A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 392

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 392

Who would have thought that the one with the most complicated inner thoughts would be Ryu Jaehee, not Gyeon Hajun or Seo Yehyeon.

Since he was a younger brother I prided myself on knowing quite well, the glimpse I caught of his inner thoughts might have been even more shocking.

All the more so because I couldn’t easily understand those inner thoughts.

The Ryu Jaehee I knew was a smart younger brother who, while having a subtle desire for recognition, didn’t necessarily show it openly, and who admired and wanted to imitate certain aspects of me.

But what kind of psychology is it to hope that the hyung you admire isn’t a perfect person?

Does he hope he can catch up to me? Was Ryu Jaehee’s ambition that great?

“Hyung?”

The culprit who made me troubled suddenly poked his face over me as I lay on the bed. There was no trace of his round, debut-era appearance to be found even if you searched with your eyes washed.

To think that kid is already twenty-one. Time really flies.

To think he’s now closer to the age I last saw him before regression than to his debut-era age when I returned. And… to think that during all that time, I still didn’t know Ryu Jaehee.

When I stared at him blankly without responding, Ryu Jaehee blinked a couple of times and opened his mouth.

“Why are you glaring so fiercely into space like that? Doby hyung is asking if you’re seeing ghosts or something right now.”

That was indeed the kind of nonsense Kim Dobin would say.

“Why are you coming to someone else’s room to spy and have such ridiculous thoughts?”

“Spying? Hajun hyung said we should slowly start packing up again, so I came to call you.”

Kim Dobin protested in a voice full of indignation.

“Your imagination really knows no bounds, our Doby. Last time when we went to Hongcheon Pension, you made a fuss about ghosts just because the karaoke machine turned on in the middle of the night.”

Still lying sprawled on the sofa, I just slightly moved my head to look back at Kim Dobin, who was pressed close to the doorway, and teased him.

“It was on Possessed Exorcist. After that, I called my aunt and asked if everything that appeared on the show was real, and she said it was all real. After filming ended, a shaman gave my aunt several talismans and told her to either sell or demolish this pension immediately. Said the location was really bad.”

“The broadcasting company probably asked her to keep it confidential. Don’t you know about confidentiality clauses, huh?”

“There’s no need to hide it from her nephew too.”

“Why not, man? A nephew is still an outsider.”

I replied while thinking of my aunt who was truly worse than a stranger. I may not have an aunt on my mother’s side, but I do have one on my father’s side.

“And what does it matter if there really are ghosts in the house? We’re moving tomorrow anyway. Once we leave this house, that’s the end of it.”

“What if they follow us?”

“Doby, let’s just do the first verse.”

“Yes. Even if they follow, I think hyung would chase them away well.”

Am I an idol or a shaman? Chase away ghosts?

I turned my attention away from Kim Dobin, who was spouting nonsense to the end, and called Ryu Jaehee.

“Hey, Jaehee.”

Ryu Jaehee nodded as if telling me to speak.

“Is hyung too perfect and burdensome?”

Though it was a fairly serious question, Ryu Jaehee immediately shook his head with a very displeased expression to show his denial.

“Why on earth would you think that?”

Ryu Jaehee asked with an expression that showed he truly didn’t understand. There are really many people in our group who should switch to acting. Why don’t you donate that acting talent to Seo Yehyeon? You guys who are good at singing too.

“Well, because you imitate me so very diligently?”

Though I didn’t like him being sarcastic because I exposed his inner thoughts, I couldn’t reveal Ryu Jaehee’s intimate inner thoughts in front of the members, so when I gave a vague response, Ryu Jaehee smiled with a shameless face.

“Even if you say that, I’m going to keep imitating hyung. Though of course, hyung isn’t perfect.”

“Go ahead, yeah. Who’s telling you not to?”

This bastard is openly stating his own wish for me not to become perfect as if it’s the truth.

