A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 490

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 490

Six Flags.

An American amusement park crawling with roller coasters so thrilling they’re downright terrifying.

I had somewhat prepared myself when I saw in the script that the third day’s schedule was an amusement park, but that was always based on Disneyland and Universal Studios standards, not a place with the world’s scariest roller coaster and second-highest roller coaster.

“Our Rev team, who lost yesterday’s mission, will be performing a total of three missions here.”

At the same time, the mission cards in PD Jung’s hand spread out like a fan.

Oh, 3? If it’s only 3, maybe we can handle it? As if reading our relieved expressions, PD Jung added.

“But! The more missions you fail, the more new missions get added, so unless you want to ride a lot of roller coasters, you’ll need to succeed on the first try!”

Just a moment ago it was definitely three, but suddenly the number of mission cards increased dramatically. Is that the principle behind magic tricks?

“So if we succeed at just three missions, we’re done?”

When Kim Dobin, who had experience with 【Trouble Travel】, asked about the exact rules, PD Jung nodded.

“Please just let us ride Disneyland kiddie rides instead… It’d be better to suffer that humiliation than this – you’re asking us to die!”

“You won’t die.”

PD Jung firmly replied to Kim Dobin’s desperate cry.

Where did the healing go, the healing!

After making me suffer on that uninhabited island, now they’re tormenting me like this even in LA. I won’t forget this, 【Trouble Travel】.

Everyone has something they’re afraid of.

Like Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee’s ghost phobia, Seo Yehyeon’s high-calorie food phobia, Gyeon Hajun’s konjac tteokbokki phobia – I too was weak when it came to roller coasters.

It’s not that I’m afraid of falling from high places.

Bungee jumping, skydiving, paragliding – they were all easy for me. For example, didn’t I complete the rappelling experience on 【Real Men】 without batting an eye?

I actually preferred those kinds of experiences because acting cool and nonchalant about them helped maintain my image.

But roller coasters were imprinted in my mind as pure terror.

They say childhood trauma and fears last a long time.

In my case, it was caused by a roller coaster accident video I saw on YouTube long ago.

Since the title and comments were all in English, back when I couldn’t speak English well, I didn’t know what kind of video it was and thought it was real accident footage. The video was so realistic.

I only found out much later that it wasn’t real accident footage but a scene from a gore horror movie.

But even after learning it was a movie scene, the danger of being restrained by safety bars that could come loose at any time, facing the wind head-on while plummeting and spinning 360 degrees – this fear stayed in my mind for a long time.

It was even worse because I had nightmares about it several times.

And that fear continued all the way until now. Those 360-degree sections were truly brutal.

Since backing out of roller coasters for such a reason seemed like it would damage my image by my standards, I didn’t skip them when going to amusement parks with friends, but the screams that burst out were beyond my control.

Back then, since the people next to me, in front, and behind couldn’t see my face, when people tried to tease me for screaming, I could confidently maintain my image as someone who simply enjoyed roller coasters by saying “Ugh, you guys who can’t even enjoy thrills. Do you ride roller coasters boringly with your mouths shut?”

After screaming to my heart’s content and throwing in a “Woohoo!” at the end, it added credibility that I was enjoying it.

Since other people were screaming loudly too, I could blend in subtly.

But now this is a variety show filming. There’s definitely going to be a camera installed in front to film my face.

Previously, during 【Rev Time】 or whatever reality show filming at that amusement park with the hell maze, I was able to hide my embarrassing moments by using the excuse of odd numbers to put the members on scary roller coasters while I rode relatively mild ones.

But in this damn amusement park, there was no such thing as a relatively mild roller coaster.

Each one was like an express train to hell.

“Now, the first mission is… making words with gestures!”

The first mission was given in front of the world’s second-highest roller coaster. Just looking at that dizzying height and steep slope was enough to make my palms sweat.

Are they asking us to ride the roller coaster and express things with our bodies? Seeing the members’ bewildered expressions, a detailed supplementary explanation of the mission followed.

A camera in selfie mode would be installed in front of the roller coaster seats, with a total of four shutter times.

When a timer appeared on the camera screen, the mission would be successful if we made the given word with our fingers.

“It seems like the camera on the rails played a part in making the situation worse…”

Looking at the camera installed in front of the seats, I suddenly remembered movie content and muttered to myself, causing Kim Dobin to look at me with wide eyes and ask.

“Huh? Hyung, what did you say?”

“Uh, nothing.”

“Hyung, you didn’t come back from the future, did you? Should we stop that train right now?”

“If I knew the future, would I be doing this? I would have succeeded at yesterday’s mission first and gone to Universal Studios.”

Future or whatever, now we had to select two people to perform the mission.

“For this mission, shouldn’t it be Eden Hyung who takes good photos?”

“I’m good at finding angles, not taking good photos with a fixed camera like that. Sending me for that reason can’t be considered justified, Youngest Member.”

“Okay, so breathe while you talk. We all know you’re our group’s main rapper.”

“Pfft, what? Is Yoon Eden scared? Getting long-winded?”

Taking advantage of Seo Yehyeon covering his mouth and laughing, I very naturally exchanged glances with the Youngest Line and started ganging up on Seo Yehyeon.

