A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 442

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 442

While uncomfortably attaching the 15th doll eye on the cycle, I suddenly had a thought and turned to Kim Dobin to speak.

“Hey, Doby. Can’t we just buy one pen and share it? The person who uses it first can just write faster.”

“Hyung, do you think I didn’t consider that? Of course I thought about that method too.”

Kim Dobin said confidently. Don’t lie. There’s no way I would have thought of this good idea later than Kim Dobin.

Unaware of my thoughts, Kim Dobin continued speaking very proudly.

“But when I thought about it, it was like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Either struggle with attaching doll eyes and comfortably write the self-introduction, or attach doll eyes somewhat comfortably and write the self-introduction while being pressed for time, taking turns with one pen.”

He’s talking a lot when he’s only completed eight while I attached eyes to fifteen dolls.

“Just seven more and you get a pen, man! With hands that slow, do you think you’ll finish 60 today? Huh?”

Kim Dobin picked up dolls a bit faster and nodded.

Without a clock, I checked the timer on the tablet screen and saw that 5 minutes had already passed.

The obviously dense self-introduction form would take at least 10 minutes to complete even if done quickly. If we took turns writing, it would be 20 minutes assuming we could write through those sections without hesitation, but the problem was we only had 25 minutes left.

And I’d bet Seo Yehyeon’s calorie obsession that Kim Dobin couldn’t complete that self-introduction in 10 minutes without hesitation.

But seeing Kim Dobin attaching doll eyes, if we completed 60, the 30-minute time limit would probably be over.

I refused the new doll Kim Dobin handed me and got up from the cycle.

“Huh, hyung. If you get off there, the lights on our floor will go out too.”

“I’ll attach the doll eyes, so you pedal. Let’s divide the work. At this rate, we’ll get neither fish nor fowl.”

I grabbed Kim Dobin’s neck and dragged him to the cycle, then went over to the pile of dolls and started attaching doll eyes. Definitely, not moving my lower body and sitting stably while focusing on just one task greatly improved efficiency.

“Wow… that’s real talent. The youngest member was also fast with his hands, but he couldn’t even present his business card in front of hyung.”

Kim Dobin exclaimed in admiration seeing me complete 25 more dolls in 5 minutes.

“Just pedal properly, man. Don’t you see the lights aren’t on now? Pedal hard, hard!”

“Wow, amazing. Even while nagging, your hands don’t stop. Hyung seems to be good at all physical work.”

“Are you indirectly dissing me saying I’m bad at mental work?”

“That would be overestimating me too much, so it’s burdensome.”

In less than 3 minutes, when I completed all the remaining twelve dolls, an announcement flowed from the vending machine saying 300 coins had been deposited.

“Ah, I wondered where we receive coins, so they get deposited there? Wow, the basement is fascinating.”

I only vaguely remembered that the top floor had it easiest and the basement suffered the most, but didn’t remember the details, so these things were quite fascinating and fresh, allowing me to produce genuine reactions.

I got two ballpoint pens from the vending machine and took over the cycle from Kim Dobin. No matter how I thought about it, there was no way Kim Dobin could complete the self-introduction on time while pedaling the cycle.

Items like height, weight, and birth date could be filled in immediately, but sections like my one-line evaluation of members, favorite and disliked foods, and trivial TMI took some thought and time.

I couldn’t write “terminal calorie obsession patient” for Seo Yehyeon’s one-line evaluation, “occasionally dog-like (not profanity, literal meaning) fake youngest” for Kim Dobin’s one-line evaluation, or “my brain outsourcing company” for Ryu Jaehee’s one-line evaluation.

The only thing I could write without hesitation was Gyeon Hajun’s one-line evaluation. Lifelong best friend.

Thanks to the unexpected talent of doll eye attachment that I didn’t know I had, I safely completed the self-introduction within time and submitted it to the production crew who came to collect it.

“But why are they suddenly making us write self-introductions? Is it a resume?”

While taking turns with Kim Dobin attaching doll eyes to earn some coins in our spare time, I muttered about this sudden curiosity, and Kim Dobin replied while panting.

“People with good specs go up and those with bad specs go to lower floors, right? But what’s the criteria for specs? Witty answers? Ugh, I should have written more carefully.”

“I hope they divide by height order.”

“You’re saying you want to send me and Yehyeon hyung to the basement, right?”

Since lunch time was approaching, I diligently attached doll eyes to earn 500 more coins to avoid a tasteless meal due to insufficient meal money.

“Hey, hyung. Don’t worry too much. Anyway, coins put in from upper floors don’t get refunded and come down intact, so the youngest member knows this now and will put in lots of coins to increase our meal budget.”

Ryu Jaehee on the monitor had a serious expression while putting coins into the kiosk. Unlike my time, seeing the kiosk spit coins back out, Ryu Jaehee made an X sign toward the camera.

-Eden hyung, Doby hyung. There’s no way to send coins to the basement.

It was a signal to us. What was I thinking again.

Seeing the food menu appear on the kiosk, Ryu Jaehee started broadcasting. Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon were still focused on earning coins with much easier work than us in the basement.

