A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 44

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 44

“This week’s first place is… Congratulations! NITY’s Gradation!”

I sent sincere applause from beside the senior girl group receiving the first place trophy.

Thanks to them, KICKS couldn’t get first place either, so I was very grateful and satisfied.

NITY’s activities would end this week, so from next week onwards, it would officially enter into a full-scale confrontation between Rev and KICKS.

“Hyung, were you a fan of NITY seniors?”

“No?”

“Then why are you clapping so passionately? It’s like watching Doby hyung when he met Adora seniors…”

“I’d rather you curse at me. You really talk harshly.”

“Eden hyung? I’m right here next to you?”

Kim Dobin whined beside me, but I lightly ignored him.

Currently, after the first place announcement ended, we were lined up in the hallway waiting for CP greetings.

Across from us stood KICKS, who had similar years of experience.

I had noticed since they were talking in groups of two or three in the waiting room, but they seemed quite awkward with each other, and the previous harmonious atmosphere united by gossip was nowhere to be found.

Watching those guys in that state made me feel very satisfied.

Since there was time left until the PD came, I casually did some Search Weekly Quest and monitoring.

-Wow Gyeon Hajun killed the intro, as expected there’s no member who can handle killing parts like Gyeon Hajun

-Why is Eden’s energy so high today? Seeing our baby kitty running around happily on stage makes me feel proud and happy too

-Yoon Eden’s fans are fucking amazing, how can they turn that face into a cute baby cat? If there was a vote for intimidating male idols, he could easily beat Gangse and take first place

└That’s what I’m saying, they kept calling him baby kitty so I thought he was around 165cm tall, I was shocked when they said he’s 180

-The My Universe era feels like a past life… If I told myself from three months ago when I became a fan during My Universe that there would come a day when I’d praise the stylist and Rev’s stage, I would never have believed it

└Wow, you became a fan during My Universe, you’re a real fan

-I heard Yoon Eden composed considering all the members’ vocal ranges, tones, and singing techniques, and really everyone’s parts fit perfectly. Especially Yuje’s chorus part is really… Like he said in the comeback live, if it had gone to Hajun because of English pronunciation, it wouldn’t have had this feeling and would have been really disappointing

-Today as always, Yehyeon oppa invented new choreography

-Doby was flying around today hehe our baby is so cute

It seemed Seo Yehyeon had made another choreography mistake while I wasn’t watching.

Anyway, since Seo Yehyeon’s choreography mistakes were already implemented in my imagined stage, there wasn’t much impact.

As soon as we finished CP greetings and left work, reality show filming continued.

Since filming at the semi-basement dorm didn’t look good on camera, they rented a private cafe near the dormitory for filming.

Still, I heard from Manager Hyung that the CEO found a decent property and we’d be moving soon, so we should throw away things to discard in advance, pack our luggage, and organize the dormitory a bit.

Since we absolutely didn’t trust the CEO’s taste, we pestered Manager Hyung once every minute whenever we saw his face, asking if it was really a place fit for humans to live, and to stop us from storming into the CEO’s office, Manager Hyung eventually showed us photos of the new dorm.

The dormitory in the photos was fortunately clean and decent-looking from the outside. It seemed that strange taste wasn’t applied to houses.

“Rev members can write down content you’d like to experience after discussing among members and deliver it to us on this. About two or three would be appropriate?”

I nodded at the production crew’s guidance as they handed over a marker and small whiteboard.

Since I alone was banned from caffeine intake, I sipped the lemon tea I ordered instead of iced americano.

Gyeon Hajun had cafe latte, Seo Yehyeon had americano, Kim Dobin had mint chocolate, and Ryu Jaehee had green grape ade.

These were all drinks they stubbornly insisted on.

Still, unlike the youngest line who would try other drinks occasionally, I had never seen Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon drink anything else during the 7 years before regression.

“Anyone with opinions?”

“Me.”

“Oh, as expected our leader. You’re the first to come up with an idea! Indeed, what reality content did our Rev leader think of?”

“Comprehensive health checkup at a university hospital.”

Everyone’s expressions soured at my words. Ryu Jaehee held his forehead and lamented.

“Ah, hyung. Please.”

“Why? Where else is there content as beneficial as that?”

We could take care of our health and if we filmed the nonsense during sleep endoscopy, wouldn’t that be amazing content in one go?

Kim Dobin desperately tried to stop my hand from writing comprehensive health checkup on the whiteboard and shouted.

“I’m scared of getting blood drawn!”

“Doby, you’re eighteen years old, not eight, right?”

“Can’t we just do normal things like picnics, amusement parks, stuff like that?”

“Are you really eight years old?”

“I’d appreciate it if you could abandon the prejudice that only eight-year-olds go to amusement parks.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had somehow snatched the marker from my hand, quickly wrote down amusement park.

“Write comprehensive health checkup too.”

“Let’s do it by majority vote, majority vote. People who want amusement park, raise your hands!”

Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin, two people raised their hands.

“People who want health checkup, raise your hands!”

Only I raised my hand. I looked at the two guys who didn’t choose either option.

“Hey, you two are older, so shouldn’t you naturally choose health checkup?”

“…I’m the same age as you, Eden.”

“I’m only one year older than you.”

I shrugged while looking at Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon, who seemed somewhat emotional about the age talk.

