A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 525

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 525

“I remember it being 100th place, but I also remember it being 95th place? So didn’t it just go up from 100th to 95th place?”

“No, it was 95th place from the beginning!”

Ryu Jaehee seems to be confusing his memories, while Seo Yehyeon firmly believes it was 95th place.

“I just remember it being at the bottom of the charts. Anyway, didn’t it go up? Does the entry ranking really matter that much?”

Gyeon Hajun doesn’t seem confused, just unable to remember the ranking.

Seeing only the youngest line getting confused, it seems those two guys have been reminiscing about memories since 【One Chance】 charted.

It was impressive that this disagreement was recognized as not disrupting the major flow. The terrifying fact that if I had really messed up back then, I wouldn’t have been able to return and would have had to start 5 years over again sent chills down my spine.

Kim Dobin, who had left evidence, and Seo Yehyeon began searching for the screenshots they had saved.

It seemed natural that Kim Dobin would have captured the chart, but it was a bit surprising that Seo Yehyeon had screenshots.

Well, in the changed past, I, who became a true regressor, never caused discord or conflicts over follow-up songs, so Seo Yehyeon could have genuinely rejoiced at the unexpected fortune of a reverse chart entry.

“Here it is. Lemon Chart 95th place on August 19th, 5 years ago.”

Seo Yehyeon, who found the 95th place chart capture, even showed the detailed photo information.

“We charted on the 19th?”

“I don’t know. We charted before our second week after debut, so doesn’t the timing roughly match?”

“Did you capture it right after entry, or did you wait some time before capturing?”

“If you find the photo, wouldn’t that prove it was a 100th place entry?”

“That’s why I’m looking for it now too.”

Kim Dobin, who had been scrolling through his gallery earnestly, muttered in a bewildered voice.

“Huh, that’s strange… I definitely captured it back then, but why can’t I see it?”

It seemed the photo Kim Dobin had been keeping had disappeared. But looking at Kim Dobin’s gallery, which captured all sorts of subjects and screenshots, it wasn’t strange that he couldn’t find the capture.

Since he wasn’t making a fuss about the photo suddenly disappearing or claiming his phone was haunted, he didn’t seem to perceive the current phenomenon as supernatural.

“See, it’s just déjà vu.”

I quickly tried to muddy the waters at this opportunity.

“…Déjà vu? Déjà vu… Studio…?”

And my words seemed to trigger some memory in Ryu Jaehee. I quickly handed him my phone as he was about to spout another conspiracy theory about the studio’s evil aura.

“Youngest, search for 【One Chance】 chart entry on the internet. You’re the expert at this kind of thing.”

Ryu Jaehee, asked to do something he was good at, quickly forgot about déjà vu or whatever and started searching SNS and fan cafes with sparkling eyes. Watching Ryu Jaehee like that, I felt relieved too.

“Even searching the internet, photos of 【One Chance】 charting only exist from 95th place onwards.”

As expected of the monitoring master, Ryu Jaehee quickly found it and briefed us while showing the photos he found.

“Maybe because we didn’t have many fans back then, there’s only one post each on Twitter and the fan cafe, so I’m not sure if they discovered and posted it late, or if this is really the entry ranking. The upload dates are the 19th and 20th.”

In the end, it was concluded that Kim Dobin was remembering wrong, and 95th place entry was correct.

As the only one who knew the truth, I was getting chills… or was about to. So was the 100th place capture photo deleted, never existed in the first place, or changed to 95th place?

I didn’t know if Kim Dobin had deleted that capture himself or if the existence disappeared when it changed to 95th place, making the 100th place entry a non-fact, but if it was the latter, it was a bit creepy.

This might have been the truth behind the memory manipulation that Cha Yeonho had been desperately insisting on.

It wasn’t insisting fake memories were real, but cleverly fitting regression memories to confuse things. Of course, with Cha Yeonho’s malicious danger system, making someone insist fake memories were real seemed entirely possible too.

Come to think of it, Cha Yeonho still hadn’t replied to the text I sent.

I had just politely asked why he didn’t try to avoid the traffic accident and instead took the hit, why he tried to transfer the danger system to me while taking the hit, whether his intention was the positive intention of trying to eliminate the system together or if he was planning to dump it on me and die, if he was confident he wouldn’t die and planned to transfer the system to me so I’d live with a dual system while he lived happily in a world without systems, if it was the positive intention of eliminating the system together why didn’t he discuss it with me first, whether he was planning to make the ridiculous excuse that it was positive intention but he couldn’t contact me in time after reading the previous sentence and thinking I was stupid, and what purpose he achieved by tossing the system to me.

I had only sent a text requesting such minor feedback.

How could a reply to this take weeks? If he had seriously thought about it while lying in a hospital bed, he would have replied within a day. Not sending it even after discharge could only mean he was deliberately ignoring it.

