Grab the Regressor by the Collar and Debut - Chapter 313

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

313. A Night in Gangwon Province Behind (1)
News of Kairos heading to the Gangwon Province Pension spread to Destiny far faster than expected.
The next morning, it was a single photograph Ha-jin posted to his official account immediately upon arriving in Seoul that sparked the wildfire.
Kairos
@Daily_KIRUS
[Ha-jin] Hey Destiny 🙂
We’re doing well and staying healthy
Please don’t worry too much
We’ll come back with updates soon (gift emoji)
(Group selfie of Kairos gathered in front of a bonfire.jpg)
(Group selfie of Kairos visiting Eun-chan in the hospital.jpg)
Shares 10K Likes 12K
Destiny responded swiftly to the first official communication since news of Eun-chan’s accident.
[Did the kids go on vacation???]
Seeing that Eun-chan is not in the bonfire photo, it seems to be recent, but I hope she gets some rest by now ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅜㅜㅜㅠㅠ It breaks my heart to see Eun-chan with gauze on her face, but seeing her smiling again makes me feel relieved ㅠㅠㅜㅜㅜㅜㅠㅜㅠㅜ
When I heard the news about Eun-chan, I felt really bad and was always in a squad mode, saying that I was going to kill all the reporters, but when I saw the kids all smiling and taking pictures together like that, I suddenly started crying..ㅠㅜㅠㅜㅠㅜㅠ
– I was literally at 20000% rage mode until last night but the moment I saw the photo this morning it all melted away… you guys be happy…
– Thank you so much for uploading the photos. I’m glad they all look okay.
– Doesn’t seem like a vacation, Tae-hyun and Si-woo have schedules today
– I saw on Twitter that the bonfire photo looks like the Gangwon Province Pension that Tae-hyun’s parents own!
└ I’m genuinely curious how people find out stuff like this?? There’s literally nothing visible in the photo so how do you know?
└ I don’t know either;; I just saw it mentioned on Twitter
[I’ve made a decision after seeing this photo]
I’ll smash that bastard’s car the same way and go to jail for it.
Anyone want to join?
– Me, I can take 100:0 liability and just rear-end them
“gg I’ll give a witness statement for you guys in a way that’s favorable to you”
– Open a fundraiser for lawyer fees right now
– I’ll visit and cry beautifully for you
– Then I’ll buy you guys tofu snacks after you get out!
– Calm down you bastards, you guys actually seem like you’d do it and it’s scary
JuJu Club
@jjclubjj
Seeing gauze plastered all over
Eun-chan’s face and arms
My heart tears apart but then
Seeing him standing dignified next to Ha-ru
When his hyungs arrived, I’m just sobbing…
Our great goyami gets better quicklyㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
(Cropped photo of Eun-chan’s face.jpg)
Shares 241 | Quotes 199 | Likes 847
Starting with a single photograph, Kairos’s frozen time began to turn slowly once more. The fandom atmosphere, which had surged with tremendous engagement from year-end activities only to falter amid sudden controversy and rumors, gradually found its footing again.
Perhaps because news of Eun-chan’s wellbeing—the fandom’s greatest concern—had been shared, the fans of other members, who had been cautiously watching Eun-chan’s devoted followers, began to unlock their hearts and resurface one by one.
In that atmosphere, the next person to reach out to Destiny’s fans was Tae-hyun, who had remained silent throughout the Boy Heaven controversy.
Cherrish Boy
@CHBY0723
Tae-hyun sent a PopPop message!!
He shared stories with a selfie and a bonfire photo
Tae-hyun went back to his hometown because there was something to handle there
And all the members came to help him out!
Kairos really is family…☆
(Tae-hyun’s selfie sent via PopPop.jpg)
(Members’ photo sent via PopPop.jpg)
(Screenshot of Tae-hyun’s PopPop message.jpg)
Shares 1,237 | Quotes 134 | Likes 1.3K
Tae Day
@tae_day
So basically
we went on a trip to a pension
and the cafe employees were Kang Ha-jin, Seo Tae-hyun, and Dan Ha-ru
and we went to eat at the neighboring restaurant
and the servers were Jeong Si-u, Lee Do-ha, and Lee Yu-gun
this insane worldbuilding actually exists in reality?
Are you serious??? Release the CCTV footage immediately
(Screenshot of Tae-hyun’s PopPop message.jpg)
Shares 2,008 | Quotes 451 | Likes 3,955
∥
Gamjoo
@ggamjooV
The fact that Eun-chan isn’t in this insane worldbuilding feels like a lie
Let Eun-chan join in too, please.
∥
Tae Day
@tae_day
Let’s make Chan the Cafe Owner
The owner usually doesn’t work the counter anyway
[I know I shouldn’t be thinking like this]
I’m so sad that we didn’t film when the kids went to play at the Pension and Restaurant…
It’s natural because I went there to rest, but still ㅠㅠㅜㅜㅠI miss you too, Kairos, the part-time workerㅠㅠㅠㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ
No, when I first heard about it, I was like “wow, I’m so curious” too hahahaha
– Looking at Taehyun’s story, it really seems like something that happened suddenly. I just hope that later, when Eunchan gets better, the 7 of us can go to the pension one more time and take some pictures.
I’m a bit sad that the kids seem to have really rested well and had a good time, so I won’t be able to use it, but I’ll be satisfied if I can at least share the stories from the livestream later…haha
└ Let’s go to Shin’s house next
└ I really wish the kids would film something like a restaurant entertainment show hahahaha. Let’s do it a lot these days.
