A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 383

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 383

“Me?”

Of course, Ryu Jaehee didn’t obediently give me an answer to help end my worries.

“Why do you think that? Have I been acting cold toward you lately, hyung…?”

Instead, he only raised the difficulty level by giving me a sense of crisis that there was no answer.

I stared intently at his face, wondering if Ryu Jaehee was just saying empty words, but I couldn’t see any particular falsehood in his blankly blinking expression.

If that was acting, then Ryu Jaehee should pursue an acting career alongside his idol work like Gyeon Hajun.

“N-no, it’s just year-end counseling as a leader, counseling.”

“Oh, I thought… No, why do you start counseling like you’re picking a fight, hyung?”

“See, you do have complaints. When people live together under one roof, bumping into each other, there’s no way there wouldn’t be complaints.”

“Huh?”

“You just spilled it. Asking why I start counseling like I’m picking a fight.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been rubbing his forehead with his head down, suddenly raised his head and protested.

“This isn’t a complaint, it’s speaking my convictions, speaking my convictions!”

“Really nothing?”

When I asked seriously once more, Ryu Jaehee nodded.

I didn’t know if that was sincere or if he himself was unaware of the complaints existing in his heart, but anyway, judging that getting an answer from Ryu Jaehee was a lost cause, I changed targets.

“Hyung. Do you think the youngest member seems to have complaints about me?”

Fortunately, Seo Yehyeon was my roommate, so counseling was possible anytime. Even while lying sprawled on our respective beds like this.

Seo Yehyeon, who had been glued to his phone for a while but had now returned to paper books and was in the middle of reading, looked up from his book and turned to me.

“Now it’s the youngest member after Hajun?”

“What, do you know something, hyung?”

Was I the only one who hadn’t noticed again?

As I was seriously contemplating whether I should do some awareness training, Seo Yehyeon’s voice came again.

“No? Even if I knew about Hajun, I’m not sure if the youngest member has complaints about you. The only thing I can guess is your exploitation of the youngest member’s brain?”

Hah, really. Exploitation? Who would think I’m an utterly wicked leader who doesn’t even think about using my own brain and only thinks about leeching off the youngest member’s intelligence.

But I felt good confirming that my awareness wasn’t at a completely useless level.

No, should I even be happy about this…? Anyway, it was no different from saying that Seo Yehyeon also didn’t know why the relationship improvement gauge wasn’t filling up.

Between Gyeon Hajun and me previously, there was a clear wall called ‘the inexplicable cutting of ties before regression,’ so the relationship improvement gauge could rise to 100 by smashing through that, but with Ryu Jaehee, there weren’t any particular issues before regression either.

Although Ryu Jaehee before regression did pity me, that pity wasn’t the kind of condescending charity that dared to look down on me, so it wasn’t particularly bothersome, and I pitied Ryu Jaehee too.

Why did we feel sorry for each other?

I pitied Ryu Jaehee as I watched him suffer because of his family members, and as I watched him unable to cut them off coldly and instead suffering in silence, clicking my tongue at what a fool he was while simultaneously pitying him.

Then Ryu Jaehee was…

‘If it had been an environment where hyung could freely do your music, maybe the relationship between you and the members… between you and Yehyeon hyung and Doby hyung wouldn’t have gotten this tangled up?’

‘Hyung, I… I wish you could hate 【Temptation】 just a little less. It’s still our song, and if you deny it, only you suffer, hyung…’

‘You’re an idiot, hyung. If you knew it was a misunderstanding caused by manipulation, you should have just closed your eyes tight and apologized instead of cutting off such a long relationship so meaninglessly over pride.’

‘Well, we’re always supporting actors to Yehyeon hyung anyway. Both you and me, haha. You’re more famous as producer Yoon Eden than as Rev’s Yoon Eden now, hyung.’

Right.

With those familiar eyes that I had grown sick of receiving, Ryu Jaehee admired me while pitying my talent that couldn’t bloom where I wanted it to, my twisted and ruined human relationships, and my miserable inferiority complex.

Then what about now?

The sympathy I had for Ryu Jaehee remained unchanged as I watched his family who hadn’t changed before or after the regression, but the reasons for the sympathy Ryu Jaehee had for me had long since completely disappeared.

I had poured my talent generously into Rev where it bloomed, my human relationships that remained as lingering attachments from before the regression were still intact with the OVER LEVEL crew, my relationship with the members that I thought was so twisted it could never be untangled for life had been cleanly resolved, and there was no longer any reason to feel inferior to Seo Yehyeon.

Then if I resolved the sympathy I held for Ryu Jaehee, would our relationship improvement level really rise to 100?

But recalling the fact that my relationship improvement level with Ryu Jaehee had once reached 100, this probably wasn’t a fundamental solution either.

The most urgent thing was to find out whether the decrease in relationship improvement level was my problem or Ryu Jaehee’s problem.

Since I firmly believed that I myself had no problems, the cause was very, very, very likely to be on Ryu Jaehee’s side.

“But hyung.”

When I called him, perhaps starting to get annoyed, Seo Yehyeon responded without even turning around this time.

“What, again.”

