A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 393

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 393

Since Seo Yehyeon was shaking his head frantically, I had no choice but to remove the hand that was covering his mouth. Seo Yehyeon, gritting his teeth, lowered his voice and whispered accusingly at me.

“I wasn’t even shouting, so why did you suddenly cover my mouth and make a fuss?”

“It was an automatic reflexive action when hyung opened his mouth, so please withdraw your anger.”

“Why have you regressed all the way back to the Joseon Dynasty now? What am I, Your Majesty?”

There was a hint of pride in Seo Yehyeon’s voice as he said that, which was really annoying. He couldn’t possibly think I was actually treating him like Your Majesty, could he?

It seemed like I could tone down the level of respectfulness a bit.

Worried that the members might notice something strange if we stood too close together, Seo Yehyeon and I maintained a distance of about two feet apart as we slowly re-examined the sales list of the seller presumed to be Ryu Jaehee’s first sibling.

“So it finally went up. When was it?”

“Three hours ago. Right when we were busy moving our stuff out of the previous dorm. I was just refreshing the page thinking I was watching everything, but I must have carelessly missed it. Damn, I should have scrolled down and looked at the bottom too.”

We were whispering in voices quiet enough not to reach Ryu Jaehee, but when I saw that annoying expression from earlier return to his face, I immediately switched back to formal speech.

“Anyway, that’s how I found it, hyung.”

Seo Yehyeon’s face quickly changed to a disgusted expression.

When I glanced back at Ryu Jaehee, I could see him leaning against the second floor balcony alongside Kim Dobin, chatting excitedly with a completely oblivious, elated expression.

Even if today was the best day to sell things off, on a day when Ryu Jaehee was this happy, that bastard of a sibling was pouring not just cold water but ice water on him, damn it.

“On such a joyful day like today, I don’t want to stab the youngest member’s mood right in the heart, so what should we do, hyung? Please rack your brain quickly and come up with a good idea.”

The original plan was to make Ryu Jaehee face this reality so he could completely shatter his last thread of hope toward his family, but when the youngest member was this happy about moving to the new dorm, should I really make this good day be remembered as the worst day?

It would be better to provoke Cha Yeonho one more time to make him exceed that danger level or whatever, and summon my thirty-year-old self as the price for avoiding regression like before.

After telling Kim Dobin in advance to desperately stop my crazy thirty-year-old self from getting more tattoos.

After pondering for a long time, Seo Yehyeon let out a deep sigh and pressed his forehead firmly.

“How can he not get hurt by this? It would be more believable if we bought this first and secretly put it in the youngest member’s room, then said it was a cursed object that came back.”

“The youngest member isn’t seven years old, so would that really work? Have you been influenced by Doby too, hyung?”

“Do you think I actually expected this to work when I suggested this idea? I just felt so helpless that I hoped to cover Jaehee’s wound somehow like this.”

A very worried expression was on Seo Yehyeon’s face. Seeing that face, I suddenly became curious and asked.

“But hyung, what would you do if something like this happened to me?”

“What do you mean what would I do? I’d just throw you the link through a text. You’re not delicate like the youngest member and you’re insensitive, so you’d be fine. You’d handle that bastard yourself and recover on your own.”

“Please stop discriminating against Yoon Eden.”

Since I don’t have human siblings, I tried applying this to Podo, who is currently my parents’ youngest son. If Podo did something like Ryu Jaehee’s first sibling?

I really can’t imagine our Podo doing that. At least our Podo isn’t that ungrateful…

I remembered Podo, who would eat only the snacks when I brought bags full of treats every time I visited home, then go back to Mom. Hmm, would this also fall under the category of ingratitude?

Thinking of it as Podo doing such a thing, I could somewhat understand Ryu Jaehee not being able to let go of such a bratty first sibling.

But our Podo would never do that. How could a dog sell things on Joonggonara? If that were possible, our Podo would have already appeared on “Amazing Stories” and “Animal Farm.”

While I was having these random thoughts, Seo Yehyeon stretched out his finger and scrolled down my phone screen, muttering in a serious voice.

“The prices are slashed so much that this stuff will definitely sell.”

“Ah, shit… One already sold in the meantime.”

As soon as I saw the post marked as “sold,” I forcibly swallowed the curse that automatically came out and frowned deeply.

What sold was even something I had given to Ryu Jaehee as a gift.

Damn, is this recoverable? Should I threaten them to expect prison time if they can’t return it? Do I have my father’s business card? I’m certain I don’t have grandfather’s business card though.

Damn, I should have gotten one of grandfather’s business cards for times like this.

Lamenting my past shortsighted self, I unconsciously turned my gaze back toward the second floor balcony, only to find that Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee had disappeared without a trace.

Feeling an uneasy premonition for some reason, just as I turned off my cell phone screen, Ryu Jaehee suddenly poked his head out from behind me.

“Aren’t the hyungs going to tour the house? Why are you just standing side by side looking at Eden Hyung’s phone? That’s so unlike you.”

Unlike me, who quickly composed my startled heart, Seo Yehyeon was visibly startled and stammered.

“Uh, uh…? Tour the house? Of course we should do that now.”

“What’s so special about touring a house? If we look around the house from here, that’s a house tour.”

Damn it, can’t we get our words to match even once?

