A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 388

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 388

No matter how much I rack my brains trying to squeeze out an award speech, I have no idea how to make an impressive award speech.

Someone else just said “I love you, Ilmong-ies!” with just that one line and got called a legendary award speech, but I brought a 5-minute award speech and only earned the nickname Lecture Idol, damn it.

And now I can’t even reuse it since Seo Yehyeon already used it once.

“If you want to be that memorable, just do a deep bow or something.”

Hmm, would the system even recognize that as an award speech? And besides that, it was questionable whether the members would even hand me the microphone.

After I finished my record-breaking 4-minute award speech, our damn members refused to hand me the microphone. Are these bastards forgetting that I have something called learning ability too?

What gives me penalties isn’t my poor award speech writing skills, but rather the members who refuse to pass me the microphone – that’s the bigger factor.

“Seeing you fidgeting around like that, it seems like you have time to spare, so let’s go for another round of driving lessons, hyung. I’ll give you the full course treatment today too.”

As soon as driving lessons were mentioned, Seo Yehyeon was horrified.

He was the one who got drunk and made a fuss telling me to try driving lessons, but once I gave him the experience, he was traumatized.

“No, forget it. I think self-study suits my constitution better after all.”

“What? What did you say, hyung? Self-study? Self-study while slowing down when changing lanes? Are you planning to come home with a road rage driver tailing you?”

“I’m confident now. Last time it was because you were next to me making me more nervous.”

“Don’t you remember getting baptized with honking and cursing last time? You should know you only got cursed at that little because of me. Didn’t I drill it into your ears that the road difficulty when driving a driving test car versus driving a regular car isn’t the same?”

“Argh! If you know so much about driving, quit being an idol and become a driving instructor!”

“If you’re going to say that, pay me the 1 million won fee from the day before yesterday first.”

“What 1 million won for 2 hours! How many times did you inflate that!”

“Aren’t you considering my increased car insurance and car rental fees, hyung? I already gave you a discount, okay?”

As I was glaring and demanding driving lesson fees from Seo Yehyeon, Kim Dobin passed by shaking his head.

“I don’t know when I joined an organization instead of an idol group.”

“What kind of organization has people committing insubordination against the big hyung like this?”

Seo Yehyeon gritted his teeth and retorted. Don’t you know about puppet bosses, puppet boss?

“And Yoon Eden, don’t worry about my driving skills and worry about the youngest member first. Are you going to keep going on like this?”

As Seo Yehyeon scolded, lately the relationship between me and Ryu Jaehee had been quite awkward. Fortunately, the relationship improvement was maintaining 98 percent, but that didn’t mean this situation was good.

However, there was virtually nothing I could do here.

I can’t stop Ryu Jaehee’s first brother from touching the belongings that Ryu Jaehee brought to the family home, and a real conversation between me and Ryu Jaehee will only begin after Ryu Jaehee’s thread-like trust collapses.

If we try to talk before that, we’ll just miss the core and go around in circles.

At times like this, I craved the cigarettes I had quit with such difficulty that I was going crazy. But cigarettes being bad is one thing, and if I smoked, I was afraid Ryu Jaehee might follow suit, so I couldn’t bring myself to touch them.

Watching the two younger members who seemed to subtly imitate me lately, I deeply understood what it meant that you shouldn’t even drink cold water carelessly in front of kids.

“Speaking of which, the youngest member has been keeping Joonggonara open lately but can’t even scroll down. So I told him there’s also Bunjang and Carrot Market.”

At Kim Dobin’s words, my hand automatically went to the back of my neck.

“Why are you adding more things for the youngest member to worry about, man!”

“No, but listen. What if Jaehee is only looking at Joonggonara and misses something posted on Bunjang or Carrot Market, and he’s being complacent and misses the golden time for recovery? Of course, it would be best if Jaehee’s younger sibling doesn’t sell it.”

“Don’t say things like that unless you’re going to help the youngest member monitor together. Are you planning to keep him from sleeping?”

“Ah, of course I’m monitoring together too. I’m his roommate after all.”

Kim Dobin said confidently, thumping his chest.

I scratched the back of my head and turned on my cell phone. Since I know it’s going to be posted on Joonggonara anyway, should I recover it before someone else buys it?

Would it be better for me to recover things and hand them over to Ryu Jaehee rather than him seeing posts on Joonggonara, or would that make Ryu Jaehee feel more miserable?

I sighed and repeatedly locked and unlocked my phone.

Difficult, so difficult. It’s not like I can ask Ryu Jaehee himself about it either, really…

“Let him handle it himself. Don’t make it obvious that you’re worrying about it. Rather than having it become a sharp remark that pierces to the essence after noticing the youngest member’s family’s character, it’s much better for the youngest if it becomes a casual comment you threw out thoughtlessly.”

Seo Yehyeon, who glanced at my cell phone, advised me.

“I guess that’s right… As a token of gratitude, I’ll reduce your training fee by 500,000 won, hyung.”

“I don’t need it!”

“If you don’t need it, then hurry up and deposit the 1 million won.”

“Oh, that intonation was exactly the same as ‘if you’re scared, then die,’ hyung.”

Unaware of my troubled feelings, Kim Dobin clapped beside me and spouted nonsense.

