A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 55

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 55

We turned on the camera installed in the dormitory and gathered together in the living room.

They asked us to create some daily life content, so we had to squeeze out content even with something like this.

“Now then, let’s begin the Reve light stick design contest!”

Ryu Jaehee held up a spoon like a microphone and encouraged applause.

I clapped halfheartedly and shoved my cell phone screen showing the crowbar light stick toward the camera.

“Just in case you might misunderstand that our agency doesn’t work, let me say this in advance. The LnL staff are working hard. It’s just that we don’t like the design.”

No matter how I think about it, isn’t a crowbar too much?

Kim Dobin, whose expression had been off since I suggested we design it ourselves, raised his hand high and asked.

“I have a question! What if I don’t have any ideas?”

“Then you can’t receive the 100,000 won prize money.”

“Where is this 100,000 won prize money coming from?”

“From my bank account.”

As soon as they heard 100,000 won, everyone’s eyes sparkled with bright light.

Kim Dobin let out an exclamation and clapped his hands.

“Wow, as expected of Reve’s god producer, King Eden.”

“Is it god or king? Pick one. So are you giving up, Doby?”

“No way. I’ll show you the power of an arts high school graduate.”

I chuckled watching him roll up his sleeves and smile triumphantly.

Yeah, let’s see how cool your design turns out.

Time limit: 30 minutes. Internet search allowed. However, design plagiarism is strictly forbidden.

For 30 minutes, only the sound of pens, sighing breaths, and groaning filled the dormitory.

I also searched the internet while sketching out the design I had thought of beforehand in my notebook.

The silent time was long, but the production team would edit it well.

When the timer set for 30 minutes rang, I shouted “Time’s up!” and put down my pen.

“Now then, let’s start with Doby hyung’s reveal.”

To the card reveal music from Tazza playing as Reve’s self-produced background music, Kim Dobin confidently held up his paper.

A very half-hearted drawing that anyone could think of appeared – a D placed on top of a stick.

“I’ve visualized the D from our fan club name Daydream.”

You put on that whole show rolling up your sleeves just to draw that? I gave a cold evaluation.

“Creativity 0, artistry 0, feasibility 5, total score 5.”

“What, don’t you know modern art? The extreme simplicity and the various meanings contained in this single alphabet D!”

“Besides Daydream, what other meaning is there?”

“The D from Dream.”

I was left speechless by his confident statement and just stared at Kim Dobin.

The other members seemed to be the same as me, and Kim Dobin, unable to withstand the four gazes directed at him, started spouting random words.

“The D from the D clan-“

“Alright, that’s enough.”

I quickly cut off Kim Dobin’s words. Next up was Seo Yehyeon.

Worried he might end up like Kim Dobin, I was tense, but fortunately Seo Yehyeon’s design and drawing were perfect.

Black liquid and star-like fragments filled inside a glass sphere.

The LED device installed in the center of the glass sphere was shaped like an 8-pointed star.

Tapping phrases like ‘spins round and round’, Seo Yehyeon began his explanation.

“I designed it so that when you turn on the light, starlight-like illumination would appear.”

“Is it a space concept? Oh, did you actively reflect the CEO’s preferences?”

“No way. It’s not space, it’s the night sky. Dreams remind you of night…”

Seo Yehyeon hurriedly clarified against the terrible misunderstanding being placed on me.

“It would definitely be pretty to see in real life.”

“I agree. This gets a 5 for artistry.”

“Ah… ah… it’s too similar to mine…”

Wondering how similar it could be, Ryu Jaehee groaned while pulling at his hair.

“But is that feasible to implement?”

“It would be difficult to implement. The production cost would be no joke.”

“Creativity 5, artistry 5, feasibility 0, total score 10.”

Even though he got 0 for feasibility, Seo Yehyeon nodded satisfactorily at the fairly high score.

Next, Ryu Jaehee held up his design draft.

It was a clean design with star shapes inside a glass sphere.

“Oh, it’s clean and nice. The design overlaps a bit with Yehyeon hyung’s though.”

“Right? I designed this considering feasibility too. Daydream means dreams, dreams mean night, night means stars! If it overlaps too much, I don’t mind changing it to a moon.”

I nodded at his confident explanation and gave my evaluation.

“Creativity 3, artistry 3, feasibility 4, total score 10.”

“I object! Why is feasibility only 4?”

“Because Doby got 5. It’s a bit hard to surpass that simplicity.”

“Was this graded on a curve?”

Next was Gyeon Hajun’s turn.

As soon as I saw the draft, I felt déjà vu and unconsciously looked back and forth between his and Kim Dobin’s.

A cursive R was placed on top of a stick.

“I put up the first letter of our Reve logo.”

“Creativity 3, artistry 1, feasibility 5, total score 9.”

When I gave him the best score possible, Kim Dobin filed an objection.

“Isn’t this too biased? I got 5 points, so why does Hajun hyung get 9?”

“Doby, are you doubting my fairness right now?”

“Why… why are you suddenly speaking so gently… Did I do something wrong…”

Damn camera.

“Everyone focused on dreams, but he alone focused on our group logo, so 3 points for creativity.”

“Then what about artistry?”

“1 point because the alphabet is in cursive.”

“If I change mine to cursive, do I get additional art points?”

“Would you?”

When I frowned and grumbled, Ryu Jaehee mouthed ‘concept’ with a grin.

