A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 83

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 83

 

 

The screen showing the pension changed to outdoors where snow was falling heavily.

 

[-What should we do, PD? They say the car can’t make it up.]

[-This is a big problem. What are we going to do about this…]

[Unable to reach the pension due to snow that accumulated overnight]

 

As the car couldn’t get through due to the snow piled up on the mountain road, the panicking production crew and Rev’s manager appeared on screen.

The PD called Eden to explain the situation.

The voice coming through the receiver was surprisingly calm. This must be why he was made the leader.

The scene changed again to show Rev gathered in the living room.

 

[-We have to stay one more day in this ghost house…? This is the mountain lodge’s curse! The curse of this Ghost Valley Lodge!]

 

As Doby grabbed his head and shouted, Eden clicked his tongue beside him. Hajun carefully spoke up.

 

[-But the problem is, what we bought yesterday was only enough for one meal yesterday.]

[-It’s okay, Hajun hyung. We secretly added more when we were shopping at the mart yesterday.]

[-So that’s why you told me to make boxes while you two went to pay. Where did you hide what you secretly bought?]

[-We put it in our pockets first, then after hyung finished organizing the refrigerator, we secretly hid it in the back of the fridge.]

[-Thorough, very thorough.]

[-That’s not something Eden hyung, who cooperated most actively, should be saying.]

[Eden caught red-handed]

 

When Hajun whipped around to look, Eden played innocent and subtly avoided eye contact.

They might need to light a fire in the fireplace in case the electricity went out.

They should prepare food in advance.

After seriously discussing these matters, Rev quickly divided up the roles.

Hajun went into the kitchen to start cooking, while the rest dug through the snow piled up on the path to the storage room with snow removal shovels.

Yuje, who was holding a camcorder instead of a shovel because he was the youngest, muttered.

 

[-Huh, is this déjà vu?]

[What part exactly gave Rev a sense of déjà vu?]

[The story… flows back five days ago.]

 

Like rewinding a camera, the screen played in reverse, then showed Rev gathered in the semi-basement dormitory.

 

[-Oh, finally a vacation.]

[-What is everyone planning to do during the vacation?]

[-I have to go home and rest well! I won’t come out until the vacation is over.]

[-I should meet friends after a long time and install equipment in the studio.]

[-I’ll probably stay home like Doby too.]

[-I think I’ll probably have to stay at the dormitory. If I go back and forth to my family home, all the time will be gone.]

[-I’ll only be home for exactly one day! The rest of the time I’m going to run around everywhere!]

[Rev excitedly making vacation plans]

 

Rev, who had been chattering with excited voices and making expectant expressions, had changed to gloomy and dejected expressions when the screen blinked once.

In the silence, Eden spoke up as their representative.

 

[-Hello, viewers. We are currently trapped in our dormitory due to heavy snow. The door won’t open because of the accumulated snow. So this is a full-scale survival special. Or should we call it an isolation special.]

 

Archive footage showed text message screens exchanged with their manager and photos of snow piled up blocking the door.

 

[-Usually for things like this, you get trapped in a haunted mountain lodge, but we’re trapped in a semi-basement dormitory.]

 

Doby let out an exaggerated sigh, saying it was such a waste.

 

[Dreams do come true★]

 

And that scene was cross-edited with Doby screaming at a ghost that suddenly popped out of a closet in a pension decorated like a haunted house.

Scenes of a refrigerator with plenty of food and a boiler working properly passed by in sequence.

Thanks to this, there wasn’t much sense of tension from the survival situation.

 

[-Let’s change it to an escape from an isolated house special.]

[A dustpan appears instead of a shovel!?]

[-Are you serious, Doby…?]

 

Doby, who had dug just a tiny bit of a tunnel, handed the dustpan over to Eden. Eden’s speed at digging through the snow was phenomenal.

Eden escaped through the finally completed tunnel, and the scene of Rev diligently clearing the front door area with snow removal shovels borrowed from the community center gradually faded out, returning to the scene of three people digging their way to the storage room.