“Are admiration and sympathy emotions that can coexist?”

I thought I had quite sharply pointed out a flaw.

“What in the world would be impossible? Just like how I think your composition skills are cool but I sympathize with your sleep deprivation and the slump you suffered so much through, it could be like that.”

Hearing Seo Yehyeon’s answer, this didn’t seem right either. I was in the mood to learn mind reading or something.

Won’t the system give me even one hint? At this rate I’m going to regress again, you know? If I have to do this crap one more time, you’ll have to watch a person go completely insane and rampage, you know?

[You have two random tickets with two days left until expiration.]

Instead of a hint, the system reminded me of the existence of random tickets that I had been forgetting about and letting expire.

[Item ‘Fortune Cookie’ has appeared!]

At first glance, it looked no different from an ordinary fortune cookie. When I shook it slightly, I could feel something inside the cookie. Probably today’s fortune or advice. It better not be some useless saying.

Avoiding Seo Yehyeon’s eyes, I quietly cracked the fortune cookie that appeared on my palm in half. With a snap, the fortune cookie split in half and a rolled-up paper strip came out from inside.

When I unfolded the paper strip, there was one short sentence written on it.

[Try being meddlesome!]

Try being meddlesome? Are you telling me to go around interfering in all sorts of places?

What the hell does this have to do with that missing 1 point in Ryu Jaehee’s relationship improvement level? Didn’t you just throw me something random because I was threatening you?

As I was chewing on half of the cracked fortune cookie while having reasonable suspicions about the system, Seo Yehyeon, who had an annoyingly sharp intuition only at times like this, turned to look at me with fire in his eyes.

“Are you eating snacks again?”

Without answering, I threw the other half of the fortune cookie into my mouth. Seo Yehyeon was horrified and started scolding me.

“Hey! At this late hour! And we still have so many times left to stand in front of cameras! How many calories is that!”

Come on, realistically, would I gain 10kg overnight from eating one tiny cookie at night?

“Hyung, let go of your obsession with food calories.”

Remembering the fortune cookie’s advice to try being meddlesome, I gave him serious advice, only to get completely destroyed by that crazy calorie-obsessed human who passionately explained just how heinous the act of consuming snacks in the evening was.

Well, that’s typical of what the system does.

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“Hyung, didn’t you say you had something to tell us?”

“Oh, I was going to wait until Juni comes too.”

The next day, after being called to the agency and returning to the dormitory, I gathered the members and was waiting for Gyeon Hajun to arrive.

“Is it that big of an announcement? We’re not disbanding, are we?”

“There you go with the nonsense again. Would we hold a ritual ceremony to disband? Doby, do you want to be a solo singer? Huh?”

“No way. I’m going to stick to hyung for life and live off your songs and producing.”

“Ah, I’m curious… When is Hajun hyung coming?”

“He said he’d be here soon.”

“Hey, Yoon Eden. It’s not bad news, is it?”

“Well, I think it depends on how you take it. But I can’t give you a definitive answer that it’s not bad news.”

“I’m not curious anymore, I’m anxious. Can’t you just tell us quickly?”

Beep beep beep-

As soon as he finished speaking, we heard the sound of someone entering the door lock password, and the door swung open.

Gyeon Hajun entered the dormitory staggering, looking quite exhausted.

“The drama script is so draining…”

Uncharacteristically heading straight for the sofa, Gyeon Hajun let out a lament and stretched out full length on the sofa.

When Gyeon Hajun’s legs invaded my thigh space as I sat on the sofa, I tapped them telling him to fold them, and Gyeon Hajun obediently bent his knees and folded his legs.

“Wasn’t your role supposed to be quite calm? When we were choosing scripts and reading them, I thought only the female and male leads were going crazy.”

“To be precise, it’s subtle madness hidden behind calmness or something… but that’s not what’s important…”

Seeing him struggle like that made me wonder if I should have pushed for Gyeon Hajun to take that drama, but then I cleanly folded away my sympathetic feelings since this was all for Gyeon Hajun’s benefit.

“Wow, the casting is amazing. It suits Hajun hyung so well.”

Ryu Jaehee let out an exclamation without any malice, though it was unclear whether it was an insult or a compliment. Of course, Gyeon Hajun didn’t seem to have the energy to care about that.

“Just watching the lead actors deliver their lines is draining.”

Just how amazing was the script reading he came from? Gyeon Hajun rubbed his face dry and let out a deep sigh, muttering in a very unconfident voice.

“Can I really do well in that gap…”

“If you don’t think you can do it, you can quit. We’re singers anyway, not actors.”

When I offered my own form of encouragement, Seo Yehyeon was shocked, asking if that was supposed to be encouragement. But seeing that Gyeon Hajun’s expression didn’t change any differently when hearing Seo Yehyeon’s encouragement compared to mine, it was one of two things.

Either my encouragement worked, or Seo Yehyeon’s encouragement didn’t particularly sound encouraging either.

“Now that Hajun hyung is here, please tell us quickly, hyung. What did the agency say?”

At Kim Dobin’s urging, I opened my mouth while receiving everyone’s attention.

“Oh, right. We’re moving in a week, guys.”

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