A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 608

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 608

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Meanwhile, Cha Yeonho, who had thrown a punch at his 12-year friend.

He felt somewhat wronged to be treated the same as Yoon Eden, who believed that if they coolly exchanged punches, all the pent-up and rotten emotions would be refreshingly cleared away.

To be precise, Cha Yeonho’s punch was 30% intentional and 70% impulsive.

When his closest friend and the only person in the group he could rely on had been unilaterally ignoring and turning away from him for months, how many saints could endure it?

Especially when the result of prioritizing Kwon Jeongjun over the group hyung and younger members who had been like family in the first round, all to save Kwon Jeongjun, had led to this situation.

Even when he pleaded to just talk, Kwon Jeongjun coldly replied that he should stop caring about his business first, then things would return to how they were before, and turned away. At that moment when Cha Yeonho, consumed by frustration, shouted about how he could stop caring when he didn’t know what kind of state Jeongjun would end up in, and grabbed him by the collar—

‘Just throw a refreshing punch at each other. Don’t you know about friendship that sprouts through exchanged fists?’

Yoon Eden’s advice that wasn’t really advice flashed through his mind like a treacherous courtier’s phantom at that moment, which was the beginning of the tragedy.

At least Yoon Eden and that friend presumed to be Gyeon Hajun had exchanged punches, but Kwon Jeongjun, who was hit with enough force to turn his head momentarily, just stared at him blankly, then pushed Cha Yeonho’s chest with not much strength and stormed out.

‘I told you that you don’t need to know.’

Leaving behind only those words that he had suppressed and held back.

What was even more frightening was that the danger level had dropped sharply right after he hit Kwon Jeongjun.

The fact that the danger level had decreased like this after realizing that he was definitely not helping him was consistent with the idea that Cha Yeonho was smoothly entering the route of failure for this round as well.

It hadn’t been long since he realized that the danger level and the success rate of this round were inversely proportional.

Right, thinking about it, when the danger level reached 100, he wouldn’t die or return to the starting point, so even Cha Yeonho himself couldn’t understand why he had so desperately avoided the danger level reaching 100.

Pressing the keys firmly to send a text to Yoon Eden, Cha Yeonho muttered.

“Kwon Jeongjun, that damn bastard… If he has no intention of telling me what situation he’s in, what am I supposed to do…”

Knock knock-

After roughly sending the text and lying on the bed with his eyes tightly closed while waiting for a reply, he heard knocking on the door.

Even though he hadn’t given permission, the door slid open and he simultaneously felt someone’s footsteps and presence.

“Are you sleeping?”

Even at Kwon Jeongjun’s quietly thrown question, Cha Yeonho remained silent with his eyes closed.

“You really, haa…”

Kwon Jeongjun’s deep sigh echoed clearly in the quiet room.

“Can’t you please just stay still instead of trying to dig into things unnecessarily, Yeonho…?”

His particularly tired voice pierced Cha Yeonho’s ears.

“I’m trying to keep you from getting involved in this fucking mess too, damn it…”

Kwon Jeongjun, who trailed off, roughly rubbed his face with dry hands.

“The agency really treasures you. Back then too, unlike me, your debut was confirmed. So don’t create unnecessary trouble and just live in a flower garden, please.”

Cha Yeonho was well aware that Shinwol treasured him. He had never missed first place in monthly evaluations since his trainee days before debut, and after debut, he had always been Altair’s main member.

At the same time, the most likely suspect behind stealing Kwon Jeongjun’s suicide note was none other than Shinwol Entertainment. Though this was just an opinion derived solely from Yoon Eden’s words.

Live in a flower garden? Cha Yeonho forcibly swallowed the bitter laugh that was about to burst out.

If he didn’t want Cha Yeonho to get involved, if he wanted Cha Yeonho to live considering Shinwol Entertainment as a comfortable flower garden as Kwon Jeongjun wished, then Kwon Jeongjun should not have died in the dormitory. He shouldn’t have let Cha Yeonho be the first to discover his final moments twice.

That’s why Cha Yeonho had envied Gyeon Hajun.

Gyeon Hajun, who could at least briefly escape reality even at the funeral because he hadn’t faced the final moment.

Even in the 7th round, Cha Yeonho still had the habit of cutting short any long ropes or similar things if they were in the dormitory.

“And it’s obvious you’re not sleeping. At least stop your eyelids from twitching.”

With those words mixed with a slight chuckle and the sound of footsteps, the door that had opened again closed with a thud.

As soon as the door closed, Cha Yeonho’s eyelids trembled and his eyes snapped open.

Setting aside the fact that he had learned the reason why he hadn’t known anything during six attempts.

In the first round, Kwon Jeongjun had started distancing himself from him…

It was when Cha Yeonho, at the agency’s request, had lured a trainee who held evidence of a trainee’s suicide into debuting, destroyed the evidence, and framed Yoon Eden as a fraud.

