A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 431

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 431

-Now that they’re all adults, they’re pulling off the sexy concept amazingly. I couldn’t imagine Rev with his chest exposed lying on a bed seducing with sultry eyes, but horror-sexy is even better

-This is the pre-release??? If this is the pre-release, just how good is the title track going to be???

-Rev is… sexy…?

-Oh the song is good, it’s a fresh style I haven’t heard from Rev’s songs before

-The composer isn’t Eden but G1. I wonder if the title track will be Eden or G1 like the pre-release

-After seeing Yehyeon’s face, I’d choose the right side too. Obviously. Even if he were a devil, I’d follow him singing hymns with that face

-Eden wasn’t the devil? Why? I thought Eden, who was so scary he made me cross myself in front of the monitor, was obviously the devil. But it was Yehyeon, whose face made me spontaneously say hallelujah, who was the devil

└’Fear not’

-So you’re saying Yehyeon poured tar on Eden’s head and that’s how Eden got that half-and-half hair?

-No wonder he was wearing his hat crooked to one side in the WAVE cover video – he was trying to hide that half-and-half hair

-How far is our Dobin going to go ㅠ Now he’s even like a signpost installation technician ㅠㅠㅠ

-I thought Rev=sexy wouldn’t suit them, but the pre-release and music video exceeded expectations so I’m relieved. I just hope the title track’s song and music video are good too so we don’t get comments asking them to promote with the pre-release instead of the title track…

-What kind of talent did Yuje receive… That mature charm from a twenty-one-year-old

-The group where the youngest member is seriously the sexiest one ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Personal opinion: Yehyeon isn’t sexy but holy-like, and Eden isn’t sexy but horror-like

-Gyeon Hajun’s ascetic sexiness is insane. The face that appeared right after he took off the mask really made me gasp

-The music video is honestly scary but I keep rewatching it because of the kids’ faces ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-They’re raising expectations this high with just the pre-release for a full album. When is the showcase coming?

That damn bizarre dream had completely woken me up, so I sprawled on the living room sofa and completed the Weekly Search Quest that had become almost a habit by now.

At first I wondered why I had to do it, but there was nothing better than monitoring through Search Quest for getting reactions and feedback.

Not just that, but I naturally learned about things fans liked and things I shouldn’t do, things I didn’t need to do that would just damage my image, so it wasn’t bad.

I was sometimes curious about the abyss that Ryu Jaehee looked into, but Ryu Jaehee hyung desperately tried to stop me, saying I absolutely shouldn’t look at that, so I cleanly gave up. I could just live off whatever Ryu Jaehee filtered and showed me.

At the sound of footsteps and presence brushing past my ears, I lifted my gaze from my phone screen and looked back at the stairs leading to the loft.

Thanks to the dim light filtering in from the dawn sky that was gradually turning bluish, it wasn’t difficult to recognize the face of the footsteps’ owner.

“What brings the hyung who preached so much about the importance of sleep out at this dawn instead of sleeping? It’s not even your song, and the reactions aren’t bad either, so you couldn’t be in a slump.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s question, I yawned lazily and replied.

“I had a shitty dream. I tried to go back to sleep but couldn’t fall asleep.”

The music video was already bizarre enough, but I was experiencing it as the protagonist not on a filming set but as if it were reality.

The inexplicable déjà vu I felt after waking from the dream was also unsettling.

I shouldn’t have experienced anything like that shitty dream content from the music video, so why did I feel déjà vu as if I’d already experienced something I’d never experienced before?

And why did I have to experience the entire trilogy instead of just one music video?

If 【Midnight】 was a metaphorical music video about being tempted and making the wrong choice, the title track and the remaining song contained the price of choice and salvation.

‘Wait, the title track music video content was definitely…’

I frowned as I recalled the title track music video content. Did I have that dream because it overlapped with my situation? But that red world was too unsettling to simply think that.

The music video didn’t use that much red screen to minimize viewers’ visual fatigue.

Moreover, that red vision – that red vision that seemed like it would drastically drop your eyesight and even affect your mental health – I never wanted to experience again.

And the first thing I encountered upon waking was a system notification saying I’d successfully removed some danger level or something.

I thought Cha Yeonho chose to get revenge through the system instead of confronting me directly.

Hmm, he really was incompatible with me. If something bothers you, just say it to my face – why try to transfer some danger level or whatever again?

Calling another weirdo to tattoo my body and increase my hepatitis C risk, damn it.

My teeth ground together involuntarily. Even if that wasn’t the intention, summoning thirty-year-old Yoon Eden at this point when comeback was so close was basically telling me to go fuck myself.

Well, he did pull that shit once before when the concert was coming up too.

But back then, thanks to that, the relationship improvement and the regression penalty from failing the Hidden Quest were prevented, so I felt a very slight level of gratitude. But now there’s no regression penalty to prevent, so I felt comfortable cursing without any sense of debt.

