A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 504

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 504

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Leaning back fully against the studio chair, I checked the date on my phone. After a long time, ‘that day’ had come around again.

‘Should I try opening some accumulated random tickets for once?’

The so-called ticket opening day.

After repeating the regrettable act of wasting random tickets several times, I started having regular sessions to open random tickets.

Of course, that didn’t mean I could open all the random tickets within their expiration period, but thanks to these regular ticket opening sessions, the number of random tickets that expired unused decreased significantly.

[Item ‘Perceptiveness Master Mode’ has appeared!]

[Item ‘Zero Presence’ has appeared!]

[Item ‘Instant Memory Amplification’ has appeared!]

[Item ‘Ability Change’ has appeared!]

Only four accumulated so far. Unlike the beginning, not many pile up, so it’s convenient to open them.

I was hoping the God of Cooking Dae Jang Geum item would appear once more. The members are starting to doubt my true cooking skills again.

[Perceptiveness Master Mode: For 1 hour, your ability to read people’s expressions, tone, and atmosphere increases slightly.]

[Zero Presence: Makes the caster’s impression blurry, making them appear as an ordinary person.]

[Instant Memory Amplification: You can perfectly recall anything seen or heard, even for just a fleeting moment.]

Still, quite a few useful items came out. At least they were things worth using once. Most importantly, the last item. Could it be because I asked for a memory recovery item?

But I asked for past memories to be restored, not for instant memory to be enhanced.

[Ability Change: You can designate one person and swap a desired ability of theirs with your own ability for 12 hours.]

The last item somehow reminded me of the Gyeon Hajun rap skills PTSD. It’s like a reverse version of that penalty.

Back then, I was forced to overwrite with the worst ability, randomly selected, but this time I could choose and steal the best ability.

The part about having to swap with my own ability was slightly concerning, but thinking about it, all my abilities are above average, so it should be fine even if they change.

My vocals are also… not at a seriously bad level, right?

Although the range for using this item wasn’t limited to just members, I couldn’t randomly steal abilities from artists whose schedules I didn’t know, so the members whose schedules I knew completely were the easiest targets.

[Available ability exchange categories]

[Appearance/Vocals/Rap/Dance/Stamina/Lyric Writing·Composition/Producing]

There were quite a few categories to choose from, but most were abilities where I didn’t particularly envy others’, so I let out a sigh.

I was curious about what would happen if I swapped Seo Yehyeon’s appearance ability with mine, but appearance is immediately visible, so pass.

I was also worried about Seo Yehyeon’s mental state. My appearance ability isn’t that much lower, but for Seo Yehyeon, his appearance is his greatest source of pride being downgraded.

Besides, if Seo Yehyeon got overtaken by me even in appearance, no matter how indifferent the eldest hyung claims to be, I’d still be worried.

Kim Dobin’s dance skills would be something Seo Yehyeon wants more than anyone, but I’m not particularly curious or wanting of them, so pass.

Should I swap vocal abilities with Ryu Jaehee and compare Gyeon Hajun’s guide recording version with my version equipped with amazing vocals?

Today was also the day Gyeon Hajun was helping with guide recording, and if only the vocal ability increased to Hajun’s level, there’s no way I’d have Hajun’s tone, so swapping with Ryu Jaehee was perfect.

Anyway, Ryu Jaehee definitely had no schedule today, so it wouldn’t matter if his abilities changed.

Ryu Jaehee might be shocked while singing alone, but I performed on stage with Gyeon Hajun’s rap skills on a scheduled day. I won’t accept weak whining.

[Would you like to use item ‘Ability Change’?]

[Please select ability and target in order.]

“The ability is obviously vocals, and the target is-“

Beep beep beep-

With the sound of a password being entered, the studio door opened. Kim Dobin? Or Ryu Jaehee? I turned around to send away Ryu Jaehee, whose ability I was trying to steal, but unexpectedly saw Gyeon Hajun entering the studio.

“Huh? Jun, why are you here so early? Wasn’t it supposed to be in an hour?”

“My schedule ended a bit early, so I had free time. I texted that I was coming early, didn’t you see?”

I must have missed it because I was focused on opening random tickets and not paying attention to my phone.

“Right, there was a text from Gyeon Hajun.”

I turned on my phone screen and absentmindedly read the sender’s saved name in the notification at the top of the lock screen, when a ding- sound played and a status window appeared before my eyes.

[Exchange ability: Vocals

Exchange target: Gyeon Hajun]

Wait, wait!

I panicked and tried to stop the system, when Gyeon Hajun blinked and asked carefully.

“Eden? Is something wrong?”

“Huh? Oh. It’s nothing.”

[Executing exchange.]

Damn system bastard. Do voice recognition properly! Why do you only recognize the ‘huh’ I said first and ignore the ‘it’s nothing’ I said after?

“Should I just come back in an hour as originally planned?”

Anyway, this item’s duration is 12 hours. Whether now or in an hour, Gyeon Hajun’s vocal skills will be the same. Even if I send him away and tell him to come back in an hour, it’ll just be like training a dog to fetch.

