A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 74

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 74

As soon as I opened the door, a large, elongated doll covered in white cloth and hanging from a rope popped out and swayed back and forth.

It would have been fine if it was just a doll covered in white cloth, but the problem was that eyes and a mouth were drawn on it in a horrifying way with smeared ink.

If it had been expected horror, it wouldn’t have been scary, but since I was expecting rest and encountered horror instead, I was somewhat startled.

The timing made it even worse since it was getting darker, maximizing the effect.

Kim Dobin, the most timid of the five, was already clinging to Gyeon Hajun’s back, making incomprehensible crying sounds.

Since the snowfall was getting heavier, we went inside the accommodation for now.

I found the lighting and turned it on, but either the lights themselves were dim or they didn’t brighten up as much as I expected.

“Kyaaaah!”

At Kim Dobin’s scream, I rushed over to find him pointing with trembling hands at a picture frame hanging on the wall.

The old frames hanging like windows contained ghost paintings and photos posed as if they were about to jump out of the frames at any moment.

“Ah, what’s this? If these were actual windows, that would be scream-worthy. What’s so scary about photos and paintings? You can obviously tell they hung them there on purpose to create a scary atmosphere.”

“Huhueng, don’t talk about it! It’s scary!”

“Tsk, you scaredy-cat.”

I clicked my tongue and looked around the pension.

Setting aside the eerie atmosphere, the ghost paintings hanging on the mountain lodge walls and the yellow talismans stuck everywhere made it feel more like a ghost house than an accommodation.

The bizarre Japanese dolls occupying the display case and unidentifiable shamanic props felt more like obvious ploys than actually scary.

Being so blatant about it actually made the fear subside more.

Of course, that seemed to be just my opinion, as Seo Yehyeon, who quietly came beside me to look at the display case, immediately turned around and moved away from it.

‘Is the fireplace just decorative, or what?’

We were shown the storage room behind the pension and handed a camcorder.

Seeing firewood stacked in the storage room, it seemed the fireplace wasn’t just decorative.

“If anything happens, contact us right away.”

The staff withdrew, leaving just us in this Ghost Valley Lodge or ghost house, alone with the camcorder and cameras installed everywhere.

They were telling us to create content on our own with the ghost house experience.

Well, if the staff followed us around, we’d constantly be aware it was a broadcast, so it would be less scary.

“Kyaaaah! Hyungs!”

Kim Dobin’s loud scream rang out once again.

I rushed over urgently to see dismembered mannequins stuffed inside the refrigerator.

“Hey, you can obviously tell it’s a mannequin. Why are you getting scared over something like this?”

With halfhearted effort, I removed all the mannequins from the refrigerator and put in the groceries we had bought.

Before I knew it, Kim Dobin was clinging to my back like a leech.

“Those talismans are scary, can’t we take them down?”

“Doby hyung, do you know what those are to carelessly remove them? What if they’re real talismans?”

Ryu Jaehee, the second scaredy-cat, stopped Kim Dobin who was about to tear off the talismans plastered all over the wall.

“But haven’t you been hearing sobbing sounds since earlier…?”

“There’s definitely a recorder installed somewhere.”

I asked Kim Dobin, who was looking around in terror while tightly gripping my arm.

“Dobin, come to think of it, didn’t you mention a ghost house when you talked about content you wanted to do before?”

“That doesn’t even take 30 minutes! It’s not like spending a whole night in a ghost house like this!”

“It’s not even a real haunted house, just a pension they rented and decorated, so I don’t understand why you’re so scared.”

“I don’t understand how you can be so unfazed by this, hyung…”

The mountain lodge had a total of four rooms.

Since Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee stubbornly insisted they couldn’t sleep alone, we put them in the same room, and Hajun, Seo Yehyeon, and I each got our own rooms.

According to the production crew, there was one large room and three small rooms, so I generously gave up the large room for the youngest line to use.

We hadn’t checked the rooms yet, but there was a high probability that the rooms were also decorated like a ghost house.

Because the youngest line was whining that there was definitely something in the rooms and they were too scared to go in, we spent time with all five of us exploring each room together with the camcorder.

The first was the room I had chosen.

“Huh, there’s nothing special in the room?”

“No way, if we open places like this… Waaaaah! See, there is something! Huhuheng, please get this off me quickly! What is this! What is this!”

As soon as I opened the wall closet, something popped out toward Kim Dobin and covered his face.

Kim Dobin was almost on the verge of fainting from the long, stiff hair covering his face.

The identity of what attacked Kim Dobin was a mannequin dressed in white funeral clothes with a long hair wig put on upside down.

After setting the mannequin upright and closing the closet, Ryu Jaehee looked at me with a pale face and asked.

“Hyung, can you sleep here?”

“As long as I can’t see it, it’s fine.”

“What if the mannequin suddenly opens the closet and comes out to strangle you while you’re lying in bed…”

“Wow, become a writer, Jaehee.”

Just in case, I opened the shelf next to the bed to find a blood-stained kitchen knife and rusty old scissors. At first, I didn’t know why they were there.

“Now when you fall asleep, the mannequin ghost will open the closet and come out with a knife in one hand and scissors in the other, standing beside your bed staring down at you.”

After hearing Ryu Jaehee’s rapid-fire trembling words, I understood in one go why they put them there.

It’s possible to create imaginative horror with just two props.

“By any chance… don’t you hear some sound right now? There’s no clock but I hear ticking sounds.”

