A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 593

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 593

“Since I don’t have a studio yet, I do my song work by drawing instruments on paper like this. As you can see, our dormitory is so cramped that we can’t keep real instruments inside.”

Who would have thought I’d become the great musical leader comrade. If this isn’t propaganda, then what is?

“Doesn’t your agency have a studio?”

“Come on, what kind of agency that rents one floor of a commercial building would have something like that?”

“But if you only have drawings of instruments, they don’t make sound. Is it still possible to work like this?”

“It’s just for the mood. I already know all the sounds anyway.”

Ooooh-

The Youngest Line let out playful exclamations in unison and urged me from both sides to show them once.

I lightly plucked the paper where I had quite carefully drawn the sound hole and each thickness of the guitar strings, rolling my tongue.

“This is a C chord.”

“Am7.”

“E7 chord.”

Kim Dobin searched for guitar chords on the internet and played the sound for cross-verification as soon as I reproduced each chord.

“Wow, it’s exactly the same, exactly the same!”

“Then hyung hyung, try the DM7 chord this time! Capital letters, not lowercase!”

As I demonstrated sounds for each chord they suggested, the Youngest Line clapped like trained monkeys with their mouths hanging open.

“And for the keyboard, I tap the keys like this, yes.”

I pretended to play the keys drawn in my sketchbook while humming the keyboard melody I was tapping.

“I drew a drum machine too, but I drew this just to feel like I’m touching it. When checking rhythm, it’s faster to do it with my mouth.”

While I was at it, I also showed off beatboxing while tapping the drum machine.

I was clearly bullshitting about the studio, but somehow I ended up showcasing amazing skills of imitating instrument sounds.

Anyway, after finishing the amazing skill show, the Youngest Line stood up with moved expressions and gave a standing ovation. What are you guys going to do if you get caught up in propaganda, you rascals?

“But you two must have seen this often while staying at the dormitory, yet you’re acting amazed like it’s your first time seeing it.”

Ryu Jaehee shamelessly responded to the production crew’s words that subtly hinted at meta-commentary.

“No matter how many times we see it, it’s amazing.”

“Right, it’s amazing, isn’t it?”

Kim Dobin chimed in from the side. His acting used to be just slightly better than Seo Yehyeon’s, but it’s improved quite a bit since becoming a regular member of 【Trouble Travel】.

Living the same day like a week, we quickly moved on to the 【One Chance】 follow-up song incident. Very fortunately, the post I had uploaded to the fan cafe FROM bulletin board remained in its overwritten version.

“Our debut album B-side 【One Chance】 charted!”

Oh, it was definitely 5 years ago, but why does it feel like I experienced it just a few months ago?

Now the time had come to recreate that arduous journey when we pushed 【One Chance】 as our follow-up song.

The problem was that since the overwriting wasn’t complete, everyone had two sets of memories.

As soon as the cameras turned off, we immediately entered Rev’s 1,307th meeting.

“Let’s go with the moderate version. If we show the chaotic version as is, there might be discord rumors. Probably fights will break out over who did worse, whose responsibility is greater, and fan division is possible too.”

Everyone nodded in agreement with Ryu Jaehee’s words.

“Honestly, that one was impossible to beautify. No matter how you dress it up, it was a catastrophe. We were just watching CEO’s mood, Yoon Eden alone confronted CEO about follow-up activities, got angry at us, left the dormitory, and that night over a bottle of soju we talked about follow-up activities and our opinions split.”

Seo Yehyeon shook his head while reciting the chaotic memories. Hearing it like this, it really was chaos. Even more horrifying was that there were only people who did wrong and no one who did right.

That’s right. What was even more horrifying was that this was still better than before regression. Just what was Rev before regression…

“I was wondering how to beautify this, but right, there was that strange memory.”

Couldn’t you remember the chaotic memory as the strange memory instead?

Still, it was worth persistently asking the system whether this was disrupting the major flow and changing the past like that. Although the overwriting didn’t work properly on these guys.

“Since 【One Chance】 is performing better than our current title track, we want to suggest follow-up activities to CEO. We’ll make a PPT. Yehyeon hyung, please help with the PPT template.”

“We wrote our script too… need to write it.”

Seo Yehyeon hastily changed his words from past tense to future tense.

“The follow-up success cases go here, then the voting comes next. Five teams for follow-up success cases. First one is…”

For the other guys it would be a 5-year-old memory, but for me it was a few months ago, so the PPT content we made then was still vivid. But remembering it too vividly seemed to be another problem.

“Gasp, Eden hyung is hiding his intelligence. Actually hyung was a secret genius all along. But why hide it? What benefit is there from hiding intelligence that makes you hide it?”

“He doesn’t use his own brain and outsources to the youngest member. But this guy didn’t hide it, he just didn’t have it. I can feel memory and intelligence in every word. You’re not Yoon Eden, are you?”

“What the hell do you guys think I am!”

Of course I wouldn’t remember a real 5-year-old PPT either! I remember it because it was a few months ago! Still, shouldn’t you guys praise me for vividly remembering even 5-year-old memories!