Back then, he had just been upset, wondering why Kwon Jeongjun was disappointed in him when he wasn’t disappointed in Kwon Jeongjun—

‘What if Jeongjun thought I was in cahoots with the agency because of that incident…?’

If that were the case, it would also explain why he had hidden the existence of the suicide note from him at the last moment while revealing it to Yoon Eden, who had properly antagonized Shinwol by exposing his own shameful acts.

It seemed like he was getting some leads.

His suffocated chest felt just a little, really just a little bit of relief. For now, it was time to clean up this damn punching incident first.

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[Cha Yeonho- Jeongjun just took the hit without fighting back]

[Cha Yeonho- What should I do] 11:41 PM

Even the mutual punching failed? Then Cha Yeonho just became the guy who suddenly went crazy and hit his friend?

This is supposed to be a regressor…?

[Your friendship must have been lacking] 11:43 PM

[My friend even threw a punch back so I wouldn’t feel guilty later] 11:44 PM

Clicking my tongue while telling our friendship story, Cha Yeonho sent a reply that clearly showed he was properly provoked, obvious to anyone.

[Cha Yeonho- Ah, is that the friendship that spent 1 minute paying respects at the funeral?]

[Cha Yeonho- What amazing friendship^^] 11:54 PM

He seemed to have spent 10 minutes earnestly thinking of something that would provoke me, but unfortunately, I wasn’t provoked at all. The misunderstanding about Gyeon Hajun’s 1-minute condolence visit had been cleared up ages ago.

Cha Yeonho wouldn’t know. That there exists someone in this world who can personally attend his own funeral.

For Cha Yeonho, who threw the first punch but was upset about not receiving a return punch, I decided to throw a return punch on behalf of KJ.

[Someone who couldn’t even receive word about the existence of a suicide note from a friend he was dying to save probably shouldn’t be saying that?] 12:00 AM

With this text that struck back with nothing but facts without a hint of falsehood, no more replies came from Cha Yeonho.

Oh, I won. That’s what you get for bringing up my funeral.

Since it was now a one-sided punching situation, I wondered if Altair discord rumors might surface like last time, so after dawn broke, I diligently searched for Altair throughout the morning and afternoon.

Our generous home system even counted the time spent searching for Altair instead of Rev toward fulfilling the weekly quest time.

There weren’t any dopamine-triggering discord rumors like before, only photos of Altair on their way to work appeared.

I earnestly zoomed in on KJ’s face in the photos, but I couldn’t see any wounds or bruises. Of course, even if there were any, they would be well covered with makeup.

But what’s with hitting someone so lightly that they don’t even need a band-aid, then going on about applying medicine and whatnot? There doesn’t even seem to be anywhere to apply medicine, but the dramatics are at the level of getting beaten up in a UFC ring.

We had split lips and swollen cheeks, it was complete chaos. That’s why for several days, I had a cut on my lip and Gyeon Hajun had a bruise on his cheek, so we couldn’t even go outside without masks.

Did Cha Yeonho hit weakly, or is he naturally weak?

I was so curious that I even felt like throwing a first punch at Cha Yeonho to test it out.

I also searched using KJ’s real name that I newly learned thanks to Ryu Jaehee, but only things like ‘fucking awesome’ came up.

‘Still, since I strongly recommended the punching, I should provide some after-service.’

Since reconciliation through fistfighting failed, I need to intervene and arrange a three-way meeting or do something, anything.

What I needed wasn’t this so-called regressor Cha Yeonho who gets scratched at touchscreen level, but KJ, who could most effectively play the role of an internal whistleblower.

And it was obvious that it would be much easier for Cha Yeonho to persuade KJ and bring him to the whistleblowing group than for me to entice KJ into the whistleblowing group. So I absolutely had to make these two reconcile.

First, I needed to find out what caused this failed fistfight. So I tried to recall the fistfight with Gyeon Hajun back then and find the problems.

“Why are you worrying about acquaintances having a fistfight?”

“Um, because I need to help them reconcile?”

“So why?”

“Because I instigated it?”

“Why did you do that?”

“I thought they could reconcile like you and I did?”

While we were exchanging questions and answers that could be called either eye-level consultation or discussion, Gyeon Hajun finally gave us an answer.

“Usually when someone throws punches, you cut ties with them. Not make up like we do. If someone else had punched me, I wouldn’t have spoken to them from then on.”

I see. So KJ and Cha Yeonho were still far from reaching our level of friendship, but the punching incident was like pouring oil on a burning house.

With such a measly friendship, why the hell did you throw that punch, Yeonho?

“Is this also what the Youngest Line calls non-Yoon Eden discrimination?”

“You could say that, right?”

Gyeon Hajun didn’t deny that non-Yoon Eden discrimination existed. He just denied openly showing discriminatory treatment through his actions.

“But I don’t openly reveal that I discriminate blatantly like you do, Eden, right? I can’t quite lay on a steel plate on my face to your extent…”

“Exactly.”

For it to feel like such discriminatory treatment, it seems Ryu Jaehee really didn’t want to eat that damn bean rice.

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