A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 441

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 441

“What is this!”

For the first time since this program filming started, I blurted out a line filled with genuine emotion rather than acting.

It was fitting to say this seeing the basement in an even worse state than I remembered, and it was also fitting to say this seeing Kim Dobin remaining instead of Ryu Jaehee, whom I had expected to outsource my thinking to.

Gloomy gray cement-painted walls and a narrow space without a single window, a large vending machine and kiosk. Dishes roughly stacked and left on one side, musty food smells.

Experiencing the top floor and basement floor in succession felt like getting a preview of going completely broke overnight due to bad investments and becoming a beggar.

Considering this was entirely the result of my own choice, it was somewhat similar in nature. It even gave the lesson to be careful when investing – what a truly beneficial program.

Right, I had prepared myself for the basement environment being like this, so that was still okay, but,

“Why are you the only one left?”

I hadn’t prepared myself for carrying Kim Dobin, so that wasn’t okay.

I came expecting to ride the Ryu Jaehee bus where my body would be tired but my mind comfortable. This is a route where both body and mind suffer terribly.

Kim Dobin answered my question while pedaling the cycle hard with his feet.

“Well, since I’m the hyung, huff, I sent him up so the youngest member could enjoy, gasp, a luxurious top floor life instead of this shabby basement.”

Even if you had gone up, no one would criticize you for becoming the hyung and making your younger brother suffer while you enjoy the sweet life alone, dude. Even fans sometimes get confused about whether you or Ryu Jaehee is the youngest member.

And even people who don’t know our group would think you’re the younger brother because you’re shorter than Ryu Jaehee, so what exactly was this sacrifice for.

But Kim Dobin’s expression while saying this looked so proud that I couldn’t say anything. Right, if he wants to play the hyung role a bit, what can I say about it.

“But hyung, quickly, please switch with me quickly.”

At the urging of the nearly dying Kim Dobin, when I approached the cycle, Kim Dobin finally came down with a face like he had come back to life. He was completely drenched in sweat on his face and back from how hard he had been pedaling.

If this guy, whose stamina overflows in inverse proportion to his intelligence, ended up like this, just how much suffering do I have to endure…?

I suddenly deeply regretted giving up the top floor. There’s not even Ryu Jaehee here to outsource my thinking to. There’s only the unreliable Kim Dobin. This means I have to use both my body and brain.

Was this exactly how the prince in 【The Prince and the Pauper】 felt when he left the warm palace on his own and suffered terribly?

“While hyung pedals this, I’ll briefly explain the mechanism of how this basement works and what I experienced with Jaehee this morning.”

“But do I really have to pedal this?”

“Yes, if you don’t pedal this, the lights here go out too. This generates electricity for the first and second floors. But when this stops, the lights here turn off. The problem is there are no windows here, so when the lights go out, you really can’t see anything.”

“Let’s adapt our eyes to the darkness. Then we wouldn’t need to keep pedaling the cycle, right? Or isn’t there a flashlight or lantern or candle in that vending machine?”

“And if the upstairs kiosk doesn’t turn on, we can’t eat either, so we have to pedal it.”

While I was pretending to be a paranoid patient and doing push-ups and sit-ups to kill time in the luxurious room, thinking that the youngest line was probably in this dark and musty cubbyhole, mandatorily pedaling cycles to supply electricity to the hyungs’ rooms, didn’t particularly make me tear up.

Damn, now I have to do it.

“Hyung, look at the basement rules on the tablet while pedaling the cycle. I’ll bring it to you. But if you pedal that gently, the electricity won’t work. You have to pedal really hard.”

Kim Dobin was volunteering to be my lackey with a burdensome level of enthusiasm. That made sense. To keep the new cycle slave tied to the cycle, wouldn’t he have to do at least this much.

[Welcome to C-house.

1. The currency here is ‘coins’, and you need coins to use necessary items. Please check the price list attached to the vending machine for prices.

2. You can earn coins by attaching eyes to dolls. 50 coins per 10 dolls. The minimum unit of work to earn coins starts from 10 pieces.

3. Pedaling the cycle generates electricity. If you don’t pedal the cycle, this floor’s electricity will be used to maintain the two floors above.

4. Meals are provided three times: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If the price of your desired menu exceeds the remaining meal allowance, you can use additional coins.

5. When the bell rings, please be sure to check the tablet screen.

6. Each room gets exactly one phone chance. You can make exactly one call to exactly one floor.]

The rules displayed on the tablet were definitely different from the rules I had seen on the second floor. The meal allowance that was specified as 300 coins wasn’t mentioned either.

And the method of using coins was also different.

Unlike the second floor where everything in the room could be used freely because there was no place to insert coins despite saying coins were needed to use things, the basement required inserting coins into the vending machine.

The bottom two items are the same as the second floor. As I was scanning through the rules displayed on the tablet while pedaling the cycle, Kim Dobin clapped his hands beside me with flattering applause, saying the power was indeed different.

“Do you see that screen over there? You can watch both the first and second floors simultaneously on that screen.”

