A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 506

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 506

As I failed to regain my composure from the sudden disaster that struck without warning, the seventeen-year-old Ryu Jaehee with chubby cheeks, now unfamiliar again, clicked his tongue and left the room calling for Gyeon Hajun.

Even that was exactly the same as the scene in my memory, giving me goosebumps all over.

Damn, at least back then I had the strength to get up, but now I didn’t even have the strength to lift my upper body.

System, you fucking bastard! You sent me, a model project subject with a 95-point original intent score, back to debut days?

“Come out right now!”

When I summoned the system with eyes glaring and a voice filled with rage, Ryu Jaehee peeked his head in.

“Yes…?”

“I wasn’t talking to you, so don’t worry and go over there, youngest.”

When I spoke gently to Ryu Jaehee who had returned from one and a half fist-distances to one fist-distance, the pale-faced Ryu Jaehee urgently left the room looking for Gyeon Hajun. Even this was exactly the same.

As soon as Ryu Jaehee left, the system finally appeared.

Along with a very fat status window. The level was such that I immediately understood why it came out late just by looking at the status window.

[Situation Explanation

A malicious system that temporarily lost its host attempted to take control of the previous host’s body. Previous hacking attempts didn’t matter because there was a host to return to, but currently it’s impossible to return to the current host, so this hacking attempt is estimated to be more intense in a different pattern than before. Since the ■■ system’s firewall was set to the level of previous hacking attempts, emergency route 1 was used to temporarily avoid the malicious system’s attention through time disruption to gain time for removing remaining malicious systems and strengthening the firewall.

Cause

Remaining malicious systems are still inherent in the subject

Solution

If successful in removing remaining malicious systems and strengthening firewall, it’s possible to return to recent timeline using overwrite

Success rate: 99.9%

Duration

Short: one week, Long: one month

When returning to recent timeline, approximately 10 minutes to one day will have passed

Precautions

If original intent drops to 0 or differs too much from this route, it will be judged as pioneering a new route, this route will be deleted and overwrite will be impossible, so be careful]

Since it finished the explanation cleanly and neatly for easy viewing at once, I didn’t need to ask repeatedly, which was satisfying. It also helped with quick mental recovery. My runaway mind returned and my head cleared.

Bastard, you should have told me before sending me back to debut days! Then I would have cursed less. Of course, I wasn’t sorry.

So ultimately, Cha Yeonho’s comatose state was the root cause of all this.

‘Didn’t he transfer that dangerous system to me first before falling into a coma?’

And now that Cha Yeonho himself lost consciousness, the dangerous system couldn’t find a place to return to and came to me. Only Cha Yeonho himself would know the truth about that.

But Cha Yeonho was also conscious of the traffic accident that would happen this year, and he had said before that he had changed the future to prevent accidents, so this traffic accident and Cha Yeonho’s comatose state were likely intentional on his part.

That’s something to find out after safely returning.

Right now, the top priority was to protect my original intent and implement the first week to month of debut as identically as possible so it wouldn’t differ from this route.

Since I had returned to the debut days, which were the darkest period of my impression, there was one most important thing. The system didn’t include it in the explanation.

‘Is the system the latest version now? It’s not an outdated version that hasn’t been updated, right?’

Not the comeback of that inflexible system that was damn picky and would torment people with original intent pain even if they just stood around doing nothing, right?

[It is the latest version.]

Then there was no worry about original intent deductions either. I was a model project subject who had maintained an original intent score of over 90 points for three consecutive months. Unless the system applied the damn picky standards from the beginning, I was invincible.

Since it said I could return to the recent timeline anyway, I felt strongly that I had to end it this time without another regression.

After 5 years, just coming back like this was such a mental blow, but if I did 70 more years and had to start over again… Oh.

In the first week to month of debut, the biggest task of this time period was nothing but convincing the members and CEO to push 【One Chance】 as follow-up song activities.

The original intent deduction I had to be most careful of during this period was ‘instigating discord among members.’

The members of this period were tender leather mentals that hadn’t been tanned yet, and they were team-kill landmines that would deduct points for instigating discord even if I said just one word.

And don’t forget the Weekly Quest.

While I was slowly reviewing the precautions in my head, Gyeon Hajun, who was the most comfortable to deal with since he rarely triggered discord instigation during this period, strode into the room.

“Eden, are you okay? Jaehee says you seem to be seeing things?”

“Yeah, I saw us receiving the grand prize.”

Since we actually received the grand prize, strictly speaking, it wasn’t seeing things.

“You must have been really nervous. Should I bring you some warm water? There’s still plenty of time left, so do you want to lie down and rest more?”

Of course, to Gyeon Hajun of this period, it would sound like nonsense. Listening to my worried friend’s words, I scratched the back of my head. To be unable to call the truth the truth.

If you keep repeating this kind of thing, a person could go crazy.

Worried that the sight of the leader lying sick right before debut might burden the members, I waved my hand and got up.

“It wasn’t seeing things because of nerves, it was future vision, Jun. I saw the future.”

“You seem to have gotten close to Doby lately.”

Gyeon Hajun’s familiar appearance of not being able to say it was otaku-like talk to my face and speaking in roundabout ways made me feel a bit more stable. It seemed like it was definitely the world I knew, not some other world or parallel universe.

“Eden hyung, let’s just practice the formation once at our dorm before going.”

