A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 412

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 412

“Why, why are you so confident that I’ll open a cafe for my hyung?”

Of course, Kim Dobin didn’t accept the goodwill as goodwill and just made off-topic remarks.

Yeah, this is how Kim Dobin should be.

“Hey, you can’t even say thank you, but you’re picking a fight instead!”

“And honestly, hyung only has a sense for music, but you don’t even eat desserts well. You just eat one or two if they’re there. So if you think about it, Hajun hyung is much more reliable when it comes to desserts.”

“Hey, Hajun may not know about other things, but his dessert taste is too high-class, so you can’t get advice from him. You won’t be able to capture mass appeal.”

“Huh? What did I do?”

Speak of the devil, Gyeon Hajun arrived at the dormitory fourth after finishing his vacation. Seeing how he came right when we were talking about him, it seems he can’t become a gentleman.

“Hey, Jun. Do you think macarons filled with lots of cream will be popular in the future?”

When I subtly probed about a dessert that would definitely become trendy in the future, Gyeon Hajun immediately showed disgust.

“No, absolutely not. Just hearing about it sounds really unappetizing. Why would you put so much cream in macarons…?”

See, this guy won’t deal with anything unless it’s authentic French macarons or something. Look how he says it absolutely won’t be trendy just because it’s not his taste, even though it’s a sure-fire trend item.

If you open a dessert cafe listening to Gyeon Hajun’s advice, it’ll go bankrupt immediately.

“But why are we suddenly talking about macarons? Is Dobin going into the macaron business?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s puzzled question, Kim Dobin grumbled lightly.

“There are three of us, so why are you pointing me out right away?”

“Well, the youngest member thinks deeply, so he definitely wouldn’t think of starting a business when we’re busiest right now, and Eden wouldn’t share his music work time with something like a macaron business.”

“You got half of it right. It is related to me, but it’s not me, it’s my hyung. And the probability is fifty-fifty too.”

“Hmm, I see.”

Gyeon Hajun nodded with a face that didn’t look curious at all, ending the macaron talk, then offered a belated greeting.

“Did everyone have a good vacation?”

Gyeon Hajun, who came back carrying various daily necessities that his family had packed for him as usual, first asked Ryu Jaehee kindly if the family matters were wrapped up well, then looked back at Kim Dobin and said with a short exclamation.

“Dobin, this time you won’t get nagged by Yehyeon hyung.”

Kim Dobin always came back from holiday visits to his family home with some weight gain, receiving Seo Yehyeon’s shock and scolding all at once, so it was understandable that Gyeon Hajun would react this way.

The kid doesn’t have a constitution that doesn’t gain weight; he doesn’t gain weight because he moves a lot compared to what he eats.

His favorite foods are also exactly the kind that make you gain weight by Seo Yehyeon’s standards (ex. pork cutlet, stir-fried pork, chicken… etc.), so whenever vacation time came when he moved his body less, his face would come back slightly rounder.

“This time it’s because I was at Eden hyung’s house during the Lunar New Year peak. It was an environment where no one put side dishes on my rice bowl.”

“How old are you that you still need someone to put side dishes on your rice bowl for you to eat?”

“It’s not that I eat because I want to, but grandmother keeps putting side dishes on my bowl and serves me heaping bowls of rice, so how can I not eat that?”

“Grandmother’s love runs really deep. What you gained wasn’t weight, but grandmother’s love.”

I attempted a quick change of stance.

“But hyung, your grandfather wasn’t as strict as I thought. I imagined a really strict tiger-like grandfather from Ryu Jae’s stories and Yehyeon hyung’s 80th birthday party and video call New Year’s greetings stories, but hmm…”

Yeah, he would have seemed less strict than you thought. Because you properly left grandfather speechless.

And now that my path has been acknowledged, grandfather’s attitude toward me has also softened compared to before, so it was understandable that Kim Dobin would think that way.

Seo Yehyeon, who got lumped together and called a entertainer and received some diss rap along with a thunderous order to leave at the 80th birthday party, would be different. Unlike Ryu Jaehee, this side didn’t have a chance to correct such a deeply embedded image.

“Jun, do you have any thoughts about coming with me to collect New Year’s money at our paternal family home next year? All the other members have received it once, but only you haven’t? Even Dobin made a scene this time, so now the New Year’s money increased from 300,000 won to 400,000 won.”

“Do I have to?”

As expected, Gyeon Hajun gave the answer I expected and showed a lukewarm reaction. Well, the only one who would readily agree and eagerly follow along to someone else’s paternal family home just because they give a lot of New Year’s money would be Kim Dobin.

“Won’t you feel left out if you’re the only one who can’t share the same experience? Oh, and my mother also asked why I never brought only you. She asked if we fought, and I broke out in a cold sweat for a moment.”

“Well, we did fight once. But that’s not the reason I didn’t go to your house. But when did Yehyeon hyung ever go?”

“He never came to our house, but he went to grandfather’s 80th birthday party. It was a family event, after all.”

“Hmm, then… I’ll think about it a bit more.”

Gyeon Hajun, who had gotten up with the food package he had placed on the living room table, headed to the kitchen.

