A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 4

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 4

At my question, the three of them put their heads together and started whispering.

“Is that hyung really asking because he doesn’t know?”

“He’s really asking because he doesn’t know. But still, isn’t it quite an improvement that he’s reading the room and asking if he made a slip of the tongue?”

“Hajun hyung has reached enlightenment. To think that’s still improvement, just how bad was he before…”

I can hear everything, you bastards.

And honestly, I don’t even know if I made a slip of the tongue. I was just curious why my initial intentions score got deducted for supposedly encouraging discord among members.

As I looked down at the three heads with languid eyes, Gyeon Hajun tapped the floor in front of him with his palm.

“Come on, Eden. Come sit here, will you?”

Damn, I shouldn’t have asked. Gyeon Hajun’s lectures are 30 minutes minimum. Though they did get shorter in inverse proportion to our years of experience.

Still, I was curious, so I plopped down. His dark brown eyes met mine with a serious gaze.

“You remember how we worked hard and struggled while preparing our debut album, right?”

No. That was 7 years ago for me, there’s no way I’d remember it in such detail.

As I played dumb, Gyeon Hajun seemed to take it as agreement and continued speaking.

“But is it right to erase all those times and put us down while sneering about what we could expect from something that won’t work out anyway? That’s not being respectful to yourself either.”

So the sneering tone was the problem?

Still unable to find the issue, I scratched my cheek. I was just being honest.

Come to think of it, when was it? When Gyeon Hajun’s lectures disappeared before my regression.

The novelty of hearing a lecture after so long was brief, as the continuing speech made me yawn involuntarily.

“No matter how I look at it, those aren’t the eyes of someone reflecting at all…”

“Shh, Doby.”

I pressed down on Kim Dobin’s crown as I stood up, ruffled his hair, and said to Gyeon Hajun.

“I’m going to wash up, so give me a three-line summary before bed.”

Behind me as I headed to the bathroom, Ryu Jaehee asked Gyeon Hajun in an incredulous tone.

“No way, that’s an improvement?”

“If it were before, he would have covered his ears and bolted to the bathroom no matter what I said. That’s a lot of improvement, you know? At least he’s willing to listen to a three-line summary.”

“…Is Hajun hyung Eden hyung’s mom?”

Regardless, I closed the bathroom door and took a deep breath. This required mental preparation every time I called it.

“Status window.”

I whispered so quietly that my lips barely moved, worried someone might hear, and the status window appeared.

Among them, I opened the Weekly Quest window that was constantly sparkling as if urging me to check it.

[☞Please check your Weekly Quest!]

[▶Post selcas and messages on official SNS 5+ times per week (Initial Intentions +2)

▶Search fan reactions 6+ times per week (Initial Intentions +2)

▶Post on fan cafe FROM board 4+ times per week (Initial Intentions +2)]

[※Complete all quests to receive an additional 10 Initial Intentions points!]

[※Weekly Quest objectives may change or be added each week!]

[※Penalties will be imposed if you fail to complete two or more Weekly Quests in a week!]

“Why are all these quests so annoying?”

I frowned deeply as I scanned the quest list. I’d rather write one more song in the time it takes to do this crap, damn it. They even impose mandatory completion penalties.

As I clicked my tongue at the harsh quests, someone from before my regression came to mind and I let out a short exclamation.

These were all things the youngest member, who was famous for being a fan-lover, had been doing consistently. That bastard Ryu Jaehee managed all this without any rewards?

Maybe he also regressed before me and was being controlled by the system…

[The Initial Intentions Recovery Project is conducted exclusively for ‘Yoon Eden’.]

Oh, right. Got it. Are you that upset about me suspecting the guy who was diligent about fan service?

I clicked my tongue at the system that rushed over to deny the Ryu Jaehee system control theory, then turned my attention back to the Weekly Quest.

For now, completing this week’s Weekly Quest would allow me to gain 16 Initial Intentions points per week.

Considering it’s just after debut, there’s a high probability that only basic quests are given currently, so there probably won’t be any omissions here, meaning I can gain 16 or more Initial Intentions points per week.

‘At least the Initial Intentions score doesn’t just get deducted.’

Unless I managed to lose all my Initial Intentions points down to 0 in a week, there was room for recovery. If I could keep even 1 point remaining by Sunday, I could prevent regression.

After washing up in the bathroom, I entered the room shared by Gyeon Hajun, me, and Seo Yehyeon, lay down on the mattress, and logged into the official SNS account the agency had given us.

REVE_official @LnL_reve

[Jaehee Dream]

Dear fans!

Nice to meet you for the first time, I’m Jaehee from Reve☺

Did you enjoy our debut stage today? It feels real that we finally debuted, but also doesn’t feel real lol I’m excited to meet fans during our future activities!

Please watch over us for a long, long time! (hamster emoji)

#Reve #Reve #Yuje

(Photo)

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I was impressed by the youngest member’s speed in already posting a greeting with a selca on the official SNS account.

That “Dream” next to his name was probably Ryu Jaehee’s thing, a wordplay combining the English word for Reve’s meaning ‘dream’ and the “00 Dream” from letter endings, right?

Later this became established and other members used it as their opening when posting on the official account.

