A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 98

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 98

“We Altair will… exchange balances!”

At Cha Yeonho’s resolute words, I clenched my fist and let out a silent cheer.

Confusion appeared on the faces of the Altair members as they watched Kim Dobin and Ryu Jaehee sobbing and laughing at an indistinguishable level.

Seo Yehyeon poked me and whispered quietly.

“Hey, this actually worked.”

“See, what did I tell you? I said just trust me.”

Seo Yehyeon shook his head with a face that said he had a lot to say but wouldn’t.

“Now, let’s reveal each other’s balances!”

The MC spoke energetically and ripped off the stickers covering the amounts.

[Rev: 5,500 won]

[Altair: 13,050 won]

“What is thiiiis!”

KJ screamed in despair upon seeing Rev’s balance, which had now become theirs.

“…This isn’t a dream, right? Please tell me it’s a dream.”

Cha Yeonho, who had lost all the money he had carefully saved and economized with one moment’s choice, let out an empty laugh with a dazed expression.

The other Altair members were burying their faces in other members’ shoulders or being embraced and patted on the back for comfort.

Wow, they get along well. That’s a scene I could never imagine in Rev.

Come to think of it, following the pre-regression timeline, I’ve once again delivered despair to Altair. My condolences.

“Since Yeonho chose balance exchange, Altair’s final balance is 5,500 won, and Rev’s balance is 13,050 won.”

“There are still 3 days left, so it’s too early to give up, Altair.”

The MCs offered words of comfort to the screaming Altair members.

But with such a gap, a comeback seemed far-fetched.

Good thing we didn’t save up much balance. If we had been frugal, we would have been in that situation.

The mid-check filming wrapped up, and we bowed and greeted the production crew and Altair again.

KJ, Altair’s leader and composition member, spoke to us with shameless familiarity.

“Wow, you all acted really well, didn’t you? We were completely fooled.”

For reference, this bastard was the one I hated most in Altair.

A patchwork master and plagiarism expert who shamelessly called himself a composition member while walking around with his chin up high after just copying and pasting other people’s songs.

If it were me, I’d be too embarrassed to go around calling myself a producer.

While doing Search Quest, I happened to see a post from an Altair fan complaining that they were annoyed I overlapped positions with KJ, but I was the one who was annoyed.

What overlaps besides leader, damn it.

Cha Yeonho… honestly, to be frank, compared to KJ, I didn’t have much personal feeling about him before regression. You know, birds of a feather flock together.

Altair was famous for being close-knit among members unlike Rev, and Cha Yeonho and KJ were famous as same-age best friends in the entertainment industry, so I understood everything about Cha Yeonho throwing a fit in front of me.

I would have definitely done the same if Gyeon Hajun were in a similar situation.

It’s just that now they keep picking fights under the pretense of checking Rising. In that sense, Choi Hyeonmin’s assessment of him as a fucking bastard was quite accurate.

Still, showing it would definitely reduce my initial intentions score, so I smiled as if nothing was wrong and thanked them.

Cha Yeonho, who had been staring intently at KJ and me, suddenly spoke up.

“Eden, could we talk for a moment?”

The place he took me to talk was the emergency staircase behind the broadcasting station set.

Cha Yeonho was silent for a long time after calling me over first.

Thinking of the pre-regression past when he would grab and cling to people as soon as arriving at the place I called him to, this was inevitably very irritating.

“What did you call me for?”

“Could you input your number? I don’t usually answer calls from numbers I don’t know.”

“Oh, I answer first and see, so we’re complete opposites.”

As I replied while inputting my 11-digit phone number, Cha Yeonho saved my number in his contacts and immediately called that number.

With the ringing phone, Cha Yeonho smiled slightly, lifting the corners of his mouth, and hung up.

“During , you seemed to have trust issues with people, but this is unexpected.”

“Ah, I really hate two-faced people. Honestly, if someone kept dating someone like that, I’d have to tell them to break up immediately.”

