A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 600

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 600

No, it’s not like I’ve been exploiting bugs left and right – I’ve only used them exactly twice: the Seo Yehyeon bug I stumbled upon by chance and the Kim Dobin bug that was the result of a human triumph through sheer tenacity. And you notice this? You catch this? You fix this?

I had expected the system would eventually notice these bugs, but I never thought it would patch them this quickly.

If it had been the Kim Dobin-related bug that was given and taken away, I wouldn’t have felt this wronged.

Kim Dobin wasn’t particularly close to me before the regression, and judging from the bug memory, even though he went into dark mode, his intelligence level remained the same, so he probably wouldn’t have been able to serve as an excellent ally to help navigate this crisis.

The fact that I regressed several more times after that gave me a clear answer.

But this was a bug that let me see Rev’s brain, memories connected to Ryu Jaehee.

Of course, looking at how I made it to the 5th round, 6th round, and now the current 7th round, it seems Ryu Jaehee didn’t succeed as an ally either, but he would definitely have been more helpful than Kim Dobin.

I trusted Ryu Jaehee.

As I stared blankly into space, dazed by the bug that had disappeared as quickly as it had suddenly appeared, Ryu Jaehee poked me.

“Hyung, why are you suddenly making a face like an evil spirit whose ritual food got snatched away right in front of them?”

So the bug was ritual food. To think that only system bugs were taking care of my ritual food that no one else would look after.

Well, it would be excessive for ritual food to be prepared when I’m still alive and well.

“What kind of analogies do you use? There are plenty of better analogies. For example, like a tiger whose prey got stolen right in front of it, huh?”

“You were the one who taught me to see people as people, not animals, hyung.”

“That doesn’t mean you should just go ahead and kill people off. They say even rolling in a dung field is better than the afterlife – an animal is better than an evil spirit eating ritual food.”

What I could deduce from the bug that stayed only briefly was that the 4th round Ryu Jaehee’s keyword was ‘key’, not 【All Right or Night】.

I picked up a basketball and threw it at the hoop while lost in thought.

‘Hmm, should I try using Cha Yeonho?’

Looking at the track record so far, our system prioritized blocking hacking attempts from the danger level system above all else.

So if I cooperate with Cha Yeonho to make him transfer the danger level to me, and take advantage of our system being distracted to have Ryu Jaehee say that line again…

‘It won’t work.’

Watching the ball bounce off the rim and fly out without going into the net, I let out a short sigh and scrapped the plan.

With residual danger level still remaining, if by any chance our system failed to block the danger level, it would obviously become dangerous.

Moreover, bugs required not just keywords but matching situations to trigger, so even if Ryu Jaehee recited the exact same line he had just said, there was no guarantee the bug would occur again.

And if the system went ahead and patched things to prevent bugs from happening at all in the meantime, I would end up just doing a massive pointless endeavor while exposing my weakness to Cha Yeonho.

“You don’t think me getting used to this key stimulated something inside you, do you? For example, an inner evil spirit that wanted to become the tallest member of the group…”

“Youngest, do you want to awaken the inner evil spirit that gets angry when hearing nonsense?”

Even while scolding Ryu Jaehee, I was dying of curiosity about the 4th round bug memory. It’s natural to become more curious when something is given and then taken away.

After finishing all the music video filming recreations, we returned to the semi-basement dorm that we would never come back to once we left.

“We’ve prepared really hard for this, so I hope this album can achieve good results.”

“Please show 【All Right or Night】 lots of love!”

As we gathered in the living room to film the final segment, the five-day Rev fake documentary filming marathon came to an end.

“Since this is our real last day in this dorm, should we all sleep together in the living room tonight?”

At Kim Dobin’s suggestion, Seo Yehyeon and I simultaneously waved our hands in refusal.

“Ugh, after experiencing the wide and soft sofa at our dorm, lying on this sofa feels too hard. I can’t even sleep on the floor, so I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep on this sofa either.”

“Forget it, it’ll be either Hajun can’t sleep or the other four of us experience sleeping stiff as frozen fish without even being able to breathe loudly.”

Gyeon Hajun glared at my words but didn’t argue back.

He already seemed unable to adapt to sleeping with three people on one mattress after having his own private room, so asking five people to sleep on blankets in the living room would be nothing short of torture for Gyeon Hajun.

In the end, sleeping together was cancelled because of two members who were originally sensitive about sleeping arrangements and had become even more sensitive after living comfortably, and the other members scattered to their respective rooms to sleep.

I also lay blankly on the living room sofa for a while, but sleep just wouldn’t come.

I got up and quietly opened the door to go outside.

Even though it was late August, the still muggy night air and dim moonlight were bathing the semi-basement entrance.

I habitually plopped down on the middle of the stairs. The cool sensation of the old stairs seeped through my thin pants, but strangely, I didn’t dislike it.

