A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 89

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 89

Still unable to make eye contact with me, Kim Dobin mumbled while only looking down at the blanket.

“Hyung… you resemble Lee Jeyoon.”

Lee Jeyoon? If it’s Lee Jeyoon…

“Are you saying I resemble the school violence perpetrator right now?”

This was genuinely a shocking confession.

Wondering if it was because our faces looked similar, I hurriedly searched for that school violence perpetrator’s face.

I got even more pissed off because we didn’t look alike at all. If the faces don’t look alike, then you’re saying our personalities are similar.

Having lived an extremely upright life far from school violence, those words were too shocking for me.

Especially after reading about the malicious acts of the school violence perpetrator revealed in the exposé post.

When I looked at Kim Dobin with a speechless expression, he hurriedly waved his hands.

“N-not that you completely resemble him, just some aspects are a bit…”

“What! Tell me quickly so I can fix it!”

When I grabbed Kim Dobin’s shoulders and spoke urgently, Kim Dobin rolled his eyes again and slowly opened his tightly closed lips.

“The dogmatic attitude that your words are unconditionally right and…”

“No, but my words really were correct…!”

“These kinds of attitudes right now…”

At his appearance of trailing off his words but still stubbornly saying what he wanted to say, I rubbed my throbbing forehead and nodded for him to continue.

“Criticizing me for being an otaku and giving me looks…”

“When did I give you looks?”

“Asking whether it’s manga or anime is also giving looks. Usually manga gets made into anime. And One Piece isn’t an otaku manga, hyung. You know about the Marineford War and Ace too.”

“…Yeah, I got it.”

Actually, I didn’t know. My memory ended at Alibasta or Alabasta or whatever. Was Ace the protagonist’s older brother or younger brother.

But I didn’t have the energy to nitpick about that right now either.

“Carelessly blurting out words that look down on people and…”

“Me?”

“Put your hand on your chest and think about all your remarks up until now, hyung. You’ll find the answer.”

Somehow it seems like that guy’s spirit is coming back to life.

The dejected mumbling appearance disappeared somewhere and at his increasingly triumphant expression, my eyes just twitched before I finally let out a deflated laugh.

Right, that spirited appearance is much better than looking dejected.

“Calling me by the nickname Doby.”

“Hah… I feel self-loathing that I was sharing the same brain as that bastard.”

“Don’t be too shocked. My nickname was Doby in middle school too.”

“Then let’s humanely exclude that one.”

“But even when I told you not to call me that, only Lee Jeyoon and hyung kept calling me that.”

“Right. I’m sorry.”

So this was the reason you kept your mouth shut when I kept calling you Doby.

“Making the atmosphere around you sink by putting on a serious face when you’re in a bad mood too.”

“Do I really do that?”

“You were bad before but you’re a bit better now.”

The Truth Potion worked very hard.

It made Kim Dobin spill out with his own mouth the reason why my relationship improvement level with Kim Dobin was in the 40% range.

Before regression, Kim Dobin had cut ties with me second after Seo Yehyeon, so if you think about it, he was second among the members to cut me off.

Back then when I got cut off without knowing why, I felt terrible, but now that I know the inside story, I understand.

How could you like someone who keeps showing aspects similar to a person you hate. Moreover, the other person is a difficult hyung two years older and the group leader.

Besides, the me back then was sensitive and sharp beyond measure due to various overlapping reasons like the failed idol period and the agency’s trolling, so he probably thought it would be better to quietly cut ties with me rather than change me.

I roughly tousled my bangs that fell in front of my eyes creating a pink-tinted view and let out a deep sigh.

“Got it. I’ll try to fix it.”

Kim Dobin, who blinked his wide-open eyes a couple times, asked carefully.

“You’re really Eden Hyung, right…? You’re not some other person possessing him, right?”

Breaking my resolve less than a minute after I pledged to make an effort was, in a way, a talent, a talent.

The criticism about saying otaku-like things again rose up to the tip of my throat, but I barely held it back by clenching my molars.

As expected of a teacher-student relationship, Seo Yehyeon said the exact same thing.

When my forehead twitched, Kim Dobin closed his mouth with a “hup” and said with an awkward smile.

“I’ll contact the victim today. To ask if they can provide clarification.”

“Yeah, try contacting them first and if they refuse, tell hyung right away. We’ll have to find another method.”

At my words, Kim Dobin shook his head with a confident expression.

“Hey, I already thought of Plan B too. I can ask my friends. It won’t be completely covered up and the credibility will be a bit lacking, but they also roughly know what happened when I was a freshman.”

“That should be enough for clarification.”

“I also have KakaoTalk messages I exchanged with friends after seeing the article about Lee Jeyoon debuting. I can screenshot that and attach it if needed.”

Only then could I breathe a sigh of relief.

No matter how much the system tried to impose regression as a Quest penalty, I could only sneer, but this was the first time infinite regression felt so close.

You must have been very surprised too, so rest up. I lightly patted Kim Dobin’s back and as soon as I got up from the bed, Kim Dobin grabbed my clothes.

When I turned my head to look back, Kim Dobin smiled sheepishly and gave his sincere thanks.

“And thank you, hyung. For believing me and listening to my story.”

“What, this much. It’s natural as a fellow member and as leader.”

I’m so, so grateful that you’re not a school violence perpetrator or bystander, damn it.

As a reward for safely getting me out of the infinite regression crisis, I’ll now let go of the terrible grudge from that sponsor misunderstanding you had.

