A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 435

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 435

When I carefully placed my arm on his shoulder, making sure not to touch the wound on his ear, Kim Dobin visibly flinched.

“Actually, I lost my memory so I don’t remember committing insubordination.”

Watching him roll his eyes and desperately make excuses, my eyes naturally narrowed.

Hmm, given the situation, I had thrown out what was close to a light joke to lighten the mood, but seeing Kim Dobin’s reaction like that made it feel less like an unconscious action due to lack of context and more like an action done with some very impure intention.

He was also injured and currently bleeding, and both the members and staff around us had made things chaotic, so even though I received such insubordination from that guy, I decided to magnanimously let it slide.

I was also proud of Kim Dobin for finishing the stage steadfastly without showing any sign of being startled despite suffering such a sudden injury.

But if he did it taking advantage of this opportunity, that would be a different story, wouldn’t it?

“Really? You don’t remember? That’s strange? If you don’t remember, why do you keep avoiding my eyes like that?”

“I’m naturally scared of you, hyung.”

Kim Dobin quickly shook off my arm and while changing into his stage outfit, he showed his teeth with a shameless face without even wetting his lips.

Thinking of Kim Dobin’s recent attitude and today’s insubordination, I naturally let out a snort.

“How ridiculous. Lately you haven’t been particularly scared and you say everything you want to say. And do you hit someone on the back while telling them to stay still because they’re being frantic when you’re scared of them?”

That’s right.

I actually got hit on the back by Kim Dobin. And I even got scolded.

I could have overlooked him patting my back while laughing, thinking it was from excitement. It was ambiguous to put this in the category of insubordination.

But back-smashing accompanied by scolding and restraint was clear insubordination.

When Ryu Jaehee did something similar before, I meekly accepted it because I felt guilty since I was trying to recklessly spit out a diss rap, but this guy hit my back and scolded me even when I was worrying about him.

Just imagine if I hit the crew hyungs’ backs while pointing out their mistakes or errors. Ugh, what would I hear? I’m getting goosebumps.

No matter how close we are as hyung and dongsaeng, there are lines that must be maintained.

“No, that’s because you kept making a fuss about calling 119…! Everyone around was already in chaos saying we need first aid, we need to go to the hospital immediately, and you were the loudest, ugh.”

I was going to let it slide thinking he forgot due to the confusion, but now he’s confessing it was intentional like that.

“I was just a little surprised, honestly it didn’t hurt enough to call 119. This is honestly self-defense? Willful negligence? What is it?”

Kim Dobin furrowed his brow deeply, as if trying to find the right word.

“Hey, I told you to call 119 because you said you felt dizzy from bleeding too much! Would I have told you to call if you said you were fine?”

“No, but I also wanted to show off a little. Owner of strong mental strength who overcame extreme situations, pain, and excessive bleeding to steadfastly finish the stage, something like that.”

As expected, I think I’m much better than Kim Dobin. Obviously better than Seo Yehyeon too. If I’m third best among the five members, I’m qualified to be leader.

Just as I was feeling self-satisfied and relieved that I wasn’t the most hopeless in the team.

“Still, I think I’m better than you, hyung.”

Kim Dobin, who was getting touch-up makeup, spouted nonsense. After rolling around like that in front of Podo trying to get attention, now he seemed to have learned dog language alongside Ryu Jaehee.

“I don’t make a fuss about calling 119 over this level of bleeding.”

So that’s why you committed insubordination? My hands were itching to give him a neck massage. I stared at Kim Dobin’s ear with the bandage and opened my mouth.

“Doby, let’s talk when your wound heals.”

“But honestly, it really was noisy. If it wasn’t Doby, I would have hit your back. What is 119, some kind of panacea? You look for 119 whenever something happens.”

Seo Yehyeon shook his head and interjected.

“Are you completely erasing from your head that all those ‘something happens’ involved bloodshed, hyung-nim? How many bloody incidents have happened to us so far, but you leave that out! How can you make me the only one who’s being dramatic.”

“You are dramatic. You asked us to call an ambulance even for a cold and body aches.”

“In the 4 years since our debut, Eden hyung has coughed up blood twice, had one nosebleed, and had body aches once. And health checkup results show no disease that could cause coughing up blood, and no abnormalities in lungs, bronchi, stomach, or esophagus.”

“He’s really healthy but occasionally very spectacular. No matter how I think about it, he didn’t cough up blood but nosebleed went down his throat or he bit the inside of his mouth and bled.”

Seo Yehyeon dismissed my health issues. It was truly regrettable that I couldn’t say it was the system’s heinous penalty.

If I made more of a fuss, I might end up revealing the system’s existence and be lumped together with Kim Dobin, so I retreated one step for now.

Panacea… hmm.

Even while being called to where the MCs were for the comeback interview, the word Seo Yehyeon had thrown floated around in my head.

