A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 439

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 439

“Oh, I saw this variety show clip on YouTube. This is the one that changed the marshmallow experiment to chicken, right?”

“It’s a popular variety show these days. When I looked it up, the ratings were pretty good too. It’s also fun.”

Seeing the members all excited, only my insides burned knowing I couldn’t spoil the future that was about to hit us.

【Reality Test!】.

Episode 1 didn’t receive much attention, but episode 2’s content became an issue on the internet and started gaining attention.

They announced in advance that if you refrain from eating chicken, they’d give you a 1 million won gift card for a chicken brand, then made you exercise intensely for two hours under a trainer’s guidance and arranged a one-on-one conversation with a celebrity famous for mukbang, making you watch them eat chicken right in front of you.

It was called the marshmallow (chicken) experiment.

Of course, there was some natural guidance to somehow make them eat the chicken during this process.

In that experiment with five celebrities, two out of five succeeded, creating buzz on the internet with “I can resist vs I can’t” and gaining popularity.

Starting from that point, it began receiving attention, and with episode 3’s conformity experiment using bizarre food and strange fashion to show how much social pressure affects individual choices, and episode 4’s daily life dilemma situation experiment, the ratings were quite entertaining.

And this 【Reality Test!】 became too greedy for ratings and started making risky moves from episode 5 where we appear.

They gradually introduced stimulating elements from episode 4, then in episode 5 they deliberately planted quite a few conflict-inducing elements.

Before regression, I heard it was a broadcast that could cause discord rumors even for a perfectly fine idol group, so I got curious about what the broadcast was like since even our group, which was a complete mess, hadn’t had discord rumors yet, so I watched it once.

And I was amazed at whether it was a crazy social experiment or a human patience test and conflict experiment, and felt secretly relieved. If our group had appeared, it would have been at least a collar-grabbing fight, but fortunately we weren’t popular enough to get cast.

To think we’re appearing on a broadcast that I admired for being determined to destroy one group.

Of course, our group’s relationships have changed to an earth-shattering level compared to before regression, so there won’t be collar-grabbing during filming, but the problem was the stimulating elements that would make viewers frown.

Even if I avoid that path, if the members who don’t know the future step on it, it’s all for nothing.

“It’s a shame we weren’t cast early. If it had been Yehyeon Hyung, he would have easily succeeded in that marshmallow chicken test without swallowing once. Then we would have gotten a 1 million won chicken gift card. Since Yehyeon Hyung doesn’t eat chicken, it’s practically for four people.”

“Yeah, and I would have donated the 1 million won gift card I received and shattered your expectations when you were all excited about the joy of eating chicken.”

Seo Yehyeon said with a bright smile as if just imagining it made him happy. He was no different from Satan.

Hmm, even if we had appeared in episode 2 instead of episode 5, our group could have had discord rumors! Discord rumors over a 1 million won chicken gift card – what an embarrassing reason to mention anywhere. Even our fans would probably hush it up.

“But the filming is overnight? What kind of social experiment is it this time that requires an overnight stay?”

“Hyung, isn’t there a variety show script?”

Holding onto my last thread of hope, I asked Manager Hyung, and he shook his head.

“They said reality is the broadcast’s point, so they’ll tell us the rules when filming starts? But it probably won’t be anything too harsh or at a level with injury risk. We were told it’s safe, so don’t worry too much.”

I figured as much. If episode 5 before regression had been scripted, those reactions would never have come out.

Who would be crazy enough to raise their voices at each other with smiling faces in front of cameras when they’re at their career high?

Just in case, I searched 【Reality Test!】 on YouTube and episodes 2 through 4 were all exactly as I remembered.

Seeing that even the overnight stay was the same, episode 5’s content probably won’t change and will be the same.

And most despairingly, this wasn’t a situation I could carry alone.

I could place some hope in the intellectual Ryu Jaehee, but it was uncertain whether the others could figure out the rules when separated.

“I hope we also film with some fun topics. It’s even an overnight shoot!”

At Kim Dobin’s excitement, Gyeon Hajun briefly shook his head and let out a short sigh.

“Not really… Even the episode right before had some stimulating aspects that made you frown, and gathering all five of us for an overnight stay feels wrong. I wonder how much more stimulating they’ll try to make it. They must be desperate to row while the water’s coming in.”

“It’s okay, we have Eden Hyung. The Eden Hyung who survived without a single evil edit even on Dub Net, famous for devil’s editing, and even on DTB, the most extreme and stimulating of them all!”

Kim Dobin pointed at me and made a fuss. Thanks to that, the burden on my shoulders grew even heavier.