If I did this much, the relationship improvement level should have gone up. If it’s still the same, I’ll have to use the suspension bridge effect method or something to raise it. It was fortunate that Kim Dobin was easily scared.

[▶Relationship Improvement Level with Members

-Seo Yehyeon(69%)

-Gyeon Hajun(95%)

-Kim Dobin(68%)

-Ryu Jaehee(80%)]

Finally, the relationship improvement level with Kim Dobin went up by 20%.

I was already worried about what kind of hardship I’d have to go through to pull this up to the 80% range again.

Is the suspension bridge effect method the answer after all.

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One day after having a serious conversation with Kim Dobin about this matter. A post was uploaded to the community.

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I am the victim of Jinix Lee Jeyoon’s school violence

20xx.04.06 21:30 Views 181,872

I received a tip that arrows are pointing toward innocent places, so I’m writing a few words of clarification. Rev’s Kim Dobin, who is currently being branded as a school violence perpetrator and bystander, is neither a bystander nor a school violence perpetrator.

Rather, when the bullying toward me was just simple quarrels, Dobin was the only one in the group who tried to stop Lee Jeyoon or apologized on his behalf when quarrels arose…

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The victim explained in detail that Kim Dobin was visibly treated poorly even within Lee Jeyoon’s group and that he left the group before the level of bullying described in the exposé post occurred.

And although it wasn’t during the most difficult period of their life, they finished the post with a message supporting Kim Dobin who had shown considerable courage.

-We were classmates and I got picked on because I was seen as an easy target in that group, so I left that crew and switched my major from breaking to urban dance

-The victim themselves said he wasn’t a bystander, so why do these keyboard judges keep going crazy?

-But isn’t it still a fact that he was friends with the school violence perpetrator?

└Do you have reading comprehension issues? Dobin was also a victim

-Right, it wasn’t fair to just look at one photo and immediately label someone as a perpetrator/bystander without considering the context

-I knew this would happen ㅠㅠㅠ Our Dobin is so gentle ㅠㅠ

Thanks to the clarification post uploaded by the victim, the sharp public opinion directed at Kim Dobin completely subsided, and the arrows of criticism were once again focused solely on Jinix’s Jeyoon.

The agency’s strong response by posting a notice about suing for spreading rumors also played a part.

In the end, Jeyoon, who had been the school violence perpetrator, withdrew from Jinix, and Kim Dobin’s school violence bystander incident came to a heartwarming conclusion.

“I was seriously worried that Rev might become a four-member group. Look how much weight I lost from all the stress.”

Ryu Jaehee said with a lamenting tone, placing his palm on his slightly sharper jawline.

There was no way we could miss the youngest line exchanging glances with each other.

“So for Doby hyung and me who suffered so much, if you want to add happiness to our daily lives, tonight’s dinner should be chic-“

I nudged Ryu Jaehee to cut him off and jerked my chin toward Seo Yehyeon.

Seeing Seo Yehyeon crossing his arms and smiling as if daring him to continue, Ryu Jaehee quietly shut his mouth.

I halfheartedly backed up Seo Yehyeon.

“That’s right, youngest. What kind of chicken are you talking about during our promotion period? Why are you deliberately saying things that’ll make Yehyeon hyung angry?”

“I guess I was thinking wrong. Please go back to the days when you two were growling at each other.”

At the youngest’s lament, Seo Yehyeon and I briefly made eye contact and simultaneously shrugged our shoulders. Our relationship is comfortable enough as it is, so why bother?

Gyeon Hajun looked around at the members with a calm gaze and opened his mouth, unnecessarily creating a heavy atmosphere.

“Besides Doby, none of the rest of us have any school violence-related issues, right? As we all know, we’ve lived without really talking about each other’s past…”

The period when the five of us gathered as a debut group at LnL and lived as trainees was only 5 months.

Gyeon Hajun had 8 months, I had 7 months, Seo Yehyeon and Ryu Jaehee had 6 months, and Kim Dobin had 5 months.

Three experienced trainees and two newcomers – they gathered five people like this and debuted us in just 5 months.

I’m reminded once again what a haphazardly run agency this really is.

So we were too busy preparing for debut and didn’t know much about each other’s detailed past.

We barely knew things like me being from Under, or Ryu Jaehee being from a major entertainment agency.

“Of course I don’t have any.”

I answered first without hesitation. And as far as I knew, none of them had school violence-related issues even before the regression.

Seo Yehyeon only received comments about being a well-behaved and quiet friend during his school days.

Though I don’t know why that well-behaved and quiet friend used to bark at me like a Chihuahua.

For Ryu Jaehee, it wasn’t school violence but something that happened at his former agency that was the problem.

“I don’t have any either. I had to keep my behavior quiet since my presence was already pretty weak.”

Looking at Seo Yehyeon’s face, I could understand that well enough. If Ryu Jaehee had that face, he probably would have utilized it to 1000% capacity.

“…I don’t have any. At school, that is.”

Ryu Jaehee, who would normally cheekily appeal that he was still a student or tell stories from his middle school days, hesitated with a dark expression and specifically added the words “at school.”

Being the only one who knew why Ryu Jaehee was showing such a reaction, I clicked my tongue inwardly.

‘It was definitely a troublesome matter, but…’

Since I had experience resolving it once before the regression, I should be able to handle it much more easily this time.

I was somewhat looking forward to that day.

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