A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 510

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 510

“Actually, we were planning to wrap up our first album activities after this week’s fan signing event…”

Thanks to drawing on too much luck, the CEO had a quite cheerful face after making our music chart ranking rise five spots higher than originally.

But I already knew what would come out of that mouth.

“We’ve decided to go with the originally planned 3-week activity period.”

Hearing those words for the second time, the shock was still less than the first time.

When I first heard it, I seriously fell into contemplation about whether this agency actually had a future. Seo Yehyeon, whose face had become as serious as my past self who seemed equally shocked, slightly raised his hand and opened his mouth.

My goodness, Seo Yehyeon taking the initiative first. Could this possibly affect the major flow…

[No]

It wasn’t. That was fortunate.

“CEO, I’m sorry, but with 3 weeks of activities, creating and practicing new choreography in just about three days seems a bit too tight. You didn’t include the one-week practice period in the activity period, right?”

The last words showed Seo Yehyeon’s desperate effort to interpret things in the best possible way.

I see, Seo Yehyeon is still thinking of the CEO within the bounds of common sense. That’s understandable.

“Why would we create new choreography? Don’t you like the 【Come to My Universe】 choreography?”

“Don’t tell me… those 3 weeks of activities…”

“Of course we have to do it with the title song 【Come to My Universe】. Getting a new song now would be a bit too tight on time, just like you said, Yehyeon.”

As soon as the CEO finished speaking, Seo Yehyeon desperately denied that being tight on time wasn’t what he meant.

Kim Dobin’s gaze as he looked at me sparkled to a burdensome degree. That wasn’t a look of admiration for my insight, but the eyes of someone who had found another piece of evidence to confirm me as a regressor.

How exactly does one utilize future knowledge without looking suspicious to an otaku?

“Wouldn’t it be better to go with 【One Chance】? We have a song that charted, so what’s the point of doing one more week of activities with a song that didn’t get attention?”

LnL’s parachute Gyeon Hajun finally stepped forward.

“That’s right, we should row when the tide comes in. What’s the use of rowing after the tide goes out?”

Ryu Jaehee also timidly chimed in. Remembering my past self fighting alone and lonely, my nose tingled for a moment.

We could have done this back then, so why did you guys leave me to tank alone, you bastards?

When we all pushed for follow-up song activities together, the CEO put on a serious expression and took a listening posture.

“So you’re saying you want to do follow-up song activities right now? But the current circumstances…”

“We prepared for this knowing you’d have such concerns, CEO.”

Since the CEO’s office had neither a beam projector nor a screen, we opened a laptop to present the PPT we had worked hard to create for 1 hour and 50 minutes.

“If you look at this page here, you can see cases of idol groups where the follow-up song got more attention than the debut song and rose up. This group that’s really popular now also had their debut song go unnoticed like ours, but the follow-up song they started right after debut song activities took off, so their next album also…”

This time there was no fucking Bonobono or anything like that. Under Seo Yehyeon’s leadership, who had experience with college presentation assignments, we downloaded a template from the internet and managed to create a fairly PPT-like PPT.

That Bonobono PPT might have suited the CEO’s aesthetic sense, but it was far from mine, so this was just right. It looked professional, and oh?

The completed PPT was on the level of what our direct junior group had brought.

“And here’s an anonymous poll we conducted on SNS pretending to be just K-POP fans, where ‘It’s better to end quickly when song activities fail and come back with a better follow-up song’ won 100%, overwhelmingly beating ‘Since you’ve made a comeback anyway, just make it long.'”

We didn’t bother mentioning that it was a hastily made empty account with no followers, so the sample size was 2 people including us.

“We can shorten 【Come to My Universe】 activities to 2 weeks and do follow-up song activities after skipping one week. And we can prepare the choreography starting today and make it sufficiently. Then we’ll practice intensively for exactly one week, which is enough to prepare the stage. We’ll unify the stage costumes with suits.”

“That’s right, we can make choreography in just one day.”

Kim Dobin supported our follow-up song activity plan explanation.

With this, our group has now become a group that handles things as efficiently as our direct junior group. I believe the system will automatically delete the past mess and preserve this efficient image when it overwrites.

I was honestly so envious.

“Alright, give it a try.”

As soon as the PPT presentation ended, a cheerful positive answer came.

After the long and passionate internal meeting safely ended and we returned to the dormitory, everyone let out a sigh of relief.

“Ugh… I was so nervous thinking we might do 【Come to My Universe】 for one more week instead of 【One Chance】.”

“To think this was decided in just two hours, it’s bewildering. Can I really learn choreography in one week…? Can’t we go a bit easier…?”

I remember the atmosphere being really hostile back then. So I confided in the crew hyungs, only to get a whole earful about how it was my fault, and came back to the dormitory with alcohol, I think.

