A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 467

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 467

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“This week! If we win just one more time this week, we’ll have a complete victory!”

Ryu Jaehee pounded the sofa with eyes burning with competitive spirit. Regardless of his actions, the two pairs of eyes fixed on the TV screen had no intention of moving.

“Everyone has no ambition! No drive! Even at the first day party, I was the only one excitedly popping champagne! I get that Eden Hyung is crazy about music, but why are the other hyungs like that too!”

When no one paid attention to him, he now lay sprawled on the sofa whining.

Watching the youngest member show his youngest-like tantrum for the first time in a while, despite losing in both height and youthfulness to the fake youngest, I spoke up.

“Alright, youngest. I get it, so lower your voice volume a bit. I can’t hear the TV, the TV.”

On the TV screen, a rerun of last week’s DTB 5 that we missed due to radio schedule was in full swing.

“Is DTB important right now?”

“Yeah, very very important. They said the diss battle rules are changing this time. They’re changing it because they got so much criticism for the fight money in Season 4, so I’m curious whether this will be good news or bad news.”

Kim Dobin said what I wanted to say. Ryu Jaehee firmly shook his head and pounded the sofa again.

“No, not at all! What’s most important to me right now is getting all 1st places on this week’s music shows! If we just surpass Altair seniors this time, I feel like we won’t have to worry no matter which group’s comeback overlaps with ours.”

Seo Yehyeon, who came out opening the door wide with a face ready to complain about the noise while frowning deeply, discovered Ryu Jaehee’s sulky expression and turned his arrows toward me and Kim Dobin.

“Please indulge the youngest’s whining a bit. The kid wants to get 1st place.”

Seo Yehyeon, who scolded us, gently coaxed Ryu Jaehee.

“Yes, yes, youngest. Of course that’s important too. But there’s nothing we can do right now, is there? We have to leave it to the public’s choice. Don’t worry about it too much.”

“Right, man. If the music is good, that’s all that matters.”

At the look telling me to quickly agree, I nodded and half-heartedly chimed in during the 60-second commercial.

If Gyeon Hajun were here, we would have had someone to support us from our side, which was truly regrettable.

Gyeon Hajun wasn’t at the dormitory because of the drama wrap party. They had a wrap party last week when the final episode aired, but one of the lead actors was abroad due to schedule, so today they’re having another farewell party including that actor.

Ryu Jaehee stopped squirming on the sofa, grabbed a cushion and hugged it, then replied in a dejected voice.

“But honestly, Altair’s song is good too.”

“Of course it’s good. I have a share in it too. That song needs to keep maintaining 2nd place for the copyright fees to come in double.”

Seo Yehyeon’s gaze reaching me was piercing. But what could I do? For me, it’s a copyright fee double event.

“We need something more this week to maintain the buzz.”

“True, Project Blind Date ended last week too, so there won’t be occasions for Hajun to be mentioned through the drama anymore. Actually, he barely appeared in last week’s episodes either.”

“Right. There’s no particular reason for my name to be linked with DTB 5 from me giving a shoutout either.”

“The buzz buff effects all ended at once.”

By the way, the drama seemed like it would end as a standard romantic comedy until the end.

After the project ended, it concluded with ridiculous content where the male lead successfully gets hired at the female lead’s company for the female lead who was sad saying she couldn’t see him at work anymore since office romance was her dream.

Seeing how the internet burned until the end with ‘It doesn’t make sense to enter a large corporation so easily without being an experienced worker VS What are you talking about, with those credentials and specs, they’d recruit him specially,’ it seemed like cyber lightning rods really did exist as Kim Dobin said.

But what more could we do here? We couldn’t cause trouble either. Ryu Jaehee wouldn’t want that kind of buzz either.

“Originally we planned to release our surprise camera and recording behind-the-scenes on the last day of promotions. Eden Hyung absolutely hated the idea of the recording studio ghost going viral during promotions.”

“Yeah, right.”

I nodded half-heartedly at Ryu Jaehee’s words stating the obvious and fixed my gaze on the television screen.

They ended up removing the mic battle from the cipher. Thanks to that, it wasn’t as chaotic as previous seasons, but since it was a stable environment where they passed the mic in order, there were fewer eliminations so it was less entertaining too.

“We’re releasing that tomorrow. The video editing is all done anyway, we just need to upload it, so if we tell the company they can put it up right away.”

“Yeah, tha… what?”

I stopped mid-habitual response.

“It’s not even broadcast TV, and who’s going to watch idol recording behind-the-scenes and surprise camera videos uploaded to our YouTube channel, and how many will watch? Only our fans will bother watching.”

When I objected, Ryu Jaehee even counted on his fingers as he presented reasons why the ‘surprise camera and recording behind-the-scenes’ must be released tomorrow.

“First, it’s the point where fans who’ve seen the same song and similar stages for 4 weeks straight are starting to get tired, so we need new material or refreshment about the song. Second, Altair seniors’ fandom will try to get them to 1st place somehow in the final week, so if we go like this without any preparation, the probability of us getting beaten is quite high.”

Does he think I’ll fall for that? Just adding numbers doesn’t make it sound logical.

“Next, third, if this succeeds in becoming an issue, people will start listening to the actual music source. Wondering if ghost sounds might be recorded in this music source. What you’re most worried about right now is this being seen as viral marketing, right? Since it’s our final week of promotions, hardly anyone will think this is viral marketing.”

