A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 444

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 444

“Absolutely no different from Satan himself.”

Even Kim Dobin let out an honest review with a rare disgusted expression, omitting any exclamations. Having to stay alone in a difficult place where two people were struggling together – such a reaction was understandable.

-Huh, what? Why did the channel cut out again? I can’t see the basement?

-Wow… They cut off communication like this again. If they had kept it connected, the hyungs would have at least given us some kind of signal.

The monitor screen showed the members looking confused as our basement live broadcast was cut off. Damn it, they won’t even let us communicate.

Kim Dobin looked at me with a determined face as if he had made up his mind about something.

“I’ll stay, hyung.”

Oh, what is this, some movie dialogue?

I was about to ruffle Kim Dobin’s hair but quietly withdrew my hand because it was damp with sweat.

“What are you talking about? I should stay. Are you my hyung?”

When I asked sarcastically, Kim Dobin, who had been silently rolling his eyes, finally found an excuse and quickly retorted with a face that said he’d found it.

“Why are you asking if I’m your hyung here? I just wanted to practice respecting elders, that’s all.”

“Didn’t you say you yielded because you were the hyung when you yielded to the youngest member? You little rascal, you’re a master at changing your words, aren’t you? You’re planning to tell me to call you hyung because you yielded, right?”

“Even if I told hyung to call me hyung, you wouldn’t do it anyway.”

“Why aren’t you denying it, man? Was it really true?”

“It’s a Confucian spirit based on respecting elders!”

If I went up, there could be a disaster where Kim Dobin would change his words and tell me to call him hyung since he stayed behind, so I absolutely had to stay. There are other reasons besides just this.

“Let’s see… Two votes from our floor, four votes from the 1st floor, three votes from the 2nd floor, so nine votes total – there won’t even be a tie.”

Since abstention votes don’t exist, Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun would definitely throw their votes to each of the two choices to create a tie. That would make it 2 votes for me, 2 votes for Kim Dobin.

If they concentrate our votes on me here, it would be 4 votes for me, 2 votes for Kim Dobin.

But there’s a variable here. It’s Ryu Jaehee who alone holds 3 votes.

If he can distribute the votes, whether he gives me 2 votes and Kim Dobin 1 vote, or gives me 1 vote and Kim Dobin 2 votes, I’d be selected with 100% probability. But if he can’t distribute them, I’d be selected with 50% probability.

If Ryu Jaehee’s 3 votes go to Kim Dobin, it would be 4 votes for me and 5 votes for Kim Dobin, so Kim Dobin would stay.

In the latter case, Ryu Jaehee would be no different from a decision-maker who could definitively choose one of us, so whatever choice he makes, he’d inevitably get criticized by viewers.

“Let’s use the phone chance to the 2nd floor.”

I was very fortunate that Kim Dobin had stopped me from trying to use the phone chance during lunch.

Kim Dobin nodded. While Kim Dobin was pedaling the cycle, I pressed 2 to attempt a phone connection with the top floor where Ryu Jaehee was.

“Jaehee, can you distribute the votes by any chance?”

-No. I have to throw all three votes to one person. I just tried it and that’s what happened.

“Throw all three votes to me. I’ll stay.”

This way, since I’m the one who presented Ryu Jaehee with the choice, he won’t have to take criticism as the price for choosing.

Ryu Jaehee, who had been silent for a moment without hanging up, spoke to me in a heavy voice.

-…Hyung, if there’s a mission to switch floors, definitely choose me. Got it? You should at least sleep comfortably when it’s time to sleep.

Is this what it feels like to be a parent receiving filial piety? Since I’m receiving filial piety from the youngest member, I suddenly wanted to call my parents.

“It’s fine, so stay there well. If Dobin comes up to the 2nd floor, you control him well.”

No matter how I think about it, the youngest member seems to have changed. Is this what you say when entrusting the fourth member to the youngest?

“Hyung, if I go up to the 1st floor, I’ll tell the hyungs not to watch TV. If it’s the 2nd floor, I’ll stay quietly with the youngest member.”

Looking at Kim Dobin’s expression, this moment looked like the final farewell of separated families who would never meet again after this moment passed.

“Hyung, hang in there just a little! From what I can see, I don’t think they’ll keep just one person in the basement forever, right? Whether I come down or someone else comes down, so please stay strong until then!”

Yeah, Dobin. Your intuition is wrong. You have good luck with draws but why don’t you have luck with guessing?

[Voting has ended.]

[Voting Results]

[Yoon Eden: 7 votes]

[Kim Dobin: 2 votes]

As expected, the vote results were as predicted.

Until the moment the door opened and he left, Kim Dobin kept glancing at me with a gloomy face.

On his way out, when I asked him to put the doll and doll eyes on the cycle next to me, I was slightly moved by how he put exactly ten items up. Finally, this guy is starting to think when he lives. Previously, he would have just put them up randomly as he grabbed them.

After waiting a bit, Kim Dobin’s figure appeared on the monitor screen showing the 1st floor.

