A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 8

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 8

Sajing-nim @notceo

Damn, isn’t this a gear enhancement theme song

Laughing hard

「The One Chance given to you, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Always approach it as if only One Chance remains

You know it too, it’s either success or failure」

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Sajing-nim @notceo

This is the song

Reve One Chance

Lee Kong @Leebean

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`·. One Chance – #Eden – Please listen

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Lee Kong @Leebean

Many people are asking about the song info so I’m pinning it to the thread

It’s Reve’s One Chance

[Entertainment Chat] One Chance, I’ve been hearing this song a lot lately and it’s pretty good

Anonymous ❘ 21:41 ❘ Views 334

I first heard this song through cover videos of middle schoolers doing that deadly gun-shooting hand gesture to the beat, but at some point I found myself doing the bang-bang hand motion at “the One Chance given to you, the opportunity of a lifetime~”…lol

[Comments]

Anonymous 1 The song is totally poison-charging material

I heard from Anonymous 2’s tweet that it’s the theme song for item enhancement lol

Anonymous 3: I heard this was like a gacha lucky song lol After someone posted that they played this and rolled gacha and got two 5-stars, all the gacha gamers started playing this while pulling lolololol

Anonymous 4 Right, this song is surprisingly addictive lol I heard this B-side was composed by the team leader, makes me wonder why they didn’t make it the title track

Anonymous 5 I looked up Reve after hearing this and the kids’ styling and title track are… really speechless… Is the agency crazy, what are they doing with kids like these

Anonymous 6 Please do follow-up activities with this plz

YouTube

(Video)

Reve – One Chance [Audio]

15.3K views

☝2,501 ☟

Yuni L • 2 days ago

It was ambiguous when I first heard it, but before I knew it, I found myself making a 1-hour version after failing to find one

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Gyuni Gyuni • 18 hours ago

What is it about this song that’s so addictive lol The part “one chance given to you~” keeps running through my head

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“Guys, we might escape being flop idols soon?”

At my listless words, Seo Yehyeon responded with an equally listless voice.

“How about putting some sincerity into your words?”

How ridiculous. Where else would you find words so full of sincerity?

The proportion of Reve and One Chance appearing in searches I conducted for Weekly Quest had increased.

It was just the day before yesterday that I confirmed we had entered the top 200 on the music charts from the distant bottom.

Fan cafe membership and official account followers were also gradually increasing, though not by large amounts.

While it was an embarrassing level to say we had made an impression on the public, I was satisfied for now that we hadn’t sunk into the depths without a single mention like in the 1st round.

To pull up further from here, the answer was definitely to do follow-up activities with and drop a hit song in the next album.

As I was pondering ways to definitely imprint ourselves on the public, I felt a stinging gaze.

“What is it, Doby. If you have something to say, say it.”

Kim Dobin, who had been glancing at me and whispering with Ryu Jaehee, flinched at my call and asked cautiously.

“Is it perhaps related to hyung’s frequent outings?”

I frowned at the out-of-the-blue question and asked back.

“Why that?”

“No, I was just curious about what you’ve been doing.”

“What would you do knowing?”

Are you guys going to complete songs for me instead?

Thinking about the verse that was tormenting me with only ambiguous melodies coming out because I was relying solely on memory, my head throbbed and I rubbed my brow.

Since one work was blocked, I was experiencing the phenomenon of everything else getting blocked in succession, so my stress had been at its peak lately.

[Words that incite discord with members have been detected.]

[Initial Intentions -1]

Guys, please don’t get upset at every single word. If my initial intentions level drops any further from here, it’s going to get dangerous.

As I let out an irritated sigh while receiving the members’ stinging gazes for some reason, the atmosphere sank even further.

What broke that precarious atmosphere was the sound of the door lock.

“What’s this, why’s the atmosphere like this? Did you guys fight?”

“No?”

“Get along well, you brats. Do newly debuted guys have business getting involved in discord rumors?”

Manager Hyung, who poured out nagging as soon as he entered the dormitory, called me over and told me what to relay.

“There’s an internal meeting today, so Eden, you take care of the kids and come to the company by 2 o’clock. Got it?”

I slightly frowned thinking about the songs I hadn’t completed yet. Even though I tried my best with all-night work sessions, it was still tight to complete the songs.

If the schedule shortening was confirmed in today’s meeting, we’d soon have an internal meeting about the next album, and they’d definitely discuss whether to purchase songs in that meeting.

But according to the big data I had accumulated over 7 years as an LnL member, if purchasing songs came before me presenting my songs, it was easily predictable.

The agency would definitely push whatever song they bought as the next album’s title track, whether the purchased song was crappy or not, because they’d feel bad about the money.

‘Damn, if I had just one more week, it would have been enough.’

I rubbed my throbbing brow and replied.

“Today? I have a health checkup later.”

“Hey, is a health checkup important right now?”

“Ah, of course it’s important! A person coughed up blood, a whole bowlful at that, and you’re saying a meeting is more important than the health of your signed artist? Huh?”

It wasn’t really a whole bowlful… Gyeon Hajun muttered from the side, but I ignored it and strongly voiced my opinion. Eventually, Manager Hyung, who threw up his hands, asked.

“Sigh, fine. What time does the health checkup end-“

“Crazy, jackpot!”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been fiddling with his cell phone, suddenly interrupted Manager Hyung and shot up from the sofa.