 

[Rev turned out to be survival veterans(?)]

[-Come to think of it, we cleared the snow in front of our dormitory like this too.]

[-Wow, recovering foreshadowing like this.]

[-Isn’t that a prequel rather than foreshadowing?]

[-Wow, but everyone seems to have gotten a bit used to it since we did some digging before?]

[-I don’t want to get used to this kind of thing…]

 

Scenes of carrying firewood back and Eden diligently clearing snow in front of the front door.

The scene of eating their first and last meal flashed by quickly.

 

[-A world without internet is truly boring.]

[Internet also out of service]

 

I had been watching with laughter until now, but when even the internet was cut off, it really hit home that this was a disaster situation.

 

[The pension suddenly goes dark!]

[-Did the electricity go out?]

[-It seems like it.]

[-Good thing we lit the fireplace…]

[-Don’t we need to bring more firewood? Anyone want to go to the storage room together?]

 

The electricity went out too?! Are the production crew crazy? What were they thinking taking them to a place like that! What if something serious had happened to our oppas!

Miss Lee, who had somehow advanced one step further from being Rev’s light fan, fumed with anger.

Eden was the first to turn on his cell phone flashlight and stand up to speak. Yehyeon and Hajun followed suit and got up.

The three older members gestured for the youngest line, who were hesitantly lifting their bottoms off the floor, to stay seated, then went out and returned carrying armfuls of firewood.

 

[-Wow, it’s still snowing. We’re not going to be unable to go down tomorrow too, are we?]

[-Hey, words become seeds.]

[Will Rev’s fate truly be…?]

 

Yehyeon, who had placed firewood next to the fireplace, pressed his palm against the floor and spoke with a serious expression.

 

[-The floor is too cold, probably because the boiler is off. We should lay down more blankets to avoid catching a cold.]

[-Now that I think about it, I think there were blankets in the closet.]

[-Which closet?]

[-The closet with the ghost mannequin and the wardrobe in the shaman house concept room. I opened them to see what was there.]

 

The screen switched to show a brief scene from the day before, when Eden had quietly opened the wardrobe while the other members were huddled together screaming in the shaman house concept room.

 

[-There are probably blankets in the other rooms too. Let’s go get them all. The floor was pretty cold yesterday even with the boiler on.]

[-I absolutely can’t go. Don’t take me with you.]

[Doby is already terrified]

 

Eden sighed deeply, picked up the camcorder, and stood up.

 

[-Four of us can go into one room each and bring them back, excluding Doby… What?]

 

Eden stopped speaking when he felt two hands gripping his clothes. Yuje and Yehyeon were holding onto his clothes and smiling sheepishly.

 

[-What do you mean ‘what’?]

[-It’s scary to go alone.]

[-…Me too.]

[Reluctantly decided to go together]

 

Even Doby, who followed along because he was scared of being left alone when faced with that crisis, joined them, so all of Rev moved together.

The first room they entered was the one Eden had chosen, where the ghost mannequin had been hidden in the closet.

The room was dark and gloomy with no electricity for lighting, but five cell phone flashlights were bright enough.

Since they had to open the closet to get the blankets inside, the three scaredy-cats stood far away with their backs turned.

When Eden opened the closet door, the ghost mannequin leaning diagonally greeted them.

When he quickly pulled out the blanket from under the ghost mannequin’s feet, the mannequin fell to the floor with a thud!

 

[-Oh, oh… The mannequin isn’t broken or shattered, right?]

[-It’s cracked.]

[-Do I have to pay for it? No, right?]

 

Thanks to Eden gently laying the cracked mannequin on the bed, when Yuje, Doby, and Yehyeon turned their heads at the sound of the closet closing and casually looked at the bed, their shock was passed off as a minor incident.

Yuje and Doby carried the blanket obtained from the first room to the living room, and after gathering blankets from the second and third rooms, only Eden went to the last room.

 

[Just watching makes your knees weak…]

[-Wow, it’s dark.]

