A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 588

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 588

As expected, if we’re only looking at song completion, rap-skilled Seo Yehyeon would be the right choice, but to elevate the stage performance more, dance-skilled Seo Yehyeon would be…

Still, his rap pronunciation doesn’t get slurred these days and he follows the guidelines pretty well when I make them. Seo Yehyeon himself says choreography practice is harder than recording now, so maybe dance would be better?

But why am I even worrying about this? It’s not like I can permanently upgrade Seo Yehyeon with an item.

While thinking about which Seo Yehyeon would be more helpful to Rev, what I was originally worried about had long since flown out of my head.

I shook my head to clear away the useless thoughts. He’s already doing his part well enough and helping plenty. Compared to before regression or early debut, he’s improved tremendously.

Now DTB’s main competition was right around the corner. Finally, the opportunity had come for me to showcase my actual profession – music and producing – rather than fashion.

“Hyung.”

With a sudden thought, I called Yongcheol Hyung with a serious face, and Yongcheol Hyung who was beside me whipped around to look at me.

“What if someone tries to pull the same crazy stunt I did in the past – eliminating our entire team early just to summon me as a featuring?”

“I’m glad you finally realize that was a crazy stunt, you little rascal.”

Yongcheol Hyung lightly put me in a headlock and chuckled.

“But would anyone other than you exist who’d think such crazy thoughts?”

“No, Hyung. Think about it. What if Hyeongjin, who’s beyond being my fanboy and is a full stan, decides to follow my narrative out of excessive admiration and takes the yan… what was it? Kim Dobin told me but I can’t remember. Anyway, what if he follows that route?”

“First of all, impossible if we have Yu Pina or HYEQ on our team. One of those two will definitely make it to the finals.”

“But would those two actually choose our team? Wasn’t this the avoided producer team even in last year’s season?”

“That’s because of you, man. You made our team have zero semifinal advances in Season 4!”

I took the full brunt of Yongcheol Hyung shaking me while maintaining the headlock. Yeah, it’s my karma, so what can I do.

HYEQ definitely won’t come to our team. Yu Pina will probably go to Jiwon Hyung’s team since they worked together once in Season 4.

Jiwon Hyung definitely has the most merit in terms of songs, producing, and featuring connections. Since the early seasons, participants always flocked to Jiwon Hyung’s team.

And honestly, at Yu Pina and HYEQ’s level, they don’t need to play mind games. Other participants will avoid them on their own. It’s similar to how top-grade students get to choose their universities.

No matter how much our team consists of Season 3 and 4 winners, I’m still an unproven rookie producer in DTB and Yongcheol Hyung is only in his third year by count, so our team probably isn’t one that participants would prefer.

SYRA will probably try to avoid contact with me as much as possible, considering their respective fandoms.

The only hope is maybe Nijeous? But sorry to Nijeous, but with just him alone, defense seems a bit difficult. I’m about to have nothing to do in just the second round of the main competition!

“So this is how Hyung felt. Please tell Wonbaek Hyung I’m sorry too.”

Facing a similarly flowing situation, the saying about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes hit me to the bone.

The group music source mission stages began in earnest.

There were definitely groups where the live performance was better than the music source, and groups where the music source was better than the live performance.

There were groups where you could clearly see who would be eliminated, and groups where it was ambiguous to pick just one person.

“I can’t gauge who the eliminated contestants will be except for SYRA’s group?”

I swallowed the words that his team ended up in that state in the previous season because he lacked such discerning eyes. Our Yongcheol Hyung is quite tender-hearted and might get hurt.

“For now, SYRA’s group has 404JIN, Crazy No’s group has P.M.R, G-TE’s group has REKZ, HYEQ’s group has Bug Kim, ZAYD’s group has Lil Soul.”

Lil Soul did objectively well, but whether it was being a victim of evil editing or his real personality, he was so thoroughly marked by viewers as the group project villain that he seemed likely to end up like Choi Hwa from Season 4.

“Really? I think they’re all the same, but in ZAYD’s group, Do Han instead of Lil Soul.”

Jiwon Hyung, who had been watching the stage with his teammate producer Rok Han from a slightly distant spot, suddenly stuck his face between us and joined in.

He had one arm each draped over Yongcheol Hyung’s shoulder and my shoulder.

After the five groups’ stages ended, the audience evaluation panel’s voting results came out soon.

“Huh, Do Han got eliminated?”

Since he shared one character with our youngest member’s name, I had hoped he’d survive, but it was unfortunate.

Is this now a world where you can survive even if you become a group project villain as long as your rap skills are good?

“From what I saw, Do Han wouldn’t have been eliminated if he just hadn’t snored there. There were two annoying guys, but he was sleeping alone, calmly snoring, so he got marked as the most annoying. The guy who does nothing is always the most irritating.”

Jiwon Hyung, with 6 years of DTB producer experience, said while wiggling his finger.

Thinking about Rev’s early debut days, it seemed right.

A few days after the stages ended and the eliminated contestants were decided, all the team producers and participants gathered in the studio.

Finally, we had reached the first gateway of the main competition after the long preliminaries.

