A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 512

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 512

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Meanwhile.

“Ah, I’m telling you it’s real! Eden Hyung was hitting high notes freely like it was nothing!”

“So you’re saying you collapsed from the shock of seeing that? Eden Hyung said you collapsed as soon as you came to the studio.”

“Actually, I’m not even sure if that’s true either. I clearly remember going into the recording studio and recording. But at some point, I opened my eyes on the sofa.”

Heading to Yoon Eden’s studio in Kim Dobin’s car, Ryu Jaehee was confessing to Kim Dobin about the horror experience he had encountered at Yoon Eden’s studio.

It would be pointless to tell Gyeon Hajun, who doesn’t believe in supernatural things, and Seo Yehyeon also wasn’t the type to believe in such things without solid evidence, so he could only tell Kim Dobin, who readily believed in supernatural phenomena.

“You know déjà vu, Hyung.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s serious question, Kim Dobin nodded. The idea that déjà vu was actually something you had directly experienced – a typical time loop cliché.

“You know how it feels like the same thing keeps repeating. I’m sure I heard Eden Hyung say he’d call 119 just a moment before, but when I opened my eyes, Eden Hyung was saying the exact same thing I had heard a few minutes earlier.”

“Did you check the time then?”

At Kim Dobin’s surprisingly sharp question, Ryu Jaehee, who had been blinking, shook his head. In that situation where he couldn’t tell if it was a nightmare or reality, how could he have had the presence of mind to check the time?

“That’s too bad. If you had checked the time, we could have at least gotten a clue about whether it really happened or if it was your dream.”

“That’s why we’re going to check the studio’s internal CCTV now.”

What Ryu Jaehee had belatedly thought of was the existence of CCTV inside the studio.

Something Yoon Eden had installed out of concern for his expensive equipment and his own work. And even Yoon Eden himself probably didn’t know that what he had installed and completely forgotten about would become evidence that would strangle him.

“But is that possible? Wouldn’t it be impossible to view without Eden Hyung’s permission?”

“That’s why we need to ask Eden Hyung to watch it together. If what I experienced was real, it means there’s something in the studio that possesses Eden Hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee’s plan was also acting as an unintended bridge-burning strategy for Yoon Eden.

“What if Eden Hyung was actually deceiving us?”

“There’s absolutely no reason to deceive us. If Eden Hyung sings well, it wouldn’t harm anyone, and it would be good for him too since he could record guides himself.”

Kim Dobin’s reasoning, which was close to the correct answer, was firmly denied by Ryu Jaehee’s experience-based preconceptions.

“And I’ve already heard Eden Hyung’s desperate high notes in . That’s definitely not the skill of someone who was hiding their ability.”

While the two were talking, Kim Dobin’s car had arrived at the parking garage of the building where Yoon Eden’s studio was located. The Youngest Line, having finished parking next to Yoon Eden’s already parked car, burst open the studio door.

“Huh, is he sleeping?”

The first thing the Youngest Line discovered upon entering the studio was Yoon Eden slumped over the desk in front of the monitor.

Since it was common for Yoon Eden to catch some sleep in the studio, Ryu Jaehee calmly looked up to check the CCTV location first.

‘From that position, the recording studio probably won’t be captured, but I wonder if the sofa and where Eden Hyung is sitting now were filmed?’

Since it was very likely a CCTV without sound recording, he probably wouldn’t be able to verify the ghost-like improved singing skills he had heard at the time, but it would be enough just to prove that the memory of the recording studio and the déjà vu had actually happened in reality.

“Let’s contact the company and check the CCTV when Eden Hyung wakes up.”

“What if Eden Hyung tells us not to say nonsense?”

“I’ll say I’m so anxious I feel like I’m dying, and I can only calm down if I see that.”

“If I said it, it definitely wouldn’t work, but if you say it, it seems like it would work.”

Yoon Eden was always much more lenient with Ryu Jaehee. Though it couldn’t compare to the anti-Gyeon Hajun discrimination, of course.

The Youngest Line carefully sat on the sofa and decided to wait until Yoon Eden woke up. Kim Dobin, who was looking at his phone, clicked his tongue.

“Finally, a correction report came out. Altair is a 6-member group, so why did the 5-member story even come up?”

After the breaking news that a popular 5-member idol group had been in a traffic accident, their phones had also blown up like Yoon Eden’s phone. Now that it was corrected to 6 members and revealed that the idol group was Altair, their constantly ringing phones had finally calmed down.

“I guess one member was trapped under the car, so the rescue was delayed, and they only saw the five who were rescued first and said it was a 5-member group. The first place to break the news wasn’t an entertainment news outlet.”

“Ugh, it must have really hurt… They’ll have to do intensive rehabilitation, right?”

“I heard Altair’s traffic accident was caused by a drunk driver who came and hit them? Senior Cha Yeonho is still in a coma. What would it feel like if someone you were eating, sleeping, and chatting with just hours ago suddenly fell into a coma?”

Even though there was someone in a coma-like state right in front of them, the two were completely oblivious and continued their conversation about what it would feel like.

