A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 447

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 447

I don’t know if they lacked the financial resources or time to fill the filming content with new cast members, but the post-filming interviews were conducted in tediously long and detailed fashion, as if they were trying to extract more content.

Since being half-hearted with the interviews could lead to backlash over attitude controversies, I answered the incoming questions more sincerely than usual. Though I’m not sure if those answers were what the PD wanted to hear.

Since I knew what path would unfold after dinner, I was simply happy that filming ended early, but the members who had originally been told it was a one-night shoot seemed quite displeased with this situation.

On the way back to the dormitory after getting off work early, the members who had been quiet until now finally opened their mouths in the van.

“Wow, that was really tough for me. The missions were obviously designed to cause nothing but fights, and after going up to the 2nd floor, I was isolated alone so it wasn’t easy to communicate with the hyungs, and communication with the basement was one-way.”

“The way they only gave the basement floor food they hated was really, wow… When I heard vegetable bibimbap was on the lunch menu, I couldn’t close my mouth.”

“But if it was supposed to be one night, is it okay to end this early? Aren’t all our scenes going to get cut?”

“Seeing how they dragged out the interviews like that, I don’t think we need to worry about our scenes getting cut.”

Seo Yehyeon shrugged at Gyeon Hajun’s concern.

“Honestly, even if we stayed one night, the 1st and 2nd floors wouldn’t have mattered. The upper floors had beds, food, and were clean. The basement was the problem.”

“Really? So Doby Hyung, you mean if there were no people in the basement, you would have been fine filming there for one night?”

“Probably? I only watched the 2nd floor on the monitor and didn’t actually go there, so I can’t say for sure, but even the 1st floor where I stayed briefly had an amazing environment.”

“Compared to the basement, the 1st floor was like a 5-star hotel, honestly. The 2nd floor was heaven.”

Listening to the youngest line’s back-and-forth conversation, Seo Yehyeon made a disgusted face, shook his head, and offered a prediction quite close to the correct answer.

“Would they have quietly let us sleep for one night? They definitely would have kept giving us missions that would damage our image more as filming went longer. Especially now that we know each other’s floor situations, as long as there were people in the basement, whatever the upper floors did would have looked like unsympathetic villain roles.”

“At least the youngest member had the narrative of being in the basement, but Yehyeon Hyung and I just stayed on the 1st floor without any hardships the whole time, so we would have been even more of an eyesore, right?”

Gyeon Hajun also chimed in with Seo Yehyeon’s words.

I gave a big yawn and said to Kim Dobin.

“Anyway, I knew the keypad passwords for the 1st and 2nd floors, so I could have gone up to the 1st or 2nd floor anytime. If you wanted to film a bit more, you should have said so earlier, Dobin.”

“Huh, you knew the passwords? How?”

“Didn’t I tell you I got the escape keypad because I stayed in the basement?”

Kim Dobin nodded as if he had just realized something big.

“Ah, so that’s why you pressed the 2nd floor password so confidently and asked why it wouldn’t open. I thought you guessed the 1st floor password correctly and got confident, so you tried the 2nd floor too.”

“Aren’t you underestimating my intelligence too much? And among us, you’re probably the only one who could guess that correctly?”

If I expand the range a bit more, maybe CEO Kim Nodam?

Everyone seemed relieved that we had safely avoided discord rumors, and their concerns about screen time were resolved as they busily vented about the hardships they faced on their respective floors. Of course, Kim Dobin, who had been in the basement the longest, took up the biggest portion of the complaining.

“By the way, did anyone figure out that C-house stood for Class-house?”

“Oh, really? I thought C-house was short for C-grade variety house. Youngest member, did you figure it out?”

“No, I was curious too, so I asked why it was called C-house during the interview and found out then.”

C-grade variety house shortened to C-house, Gyeon Hajun also has quite a talent for dissing. By the way, I didn’t know it was Class-house either, even though I had watched the broadcast before my regression.

“Wow, that’s what it was? I thought it was C-house because it made me want to curse words starting with C.”

