A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 446

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 446

I handed the receiver to Seo Yehyeon who was next to me and rushed to the kiosk, when Seo Yehyeon urgently called out to me.

“Hey, Yoon Eden! Don’t tell me you’re going to rip out the kiosk and throw it? Don’t do that, just throw the bicycle! I’ll at least help you carry the bicycle up to the second floor.”

-What did you say? What, what are you ripping out and throwing?

Ryu Jaehee’s shocked voice flowed out from the receiver Seo Yehyeon was holding.

-Eden Hyung! Stop! Stooop! No, instead of stopping Eden Hyung, what if Hyung gets influenced by Eden Hyung!

“What? I got influenced by Yoon Eden? How can you say such harsh words…!”

“How is that harsh, Hyung!”

The discord rumors we barely avoided were about to ignite at this moment.

“And what are you even talking about. Why would I rip out the kiosk and throw it. Please stop talking nonsense.”

When I touched the item slot, all the items that the first floor had taken in the item competition voting mission appeared.

“The first floor has the power supply authority, right? I was trying to see if we could escape the same way as the basement by cutting off the second floor’s electricity with that. I wasn’t trying to rip out the kiosk and throw it at the keypad.”

Seo Yehyeon’s mouth fell wide open after hearing my words.

“I couldn’t think of that and ended up thinking like Yoon Eden…!”

-You just admitted with your own mouth that you got influenced by Eden Hyung.

“What are you talking about. I never thought of ripping out the kiosk. Don’t pin Hyung’s thoughts on me.”

As I grumbled, Ryu Jaehee expressed admiration.

-Wow, but Hyung escaped by causing a blackout? I acknowledge Hyung’s cunning.

I had hoped I could cut off the second floor’s electricity by touching the power supply authority, but…

“It won’t work. This doesn’t cut off the entire floor’s electricity, it can only block the TV, telephone, lighting, and kiosk.”

Well, when doing the escape game, they made TV connection possible, and the power supply authority was there to block communication between each other in this state, but if you cause a blackout with this, they’d just open the door and come out.

Of course, that’s only if you figured out like me that the keypad runs on external power.

This is why you can’t just follow paths others suggest. Look at that guy who stayed in the basement during this broadcast before regression. He faithfully followed instructions, supplied electricity with the bicycle, completed missions and came out only to be called a traitor.

-Hyungs, a mission just came to my tablet. What about your tablets?

I checked the tablet screen and drew a big O with my arm, then Seo Yehyeon answered instead.

“We got it too.”

-I’ll solve the mission and come out, so Hyungs can rest assured and wait comfortably in that room…

“Well, I don’t think that’ll work. Hyung, tell the youngest not to hang up the phone.”

-Oh, that won’t work. Good thing the phone doesn’t hang up.

As I scanned the tablet screen and relayed the message, Ryu Jaehee let out a relieved comment.

[Final Mission: Find the Password for Room Escape]

[Listing the answers to each question and puzzle in order will give you a four-digit password.]

[There are four questions total.]

[1. What is the second digit of the first floor’s total breakfast cost?]

[2. Second from the right in the second floor refrigerator]

[3. What is the last digit of South Korea’s liberation year?]

[4. When the above photos are arranged in order, what is the number in the third photo?]

[If you enter an incorrect password five or more times, the password will be reset.]

-Hajun Hyung, Yehyeon Hyung. Do you guys remember how many coins you spent total on breakfast?

Gyeon Hajun and Seo Yehyeon answered Ryu Jaehee’s question in turn.

“No?”

“I only remember mine. Because it was the cheapest. 10 coins.”

“I can’t remember the soft tofu stew price. I remember being relieved that the first digit was 1 so the meal budget was sufficient and buying it.”

Gyeon Hajun scratched his cheek awkwardly.

“I made my choice and left right away so I don’t remember the price. Does anyone remember the soft tofu stew price?”

I shook my head. Unfortunately, I only vaguely remembered the prices of the steak set, boiled egg, and the cereal I ate.

“I even forgot the price of my pork rice bowl.”

I was about to click my tongue asking how he could forget that after so little time, then realized Gyeon Hajun had forgotten too and returned my tongue to its original position. It’s not like he chose while calculating intensely like me, so he could forget, I guess.

-I remember the pork rice bowl price. It was 140 coins. And my kimchi fried rice was 125 coins. I think there were coins left after choosing those, from what I remember.

I grabbed a ballpoint pen rolling around on the table and scribbled numbers on the paper in front of me.

“Let’s calculate. I added 200 more coins to the 300 coin meal budget to make 500 coins, right? From there, subtract my cereal cost of 50 coins, boiled egg 10 coins, pork and kimchi fried rice 140 coins, 125 coins…”

“Ah, you calculate damn slowly. Give it here.”

Seo Yehyeon stole the ballpoint pen from my hand and calculated it all at once.

“175 coins are left. So now you guys need to remember how many coins were left after you youngest members chose your menus.”

Looking at Kim Dobin just blinking with a stupid expression, it seemed he definitely wouldn’t remember, so now I had no choice but to pin all hopes on Ryu Jaehee’s memory.

-Uhhh…

Just as groaning sounds were coming from the receiver, suddenly a thud! sound was heard.

-I remembered! 10 coins!

“Doby, does that seem right? Don’t you remember hearing that?”

“Well, it seems like it might be…”

-Cup ramen was 15 coins! So I felt bad that if Hyung had left just 5 more coins, we could have ordered cup ramen too, so I tried to change to porridge that was 5 coins cheaper so we could share cup ramen. But only two menu selections were possible, so I just ate kimchi fried rice.