Whether understanding Ryu Jaehee is the right answer to fill the remaining 1%, or whether Ryu Jaehee changing his mind is the solution to fill the remaining 1%.

To make the former possible, I first need to know Ryu Jaehee’s true feelings, but can I really draw out Ryu Jaehee’s inner thoughts? Will Ryu Jaehee actually open up his heart in front of me?

It might be faster for Ryu Jaehee to just change his mind.

The problem is that this needs to happen within this month.

When the Joonggonara incident breaks out, even though the severity will be much lighter than before regression when he sold fans’ gifts, so it won’t be as bad as his mental state back then…

Still, I should be able to draw out a serious conversation with Ryu Jaehee while comforting him when his mental state does deteriorate.

The problem is that I’m feeling conflicted about using Ryu Jaehee’s tragedy as a means to an end.

“Jaehee, I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine, I got over it ages ago. How many times are you going to apologize?”

Ryu Jaehee chuckled and waved his hand dismissively.

“If you’re really that sorry, then how about you take care of organizing the dressing room luggage and separating yours from mine?”

“That’s all it takes? Alright, go rest.”

When I got up from the bed, Ryu Jaehee seemed flustered and hurriedly grabbed me.

“I was just saying that casually, why are you suddenly taking it so seriously? The usual hyung would have said ‘Hmm, that doesn’t seem quite right’ and deflected it.”

“Why are you making a fuss even when I say I’ll do it because I feel sorry?”

“Because it’s so different from hyung’s usual reaction. You don’t think I’ve become difficult to deal with just because I was sulking at you for a few days, do you?”

“Would you really become difficult to deal with just from sulking for a few days?”

I lightly flicked Ryu Jaehee’s forehead and we headed back to the dressing room together. As a result of all five members working hard to organize the dressing room…

“Wow, we still managed to reduce the unorganized luggage to fit in just one box!”

“In the end, we’re still leaving without organizing everything. How does this never deviate from expectations?”

Still, we succeeded in reducing it to one box.

“We have to finish the move-in cleaning tomorrow and organize all the luggage too, so everyone don’t stay up late. Especially Doby.”

“Yes.”

After everyone scattered to their rooms, I sent a text to Kim Dobin.

[If you’re not going to sleep, check Joonggonara at dawn] 10:32 PM

[Kim Dobin- Carrot Market and Joonggonara monitoring is Jaehee’s job] 10:33 PM

[Kim Dobin- I do Bunjang Market] 10:34 PM

[Would Jaehee check Joonggonara at dawn? Only you who doesn’t sleep can do it, right?] 10:35 PM

[Kim Dobin- If nothing’s been posted until now, doesn’t that mean they’re not selling?]

[Kim Dobin- If they were going to sell it off, they would have posted it already] 10:36 PM

[Kim Dobin- Not keeping it until the day before moving] 10:37 PM

[Kim Dobin- That’s why Jaehee’s stress has lessened a lot too] 10:38 PM

[Kim Dobin- You can tell just by seeing him being clingy with hyung again] 10:39 PM

[Stop being noisy and either go to sleep early or monitor Joonggonara, choose one] 10:40 PM

[Kim Dobin- But what if they post on Carrot Market instead of Joonggonara? I don’t know Jaehee’s hometown neighborhood exactly] 10:41 PM

In the end, I gave up on using Kim Dobin for Joonggonara monitoring. I also checked Joonggonara until 1 AM, but eventually couldn’t overcome the overwhelming fatigue and closed my eyes.

I’ll get up early tomorrow morning and check, whatever.

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The next morning.

While I was enduring emotions that were half relief and half anxiety after confirming that our gifts still hadn’t been posted on Joonggonara, the members were sharing their feelings about leaving the dorm as they watched the moving boxes being transported by ladder truck.

“Didn’t we move here right when we were filming 【My Idol Observation Camera】? Time really is something else.”

