A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 394

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 394

I absolutely have to take that away too. If Kim Dobin shows Ryu Jaehee Joonggonara, all our efforts will be for nothing.

But if I borrowed Kim Dobin’s cell phone in this situation, it would look suspicious to anyone. And I couldn’t drag those two who had already finished touring the second floor back up there again.

That would probably look even more suspicious.

Ryu Jaehee is quick-witted, so if we’re too obvious about it, there’s a high chance he’ll catch on immediately.

More than anything, I thought it would be less miserable for Ryu Jaehee if he figured it out through speculation after seeing his younger brother fumble around, rather than directly encountering the Joonggonara post or having us tell him about it.

The degree of shock received when directly confronting the truth versus approaching the truth through speculation is different. At least with the latter, he can mentally prepare himself.

It was Gyeon Hajun who perfectly understood my desire to drag not just the cell phone but Kim Dobin entirely away and handled the situation accordingly.

“You two go ahead. I’m definitely using a first floor room, so I’ll check out the kitchen and bathroom with the youngest members.”

Even though we had lowered our expectations of each other a bit, how many years had we spent together? This much understanding goes without saying.

As soon as we came up to the second floor and entered a room, Yehyeon and I immediately checked the cell phone.

“Wow, this bastard still hasn’t replied? Don’t tell me he’s in the middle of a transaction right now. After it’s sold, he’ll probably just send us a quick message saying the sale is complete.”

“Should we offer more money? Then he’d definitely sell it to us, wouldn’t he?”

“Do you really want to give more money to a guy like this?”

“Then what else can we do? I don’t like giving that guy more money either, but recovering it is the top priority right now. We can get the money back through Jaehee later.”

“That yellow-bellied bastard will never give the money back. It’s obvious the youngest member will cover it with his own money, so don’t even think about getting reimbursed.”

“…You seem unfamiliar. Since when were you capable of such thoughtful considerations?”

“Stop talking nonsense and let’s move to the next room, hyung. If we stay in one room too long, we’ll arouse suspicion.”

While arguing in hushed voices, we quickly looked around the room and took photos with Ryu Jaehee’s confiscated cell phone. The camera app works even without unlocking it.

The room had quite good lighting and was spacious. However, it wasn’t desirable enough to make me desperately want to sleep in this particular room.

Since I had a lifestyle pattern of going back and forth between the studio and dormitory until almost dawn anyway, the first floor would be better since I wouldn’t have to bother going up and down stairs.

Moving to the next room, Seo Yehyeon shared his thoughts on the second floor.

“It seems like it would be fine for Hajun, who’s a light sleeper, to use the second floor? Surprisingly, the noise from the first floor doesn’t reach up here.”

As soon as Seo Yehyeon finished speaking, Kim Dobin’s commotion could be heard clearly from the first floor, and I turned to look at Seo Yehyeon.

“It’s way too audible. What are you talking about, hyung?”

“I guess the house was just quiet until now…”

Seo Yehyeon muttered with an awkward expression and quietly closed his mouth.

“Hyungs, how are the second floor rooms?”

Ryu Jaehee, who was downstairs, shouted toward us as we passed by the balcony. I leaned against the balcony railing and replied with an indifferent expression.

“You guys use them. I’m going to use the first floor.”

“I want to use the first floor too. You youngest members use the second floor and take this opportunity to exercise by going up and down the stairs. You don’t even go out for morning exercise anyway.”

We half-heartedly looked around the remaining rooms and came back down to the first floor. Honestly, the new dormitory was better than our family home.

Finally, we’re all living with our own rooms. We really have succeeded.

While looking around the dormitory with moved eyes—it felt quite spacious probably because the furniture hadn’t arrived yet—I boldly made a demand to Ryu Jaehee, who was extending his hand asking for his cell phone back.

“Youngest, unlock your phone password. I need to show Hajun the second floor room photos.”

Ryu Jaehee unsuspectingly unlocked his phone that was in my hand. After receiving Ryu Jaehee’s cell phone from me, Gyeon Hajun was looking through the photos I had roughly taken when he turned around just as Ryu Jaehee was about to extend his hand asking for his phone back.

The timing was perfect, so it looked natural rather than intentional. This needed to look natural not only to my eyes but to Ryu Jaehee’s eyes as well.

“After seeing the photos Eden showed me, I want to see the second floor in person. I’ll go take a look.”

With a frighteningly shameless expression, Gyeon Hajun strode up to the second floor while holding Ryu Jaehee’s cell phone. He wasn’t successful as an acting idol for nothing.

After finishing his tour of the second floor, Gyeon Hajun naturally handed Ryu Jaehee’s cell phone to me instead of its original owner, Ryu Jaehee.

“We haven’t seen our dressing room yet, right? Let’s go check out the dressing room.”

“Doby Hyung, Hajun Hyung, and I already saw it.”

“Yehyeon Hyung and I haven’t seen it, man. We need to go there and discuss together how to clearly divide the territory for all five people’s clothes. Do you want to live like in our previous home, just throwing everything around carelessly? Huh?”

Before Ryu Jaehee could ask for his cell phone back, I semi-forcibly dragged all the members as a group to the dressing room. I could hear Ryu Jaehee grumbling about what we were even doing staying on the first floor this whole time, but I desperately pretended not to hear.

What was I doing? I was worrying about you and found your younger brother’s Joonggonara post to leave a transaction inquiry chat.

The dressing room had become much smaller than expected. Previously, we used an entire room as a dressing room, so it was fine to throw around five people’s clothes and miscellaneous items, but now it was attached to the powder room, making it difficult to use the space like before.

