A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 443

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 443

It was Kim Dobin who stopped my attempt to grab the phone.

“What, man! If you’re not going to give up the ramen and eat sundae soup instead, don’t stop me!”

“Hyung, calm down and look at that screen over there. Do you really think I’d avoid eating the worst food myself and then tell you to eat it?”

Honestly, aren’t you exactly the type who would do that? If you weren’t going to, then why did you lay the groundwork about not liking sundae soup either?

Before I could even turn my head toward the screen, I heard Gyeon Hajun’s voice.

-I’ll eat the sundae soup. Eden doesn’t like sundae soup.

-Really? Doesn’t he like soup dishes?

-It’s probably the same as how hyung dislikes salad with ranch dressing.

-Ah, I understand immediately.

Seo Yehyeon nodded with the face of a student who had gained enlightenment after hearing a top instructor’s explanation. I was feeling relieved watching Gyeon Hajun’s hand move toward the sundae soup, but as soon as Seo Yehyeon opened his mouth again, I turned back toward the phone.

-But didn’t Yoon Eden choose the vegetable bibimbap? He went up to the second floor.

You’re good at observing people, so why didn’t you observe my taste preferences? Do I look like someone who would choose vegetable bibimbap over ramen? Especially when there’s no calorie-obsessed patient next to me asking about ramen calories?

-If Eden chose, I think he would have picked the ramen. He’s not the type to choose vegetable bibimbap over ramen.

“Jun! You’re the only one I can count on!”

I let out a cry of emotion that wouldn’t reach Gyeon Hajun.

Ryu Jaehee was already diligently mixing the vegetable bibimbap that had arrived, while Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon were still talking in front of the kiosk without making their choice.

-Then did Yoon Eden come down from the second floor? The first mission that got canceled immediately when we pressed X was the room-switching mission, right? Eden must have switched rooms and come down then. So who’s on the second floor now?

-Probably the youngest member, right? There’s no way Doby would eat vegetable bibimbap.

As expected, Gyeon Hajun, being in charge of meals, knew all the members’ eating habits perfectly.

Thanks to that, not only did we avoid the landmine of sundae soup, but even on the first floor where no information was given, we finished figuring out the changed floor personnel composition.

“Wow, Hajun’s mind works well. He really is meticulous.”

While I was bursting with admiration, Kim Dobin was letting out a sigh of relief beside me.

“Wow, it’s fortunate that I often show my picky eating habits.”

“Dobin, shouldn’t you say ‘It’s fortunate that the members are very interested in each other’ at times like this? Not revealing the frequency of your picky eating habits?”

“Wow, it’s fortunate that the members are very interested in each other.”

“Too late, man.”

Gyeon Hajun reached out and touched the kiosk screen.

The first floor also finished selecting their lunch menu like that, and finally our basement’s kiosk turned on.

The ricotta cheese salad with balsamic sauce, vegetable bibimbap, and sundae soup were marked as sold out, leaving only the grilled mackerel set meal and rice cake cheese scallion egg ramen.

“Is there no option to refuse menu selection? Or maybe cut the power supply to turn off the kiosk.”

“Why? Do you dislike grilled mackerel, hyung?”

“No, if we received a menu we dislike and just left it without eating, it would be unsanitary and smell bad too.”

“It won’t go back to home. I guess we have to choose one of these.”

Ten minutes after touching the remaining two menus, the meals were delivered right to our door. The smell of ramen and grilled mackerel filled this narrow and stuffy basement.

Both putting a menu we even wrote that we dislike on the menu board, and sticking us in this stuffy space with no ventilation.

I was worried that we might be getting through crises too smoothly and harmoniously, preventing petitions to cancel this program, but it was needless worry. If this gets broadcast, Daydream will probably curse enough for my share too. I can just watch that and feel vicarious satisfaction.

“Hey, shouldn’t they at least provide some ventilation? I’m feeling it again, but the basement environment is the worst.”

“Hyung, shall I give you some of my ramen?”

“Finally, you’ve matured, Dobin.”

“Eat this and work hard pedaling that cycle.”

“I figured as much, haha.”

I pressed down on Kim Dobin’s head and accepted the ramen. The ramen was innocent.

After finishing our meal and pushing the empty bowls that showed efforts to eat cleanly without leaving much to one corner, we headed to the vending machine.

“Bottled water is 100 coins. We could get two and have one each. But why is a pen more expensive than bottled water?”

“Isn’t it like that in real life too? Cheap bottled water is like 700 won, right?”

“Is it?”

The coins we earned by attaching doll eyes should have accumulated enough, so we indulged in the luxury of one bottled water per person. I really envied Ryu Jaehee taking drinks from the refrigerator. Drinks were 500 coins.

Without even a moment to catch our breath after finishing our meal, a bell rang announcing the next mission.

This mission was one done only with tablets, like the mission we experienced at the beginning.

[Mission 3: Item Battle]

[When a question appears, please vote for where you think it should go.]

[Voting rights have been given to all five participants, and you can vote for your own floor.]

[Basement Participants]

[Yoon Eden: 1 vote]

[Kim Dobin: 1 vote]

The number of votes given to other floors wasn’t visible.

“They gave us one vote each? I thought it would be 0.5 votes for you, 0.5 votes for me, making 1 vote total.”

