A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 475

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 475

Even with the sudden arrival of another idol group’s self-content filming, the fact that we still had to work at the guesthouse didn’t change.

Well, it seemed like Seo Yehyeon had the added mission of avoiding cameras as much as possible.

In this state, not wanting to be filmed, Seo Yehyeon holed up in the kitchen, so I brought the order form to Navy, who had settled on the wooden platform to eat lunch.

“Please write down the quantities for the lunch menu here.

“Wow, did you make the order form yourselves too?”

Finally meeting customers who appreciated our hard work, I felt strangely moved. Originally we had just written the menu names, but it looked too half-hearted, so we used a book instead of a ruler to draw neat tables.

As I watched the Navy members check off each item on the order form, saying they wanted to try every menu, the Navy leader carefully asked me.

“Ah, senior. If you haven’t had lunch yet, how about eating together with us?”

“I’ll ask the members and come back. I can’t decide on my own.”

When I brought the order form and conveyed the meal invitation to the members who were waiting in the kitchen with all the cooking equipment set up, Seo Yehyeon immediately made a big X with his arms.

“If I cook looking like this, I’ll look even more like a beggar. How can I stand in front of cameras in that state?”

Seo Yehyeon passionately argued while pointing toward the platform. I wondered what he was worried about after even doing a face mask yesterday.

“Look at the juniors. Their hair is perfectly styled, makeup is done, clothes are well-dressed, but if we’re next to them looking like this, would we be compared favorably or unfavorably?”

I looked at Seo Yehyeon’s face once and then back at the Navy juniors who were busily inflating tubes in the yard.

Wouldn’t the comparison be the other way around? It seemed like it would be even more cruelly compared.

Ryu Jaehee also shook his head and supported Seo Yehyeon’s opposition.

“It’s Navy’s self-content, so it’s better to show our faces minimally so we don’t steal the spotlight. If we show our faces too much, we’ll get criticized for not knowing our place. Let’s just briefly join them later when we bring watermelon as service. That should be enough.”

In the end, public opinion flowed toward ‘not eating together.’

I brought a water bottle and five cups to the dining table and smoothly made excuses so no one’s feelings would be hurt.

“They said they want to order delivery because they don’t want to increase the dishes to wash. It’s not that we don’t want to eat with you juniors, but we experienced washing dishes for 29 people yesterday.”

“Ah… if you washed dishes for 29 people, that’s understandable…”

“When you say washing dishes for 29 people, I immediately understand.”

Fortunately, the Navy members understood my excuse well.

The manager and filming staff postponed their meal, saying they would eat when Navy finished eating and was playing in the valley.

I served the last dish by placing a freshly made tornado omelet on top of the completed kimchi fried rice.

Navy, who had been waiting without eating the dishes that came out first until all the food was ready, gave an amazing reaction when the kimchi fried rice covered with tornado omelet was placed on the table.

“Wow, tornado omelet!”

The Navy leader took photos of each dish as a representative and finally took an aerial shot before starting the meal.

“Thank you for the meal!”

“I was really curious about the dumpling wrapper tteokbokki taste when it was trending, and now we’re eating the original version.”

“It feels strange that this is food made directly by the originator of the trend.”

It was indeed the original since I rolled the dumpling wrappers and Seo Yehyeon made the tteokbokki sauce like back then. However, since Seo Yehyeon considerately used less sugar because you’re also idols, it won’t taste like the original original.

“Wow, it’s really delicious. You could open a restaurant.”

“It seems more delicious than buying it from a store.”

“That compliment doesn’t seem quite right. This is also bought food.”

“Oh right, that’s true.”

After watching the juniors eat well with satisfaction, I headed to the kitchen.

After finishing their meal, the Navy members either lay down on the platform or went down to the valley to start playing in the water, and the filming staff who had set up cameras at the valley and platform finally ordered their meals.

“We’ll have 3 servings of braised cutlassfish and three bowls of rice.”

After successfully clearing the manager and filming staff’s meal orders, we also prepared to eat our late lunch.

“Should we order delivery for our lunch? Hyung, seafood rice bowl again?”

“Eating delivery food two days in a row? It’s not like we have to wash dishes for 29 people like yesterday, and even if we eat too, it’s only 13 people’s worth of dishes, so let’s just cook.”

Right, Seo Yehyeon thinks people die if they eat delivery food two days in a row. But I had a good excuse for why we absolutely had to order delivery.

“We already made excuses saying we have to order delivery because of the dishes. Otherwise, hyung becomes a bad senior who made up lies because he didn’t want to eat with the juniors.”

At those words, Seo Yehyeon’s firmly closed lips, showing his determination, twitched. Gyeon Hajun sighed deeply and said weakly.

“Let’s just order delivery. We have to make 3 more servings later, and I don’t have the energy to make 5 more servings.”

“Really? Then there’s no choice.”

Since Gyeon Hajun had the biggest role in cooking, Seo Yehyeon had no choice when Gyeon Hajun came out like this.

Avoiding Seo Yehyeon’s eyes, I exchanged a silent high-five with Gyeon Hajun. Nice support!

However, sweet and sour pork like yesterday was out of the question.

Seo Yehyeon, who stubbornly searched for dieter Chinese food and low-calorie Chinese dishes and found squid rice bowl and mapo tofu rice bowl, was rejected for ordering such non-existent menu items and had no choice but to change to soup, which was his third choice.

