A Blank Slate Regression For The Idol That Lost His Original Intention

[As a penalty, you will experience visual blackout for three hours.]

If this blackout happens during sleep time, it’s hardly a penalty. It seems the system decided to be flexible for once.

Soon, even though my eyes were open, my vision went dark, and I closed my eyelids, falling asleep.

“Aaaah! A ghost! A long-haired ghost!”

Before long, Kim Do-bin’s scream woke me up.

The ones who caused a fuss yesterday, saying they were paralyzed in their sleep and waking up all the members in the middle of the night, screamed again, saying it was the same ghost.

This time, three out of five had the same sleep paralysis experience. I wondered if there was really something going on, but since it didn’t happen to me, I didn’t care.

I couldn’t see anything anyway, so I used the noise as background sound and went back to sleep.

In that sense, this penalty was far better than the damn coughing up blood.

Actually, it felt more like a reward than a penalty.

“Honestly, the scariest thing is how he’s sleeping soundly through this chaos and ghostly phenomenon.”

“I bet that guy could sleep just fine even in a shaman-themed room.”

Seo Ye-hyun’s weary voice and Ryu Jae-hee’s admiring voice faded away in my ears.

After sleeping soundly until morning, the door of the mountain lodge opened.

Nodding in response to the manager who asked if we were okay, I stretched lazily.

Finally, we were escaping from the haunted mountain lodge.

[Mydol Real Camera – REVE Edition]

[-Hello, I’m Do-bin.]

The screen showed Do-bin wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a gray hoodie with the hood up.

With a serious face, Do-bin explained the ingredients and benefits of an ion drink, then started shaking a bottle of water with sugar and salt in it.

[-Only lucky people get to drink this drink.]

-Is it really for lucky people? ㅋㅋ

-Oh, I saw this in a science book and tried making it, but it tastes like sweet sweat. If you’re thinking of drinks like Pocari, don’t even try.

-Do-bin is at it again.

With a proud smile, the screen shifted to show the members gathered in the practice room.

[-Ta-da, Christmas gift one-day wearing challenge!]

Jae-hee, wearing earphones, made a V sign at the camera.

Next to him, Ye-hyun, wrapped in a cashmere scarf over his training suit, nodded.

[-Yes, that’s how it is…….]

[-Ye-hyun, why do you look so gloomy? Do you not like the gift?]

[-I’ve said this like ten times already, but this is a fashion disaster no matter how you look at it. Clothes should be matched with other clothes that suit them.]

In response to Ye-hyun’s grumbling, Jae-hee responded indifferently, saying what’s wrong if it looks good.

[-The real mismatch is that sight over there.]

The camera showed Eden wearing a snapback divided into yellow, red, and green, with a yellow smiley face on the left side, not even centered.

-Yeah, it really doesn’t suit him.

-It’s giving cognitive dissonance.

[-Didn’t you buy that, Jae-hee?]

[-Eden always wears only black snapbacks, so I wanted to give him something bright for a change, but I didn’t think it would look this bad……]

Scratching the back of his head, Jae-hee admitted the truth.

[-I don’t have to keep the scarf on even during practice, right……?]

[-You can take it off during practice. But on one condition! You must wear it during breaks!]

[-Can I take off the snapback and the bracelet too?]

[-Are you saying that because you don’t like the gift……?]

[-No way. How could I not like a gift from our youngest?]

-Oh, sweet leader.

-His face is definitely saying he doesn’t like it ㅋㅋ.

-Can’t he just wear it backward?

-The more I look at it, the more it feels like the maknae’s style, not Yoon Leader’s style.

Do-bin placed eight water bottles, including his homemade ion drink, in the corner of the practice room and smiled at the camera.

A brief clip showed REVE practicing choreography.

-What is this? A new song?

-Oh, that’s from the Music Big Match Special Stage.

-Oh, it really is? It’s “Watch Out”?

-Ye-hyun couldn’t keep up back then, but he nailed it on the main stage……

└22 I can imagine how much effort he put in, it’s so touching ㅠㅠ

[-Break time for 10 minutes!]

Eden, who announced the break, was the first to walk over and grab one of the water bottles.

-Oh, here we go.

-Will the leader survive the game of luck?

[-Ugh, what is this? Hey, Kim Do-bin!]

After gulping down from the bottle, Eden frowned and called out to Do-bin.

-Do-bin showing up immediately ㅋㅋ.

-How is he the first to get it ㅋㅋ.

[-Puhahaha! Eden, you’re the lucky winner!]

[-What did you put in this? Why does it taste both salty and sweet?]

[-That’s an ion drink. Kim Do-bin’s special drink.]

[-Hey, tell me right now. How many of these bottles have that special ion drink?]

[-Two of them.]

[-Did I just beat a 1-in-4 chance and get this?]

-I thought he’d get angry, but he’s surprisingly calm?

-Eden’s pretty nice to his younger members.

As practice resumed and the break was taken twice, the eight water bottles were reduced by a similar amount.

-Instead of finishing one bottle and starting another, they just grab whatever ㅋㅋ.

-Eden picked twice and got the drink both times ㅋㅋㅋ.

Then came the third bottle pick.

[-Please let it be just water this time.]

With determination, Eden took a gulp, then grimaced and lowered the bottle.

[-It’s ion again!]

[-Seriously, you have a 100% hit rate right now. Can you see them or something? Do you have Emperor’s Eye?]

