past standards.]

Damn, it won’t even let me think freely.

“But Jung Iseo wouldn’t have recorded yesterday’s call and release the recording, would he?”

“If I had given him some kind words wishing him well in his future endeavors, maybe, but he got cursed out – what would exposing that do other than add fuel to his own parachute controversy?”

“I know, I understand that… I’m just worried the hyungs might get dragged into a mud fight for no reason.”

“Worrying is also a luxury. We got through it safely. Now it’s their business among themselves.”

I lightly ruffled Ryu Jaehee’s hair and swallowed the words I couldn’t say out loud.

I still hadn’t answered Jung Iseo’s last words. This cunning bastard left me feeling unsettled until the very end.

‘Should I also expose to the public waiting for new issues why it was Gyeon Hajun who got pushed out? Oh, would you prefer not to be mentioned and involved in this incident anymore?’

Sigh, it was very clear even through the handset that Kwon Yunseong had no idea about this, so I don’t know which of the remaining four it was, but the bastard who answered that straightforwardly instead of just saying ‘we’re all close’ is also a fucking bastard. Or it could be fucking bastard’S’.

Would the result have been different if I had called and asked?

I brushed away the meaningless curiosity.

I had to give that answer so Jung Iseo wouldn’t try to manipulate us anymore using that as an excuse.

Whatever choice I made, I had to go in the direction that would screw over Jung Iseo as much as possible. Even if it was just because I was annoyed that he kept trying to use me until the very end. You picked the wrong person to mess with, you bastard.

“Watching Pome get cursed at for the past few days has been too hard.”

As I let out a deep sigh, Kim Dobin, who had been scratching his head with a thoughtless expression beside me, asked in that infuriatingly naive voice that made people want to explode.

“You’re not talking about Jung Iseo, are you?”

“Is Jung Iseo a Pomeranian? Is Jung Iseo a Pome? Huh?”

When I glared at him and snapped, Kim Dobin replied calmly without batting an eye.

“Oh my, I guess I got brainwashed from watching for the past few days. That startled me. Well, there’s no way hyung would be troubled just because Jung Iseo is getting cursed at.”

Was he acting like that because he’d gotten used to me losing my temper too often…? Should I express anger heavily but only occasionally like Gyeon Hajun does?

But since I knew very well that I wouldn’t live to my natural lifespan if I lived like that, I gave up on that worry and just continued lamenting.

“No matter how I think about it, calling people animals should be legally banned.”

“Then our youngest member who always insists he’s a hamster would be the first one arrested.”

“When a guy whose nickname is Pome gets cursed at, only Pome owners like me get hurt. Watching that reminded me of our Podo and made my heart ache so much…”

I was quite mentally and physically exhausted from all the mockery and curses combined with ‘your Pome’ and Pome that I saw while doing search queries.

After all, when I think of Pome, Podo from my family home comes to mind much faster than someone like Jung Iseo.

Even though I constantly reminded myself that this wasn’t cursing at a specific dog breed but cursing at that bastard Jung Iseo, I kept seeing visions of Podo wagging his tail and welcoming me.

“Looking at you, hyung, it seems like you care more about dogs than people.”

“Of course dogs are better than people. My mom said so too. Dogs are better than children.”

Kim Dobin finally shut his mouth.

“In the end, things turned out this way and I do feel refreshed… but why did New Born let Jung Iseo withdraw and let that explode? KICKS wasn’t ruined, and it shouldn’t have been operating at a loss.”

“That’s right. Rather, the current stock price was rising. I’m curious about that too. Jung Iseo isn’t even the president’s nephew but the director’s nephew, so why bother…?”

Fortunately, Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee weren’t the type to lead conversations that made me spout nonsense like Kim Dobin did.

Among us, I was the only one in contact with KICKS members, so I was the only one who knew the truth.

“I was curious about that too, so when I asked, they said it got tangled up with the issue of creating an independent label.”

“An independent label? KICKS on their own?”