“But Eden, weren’t you worrying about your award speech?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s casual remark, my thoughts that had taken a long detour returned to square one.

Right, that’s correct. What should I do for the award speech?

* * *

Silver Disc Awards.

“Hyung-nim, I’ve prepared your seat! Please sit down!”

I gestured respectfully toward the prepared artist seating area.

I could clearly feel the gazes directed toward us. Seo Yehyeon, who had endured my loud hyung-nim attacks in front of others throughout the rehearsal, photo line, and all the way to the artist seating area, covered his face with his palm.

“Please stop… Aren’t you embarrassed…? And you’re not even the one who prepared this seat…”

Is that what’s important?

“Embarrassed, hyung-nim! What kind of hurtful words are those!”

“Please lower your voice…? Can’t you see everyone’s looking at us right now?”

Seo Yehyeon gritted his teeth and whispered to me, but I didn’t care. Didn’t he clearly say with his own mouth that he didn’t particularly mind hearing me call him hyung-nim in public?

I even kindly asked him if he was confident he wouldn’t regret it. This is a disaster he brought upon himself.

“Isn’t this the level of consequence you were prepared to accept when you wanted to hear me call you hyung-nim, hyung-nim!”

“Don’t you have any sense of shame?”

“You’re the one who’s embarrassed, not me, right?”

“Damn, I should have caught on when you asked if I was confident I wouldn’t regret it…”

Seo Yehyeon staggered and plopped down in the artist seating area, burying his face in his hands with his head hung low, letting out a dazed laugh. I grabbed his shoulders, shook him, and put on a passionate performance.

“How can hyung-nim, the actual boss of our Dog Dream gang, show such a weak side!”

Seo Yehyeon tried to shake my hand off his shoulder, but there was no way that was possible with Seo Yehyeon’s grip strength. Eventually giving up, Seo Yehyeon blinked with a blank expression and asked.

“Who are you? Why does someone I don’t know keep talking to me?”

“It’s your hyung! Are you going to throw away all those 5 years we spent together through thick and thin!”

“Can’t we really pretend we don’t know each other…”

Gyeon Hajun and Ryu Jaehee were already sitting far away from us, pretending not to be part of our group. As for Kim Dobin, well, he doesn’t think about anything anyway, so he couldn’t really feel the secondhand embarrassment and stayed next to us.

“But why Dog Dream gang instead of Rev gang?”

“Rev gang is too sophisticated, it’s like the mafia. I don’t particularly want to make our hyung-nim into a mafia boss or anything. Dog Dream gang’s gangster figurehead big brother is perfect.”

“What are you even saying, really! Hajun, try to stop him!”

Despite Seo Yehyeon’s desperate call, Gyeon Hajun turned away from us.

Seeing that even after going this far, there was no desperate cry telling me not to call him hyung-nim, it seemed Seo Yehyeon was secretly enjoying it too.

Seo Yehyeon buried his head as the girl group closest to us giggled.

Soon, the award ceremony began.

Rev won the main digital music source award for 【Clear Stream Song】 and also the popularity award selected by voting.

I couldn’t give an acceptance speech for the popularity award because of those damn members who blocked the microphone from reaching me, but fortunately when we won the main music source award, I was able to snatch the microphone faster than anyone and deliver an acceptance speech.

“Since this is a song that overcame a slump and all members participated in, it’s truly an honor for such a deeply meaningful song to win the main award. Our Daydream who always gives us strength, G1 hyung-nim who helped me overcome my slump, D.I. hyung and our Overlevel crew hyungs, the LnL AR team who always helps us…”

As I listed off people I was grateful for, I glanced at the members who were debating whether to steal the microphone from me and chuckled.

I was about to wrap up anyway, you brats.

“And to our number one contributors who completed 【Clear Stream Song】 together with us, our members, I dedicate all this glory to you. Thank you!”

The members, looking quite moved, lightly patted my back. Would this be enough to succeed the Quest?

“Hyung-nim, please receive the trophy!”

When I respectfully offered the trophy to Seo Yehyeon, he received it with trembling hands while looking like he wanted to faint right there on the spot, and as we came down from the stage, he finally said the words I had so desperately wanted to hear.

“Could you please just stop with that damn hyung-nim thing now?”

Hmm, it’s getting fun though, so why should I?

The grand prize unfortunately went to a girl group that made a comeback in March this year and had the biggest hit. Since it was October, we were lacking in points. Being a song made after overcoming a slump, there were some slightly disappointing aspects too.

So even though we missed the grand prize again this year, I wasn’t particularly upset. 【Dream Journey Song】 was an album worthy of a grand prize.

Yeah, how nice would it be if it ended warmly like this.

[QUEST FAILED due to insufficient conditions!]

[A random penalty will be imposed.]

Damn it, I knew this would happen. Just how much more impressive of a comment do I have to make to avoid seeing this fucking Quest failure status window?

As always, I tried to humbly accept the penalty, but this time’s penalty was of a type I absolutely could not tolerate.

[The ‘Skill Overwrite’ penalty will be applied for 24 hours.]

[▶Seo Yehyeon’s Rap Skills

▶Gyeon Hajun’s Rap Skills

▶Kim Dobin’s Singing Ability

▶Ryu Jaehee’s Rap Skills]

[One of the options will be randomly applied.]

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