Who would have thought Seo Yehyeon’s question about going easier on choreography wouldn’t sound like he was trying to slack off. Maybe it’s because of the audition, but I was surprised at how lenient I’d become toward Seo Yehyeon.

While watching that, a question suddenly occurred to me.

Having or not having memories has such a big impact on how the future changes.

But then why didn’t they return the memories from when the members also regressed together with their memories, and instead made them struggle through with only the memories of the first time when they couldn’t try anything, couldn’t even think of trying, and only continued to fail?

The timeline where two people had memories of the past would have been much more useful than the memories of the first round.

Were there more disadvantages than advantages to reviving those memories?

I now knew that the system wouldn’t do anything harmful to me, but I was still curious.

“But can you really choreograph everything in two days, hyung?”

Since our future was at stake, Kim Dobin answered Ryu Jaehee’s worried question very confidently.

“Eden hyung will help a lot. Right, hyung?”

“Why should I?”

This was a perfect opportunity to shatter Kim Dobin’s firm belief in regression. When I showed him the same level of attitude as in the old days without holding back, Kim Dobin, who had been blinking, opened his mouth in a flustered voice.

“Well, hyung… didn’t you know all the 【One Chance】 choreography?”

“How could Eden choreograph in two hours? It’s a different specialty.”

Thinking that Kim Dobin was trying to dump everything on me, Gyeon Hajun scolded him. Not knowing about Kim Dobin’s firm belief that I had regressed, it would look that way to Gyeon Hajun.

‘Could changes to the 【One Chance】 choreography also be a major flow change?’

[No]

It wasn’t. I could push it onto Kim Dobin with even more peace of mind.

After rolling his eyes and looking around at the members once, Kim Dobin suddenly got up with an expression as if he had gained some realization and gestured frantically at me.

As soon as we arrived at the practice room alone, Kim Dobin urged me.

“Hyung, you know all the 【One Chance】 choreography, right? Right? Right?”

“What 【One Chance】 choreography do I know, man? We have to create it from now.”

“It’s just the two of us, so you can speak comfortably and freely, hyung. You know all the choreography, right? That’s why you said we could choreograph in a day and a half, right?”

Even when you didn’t know the choreography, you completed it all in a day and a half, Doby. So stop thinking about freeloading off someone else’s future knowledge and get to work, man.

“Are you seriously believing that nonsense? Please stop with the nonsense, you otaku bastard! What kind of regression is regression! Am I a webtoon or web novel or whatever, anyway stop reading so much of that stuff!”

I was very pleased to finally be able to show Kim Dobin option 1, albeit belatedly.

Kim Dobin, who had been rolling his eyes with an uncertain expression, nodded with an expression of great enlightenment.

“Ah, if you only rely on future knowledge you can’t build up your abilities, so this is hyung’s big picture telling me to build up my abilities intensively at times like this! Okay, I’ll try to do it mainly myself.”

No, I’m just pushing it all onto you to avoid regression suspicions.

I was simply curious what kind of novels one had to read for their thought process to flow like that.

First attempt, failure.

* * *

How many days had passed since the accident? In the world of memories spanning months and years, there was no sense of time.

His trigger, Kwon Jeongjun’s funeral, memories of the past when he lived like crazy.

In his unconscious, it was the path Cha Yeonho was slowly treading.

Among them, there was no way to know the personal details of the trainee who committed suicide. It was the bone-deep price paid by someone who refused to know and stubbornly turned away.

Did seeing the past mean his last attempt to shake off the system had also failed?

That was his hypothesis. The system couldn’t control him when he was unconscious. So if he transferred the system and fell into deep unconsciousness, the system that lost its host to return to would disappear.

After all, hadn’t Yoon Eden blocked the system he transferred several times?

But what he couldn’t know was the situation at the time of the accident. Even Cha Yeonho himself didn’t know that Won Taehyeok’s coma was the result of using his whole body to block Kwon Jeongjun, who was in the most dangerous situation.

The system transfer and witnessing his friend on the brink of death happened almost simultaneously.

The moment he threw his body, terrible pain overwhelmed him.

And blackout. Memories of the past reproduced so vividly as if they happened yesterday.

Facing not the dead Kwon Jeongjun, but Kwon Jeongjun on the brink of death. That was precisely Cha Yeonho’s trigger for witnessing his friend’s suicide attempt right before his eyes.

A trigger that restored memories along with keywords.

Perhaps Yoon Eden’s trigger would be sleeping pill overdose following his cause of death. Or maybe sleeping pill overdose combined with alcohol.

Before long, the thick scent brushed past his nose once again.

What a ghostly timing for memories to resurface just as I thought about it.

Cha Yeonho, facing the familiar face in the portrait photo, let out a dry laugh. Even back then, he had felt it, but this guy really was terribly mismatched with white chrysanthemums.

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