A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 88

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 88

[Entertainment Gossip] Rev’s Kim Dobin is also a school violence perpetrator

Anonymous ❘ 20xx.04.05 09:31

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Found this while digging through Jinix Jeyoon’s SNS after he was exposed as a school violence perpetrator this time

There are four guys total in the photo including Kim Dobin, and the victim said there were four perpetrators in the group, so he’s probably a perpetrator too

Even if he didn’t directly participate, he was at least a bystander – no rebuttals accepted

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-I searched through SNS and that’s the only photo with Dobin in it, isn’t this too much of a stretch?

└Does being in a group erase the past of participating in school violence together?

-This is going too far. If Kim Dobin had bullied together, the victim would have targeted Kim Dobin in the expose post too

└Don’t you know that being a bystander is also violence?

└Then don’t you know that accusing someone of being a school violence perpetrator based on just one photo without evidence is defamation?

-Wow… Even if he was a bystander, it’s disappointing…

-Even if he’s not a perpetrator, just being friends with perpetrators already shows his character,,,

└Birds of a feather is science

-I could tell from the moment she started showing off ㅋㅋ She’s such a typical… mmph mmph

-Kim Dobin switched his major from Breaking to Urban Dance. He was in Breaking during his first year

└Didn’t the victim say they were bullied starting from first year?

└That’s undeniable lol

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While doing my usual Search Quest, a nightmare appeared before me.

A speculation post claiming that Kim Dobin was also a school violence perpetrator, or at least a bystander if not a perpetrator, was uploaded with countless comments, recommendations, and views.

In a photo from the SNS account that the guy exposed for school violence this time had failed to delete, Kim Dobin was clearly captured.

At first I wondered if it was photoshopped, but looking closely, it wasn’t edited either.

My head was throbbing. Clearly, Kim Dobin’s school violence allegations hadn’t happened in the past before regression.

‘That makes sense. Back then he was a failed idol that no one even knew existed.’

Was there such a school violence incident? As I recall, there should only be one or two idol school violence exposes.

Anyway, if I can’t resolve this, Kim Dobin will have to take the team withdrawal route, and it’s unlikely Rev can make it to the first team with four members missing the main dancer.

Then I’ll have to regress to debut again and repeat this whole ordeal.

And if I regress and come this far again but can’t solve this problem, I’ll have to keep doing infinite regressions.

From relationship improvement to finding all sorts of ways to rot my insides, Kim Dobin.

As expected, Ryu Jaehee, who must have seen that post with his face pale as a sheet, came running to me.

“Hyung, Eden Hyung…!”

“Shh.”

I first calmed Ryu Jaehee down and raised my index finger to my lips, meaning don’t make a fuss and be quiet.

“Does Kim Dobin know this has blown up?”

“Yes, he knows. I took away Doby Hyung’s cell phone for now. With his personality, if his mental state breaks, it won’t recover.”

Ryu Jaehee roughly tousled his hair and let out a deep sigh.

“His expression hasn’t been good since the Jinix Jeyoon school violence expose broke. When I saw that post and asked if he went to the same school as Doby Hyung, he gave evasive answers…”

The problem was that this broke during our active period.

Right now it’s just an issue at the level of suspicion, but if this spreads widely and ‘Kim Dobin school violence theory’ becomes an established fact, continuing activities would only be like pouring oil on fire, making further activities impossible.

Even now, there are far more comments focusing on ‘having connections with perpetrators’ and attacking than comments defending Kim Dobin.

For now, judging that fact-checking comes first, I decided to have a conversation with Kim Dobin.

Ryu Jaehee repeatedly asked if it wouldn’t be better to leave it to Gyeon Hajun, but since I had a cheat key, I had to do it.

It was a good opportunity to use the Truth Potion I had drawn from spinning a Random Ticket a few days ago.

Ryu Jaehee looked at me with an anxious face, grabbed me, and earnestly pleaded that whatever else I do, don’t be harsh with him.

“Ah, Hyung is really insensitive so I’m more worried. Don’t just try to present solutions, show some appropriate empathy too. Got it?”

“Yeah, sure.”

“Don’t respond so insensitively like this. This isn’t empathy, it’s a thoughtless answer that makes people frustrated.”

“Yeah, I see.”

“Should I really leave this to this hyung…?”

I roughly patted the shoulder of Ryu Jaehee, who was muttering with a worried voice, then sent him back to his room.

I mixed chamomile tea and the Truth Potion well in a mug cup and entered the private room that Kim Dobin used alone.

“Can’t I just be alone, Hyung.”

A sunken voice flowed out from inside the pile of blankets.

“No, you can’t. This is a race against time, so every minute and second is urgent right now.”

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

[Initial Intentions –1]

I only stated facts, so why did my Initial Intentions get deducted again for inciting discord?

[Try saying something considerate to the other person.]

“Hyung, don’t you also think I’m a nuisance to the group right now?”

Kim Dobin, still hiding his body tightly in the pile of blankets, said sharply.

I let out a short sigh and called Kim Dobin’s name as gently as possible.

“Dobin, Kim Dobin.”

Kim Dobin’s body flinched. First I need to make him drink this Truth Potion so I can either hear the truth or not.