“Right, Eden has surprisingly good memory. You can tell from how he knows all the instrument chords and memorizes choreography and lyrics right away.”

Gyeon Hajun took my side. Before I could ask him to remove the word ‘surprisingly’, Gyeon Hajun preemptively added:

“He just remembers only what he wants to remember.”

Is it my imagination that there seems to be a barb in those words? Come on, surely Gyeon Hajun wouldn’t still be like this to me over the Parachute incident.

“Eden hyung is kind of like that. He’s especially good at beautifying memories. But now he’s specialized only in beautifying himself.”

Even you, youngest member…!

Anyway, after successfully recreating the PPT, we even finished presenting it in front of CEO.

To maximize the reality, the conference room we were filming in was the smallest one.

“Right, I remember. Back then you also made such a well-organized PPT to persuade me. I wondered what fortune I had to gather kids like this.”

CEO Kim Nodam casually made meta-commentary with a face and voice soaked in past memories, constantly dabbing at his eyes. Wait, Yongcheol hyung’s awareness is on the same level as CEO’s? What’s going on?

As soon as we returned to the old semi-basement dormitory and the production crew withdrew, we turned off cameras and whispered.

“At this point, aren’t we the ones remembering wrong?”

“But CEO remembered that we presented with PPT last time too.”

“We pushed him about remembering PPT so he’s remembering wrong.”

Meanwhile, Kim Dobin waved a USB and asked me.

“Eden hyung, are we filming the ‘Will We Rise’ Bonobo PPT too? I brought this USB just in case, but if it’s not here we’ll have to make a new one. Hyung, you remember the ‘Will We Rise’ PPT too, right? That’s more recent, so a secret genius like hyung would naturally remember it, right?”

I, who had no hidden intelligence, could only hope that Kim Dobin’s USB contained that damn Bonobo PPT.

And 5 minutes later.

“Waaaaaaah!”

A resounding scream burst from the Youngest Line’s room.

“What is it! A cockroach? If it’s a cockroach don’t call us! Tell the youngest to catch it, youngest!”

“Right, guys! Close the door before the cockroach comes out, hurry!”

Seo Yehyeon, who ran to the door at an unprecedented speed and closed the room, echoed my words. Of course, since this house had shit soundproofing, conversation was perfectly possible even with the door closed.

“Ah, ah, no! Not a cockroach! PPT! That, that, that thing is here! It exists! It’s real! Waaaah! The date is from 5 years ago too! If this isn’t Cthulhu then what is…!”

Kim Dobin cried out what seemed to be either a sanity check or a mountain check again. Everyone rushed over to see that problematic PPT existing in this world.

Seo Yehyeon, who was flipping through the PPT, looked back at me with a pale face.

“The content is the same too? What Yoon Eden remembered was accurate? How did you recreate something from 5 years ago so identically? What?”

“What’s the same? The template is different. And here, here, the shapes are different too. There are many different places.”

“…Is that so?”

Today I successfully sold a jade cutting board to Seo Yehyeon again.

* * *

DTB filming day.

“…Why are we filming DTB Season 6 right now? Isn’t this when we should be doing Season 1?”

“This guy is talking nonsense.”

I was so immersed in filming the fake documentary that I couldn’t believe we were now in DTB Season 6.

Strange, this year was definitely when the hip-hop survival show failed miserably and was completely overhauled to launch anew under the name DROP THE BEAT.

As I sat in the producer waiting room chair muttering, Yongcheol hyung smacked my back to tell me to snap out of it.

“Why did you suddenly regress to 5 years ago by yourself?”

BQ9 asked me as I twisted my body from the pain spreading across my back.

“Ah, our group is currently filming a debut fake documentary. So we’re living 5 years ago right now.”

I clearly answered BQ9, but someone else suddenly butted in.

“5 years ago? Then shouldn’t I appear too?”

“We’ll pass on Some Ending. It would be burdensome to cast Seo Raon sunbae too.”

Jiwon hyung waved his hand toward him.

No matter that Seo Raon sunbae had a history of releasing songs with me and Ryu Jaehee, it was difficult to just cast him in our self-content based on such a shallow connection. And 【Some Ending】 featuring was my individual activity, so it was awkward to include in the documentary.

“No, you didn’t record with Seo Raon noona back then, so couldn’t just I appear? It’s a story about your early debut days, so naturally 【Some Ending】 should be included.”

“This isn’t going on cable or terrestrial broadcasting, it’s our own content so it’ll only be uploaded to Rev’s YouTube channel, Hyung.”

“Why not, it sounds fun. I want to try appearing in that kind of content too, not just the typical idol recording behind-the-scenes stuff.”

I fell into thought while Jiwon Hyung hung on my shoulder, offering to do it without taking an appearance fee.

Right, at least with Jiwon Hyung’s broadcasting experience, he wouldn’t become a second Yongcheol Hyung who used to blurt out meta comments with every breath.

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