A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 536

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 536

Thinking I might have misheard, I stopped pressing Parachute and turned around to see Gyeon Hajun looking at Parachute with a disgusted expression.

KICKS and Jung Iseo also knew Gyeon Hajun’s personality to some extent, so they were looking at Gyeon Hajun with shocked faces. I could occasionally hear the KICKS members whispering that this was the first time they’d heard him curse.

“Hajun has become like Yoon Eden…? How pissed off must he be…”

“I thought the saying ‘birds of a feather flock together’ would never apply to Eden hyung and Hajun hyung for life. If they’re going to change, it would be better if Eden hyung became like Hajun hyung, no wait. Then that would be terrifying in its own way, wouldn’t it?”

I was relieved by our members’ voices coming from behind Gyeon Hajun. I’m glad this didn’t become a udumbara-level legend that only I would cherish because no one else in Rev would believe it.

Gyeon Hajun cursing out loud was rarer than the legendary flower that blooms once every three thousand years.

When I lowered my voice and asked Ryu Jaehee, who had somehow come to my side, why he came, Ryu Jaehee replied with a sigh.

“Hyung kept not coming back, so I was worried that maybe hyung was having the three-way confrontation instead of Hajun hyung, so I rushed over to stop you.”

“Why are you even worrying about that? What am I going to do, get ganged up on?”

“That’s why I wasn’t worried about hyung, but about the other two who would face hyung in a three-way confrontation.”

You bastards, you should be worrying about me, not worrying about some other group and Parachute.

When Gyeon Hajun stepped forward, the three-way confrontation I had been planning for months finally came to fruition.

Gyeon Hajun swept away his disgusted emotions in an instant, put on the gentle smile he usually wore, and opened his mouth again.

“Ah, so trying to steal a song from Eden to use for media play about arbitrarily making up with me is nothing, but overlapping activity periods is something worth throwing a fit about in front of someone’s face?”

Wow! Seeing udumbara twice in one day! I should definitely buy a lottery ticket today.

Ryu Jaehee kept muttering beside me about being influenced by bad company. I’ve barely been able to curse because of my original intent, so why do I keep getting pointed out as the cause? It’s damn unfair.

But I couldn’t deny it because udumbara Gyeon Hajun’s way of speaking was so much like mine, damn it.

The sight of him casually smiling gently while quietly uttering the word “fit” felt several times more intimidating than scowling.

I should try using that sometime later.

“You act like it’s nothing to take someone else’s spot, but I don’t understand why you’re making such a fuss over just overlapping activity dates. Why, don’t tell me you didn’t prepare for this level of retaliation when you pushed someone out?”

“Exactly. I really don’t understand why you’re getting so heated. Isn’t this actually beneficial for you, hyung?”

Choi Hyeonmin also joined in, adding to the attack on Parachute.

“You can resolve the parachute controversy about kicking out Hajun hyung and getting in through connections despite lacking skills, and simultaneously show that KICKS without you will fail worse than you. It’s a golden opportunity. Where else can you find more accurate results than the same month’s charts?”

He didn’t seem to see Gyeon Hajun looking at him with very displeased eyes as if asking what the hell he was.

From Gyeon Hajun’s perspective, it was like a dog covered in chaff scolding a dog covered in shit. Since shit is dirtier than chaff, let’s call the shit-covered dog Parachute. Honestly, KICKS including Choi Hyeonmin weren’t completely innocent and blameless toward Parachute either.

Jung Iseo seemed to think the same way, responding to Choi Hyeonmin’s words with consistent sneering.

“Why are you suddenly taking Gyeon Hajun’s side? When they told you to choose who should be kicked out, you were all happy to pick. Now you’re siding with Gyeon Hajun because you need to kick me out too? You’re both really shameless.”

Crack-

When I lightly cracked my knuckles, Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee immediately grabbed my arms from both sides. Ryu Jaehee’s expression as he looked back at Gyeon Hajun was very triumphant, as if to say I was right.

“Ah, let go. I won’t hit him, so let go. Hey, do you have any conscience? Why are you dragging Hajun into me beating up Choi Hyeonmin? The shameless one would be you, who diligently took notes on me and Gyeon Hajun’s gossip and carried it to me.”

Huh, why isn’t my original intent decreasing? I thought, then realized I hadn’t used profanity. My goodness, now I curse less than Gyeon Hajun! The power of the original intent pain was great.

Thanks to my words, the way the KICKS guys looked at Parachute became even more disgusted, to the point where I wondered if it could get any more disgusting.

Kwon Yunseong, who had been just crossing his arms and observing without particularly joining the battle, also added his words.

“If you hadn’t done that New Born parachute shit because you couldn’t get into the Degrin debut group in the first place, the kids wouldn’t have been called by the team leader and asked to name the person they were least close to in the debut group. Anyone listening would think we all conspired to gang up and make Gyeon Hajun the target.”

Wasn’t that what happened? What Parachute said to me had that kind of nuance.

But listening to Kwon Yunseong’s words reminded me of something.

“No, wait. Was that consultation for that purpose?”

It’s a pretty old memory by my standards so it’s hazy, but when I was at New Born, the rookie development team leader suddenly called me and asked if I was getting along well with the debut group kids, and if there were any friends I wasn’t close to.