“Oh, it was awkward to go to the practice room, but that would work! Right, hyung. We kept messing up the movement for that ‘dazzling Milky Way pouring down~’ part.”

Since 【Come to My Universe】 became a banned song and we hadn’t sung it on broadcasts or concerts for a while, the choreography was quite hazy.

This was all because of the debut song that became banned. If it had been 【One Chance】, I could have danced it with my eyes closed right away.

“Dobin.”

When I called Kim Dobin, the guy was startled a beat late and turned to look at me.

“Yes? Me?”

“Well, is there another Dobin here besides you?”

“No, you always call me Doby…”

…Hmm, so I did that. I stuck to the nickname that our youngest member hated so much that it was awkward to be called by his real name.

Should I bang my head against the wall in front of our youngest member saying ‘Bad Eden! Bad Eden!’?

But if I did that, Kim Dobin would probably be terrified beyond shock, thinking it was possession or something, and faint in front of me, so I held back.

“You said you hated being called that.”

I forcibly swallowed the sigh that was about to burst out at the eyes that were filling with fear rather than being moved. Damn, what’s wrong now?

I had momentarily forgotten while being immersed in the emotion of the grand prize, but our group was originally hopeless.

“C-could it be… hyung… did you perhaps hear what we were saying in our room at night…?”

Right, the nickname Demon Eden that I didn’t know about didn’t just appear out of nowhere. So there was a gossip session in that room every night? Regression is good for this, huh? It even tells me new aspects I didn’t know about.

I was about to give him a headlock as usual, but stopped because I was worried my original intent might be deducted for instigating discord.

“Anyway, you have the choreography video on your phone, right? Turn that on for me. Let’s watch it once and all practice the formation together.”

Kim Dobin, who seemed scared of being interrogated further, immediately offered his phone and quickly ran away.

After watching it a couple of times, the choreography was easier to pick up than I thought. Fortunately, I was still active, having just finished the North America tour concert and immediately performed at year-end award ceremony stages.

And the 【Come to My Universe】 stage costume I encountered again at the debut stage was more hopeless than I remembered. That was self-beautification in my memory to protect my sanity.

I missed the stage costumes of 【Nightmare】 and so much.

“We’re really debuting together, just like you said.”

At Gyeon Hajun’s wistfully plain words, I vigorously patted his shoulder and said with wide eyes.

“That’s right, man! We even win the grand prize, you know? So please don’t have any guilt or self-blame. We will definitely succeed. If there’s anything you don’t like, don’t let it rot inside but speak up right away, got it?”

I should have said this earlier in my original timeline too. Then we wouldn’t have gone as far as throwing punches.

Gyeon Hajun nodded and slowly backed away. He probably thinks I’ve gone crazy.

But whether Gyeon Hajun of this time period misunderstood my mental state or not, it didn’t matter since it would be overwritten anyway. Would this change the route much…?

‘Does it change? Does it possibly change? Hey hey hey, System! Does it change?’

If it changes, I need to quickly switch tactics and tell Gyeon Hajun it was a joke to reassure him!

[No]

It was a brief and cheeky answer, but it was the most reassuring answer of all.

“Now, since this is a once-in-a-lifetime debut stage, let’s all do our best.”

For reference, this was my fourth debut stage, so I wasn’t included. After roughly encouraging the young faces that clearly showed nervousness and striding onto the stage first, I could hear Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin whispering behind me.

“Why is that hyung suddenly acting so leader-like…? He wasn’t like that until yesterday.”

“Right. It’s so unfamiliar. Ryu Jae, maybe, just maybe…”

“What what? Do you have any guesses about hyung?”

“Didn’t someone possess Eden hyung…?”

Yeah, this is Rev alright, haha.

They don’t give us any time for heartwarming moments.

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Checking the music chart rankings and music video view counts after our debut stage was exactly the same as in my memory.

“Hyungs, hurry up and start streaming too! My mom said if we fail, I should prepare for civil service exams!”

After learning about Ryu Jaehee’s detailed family situation, those words didn’t sound so innocent anymore.

Damn it, instead of supporting the kid, they’re trying to squeeze money out of him somehow. Even my grandfather, that terrible academic elitist and job discriminator, never said anything about preparing for college entrance exams or civil service exams if I failed before debut. Of course, even if he had, I would have ignored it.

Or maybe he did say it and I just ignored it.

Kim Dobin opening up a civil service exam prep cafe and teasing Ryu Jaehee was exactly the same too.

“Hey, you shouldn’t do that to our youngest member!”

How dare the mere luck coordinator tease our precious brain outsourcing specialist?

“Our youngest member, huh? If he just sets his mind to it and focuses solely on studying, what’s 3 years! He’s a genius who could pass within a year!”

Before the regression, Ryu Jaehee was definitely too distracted to focus on his studies.

Kim Dobin, who had been rolling his eyes at my scolding, quietly closed the civil service exam prep cafe and opened the music video again. For some reason, there was a strange certainty gleaming in his eyes as he glanced at me.

My anxiety about Kim Dobin’s strange behavior was brief, as Seo Yehyeon walked out of the bathroom with a face pack on and clicked his tongue at the laptop screen.

“How is it possible for the view count to be this low when my face is in it?”

Now, choose an answer here that won’t reduce your Initial Heart Points for causing discord or whatever (1 point).

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