While Gyeon Hajun placed the food package on the dining table, took out containers from the cupboard, and immediately unpacked the food he brought from home to portion it out for easy eating, with Ryu Jaehee helping him, I put earphones connected to my phone in my ears and tapped Kim Dobin, who was still sitting on the sofa.

“Dobin, what are you doing? Don’t you live in this house? Hurry up and go help.”

“Statement of conviction! Then what are you planning to do, hyung, who lives in this dormitory together with me, instead of helping together?”

“What kind of statement of conviction. Hey, I’m preparing in advance for the music recording that starts tomorrow. What, should I set you straight once too?”

When I asked with a crooked smile, Kim Dobin seemed to remember the scene where I had grabbed Ryu Jaehee’s first brother, and ran toward the kitchen with a disciplined look.

The demo INST that finished mixing flowed through my earphones. I was listening intently to see if there were any parts that needed more work, when the door lock sound mixed in and broke my concentration.

It was Seo Yehyeon, who had closed the last door of vacation and arrived at the dormitory last.

As soon as he put his luggage down in the living room, Seo Yehyeon first checked Kim Dobin’s face and physical condition, then let out a sigh of relief and looked around at the other members who were in the kitchen.

Seemingly satisfied, he walked toward the sofa with a relieved expression and muttered.

“Sigh… How long has it been since we parted, and I already miss Caesar.”

“Hyung, why are you saying that while looking at me?”

At my puzzled question, Seo Yehyeon was startled and jumped around.

“You don’t look alike! You don’t look alike!”

“Who said anything? No- body here said you look alike. Don’t shadowbox by yourself.”

“My gaze and my words just coincidentally overlapped! I’ve never thought you looked like Caesar!”

“Ah, yes yes.”

Even I, who never really thought Seo Yehyeon’s cat looked that much like me, started thinking ‘Do we look alike…?’ seeing this, so it seems Seo Yehyeon’s strong denial is having quite the reverse effect.

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After finishing the Lunar New Year vacation, we immediately went into song recording without a moment to breathe.

Besides the title track, the two songs scheduled for music video filming and the title track – these three songs absolutely had to be completed with recording and post-production within a week.

“Wow, filming three music videos for a full album.”

“If you put it that way, we filmed two during Mongyubyeolgok activities even though it wasn’t a full album. For our 1st album CHASE, it was just one 【Escape】.”

“Hmm, that’s true. But we’ve never filmed three music videos for one album before. Right, Ryu Jae?”

The youngest line was simply happy to hear they’d be making three music videos.

That was understandable. The ones getting ground down were the A&R team and me, who had to perfectly produce and complete three songs within a week.

The recording took place in the company building’s recording studio with cameras installed.

Since the intro was my part, I finished it in three or four recordings and called the person who had the next part.

“Next, Yehyeon hyung, please come in.”

When his name was called, Seo Yehyeon reflexively jumped up with his sheet music. I looked at such Seo Yehyeon with eyes half expectant, half interested.

‘Hyung, come here.’

Before we got our Lunar New Year vacation and scattered to our respective family homes, I called Seo Yehyeon and handed him an audio file.

‘Rather than just repeatedly giving instructions and making revisions, I thought it would be better to have a clear guideline, so I tried recording a guide for hyung’s individual parts myself. You just need to clearly capture this feeling.’

Seo Yehyeon, who received it, didn’t rejoice but looked at it with distrustful eyes and muttered.

‘It’s probably just a Yoon Eden version of rapping slowly anyway…’

-Like that. I was annoyed that he said that without even listening, so I planned to give him a thorough grilling in this recording if he couldn’t capture this feeling.

‘This is a guideline I made after personally experiencing and understanding hyung’s rap skills. How can you dismiss my efforts like that when it comes to such a guideline born from that?’

‘Having a sore throat doesn’t mean your rap skills decline.’

When Seo Yehyeon still looked at the recording with distrustful eyes, I was so frustrated I could have died since I couldn’t tell him the truth.

Are you now misunderstanding as advanced material my product of effort that faithfully reproduced what I realized through personally experiencing Gyeon Hajun’s rap skills, who is your downgraded version, and the essence of rap tailored to you?

‘Anyway, listen carefully throughout the holiday and think about how to digest it.’

At those words, Seo Yehyeon nodded with a determined face, but whether he actually listened and thought during the holiday was unknown.

Whether he made an effort or not would be clearly revealed right here and now.

“Oh, hyung. Why are your shoulders unusually straight and confident as you enter the recording studio today? You always went in looking intimidated.”

Seeing Seo Yehyeon walking in normally instead of looking like he was being dragged to a slaughterhouse as usual, I let out a short exclamation, and Seo Yehyeon, who put on headphones and stood in front of the microphone, grumbled.

“Put your hand on your chest and think about how you’ve been in recording studios so far. Do I look like someone who wouldn’t be intimidated?”

“I’ll expect that you’re being like this because you’re confident about today’s recording.”

At my casual remark meant to ease his tension, Seo Yehyeon smiled confidently and said with assurance.

“Yeah, look forward to it. Today I’ll definitely meet those expectations.”

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