A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 406

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 406

“What? He’s coming to our house?”

Since Kim Dobin was someone who loved his home so much that he’d rush back to his family home first among all the members every vacation, his bold request to leave his own house and come to ours naturally felt strange.

-Yes! Yehyeon Hyung’s family home is too far, and Hajun Hyung has his hyung and noona at home, so it’d be awkward to go there. Your house is perfect since you’re an only child and Jaehee is there too.

“Why, is something wrong? Did your family go on a trip without you, leaving the house empty?”

-Uh, well, that’s not it… I’ll tell you when we meet.

Normally he would have eagerly spilled stories he wasn’t even asked about, but seeing him hesitate to speak even when I gave him the chance made my suspicion and strangeness grow even more.

The thought that this might be voice phishing using Kim Dobin’s voice floated around in my head, regardless of what Kim Dobin was saying. I needed solid proof that this was actually Kim Dobin and not a scammer.

If a scammer got my family home address and spread it on the internet… It’s better to be safe than sorry.

The way to find out if this was really Kim Dobin was simple. I just had to ask a question only we would know.

“Hey, Dobin.”

-Yes?

“What number Rev meeting are we on now?”

-Huh? Suddenly? Uh, what number was it…

Kim Dobin, no, the scammer couldn’t answer immediately and clearly showed signs of panic.

“You bastard, you’re a scammer!”

At my confident accusation, the scammer protested in a deeply wronged voice.

-Does hyung even know what number we’re on?

“Of course I know! Seven hundred… seven hundred… um… Jaehee, what number meeting are we on?”

-Hyung only knows because he’s asking Jaehee too! And how would a scammer know that Jaehee and hyung went to hyung’s family home together!

When I thought about it, that made sense.

After several rounds of questions and answers with the scammer, no, Kim Dobin, I finally acknowledged that the person on the other end of the line was Kim Dobin and not a scammer.

Kim Dobin’s desperate shouting pierced my eardrums painfully, so I slightly moved the phone away from my ear.

-Hyung, just tell me the address and I’ll find my way there! I’m not young enough to get lost, honestly. I have a car too.

Kim Dobin had gotten a car recently.

But he didn’t get his dream car as his first car like he had dreamed. After receiving driving lessons from me a few times, he seemed to realize that driving such an expensive car with a beginner’s skills would be like throwing money on the street.

Kim Dobin seemed to regret the car I had received as a DTB Season 4 victory prize, lamenting his foolishness and regret several times, but since the car had already been given to Choi Hyeongjin, it was too late for regrets.

He should have just accepted it when I offered to give it to him. Why did he have to be stubborn for no reason and let Hyeongjin benefit from it.

Well, thanks to that, my image improved for giving my victory prize car to a good-natured rival, so it wasn’t just Hyeongjin who benefited from it.

“We see each other’s faces every day as members, so why not spend your vacation with family you don’t see often instead of coming here?”

-I don’t want to be at home.

“Then go to a friend’s house, man. You have friends you meet every vacation too.”

-My friends all went to relatives’ houses or their grandparents’ places. A few of them said I could visit since their houses are big, but they can’t let me stay overnight.

“Then go to the dormitory. The new dormitory is nice. Or book a hotel and enjoy a staycation during your vacation.”

-I really have nowhere to go, but I don’t want to be alone and lonely at the dormitory or a hotel. You and Jaehee are coming to the dormitory in a few days anyway.

While Ryu Jaehee was a talent who had won over grandfather’s heart, Kim Dobin was closer to me than to Ryu Jaehee, so it would be awkward to take him to my paternal family, and it would also be awkward to leave him alone in this house.

I could clearly see a future where either grandfather would grab the back of his neck or Kim Dobin would grab the back of his neck.

So when I indirectly told him not to come, Kim Dobin let out a deep sigh and confessed in a dejected voice.

-I’m extremely disappointed in my family. I wouldn’t have run away if it wasn’t that bad.

Family issues here too?

I searched through my pre-regression memories, but there were no memorable family problems with Kim Dobin.

Actually, even if there were, I wouldn’t have known. The pre-regression me wasn’t close enough to Kim Dobin to know such intimate details.

We weren’t just not close, we were worse than strangers. We were just slightly better than my relationship with Seo Yehyeon. Thinking about it this way, our relationship improvement is really earth-shattering.

“No, what exactly happened?”

-Curious, aren’t you? If you invite me to your house, I’ll tell you at hyung’s place.

“Are you making a deal with me over accommodation rights to our house?”

After Kim Dobin’s continued whining, I finally gave up completely and told Kim Dobin our home address.

“Mother, one more person is coming, is that okay?”

When I looked at mom and asked in an almost notification-like manner, mom looked around and narrowed her eyes, glancing at me with suspicious eyes.

“There really isn’t a camera here, right? You’re being so polite it’s unfamiliar, kid.”

“Hyung, don’t act like that just because I’m here, be comfortable. Even mother finds it unfamiliar. You don’t… think of me as an outsider rather than family, do you…?”

Podo whined along while looking at Ryu Jaehee, who was covering his cheeks and acting pitiful. I guess the youngest members have something in common.

“Alright, alright.”

I nodded while grumbling. I was also starting to find the extreme honorifics cringeworthy.

Until last time, Ryu Jaehee used to portray me to my parents as an extremely idealized, mature leader hyung that even mom wouldn’t believe, but now he revealed about half the truth.