“Maybe they’re authenticating that in a democratic society, everyone gets equal voting rights of one vote?”

Oh, that sounds plausible when you put it that way? I was nodding at Kim Dobin’s hypothesis when Ryu Jaehee spoke to us through the monitor.

-Hyungs, can you hear me? I was given 3 votes. If you guys have 1 vote each, then the first floor likely got 2 votes. Monitor the first floor once to see if I’m right.

Democratic society authentication my ass.

-Why are they giving two votes each? Does everyone have two votes now? Or is it just us with two votes?

As Ryu Jaehee predicted, the first floor had two votes each. So to summarize, the second floor has 3 votes total, the first floor has 4 votes total, and the basement has 2 votes total.

If Ryu Jaehee gives all his votes to us, we’d have the advantage, but if Ryu Jaehee makes choices for himself, the first floor would be most advantageous and we’d be most disadvantaged.

A situation where we can only completely rely on Ryu Jaehee’s goodwill, knowing our circumstances.

“Youngest member, I trust you…!”

[Item battle voting will now begin.]

[Where do you think the penalty exemption should be given?]

[Second Floor]

[First Floor]

[Basement]

Kim Dobin and I threw our two votes to the basement without hesitation. Even at this moment while voting, we can’t stop pedaling the cycle for fear of losing electricity, and if we get a penalty on top of that, would we survive here?

[Voting has ended.]

[Voting Results]

[Second Floor: 0 votes]

[First Floor: 4 votes]

[Basement: 5 votes]

The penalty exemption came to us.

Ryu Jaehee didn’t abandon us. Kim Dobin and I stood side by side and enthusiastically applauded toward the second floor monitor.

[Penalty Exemption: You can be exempted from any penalty once. You can choose which penalty to be exempted from.]

The first floor also seemed to be gradually realizing that the situation wasn’t fair due to the voting results.

-What? Why are there nine votes when there are five people? Even if we have four votes, that means five votes among three people.

-Either one person has three votes and two people have one vote each, or two people have two votes like us and one person has one vote.

-Wow, it’s hard to predict which of the two it is? Should we use the phone lifeline?

-Don’t use it yet, let’s save it. It’s too precious to use here.

At Gyeon Hajun’s dissuasion, Seo Yehyeon quietly put down the receiver. The question on the tablet screen changed.

[Where do you think the power supply authority should be given?]

[Second Floor]

[First Floor]

[Basement]

“Is this power supply authority some kind of electricity control right? Do we still have to keep producing electricity?”

“Aren’t they just passing off the hellish job of producing electricity?”

“I can’t tell exactly which of the two this is!”

“Just vote for us for now. If it’s control rights, that’s good, and if it’s production rights, we’re already producing anyway so it’s less unfair.”

Half-believing Kim Dobin’s words, I cast two votes for our floor.

[Vote Results]

[Second Floor: 3 votes]

[First Floor: 4 votes]

[Basement: 2 votes]

Since everyone voted for their own floor, the first floor became the winner. I listened to the conversation between Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon as they checked the item description.

-With this, we can control the power of each floor.

-But what’s the point of controlling it? Are we going to do something floor by floor later?

You’re already doing something floor by floor. You first floor bastard living comfortably like a plant in a greenhouse. I grumbled inwardly at Yehyeon’s words.

“But even if the first floor controls the power, couldn’t we still generate electricity for our own floor with this?”

“Then we could escape the influence of that item.”

The other item votes also proceeded smoothly. Thanks to Ryu Jaehee voting for our floor on most items, our items were steadily accumulating.

And starting with this question, it was somewhat different from the previous ones.

[How do you think the evening food distribution should be divided?]

[Equally]

[Second Floor 60%, First Floor 30%, Basement 10%]

[Second Floor 20%, First Floor 30%, Basement 50%]

…

After a brief voting period.

[Vote Results]

[Equally: 3 votes]

[Second Floor 60%, First Floor 30%, Basement 10%: 0 votes]

[Second Floor 30%, First Floor 60%, Basement 10%: 4 votes]

[Second Floor 25%, First Floor 25%, Basement 50%: 2 votes]

“There was an ‘equally’ option. Why did I naturally think the youngest would vote for the option where we get the most?”

“No, Yehyeon Hyung usually eats so little, why only at times like this! Just take 25%!”

-Wow, that’s a misjudgment. I thought the hyungs would naturally vote for ‘equally’.

Our laments mixed with Ryu Jaehee’s lament.

The tablet screen flickered once. No instructions appeared on our tablet screen, but the first and second floors were different.

-Turn on channels 7 and 8?

-TV? Doesn’t that use a lot of electricity?

When the first and second floors turned on their TVs simultaneously, the lights started going out one by one, so even Kim Dobin urgently sat on the cycle and the two of us pedaled like crazy. The lights came back on.

On the monitor screen, the first and second floors watching our appearance on television were reflected. Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun were shocked, asking if that was an underground prison. When Yehyeon changed the channel with the remote, this time the luxurious scenery of the second floor appeared on the first floor television.

At the same time, the final question appeared on the tablet.

[Who do you think should remain in the basement?]

[Yoon Eden]

[Kim Dobin]

These guys were definitely going to get canceled.

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