“True, I’m also on the side of breaking up rather than dating like that.”

“Senior is also that type, but why on the broadcast…”

“Anyway, I have to match the style. Standing out is good, but stones that are too sharp get hammered, Eden.”

“Thank you for the advice.”

“Rev’s songs were all good, there were quite a few songs I was hearing for the first time.”

“You keep emphasizing songs you’re hearing for the first time while praising our songs, and it doesn’t feel good. Are you saying Rev should bring songs that sound familiar from somewhere?”

“Ah, did I offend you? I’m really a music outsider.”

“Someone who received a music source grand prize at an awards ceremony is being modest. How could a music outsider be in the entertainment industry?”

Meaningless conversation and conversation intended to scratch at my insides went back and forth. I responded appropriately with courtesy.

“If you’re done with your business, I’ll be going now.”

Even at my announcement, Cha Yeonho still had a brightly smiling face.

Imagining what kind of way that face would contort this time made my foul mood improve a little.

Indeed, it’s no fun to bring him down and drag him down now. The higher you stack it, the more spectacular the collapse looks.

“Even before, didn’t you say there was no particular connection?”

I nodded at Gyeon Hajun’s question.

“Maybe he just dislikes me for no reason? Is my impression that bad?”

“I won’t bother saying it since you might get hurt.”

“It’s okay. I’m so used to it that I don’t get hurt by words like that anymore.”

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[Day 3 START!]

On the day of the mid-check, Rev and Altair met for an intense mini-game battle, and the balance exchange chosen by the winner Altair backfired as a bad move was fully reflected.

-I saw Rev having a pizza party but still got fooled for a moment;;

-Wow hahahaha eating pizza and making money too, this is the creative economy right here

-Lev is lucky lol it’s not skill, just luck

Viewers burst into laughter watching Rev boldly make a gambling move and Altair falling for it spectacularly.

[Altair side]

[Cha Yeonho: Actually, I was going to not exchange balances and go as is, but I unknowingly fell for the high-level psychological warfare…]

[Lee Sumin: Rev members really did act well though. I really thought they were trying to reassure us so we wouldn’t exchange balances.]

[Won Taehyeok: I never imagined it. That the balance would be 5,500 won.]

[KJ: Still, we got one mooching rights, so we can save the cost of one meal.]

[Ju Seojin: But the problem is movie tickets. Even matinee shows are 6,000 won.]

[Cha Yeonho: Don’t worry about that. Hmm, I think we might be able to win.]

[KJ: Really?]

Although their balance was drastically reduced to 5,500 won due to the bad move of balance exchange, Altair’s atmosphere wasn’t bad.

Rather, Cha Yeonho showed confidence, giving viewers curiosity about what kind of clever plan he had.

-Wow, as expected, mastermind Yeonho must have thought of a move?

-If they reverse this, it’ll be an epic comeback victory, let’s go Altair comeback victory!

-Rev is honestly annoying, this is really inconsiderate

└? It was Altair who chose balance exchange though? If Altair hadn’t chosen balance exchange, Rev would have just eaten pizza to their heart’s content and become people with 5,500 won balance?

└Originally this kind of pro, but why suddenly badmouth Rev? Aqua Lime?

[Rev side]

[Yoon Eden: Did you see my big picture?]

[Yuje: Honestly, my quick thinking and acting played a part too. The magic that turned Yehyeon hyung’s sincere monologue into a disruption strategy.]

[Seo Yehyeon: What are you talking about after losing the mini-game? The original plan was for us to do the balance exchange after winning the mini-game.]

[Gyeon Hajun: Haha, hyung. When did we ever make such a plan? Our disruption strategy was the original plan.]

[Seo Yehyeon: Wow… Hajun, you should really act. Seriously, even you who I trusted…!]

The atmosphere here was nothing but warm and cozy.