Of course, even just that much made mom happy, thinking I had finally matured.

Beep, at the sound of the door lock from the entrance, Podo, who had been lying on my lap, suddenly got up. As soon as I carefully put him down on the floor, Podo ran to the entrance wagging his tail frantically.

It was quite a contrast to me, the biological son, sitting still on the sofa. Is this why they say dogs are better than children?

“Dad, you’re ho-“

“Hello! Hyung, I’m here!”

At Kim Dobin’s face suddenly appearing from behind father, I immediately stopped calling him casually and changed my address.

“Father, you’re home.”

As soon as he received my greeting, father looked around and alternately observed mom and me, who were fully dressed up, and Ryu Jaehee, who was sitting next to mom like a son of this house, then asked me with a sour expression.

“Did some broadcasting station come to film?”

“They say married couples share one mind, you’re saying the exact same thing as mother, father.”

After greeting father, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, I turned my gaze to Kim Dobin.

“You’re here? Wasn’t there traffic?”

“There was tons of traffic. I left right after finishing the call with hyung, but I’m only arriving now.”

“How did you end up coming in with our father?”

“We met in the parking garage. Actually, we didn’t recognize each other until we took the elevator together and realized we were going to the same floor. If I hadn’t remembered meeting him in the waiting room after the concert, I wouldn’t have recognized him until the end. I felt it then too, but you really don’t look like him at all.”

After hesitating, Kim Dobin rolled his eyes and slyly added a question.

“That wasn’t an insult, was it? Like, you actually wanted to look like father?”

“Not particularly…?”

Since father was said to be a carbon copy of grandfather, I thought it was fortunate that I didn’t resemble father. If I had resembled him, imagine how much grandfather would have nagged me.

“Now that you’ve come all the way to my family home, tell me. What happened that made you run away from home on the first day of vacation?”

“My hyung is opening a cafe using my name. He says he’ll milk it as a cafe run by a celebrity’s family until I retire! So when I fought with hyung, the adults only took his side!”

As Kim Dobin fumed, Ryu Jaehee’s face immediately became serious and he asked.

“What did they say?”

“They said hyung was just joking around a bit, why was I being so sensitive and raising my voice in front of all the adults, ruining the atmosphere.”

Kim Dobin lamented as if he had been waiting for this. Watching Kim Dobin, Ryu Jaehee dropped his serious expression, narrowed his eyes, and asked again.

“What did hyung say? Your hyung, not your hyung’s hyung.”

“What did he say? I told him, so you’re trying to leech off my back like this, acting like such a successful celebrity hyung.”

“You didn’t say that seriously, did you?”

“Yeah. I was serious in my own way.”

At Kim Dobin’s confident answer, Ryu Jaehee let out a short sigh.

“Didn’t you say your hyung goes to the police academy? Can you run a cafe and be a police officer at the same time?”

“I wonder? Since police are civil servants, probably not?”

“Does your hyung have such deep feelings about cafes that he’d quit the police academy? Or was being a cafe owner his dream from before?”

“No? Being a police officer was his dream. Ever since he was little, he’d always say that when he becomes a police officer, he’ll put me in a prison cell. Just for eating one extra yogurt from the refrigerator.”

This is where I started feeling something was off.

“Then in what context did the talk about opening a cafe come up?”

“There was a TV show introducing unique desserts at cafes.”

“So your hyung suddenly said he wanted to try that and asked you to open a cafe for him?”

“No? Don’t interrupt and listen. That’s not the context.”

“Okay. I won’t interrupt, so tell me.”

“While talking about cafes, the story came up that a relative’s friend’s acquaintance’s younger brother’s girlfriend is the noona of one of the Revolution members, and her younger brother opened a cafe for her, so she makes enough to live on just from Revolution fans, and suddenly hyung asked me to open a cafe for him too.”

Even I, as clueless as I am, could tell this much. Anyone can see that was said jokingly, man.

Ryu Jaehee let out a deep sigh and spoke in an advisory tone.

“Hyung, grow up a little.”

I also nodded and chimed in with a comment.

“That’s right, man. Grow up a little.”

“It’s because you all don’t have older brothers. Everything hyung says has to sound twisted to you!”

“Oh really? Does what I say sound twisted to you too?”

When I asked while cracking my knuckles, Kim Dobin hastily added a condition.

“Not all hyungs, just biological brothers!”

“Ah, so that’s why Ryu Jaekyung never listened to a word I said.”

“Not just any biological brother, but one born in consecutive years!”

When Mom called us to eat dinner, I stopped tormenting Kim Dobin and headed to the dining table. Thanks to my tip that Ryu Jaehee didn’t particularly like ancestral ritual food, the dishes laid out on the table were well-prepared home cooking, except for a few jeon pancakes.

“You’re going straight home after dinner. Got it?”

“Hyung, are you kicking me out in the middle of the night? I just got a text from my mom, and if I go home for the next few days, I’ll get beaten to death, seriously. If you want to promote as a 4-member Reve without the main dancer, then send me back.”

At my threat, Kim Dobin quickly shook his head and rattled off reasons why he couldn’t go home.

“It’s nice having the house bustling after so long. It feels like a holiday for once.”

“That’s right. It’s been so long since the house has been this lively.”

Hearing my parents’ conversation, I scratched my head. When they put it like that, should I just let Kim Dobin stay here?

Though 70% of the noisy commotion is from Kim Dobin.

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