A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 453

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 453

As soon as those words ended, Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin were shocked.

“E-E-Eden Hyung must be possessed by a ghost!”

“Not a ghost, but possessed by a god?”

“Even bad laws are still laws, and cyber universities are still universities, so ghosts are gods too!”

“Is that so? No, but how did he figure it out right away? This really doesn’t make sense?”

While I was looking at the youngest line clinging to each other in panic with disdainful eyes, this time Seo Yehyeon slowly sidled away from me.

Judging by the genuine emotions he’d shown so far, Seo Yehyeon clearly didn’t know anything, so I wondered why he was acting like that.

Maybe he’s worried I might scold him too. Even so, I don’t scold people without reason.

“Hyung, why are you acting like that again? Do you have something to feel guilty about?”

“No, it’s just that hearing ghost sounds and guessing what ghost sounds they are is too… too beyond human capability… I’m wondering if you’re really possessed by a ghost…”

Kim Dobin nodded vigorously in agreement with Seo Yehyeon’s muttering.

Seeing them jump around even more surprised, as if I had summoned some ghost to startle them, when they were the ones who planned this whole thing, was so absurd that even the scolding I was about to give completely disappeared.

“So, why did you insert that sound into the recording in the recording studio-“

“Ta-da, horror special surprise camera!”

Before I could finish speaking, Kim Dobin clapped his hands with an awkward smile and revealed the reason for this nonsense.

“-ended in such a spectacular failure.”

Gyeon Hajun added in a dejected voice.

Setting aside the slightly regretful tone, remembering how Gyeon Hajun had laid the groundwork by saying the recording studio was cold, I asked with half-doubt.

“…Jun, you too?”

“He was my acting coaching tutor.”

Kim Dobin confirmed it for him. Jun, even you…!

After revealing that this was a surprise camera targeting me, the three conspirators explained the theme and trick of the surprise camera.

“It was a horror special. The goal was to give Eden Hyung a horror experience. We were trying to terrify Hyung with a recording that had ghost voices inserted. We thought Hyung would be scared by this.”

“Doby practiced acting and his parts like crazy. First, it had to satisfy you or the recording wouldn’t continue.”

“So when I took Hajun and Doby out of the recording studio, our Dicky Producer laid down the sound with the youngest and came out?”

“That’s why you kept telling me to go out. I was wondering why I had to comfort Doby too.”

Seo Yehyeon also nodded with a face of great realization.

Ryu Jaehee, who had been thinking about something with his head down and a blank expression, suddenly raised his head.

“No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t make sense that you pinpointed exactly what movie and what scene it was. There’s a spy among the people who planned this. Eden Hyung, please reveal it now. Who tipped you off?”

“Nobody tipped me off?”

“Then you really recognized it as soon as you heard it? Hyung, this is all being filmed here. If this goes up, NASA will take you away. Please tell us the truth.”

I gave Kim Dobin a neck massage disguised as a headlock while grumbling at his nonsense as he pointed at the camcorder.

“That movie has good visuals, so I’ve watched it several times. And…”

Back in my school days, some bastard friends who wanted to see me get scared once pulled out my earphones while I was sleeping with my head on my desk and stuck those earphones playing this video into my ear, so it was very clearly imprinted in my memory.

At that time, I thought my 1 million won earphones that I had gotten from my parents as a birthday gift just a few days before had already broken, so I screamed and got up, only to earn the disgraceful reputation of being Yoon Eden who finally succumbed to horror movies.

So that sound was even more deeply imprinted in my memory. But how dare they bring exactly that.

“Anyway, I can’t forget that scene’s sound. You should have reversed it and brought it instead.”

There’s no need to mention my dark history. When I naturally changed the subject, Ryu Jaehee scratched his cheek awkwardly.

“We thought you wouldn’t know since you don’t particularly like horror movies.”

“I watch horror and occult genres too if the visuals are good.”

My criteria for choosing movies was all about visuals except for action. For action genres, well… as long as the action is well done.

Even aside from that, there was another reason I didn’t believe it was a real ghost voice.

“And the sound doesn’t overlap with his voice. It might be different if he sang into the microphone together with it. But it was laid down like background music.”

“That would be impossible unless we brought a real ghost. Ugh, just imagining it is scary.”

Kim Dobin rubbed his arms and shuddered.

I put my arm on Kim Dobin’s shoulder, pulled his head to face me directly.

Kim Dobin, who had been blinking at my gentle smile, seemed to finally understand the situation and hesitantly stepped back.

But since he was in my grasp, Kim Dobin’s escape attempt failed miserably.

“Oh, scary? Ghosts are scary but I’m not scary?”

Kim Dobin frantically shook his head.

“Right, let’s feel some old nostalgia for once. The recording studio has become comfortable enough lately for you to plan surprise cameras in the recording studio.”

When I lightly cracked my knuckles, even Seo Yehyeon’s face turned pale. The actual conspirators Ryu Jaehee and Gyeon Hajun’s faces were calm.