[-What are you talking about? I don’t want to drink this! If I could see, I’d avoid it! And what’s Emperor’s Eye?]

-Muggle’s nerd exposure.

-He can’t understand it, so he can’t play along ㅋㅋㅋ.

-Seriously, what’s up with Eden’s luck……? He’s the only one drinking all the ion drinks.

[-Maybe it’s because of this?]

Ye-hyun pointed to Eden’s wrist. Bringing the camera closer to his wrist revealed a bracelet hidden under his sleeve.

It was the bracelet he received as a Christmas gift.

[- the bracelet…….]

Eden mumbled, looking reluctantly at Ye-hyun.

[-That doesn’t even make sense.]

[-Well, it’s worth a shot. Try taking it off.]

-Ye-hyun is surprisingly quirky ㅋㅋ.

-So, the bracelet was attracting the ion drinks because of the irresistible flow of the world, and that’s why Yoon Eden ended up with all the ion drinks?

Eden took off the bracelet and handed it to Ha-jun, who was next to him. With a serious face, he picked up one of the water bottles.

After unscrewing the cap and taking a drink, Eden’s expression turned strange.

[-Huh? This time, it’s just water.]

[-What? Is it really because of this?]

Yehyun shouted while pointing at the bracelet that Hajun was holding.

-Isn’t it just a game of chance…?

-You could get water once out of four times.

After taking the bracelet from Hajun’s hand, Yehyun seriously picked one of the water bottles and gulped it down.

[-Pfft! Wow, what’s up with the taste of this water? Eden, is this what you’ve been drinking thinking it’s an ion drink?]

Yehyun spat out the water as soon as he tasted it and coughed.

-What is this????

-Getting an ion drink right after putting on the negative ion bracelet, is it really a coincidence?

-I’m telling you, it’s just probability; believing this is not a good look.

[-Oh, my gosh! Can I try it once too?]

Even Dobin, who took the bracelet from Yehyun, got an ion drink, leading the audience to lean more towards the REVE manipulation theory.

-Didn’t REVE mark the ion drink bottles or something? ㅋㅋ

-But Eden just picked whatever without hesitation; if they marked the bottles, he would’ve checked the mark before picking.

-This doesn’t make sense; those bracelets have already been proven to be a hoax.

[-Hey, this isn’t staged, is it?]

[-Now I’m starting to get a little scared…]

[-It’s the Curse of the Ions! The Curse of the Ions!]

[-Hey, maknae, did you buy this on some second-hand website? Isn’t this thing actually cursed or something?]

[-Come on, that’s unfair! I bought this from the official website!]

But all the fuss came to an end when Hajun, wearing the negative ion bracelet, drank regular water.

[-Looks like we were just having terrible luck.]

[-Maybe Hajun hyung is just immune to curses?]

[-Right, like a cation personality.]

[-No way. How could you, Eden, believe in this nonsense about curses that Dobin’s talking about?]

-Well, that makes sense now ㅋㅋ

-But for the chances to be this low, it was crazy.

-How come Eden’s taking Dobin’s side about this curse stuff?

[SURPRISE TWIST!]

White subtitles appeared on the black screen, and then Eden, holding the bracelet, confessed the truth, looking serious like Dobin at the opening.

[-Actually, the maknae kept nagging me about why I wasn’t wearing the bracelet every time he saw my face…]

[-But this bracelet isn’t my style.]

[-The moment I picked the drink and took a sip, I made a plan. A plan to turn this into a cursed bracelet. So that I could seal it away for good.]

[-I dented the sides of the bottles with the drink. That’s why I was always able to pick the drink.]

[-Though, honestly, the first two times were just coincidences.]

[-Thanks to Jun… Hajun, my plan almost got ruined, but Dobin saved the day.]

-Of course… ㅋㅋ The odds were too extreme.

-This was all planned by the leader? ㅋㅋ

-So that’s why the guy who usually hates curse stuff took Dobin’s side.

[-But was it just a coincidence that Yehyun and Dobin, who wore the bracelet, picked the ion drink?]

[-It must be. I mean, curses aren’t real.]

[-Well then, let’s just seal this bracelet away.]

Eden dangled the bracelet, tossed it into his desk drawer, and closed it.

-But here’s the creepy part: except for Eden’s two setups, almost everyone who wore the bracelet got an ion drink 90% of the time.

-Seriously, isn’t there something about this?

-Hold on, I’m going to buy the bracelet and experiment with my little brother.

With a last wave to the camera, Eden’s figure faded to black, and the next episode preview started.

[NEXT WEEK!]

[-We’re stuck in the dorm because of a snowstorm…]

[-Due to the snowstorm, we’re stuck at ‘beep-’]

Dobin, looking serious, mumbled in front of the camcorder.

The second location was bleeped out.

[-Whoa, they’re tying up loose ends.]

[-Isn’t this a prequel instead of a loose end?]

[-I don’t want to get used to stuff like this…]

The camera shook wildly, capturing the snow-covered landscape.

The scene shifted briefly, showing a colorful, mysterious room and a slightly eerie shelf full of dolls and decorations.

Dobin’s ominous voice echoed in narration.

[-This time, it’s real survival.]

[-And it’s here.]

[-At ‘beep-’.]

[-Aaaah!]

With someone’s scream echoing, the screen turned black, ending the preview.

-Rescue? Is this why Eden couldn’t send a FROM last week?

└These days, where is there no internet? He just didn’t want to do it ㅋㅋ, losing his original intention ㅋㅋ

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