Listening to it, it seemed somewhat logical. It must be my imagination that Seo Yehyeon was looking at me and Kim Dobin nodding as if enchanted with an expression of utter disdain.

“And lastly, fourth. It’s going to be on broadcast TV. Specifically on Wednesday. I talked about it on the talk show I recorded alone last week. Our recording studio ghost incident. Of course the video won’t air, but there should be some traffic to the video we upload to our channel.”

Hm? The last one seems a bit strange? That’s way off from logic?

When I raised my eyebrows, Ryu Jaehee looked straight at me and said with a bright smile.

“That’s right. This isn’t me persuading you, it’s a notification.”

The moment I gaped, an indeterminate sound that could have been admiration or a sigh flowed from Kim Dobin’s mouth beside me.

“Are you going to scold me for doing this on my own?”

His eyes that had been wide and round curved as if being coy. It didn’t work though.

“No, well, is there really anything to scold about? You’re doing it all for the group’s sake. First, open your eyes properly. This is the first time I’ve wanted to spit in a smiling face, man.”

“Eh, it worked on Yehyeon Hyung though.”

“I couldn’t bring myself to punch you… That expression is really… makes me want to punch you.”

“Yehyeon Hyung, even you…! And that’s not true! I was told fans seem to be enchanted when I smile like this!”

“Ryu Jae, did you forget that our fans are the type who call even Eden Hyung a black kitten?”

After that agreement or notification was settled, we watched DTB 5 again.

“Are they insane? Group diss? They’re doing diss by groups, eliminating by groups, and only bringing up four groups? This is maddening, really.”

“Hyung, how do you do diss rap by groups?”

“I don’t know either. I’m glad I didn’t go on Season 4. The fight money battle would be better. Eliminating by group units? What did people who got stuck with the same teammates do wrong? What if you meet someone who decides everything on their own and pushes through?”

“Eden Hyung, that’s not a diss about me, is it?”

I grinned and shot back at Ryu Jaehee who asked with a disgruntled expression.

“Why, does it hit close to home?”

Before Ryu Jaehee could say anything, Seo Yehyeon waved his hand and interrupted.

“Youngest, surely it’s not a diss about you? It’s probably self-diss. Just think about right after debut.”

“Gasp, I had completely forgotten but now that you mention it, Rev’s original fascist dictator…!”

“Shut up, you guys!”

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[☆Midnight Talk Show]

[Gyeongil: Next, Yuje has a story prepared.]

[Yuje: Yes, it might be a bit scary, so if anyone gets really scared, please turn on the lights. I’ll give you time to turn on the lights.]

[Horror Special: Recording Studio Ghost Sighting]

[Lee Geum: We hear a lot of recording studio ghost stories. Quite a few singers who appeared on Midnight Talk Show have told such stories. Right?]

[Seonghan: Just recently, Solhwi also told a story about seeing a ghost in the recording studio. This has become a regular talk show repertoire among singers.]

[Gyeongil: Then let’s see what rank Yuje’s recording studio ghost will achieve on the Midnight Talk Show horror ranking.]

[Yuje: It started with a surprise camera. A surprise camera targeting our group leader, Eden Hyung. This hyung doesn’t get scared at all. Have you heard of Hell’s Labyrinth in Japan?]

[Lee Geum: I know that. The world’s first or second scariest haunted house!]

[Seonghan: I went there. I had to go in for a variety show shoot and I really, no joke, came out sobbing. It was really scary.]

[Yuje: We did a mission at Hell’s Labyrinth for our reality show, and that hyung came out laughing. After completing all the missions too. He’s that fearless.]

[Seonghan: Huh, there? Crazy, crazy.]

[Yuje: Anyway, since he’s that fearless, we decided to prepare a horror surprise camera for a horror special. Recording studio ghost stories are famous as you mentioned earlier. So we prepared a surprise camera to trick Eden Hyung with that.]

[Gyeongil: Ah, pretending a ghost appeared in the recording studio?]

[Yuje: Yes, exactly. The method we chose was to layer ghost sounds into the recording and trick Eden Hyung by saying we heard some voice. So we cooperated with the A&R team, downloaded ghost sounds from YouTube, deliberately scheduled recording for evening time, and finally it was surprise camera D-day.]

[Lee Geum: You prepared really hard?]

[Yuje: We were worried Eden Hyung wouldn’t believe it. We’ve all experienced such phenomena together a few times, but he really doesn’t believe it. He stubbornly doesn’t believe it. So Hajun Hyung and I were the directors and producers, and Doby Hyung did the acting.]

[Gyeongil: Isn’t Yehyeon there too?]

[Yuje: Eden Hyung has good instincts, so we were worried he’d catch on quickly if we all conspired together. So Yehyeon Hyung also became a victim of the surprise camera… Anyway, Doby Hyung’s acting and sending Eden Hyung out of the recording studio under the pretense of calming Doby Hyung down, and inserting ghost sounds into Doby Hyung’s recording was really successful.]

[Seonghan: So, was he fooled?]

[Yuje: This is where the real horror begins. It was the first time I had such a scary night. After hearing the inserted ghost sound, Eden Hyung rewound it and played it in slow motion, then suddenly got serious and said… “Hey, whoever put the Gidam mom ghost sound in here, come out.”]

[Continuing in 60 seconds.]

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