A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 71

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 71

“What, you want us to go out there?”

What kind of crazy nonsense is he spouting right now? There’s snow piled up thick out there too, so how exactly does he plan to get out?

“Let’s just film a stay-at-home special.”

Despite Gyeon Hajun’s attempts to dissuade him, Kim Dobin’s resolve remained unbroken and firm.

“But listen, hyungs, and Jaehee. Are we really going to waste an entire precious day of our vacation like this?”

With a serious expression, Kim Dobin explained his plan while trying to persuade us.

“The window is a sliding type, right? So it should open, shouldn’t it? If we open it and dig out just the snow in front of the window, we can get out through the window.”

“What are you going to dig with? We don’t even have a shovel in the dormitory.”

“A dustpan. Don’t you all have at least one experience of digging snow with a dustpan on the school playground on a snowy day?”

“I do have that experience, but I only scooped up accumulated snow, never did any serious digging like that. And did our dormitory even have a dustpan?”

“Right. We have a vacuum cleaner but probably no dustpan.”

Kim Dobin rushed into his room with a clatter and came out with a mini broom and dustpan set like the ones used during elementary school cleaning time.

Kim Dobin separated the broom and tossed it onto the sofa, then proudly lifted up the dustpan.

“Here it is.”

If he tries to dig snow with that tiny dustpan, the whole day will be gone.

It would probably be faster for the dormitory front door to open than to create an escape route by digging with that thing.

However, since it was certain that we’d get solid broadcast content while Kim Dobin was doing this foolish task, we didn’t particularly try to stop him.

“Alright, try digging out just enough to get outside. If you get tired, I’ll at least take turns with you.”

When I lightly patted his shoulder to encourage him, Kim Dobin excitedly ran to the window as expected.

Kim Dobin confidently threw open the window and began earnestly scooping out snow with the mini dustpan.

Cold air squeezed in and entered the dormitory.

“It’s cold…”

“At least wrap yourself in a blanket.”

“Hey, hyung. At times like this, the proper thing to do is casually bring a blanket and cover me with it.”

“Let’s be self-directed people. I didn’t raise you to be someone who can’t even bring a blanket by himself.”

“By the way, how are we going to clean that up?”

Seo Yehyeon, who had somehow brought four padded jackets and distributed them to the members before wrapping himself tightly in padding, pointed to the floor while shivering from the cold.

The snow Kim Dobin had scooped out was accumulating intact on the dormitory floor.

“Ta-da, making a snowman!”

“Not melting the snow?”

Ryu Jaehee gathered up the snow that had accumulated on the dormitory floor and tried to pack it together, but it melted in his hands faster than it could be packed.

The camera was focused on Kim Dobin diligently digging out snow, while the rest of the members were comfortably lying down and resting in the camera’s blind spots.

And exactly 5 minutes after Kim Dobin started digging out the snow blocking the window.

“Switch! I need a switch!”

I sighed watching Kim Dobin lying flat on the dormitory floor, whining for someone to take over because he couldn’t do it anymore.

I thought he’d last at least 10 minutes, but he couldn’t even last half of that.

Of course, whether he dug for 10 minutes or 5 minutes, it would be edited down to about 3 minutes of content for broadcast.

The gap Kim Dobin had dug was barely big enough for a head to fit through, let alone a whole body.

“See, that’s why I said let’s just film a stay-at-home special.”

Grumbling, I took the dustpan from Kim Dobin’s hands and approached the window to start digging out snow.

Since I said I’d take turns, I had to keep my word.

And 10 minutes later.

“Hey, someone bring a dining table chair! I can’t reach high enough now!”

“Wow… were you perhaps a mole in your previous life…?”

I had discovered an unexpected talent.

Seo Yehyeon marveled at the snow piled high on the dormitory floor and the tunnel I had dug deep enough for an upper body to fit through.

“Amazing! If we do this well, it really seems like we could escape!”

“See, what did I tell you? This is all thanks to the brilliant idea of yours truly, Kim Dobin.”

“Hey, it’s not something for hyung to be that proud of. Honestly, if Eden hyung hadn’t dug that much, I would have given up thinking it was hopeless.”

After digging for another 10 minutes and calling for a switch, Ryu Jaehee took the dustpan saying he wanted to try it once too.

“What the, Eden hyung, how did you dig this? It’s harder than I thought?”

“With the passion and spirit of not wanting to spend a precious day of vacation trapped in the dormitory.”

After fumbling around for about 6 minutes, Ryu Jaehee said he was too short to dig anymore and passed the dustpan to Gyeon Hajun, who was the tallest.

After Seo Yehyeon also took his turn experiencing digging – or rather, dustpan digging – I was handed the dustpan again for the absurd reason that I was the best at digging snow.

“Doby.”

“Yes!”

“You should do… no, never mind. If you do it, dawn will break. Or the snow will melt first.”

After climbing completely off the chair and onto the window sill to dig earnestly for another 20 minutes.

“Freedom! Freedom!”

“Hyung, anyone hearing that would think you escaped from prison.”

I was finally able to completely get my body out through the window.

“Wow, this actually worked.”

“Let me say once again, this is thanks to the genius idea of yours truly Kim Dobin and the tidiness and preparedness of bringing even a mini dustpan to the dormitory-“

“Why are you leaving out my labor that made up 90% of it?”

After coming outside the dormitory and realizing we had been trapped, I breathed in the outside air to my heart’s content for the first time in an hour.

The air wasn’t much different from yesterday’s, but my mood was different.

Ryu Jaehee stuck his head out through the open window and handed me the camcorder, asking.

“Eden hyung, since you’re already out, can’t you do something about the front door too?”

“Let me take a look first. From the photo Manager Hyung sent, it didn’t look like something I’d dare to tackle.”