“The memories are coming back. When we first came to this dorm, we had just escaped from the semi-basement so I was so moved and thought it was the best house, but after visiting my family home once, I realized this dorm wasn’t particularly great either.”

“It’s because hyung’s family home is too nice, this house is pretty decent too.”

Ryu Jaehee glanced at Kim Dobin with a face that couldn’t quite agree and retorted.

Seo Yehyeon smiled with a bittersweet expression and said.

“Still, a lot of good things happened after we moved to this house, right?”

“Eh, hyung-nim. If you put it that way, things went well when we were in the semi-basement too. We moved to this house because things went well while we were in the semi-basement.”

Before Seo Yehyeon, who immediately frowned at my rebuttal, could say anything, a moving center staff member approached us and asked.

“Could you tell me once more what you want disposed of?”

“Ah, yes. This display cabinet here, and the dining table and chairs should all be disposed of…”

While Seo Yehyeon was telling the staff member the disposal list again, I took one last sweeping look around the dorm.

“When we left the semi-basement I felt relieved, but now that we’re actually leaving this house, I feel regretful.”

“It’s a place where we’ve accumulated quite a lot of memories while living in the dorm.”

“I hope the next people who move in will do well too.”

After saying our final goodbye to the dorm we had grown quite attached to, we departed for the new dorm.

“Yeongjin hyung, how many rooms does the new dorm have?”

“You guys go see for yourselves. If I tell you in advance, it’ll ruin the anticipation.”

“Hey hey, Ryu Jae. The dorm must be seriously good. Look at that smile on Yeongjin hyung’s face.”

“Hyung, how many pyeong is the dorm? It’s not smaller than this dorm, right?”

Manager Hyung replied to my question with a playful tone.

“Of course it has to be bigger. What would people say if we expanded the agency building while reducing your dorm size.”

Carrying that anticipation, we finally moved into the new dorm for the first time.

“Wow, it’s a duplex!”

“Wow, five rooms! There’s even a separate dressing room, hyungs! We can each have our own private room without leaving one empty! Finally, there’s no one to nag me for using my phone until dawn!”

The price seems to have jumped to several times that of the previous dorm? The agency does have some conscience. Just like Manager Hyung said, I was internally cursing them for expanding the company building so much while not letting us move.

Looking around the spacious and clean duplex dorm, Gyeon Hajun let out an exclamation of admiration.

“So the move was delayed so long because of this house.”

“It feels like yesterday that we were living cramped together in a two-room semi-basement, but now we’ve come to a duplex dorm where we each get our own room. In some sense, this is true ‘From the bottom.’ Anyone without this kind of story should be completely banned from writing lyrics about that.”

“Oh, hyung-nim. You’ve really gotten into the hip hop mindset? Are you really preparing for DTB Season 5?”

I applauded Seo Yehyeon’s commentary and returned to monitoring Joonggonara.

From what I can see, today or tomorrow is 100% the D-Day for posting on Joonggonara.

Isn’t the day of moving and the day after moving when you’re busiest organizing stuff?

If they post on Joonggonara and it doesn’t sell, they can just return it as is, and if it sells, they can play dumb saying they lost it or lent it to a friend.

Since these are fairly expensive items, if they slash the prices when posting them, the probability of them selling quickly would increase too.

Either way, Ryu Jaehee’s First Sibling wouldn’t lose anything.

Of course, since it wasn’t Ryu Jaehee’s First Sibling’s to begin with, but Ryu Jaehee’s.

“But why are you moving to a new house and instead of looking around the house, you keep staring at your cell phone? Did you smear some honey on your phone screen or some-”

My finger pausing and Seo Yehyeon’s gaze reaching my screen happened almost simultaneously. When I touched the seller’s profile, a list of items for sale appeared.

Seo Yehyeon wasn’t someone who would fail to notice the familiar items in that sales list.

“Hey, this is…”

I immediately covered Seo Yehyeon’s mouth and whispered quietly.

“Shh.”

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