A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 535

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 535

A crooked light flickered in Gyeon Hajun’s eyes as he looked at us. Thinking I might have seen wrong, I rubbed my eyes and looked again, but Hajun was smiling so refreshingly while squinting his eyes that the crooked look was no longer visible.

“One person.”

Gyeon Hajun raised one finger.

“If we all swarm over there, it’ll look like I’m being overprotected, which would be embarrassing. Just one person is enough.”

Just one person! Only one person out of four!

As we all made devastated expressions, Gyeon Hajun added in a leisurely voice.

“You’re not all planning to follow along because it looks fun, are you? I trust that our members wouldn’t do that.”

It was like closing the coffin lid and hammering in the nails.

Since Gyeon Hajun said that, if we kept insisting on all going together, we’d become yellow-bellied guys who follow along to watch for our own dopamine fix while a member has to meet people he doesn’t want to see for work.

And whoever insisted would have to eat soup they hate on the dinner table for a whole week.

“Let me know who’s decided by tomorrow.”

Now kill each other.

Kim Dobin’s words I’d heard sometime seemed to ring in my ears like a hallucination.

As soon as Gyeon Hajun left the living room and entered his room, the war to claim the final spot began.

“Just give in to me. I’ll go and come back to tell you all the juicy details.”

“Don’t you know I tell the most flavorful stories?”

“Hearing stories and watching live are different! Just like how baseball broadcasts and watching live have different feels!”

Seo Yehyeon revealed his unwavering determination. It was a fitting comparison from someone whose childhood photos of wearing team uniforms at baseball stadiums were floating around.

Though I could feel his genuine desire to go from that outburst, I also couldn’t give up this moment I’d been waiting for since Gyeon Hajun’s first day of broadcast activities.

When it was just Gyeon Hajun and Jung Iseo, nothing happened, but now there’s Choi Hyeonmin with his grade-1 provocateur skills and 1-meter-thick face.

Based on Choi Hyeonmin’s personality that I know, he’d 100% drag Gyeon Hajun in just to pick on and put down Parachute, and then Parachute would also use Gyeon Hajun as a card to attack Hyeonmin and KICKS.

So even with all five Rev members there, we’d barely be able to establish dominance, but our youngest who lived under overprotection until adulthood says he doesn’t like being overprotected.

I could already picture Gyeon Hajun just keeping his mouth shut and glaring contemptuously. This kid can’t cause a scene. You need experience to cause scenes properly. Like me.

Or maybe not…? Looking at Gyeon Hajun (a.k.a. CB) who wrote diss rap lyrics when asked to write lyrics, maybe he could magnificently tear into them face-to-face?

“Of course I should go! What’s Kwon Yunseong to you, hyung? You’re just one punch away from Choi Hyeonmin too! And Kim Dobin, you look too naive and easy, so that won’t work!”

“You’re the only one who says I look easy to deal with, you know? And anyone would look easy next to you, wouldn’t they?”

“That’s exactly why you can’t go, Yoon Eden! Your head is full of thoughts about throwing punches!”

“Why would I throw punches? One glare is enough to finish it. You might need to raise your fists to make others cower, but I don’t.”

Since a Rev meeting only counts as a Rev meeting when all five gather, this was just an argument.

While we were having a dogfight disguised as serious discussion about who should go for fairness, Ryu Jaehee was scribbling something in a sketchbook.

I clicked my tongue thinking Ryu Jaehee was trying to persuade Gyeon Hajun with a Love Actually meta. The Gyeon Hajun I know would probably just ignore it without even snorting.

Knock knock-

When Ryu Jaehee holding the sketchbook knocked on Gyeon Hajun’s door, Hajun poked his head out and asked.

“Have you decided?”

“Before deciding, I thought we’d have some time to persuade Hajun hyung.”

Ryu Jaehee said while holding up the sketchbook. Gyeon Hajun chuckled and shook his head briefly.

“A touching event with a sketchbook confession? That won’t work on me.”

“What, Ryu Jae! Preparing an event alone! This is cheating!”

Kim Dobin had left Ryu Jaehee alone when he was scribbling earnestly in the sketchbook, but now that it was suddenly called a touching event, he must have felt threatened and came running to protest.

Ryu Jaehee shrugged and replied while shoving the sketchbook into Kim Dobin’s arms.

“No? It’s not a sketchbook confession, it’s briefing materials.”

Gyeon Hajun seemed speechless as he stopped laughing and closed his mouth.

At Ryu Jaehee’s gesture, Kim Dobin awkwardly turned the first page of the sketchbook. It was filled with crooked handwriting.

Since Ryu Jaehee would read it anyway, I didn’t bother trying to decipher that worm-crawling handwriting.

“Now then, I’ll present the reasons why all five of us need to attend music shows together next week without fail.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had somehow pulled glasses from his pocket and put them on, began his briefing.

“First, the reason we’re all going together isn’t for dopamine satisfaction but for Rev’s image-making as a group. All members going to music show schedules together to support a member’s solo activities even when we have no schedules can build an image of caring for and cherishing each other, and whether it goes on SNS, communities, or entertainment news, it’ll increase Hajun hyung’s buzz once more.”

Starting with an undeniably logical reason, even Gyeon Hajun, who had been in a ‘let’s hear what you have to say’ mood, began to focus.

I had only thought about watching the three-way confrontation and potentially shielding Gyeon Hajun if needed, but I hadn’t considered this perspective, so I could only admire internally.

