A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 609

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 609

“So… in the end, the fact that he threw a punch itself is the problem now?”

Damn it all.

This is all because Cha Yeonho falsely advertised and over-packaged his friendship with KJ. I can’t even report this kind of thing to consumer protection.

“Then what do we do? How do we make them reconcile?”

“Usually time solves it. If you leave them alone, they’ll either reconcile on their own or end up cutting ties.”

Of course it was someone else’s business, but I urgently shook my head at Gyeon Hajun who was speaking so indifferently as if it really was someone else’s problem.

“There’s no time to leave it to time. I need to make them reconcile quickly.”

Should I bring all our members, crew hyungs, and juniors we know like in school days and set up a stage for them to have it out? Make them reconcile that way? Is a multi-party confrontation the answer?

As I was seriously thinking about it, perhaps feeling uneasy about my silence, Gyeon Hajun suggested another direction.

“Or maybe, if a common enemy is created, they’ll unite and reconcile?”

“A common enemy?”

“Yeah, like you who instigated the punching.”

Come to think of it, didn’t our dramatic reconciliation also have the common enemy Parachute playing a part?

In the past and present, I am indeed the common enemy of Cha Yeonho and KJ, right?

And thinking about it, I also needed to form a temporary alliance with those two, if not reconciliation. Indeed, a three-way meeting was the answer.

[I’ll definitely help you two make up ㅇㅇ]

With a much lighter heart, I composed a text to send to Cha Yeonho.

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“Should I believe this or not?”

Cha Yeonho, who had buried his head in his phone screen, muttered in an agonized voice. Unfortunately, unlike Yoon Eden, Cha Yeonho had no member to outsource to within his team, nor any member to pretend not to know while consulting. It was also a result Cha Yeonho had created.

This is why people should live with principles and take initiative.

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DTB’s main competition round 2 proceeded in exactly the same way as previous seasons.

It was a format where team producers featured on each participant’s stage. Usually they openly push only one person among the two who made it to the main competition who seems likely to advance to the semi-finals, but our team couldn’t do that since both our guys were championship candidates.

We never even thought about pushing just one person anyway.

When someone has worked their ass off to make it to the main competition round 2, how upset would they be if the producers only pushed someone else just because their skills were relatively lacking?

Our team participants should be grateful to be on such a loving and incredibly capable producer team. While I was patting myself on the back, I noticed Yupi and Choi Hyeongjin, who unlike participants from other teams who were already anxiously sizing each other up with competitive glances, seemed to have no worries at all.

These guys, the reason they insisted on me so much, don’t tell me they were aiming for this…?

I thought they had really recognized my noble character and attached themselves to me.

“What, why are you looking at me like that?”

To Choi Hyeongjin’s disgusted question, I shrugged my shoulders and replied.

“Oh no, I thought Hyeongjin you joined our team just looking at my music, but I didn’t know you joined our team after looking at my character too.”

Choi Hyeongjin looked at me with the same expression Ryu Jaehee had when looking at us saying there was no discrimination against non-Yoon Eden. His half-open mouth contributed to making a person speechless.

Yupi also glanced back at me with a face that seemed to have “That’s a bit…” written on it.

“Even if I came to this team looking at character, I would have come looking at D.I hyung’s character, not yours. The character of the guy who asked someone to their face what confidence they had to rap when they couldn’t rap for shit, and whether they were confident they could make a living with this?”

“Oh, whose trashy character story is that?”

“You, you. This trashy character bastard.”

Choi Hyeongjin, who had been scolding me over something I couldn’t even remember, immediately equipped formal speech and honorifics as soon as the camera turned on.

“Anyway, please stop talking nonsense and develop some self-objectification skills, Producer Yoon Eden.”

“Wow, Hyeongjin has grown so much. In the past you couldn’t control your strength in diss battles and killed the mood, but after retaking DTB your diss skills have improved exponentially.”

I kind of missed the Choi Hyeongjin who used to consistently yell at me in DTB whether the cameras were on or off. Just a tiny bit.

Today was the day to decide the team matchups. Thanks to placing first in main competition round 1, our team currently had priority in opponent selection.

If I had to choose the weakest team right now, it would probably be Team BQ9 & Gongchul, which didn’t have a single leader-level member.

Maybe that’s why Gongchul kept sending me burdensome winks. As Gongchul kept poking BQ9’s side, BQ9 also reluctantly shot love bullets at me with hand gestures.

“Why are those guys acting like that…?”

Yongcheol hyung, who discovered the scene of those two sending me passionate flirting, asked me with a disgusted face.

“I know right. I’m starting to feel a bit sick too.”

If I choose that team, they seem worried they’ll end up like Yongcheol hyung’s team in season 4, who got completely eliminated in main competition round 2 and never showed their faces until the semi-finals and finals.

I was about to encourage Yongcheol hyung saying this was a chance for revenge since we had completely destroyed his team in main competition round 2 back then, but then I remembered that I was also on Team BQ9 & Gongchul at that time and quietly shut my mouth.

Come to think of it, I was the one who made the plan to eliminate all of Yongcheol hyung’s team members. If I bring it up, it’ll just be shooting myself in the foot?