“Since we each have our own private rooms, let’s take our own clothes to our rooms as much as possible. Only leave clothes that don’t match the season here. Got it?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s words, Seo Yehyeon surveyed the dressing room and asked with a slight frown.

“I want to stack all the shoe boxes here, but what should I do? If I put them in my room, it’ll look messy. And the room will get smaller too.”

“It might be possible for one person’s stuff, but it’s impossible to put all five people’s things here. This is one-third the space of our previous dressing room. But we can’t just put only Hyung’s stuff here. Everyone wants to put that kind of stuff in the dressing room like Hyung does.”

Gyeon Hajun’s attitude was firm. When Seo Yehyeon sighed, Ryu Jaehee suggested an alternative.

“Then let’s sell a few unnecessary ones on Joonggonara. Even if they’re for collecting, there’s at least one you don’t want to keep forever.”

I was startled by the word Joonggonara coming from Ryu Jaehee’s mouth and immediately tried to dissuade him.

“Hey, Joonggonara is so dangerous. Scams, scams.”

“We’re the sellers, so why are you worried about scams? You’re not planning to put bricks in and sell them, are you?”

Instead of instilling fear about Joonggonara, I only ended up instilling suspicion about myself.

This is why quick-witted and smart guys are troublesome. If it were me, I would have just gone “Oh, really?” and moved on without even feeling anything strange.

Seo Yehyeon glanced at me with a look of disdain and seriously grabbed Ryu Jaehee to speak.

“That’s right, Youngest Member. You shouldn’t carelessly sell things secondhand. In today’s world, do you know how your personal information could get leaked from just one transaction?”

Nice support!

Ryu Jaehee nodded and smiled brightly while extending his hand to me as I was subtly backing away, trying to slip out of the dressing room first.

“Hyung, please give me my cell phone. And don’t sell any bricks.”

“This guy thinks I’m some kind of Joonggonara scammer.”

I had no choice but to hand over the cell phone while pressing down on the top of his head.

While the furniture was being moved in and the move-in cleaning was being completed, we came outside, dragging Ryu Jaehee along under the pretext of exploring the neighborhood.

“The apartment complex security is proper, right? Sasaengs definitely can’t get in.”

“So are the days of receiving complaints finally over? Ah, I’m so happy.”

“It’s a shame we can’t go to that cafe anymore. It was nice because we could get cheap iced americanos for takeout.”

“That was the True Boss who maintained his principles even when people flocked there after 【20,000 Won of Happiness】 aired.”

“Oh, there’s even a fitness center within the complex. Hyung, will you register here?”

“I thought polite speech was more annoying, but this is pretty bad too. Maybe I just get annoyed whenever you speak?”

“Your self-objectification is quite impressive. Now that you’ve realized it, why don’t you fix it while you’re at it?”

Ryu Jaehee looked back and forth between the two of us having our casual conversation and asked weakly.

“Why exactly are you putting me in the middle like this…”

To prevent the Youngest Member from looking at his cell phone, Seo Yehyeon and I had Ryu Jaehee put his arms over our shoulders while we also put our arms over Ryu Jaehee’s shoulders.

Actually, it would be more reassuring if Gyeon Hajun did this rather than Seo Yehyeon, but Gyeon Hajun doesn’t have that kind of image.

“Aren’t we creating witness accounts of a close-knit group this way?”

“I’m suffering though.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. From a distance, we look harmonious.”

“Right, Youngest Member. What’s painful is me having to raise my arm up to match your shoulder height when our heights don’t even match.”

“Yehyeon Hyung, then just lower your arm.”

“That won’t work. Then we won’t look as close.”

“Are you getting influenced by Eden Hyung now too?”

Seo Yehyeon flew into a rage at the horrified Ryu Jaehee, asking how he could say such terrible things. What about me. What did I even do.

After finishing the move-in cleaning, choosing rooms we each liked, and roughly finishing unpacking our luggage, we ordered delivery food to commemorate the move.

Fortunately, the calorie villain didn’t try to break the official rule of Chinese restaurant on moving day. Though he did spout the nonsense of suggesting poke and buckwheat noodles.

Even though he was eating seafood rice bowl alone while everyone else unified on jjajangmyeon.

“Youngest Member, Doby. Don’t use your cell phones while eating.”

“Says the hyungs who check their cell phones once every 30 seconds.”

As soon as Ryu Jaehee’s grumbling ended, a chat notification alarm went off. The same happened on Seo Yehyeon’s cell phone.

I hastily slurped up the remaining jjajangmyeon, grabbed my cell phone, and ran to my room. At my eye signal, Seo Yehyeon also put down his spoon and followed me.

<[Sorry, I'm in the middle of a deal right now]

“Damn, he says he’s in the middle of a deal?”

“Hey, then go big and add 5 more.”

“5? Is 5 enough? Hyung, what if he gets suspicious that we’re asking for too much?”

“Then first throw out 3 and if he seems to hesitate, raise it to 5-”

“Hyungs, what are you doing abandoning your meal? There’s a completely suspicious conversation going on here?”

A voice that shouldn’t be heard right now suddenly interrupted Seo Yehyeon’s words and butted into our conversation.

Whoa, that startled me.

“Uh, huh? Sports Toto!”

“Right, exactly! Sports Toto betting! By the way, this isn’t illegal gambling, it’s legal!”

Ryu Jaehee lightly laughed while watching us desperately make excuses while protecting our phone screens, then dropped a bombshell statement.

“Hyungs, I already know.”

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