“Then what do you want to do, hyung and Hajun?”

“Rural experience or, um…”

I usually wanted to accommodate most things, but unfortunately that’s eliminated, Hajun.

Rural experience. A lose-lose content that’s tiring for us to film and viewers don’t find particularly fun either – supposedly a healing experience but healing for no one.

Only country bumpkin Kim Dobin had his eyes sparkling as if he had some romance about rural experience, while the other members were lukewarm.

Seo Yehyeon, who had been sipping his americano like some pictorial, opened his mouth.

“Let’s go to the ocean, the ocean.”

“Oh, that’s not bad?”

“I’m also in favor of the ocean.”

“Eh, but we can’t go in the winter ocean. Can’t we just go in summer?”

“This time we can just dip our feet. We can go once in summer too.”

With majority agreement, the ocean could be written on the cleanly erased whiteboard.

“How about a cooking competition?”

“Wow, Hajun’s using a cheat key?”

“Right, woo woo woo! It’s Eojun.”

“Eojun?”

“It’s short for ‘Anyway the winner is Gyeon Hajun.’ If Hajun hyung was a judge it’d be different, but if he’s a participant, it’s like Gordon Ramsay appearing in an amateur competition.”

Even if Gyeon Hajun was a judge, the judging list would be grilled chicken breast vs tornado omelette vs ramen vs soy sauce egg rice, right? It’s really a heart-chillingly terrible competition.

The most likely winner would be my tornado omelette?

After that, extreme sports experience, bungee jumping, climbing, hiking, hospital health checkup experience, horror movie watching, lyric writing and composing and producing experience, rock band experience, etc. came up.

But they all faded away without getting more than two votes in the majority vote.

“Wow, is it real that we only wrote one thing in 30 minutes?”

“Right. We need to fill at least two.”

“Let’s do comprehensive health checkup for one? We take care of our health and get content, killing two birds with one stone.”

“Eden hyung, you still haven’t given up?”

[Stubbornly insisting on opinions without considering other members detected.]

[Initial Intentions –1]

My body flinched and trembled at the sharp, stabbing pain.

“Alright, youngest. And my beloved other members. I’ll give up on the health checkup, so come up with some good opinions.”

I’m dying of frustration. How much did I insist on the health checkup anyway?

“What content could possibly capture both fun and emotion?”

“You can’t catch two rabbits at once. Give up on one.”

“I can’t give up because my dream is to become the star of a YouTube video with ten million views.”

“That’s such a you dream, Doby.”

As the meeting dragged on longer and longer, the production crew added extra time limits, and what we eventually wrote and submitted was…

[Ocean, Cooking(?)]

“What’s the question mark after cooking?”

“It’s cooking content, but we haven’t decided what kind yet… ahaha…”

It’ll probably most likely end up being a terrible cooking competition.

After filming wrapped up like that, the main writer called us over.

“I wish your characters were a bit more distinct and stood out more. Of course, the Rev members are charming enough as is, but looking at what gets captured on camera, there’s currently no character that really pops.”

In other words, she was telling us to decide on our variety show positions.

Even before regression, Rev wasn’t exactly known as a particularly entertaining group, so past memories wouldn’t be much help here.

With her final words about expecting more established character traits at the next filming, we left work completely exhausted.

It was really fortunate that this filming location was near the dormitory.

[Surprise QUEST★]

[▶Let’s establish a concept!

-Content: Create an image to show fans rather than just being yourself as you are! How about using Search to find out what kind of image fans want from you and creating a concept to match?

-Reward: Initial Intentions 10, Random Ticket

-Deadline: 3 days

※Penalties exist if you fail to create a suitable concept!]

I barely had time to raise an eyebrow at the Quest that was identical word for word to the previous one before I was startled by the changed deadline.

A penalty if I can’t establish a concept within three days again.

The nightmare of coughing up blood and struggling with the aftermath came flooding back.

But since my brain couldn’t possibly come up with a concept to show fans—wasn’t that why I gave up back then too—I decided to get some help from the members.

Considering how much I’ve contributed to the group, shouldn’t we live by helping each other out? Besides, we need to decide on variety show positions or whatever anyway.

Now, while the cameras installed in the dormitory aren’t rolling yet, is the perfect time.

Without hesitation, I threw out my Christmas commemorative song production plans and pulled out the notebook we use for meetings, shouting:

“Guys, let’s have a meeting!”

I crossed out the number 11 with several lines and changed it to 12.

“But what have we even done that this is already the 12th meeting?”

“I don’t know. The last meeting I remember is when we discussed which chicken brand to order.”

“What’s today’s meeting about? Pizza brands?”

“Doby, are you in your right mind? You want to eat pizza during promotion period? Pizza, which is a carb and fat bomb? Do you want to hear people say you don’t take care of yourself?”

“Yes, Yehyeon hyung, please calm down… You’re really acting like Eden hyung right now…”

“No, there are things you should and shouldn’t say. Isn’t that going too far?”

“What’s going too far is you saying that to my face, and Kim Dobin thinking of me when he looks at you.”

Clap! The sound of Gyeon Hajun’s clap stopped the petty argument that had been dragging on. Ahem, I cleared my throat and opened the meeting.

“Today’s meeting topic is establishing concepts.”

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