Having finished his flattery, Kim Dobin pointed to two small monitors attached to the front wall where the cycle was placed.

The left monitor showed Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon doing something with serious faces, while the right monitor showed Ryu Jaehee rolling around on a soft, wide bed with a happy expression.

-So we earned 100 coins with this? Wow, it’s not easy. Not easy. Hajun, are you done?

-Oh, the coins are filled up. Hyung, 100 coins came into the kiosk. Should we get another bottle of water?

The first floor with Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon seemed to be making coin payments using the kiosk.

-Wow, this is happiness. Wait, so Eden Hyung couldn’t enjoy this and just went to the basement while only being suspicious about what might be there? Wow, suddenly I don’t envy him. They say it’s more cruel to give and then take away. Poor Eden Hyung…

The sound came through completely too. This means these guys were watching all my muttering and foolish behavior. Right, this was why the basement knew everything. I remember now.

“This morning I watched the first floor and Jaehee watched the second floor, but our eyes and ears inevitably went to the guaranteed super entertaining event floor.”

“Fortunately, because hyung didn’t use those amenities while being suspicious, we could suffer less. If hyung had turned on the TV or played PlayStation, we both would have had to pedal cycles and attach doll eyes without being able to divide the work.”

Kim Dobin pointed to the empty cycle and made a relieved expression.

“And when they drink water on the second floor, the coin price of water bottles in our vending machine goes up. Amazing, right? It went up 10 coins because hyung took out one bottle. You don’t know how much I prayed for you not to drink more. Jaehee stopped me from using the phone chance to call hyung.”

If it were me, I would have agreed and told him to quickly use the phone chance, saying when else would you use it if not at times like this. Youngest member, what are we going to do.

“But since Jaehee experienced the basement and went up to the second floor, sudden burdens won’t pour down on us. The problem would be if the hyungs on the first floor who don’t know the situation at all go up to the second floor.”

“The first floor doesn’t know about other floors’ situations at all, like the second floor?”

Kim Dobin nodded affirmatively.

Right, since the top floor has many things to worry about, having Ryu Jaehee, who understands the entire ecosystem of this C-house, holding out up there is the best from a utilitarian perspective.

The problem is having to survive in the basement with a total of 1.5 brains: my one portion and Kim Dobin’s 0.5 portion.

“Oh, right. Hyung, when we eat lunch later, you must choose food you can definitely finish. There’s no place to throw away food here. That’s why I forced myself to eat all the spicy pork rice bowl even though it wasn’t tasty.”

Spicy pork rice bowl for breakfast – he ate well. Seo Yehyeon definitely would have thoughtlessly eaten an expensive salad, so did Gyeon Hajun eat cheaply? Did he perhaps notice the mechanism of how this C-house works on the first floor too?

“And we can only eat from the remaining menu with the money left after the second and first floors choose first. Like during breakfast, if the second floor gets ripped off by the kiosk and the first floor doesn’t spend much money, we have some choices, but if the upper floors spend a lot, we either have to eat within the budget or work hard attaching doll eyes.”

Kim Dobin made a fuss about being scared of the approaching lunch time.

“Then what did Jaehee eat for breakfast? Oh right, what did the first floor eat?”

I was secretly curious whether my plan to give the youngest line a hearty breakfast had succeeded, so when I casually asked, Kim Dobin answered in detail with a fairly satisfied face.

“Thanks to hyung getting ripped off 200 coins by the kiosk and Yehyeon Hyung eating boiled eggs saying he didn’t know what dressing might be on the salad, we didn’t spend extra money and Jaehee ate kimchi fried rice while I ate spicy pork rice bowl.”

“What about Hajun?”

“Hajun Hyung chose soft tofu stew after debating between soft tofu stew and kimchi fried rice.”

It was unexpected that Seo Yehyeon chose boiled eggs instead of salad, but hearing the reason, I immediately understood. What a ruthless guy. Even I couldn’t maintain a concept to that extent.

Learning the inside story of Kim Dobin eating spicy pork rice bowl, the assumption that the first floor had caught on was immediately discarded.

The bell rang through the speaker and the tablet screen I was holding changed from rules to mission guidance.

[Mission 2: Write a Self-Introduction]

[Please write a self-introduction and place it in front of the door before lunch.]

[Self-introduction collection time: 00:30:00]

The door burst open, a staff member put down two sheets of paper, locked the door again, and quickly disappeared.

“Doesn’t it feel less isolated when the door opens and someone brings things to us? If it were me, I would have made a logistics elevator from the second floor to the basement to deliver things efficiently.”

“The budget must have been insufficient.”

I was still pedaling the cycle and Kim Dobin brought the papers.

“Doby, do you have a pen?”

“Wait a moment. Let me check and come back. Hyung, there are ballpoint pens in the vending machine! 150 coins per pen. For two pens, we need to attach eyes to 60 dolls. Oh, but if we do it together, it’ll be quick!”

Picking up the dolls, glue, and doll eyes that were placed on a box on the empty cycle as my share, I felt with my whole body why the proletarian revolution happened.

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