“Youngest, why did you do that! Why did you throw me back into hell again!”

Seo Yehyeon grabbed Ryu Jaehee’s shoulder, who was only rolling his eyes, and shook him wildly while expressing his resentment.

“The A&R team too, that’s too much. I thought I was closest to them, but they completely went along with doing a surprise camera targeting me and cooperated.”

“Hey, content, content.”

Dicky Producer laughed good-naturedly and patted my back.

“Now, let’s start recording again. Let’s continue from Doby.”

At my call, Kim Dobin trudged back into the recording booth with a deathly expression.

That sight reminded me of myself being dragged to my paternal family home in Seongbuk-dong in the old days. So the recording studio is at that level now? Huh?

Kim Dobin’s part recording started again.

“Doby, you did well when you were doing the surprise camera on Hyung, so why are you like this now?”

“Do your skills only improve when you’re thinking of pranking Hyung? You practiced, didn’t you. Do it the same way. Why has your skill returned to the unpracticed state now?”

“Hey, if you had just done it at the level before you screamed about the surprise camera, what’s with seven times today, you would have finished within five times.”

“Weren’t you prepared for this too? I wouldn’t say anything if you did this in the practice room! In the process of making our music that’s like our face to show the world!”

“Don’t think about leaving the recording booth today until you bring it back up to the level you ruined.”

“Doby, will you be able to get out today doing it like that. Yehyeon Hyung, please lay out a blanket on the sofa over there in advance. It looks like Hyung will have to sleep here tonight.”

If they hadn’t planned this surprise camera that I don’t know whether it’s a horror special or a movie and dark history tour special, today’s recording would have ended smoothly and quickly at a record-breaking pace, tsk tsk.

Kim Dobin finally found his pace from the surprise camera time only after repeatedly listening to my directing filled with affection and sincerity.

“Now you’re showing that form. If you had done this much from the start, no matter how much you played around with surprise cameras in the recording studio, would I have been this strict?”

Tick-

I was nodding my chin with satisfaction when suddenly the lights in the recording booth flickered once.

Since the microphone was working fine, I gestured for him to ignore it and continue, and Kim Dobin nodded and continued singing.

“Good, this is a pass. Keep doing it at this level from now on.”

Finally bringing it back up to the first level that I was completely satisfied with, I declared Kim Dobin’s liberation from the recording booth.

“What are you doing, not coming out. Yehyeon Hyung has to record next, so come out quickly.”

When I urged Kim Dobin, who was standing stiffly in front of the microphone, Kim Dobin made eye contact with me by only rolling his eyes without moving his head while staying in the same standing position.

A trembling voice echoed through the booth via the microphone.

“Hyung…”

“Ah, you won’t fall for it anymore, so don’t lay groundwork and just come out.”

I could see that Kim Dobin’s face in my field of vision was unusually pale.

“You didn’t plan a reverse surprise camera or anything like that, right…? There’s nothing laid in the instrumental, right…?”

“Am I you? To do such things with music.”

At my indifferent response, Kim Dobin, who was rubbing his arms with trembling hands, spoke almost at a whisper level.

“Someone sang along with me…”

“This isn’t fun anymore, Doby. Let’s just do one verse.”

Even at my warning words, Kim Dobin shook his head frantically. After looking at the door once and carefully glancing up at the lights that had flickered before immediately returning his gaze to its original position, Kim Dobin said desperately.

“Someone please open the recording booth door and hold it for me. I can’t move from here because I’m afraid the door might suddenly lock and the lights might go out.”

The breathing filled with terror and the trembling voice didn’t seem like acting, but Kim Dobin had just fooled me with acting, so I didn’t believe him.

When Gyeon Hajun opened the recording booth door, Kim Dobin rushed out as if being chased by something.

“Hyung, what’s wrong with you. Our surprise camera is over now. Stop it now. At this rate, Eden Hyung will really get angry.”

“I really heard it!”

At Ryu Jaehee’s serious dissuasion, the pale Kim Dobin conversely snapped back in anger.

“I don’t know if you’re acting or if this is a real situation, but both of you stop fighting. If we listen to the recording again, we’ll know that nobody sang along with you, Doby.”

I mediated between the two youngest line members and played back the sound we just recorded.

[That fantasy reaching me in blue]

[Screech screech screech screech screech screech]

Along with Kim Dobin’s voice, that same strange sound overlapped again.

“This is my hidden camera, right? This is targeting me, right? Please tell me that’s what this is.”

Kim Dobin grabbed onto Ryu Jaehee desperately, his hands trembling as he spoke.

When I reflexively looked back at Ryu Jaehee, he was just as pale as Kim Dobin and frantically waved his hands in denial.

“It’s not us. It’s really not us. Hyung has been watching the whole time, so there was no chance to insert any sound effects.”

“Wait a minute… this isn’t a separate sound, it’s attached to Kim Dobin’s vocals?”

And no matter how much I listened to this ghost sound, it was completely unfamiliar.

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