At Ryu Jaehee’s explanation, Kim Dobin also seemed to have his memory revived as he nodded vigorously.

“Then the soft tofu stew is 165 coins. Adding my 10 coins, the first number is 7.”

We smoothly figured out the first number.

The second looked like a question favorable to the second floor at first glance, but…

-I don’t understand what number 2 means. I opened the refrigerator and I drank quite a lot, you know? I drank water and beverages and mixed them all up, so I don’t remember well. Plus Eden Hyung also drank one bottle…

That was only for people who don’t mess things up. And Ryu Jaehee wasn’t the type to have an obsession with putting everything back in its place.

“But anyway, it’s water or beverages. What does this have to do with numbers?”

“If it’s numbers, it wouldn’t be calories… isn’t it price? Check if the catalog has water and beverage prices written.”

-Oh, there are! The prices are written in the catalog.

Since Seo Yehyeon started using his brain, I could comfortably outsource my thinking again.

“Jaehee, what did you drink?”

-Water, orange juice, zero cola, and Pocari.

“You drank quite a variety. How much each? Wait, don’t water and beverages all cost over 100 coins?”

-No, water is 1 coin, orange juice 5 coins, zero cola is 9 coins, and Pocari is 4 coins.

We paid over 100 coins to buy and eat, but here you don’t need to pay coins, so maybe that’s why. Or maybe they set the prices with this mission question in mind from the beginning.

“1, 4, 5, 9, right? We have to get number 4 right to be able to try pressing these one by one. It said it resets after five or more times.”

I kept that in mind and moved to number 3. The faster we get Ryu Jaehee to escape, the less screen time there is, so it’s successful revenge.

This was possible because all members were present, communication was good, emotions weren’t hurt, and there was no reason for the first and second floors to check each other.

If even one of these conditions wasn’t met, it would have been like the pre-regression broadcast disaster.

And the moment I saw number 3, cold sweat formed on my back.

If I give the wrong answer here, I become an unpatriotic traitor lacking historical consciousness.

Nineteen forty… five? 1945, right? I’m not a traitor, right? I tried to squeeze out memories from history class in my school days, but only remembered sleeping.

Perhaps thinking the same thing, everyone was quiet when Seo Yehyeon snorted and opened his mouth.

“August 15, 1945. Where is there anyone who doesn’t know this? Any South Korean citizen should know this. Right?”

“Of course I know.”

“Right, of course I know.”

“Yeah, you’d be a traitor not to know this.”

Everyone shamelessly nodded. Kim Dobin seemed to be pretending to know while not knowing, but I couldn’t tell the truth about Gyeon Hajun.

Then the password becomes 7X5X.

-When I touch number 4, five photos appear. And when I touch the photos, they flip over and show numbers. I think I’m supposed to arrange them in order and pick the third photo among them.

The five photos that appeared were of different time periods, seasons, and even overlapping – a complete mess where no order could be discerned at all.

Seo Yehyeon frowned deeply and muttered.

“What is this? This has an order?”

-There are two autumn ones. Two sunsets too. Wow, what is this.

“If we try pressing the numbers one by one for this too… we’re in big trouble. This even has a 1 in 5 probability.”

Problem 2 also has four possible cases right now, but if we get stuck on problem 4 too, escape becomes impossible.

I thought about leaving it to Kim Dobin, who has disgustingly good gacha luck, but his filming luck today seemed pretty terrible, so I couldn’t quite entrust it to him.

As I was stuck on number 4 and pondering, Kim Dobin urgently grabbed me and shook me.

“Hyung, Eden Hyung! That thing, that thing!”

“What thing?”

“We had that among our items! The hint request ticket!”

Right, there were items we left in the basement. But the problem was…

“But to use that, don’t we need to turn on the basement kiosk…?”

“That’s right. We need to pedal the cycle.”

The basement was currently in a blackout state.

Mine and Kim Dobin’s gazes turned toward Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun respectively.

“Hyung-nim, let’s go down to the basement and get some exercise today. You skipped your morning exercise today too, didn’t you.”

“Doby, I was going to go even without you saying anything, so please stop with those eyes. It’s very burdensome.”

Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun went down to the basement to experience it while pedaling the cycle, Kim Dobin held the basement door, and I brought the telephone as close to the door as possible with the cord stretched taut while blocking the first floor door from closing.

It was truly perfect division of labor.

“Hyung, the hint says ‘bird’!”

Kim Dobin relayed the hint to me. Looking closely, there really was a bird in the photo. A flock of geese are still birds. And the number of birds was different in each.

-Let’s list them in order starting from the one with one bird and cross-check.

“Right, I got the number 8 on the back of the third photo.”

-I got 8 too.

“Then it’s one of 7158, 7458, 7558, 7958. Try pressing them in order.”

-Okay, I’ll hang up first and try opening it. I have one phone chance left, so if it doesn’t work, I’ll use my phone chance this time.

Click, the phone hung up. Seo Yehyeon and Gyeon Hajun, whose hair and necks were soaked with sweat from how vigorously they had pedaled, came up to the first floor with Kim Dobin.

And shortly after.

“It opened!”

With a cheerful shout, Ryu Jaehee appeared on the staircase landing.

Everyone succeeded in escaping and the set filming ended.

“What should we do, the filming ended too quickly.”

Well, that wasn’t our concern.

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