[End of the tough guy’s commentary]

 

Even when he accidentally touched a bell and the bell sound eerily rang throughout the room, Eden opened the wardrobe without being shaken and brought out a thick cotton blanket.

 

[-Did he really go in there alone? Really?]

[-Then would it be fake?]

 

Eden chuckled and reached out to ruffle Yuje’s hair vigorously.

 

[-Hello, this is Doby back with Season 2 of the survival special. We are currently stranded at the Ghost House, no, Ghost Valley Lodge due to heavy snow. This time it’s real survival. And in a pension in the snowy mountains like this.]

 

Doby whispered seriously into the camcorder and made a cutting gesture.

 

[-Please edit this to the very beginning.]

[Doby’s unfulfilled request…]

 

The Rev members laid thick blankets on the floor in front of the fireplace, wrapped themselves tightly in blankets, and huddled together in front of the fireplace.

 

[-Doesn’t this feel just like we’re at a campfire?]

[-I don’t know about campfires, but I’m cold and hungry.]

[-Patrasche, my eyes are slowly closing…]

[-Whine…]

 

The situation of being stranded with the electricity cut off at a pension surrounded by snow on the mountainside.

Even watching through the screen, it was clearly a precarious situation.

With Yuje and Doby’s pre-fight situation added on top, it became even more tense.

 

[-Alright, alright… I’m dead tired from digging and carrying firewood all day…]

 

Miss Lee was impressed by Eden’s appearance, who alone didn’t get up despite Doby’s ghost commotion and stubbornly kept his eyes closed, sleeping.

When morning came again, the pension door burst open and a group of people entered.

At the sound of the door opening, the Rev members groggily got up from in front of the completely extinguished fireplace.

 

[-Kids, are you safe? Is anyone hurt or sick?]

[Everyone nods]

[Emotional reunion after 48 hours!]

 

The car carrying Rev faded out as it moved away from the pension, and individual member interviews appeared.

 

[Eden: I did plenty of digging. Why is there so much snow in February?]

[Hajun: It was good that it became an opportunity to grow closer with the members, but… I’ll refrain from saying more.]

[Yuje: I got body aches. And there’s definitely a ghost in that pension. I think we need an exorcism.]

[Yehyeon: Next time, please make it a healing trip instead of an isolated survival scenario.]

[Doby: Next time, couldn’t you give me at least a little heads up… I almost died of a heart attack…]

[We promise Rev’s healing trip for sure~]

 

The video ended with the production crew’s promise message as the last part, showing a preview of next week’s dormitory move.

When her true fan friend asked how it was, she immediately sent a reply.

 

[I didn’t know, but I guess fearless and reliable men are my type] 12:34 AM

 

That’s how Miss Lee’s bias was decided. It was one step from being a light fan to becoming a true fan.

 

* * *

 

[☺100,000 fans achieved!]

[Reward: Initial Intentions +20, Item Selection Ticket]

 

We finally achieved 100,000 fans. Thanks to that, our Initial Intentions were plenty, so there was no need to push ourselves with this week’s Weekly Quest either.

“But why did our Fan Cafe membership suddenly surge? It increased dramatically in a short period.”

When I asked Ryu Jaehee, who serves as Reve’s Siri and Bixby combined and knows pretty much everything about the group, he immediately responded as expected.

“It’s thanks to the My Idol Observation Camera survival special episode. That gained some word-of-mouth, and the YouTube replay hit 1 million views too.”

“Come to think of it, I was too busy to watch it. But why did that gain word-of-mouth? Nothing much happened, right?”

I found it surprising since, aside from sleeping on blankets in the Living Room because the Room was decorated rather spookily and doing some serious Digging, we had rested quite comfortably.

“If you just watch the video, it looks like the worst survival situation.”

Curious about Ryu Jaehee’s words, I played the YouTube replay video, only to find a discrepancy between my memories and our appearance in the footage.

When exactly did we face such a serious level of isolation…?

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