“Oh, ASMR.”

“Wow, this hyung’s mentality is really…”

There was probably a recorder attached somewhere, but I gave up looking for it since it was bothersome. It’s not like fingernails scratching metal, just clock sounds, whatever.

Anyway, my room had a closet pop-out virgin ghost, and next, Hajun’s room was…

“This looks like some murder scene concept?”

Crime scene tape drawn on the floor and bloodstains, police lines surrounding the bed, blood splattered on the blanket.

A faceless human-sized cloth doll sitting in a piano chair with its head buried in the keyboard as if dead.

Blood on the piano keys, and what looked like pooled blood on the floor where the piano chair was placed.

Of course, it was 100% likely to be paint, not real blood.

As soon as I slightly lifted the blanket, a cloth doll covered in red paint came out, making Kim Dobin shriek and plop down on the floor.

Ryu Jaehee said he couldn’t watch and left, then came back saying the living room was too scary to be alone in.

“I can’t sleep here.”

Hajun cleanly declared surrender.

Next, the room Seo Yehyeon chose was surprisingly normal.

“I picked a good room.”

Seo Yehyeon flopped down on the bed, then immediately started flailing silently while pointing at the ceiling.

Following his finger, I saw a ghost photo with a wide grin plastered right on the ceiling.

It was positioned perfectly to make eye contact when lying in bed.

“Come to think of it, there are probably talismans under the pillow… there really are.”

When I slightly lifted the pillow, I could see talismans neatly arranged underneath. Seo Yehyeon also declared defeat.

“I can’t sleep here either.”

“You can’t see it when you close your eyes anyway.”

“Then want to switch rooms with me? No, really, if that doesn’t bother you, please switch with me.”

Pointing at the ceiling, Seo Yehyeon clung to me with a pale face.

But I didn’t want to wake up and exchange glances with a ghost photo first thing either, so I firmly refused.

So far, only one out of three rooms had been deemed sleepable.

And we opened the door to the long-awaited final room.

“Wow, this one really seems like ghosts would appear? If you sleep here, you’d get sleep paralysis. Even I find this one a bit scary.”

“Can’t we leave? Can’t we just leave this place?”

I was amazed at the sight that looked like an entire shaman’s house had been moved here.

Was this perhaps a movie filming location? They decorated it incredibly realistically.

This room didn’t even have a bed. Only a thick mattress was laid out.

“I was wondering where that incense smell was coming from, and it was here.”

Incense stuck in an incense burner was burning away.

I slowly examined the ritual food replicas and straw dolls placed on the altar.

Judging by the lack of dust, it seemed like it had been placed there not too long ago.

It would have been scarier if it were covered in dust, which is a shame. Of course, the two cowards who had to sleep in this room were making a fuss saying even this much was scary.

Looking at the faded Buddhist paintings that filled the walls, I seriously contemplated whether those things should really be hanging in a place like this.

If my room had the sound of a clock ticking, this place had the sound of bells jingling.

Ryu Jaehee, who was more afraid of this kind of creative horror than jump scares, urgently pushed our backs saying we should leave quickly.

Feeling like we might really get haunted if we stayed any longer, we hurriedly came out.

“Did they hire escape room horror theme creators or something? The quality is no joke.”

“No, I did imagine something like this… I did imagine spending a whole day and night trapped in an escape room horror theme… but I didn’t want it to actually happen!”

“So… the only room we can actually sleep in is the one Eden Hyung chose…?”

“Honestly, that room isn’t exactly not scary either, but the other rooms are so bad we can’t sleep in them at all, that’s the problem.”

“But isn’t that room too small for all five of us to sleep together? The bed was a single bed too.”

“What can we do? We’ll have to bring blankets and all sleep together in the living room.”

Since they made such a fuss about not being able to enter that room, I ended up carrying the blanket from the shaman house concept room myself.

They really know all sorts of ways to make their hyung work.

“Wow, we didn’t need to worry about screen time.”

Just going around each room and getting reactions from the scaredy-cats was enough for one episode.

It seemed like they had planned this night at Ghost Valley Lodge in advance, anticipating that the winter ocean content would be boring.

As expected, talented people from good universities are different.

“…I can’t sleep.”

Ryu Jaehee muttered while looking at the ceiling with hollow eyes.

“What, should we take turns telling ghost stories or something?”

“That would make it even harder to sleep. And they say if you tell ghost stories, ghosts listen from beside you.”

At Ryu Jaehee’s retort, Kim Dobin grumbled while pulling his blanket over his head, telling him not to say such things.

“The living room is scary too, what do we do?”

“Then we’ll have to go outside and sleep outdoors, what else can we do?”

Seo Yehyeon, who desperately avoided looking at the display cabinet and walked to the window to check the situation outside, spoke with a serious face.

“The snow is no joke right now. Are we going to get isolated again like at the dormitory on our first day of vacation?”

“At least that was in the city center, but if we get isolated here, there’s no way out-“

The majestic sound of the grandfather clock ringing cut off my words.

It was my first time seeing a grandfather clock that actually worked.

Kim Dobin, who was closest to the grandfather clock, caused a commotion asking to switch places, saying a ghost might come out of it.

After that, Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee, who experienced sleep paralysis at the same time, screamed and woke everyone up, and we stayed up all night searching the entire living room trying to find the source of sobbing sounds coming from somewhere.

And finally, morning came with the sunrise.

Last night, that hopeless situation I had jokingly mentioned actually came true.

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