The story that started with the coma suddenly flowed to the Demon Eden incident when someone had suddenly changed, and from that Demon Eden, it meandered to Yoon Eden’s appearance in their early debut days.

“But if Eden Hyung hadn’t stepped up like that back then, our group would have been ruined by the CEO’s lack of sense by now-“

“Ryu Jae.”

Kim Dobin, who cut off Ryu Jaehee’s words, asked in an extremely serious voice.

“When we promoted 【One Chance】 as our follow-up activity, wasn’t the atmosphere really bad then?”

Ryu Jaehee was about to nod when he suddenly hesitated at overlapping memories.

“Why do I suddenly remember that we all came to a good agreement and resolved it peacefully?”

The same memory that Kim Dobin’s trembling voice had spoken flashed through Ryu Jaehee’s mind as well. Surely they had never achieved the 【One Chance】 follow-up activity this peacefully… or had they really not?

“I remember making a PPT together to convince the CEO.”

“Wasn’t the PPT for 【All Right or Night】?”

“We made a PPT. Yehyeon Hyung got the template.”

“What are you talking about? Back then, the two of us were Bonobono…”

Kim Dobin closed his mouth at the suddenly intruding memory of the template PPT.

Unfamiliar memories and original memories were getting confused. But those were very minor memories to cause a paradox.

Small memories that, once overwriting was complete, would perfectly settle as their memories. Such trivial memories that if they hadn’t remembered them, they wouldn’t have felt any confusion.

“Eden Hyung! Hyung! Please wake up! Something’s wrong here!”

But what could they do once they remembered? They had no choice but to feel the confusion as it was until the overwriting was complete.

The Youngest Line, who had perceived this as a problem with this space, urgently shook Yoon Eden to wake him up, but Yoon Eden showed no response and just continued lying face down.

“Ryu Jae… Why, why won’t Eden Hyung wake up?”

The supernatural phenomenon Ryu Jaehee had experienced (the déjà vu writing he thought it was). Yoon Eden who wouldn’t wake up.

And the time remaining until overwriting, D-6h.

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Shouldn’t I be able to go back soon now?

Did building a firewall to block that damn risk system or whatever take this long? I thought I could return before the follow-up activities, but it looks like I’ll be returning after all the follow-up activities are finished.

And Kim Dobin’s suspicion of regression was still ongoing.

But come to think of it, even when I first did this, I was in a regressed state, so why did Kim Dobin only have sponsor suspicions back then, but now he’s suspicious and making a fuss?

I only became a little kinder to the reformed members; it’s not like my personality dramatically changed 180 degrees.

“Fucking jealous. One song gets lucky and popular, so they even get to go later in the order. Damn, life is all about luck, really.”

“Could it be that thing? A sponsor?”

Missing the original timeline so much, even meeting the guys who used to pick fights back then, I didn’t feel motivated to crush them.

I wanted to quickly go to the timeline where those guys became unknown flop idols and disbanded in their third year. Knowing the future, unlike the past, I didn’t feel like dealing with them sincerely.

It was pitiful.

Still, if I didn’t handle things here, there was a sufficient risk that those guys would pin the stigma of being a sponsor group on us and change the big picture, so I had no choice but to step up.

However, rather than doing my best to crush them like back then, I utilized the dissing method I had learned from the Curdy Boy diss battle.

If I dealt with them seriously like a tenacious person, it would seem like I was scratched, so I shouldn’t lose my composure and keep the diss short.

“I heard that when you do it yourself, you naturally think others do it too. Could you guys also be…?”

I deliberately widened my eyes and swept over the members of that Kenesi or Kenedi group, then pulled up only one corner of my mouth crookedly and snickered.

“Ah, sorry.”

I put my hands together in prayer like influencers’ favorite emoticon and tilted my head.

“You don’t have the face for sponsors to invest in. It’s troublesome when you project your own deep inner desires onto other groups.”

Pew-pew-pew-

Kim Dobin, who had given up on sponsor suspicions and was listening to this diss battle completely sober without a hint of doubt this time, provided sound effects from the side.

I withdrew my gaze from the guys who were trembling, apparently properly scratched by that diss. Picking my ear with my pinky finger and casually asking if anyone was talking about me was a bonus.

Curdy Boy and DTB 4 taught me very well how to effectively scratch people.

“Kenishi, get ready.”

So it was Kenishi, not Kenedi. As that group went out at the staff’s call, Gyeon Hajun patted my shoulder and said a word.

“Well done.”

Was that really when I kicked the sofa and you told me I should have held back a bit, Jun? Would you have complimented me back then too if I just hadn’t kicked it?

We also soon went up on stage and showed our first 【One Chance】 performance. At first, I think I was somewhat excited because it was the first stage, but now I was surprisingly unimpressed. Maybe because I had experienced it once.

I realized that the reason I had come this far without falling into mannerism was because I had been living my life in a completely different new way from my previous life.

Come to think of it, except for 【Temptation】, Altair kept promoting and making comebacks with the same songs. Cha Yeonho, who did this how many times, I respect you.

So hurry up and wake up and take back this damn risk system.

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