“Hey, guys. Yehyeon Hyung doesn’t seem scared. Let’s go with Yehyeon Hyung. Come on, let’s board.”

“Oh, Yehyeon Hyung! As expected of our Eldest Hyung!”

“Yehyeon Hyung, hurry up and get on!”

Thanks to being pushed not only psychologically but also physically by three bodies, Seo Yehyeon was helplessly cornered and ended up boarding the roller coaster.

“Huh? What! Why am I here!”

When the waiting employee lowered the safety bar, Seo Yehyeon, who belatedly grasped the situation, shook the safety bar frantically and shouted to be let down, but it was already too late.

I sent Gyeon Hajun off in a similar way (to the roller coaster seat).

Please understand, my friend! Still, it’s better than my ugly photos being preserved and widely spread during prime time weekend terrestrial broadcasting.

Gyeon Hajun would be fine since he tends to stay calm even while riding roller coasters, just like at that Japanese amusement park before.

“The word is LOVE! Good luck!”

PD Jung announced the word, and finally the train departed.

“You bastards! I won’t let this slide!”

Only Seo Yehyeon’s resentful cry remained echoing. Looking at the insanely high rails clearly visible even from where we stood, Kim Dobin shuddered and asked.

“What if it stops at the very top? Do we really have to walk down?”

“We’d have to. Walking down is much better than riding down a broken roller coaster. But thinking about walking down from up there, I’d rather wait for a helicopter.”

“Hyung, why are you agreeing so seriously! Tell me not to talk nonsense like you usually do!”

“What can I do when I relate to it?”

While we were having this pointless conversation, the roller coaster returned to the starting point.

Seo Yehyeon was completely mentally gone, and even Gyeon Hajun was slightly out of it. I was right not to ride it.

“It’s time to check the results. Will it be success or failure!”

Seo Yehyeon’s results were revealed first. Starting from the steep drop section, there was his disheveled bangs, dazed expression, gaping mouth, letters barely made with fingers, and a V shape made instead of an E, looking like the number 2.

“Seo Yehyeon, failure!”

Even looking at that photo, I couldn’t bring myself to laugh.

Because it looked like my future.

Fortunately, Gyeon Hajun succeeded in expressing LOVE with his fingers with a calm expression, so we were able to successfully pass the first mission.

“Now, this mission is the roller coaster karaoke mission! You need to score 90 points or higher to succeed!”

One mountain after another – an even more brutal mission was given. On an even more brutal roller coaster.

“Please choose one song from Rev’s songs.”

Which of our songs didn’t have rap parts? A song where I didn’t have to sing because I had no parts…

There weren’t any.

I should have made one song in preparation for times like this. What good is knowing the future when I don’t know about futures like this?

Before I could even open my mouth, Gyeon Hajun beat me to it.

“The promotions are over, but let’s do our latest song for publicity.”

…Juni?

The latest song has pretty intense rap parts though?

“PD-nim, we’ll do .”

Without me having a chance to voice my opinion, the song was decided as .

“Then please choose two members to perform this karaoke mission.”

When choosing members for Mission 1, there was at least tension from everyone trying to pass it off to others, but this time there wasn’t even that.

“Let’s go with the main rapper and main vocalist.”

I might have sensed this fate from the moment they said it was a karaoke mission with Rev songs. If it had just been a regular karaoke mission, I would have pushed Gyeon Hajun once more instead of me, telling the vocal line to do it.

“From today, Yehyeon Hyung is Rev’s main rapper. Everyone applaud.”

“What are you talking about? Stop talking nonsense. If I do the rap parts, we won’t get over 90 points. You have to do it, Yoon Eden.”

I tried to pass both the main rapper position and the mission performer spot to Seo Yehyeon, but failed.

If I backed out any more here, it might create a situation where I’d lose face, so I obediently took the karaoke machine microphone and boarded.

A regular roller coaster would already be maddening enough, but what I had won was a roller coaster where you ride suspended face-down.

A familiar intro started playing. I could clearly hear Jaehee calmly singing the first verse right next to me.

Even while climbing to that height, Ryu Jaehee continued singing calmly without his voice trembling at all. To be able to deliver vocals like that even while suspended face-down in this situation.

I started laying the groundwork before we reached the steep descent section.

“You want me to rap? You want me to rap in this state? Even if Taker came back to life, he couldn’t do thiiiiiis!”

Finally, the steep descent section.

Ryu Jaehee’s refreshing high notes that he belted out without wavering mixed with my screams.

Good, that was natural.

To anyone watching, it would look like I was bursting with indignation rather than being scared.

“Hyeong!”

“Whyyyy!”

Ryu Jaehee calling out to me at just the right moment couldn’t have been more appreciated. I screamed to my heart’s content while pretending to respond in a loud, shouting tone.

“If you’re going to scream like that, take off the mic and screa-, the blue dawn with just you and me!”

“I already lowered the mic, you bastaaaard!”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been giving me advice during the intro, hurriedly continued the song as soon as the intro ended.

The rap part was approaching right before us.

And so was the most terrifying 360-degree rotating corner.

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