“If you keep your mouth shut, no one will know the truth. Who else besides you knows the truth here? You have to tell us so we’ll know. And we’ll believe it.”

At those words, Kim Dobin slowly pulled back the blankets and finally revealed his face.

I wondered if he might be crying, but his face was fine except for a gloomy expression.

“First drink this and calm down.”

“I wasn’t excited though…”

Even while talking back, Kim Dobin obediently took the mug cup.

When Kim Dobin completely emptied the mug cup, I got up from the chair and plopped down on the bed where Kim Dobin was sitting.

“I don’t know where to start.”

At Kim Dobin’s confused muttering, I kindly provided guidelines.

“First tell me what kind of relationship you have with that Jeyoon guy who got exposed for school violence this time.”

“With him… I was in the same group during first year. And I was lumped into the easy target role in that group and got bullied, so I left. I changed majors because of that too…”

I think I understood what he meant.

Kim Dobin was in the position of being the easy-going, gentle guy in the group who would just laugh it off when poked and wouldn’t give aggressive reactions.

Treating him roughly under the guise of friendship and bullying him, eventually crossing the line and growing distant.

“So that photo was taken back then?”

“Yes, I didn’t know that bastard still hadn’t deleted it…”

“I heard it was an account he had neglected so much that he forgot to delete it before debut.”

“You know well…”

“It was in the comments. It looks like he deleted that account now, but the photo with you in it has already been leaked, so it doesn’t mean much.”

“Are there a lot of bad comments about me?”

“Why are you curious about that? Don’t be curious about such things, man.”

When I lightly tapped the top of his head, Kim Dobin hung his head low.

“Then second. When you were in that group, did they bully the victim like what was exposed this time?”

After thinking for a moment, Kim Dobin heavily nodded his head.

“But when I was there, it wasn’t as severe as the expose post. Probably because there was someone in the group to pick on.”

This was a bit ambiguous, but it could be passed off with the fact that Kim Dobin was also being bullied at that time.

“This happened after I left their group. Thanks to that, I also heard through the grapevine about the ankle incident and choreography plagiarism incident mentioned in the exposé post.”

“So you’re saying there were four perpetrators in the group?”

“There’s a kid who newly joined that group after I left. It’s probably him. Not me.”

I felt somewhat relieved by those answers.

Now I had to find a way to definitively silence this perpetrator and bystander issue to a level where no rumors would spread.

“Then we need to prove that you left this group before the bullying got severe. And also that you were bullied within this group. Do you have any evidence left? Like group chat rooms or something.”

“I left as soon as I cut ties with them. And Lee Jeyoon will definitely try to drag me down with him, saying things are going well. He’ll say there’s no evidence, that I definitely joined in on the bullying too. He’s exactly that type of guy.”

“No, don’t you have friends who could testify that you cut ties with them before that?”

“Hyung, do you remember every single time classmates you weren’t close with fought and fell out? Especially something that happened 2 years ago?”

Well, that’s usually how it is. And there will definitely be people who won’t believe without concrete evidence.

“Hey, there’s one way.”

There was a method. The most reliable way to silence the false rumors and prevent any more attacks from coming out.

“Can you get the victim’s contact information? You’re at the same school, right?”

“I can get it.”

“Contact them and ask them to clarify things.”

Kim Dobin, who had been rolling his eyes around like a puppy that caused trouble, replied timidly.

“Do you think they’ll do it…? From their perspective, aren’t I the same kind of guy? Anyway, from what they saw, I was hanging around with Jeyoon’s gang…”

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the phrase “same kind of guy.”

“From what I can guess, those guys in the group probably didn’t treat you poorly only when you were alone together, right? I bet they treated you especially harshly when other people were around, not just when you were together. Am I wrong?”

“Whoa, yes, that’s right.”

Kim Dobin opened his eyes wide as if wondering how I knew and shook his head.

It was obvious. They showed others how roughly they treated him to demonstrate that they were higher in the hierarchy than him.

When they were alone together, it wasn’t for showing off but just ingrained habits coming out.

“If that’s the case, everyone else knows too. They would never see you as the same kind of perpetrator, so contact them first.”

People watching from the sidelines never think of that relationship as equal friends. They see it as bullies and the one being bullied.

Probably when Kim Dobin left the group, that perception became even more certain.

The fact that the victim didn’t include Kim Dobin’s name in the exposé post was already reason for hope.

If the victim had harbored ill feelings toward Kim Dobin too, they definitely would have included Kim Dobin’s name.

Even if they didn’t include it before regression because he was a failed idol not worth mentioning, now his face and name were fairly well-known even through YouTube algorithms.

I’d probably have to stay on edge until the victim’s clarification post went up, but for now I felt somewhat relieved.

Suddenly Kim Dobin started crying.

“I’m sorry, hyung.”

I was flustered by the sudden tears and apology. No, there’s no need to apologize for something so unavoidable…

Before I could awkwardly wave my hand dismissively, Kim Dobin honestly confessed the reason for his apology.

“Actually, I didn’t really like you, hyung.”

Wow, what a shocking confession. I know that too, man. The relationship improvement was 48% on your side alone – did you think I wouldn’t notice?

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