-Oh, lunch time started. Everyone in the basement can hear, right? I could even hear Eden hyung’s muttering. Hyungs, there are only five menu items now. The meal budget is 500 coins and all menu prices are the same at 100 coins each. You don’t need to spend coins separately.

Huh? There’s no way this program would give us food so easily.

-But the menu, oh… it seems the menu I wrote in my self-introduction appeared. The rice cake cheese green onion egg ramen I wrote as my favorite food is right here.

They even provide menus tailored to personal preferences?

Though this was definitely good news for us in the basement, somehow the uneasy feeling wouldn’t go away.

-Wait, let me read the other menus too. Though you hyungs won’t have choices, at least know in advance.

Ryu Jaehee was making good use of the fact that the basement could see and hear the 1st and 2nd floors. I was glad I didn’t do anything to burden the basement when I was on the top floor.

With Kim Dobin’s personality, he would have said he’d gladly endure hardship so let’s pay me back as much as they suffered. And Ryu Jaehee would have made me suffer very effectively.

-Um, there’s the rice cake cheese green onion egg ramen I wrote, and ricotta cheese salad with balsamic sauce.

Anyone could see this was the food menu Seo Yehyeon wrote.

-And grilled mackerel set meal.

This was definitely the menu Gyeon Hajun wrote. Gyeon Hajun liked grilled fish.

-And sundae soup and vegetable bibimbap.

Even knowing Ryu Jaehee couldn’t hear us, a question automatically popped out of my mouth.

“What? Sundae soup? Not head soup?”

“Why? Why isn’t it pork cutlet? Why vegetable bibimbap?”

I definitely wrote head soup in the favorite food section. Kim Dobin probably wrote pork cutlet too.

But why is sundae soup, which I wrote in the disliked food section, on the menu? Eating sundae bloated in broth is torture for me.

Even when I experienced being a soup fanatic following the crew hyungs, I ate sundae soup only once and never again after that.

“Doby, did you also write vegetable bibimbap in disliked foods?”

“Yes, I really hate bibimbap with only vegetables. I can’t eat that, do I have to starve?”

Kim Dobin made a tearful face while getting off the cycle. I pedaled the cycle hard and sighed deeply. As expected.

The 1st and 2nd floors got the menus the people on those floors liked most, while the basement got the menus they disliked most. There was a reason why all prices were the same and the meal budget was perfectly matched.

The self-introduction was a kind of fake for lunch menu selection. I forgot this again and unnecessarily wrote the self-introduction diligently.

-Wait… vegetable bibimbap? Is that Hajun hyung’s top pick menu? No, Hajun hyung would be grilled mackerel set meal. Hajun hyung likes grilled fish. Who’s vegetable bibimbap? Eden hyung? Eden hyung would definitely be soup. Ricotta cheese salad with balsamic sauce… such a picky salad would obviously be Yehyeon hyung.

Sensing something strange about vegetable bibimbap, Ryu Jaehee was calmly analyzing the menu. As expected of the brain outsourcing company I acknowledged.

-Then what’s left is Doby hyung, but he hates vegetable bibimbap. There’s no way he wrote bibimbap without meat as his favorite…

Ryu Jaehee, who had been muttering, suddenly raised his head as if realizing something.

-Then is the basement a disliked food penalty? That makes sense. The upper floors will prioritize choosing foods they like, so the basement automatically has to eat the disliked foods they wrote in their self-introductions. That’s why all menu prices were the same.

“Youngest! You’re the only one! It was definitely the right choice for you to go to the top floor!”

“As expected, youngest! Rev’s brain!”

Enthusiastic standing ovation erupted from the basement at his sharp deduction.

-Then I should eat the vegetable bibimbap. The basement has nowhere to throw away food. But what about Eden hyung? He’s a soup fanatic. Are they trying to cause conflict in the basement by making only one person eat disliked food?

You went too far, Jaehee. And even soup fanatics have soups they dislike.

“Yes! I don’t have to eat vegetable bibimbap! Hyung, I can eat ramen, right? I also hate sundae soup.”

Thanks to Ryu Jaehee’s choice, Kim Dobin jumped for joy, but I couldn’t be happy since the landmine called sundae soup still existed for me.

When the 2nd floor finished choosing lunch menu and the lunch menu went down to the 1st floor, our gaze also moved from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor.

-400 coins left and four menus remaining? Hajun, all foods are 100 coins each? What I wrote is right here. Ricotta cheese salad with balsamic sauce. I’m definitely getting this.

-Ah, it seems what we wrote as favorite foods in our self-introductions came out as lunch.

-Rice cake cheese green onion egg ramen… whose is this? Who wrote such an extremely evil calorie food? Doby? Youngest? Yoon Eden would obviously be soup, and Hajun, yours is grilled mackerel set meal, right?

Seo Yehyeon’s hand moved toward the grilled mackerel set meal on the kiosk screen.

“No! I don’t want to eat sundae soup!”

Having lost my reason with nothing in sight, a phone caught my eye. A phone that could use the phone chance.

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