Sitting on the stairs in front of the semi-basement door at night like this reminded me of the old days.

More precisely, not the early debut days, but some time before the regression when we still couldn’t escape this dorm even years after debuting.

Since I couldn’t smoke inside the dorm, I used to sit on these stairs and smoke several cigarettes.

Thinking of those days naturally made my mouth feel empty, and I unconsciously curled and uncurled my index and middle fingers, then touched my lips.

This is all because every memory I search has me with a cigarette in my mouth. There was a time I briefly quit while practicing rap intensively after being pointed out by Jiwon hyung, but I ended up starting again, damn myself.

Whew…

As I was letting out a long breath toward the air, the door burst open. The moment I saw the face of the person coming out, I unconsciously dropped my hand hurriedly.

It was a habit ingrained in my body from before the regression. Gyeon Hajun was a vocalist whose voice was important.

Gyeon Hajun plopped down a couple steps below where I was sitting on the stairs.

Even though we had never spent time like this in this place since our regression, watching Gyeon Hajun naturally find and sit in his pre-regression spot gave me a strange feeling.

“Are you still trying to quit smoking?”

What a ghost. At Gyeon Hajun’s sharp question, I awkwardly scratched the back of my neck with the hand I had hurriedly lowered and replied.

“There’s a reason they say quitting cigarettes isn’t about stopping but enduring for life, Jun.”

“You only smoked for a few days back then, but if you still think about it, cigarette addiction must really be scary.”

It’s because I’ve been smoking for years, not days, so of course.

“Why did you come out instead of sleeping at this hour?”

Before Gyeon Hajun could recall the thirty-year-old Yoon Eden who had caused massive chaos involving cigarettes and other things, I hurriedly changed the subject.

“What about you then?”

“This is our last day in this dorm. When will I get to sit here like this again?”

Even though these were memories that only remained in my mind, and we couldn’t even have such time during early debut in this round for various reasons.

Maybe that’s why. I might have wanted to recreate this moment even more.

Since I’ll never spend a night in this spot again for the rest of my life anyway.

“You were so against it, but I never thought you’d get sentimental on the last day like this.”

Gyeon Hajun giggled playfully.

“How was it for you? You weren’t exactly in favor either. Didn’t you choose it because you disliked the other options more? Especially the composition camp that was my idea?”

As I smiled crookedly while making a slightly barbed comment, Gyeon Hajun very naturally ignored the last three sentences and only answered the first one.

“It felt like experiencing our early debut days again, which was pretty nice. I also realized anew that I’ve become too accustomed to the current Rev. Even though we had times like this… this kind of refresher doesn’t seem bad either.”

Right, as Gyeon Hajun said, it wasn’t bad.

If the system had worked a bit more leisurely, this fake documentary filming would have remained as a very meaningful and helpful shooting that found one more memory for my life.

Kim Dobin, who came up with this idea, would have received… well, not my affection, but at least some recognition from me.

“That’s surprising. I thought you wouldn’t like this filming.”

“Why?”

Gyeon Hajun blinked as if this was the first time he’d heard such a view.

“You couldn’t sleep at all here. Your face looked haggard every morning. I thought it was because there were people next to you, so I kept going out to sleep.”

If I had my way, I would have wanted to kick Seo Yehyeon out of that mattress too, but that guy slept quite peacefully without bad sleeping habits, and he would obviously whine that he absolutely couldn’t sleep on the floor, so I just chose to sleep alone in the living room.

Gyeon Hajun, who briefly showed a sorry expression, explained.

“Ah, it’s not really because you and Yehyeon hyung were next to me. I’m not that sensitive about sleeping arrangements.”

“Then why? Do the energy lines here not suit you? Though you seemed to sleep fine during early debut?”

“No, that’s not it. After coming here…”

Gyeon Hajun lightly rubbed his face with his palm. The face revealed when his palm came down looked quite tired and exhausted.

After hesitating, Gyeon Hajun finally spoke with a short sigh.

“I keep having dreams.”

A crazily familiar voice overlapped faintly like a hallucination. A tone that was incomparably more tired than the current voice.

-I keep having dreams.

My vision turned red.

In the exact same color tone as that memory when I possessed the danger level system.

Red, red, blue, red again, then blue again. I stared blankly at the dizzying festival of colors swirling before my eyes, making me nauseous to the point of wanting to vomit-

Gyeon Hajun’s voice urgently calling me, the unpleasantly damp sensation touching the back of my hand and pants, the suffocating smell of blood, my stinging nose.

Not caring about my blood-covered hand, I firmly grabbed Gyeon Hajun who was trying to get up urgently.

“Keep talking.”

I stared at Gyeon Hajun with blazing eyes and spoke through gritted teeth. Whether it’s the danger level system or our system, let’s see who wins, damn it.

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