I guess I should write something like this. As I was scanning through the post for reference, my gaze stopped at the hamster emoji.

This guy’s pushing himself as a hamster again.

Right now the hamster moe-fication suits him well enough since he’s the shortest on the team with a cute face, but Ryu Jaehee at nineteen, two years from now, will have a growth spurt.

He’ll grow to be among the tallest on the team. His soft facial features will also sharpen dramatically, leaving no trace of hamster-like appearance.

Still, fans managed to insist on calling him a giant hamster somehow.

It’s really fascinating. If someone called me a giant hamster, I think I’d feel terrible, but he liked that nickname and even bragged about it to others.

Is it just a matter of taste?

‘It’s not like I can suddenly tell him not to use this because his future self won’t resemble a hamster at all.’

I don’t know, the youngest will figure it out himself. Whether it’s hamster or sewer rat.

As I scrolled through the clean feed that only had debut news links shared by some unknown media outlet, debut song concept photos, and Ryu Jaehee’s post, my expression naturally became strange.

I rarely visited this official account even before regression. I probably only posted a few cuts that Ryu Jaehee dragged me into taking when he posted his own photos.

Since the quest to post on the official account was 5 times per week, I decided to do the official fan cafe posting quest instead, which required only 4 times per week.

Since Ryu Jaehee hadn’t posted on the official fan cafe yet, I’d be the first one there too.

[From. Eden]

(Photo)

Hello, this is Eden from Reve. Please take care of us going forward.

I uploaded the post with a polite greeting and attached an appropriate selca from my phone gallery that seemed to be from trainee days.

This was the longest post I’d ever written on the official board.

I used to just post a line from some pop song I liked as a proof of life, probably?

[Insincere post of 2 lines or less detected on official board.]

[Initial Intentions -1]

Ouch, I frowned at the sharp pain stabbing through my body again.

At this point, that system is getting creepy. Language detection, gaze detection, and now post detection too.

I memorized another reason for Initial Intentions deduction and touched the edit post button.

‘I don’t have anything to write, so what exactly do they want me to say? It’s not like we even have fans right now.’

This is so damn annoying. What kind of mess is this? I want to go back to when I could just write down a verse and be done with it. Can’t you regress me back to my 8th year again?

I squeezed out words with great effort, barely stretching my greeting to 3 lines, then went into my room and let out a sigh after each sentence.

“Hey, sighing makes you age faster. Once aging starts, your skin and face will go downhill fast.”

Seo Yehyeon, who was applying countless indistinguishable basic cosmetics to his face in order, said something to me.

I wonder what the fans’ reaction would be if we filmed that and showed them. Would they curse him for showing off, or praise him saying our Yehyeon works hard on his skincare?

Well, I know the latter would be overwhelmingly more common.

“Yeah, unlike hyung who’s only in charge of visuals, I’m a skilled member so I’m fine.”

Ouch, as soon as I finished speaking, I flinched at the stabbing pain that shot through me.

[Speech promoting discord among members has been detected.]

[Initial Intentions –1]

That guy is really petty.

He completely forgot how I worked my ass off to improve his skills, and I already knew from when he talked shit to me at drinking parties, but getting upset over words like this too? Then is he a visual member or a skilled member?

Since I don’t want to regress again, I won’t speak honestly to Seo Yehyeon and should treat him like praising a five-year-old. Just because of that bastard, I’ve already lost 2 points of Initial Intentions.

Seo Yehyeon irritably closed the cap of his basic cosmetics and said through gritted teeth.

“Sorry for being talentless.”

“Nothing to be sorry about. I’ll work you to death until no one says you’re not a skilled member.”

Seo Yehyeon, who had been staring at me for a moment, flopped down on the bed. He really was handsome enough to look fresh no matter how often I saw him.

“You should fix that shitty way of talking-“

Cutting off Seo Yehyeon’s words, the door burst open. Ryu Jaehee stuck his face and cell phone through the doorway.

“Huh, what? Eden hyung, did you post on the fan cafe?”

“Why, am I not allowed to post?”

“Aaaah, I was going to post first! The fan-loving concept and title are mine!”

“Take it, take it. Fan-loving or whatever, you can have it all.”

I threw a pillow at the youngest’s face as he spouted nonsense like fanning flames on a burning house to someone who was already troubled.

For you it’s a concept, but for me it’s survival, survival, you punk.

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Now our first week of activities was slowly coming to an end.

During our activities, the number of official account followers and fan cafe members increased bit by bit, but it wasn’t a significant amount.

Even when I searched diligently to complete the Weekly Quest, the search results for ‘Reve’ only showed our official accounts and a few posts like “Who are these guys? Reve?”

When I searched for ‘Eden’, only “anything” or other Edens who weren’t me came up.

“Hello, sunbaenim! We’re the rookie group Reve! Please take care of us!”

I bowed at a perfect right angle so as not to get in trouble in the waiting room of the veteran group that made a comeback this time, and handed out our debut album.

Of course, as soon as that album left my hands, it was carelessly tossed onto the table in the waiting room.

After bowing once more to the senior boy group who gave encouraging pats with fake smiles along with the obvious lie that they enjoyed listening to our song, I turned around to head to the next waiting room.

“Those guys will probably go to Araryo TV and Showdown soon too.”

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