“No way. One of New Born’s exclusive producers asked to split off a separate label. But that person had been in charge of KICKS since their debut, so he wanted to take KICKS with him, and there was some trouble in that process.”

Gyeon Hajun frowned slightly and carefully mentioned a name.

“Producer Moon Hongbeom?”

“Oh, you remember?”

“He took care of us a lot after the debut team was decided.”

Gyeon Hajun nodded slightly as he replied. Seeing the youngest line’s expressions as they listened to an unfamiliar story, I realized anew that only Hajun and I shared the same memories.

According to Kwon Yunseong, New Born was quite displeased that they had sided with Moon Hongbeom. They probably didn’t like the label system. Maybe they didn’t want personnel or budget to be dispersed since they were preparing to launch a new girl group.”

So whether they were trying to teach them the importance of their agency, or they had fallen out of favor with the higher-ups, or they were trying to use KICKS to make the label issue fizzle out.

Only New Born’s president and directors would know the truth.

“They probably just imagined something simple like discord between members, but they didn’t know Jung Iseo would detonate a nuclear bomb.”

They probably didn’t expect that KICKS wouldn’t just take it lying down either.

“They seem to be taking a no-response approach, thinking it’ll quiet down over time, but thanks to that, they’ve only added more fuel to the parachute controversy.”

Seeing how they’re still not responding, I wonder if they have other thoughts, or if they’ve completely given up.

“What if it were our agency?”

Hmm, if something like this happened at LnL? First of all, it’s hard to even imagine bullying, parachutes, and a member withdrawing…

“It’s impossible for us to fall out of favor with our agency like KICKS did, isn’t it? We’re the only artist here, so if we get screwed over, what would be the point of LnL’s existence?”

“If the CEO had heard what hyung just said, he would’ve been heartbroken.”

It’s fine. If I say something that points out harsh reality to the members, it’s grounds for deducting sincerity points for causing discord, but if I target the CEO, my sincerity points don’t really get reduced.

“But with the CEO’s luck, wouldn’t a big issue break out right after such an incident that would bury it, and we’d safely get buried along with it?”

“Oh, that seems totally possible? I’m really curious if that would actually happen. Don’t you think so, hyungs?”

“What are you gonna do about being curious? Should we bully one guy and make another one a parachute?”

“It only becomes an issue when someone gets planted as a parachute because it’s a company like Newborn. If it were LnL, it would only be an issue among us. Who’s that poor parachute who got planted at LnL because CEO Kim Nodam happened to have connections, out of all those agencies?”

My gaze naturally turned toward Gyeon Hajun. I could see in real time how ‘that poor parachute who got planted at LnL because CEO Kim Nodam happened to have connections, out of all those agencies’ Gyeon Hajun flinched.

“Anyway, KICKS’ attendance at year-end award ceremonies has become uncertain, let alone winning awards. Since it ended with this both-sides argument, Jung Iseo won’t be able to come out easily either. After all, Jung Iseo is also branded as a perpetrator right now.”

“That’s right. It really is justice prevailing in the end, just like Choi Hyeonmin said.”

Gyeon Hajun laughed refreshingly.

It was winter.

* * *

The approaching New Year.

Before the New Year, the closest schedule we had was WAMA (Wnet ASIA MUSIC AWARD). To attend WAMA, which was being held in Hong Kong again this year, we had to take a plane.

“Plane… plane… do we really have to take it…? Can’t we get to Hong Kong by sea?”

“It’s okay, Doby hyung! This is a direct flight! Horrible things like four layovers won’t happen on this plane!”

“Hawaii was also a direct flight… Hawaii was also a direct flight!”

“Yehyeon hyung! Why are you acting like this too!”

“Youngest, you don’t know. You don’t know the horror of four layovers.”

“Haha, should we check Hong Kong’s weather forecast first? At least a week’s worth of weather should be available, right?”

“This is driving me crazy! Why are these hyungs acting like this! Are we only going to do domestic activities?”

We still hadn’t recovered from our flight delay and layover phobia.

Except for Ryu Jaehee, who barely made it back to Korea safely with only two layovers.

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