Our youngest is paying back his 【Voice Legacy】 arrangement mission outsourcing fee with another brain outsourcing job.

“And second, taking just one person carries too much risk. If you only take Eden hyung, from what I see, hyung alone can’t handle it and would need three more people to stop him, Yehyeon hyung would only serve to increase our numbers if a fight breaks out, and Doby hyung might serve to increase numbers, but he’d just attract more aggro by talking nonsense.”

Seo Yehyeon opened and closed his mouth with a face full of things to say, then shut it tight, probably judging that what he wanted to say wouldn’t help persuade Gyeon Hajun.

It sounded about right to me, so I was curious which part bothered him.

“Third, we’re saying we want to go together not for our own interest but for Hajun hyung’s sake. Even after all these years, it’s still a painful wound in hyung’s heart. We just want to proudly show those people that hyung has members he can rely on too.”

Seo Yehyeon and I silently exchanged glances and nodded simultaneously.

Indeed, there’s a reason for the saying that the interpretation is better than the dream.

“Alright, then let’s all go together.”

Convinced by Ryu Jaehee’s briefing, Gyeon Hajun withdrew his command to kill each other and decided to have four daily managers just for this week.

The crooked look was gone, and seeing him look at us with eyes faintly touched with emotion, he seemed properly moved by Ryu Jaehee’s briefing.

Thanks to Ryu Jaehee’s performance, we were able to all go watch the three-way confrontation together.

The kid who used to help Kim Dobin make Bonobono PPTs has grown up so much that he’s now enabling his hyungs to go watch three-way confrontations…

Of course, Kim Dobin still seemed like he’d be making Bonobono PPTs even now. In some ways, he was remarkably consistent.

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“Now we’re completely ruined. Using private waiting rooms feels like just a dream now. Thanks to someone, at this point in our career we’re sharing waiting rooms with other groups.”

Thinking we might as well greet Kwon Yunseong while we’re here, as soon as we entered KICKS’ waiting room, we heard Choi Hyeonmin’s sarcasm – whether he was grumbling or trying to intimidate the group sharing the waiting room.

“That’s why I told you to live nicely, man. Anyone listening would think your group did nothing wrong.”

If you guys did nothing wrong, why would the public reaction be so cold?

When I gave Choi Hyeonmin a piece of my mind, the idol group sharing the waiting room with KICKS jumped up and greeted me.

“What a surprise! Why are you here, hyung? Hajun hyung’s featuring?”

Choi Hyeonmin, who had sprung up, blinked and asked.

“No. I was curious about this three-way confrontation that I initiated?”

Of course, I was involved in this matter too, but I yielded since Gyeon Hajun was more deeply involved. At least I left of my own accord, but Gyeon Hajun had to leave against his will because he was pushed out by Parachute.

Kwon Yunseong, who had briefly waved at me in greeting, sighed deeply and said.

“You’re curious about the strangest things. Unless Jung Iseo comes looking for our waiting room, we won’t have any reason to face him.”

“Right, we’re sick of it too.”

One of the KICKS members added with a frown. He was one of those who mentioned Gyeon Hajun’s name when the rookie development team leader asked who seemed most left out.

It’s a problem that it’s not just one or two of them. How nice would it be if they said everyone gets along well together without anyone being left out? I’d like to beat them all up, but I can’t solve everything with violence forever.

But Parachute wasn’t a gentleman, and he burst through the waiting room door with a scowl. Only Kwon Yunseong, who had said just a minute ago that they wouldn’t face him, gave me an awkward expression.

“You guys weren’t even thinking about an April comeback, but you moved up your schedule because I’m making a comeback in April, right?”

“Eh? Why would we? Why bother? Isn’t that too much self-consciousness? Why would we care about you that much, hyung?”

As expected, Choi Hyeonmin dealt with Jung Iseo with his grade-1 sarcasm skills.

“Don’t lie! I know your scheduled activity date was July!”

“Did your uncle plant an industrial spy at New Born or something? How do you know better than us? We only heard it would be mid-to-late this year.”

His scratching technique was truly artistic. Jung Iseo, outmatched in verbal sparring, spotted me and switched targets.

Jung Iseo strode toward me as if to hit me, glaring fiercely as he poured out his rage-filled words.

“Yoon Eden, it’s you, right? You leaked my comeback date to these guys, didn’t you? I knew it from when you started acting friendly with Kwon Yunseong again. You deliberately scheduled Gyeon Hajun’s solo activities for early April too, right? To make me get compared and screwed over like this!”

It was the correct answer. But so what if it’s correct?

Who told you to use me while trying to drive a wedge between Gyeon Hajun and me?

“Wow, do I look easy to you now?”

When I sneered and stepped forward instead, the flustered Jung Iseo hesitated and stepped back. I kicked the tip of his shoe and twisted up the corner of my mouth crookedly.

“Iseo, Jung Iseo. Just because some threats worked on me, do I look so easy that you think you can glare at me to my face?”

My judgment was right after all. It was good that I came along, that I was the one dealing with Jung Iseo.

Gyeon Hajun, who had lived quietly his whole life, only expresses himself through lyrics, but face-to-face he would-

“Isn’t this crazy bastard?”

For a moment, I doubted my ears. It was definitely Gyeon Hajun’s voice, but why did it sound exactly like I was the one speaking…?

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