So it was better to just brainwash Gyeon Hajun and send him away quickly.

“No, it’s fine, it’s fine. You came all this way, why would I kick you out? Let’s start recording.”

At my gesture, Gyeon Hajun took off his outer clothes, placed them on the sofa, and entered the recording booth. As soon as he sang one verse, his face became serious as he rubbed his throat and stopped singing abruptly.

“Eden, wait a minute. Please stop the inst.”

Gyeon Hajun spoke into the microphone with a serious voice, requesting to stop the instrumental, then offered me an apology with an expression full of regret.

“Sorry, I think I didn’t manage my throat properly. My throat condition seems a bit off today.”

Gyeon Hajun recited exactly what I had been trying to brainwash him with. Should I be happy about this or not? Even Gyeon Hajun himself feels his throat condition is poor, and his vocals are at my vocal level?

“Why is my throat condition suddenly like this…? It was fine until this morning.”

Gyeon Hajun continued to massage his throat while muttering with a worried voice.

So… I ended up giving Gyeon Hajun the exact same shock I experienced during my penalty. It was unintentional revenge.

While it was a sin for Seo Yehyeon, a sub rapper, to have that level of rap skills, it wasn’t a sin for Gyeon Hajun, the lead vocalist, to have that level of rap skills.

Still, my mental anguish and suffering… No matter what, having vengeful feelings toward an innocent friend due to the system’s schemes is a bit… But still, those rap skills were also a bit…

“It must be a throat cold. Go to the hospital quickly, Jun. Guide recording isn’t what’s important right now.”

I put on an expression full of worried eyes and pushed Gyeon Hajun’s back.

Managing his throat meticulously would be good for Gyeon Hajun too.

After successfully sending Gyeon Hajun away, discarding even the faint guilt remaining in a corner of my heart, I picked up the sheet music with a serious face.

Even just humming lightly felt different.

Amazing, to think such singing ability could come from me! As I expected, Gyeon Hajun’s tone that I love most wasn’t applied, but the vocal ability improving this much was a whole new world, so I wasn’t particularly disappointed.

“Right! I need to do tons of guide recording right now!”

No matter how well Gyeon Hajun understands the song and sings with exactly the emotion and intensity I want, it couldn’t 100% match my interpretation as the original songwriter.

So there was about 0.1% that I found regrettable, but I’m resolving that today.

“Wow, this works, this does! A life where I can get the recording I want in one go without giving feedback!”

The tone was a bit disappointing, but I decided to love my voice too. I originally loved it anyway.

Had about 20 minutes passed since I excitedly put on the inst and repeatedly sang passionately for guide recording, then rested, then sang passionately again?

I was singing passionately with my eyes closed when I suddenly felt a chill and opened my eyes wide to see Ryu Jaehee beyond the recording studio glass booth, staring at me with wide eyes and mouth agape.

Not hearing the password input sound because it was buried in the melody echoing through the recording booth was the beginning of the tragedy.

And our members were the ones who knew my vocal ability better than anyone.

Shit, he heard it, right? That’s definitely the expression of someone who heard everything, right?

As I took off the headset and approached the recording booth door, Ryu Jaehee slowly backed away with a frightened face.

I burst open the door and strode toward Ryu Jaehee, who frantically ran away and retreated all the way to the studio entrance door. I grabbed his neck before he could open the door lock and escape outside.

[Would you like to use the item ‘Human Sleeping Pills’?]

Speaking of this item, it was one that could instantly put anyone within my reach to sleep. It was probably given to me for emergency situations, but when would I ever get kidnapped?

And right now was the most urgent situation.

He was about to run to the dormitory again and cause a ruckus everywhere, claiming he was possessed by a ghost or something.

I thought only Kim Dobin would believe in useless ghost-like things, but when Ryu Jaehee got hit with the personality reversal penalty last time, I saw he was quite actively believing in the Yoon Eden ghost possession theory.

But even I had to admit this level of vocal ability upgrade was a supernatural phenomenon. Come to think of it, it actually is supernatural.

As soon as the item activated with my will, Ryu Jaehee, who was in contact with my hand, collapsed forward. Before his forehead could hit the floor, I quickly caught him and carelessly threw him onto the sofa.

Where else would you find such a considerate hyung who thinks of his youngest member like this? If it were our crew hyungs, I would have woken up on the studio floor.

10 minutes later, Ryu Jaehee opened his eyes with a dazed expression. After blinking a couple times, as soon as Jaehee spotted me, he was startled and flailed his body.

“Hey, Jaehee! What’s wrong! Should I call 119?”

“It’s strange… He’s definitely the usual Eden hyung…”

“What are you talking about? If that’s me, then I’m the usual Yoon Eden – what kind of special Yoon Eden would I be? Seeing you talking nonsense right after waking up, we need to get you to the hospital quickly. Hey, you suddenly collapsed as soon as you entered the studio.”

I had a whole big picture strategy for knocking out Ryu Jaehee.

Also known as the ‘Ah, damn it was a dream’ strategy.

And so the brainwashing began.

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