“This is the first time I’ve seen someone order soup from a Chinese restaurant.”

“Oh, that’s my father’s regular menu.”

“Seeing you find such hidden menus makes you seem like a Chinese restaurant expert.”

Isn’t it cheating to play the father card here? Huh?

Like yesterday, we quickly finished eating and collected all the empty bowls from the three servings to finish washing dishes. Before bringing the watermelon, everyone was busy in the room washing up, grooming, and changing clothes.

“Yehyeon hyung, I think it’s dry enough, can I borrow the hair dryer?”

“Wait a moment, let me just trim the ends once more and I’ll give it to you right away.”

Seo Yehyeon was doing a full hair styling setup.

Thanks to that, our five appearances looked much better than in the morning when we clearly looked like people who had suffered a lot.

When all five of us rushed to the platform together with a tray containing watermelon, Navy’s eldest hyung, who was alone lying comfortably on the platform playing mobile games without going into the water, quickly sat up.

“This is service. Since there are two watermelons, we can eat together too, right?”

“Oh my, thank you. Of course it’s fine!”

Navy’s eldest hyung bowed in greeting, took the tray from Kim Dobin’s hands, and carefully placed it on the platform floor, then looked down at the valley and shouted loudly.

“Guys, come up and eat watermelon!”

“Namwoo hyung, you bring it down here! Does it make sense to leave without even dipping your feet in the valley once?”

“Are you guys telling Rev seniors to come down to the valley so you can eat watermelon? Rev seniors are eating too right now.”

At those words, the Navy members in the valley hurriedly came up.

The Navy members, wrapping their wet bodies with large towels and towel robes, sat on the platform eating watermelon and started small talk with us. Of course, cameras were capturing our appearance in front.

“We have a deep connection with Rev seniors.”

“That’s right, Eden senior wrote the lyrics and composed Navy’s biggest hit song 【Run away】, which won us the rookie award.”

“Last year’s [LOVE EXAM] activity title song 【Cheat Sheet】 is also Eden senior’s song. You always give us encouraging words when we meet in passing, ask if the songs are okay. We’re always grateful, Eden senior.”

I smiled warmly toward the Navy members who didn’t forget to mention this.

“I can’t forget either. Our juniors greet me with thanks every time we meet. I’m more grateful that you make my royalties come in well.”

“Wow, the juniors exorcised Eden hyung. I thought only Podo and Hajun hyung could do that.”

I glared once at Kim Dobin, who was covering his mouth in admiration, then looked at the Navy members again and smiled contentedly. Even before regression, when I was a mess, these guys were always polite, so I found them even more endearing.

“We were really surprised. We never imagined we’d suddenly meet seniors here.”

“Ah, but we didn’t hear. Why Rev seniors are working at this guesthouse. Could we possibly hear the reason?”

At the careful question, not knowing if they had talked with the manager, Kim Dobin answered eagerly as if he had been waiting.

“This is a guesthouse run by my aunt. But something came up, so we came here for vacation and are temporarily taking care of it.”

“You all came here together for vacation?”

“Guys, did you hear? For this vacation, everyone clear your schedules and appointments. Let’s follow the seniors’ example.”

At the enthusiastic request, I brought a burner and frying pan to give the juniors a tornado omelet lesson, and used a net to retrieve beach balls that flew into the deep valley, and so the second day’s sun slowly set.

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As expected, dinner was a barbecue party as anticipated. Self-content wouldn’t be complete without a barbecue party.

I opened the windows for ventilation, and the smell of meat drifted into the room.

“Smelling the meat makes me hungry. Can’t we eat dinner too?”

“After eating jajangmyeon for lunch? And if we eat at this time, it’s not dinner but a late-night snack.”

“That eldest hyung over there is so gentle, but our eldest hyung is trying to devour people just for suggesting we eat dinner.”

As I lay on the floor grumbling, Kim Dobin, probably hungry too, took my side.

“Let’s trade eldest hyungs with them.”

“Isn’t he the same age as you, Dobin? If he came to our group, he wouldn’t be the eldest hyung but part of the youngest line.”

“Wow, time really…”

As I was lamenting the transience of time, Seo Yehyeon’s eyes widened as he whipped around to look at us.

“Hey! Are you talking about trading me just because of food?”

If you don’t like that, then cooperate with eating late-night snacks.

After Navy’s BBQ party ended, the Navy members took the initiative as juniors to help with cleanup, making the grill cleaning easier than yesterday. Cameras were following us, but I had no intention of stopping the cleaning.

Right, it would be good for you guys to have footage of good juniors actively helping their hardworking seniors.

Leaving behind the Navy members who were excited about doing the courage experience, we dragged our tired bodies back into the room to rest.

And 40 minutes later, Navy’s youngest member came looking for our room with a tearful expression.

“Senior, please help us!”

At that urgent cry, my heart sank for a moment, wondering what had happened.

“The hyungs went to do the courage experience and haven’t come down for 30 minutes now! They’re not answering their phones either! Namwoo hyung and Hanse hyung went to look for them 20 minutes ago, but even those two hyungs aren’t coming back!”

At those words, everyone lifted their heavy bodies.

No way, something had to happen while we’re temporarily in charge. And during filming, no less.

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