In a situation of 70% luck and 30% skill, they were each claiming credit for themselves while looking at their balance with satisfied smiles.

-Gyeon Hajun really lies without batting an eye lol

-Yoon Eden’s confident smile is so annoyingly funny lol

-Lucky bastards lol

And the full-fledged day of the 3rd day began.

Cha Yeonho and Seo Yehyeon, both mission performers, visited the movie theater early in the morning.

[Cha Yeonho: Is using points forbidden? Oh, I can use them?]

[Cha Yeonho: I’m glad I accumulated points regularly.]

[Cha Yeonho: Since watching movies is my hobby, I even made a card with the biggest movie theater discount benefits.]

[Cha Yeonho: If I do this… Ta-da, 0 won.]

[Seo Yehyeon: I came to watch an early morning movie because of the mandatory purchase item, movie tickets.]

[Seo Yehyeon: Early morning shows are the cheapest. It’s 6,000 won.]

[Seo Yehyeon: I should have saved 500 won more instead of ordering cheese oven spaghetti yesterday. 5,000 won isn’t even enough to buy a movie ticket.]

[Cha Yeonho’s expenditure: 0 won]

[Seo Yehyeon’s expenditure: 6,000 won]

Although Seo Yehyeon aimed for minimal expenditure with an early morning movie, he couldn’t beat card discounts and point usage.

Seo Yehyeon was shouldering the large expenditure of 6,000 won alone.

-Wow, I wondered why he was so confident, but Yeonho had it all figured out

-Really, isn’t this heading for a comeback victory? If Seo Yehyeon spends on lunch and dinner, it’ll be close

[Cha Yeonho: I’ll use the mooching rights I won from yesterday’s mini-game. I need to save on at least one meal’s expenditure.]

[Seo Yehyeon: Today’s meal. One cucumber. I plan to eat two meals with this. I’m glad I had pizza yesterday.]

[Cha Yeonho’s 3rd day lunch expenditure: 0 won]

[Seo Yehyeon’s 3rd day lunch expenditure: 500 won]

Since lettuce could last four meals and wasn’t a cost-effective choice in the current situation, Seo Yehyeon’s alternative was cucumber.

The sight of Seo Yehyeon cutting one cucumber in half, then slicing the half into sticks and chewing them without even ssamjang was enough to make viewers cry out about his determination once again.

-He’s a formidable opponent, damn, surviving two meals with one cucumber

-Fuel efficiency was fucking important

[Cha Yeonho: I’ll pay 1,000 won for the lunch box.]

[Seo Yehyeon: For dinner… it’s the other half of the cucumber I bought in the morning.]

[Cha Yeonho’s 3rd day dinner expenditure: 1,000 won]

[Seo Yehyeon’s 3rd day dinner expenditure: 0 won]

Cha Yeonho had to pay 1,000 won for dinner lunch box, but Seo Yehyeon had no additional expenditure thanks to the cucumber he bought in the morning!

-Is this right? Even though Cha Yeonho used mooching rights, he still spent 500 won more?

-I’m really anxious that Yehyeon might collapse from malnutrition on this show and get the program cancelled

└He ate pizza on day 2 so it’s fine

Day 3 passed like that, and on the morning of day 4, they gathered at the set to announce the final results.

[Final Results!]

[Cha Yeonho’s balance: 4,500 won]

[Seo Yehyeon’s balance: 6,550 won]

[Rev wins!]

Rev celebrated their victory in their own individual ways. Altair humbly accepted defeat and sent warm applause toward their juniors.

-They don’t all hug together, just end it with back patting lol

-Are they performing a penalty lol

[Seo Yehyeon: I’ll make sure to have a good time with the members.]

Rev held up the Hawaii travel voucher printed on a large panel together, waved at the camera, and the broadcast ended with next week’s cast revealed in a preview.

And a day later, a post appeared on the internet.

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[Hot Topic] Altair’s Cha Yeonho Disrespected by Junior

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