I gave up on picking on Kim Dobin and revealed my draft.

“Wow, a dream catcher!”

“Oh, the design is totally pretty.”

Satisfied with the enthusiastic reaction, I nodded and explained.

“This is a draft that visualizes a dream catcher. It’s LED so it lights up. I added three feathers as points. And this is fixed only at both ends so you can spin it around.”

As soon as I finished explaining, I gave myself an evaluation.

“Creativity 5, artistry 5, feasibility 5, total score 15. Okay, the winner is decided.”

Bang bang bang, I declared while tapping the floor, and boos and objections flew in from all directions.

“No way, hyung! Where does someone grade their own work! Doesn’t that go against fairness!”

“Is that so? Then you guys do it.”

With my design in front of them, the other four whispered loud enough for me to hear.

“For creativity… I think this deserves a 5.”

“Agreed, I was so absorbed in thinking about Daydream that I couldn’t even think of dream catchers.”

“Shouldn’t artistry also get a 5?”

“But Yehyeon hyung’s design got a 5, so if this also gets 5, the fairness is a bit…”

“Then let’s make it 4.”

“Feasibility is 5? 4?”

“Implementation itself doesn’t seem that difficult, right? It’s just that the design isn’t simple.”

“Then let’s give this a 4 as well.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had picked up the spoon he’d placed on the floor, announced the score.

“So to summarize, creativity 5, artistry 4, feasibility 4, for a total of 13!”

“What? So who’s in first place?”

“Doby hyung’s total is 5, Yehyeon hyung’s total is 10, mine is 10, Hajun hyung’s total is 9, and Eden hyung’s total is 13. So that means…”

Drumming the floor to create his own sound effects, Ryu Jaehee announced the final results.

“Yoon Eden, you’re the ultimate winner!”

Receiving applause, I stood in front of the camera holding my design and gave my acceptance speech.

“Yes, I’m truly delighted that my design was selected. We’ll make sure to properly deliver this design to our agency. As for the prize money of 100,000 won, I’ll swiftly transfer it from my account to another account.”

Fortunately, everyone else lacked creativity, artistry, and design skills.

So I didn’t have to throw away my precious 100,000 won for nothing.

While I was giving my acceptance speech, Ryu Jaehee, who had been holding the camera, turned it off once my speech ended.

This would now be combined with our video introducing the light stick once it comes out.

“Still, thanks to the agency’s mess-up, we got some content out of it.”

“Even so, a crowbar was really too much.”

“If we’d changed it, it probably would’ve been a hammer.”

I couldn’t laugh at Kim Dobin’s joke. Because the light stick design before regression really was a hammer.

Looking back on it, pre-regression Reve really did all sorts of ridiculous things.

* * *

The music video filming day and the long-awaited gift reveal day had arrived.

Christmas was still far off, but since the broadcast had to air for Christmas, there was no choice.

We had to leave the country in two days to attend the WAMA awards ceremony in Hong Kong, so time was tight.

We arrived at the set decorated with cute props and a Christmas tree, creating a festive Christmas atmosphere.

The music video content I’d seen in the synopsis beforehand wasn’t anything special.

Making Christmas cake and party food + decorating a Christmas tree while wearing animal pajamas + gathering in one place to pretend to sleep, then secretly getting up one by one to place gifts by each other’s pillows. That was all.

The entire music video filming process would be captured on camera for the reality program.

I touched my hair, which had been re-dyed at the roots a few days ago and changed to ash gray.

The moderately cut bangs that didn’t cover my eyes felt awkward after so long.

As soon as we arrived, we desperately hid the Christmas gifts we’d brought from each other, put them in gift boxes, and placed them in one spot before listening to the music video concept explanation.

“We’ll start filming with the scene of preparing the Christmas party table. You just need to make salad and canapés. For the Christmas cake and roasted turkey, you just need to pretend to cook them.”

Seo Yehyeon, who was amazing at making diet food, took charge of the salad, and Gyeon Hajun handled the canapés.

Kim Dobin got the roasted turkey, which just required putting raw turkey in the oven and taking out the finished turkey.

Ryu Jaehee and I were assigned the Christmas cake, which required whipping cream, spreading it on bread, and decorating the cake.

“So… I just put this in the oven and take it out? Just pretend to operate the oven?”

Kim Dobin asked, pointing alternately at the raw turkey and the already cooked turkey.

Ryu Jaehee and I were already debating how many strawberries to stack per layer while looking at the cake sheets and strawberries prepared step by step.

I held up a whisk and a bowl of whipped cream toward the camera filming me and grinned.

“Today I’m Bread King Kim— no, Yoon Eden.”

“Not Yumeiro Patissiere?”

“Is that anime or manga?”

“Both…”

I was supposed to whip the cream moderately and spread it on the cake sheet. I thought while whisking the whipped cream.

‘This should go smoothly, right?’

As soon as I tried to spread the whipped cream on the sheet, I panicked as it flowed down like water.

“I think hyung whipped it too much. What do you mean until peaks form? You’re only supposed to whip it until then.”

“But Jaehee, why are you chopping the strawberries? Are you making strawberry jam?”

“Oh no, wasn’t I supposed to chop them?”

“Have you never eaten strawberry cake before?”

Haha, smooth my ass. Right. If it were smooth, it wouldn’t be Reve.

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