As I replied while taking the camcorder, Kim Dobin, who had climbed on a chair and struggled through the window and snow tunnel to get outside, raised his arms high and jumped around.

“Yes, successful escape!”

“Don’t jump, it’s slippery.”

After briefly warning Kim Dobin, I walked with big steps toward the front door. Kim Dobin followed behind me.

Looking at the snow piled high enough to block half the door, I pondered how to clear it.

“Can’t we boil water and pour it?”

“Then wouldn’t the snow freeze solid like an igloo instead of melting?”

“Even with hot water?”

“If you pour it from a pot, even if it melts, it’ll freeze right away. To melt all this snow at once, we’d need something like a water tank… Achoo! Ah, it’s cold!”

“Did you come out in this weather without even wearing an outer jacket? Great job. Go back inside quickly before you catch a cold.”

Because Kim Dobin was whining that he was scared to go back in case he slipped and hit his head on the dormitory floor, I started the dustpan digging that wasn’t in my destiny once again.

Only after I roughly cleared the snow near the window did Kim Dobin slip back into the dormitory.

“A dustpan won’t cut it at all, we’d need at least a shovel to make it possible.”

As I crouched in front of the window and spoke, Ryu Jaehee scurried over and suddenly thrust his phone screen in front of my face.

“Eden hyung, the neighborhood community center lends out snow removal shovels.”

“Oh, so after I dug out all the snow by the window with that tiny dustpan, now I have to go to the community center to get a snow removal shovel too. Since our younger members really want to make their older hyung work, this hyung will have to go and come back. Oh my, I’m really living such a pitiful life.”

When I lamented loudly for Ryu Jaehee and Kim Dobin to hear, Ryu Jaehee rolled his eyes.

“Huh, but if we go by pure birth date order, hyung is third out of five members.”

After confirming that Kim Dobin behind Ryu Jaehee was holding the camcorder, I lowered my voice and whispered.

“Youngest Member, third or whatever, let’s go while I’m asking nicely. Hyung is tired.”

Ryu Jaehee flinched at my lowered voice and hurriedly nodded.

Ryu Jaehee stood on his tiptoes and stuck his head out, whispering as if plotting something.

“When we go to the community center, can I drag Doby hyung along?”

“Sure, do whatever you want. But you should ask Kim Dobin that, not me.”

“If I ask him to come with me, he’ll absolutely refuse, but if I say hyung ordered it, it’ll work perfectly.”

So you want to use me as a tiger’s authority, is that it?

Anyway, Ryu Jaehee dragged Kim Dobin, who was watching my mood, toward the neighborhood community center, and thanks to the youngest line taking the camcorder with them, we could lie comfortably in the dormitory and have some rest time.

-Hyung, can we get some calcium chloride too?

“How much are they giving?”

-A 25kg sack. They said they can’t divide it into smaller portions.

“Just come. That much would be enough to spread around the entire neighborhood and still have leftovers.”

About 10 minutes after the call ended, the youngest line returned carrying shovels.

And we all went out toward the front door together and started digging.

Only Ryu Jaehee was freed from digging because he was the youngest, but instead he had to handle filming, so it wasn’t exactly easy for him either.

“This is really like… ugh…”

“Okay, Doby hyung. That’s enough.”

“We have 11 years? 12 years? Left-“

“Ahhhhh! Watch your words! Mind your mouth!”

“Guys, stop chatting and hurry up with the digging.”

After four grown men wielded shovels for a long time and dug out the snow, the stairs and entrance that had been buried in snow finally revealed themselves.

“Wow, finally…”

“What? It’s still not opening? Hyungs, the door won’t open!”

“Isn’t it because it’s frozen? Should I go in through the window and boil some water in a pot? If we pour hot water on it, it might open… Hey hey, Yoon Eden! You’re going to break the door!”

Overcome with rising frustration, despite Seo Yehyeon’s restraint, I grabbed the door handle and shook it with all my might, making the door rattle.

“Oh, it opened.”

“What kind of strength…”

As the sun began to set slowly, painting the sky with sunset colors as a backdrop, the front door finally swung wide open.

I couldn’t believe we had been doing this from morning until sunset.

Except for Ryu Jaehee, who left his camcorder behind and went to the community center saying he’d return the shovels, we all collapsed on the dormitory floor, rubbing our arms.

“Dobin, aren’t you going home?”

“I’m too tired to go…”

At my question, Kim Dobin lay sprawled in the middle of the living room and answered weakly.

Considering that Kim Dobin’s reason for suggesting the escape from the isolated house episode was ‘to go home,’ it was quite an ironic result.

To waste an entire day off digging snow. This is all because of that damn LnL that hasn’t moved us out of this shitty semi-basement dorm until now.

But thanks to today’s events, the moving schedule that had been postponed while insisting on inauspicious days was finally set.

When I checked the date, it wasn’t even an inauspicious day. If that’s the case, why did they postpone it?

Seo Yehyeon, who had been fiddling with the camcorder, sighed and lamented.

“I think all the broadcast footage will get cut. We only filmed digging, didn’t we?”

“But if we were going to do this, why did we bother digging? Wouldn’t we have gotten appropriate broadcast time if we just filmed a stay-at-home special?”

At Gyeon Hajun’s words, who had advocated for a stay-at-home special from the beginning, I turned only my head while lying sprawled on the sofa and said.

“Who was the first person to suggest digging snow?”

Kim Dobin glanced around nervously, then slowly raised his hand and said in a crawling voice.

“Should I bash my head in?”

“If someone heard that, they’d misunderstand that we’re enforcing discipline within the group, man. Why would you bash your head? We can just fill the time with other content.”

At that time, we had no idea. How this video, which we dismissed as useless, would be used in the future.

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