– I can kind of imagine Ha-jin and Yu Gun, but I’m really curious about the others, especially Ha-ru…
└ 22 If you leave our maknae in charge of the barcode scanner, I bet he’d have so much fun beeping it 24/7, is that okay
With the refreshing news that their idol had actually gone all the way to Gangwon Province to work a part-time job, Destiny fans who had only been exposed to depressing news for days finally recharged their dopamine and put on their curiosity lenses.
However, since it wasn’t filmed content, there were no videos they had recorded, and the only stories were what Tae-hyun had shared through paid messenger.
With no eyewitness accounts emerging, most Destiny fans seemed to wrap up this incident(?) with the sentiment of “well, at least we heard some happy news.”
…That is, until a post was uploaded to a certain community that afternoon.
[Taxi Drivers’ Choice! ║ My Dad Went on a Hiking Club Outing and Got Cleaned Out at Go-Stop by an Idol—Here’s the Tea (351)]
At this very moment, it was a third-party eyewitness account as precious as lottery numbers!
* * *
The moment I saw the title of the post, I thought to myself.
‘No way.’
No way this is about us, right? No way?
This ridiculously entertaining-looking eyewitness account that could easily rack up 100,000 views just from a YouTube thumbnail?
Even though the group customers at the neighboring restaurant were a hiking club, and the members who went there for the part-time job came back suspiciously loaded with cash, there’s no way this is about us, right?
‘Wow. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like us?’
I quickly abandoned hope and clicked on the title. The comment count had clearly been around 350 just moments ago, but in that short span it had grown to 500. My hands were trembling as I wondered who had witnessed what and how vividly to generate this much buzz with 500 comments.
Of course, those guys wouldn’t have done anything problematic when they were being watched, but you never know with people.
Without Seo Tae-hyun as the only brake, Jeong Si-u, Lee Do-ha, and Lee Yu-gun were just idiots 1, 2, and a guy obsessed with capitalism.
“It’s even more unsettling because any one of the three could plausibly be a hustler….”
Now, beyond unease, I scrolled down slowly with a heavy heart.
Soon, a lengthy post brimming with the author’s excitement and enthusiasm began filling my phone screen bit by bit.
[Taxi Drivers’ Choice! ║ My Dad Went on a Hiking Club Outing and Got Cleaned Out at Go-Stop by an Idol—Here’s the Tea (518)]
Honestly for real, I’m putting everything on the line and this isn’t made up—it’s the first time in my dull, dreary 2N years of life that something actually gave me a dopamine rush, so I wanted to write this down as a memory. I’ll delete it if there’s any issue though.
Ah, where do I even start explaining this
So first, let me introduce my dad
My dad loves mountains and loves having fun
It’s no exaggeration to say he’s climbed basically every mountain that exists in South Korea.
And my dad has been part of a hiking club for 10 years
(…)
After skimming through the intro, I scrolled down without hesitation.
As expected. The following text contained a photo of a middle-aged man in hiking gear with his face covered by an emoticon, along with an introduction explaining that the author’s father and his hiking club had gone on a 2-night, 3-day trip to Gangwon Province for the first time in 3 years with a large group.
After scanning through the text diagonally to grasp the gist, I abandoned my last shred of hope at the word “Gangwon Province.”
Unless an early university festival had been held in Gangwon Province that day, there was no way there was another idol who had met a hiking club at a restaurant in Gangwon Province on the same day besides us.
I began reading the post again in earnest, searching for the section where the “idol” made their appearance.
(….)
Anyway, there were about three young male part-time workers at that restaurant, and they were all so tall and handsome that my dad kept staring at them and said they left a deep impression
So that restaurant was a place Dad’s hiking club frequently stopped by when coming down from climbing, and since the owner was close with them, when the owner was asked who the employee was, he said it was just a friend of the neighbor’s son who came to work for the day.
(….)
Dad and his friends were playing cards, and one man kept losing money, so he must have been in a bad mood, and under the influence of alcohol, he kind of… caused a scene.
So, among the part-time workers, the tallest and biggest man came and tried to stop him, but he couldn’t listen, perhaps because he drank too much (sorry, that’s what my dad said) ㅠㅜㅜㅜㅜ
But then suddenly that cafe employee asked in a really blunt voice, “Then would the problem be solved if I won back the money you lost for you?” and asked so very politely!
It was Lee Do-ha.
This had to be Lee Do-ha.
The description of being the tallest and most well-built was one thing, but the way he immediately sought out a solution the moment a problem arose, and the fact that his solution was somewhat extreme—there was no way this wasn’t Lee Do-ha.
‘No wonder there were so many coins and thousand-won bills…!’
I continued reading through the post rapidly.
The main text described how Lee Do-ha sat down in place of the drunk troublemaker, and not only won back four times the lost money, but also got fired up and enthusiastically changed the game genres to Yut, Janggi, and Omok, achieving complete victories against the other men who wanted to keep playing.
Given that all the games were old-fashioned, I also thought it might be Yu Gun, who lived with his grandfather and had become the mascot of the neighborhood senior center….
(….)
So when the pleased troublemaker tried to give all the money the cafe employee won back to him, the cafe employee again very politely and firmly
“I cannot accept money involving gambling on professional ethics grounds.”
refused!
Dad said this statement left such an impression that he recited it word-for-word without a single mistake, and he wondered if this guy was a cop or something.
This has to be Lee Do-ha…!
‘Then how exactly did the other two earn their money…? And if he refused, why did he take the money anyway, again?’
I’ve only confirmed one person so far, and my head is already spinning like this.
I didn’t have the courage to scroll down and read what came after.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————