The youngest member lifted his phone screen toward the gazes focused on him and shouted with an excited face.

“We charted!”

“Jaehee, if you’re going to lie, at least make it believable. How could that crappy song chart?”

At Kim Dobin’s sarcasm, Ryu Jaehee shook his head and hands simultaneously.

“No, not ! Our B-side track!”

As soon as the words “B-side track” came out of his mouth, I quickly snatched the youngest member’s cell phone to check the screen.

I scratched the back of my head at the number boldly attached in front of our group name.

[100th-new ‘Reve – One Chance’ ♥13,012]

‘This made it to 100th place?’

Even though we had promoted it and mentions had increased, I thought it would be a success if it just quietly entered the top 200.

When I was in the second-tier, 100th place meant a failed song, but now that we’re flop idols, why does even 100th place feel like success?

I quickly turned to Manager Hyung and asked.

“Hyung, is today’s meeting because of this?”

“…No? It’s about shortening activities, ah, wait. The CEO is calling.”

With Manager Hyung taking the call and going outside the semi-basement dorm, we all crowded around Ryu Jaehee’s cell phone.

After staring silently at the chart for a while, Gyeon Hajun asked in a puzzled voice.

“But why did a B-side track suddenly chart instead of the title track?”

“If it’s a B-side track, then it’s definitely not because of me.”

Seo Yehyeon clicked his tongue with an indifferent expression, and as soon as he realized it wasn’t thanks to him, he quickly lost interest and plopped down on the sofa.

“Right. We didn’t even promote this one.”

At Kim Dobin’s nodding murmur, I shrugged my raised shoulders and replied smugly.

“Of course it should chart. Who do you think wrote the lyrics and composed it?”

“That’s right, the original was from your mixtape, hyung.”

“Come to think of it, I think I saw Eden hyung post this song on the From Board…”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been muttering, looked back at me with very surprised eyes.

Wait, come to think of it, if this guy who was obsessed with communicating with fans from the beginning of debut before regression had promoted , doesn’t that mean we wouldn’t have had to go through those three painful years of flop idol life?

At the miserable times flashing before my eyes, I grabbed Ryu Jaehee’s shoulders and shook him while grumbling.

“You claim to always communicate with fans, so why didn’t you promote this earlier?”

“I thought there was no point in promoting B-side tracks since the album was such a complete flop. Actually, I was so shocked after debut that I forgot this B-side track even existed.”

Ryu Jaehee, who had been shaking in my hands, scratched his head and avoided my gaze.

Yeah, I understand. First-week sales of 1** copies was shocking for me too.

I was able to keep my sanity together despite these terrible results because I had experienced the flop idol days once. How shocking must it have been for him to erase even the first-week numbers he saw before regression from his memory?

Then, a status window with sparkling text spread out before my eyes.

[☺1,000 fans achieved!]

[Reward: Initial Intentions +5, Random Ticket]

Oh, my initial intentions level went up. I think I only need to do two Weekly Quests this week.

I thought this was a completely useless system that only caused me pain, made me cough up blood, set impossible conditions like getting 30 million fans, and just made me regress, but it actually gives rewards when I get 1,000 fans.

[Random Ticket: When used, items and abilities are randomly extracted.]

‘Random Ticket…?’

Random tickets are, by nature, things that produce trash with high probability under the name of randomness.

I scanned the Random Ticket description with suspicious eyes and closed the status window.

What if I use it right now and there’s an expiration date or time limit?

Manager Hyung, who had come back into the dorm, stood at the entrance and gestured toward us.

“Eden, he says the health checkup will be scheduled at a big hospital later, so hurry up and come out.”

“Make sure to schedule it as a comprehensive exam. Preferably at a university hospital.”

“Yeah, yeah, I got it, so everyone come out quickly.”

At Manager Hyung’s urging, I roughly put on slippers and left the semi-basement dorm.

I like that there isn’t a single sasaeng fan.

The agency was a 5-minute walk from our current semi-basement dorm. It was an old 3-story building.

When we entered the cramped office, the few employees and CEO Kim Nodam, sitting at the head of the conference room, welcomed us.

My heart was already pounding wondering what kind of hopeless thing this person, who fans and agency artists call “No Answer” more often than his real name, would do today.

If I had known I would regress like this, I should have told him to his face how shitty it was working together before regression.

I took a deep breath to calm my mind in preparation for the bullshit I was about to hear again.

“Actually, we were planning to wrap up the first album activities after this week’s fan signing…”

Perhaps seeing the members’ serious expressions, the CEO smiled and continued while holding up his cell phone showing the chart ranking screen.

“We’ve decided to go with 3 weeks of activities as originally planned.”

This time, it wasn’t the members but my expression that became serious. 3 weeks? This is the 2nd week, so 3 weeks instead of 4?

“You’re not saying we should continue promoting with , are you?”

Really, surely not. Even though CEO Kim Nodam does many things that truly fit his “No Answer” nickname, and even though his sense is so terrible that he ruined several albums even after we became successful. Even in a case like this where the path to success is so obviously visible, he wouldn’t do something hopeless.

But as expected, our CEO Kim No Answer didn’t disappoint this time either.

“Of course we have to do it with the title track .”

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