[1st Place – HYEQ, Yu Pina, O.DEN, Bug Kim – BACK 2 BACK]

[2nd Place – G-TE, Nijeous, CHENO, Fraction, REKZ – Ground Game]

[3rd Place – SYRA, REZZA, Tarae, 404JIN – Southpaw]

[4th Place – Crazy No, P.M.R, Baek Eondo, Rak Hyeon – CODE GREY]

[5th Place – ZAYD, Do Han, Lil Soul, E.LI5 – Shotgun]

The final music source rankings, where 1st and 2nd place had been fiercely competing back and forth, ultimately ended with HYEQ’s team’s victory.

“Wait a minute. Right now 【Ground Game】 is winning again though?”

“The ranking standard is based on yesterday at 7 PM.”

“Ah, ah! Until yesterday at 6 PM, we were winning!”

REKZ, whose elimination was confirmed after the rankings dropped, tore at his hair. Conversely, Bug Kim, who survived by the skin of his teeth, openly let out a sigh of relief.

The competition between these two teams was more influenced by luck than their respective skills and song quality.

It was time to confirm the eliminated contestants, but what came out of the MC’s mouth was completely different.

“Originally, the 1st place team would be given elimination immunity as a rule, but this time we’ll give you a special choice.”

Perhaps sensing that this choice wouldn’t work in a good direction for him, having placed last in the team voting, Bug Kim’s face, which had briefly brightened, became gloomy again.

“Please choose between the current group music source mission elimination immunity and the team selection elimination immunity that will follow next.”

Bug Kim’s eyes shook wildly as he looked around at his teammates urgently.

“Oh, that’s not easy?”

Despite his very sympathetic tone, Jiwon Hyung’s face looked delighted as if he couldn’t expect anything more exciting than this.

He really was someone addicted to dopamine.

Team selection works by having participants first choose the team they want to join, and then team producers select those they want to work with from among the participants who chose their teams.

So even if a participant chooses a team, if they don’t get selected by the team producer, they’re eliminated just like that.

That’s why elimination here was notorious as the most futile and hollow elimination that doesn’t even remain in viewers’ memories.

“Eden, what do you think you’d do in that situation?”

Jiwon Hyung poked me and asked.

Now, let’s divide and consider the cases.

Even if they choose the group mission music source elimination immunity and Bug Kim survives, the probability of Bug Kim and O.DEN succeeding in the mind games during team selection is only 50%.

On the other hand, if they choose the team selection elimination immunity, since HYEQ and Yu Pina won’t be eliminated in this round, if O.DEN, who has the highest elimination risk, just uses the immunity, his survival is guaranteed.

Probabilistically, they should obviously choose the latter, but the world doesn’t run on probability alone.

The group music source mission 1st place was achieved by all four members together. Although Bug Kim received the lowest votes, that doesn’t mean Bug Kim contributed nothing.

Choose loyalty and lower two people’s probability, or choose efficiency and abandon one person who worked hard together.

HYEQ and Yu Pina aside, at least O.DEN clearly wants the team selection elimination immunity.

Bug Kim would naturally want the group mission music source elimination immunity.

HYEQ sighed deeply with a troubled face and eventually passed the microphone to Yu Pina beside him.

Oh my, that guy is letting his rival take all the spotlight. It was frustrating enough for me watching.

Still, before regression when he faced off against Skoen in Season 4 without me, Skoen wasn’t such a pushover, so Yu Pina had quite a struggle with politics and such.

“I would naturally choose the group mission music source elimination immunity. People should have loyalty. It’s a bit much if four people suffered but only three get the benefits.”

As I answered Jiwon Hyung, Yu Pina simultaneously opened his mouth to the microphone.

“Since Bug Kim’s contribution is definitely included in our group’s 1st place, our group chooses the group music source mission elimination immunity.”

O.DEN and Bug Kim’s joy and sorrow crossed. Bug Kim hugged Yu Pina tightly with reddened eyes.

Jiwon Hyung chuckled and muttered while looking at Yu Pina.

“Avoided the landmine.”

If O.DEN gets eliminated in the team selection round, he might resent O.DEN a bit, but choosing Bug Kim, who suffered together for months, without hesitation would have earned quite a few plus points.

Of course, knowing Yu Pina’s personality, this was probably an answer that came from quite a bit of scheming.

Team Yoon Eden & D.I

Team BQ9 & Gongchul

Team Moltic & T:ZE

Team G1 & Rok Han

The seventeen participants who survived and safely stepped into the first gateway of the main competition had to choose one team from these four producer teams.

Essentially, this was a round where luck and reading the room mattered more than rap skills.

“We choose Team Moltic & T:ZE.”

As expected, HYEQ chose a different team rather than ours.

“I’ll choose Team Yoon Eden & D.I.”

Yupi’s choice was quite unexpected. I naturally thought she would choose Jiwon hyung’s team, but I couldn’t figure out why she chose our team.

She didn’t choose us expecting to call idols for featuring, did she? All the idols I can call are boy groups.

Seeing how Choi Hyeongjin’s expression completely crumpled, it seemed his plan had gone completely awry.

Finally, it was time for Choi Hyeongjin, my number one dark fan G-TE’s turn to choose.

“I will…”

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