“Rev’s comeback stage with five dangerous and sexy men, please look forward to it! Subscribe to Music Camp channel!”

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After safely finishing the comeback stage as a five-member group without incident and returning to the dormitory, Kim Dobin immediately started writing a post for the fan cafe under Ryu Jaehee’s nagging.

Only after receiving several rounds of editing from Ryu Jaehee for a post expressing gratitude to Daydream for worrying about his injury, stating that the injury wasn’t serious and if anything it was his fault for not being careful during choreography, and that continuing the showcase to the end and appearing on today’s music show were all his decisions, did Kim Dobin finally post it on the FROM board with a selca with a liberated expression.

Ryu Jaehee even coached the selca angle to make the injury look minor. Even with detailed instructions from the side, Kim Dobin was terrible at getting the angle right, so I ended up sitting next to him, holding his hand and adjusting the phone angle.

Right, as expected I’m much better than Kim Dobin.

Not just Kim Dobin, but the rest of us members including myself also posted our thoughts on the first showcase. Writing more than two lines wasn’t difficult anymore.

And this damn system had sneakily increased the standard to five lines without telling me. I found out when my original intent level dropped on the day I tried to post four lines to avoid comeback spoilers as much as possible.

About three days after Kim Dobin went to get the stitches removed from his earlobe, I naturally handed him the panacea. They say it starts healing around that time.

I wanted to give it right away because the bandage on his earlobe was bothering me, but if the wound healed too suddenly it might raise suspicion, so I waited until a date when I could make the excuse of fast recovery.

Kim Dobin, who drank the panacea, took off the bandage that day to reapply medicine and went around the entire dormitory showing his earlobe to the members, saying it had completely healed.

Damn, I used up all my few random tickets to get this.

So Kim Dobin should bow three times and thank me. Of course, even if there were any left, I probably would have shoved them away and forgotten they existed, but anyway, I used it for Kim Dobin.

Sigh, in the past I wouldn’t have cared about anyone except Gyeon Hajun, but now the number I have to worry about has increased from one to four.

The system definitely favors Kim Dobin too. It wouldn’t produce useful things like cooking items or panacea when Ryu Jaehee had body aches, but only produced useful items when Kim Dobin got hurt.

Stop the non-Kim Dobin favoritism, you bastard system.

[I have never shown favoritism.]

“Really, I can’t tell if it’s useful or useless.”

Leaning back in the studio chair, I tapped the desk with my fingers and muttered as if talking to myself. The good thing about the studio was that I didn’t need to worry about the members’ reactions while talking to the system. It would be perfect for misunderstandings if I talked to thin air.

Setting aside the forced behavioral correction, the strange quests with penalties were annoying beyond measure and even threatened what I had built up so far, but that didn’t mean the system only threatened me.

Sometimes it helped with appropriate items like this time, and didn’t it also prevent the damn disaster of something else useless called danger level being added to my life when original intent level alone was overwhelming enough?

When my thirty-year-old self briefly possessed or regressed last time, that danger level system that Cha Yeonho passed to me and briefly stayed with me felt unpleasant just to possess even though it didn’t cause me pain like original intent level.

“You definitely said external intrusion attempt then. If danger level is a hacking concept, is that danger level system separate from you?”

Since there are programs that hack the main body, it was premature to judge hastily.

[The Original Intent Recovery Project is a project conducted solely for ‘Yoon Eden’.]

[This system can only perform one project.]

Whether this was some top secret that made direct answers impossible, they spoke in such a complicated way, but it ultimately meant my assumption was correct. Original intent level and danger level are separate systems.

Then the ‘how to recover memories’ that Cha Yeonho currently has in his hand was a useless card.

Since we have different systems, there’s no guarantee that the method Cha Yeonho used would apply to me too.

In the end, does that mean the only way is to receive the memory fragments the system throws at me? Like games have bugs and cheats, there must be other methods.

‘Can I use this in reverse to extract some information from Cha Yeonho about past memories or his system?’

I tried to think of a good idea, but only the Hawaii incident kept replaying. The result of me using my brain.

Isn’t there something like a brain exchange 1-day pass item? Wouldn’t it be bad for the youngest member to live thoughtlessly for a day?

Beep beep beep-

While I was seriously pondering, I heard the sound of someone urgently pressing the password, then the studio door burst open.

If you’re coming, you should say so in advance. Frowning, I turned my head toward the door. Seeing the face of the rude intruder, the scolding I had loaded completely disappeared.

Actually, seeing their condition rather than face.

“Hyung, hyung!”

Kim Dobin, whose face had turned pale white, ran straight to me with trembling hands.

Thinking something big had happened, I urgently asked what was wrong, and Kim Dobin, who barely caught his breath, kept glancing back fearfully and looking at me repeatedly, then only after seeing the deep furrow in my brow did he finally open his mouth as if determined.

“There’s a ghost in our practice room…!”

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