“Oh, Eden Hyung. You had the exact same thought as me. I also thought it was definitely that when I saw the basement environment.”

Damn it, I had the same thought as Kim Dobin.

* * *

“The 2nd week of May, today’s 1st place on Popular Music goes to…! Congratulations, Rev’s Nightmare!”

By achieving 1st place on Popular Music, which airs on Sunday as this week’s finale, we succeeded in achieving 1st place on all three major terrestrial music shows.

“No, Hyung-nim! You should be carrying your younger brother, where is there such insubordination! If you do this, I won’t call you Hyung-nim anymore.”

“That’s exactly what I want, so I’m fine with it? But you don’t mean ‘sang-geuk-ha’ by reversing ‘ha-geuk-sang’, do you?”

“Then I’ll call you Hyung-nim forever… no, wait. That sounds weird. And isn’t ‘sang-geuk-ha’ the opposite of ‘ha-geuk-sang’?”

“…Just rap. It’s your part.”

Today’s 1st place promise was to carry each other during the encore stage, and instead of everyone carrying each other, everyone was fighting to be carried by each other, so Gyeon Hajun, who quickly carried Kim Dobin first, sang most of the encore song.

Kim Dobin weighed the least, if I remember correctly. Calorie-obsessed Seo Yehyeon surprisingly weighed more than Kim Dobin. According to him, it’s because he has thick bones.

Anyway, I had to perform the encore stage with both Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee on my back as the price for trying to give Seo Yehyeon a chance to play the hyung role. To repay my good intentions with such revenge.

“If we keep going like this for just 2 more weeks, we could achieve a triple crown too.”

“Somehow I feel like it’s achievable this time? Honestly, even if Altair makes a comeback, I think we can defend this. The momentum is really good this time.”

A smile naturally formed on my lips at Ryu Jaehee’s confident answer.

As Ryu Jaehee said, this album’s indicators were career-best across the board, from initial sales to music video view growth indicators to music chart performance.

Not only the title track, but the pre-release song and B-side tracks had also dropped from 2nd and 3rd place on the music charts, but were still maintaining quite decent performance.

“I just hope 【Reality Test!】 doesn’t throw cold water on us. As for help… I don’t know. Will that filming actually help bring in new fans? We were really just earning coins on the 1st floor?”

“At least we didn’t fight enough to cause discord rumors among ourselves. Then that’s good enough.”

My response was evaluated as overly positive, but it’s true that the situation is much better than that group before my regression. At least there won’t be internal fandom division.

“We’ll have to see today. I’m worried about how it’ll be edited and aired since the filming ended so briefly.”

Today was finally the day our filmed 【Reality Test!】 would be broadcast.

It was really fortunate that the evening radio schedule was postponed by a day so we could watch the live broadcast. I sat on the sofa, not forgetting to bring my phone to feel vicarious satisfaction.

-Reality Test is my current top pick, the album composition and quality are great, and the variety show offers coming in too ㅇ3 they’re really working hard these days

-Last week’s dilemma experiment was fucking hilarious, I’m curious what kind of experiment our kids did lol

-Please let our kids be portrayed as kind and entertaining…

-The conformity experiment was cute but it’s sad that it came out first ㅠㅠ Can’t you reshoot it with the Rev version? ㅠㅠㅠ

-The dilemma one was a bit nerve-wracking but I hope they kept it to about the level of the dilemma experiment

I held my phone preciously while seeing reactions that were still favorable toward the program. Our Daydream, I trust you.

* * *

[Reality Test!]

[First, let us introduce today’s social experiment participants]

[The trending idol group that made a spectacular comeback with Nightmare, Rev!]

[Rev: Dream of me! Hello, we are Rev!]

A brief group performance scene from the 【Nightmare】 music video passed by, and Rev, standing in front of the set, bowed deeply to greet the viewers.

[Eden: Rev has made a comeback after 6 months with our 2nd full album, NOX. Please show lots of love for our title track, Nightmare.]

[PD: This is the house where you’ll be staying for the day. Observation cameras are installed in each room, and the rooms you’ll stay in will be decided by drawing lots.]