The MC, who had given us time to briefly end our conversation and quiet down, started the proceedings.

“Now, it’s time to create the team matchups. Team Yoon Eden & D.I, you have opponent selection priority, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

I answered into the microphone instead of Yongcheol hyung.

“Here you need to make a choice. Will you use it for team selection? Or will you use it for opponent participant selection after the team battle structure is decided!”

Up to here was within my expected range.

The priority we received was only referred to as ‘opponent selection priority’, and since they didn’t tell us exactly whether that selection was team selection or participant selection, there was a high probability they’d make us choose one of the two.

But what I didn’t expect was…

“We’ll give you 1 minute to choose! If you can’t decide within 1 minute, the priority will be forfeited.”

That the selection time was only 1 minute.

No, I thought they’d give us about 5 minutes to discuss among ourselves!

It took several days just to convince our members to do follow-up promotions in our debut days, so how could I persuade two people who weren’t even members of the same group in just 1 minute? I felt hopeless. Of course Yongcheol hyung would take my side, so I didn’t count him separately.

But unexpectedly, persuasion was easy.

“Yoon Eden, you decide. D.I Producer, Yupi, is that okay?”

“Ah, yes. Anyway, I experienced in season 4 that this side’s decisions always have better results than what I rack my brain over.”

“As for me, Eden’s opinion always comes first. I trust Eden’s choice.”

There was no need to persuade them at all. After only receiving suspicion and scolding from the youngest member about planning 10 things and inflating them to 100, facing this firm trust in me was quite moving.

As soon as the MC said 10 seconds were left, I immediately answered.

“We’ll use it for opponent participant selection.”

Everyone looked at me with surprised eyes. Not just other teams, but our team too. Even Yupi, who had entrusted it to me, was looking at me with eyes that didn’t understand at all.

I guess trusting my aggro ability and not understanding the reasoning are different domains.

Team Yoon Eden & D.I Vs Team Moltic & T:ZE

Team BQ9 & Gongchul Vs Team G1 & Rok Han

The opposing teams were also decided. Yupi’s expression darkened briefly upon seeing our opposing team, then returned to normal as if nothing had happened.

After filming ended, we gathered again to align our words beforehand so that opinion conflicts wouldn’t be shown on broadcast before filming the opponent selection, and Yupi spoke first.

“Why didn’t you choose the team and chose participant selection instead?”

“There’s nothing good about us showing strategy right now.”

It was something I had been continuously pondering. Certain victory or image building.

“Strategic, logical. This should be given to the weakest team to have merit. Right now our team is seen by the public as the strongest team since we placed first anyway. Regardless of the inside story.”

“That’s right.”

“In this state, if we strategically and logically choose a hand that we’ll definitely win with, whatever we pick becomes a picture of us crushing teams weaker than us. In other words, the tension drops and it becomes less fun to watch.”

Yupi nodded with a somewhat convinced face at my explanation.

“So it’s better to come out saying we’ll fairly have the team matches decided, but at least face the opponent we want for the battle matchup. Both our team members and producers have the ability to make it so we can sufficiently win against anyone.”

I spoke at length, but the main point was just one thing: I hate being petty.

Yongcheol hyung giggled saying that’s just like the guy who made that damn Plan A, and roughly messed up my hair.

“Hey, did you think of that in 1 minute, no, 50 seconds?”

“No. For 30 minutes yesterday.”

I was going to lie so Choi Hyeongjin could look up to me, but I just honestly told him the truth. If I could think of this in 50 seconds, I’d be Ryu Jaehee, not Yoon Eden.

“It seems like the production crew’s plan is to drop Hyeongjin here and bring Yupi and HYEQ to the finals.”

From the fact that we didn’t draw lots ourselves but were notified of the results, this team match probably had a very high chance of production crew influence.

But my pride wouldn’t allow that.

And I told Choi Hyeongjin last season that when he came out next time, he should make it to the semi-finals, so if I can’t get him to the semi-finals when I’m the team producer, what does that make me? Nijeous alone was enough for DTB’s third-time contestants.

“So let’s definitely catch HYEQ hyung here.”

“Then who will HYEQ go against…?”

I nodded at Yupi’s cautious question.

“Of course Yupi has to face him. You’ve built up a good admiration narrative with the third preliminary round loser revival buildup, and you must have stolen all the favorability and interest with the group music source mission. Where else is there a better opponent to steal HYEQ’s votes so narratively?”

If this confrontation was dragged to the finals, there was a high possibility that the narrative effect built up so far would regress. I was grateful to Yupi who had been building his image using HYEQ.

“Even if you don’t face him here, you’ll have to face him in the finals anyway, right? Are you not confident? If you’re not confident, tell me early. I’m the type who feels there’s no need to pay special attention to guys who approach the stage thinking about second place.”

When Yupi hesitated to answer, Hyeongjin casually threw out a declaration of war from the side.

“Hey, Yoon Eden. I don’t mind facing him either. Just pick a song that’s crushingly good.”

“I’d rather pay more attention to a guy like this.”

Listening to this conversation that contained only our pure sincerity, with no intention of testing or shaking Yupi, Yupi finally opened his mouth after pondering.

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