That was a survival show with people I’d never seen before and wouldn’t see much in the future, and this is a social experiment camera with you guys who have to see each other’s faces for decades more even if we’re sick of each other.

“It’s hard for Eden to carry all four of our behaviors. And what if they isolate all of us?”

Gyeon Hajun’s sharp point made even me flinch. He wasn’t completely right, but Hajun had roughly guessed it. If it weren’t for that word “all,” I would have suspected whether Hajun had also regressed and had past memories.

“If that happens, our youngest is naturally quick-witted, Eden will avoid evil edits on his own, and Yehyeon Hyung would stay calm even if caught up in situations without Eden, but I’m most worried about you, Doby.”

“I can show definite reactions though. That program probably likes big reactions more than coping ability, right?”

At Kim Dobin’s confident words, I felt like I could see the future and my head throbbed.

That’s how our group ends up in a mess before regression, man.

I slowly retraced the content of 【Reality Test!】 episode 5 that I vaguely remembered.

Episode 5 was a class society experiment, dividing people into three rooms: basement, first floor, and second floor.

The group that appeared then was a 7-member group, and even they put one person on the top floor (2nd floor), four on the middle floor (1st floor), and two in the basement, so our 5-member group would probably be arranged in numbers like 1, 2, 2 or 1, 3, 1.

This wasn’t hard to predict.

I clearly remember that the basement was the room with the most hardship and the second floor enjoyed the most abundance. And that opportunities to change rooms were given intermittently.

There were also dangerous elements lurking everywhere in room missions or room-changing missions that could hurt feelings and cause clashes.

That group wasn’t stupid enough to raise their voices and fight to the point of discord rumors in front of cameras. It was all because the broadcast pushed them that way.

For now, it was best for me, who roughly knew the mechanism of this observation experiment, to go to the basement. Since I knew all the inside details, I wouldn’t get annoyed no matter what they did on the top and upper floors.

I couldn’t quite remember the criteria for dividing rooms, but somehow I just needed to get to the basement.

If I could just get through this broadcast safely without controversy, I could gladly endure the hardship in the basement as this team’s leader.

Since it’s come to this, I’ll make sure to remain forever as a specimen of a failed social observation experiment.

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【Reality Test!】 filming started quite early in the morning.

Similar to my memory of watching the broadcast before regression, we started opening filming in front of a house set with basement, first floor, and second floor.

“This is the house where you’ll be staying for a day today. Observation cameras are installed in each room, and please return the belongings you brought for a moment.”

Making our packing for the overnight stay meaningless, not only our luggage but even our phones were confiscated.

“You’ll be staying on each floor of this house, and the number of people who can stay on the 1st floor, 2nd floor, and basement is predetermined.”

Before I could shout that I absolutely wanted the basement, the PD suddenly held out a box containing folded paper scraps.

The moment I received it, I already sensed the first screwing over.

“You’ll decide which room you’ll stay in by drawing lots. If you each draw one paper from this box, the place written on that paper will be the room where you’ll stay.”

It was pure random? Then all the plans I worked hard to make yesterday were for nothing.

Desperately hoping for the basement to come out, I picked up one well-folded paper. Doesn’t this damn system even give X-ray vision?

Right now our group stands at a crossroads between being swept up in discord rumors and bearing the stigma of causing a variety show’s cancellation, or receiving the benefits of buzz and getting through safely.

Even though I said all this, the damn system didn’t throw me a single X-ray item.

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I sensed the second screwing over from luck that followed so damn well only at times like this.

Damn it! The top floor! The top floor that gets the most criticism from both participants and viewers!

“I got the basement.”

“Huh? I got the basement too. Ryu Jae, we’re in the same room!”

“Being in the same room as Doby Hyung, I already have a feeling I’ll become the guardian…”

I sensed the third screwing over when Kim Dobin, who had hoped to go to the most reasonable first floor, won the basement. At least it’s fortunate that Ryu Jaehee is next to him?

Then Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon will go to the most reasonable first floor. As I remember, there were three opportunities to change rooms. After breakfast, after lunch, and after dinner.

I could help Kim Dobin escape from the basement then.

“Now, please go up to the rooms you drew.”

At the PD’s words, I barely managed to make an expectant expression and went up to the second floor. A luxurious room decorated like a hotel room greeted me.

Should I really leave this room and go to the basement…?

As I lay on the damn soft bed with a big TV screen facing me, internal conflict arose. Especially knowing how much hardship I’d have to endure in the basement.

As I was slowly looking around the room, the door clicked and locked from outside.

It was the signal for the start of full-scale filming.

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