When I glared at him resentfully, coincidentally Seo Yehyeon also looked back at me with eyes no different from mine. As soon as our gazes met in mid-air, we both turned our heads away without either going first.

Obviously you should say it like I do, right? But probably Seo Yehyeon was thinking the exact same thing.

“Jaehee, did you see all the second floor rooms before coming down?”

“I just looked around. I want to see the first floor room and then compare it with the second floor again.”

“Sure, go ahead. Hyung-nim, let’s go check out the balcony.”

I pushed Ryu Jaehee’s back toward the room located on the first floor of the duplex and successfully escaped to the balcony.

In case Ryu Jaehee might approach us from behind again, I continued our serious conversation while facing toward the inside of the house.

“Let’s buy these before they sell any more, Hyung-nim.”

I whispered to Seo Yehyeon while showing him the iPhone and iPad I’d brought up, along with items that seemed to reveal the buyer’s taste.

“Us? Do I have to buy some too?”

“Look, he’s posted other things together too. If one person picks out only the items our youngest entrusted and buys them, there’s a high chance this brat, I mean this kid, will get spooked and cut his tail.”

“Hmm, that’s true. He might suspect Jaehee.”

Not only would our members never have bought such tasteless things to give as gifts to our youngest, but since we could all see what everyone gave at the gift presentation ceremony, I could be certain which items Ryu Jaehee had entrusted.

“Hyung-nim, do you have a Joonggonara membership?”

“I should have one. I bought a PMP here before because of online lectures. I probably haven’t specifically withdrawn my membership until now.”

As someone who constantly bought discontinued Korean hip-hop and hard-to-find foreign hip-hop CDs and limited edition sneakers I’d missed purchasing on Joonggonara, this was an unimaginable reason for buying.

Seo Yehyeon immediately accessed Joonggonara on his phone and searched for what I’d shown him, bookmarking the items posted by Ryu Jaehee’s younger sibling.

“Would it be suspicious if we both chat to buy at the same time?”

“Let’s give it about a 1 or 2 minute gap, Hyung-nim.”

“When are you going to quit that damn ‘Hyung-nim’ talk?”

“Is that what’s important right now, Hyung-nim?”

Even in the midst of this, my anxious feelings about them possibly selling were a bonus. Gyeon Hajun, who had been looking at the dressing room and kitchen, discovered us on the balcony looking like we were plotting some conspiracy.

“What are you both doing here?”

Gyeon Hajun immediately understood my mouth movements spelling out “J-o-o-n-g-g-o-n-a-r-a p-o-s-t-e-d” and came over to the balcony.

I showed Gyeon Hajun the cell phone screen displaying the Joonggonara sales list and briefly explained.

“So we’re trying to buy these now. Before they all sell.”

“Then should I buy a few too? But I’ve never used Joonggonara since I don’t really have anything I need to buy secondhand…”

Gyeon Hajun, who had been stroking his chin with a serious expression, looked at me with a face like he’d realized something.

“Probably hyung has an account, so should I ask if I can borrow his ID? I remember hyung buying secondhand mp3 players and dummy folder phones. I also remember him making a fuss about getting scammed.”

“You can just sign up for membership right away, so why bother?”

“I don’t think Hajun needs to do it either. It would be suspicious if three people contacted him to buy simultaneously. Jaehee’s younger sibling knows his hyung is in a group.”

Seo Yehyeon dissuaded Gyeon Hajun.

Even though I’d left a purchase inquiry chat, there was no response. The same was true for Seo Yehyeon, who sent a chat 2 minutes later.

“What, why isn’t he replying? Come to think of it, isn’t it winter break right now? He’s not going to school.”

“People can’t be looking at their phones all day long.”

From Gyeon Hajun’s words, I got a sense of how to handle the first stage of helping Ryu Jaehee encounter this fact with less shock.

“Right, let’s somehow prevent the Youngest Member from looking at his phone today. What if he habitually goes into Joonggonara and discovers this?”

At my suggestion, the other two also nodded with determined faces.

Ryu Jaehee, who had stealthily dragged Kim Dobin over to the balcony where we were gathered, rolled his eyes and asked.

“Hyungs, can Doby Hyung and I use the second floor? I thought it might be hard for you Hyungs to go up and down the stairs, so we younger ones wanted to be considerate.”

“You guys who don’t even do morning exercise sure talk a lot. Want to see who has better stamina?”

When I naturally shot back, Ryu Jaehee grumbled.

“Then hurry up and go check out the second floor room. Don’t just stay on the balcony.”

If we all go together, only Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee would be left behind, right? Then we wouldn’t be able to stop Ryu Jaehee from looking at his phone, right? We exchanged glances without Ryu Jaehee noticing.

I poked Seo Yehyeon in the ribs to stop him from what would surely be bad acting and stepped forward myself.

“Youngest Member, lend me your phone. I want to take some photos of the second floor room, but my phone battery is dead.”

I shoved my cell phone into my pants pocket and shamelessly held out my hand toward Ryu Jaehee.

“Weren’t you just looking at your phone?”

“I was looking at it continuously, so the battery died.”

Ryu Jaehee stared at me for a moment, then obediently handed me his cell phone.

As I was grinning inwardly thinking I’d succeeded and taking Ryu Jaehee’s cell phone, Kim Dobin’s cell phone that he was holding came into my view.

Damn it.

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