-Hyungs, turn off the TV first! This is the main culprit eating up electricity right now. Just turning this off will let Eden hyung in the basement pedal the cycle less intensely.

As soon as Kim Dobin went to the 1st floor, he faithfully kept his word by making them turn off the TV.

-The basement environment was really bad. I wonder if Eden is okay?

-We should go down in the next mission if we can switch. We’ve been on the 1st floor the whole time and never experienced the basement once. The youngest member went into the basement at first too, right?

I was relieved that the conversation on the 1st floor didn’t contain any elements for malicious editing.

My head was throbbing because I had used my brain too much, which was unlike me. It seemed to be because of the stuffy basement environment. The fresh air that had briefly flowed in through the door when Kim Dobin left the basement had quickly become polluted again.

The screen of the tablet I had placed on the cycle seat next to me along with the doll turned on again, and the special privilege I had been waiting for appeared.

[As a special privilege of the basement, the escape keypad password is given.]

[Password: 4529]

[The escape keypad passwords for the 1st and 2nd floors are the same.]

I can’t entrust this to Kim Dobin. Still, I’m better than Kim Dobin, aren’t I? Especially when it comes to causing chaos, I was far superior.

Just looking at the escape keypad password given to me as a special privilege, I could honestly see clearly what picture they were trying to paint.

They want a picture where the chosen person gets angry and escapes alone, or uses this password to control and shake up the 1st and 2nd floors.

They’d probably package it as something like ‘human nature when situations are reversed.’ I absolutely hated being pushed into such situations and made into a scapegoat.

Ugh, I need to firmly tell the agency not to accept bookings for this type of variety show anymore. We went on this because of pre-regression connections, right? Rev disbanded the day after filming this.

Just like in the pre-regression variety show, the participant chosen to stay in the basement by vote got extremely angry at the other members who voted for him and sacrificed the 1st and 2nd floors to escape alone.

The remaining people couldn’t sleep all night trying to escape, racking their brains to figure out the password through missions and escape.

Moreover, that member happened to be someone who had been stuck in the basement the whole time. You could say it was the second point that triggered discord rumors and fandom fights after the voting.

“Since I just used the phone chance, it’s impossible to tell the members upstairs the password.”

Probably this time too, for me to escape, I’ll have to use the 1st and 2nd floors. They’ll push the missions to make it that way.

But since it was entirely my choice, I had no reason to be angry at the members on the 1st and 2nd floors. I was also confident I could destroy whatever picture the production crew tried to paint. Causing chaos was my specialty.

Isn’t this why you cast us?

“Let’s start with ventilation.”

I got off the cycle and touched the ventilation chance ticket I had won in this item competition battle on the kiosk. With a click, the door opened and an air purifier came in.

How thoughtfully, under the pretext of ventilation, they also collected the empty bowls and left the door open for 10 minutes. Of course, it closed precisely after 10 minutes.

Once the stuffy food smell and musty sweat odor cleared, I felt like I could live a little.

Like the 2nd floor, the basement also had a keypad inside the door.

I got off the cycle and tried entering the password I received as a special privilege on that keypad, but as expected, the door didn’t open. Even when I grabbed the door handle and tried pulling it down, it just rattled as if blocked by something.

I could probably create a portrayal of a harmonious group and sacrificial leader by giving up escape in the next mission that induces my escape, but waiting alone until then was quite boring. Besides, I didn’t want to create any picture that the production crew, who seemed determined to make one group suffer from gossip, wanted.

While examining the keypad this way and that, I noticed there was no separate place to replace batteries.

Then could it be external power instead of batteries? Usually, when they run out of power, there should be a place to put batteries around here to make it easy to change batteries while installed.

Even when I ran my finger along the bottom part, there was no gap that caught.

‘But when this stops, the lights here go out, right?’

I nodded, recalling what Kim Dobin had said while pedaling the cycle when I first came here.

It’s worth experimenting once. If this operates on internal battery and the attempt fails, I can just move to Plan B, the orthodox method.

Whether it failed or succeeded, there was nothing that could harm me, so it was definitely worth trying.

Instead of going back to the cycle, I kept holding the door handle and standing in front of the door, and soon the lights started flickering. The monitor showing the 1st and 2nd floors was the first to go out with a beep.

Next, the lights went out simultaneously with a pop. Everything was dyed in darkness and I couldn’t see an inch ahead, but soon my eyes adapted to the darkness to some degree.

When I turned my gaze back to the keypad, the small red light at the very top of the keypad that indicated it was locked had gone out.

The keypad had also gone out due to the basement power outage. The password was probably automatically canceled with high probability.

When I tried gently pressing down the door handle as a test, I got a satisfying result.

Indeed, sometimes in life you need shortcuts.

Since it was a broadcast and I couldn’t give a middle finger, I held the door handle and smiled wickedly while reciting a movie quote I used to memorize and recite all the time.

The line from that movie that fits this situation perfectly.

“In case, I don’t see ya. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.”

Without any resistance, the door handle smoothly went down and the door opened wide. It was the fastest escape from the basement, even skipping the mission.

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