A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 587

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 587

Anyway, thanks to this bug, the empty puzzle pieces were roughly completed.

2nd round was me alone, 3rd round was Kim Dobin, 4th round was Ryu Jaehee, 5th round was Seo Yehyeon.

Then… the 6th round, which was the round right before the current point, would be Gyeon Hajun.

If the 6th round was the turning point where the danger system changed to the current original intent system, then it might be related to why Gyeon Hajun had to take on my memories.

I needed to think about what benefit the current me gained by dumping my memories from the latter half of the 1st round to the 6th round onto Gyeon Hajun.

Conversely, what problem having memories posed for moving forward.

An insurmountable slump? A sense of helplessness that I couldn’t do anything against major agencies? Running forward obsessed with success without looking back at those around me?

Because I awakened memories through fragmented pieces, I could step back and contemplate thinking ‘ah, so this kind of past existed’ – but if I had complete memories, these bastards might have screwed up again this time too, with me raging at the members early in debut saying even after seven returns the start is the same.

That said, past memories weren’t entirely unhelpful to me. The fact that the mastermind was Shinwol Entertainment was also discovered thanks to past memories.

What was it called, the Anna Karenina principle. For success, various conditions must all be met, and if even one condition isn’t met, failure is inevitable.

Using the six previous failures as fertilizer, to retrace which conditions weren’t met this time and avoid landmines, the more past memories the better.

Now I was confident I wouldn’t be crushed by slumps stemming from the past.

‘Should I ask Ryu Jaehee to draw the sheet music for 【All Right or Night】 too?’

Then I might be able to glimpse memories of the 4th round through a bug. Anyway, the probability was fifty-fifty between success and failure.

Of course, like Kim Dobin’s case with 【Temptation】, the core bug keyword might be different sheet music rather than 【All Right or Night】, but I had faith that Ryu Jaehee would never suggest I make someone else’s song into my own.

First off, Ryu Jaehee and I were relatively close even before regression. So we roughly knew what each other struggled with.

But if I used the bug too frequently, the system might notice and fix the bug, so I decided to leave some time between uses.

Since Ryu Jaehee was busy with solo activities now, I’d try it when his solo activities were somewhat wrapped up.

The 4th round where Ryu Jaehee had memories seemed like it could provide more useful information.

“Why do you have an expression like you’re about to bury someone?”

At the slanderous words directed at me sitting on the sofa with my chin propped up, seriously thinking, I slowly raised my head.

“Don’t judge people by their looks.”

“I’m not judging by looks, you really have an expression like you’re burying someone! It’s exactly the same as that expression.”

Seo Yehyeon pointed at the TV screen with an aggrieved expression. I could see myself with a truly serious face digging the ground with a shovel.

I thought I was hearing 【Double or Nothing】 like a hallucination in my ears. It wasn’t a hallucination but really playing.

It’s already hard enough seeing it occasionally as an ad on YouTube, now I have to worry about encountering it on television too.

Seeing it on a big screen made the shoveling expression more visible, which was disturbing. I’m sure when filming that shoveling scene, the director poured out praise saying my expression was really good, but even I find it scary.

“But Caesar apparently likes that ad. According to my sibling, whenever that public service announcement comes on, she pretends to dig the ground. That ad must stimulate Caesar’s digging instincts somehow.”

To hear TMI about Seo Yehyeon’s family cat, the world has really improved. Before regression, I didn’t even know if the cat’s name was Caesar or Brutus.

It felt, well, not bad that I seemed to have definitely removed one failure factor of conflicts or distance with members.

“Maybe she thinks someone who looks like her is digging, so she thinks it’s a mirror and digs too?”

“Dobiiiin! How can you say such harsh things! Apologize to Caesar! We don’t look alike at all!”

Watching Seo Yehyeon shove his phone wallpaper and lock screen next to me, telling Kim Dobin to look side by side and asking if this looked similar while jumping up and down, I thought.

…Maybe some distance was necessary.

No, seriously.

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Before long, the group mission music stage, the gateway right before the DTB finals, was approaching.

The DTB Season 6 group assignment music chart rankings were quite important because elimination immunity for next week’s performance was at stake.