After Yoon Eden’s comment about their comeback status and the PD’s brief explanation ended, individual interview scenes followed.

[Yuje: I’m a regular viewer of 【Reality Test!】 and I was really looking forward to what kind of social experiment we’d be doing today. But seeing the set, wow. They prepared a lot. I was completely excited.]

[Yehyeon: Honestly, seeing the set made it even harder to guess. A house? What kind of social experiment can you do in a house? Genovese syndrome (bystander effect)?]

-Oh, even the set looks really proper? Since Rev is appearing, it seems like the production team put a lot of effort into it, which makes me happy haha

-Yehyeon is so smart, immediately bringing up the Geno whatever and bystander effect lol I could only think of things like hikikomori lololol

[Lottery Results]

[2nd Floor: Eden]

[1st Floor: Yehyeon, Hajun]

[Basement: Dobin, Yuje]

[Participants moving to their respective rooms]

-At least Dobin has Yuje next to him so that’s reassuring

-Wait, is Eden by himself?ㅠㅠㅠㅠ According to Rev’s law of total intelligence conservation, Eden needs to be paired with Dobin to maximize their combined intelligenceㅠㅠㅠ

-Isn’t the basement floor the best? Dobin’s so lucky haha

[Eden entering the 2nd floor]

[Eden: Wow, nice room.]

The screen showing the luxurious second floor that looked like a hotel room in one continuous take transitioned to the first floor that looked like an ordinary house.

[Yehyeon and Hajun entering the first floor]

[Yehyeon: It’s ordinary? What is this really? I really can’t predict anything.]

[Hajun: It might actually be a surprisingly simple social experiment, hyung. You’re trying to think too complexly about it right now.]

[Yehyeon: Is that so? Then Jun, what do you think it’s like?]

[Hajun: A psychopath test experiment?]

[Yehyeon: Why would a psychopath test suddenly come up…?]

-Damn, our Eden has no one to talk to so he says one word and gets edited out

-Psychopath test experiment lololol Gyeonhajun is surprisingly quirky lolol

-Isn’t the environment too different from the second floor??

And then the long-awaited basement was shown.

[Doby and Yuje entering the basement]

[Doby: Is this a prison?]

[Yuje: Hyung, what happened to your luck? I thought it would definitely be a good place since hyung picked it…!]

[Doby: What’s this cycle for? To exercise when we’re bored?]

[Yuje: Oh, there’s a tablet too? Whoa, hyung! We have to generate electricity with this!]

[Doby: Can’t we not do it?]

[Yuje: If we don’t, the lighting on our floor goes out? Wow, wow wow. The lights are already flickering. If this goes out too, I don’t think we’ll appear on screen. It’s too dark here.]

[Doby: Let’s pedal the cycle first. Ryu Jae, Ryu Jae! Aren’t those the hyungs showing on that monitor over there?]

[Yuje: You’re right? We can see both the first and second floors? Can’t the hyungs see us? Hmm, is this a good thing?]

[Doby: Huh, we have to get coins by attaching doll eyes? What kind of 1988 side job is this?]

[And the secret of the basement that the basement participants don’t know!]

[The more the second floor uses resources, the higher the price of basement resources becomes!]

-No way, are they crazy, throwing the kids into some underground dungeon

-If you make them handle what the second floor uses and generate electricity for the 1st and 2nd floors, naturally even if the upper floor kids don’t know about it, when they see the basement suffering, they’ll look annoying. Is this a social experiment or an experiment to make the upper floors get hate

-Isn’t this a structure where only one floor suffers terribly, and it’s not like they designed it so other floors won’t get hate either

-Doby’s luck really applied… Doby gained screen time… They’re showing only the basement for so long right now, Eden’s screen time is already short but now he’s going to get hate too…

The scene alternated between Yoon Eden lying on the wide, soft bed on the second floor grabbing the remote control and the youngest line pedaling the cycle desperately.

[If the TV is turned on, the basement’s electricity generation can’t handle the situation!]

[Eden who is completely unaware of this situation]

[What will his choice be?]

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