So another charge was added to Cha Yeonho’s list of offenses.

I’m someone who returns what I receive, never forgetting whether it’s someone’s mischief or goodwill.

Of course, Cha Yeonho was also on the list of people who came to my funeral, but his intentions were impure. So it was right to classify this as mischief.

“But since they’re our direct juniors, shouldn’t we promote them? Eden Hyung, didn’t you get anything from the agency? Like asking us to post individual posts or film cover videos?”

“Not really?”

For something promoted as Rev’s sister group since before debut, the agency didn’t particularly ask us to promote them.

“From what I found, it seems like it’s being promoted subtly with Eden Hyung’s arrangement participation? If we promote too actively, it’s easy to get hate, so this seems sufficient. They’re getting moderate attention right now too.”

While Ryu Jaehee was talking, a text arrived from Manager Hyung.

“Huh, they’re asking us to film a cover video together with NITENS?”

“That’s crazy! Tell them not to! Why make kids who just debuted get hate! Even if we do it, say we’ll cover it among ourselves!”

The joint cover was scrapped due to Ryu Jaehee’s urgent dissuasion. Seeing the NITENS leader constantly thanking us when we met at the company building, it didn’t seem like a promotional method that would help NITENS.

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Just with the first episode of 【Voice Legacy】, Ryu Jaehee drew enough attention among those formidable 20 singers.

It became a hot topic just for an idol vocalist surviving in that hellish group that everyone unanimously acknowledged, and he gained rarity value by becoming the only idol left in the competition after the girl group vocalist was eliminated.

The underestimated idol vocalist’s surprising skills were the selling point, which was also an underdog narrative when you think about it.

Ryu Jaehee was fully showing in the vocal competition the narrative I had been very disappointed not to use in the hip-hop survival show, giving me vicarious satisfaction.

Now the only underdog narrative I could show on DTB was being a team producer ignored by participants. Repaying the only participant who chose the producer no one else chose with amazing songs and stage production.

But honestly, this probably wouldn’t work either. I was too awesome even by my own standards to be ignored.

Anyway, Ryu Jaehee was practicing changing the vocal range of specific parts on the spot, as I had subtly spoiled while playing dumb.

I had forgotten who Ryu Jaehee would face in the second round, but knowing he would make it to the second round put my mind at ease.

Preparation for Gyeon Hajun’s solo digital single release was also progressing steadily.

“Was that just now okay? Really? I think the ending note trembled a bit, was it really okay?”

“Let me try once more. This time in segments. Compare it with the previous one and judge which is better.”

“The first version was better? Listen again. I’ll sing both versions again.”

“No, Jun. I made my judgment thoroughly before saying that. It’s the tenth time, the tenth! Let’s move on to the next phrase!”

“Eden, Yehyeon Hyung does ‘again’ twenty times. But I get tired after just ten times…?”

“No, that’s not what I meant! Agh, this is driving me crazy! Why does your logic jump that far again! Stop acting pitiful, man! I can see right through it!”

“Really? I should take more acting lessons.”

“That level of disgusting acting is completely obvious, okay? Really, who do you take me for, someone who can’t even figure that out?”

Gyeon Hajun pushed me harder during the recording process. His competitive spirit seemed to be properly activated.

The release date was also officially set. April 1st. It was a date filled with the will to strike first before Parachute as much as possible.

Since there wasn’t enough planning or filming time for a music video, we couldn’t film separately and only had recording scenes in the studio. I also made a brief cameo appearance.

While preparing so diligently, I did get curious.

“I wonder what Parachute is up to.”

Parachute, who would be preparing for a comeback with that dilemma-like song.

He probably couldn’t bring himself to ask me for a new song. The song had no apparent problems, and he would perceive his inability to handle it as his own lack of skill.

Would someone with such damn high pride readily admit and confess that to others?

Just hearing about his trainee days at D.Green, you could clearly see that lofty pride. Wasn’t his revenge scheme against me because I had called him Parachute to his face and hurt his pride?

But he couldn’t carelessly think about getting a new song either.

Wasn’t it perfect for the mental victory of having received a song from me anyway? He couldn’t let go of the faint hope that he would succeed in his comeback with this song since the melody was good.

Wait… he’s completely stabbing his own foot due to pride, no, carving out his own flesh.

“Jun, sometimes you need to swallow your pride a little.”

To think there were so many cautionary examples, the world is truly vast. Why didn’t I know this before regression?

As I nodded with an enlightened face, Gyeon Hajun retorted with a slightly sulky expression.

“What’s wrong with trying to release a perfect song?”

“Not you, me.”

At my response, Gyeon Hajun quickly turned his head. Why don’t you cover your ears with your hands too.

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