“Why did you come out in the middle of the night?”

When I casually asked Ryu Jaehee, who came back to the sofa where I was with a water cup, Ryu Jaehee scratched his head sheepishly.

“I was looking up reactions to the pre-release and before I knew it, it was already this time.”

“You’re not Doby, why are you on your phone until this hour? If you sleep too late, your height…”

I was about to scold him that he wouldn’t grow taller, but then remembered that guy had already grown as much as he needed to and shook my head. If Ryu Jaehee grew any taller, it would be hard to put him in a headlock or ruffle his hair.

Right now is just perfect. For formations and dance lines too.

“Say that to Doby hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee shrugged and plopped down on the sofa with the water cup in his hand.

“But what kind of shitty dream did you have that’s keeping hyung awake? For hyung, charting out would be a nightmare, not a shitty dream. Did you dream about being publicly criticized for false advertising because hyung is just horror rather than horror-sexy concept?”

That’s unnecessarily fucking specific. You’re not thinking I should be publicly criticized right now, are you, youngest?

When I briefly told the giggling Ryu Jaehee about the shitty dream I had, Ryu Jaehee narrowed his eyes and looked at me as if being wary.

“They say dreams reflect the unconscious. Did you have that dream because you’re coveting my center and music video protagonist position…?”

“Haha, when did our youngest learn another species’ language, not another country’s, and start speaking in dog language?”

I condemn the damn system that classifies saying “bullshit” as profanity and deducts original intent points.

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“Damn it…”

As soon as the notification that the danger level transfer failed appeared, a low curse accompanied by resentful muttering leaked through Cha Yeonho’s teeth.

His vision turned red again. Maybe because he’d tasted a clean world for just a moment, the world dyed red again was damn horrible.

Why is it clinging to me like this? It definitely wasn’t like this in previous rounds.

“Stop tormenting me and go find a host and fuck off! The promise was originally-“

There was someone else who was supposed to suffer this.

As soon as he recalled that thought of unknown origin while screaming in desperation, a throbbing headache poured down all at once. His stomach churned like crazy.

What did I just say?

Before he could even realize it, at the fishy smell of blood rising to his throat, Cha Yeonho gagged and quickly covered his mouth.

The blood he vomited squeezed through the gaps between his fingers and dripped onto his thighs and the floor.

‘I hadn’t completely recovered my memories? I didn’t hit a weak spot? I was actually being toyed with in the palm of that damn system’s hand?’

The shock of the sudden hemoptysis that made his head go blank was brief, as Cha Yeonho’s mind became complexly tangled.

‘Then what about my cards?’

At the fact that even the cards he could use for negotiation had become mere trash, Cha Yeonho coughed up blood again with a cough that seemed to expel all the air from his lungs.

KJ, who somehow heard the sound of coughing as if he was about to die, opened the door in surprise.

Even while watching his friend who rushed to him in horror upon seeing the stream of blood dripping through his fingers, Cha Yeonho thought with his unhinged mind.

Just one more time.

If I receive just one more shock like that… then…

“Jeongjun.”

Cha Yeonho’s instinct whispered not to do it as he was about to tell his friend to die with insane eyes.

Changed Yoon Eden. Changed Rev. Changed future.

Ah, it wasn’t that I didn’t know Rev’s regressor…

“Fuck, don’t die… This time I really, really can’t save you. It’s over, haha…”

Crazy, empty laughter burst out. Even Cha Yeonho himself didn’t know why he was making such sounds.

“Cha Yeonho! Get it together! What the hell are you talking about!”

Even when KJ urgently grabbed his shoulders and shook him lightly, Cha Yeonho’s focus was still past KJ toward empty air.

“I don’t know either. Where did it go wrong? What’s the starting point, really?”

The rambling muttering was incoherent.

[⛔]

The red warning window contained only one meaning.

Don’t dig any deeper.

“The price of choice is too great. This isn’t what I wanted.”

Watching his friend who was only spouting incomprehensible sounds through his blood-covered mouth, KJ hurriedly called his group’s manager.

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XX.04.27.FRI PM 1:00

The date and time previewed at the end of the pre-release song music video had finally arrived. As all tracks from the second regular album [NOX] were released on music streaming sites, two videos were uploaded to Reve’s official YouTube channel simultaneously.

[Reve – Nightmare official M/V]

[Reve – ‘Till Dawn official M/V]

Kim clicked on the music video for 【Nightmare】, which was marked as the title track on the released regular album [NOX]’s tracklist, with a pounding heart.

And.

The 【Nightmare】 music video began with the back view of Ryu Jaehee walking toward the right direction that Seo Yehyeon had pointed to, continuing from the 【Midnight】 music video.

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