I thought it was a routine consultation about teamwork or team atmosphere before debut, so I answered that we all got along well together and finished the very short consultation.

Was that it? I wondered why they didn’t ask me but only listened to those bastards and kicked out Gyeon Hajun.

If I had named someone, that guy would have also been a candidate to be kicked out of the debut group.

Realizing that I almost contributed to creating another parachute victim sent chills down my spine.

I don’t know if I’ll meet him again after this activity ends, but if I ever encounter that parachute, I should only believe one-tenth of what he says.

Cha Yeonho just exercises his right to remain silent by parts, but this bastard is cleverly editing facts maliciously.

Choi Hyeonmin, who unexpectedly received support from both leaders, shrugged his shoulders and asked smugly.

“And when did we kick you out? You left on your own.”

“Ah, so completely ignoring someone and only pretending to care in front of cameras was a signal to stay in the group. I didn’t know that.”

Parachute’s appearance of not backing down and fighting back with every word continued to get on Gyeon Hajun’s nerves.

“Let me ask you one thing. If your song had done well, would you have thrown this kind of tantrum about overlapping activity dates like you’re doing to us now?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s cynical question, Parachute, who had been responding and fighting back well until now, shut his mouth tight. Choi Hyeonmin, with a mocking smile on his face, deliberately drew out his words and giggled.

“Well-, I’d bet Yunseong hyung’s precious limited edition sneakers that Iseo hyung would have been gloating unpleasantly in front of us.”

“Why are you betting my sneakers, you bastard!”

Kwon Yunseong got angry and glanced toward me. Don’t tell me those sneakers are the limited edition ones I threw at him as a birthday gift when we were trainees together.

If Jung Iseo had achieved the best results among the three, the parachute controversy would have been repackaged as a justified member replacement based on skill, and it would have gone viral as successfully educating KICKS, who were bullies based on music chart performance.

Right, what Jung Iseo was angry about wasn’t the three-way battle structure. To be precise, it was his own performance being at the bottom in the three-way battle structure.

And Gyeon Hajun caught that point exactly.

“How does it feel to be pushed out? The feeling of all your efforts becoming bubbles? The feeling of being stabbed in the back by someone you trusted? Now that you’ve experienced it yourself, it’s pretty fucking awful, isn’t it?”

It must have been really fucking awful. At this point, I was even curious about how much more profanity Gyeon Hajun would spout today.

“LUMYN, please get ready.”

“What? Already?”

At the staff member’s words, who only stuck their head through the door crack, one of the junior group members who had been sitting in a row listening attentively in proper posture replied with a stupid expression.

But that was only for a moment, as the nudges from beside him made him realize what he had said and he hurriedly got up.

Seeing them leave the waiting room with regretful faces, they seemed to have been listening quite interestedly.

KICKS would take care of keeping their mouths shut.

Gyeon Hajun stepped closer to Jung Iseo, smiled by only pulling up the corners of his mouth, and patted Jung Iseo’s shoulder. Shit, that’s my habit too.

“I’ll let you feel what it’s like to have things taken away, soon.”

Jung Iseo, who had been biting his lips tightly, looked at me and started his last desperate struggle.

“You gave me this shitty song on purpose! To screw me over! This was all calculated!”

“Did you just call my song a shitty song?”

I did deliberately give him a customized worst song, but I can’t stand others disparaging my song as a “shitty song.”

How much of my effort and time went into making that song, and you call it a “shitty song”?

When I, with eyes rolled back, pushed aside Gyeon Hajun who was in front of Jung Iseo and tried to grab Jung Iseo’s collar, the members clung to my arms and waist to stop me.

Only Gyeon Hajun was whispering in my ear, “Eden, he called it a shitty song,” fanning the flames.

“Hajun! You should be stopping him, not pouring oil on a burning house!”

Seo Yehyeon, who managed to hear that whisper, screamed.

“You sang a masterpiece like shit and now you’re blaming the song, you bastard. If you judged you couldn’t handle it, you should have gotten another song commissioned and sung that. You pushed through with my song as the title track and now you’re throwing a fit at me. Do you fucking think I’m easy?”

[Profanity detected.]

[Original Intent -2]

“Hey, Eden hyung. Don’t get so worked up over nonsense. He knows his skills are lacking, so he’s just throwing a fit trying to blame you.”

Choi Hyeonmin calmed me down with his old smooth-talking ways. It’s annoying to admit, but no one could match Choi Hyeonmin at this. Ryu Jaehee couldn’t make such honeyed words because he actually had integrity.

Parachute, who came to argue but couldn’t even break even, fled back to his waiting room first, and we also returned to the waiting room assigned to Gyeon Hajun.

“Coming all together was really the best decision. The fans who call him a cat should have seen that scene just now. Then they’d immediately change him to a wild boar.”

Seo Yehyeon muttered in a lamenting tone while fixing his disheveled hair. Hey, there are so many large feline predators, why are you suddenly changing the species to pig?

“He was acting so gloomy, but in the end he became honest.”

Gyeon Hajun’s face as he said those words looked truly relieved for the first time in a while, which put my mind at ease.

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