[21st place- ‘SYRA, REZZA, Tarae, 404JIN – Southpaw’ ♥10,285]

[57th place- ‘Crazy No, P.M.R, Baek Eondo, Rak Hyeon – CODE GREY’ ♥5,001]

[59th place- ‘ZAYD, Do Han, Lil Soul, E.LI5 – Shotgun’ ♥3,514]

-SYRA’s team using 404JIN as a hook shuttle was a bad move, they should have preserved completeness even if it meant killing some meaning

-This is kinda sus, didn’t 404JIN troll? He was checking out G-TE’s team but went to SYRA’s team because it had five members

-He probably got sulky because he didn’t get the token male treatment he expected

-I could tell from when he was shown keeping his mouth shut and being grumpy on broadcast lol Anyone would think he was exiled to SYRA’s team

-Did the ZAYD group reflect the viewers’ desire to shoot those bastards in the head with a shotgun?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Never in my life did I think there’d be a villain group that surpasses Zone 4 Seven Kick, holy shitㅋㅋㅋ

-If they were gonna act like that, shouldn’t they have produced Killing Beat level results? It’s so mediocre

-Oh, so now I don’t have to see Lil Soul’s face? First time seeing someone more annoying than Choi Hwa for real

-Still, at least Sevenkicks didn’t grab each other by the collar on camera lol

-But at least Season 4’s Seven Kick team had YISIK, here they’re all villain bastards so the frustration is insane

-Lil Soul grabbing the leader by the collar, and E.LI5 saying the leader was too inconsiderate vs Do Han who yawned constantly when the mood was fucked then sprawled out snoring comfortably

-Honestly, Team Krazno was legendary lol I enjoyed watching that forced conflict drama bullshit show

-The conflict lacked sincerity so it was too hard to watch… Should’ve gone like IJM’s team where being mediocre was their identity

-I still don’t understand why Crazy No and Rak Hyeon fought. It’s not 10 seconds of verse, was 5 seconds longer worth fighting over?

The bottom three teams on the chart already had one elimination confirmed, so focus was on the attitudes shown in the making process that aired.

If everyone’s attitude was mediocre, the person with the least skill would be eliminated as standard, but if there was a so-called ‘group assignment villain’, eliminating that person had become standard.

This started in Season 4 when Choi Hwa, who was considered the biggest villain at the time, was eliminated over Sapo who made lyrical mistakes.

But since this season’s biggest villain Lil Soul was quite good at rap, I was curious if that non-tradition tradition could be maintained in Season 6.

Asshole with no manners who makes both viewers and opponents frustrated but is good at his main job vs Guy who didn’t openly act like a villain but is unlikeable and average at rap

Who would viewers choose?

Well, that would be confirmed by voting results on the day of the performance.

The current bottom three teams weren’t getting much spotlight unless you were personally supporting a rapper from one of the three teams, due to the attention focused on the top-tier competition.

[7th place- ‘G-TE, Nijeous, CHENO, Fraction, REKZ – Ground Game’ ♥79,413 ▲1]

[8th place- ‘HYEQ, Yupi, O.DEN, Bug Kim – BACK 2 BACK’ ♥79,402 ▼1]

HYEQ’s team and G-TE’s team continued to flip-flop in fierce ranking competition.

-Honestly Ground Game’s beat is on another level..

-Who made Ground Game’s beat, if BACK 2 BACK had that beat it would’ve been legendary, shame

└Yoon Eden

└Really? This beat rightfully belongs to darkness’s #1 fan G-TE

-I hate seeing Fraction succeed but I like Ground Game more so I hope the chart ranking doesn’t drop, what is my heart tq

-Wow first time seeing rankings change by the hour like this

-Seems like we’ll have to watch until the end? The ranking difference is only one so I can’t predict the result

-Can’t tell just from the music… Think I’ll know after seeing the live performance, there are quite a few cases where live and recorded versions differ

-Maybe because Ground Game’s mid-check was so shocking that expectations started from negative? Honestly BACK 2 BACK is better as a song but Ground Game’s completed version impact was too strong

-Damn, they really learned from all of UP’s mistakes in season 4 and made a complete version this time lol

It was essentially competition between Yupi and G-TE.

These days kids in their teens to early twenties don’t know HYEQ. Since they’re a generation that learned hip-hop through DTB, Yupi has higher recognition than HYEQ.

Ah, let me brag during this intermission…

[1st place- ‘Ryu Jaehee – Our July’ ♥99,999+]

Ryu Jaehee was proudly maintaining 1st place among numerous competitors aiming for this year’s representative summer song. A summer queen girl group’s track was climbing up threateningly, making it a bit precarious, but defense was holding for now.

And-

[5th place- ‘Yoon Eden – Double or Nothing’ ♥99,999+]

-Time to surpass the producer for real

-This year DTB is so interesting that DTBF isn’t making a comeback on the charts, so Yoon is just pushing his own songs to reverse-chart in the upper ranks and dominating ㄷㄷ

-Does this mean not one of the five teams could beat a producer’s solo song from May?

-If Yoon Eden wins on the music charts, let’s change the rules to give him elimination immunity

My solo song was ranking higher than the DTB Season 6 group mission songs. Thanks to that, my prestige as a producer was properly established.

Hmm, in this case, should I hate or be grateful for the public service announcement that created the opportunity for this reverse surge?

It was as difficult a decision as having to choose between Seo Yehyeon who’s good at rap vs Seo Yehyeon who’s good at dance.

…Wait, then which Seo Yehyeon should I choose between the two?

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