What on earth is this.
[Hello. I’m an idol who just reincarnated. My quest condition is to earn 10 billion won in net concert profits. I’m in a small, struggling group, so I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’ll give it a shot. What are your quest conditions, everyone?]
└ Hello. I’m Survival First Place Debut. Right now, I’m in 3rd place.
└ Everyone’s quests seem pretty doable. Mine is 1 million copies of our debut album.
└ What’s your quest failure condition?
└ Death ㅠㅠ
[Just curious]
└ I said I trained in my dreams.
└ I told them I secretly watched the knight order’s training.
└ I just said it was talent and everyone was fine with it. I lived like a delinquent before, so now that I’m even a little decent, everyone’s proud. I’m going to try my best this life.
└ Thank you. Good luck, everyone.
[I lost my voice in an accident, so I couldn’t become an actor, but I’ve gone back to before the accident. Honestly, I’m so happy. ㅠㅠ The condition is that if I don’t become a top actor, I die, but I’ll do my best.]
└ Let’s do our best!
└ Fighting!
└ Honestly, just getting a second chance is a blessing. Let’s give it our all.
[This post has been blocked by the system.]
[Just curious]
└ I’m curious too
└ Once the system blocks it, you can never find it again
└ Apparently, the quest failure penalty was minus ten million followers. That person’s quest was to get twenty million official SNS followers.
└ Still better than a death penalty
There are really this many reincarnators?
I didn’t think I was the only one.
The existence of a system, a standardized program, meant a lot of data had accumulated.
But I’d never known we could actually talk to each other through a bulletin board like this.
There were also several warnings posted: sharing exact locations or personal info would be deleted by the admin.
I typed “actor” in the search bar, and saw a list of other reincarnated actors just like me.
But I felt an enormous distance between them and myself.
Their system was forcing them to become actors.
[I know which drama it is, but I don’t know if I’ll get cast… At this point, there’s only one drama that gets over 15%, so I’m worried.]
[It says “become a national actor,” but will it get more specific later?]
└ Usually it changes as you go. Sometimes they add extra quests.
[I finally completed my main system quest—reaching a total of 100 million viewers and audience members. I feel so relieved. The system says from tomorrow I won’t be able to access it and will lose my memories, so I wanted to write my success story in advance.
The most important thing is not to give up until the end. I did fail a few sub-quests too.
Thinking I can’t use this bulletin board anymore is bittersweet. I hope you all succeed too. Thank you!!]
└ You worked hard!
└ You really did great! Complete achievement!
└ Successful reincarnation complete! Cheering for your unpredictable future!
└ Good job!
Just like these success stories.
Not a single one of them was told, like me, “Don’t act.”
They all said, as long as it’s not acting, it’s fine.
Why? Why only me?
With a heavy heart, I left a question on the bulletin board. Not long after, replies poured in.
[I died and reincarnated. I wasn’t told why I reincarnated, so I don’t really know. I regained some lost memories recently and checked my system window, but my main quest told me not to act. But I want to act, so I ignored it.
Is there anyone who didn’t complete their main quest? Just now, I got a Reverse Quest notification for not selecting the main quest.]
└ Is it possible to not choose the main quest? Mine had a death penalty so the main was mandatory…
└ But can’t you just not act? Do you really want to act that badly?
└ Some people do…
└ I never thought of refusing the main quest
└ I saw someone die after failing the main quest
└ There are lots like that
Useless, useless, useless.
Most of the replies were pointless.
“Hm?”
But the last comment was at least a bit promising.
└ I saw a review from someone who didn’t choose the main quest! If I remember right, another quest appeared for them!
└ Can you tell us more in detail?
└ I just read the post in passing so I don’t know the details, but that person was an idol. They died in an accident and returned right before debuting as an idol. Their first main quest was to not become an idol. I didn’t see the penalty, but they ignored it and just debuted anyway, and then a different quest appeared. Something like, survive as an idol? I think it was that type.
└ (Continued due to character limit) But, all the unexpected incidents and scandals centered around that person, so it was tough for them…. I haven’t seen them since, so I don’t know if they succeeded. I think if your main quest doesn’t have a death penalty, and you refuse the main, you get another quest later. It seems like people who are easily influenced by others are given this type of choice. That person also didn’t have a normal accident, and seemed to get caught up in things around them.
└ Thank you. That helped a lot.
└ Complete your quest!
Main quest.
Death penalty.
It’s true that if not choosing the main quest comes with a death penalty, you have no choice but to follow it. But that wasn’t the case for me.
My main was simply to not act and be guaranteed a safe life. There wasn’t even a time limit.
The system must’ve known from the data that I’d never follow the main quest, so it left a loophole.
Just like I tried to calculate my odds of survival, the system must’ve analyzed its data and given me this result.
I reread my main quest.
“Survival chance if you act: 0%.”
I still couldn’t recall some memories from before I reincarnated, and didn’t know who did what or when. In this situation, since I didn’t choose the main and the system wants me to survive longer, it would, as the comments said, definitely give me a different quest.
No way they’d just leave me alone.
As expected, my status window popped up with a new quest.
Unlike before, which was blue, the window now glowed an ominous red.
[Reverse Quest has been decided.]
[Reverse Quest has occurred.]
[Reverse Quest is a penalty quest that only appears if you do not select the main quest.]
[Reverse Quest: Survive as an actor!]
[Details: Ignore the system’s probabilities and survive as an actor until the day you died.]
[However, the survival rate for Reverse Quest is much lower than the main quest. You can always give up on the Reverse Quest and return to the main quest.]
[Fate will impose even harsher penalties to force you back to the main quest.]
[If you survive under such conditions, you will clear the Reverse Quest!!]
“Is it impossible to clear this before I turn 35?”
[There is a way.]
[Find out what caused your death.]
“The cause?”
[Resolve the direct and indirect scandals that led to your death, and if there is a mastermind, identify that person.]
[That way, reduce your probability of death to 0%!]
[Currently, your probability of dying at age 35 is 100%!]
“Ha.”
So I have to investigate all the scandals and find the mastermind…
“Then what about my memories? Aren’t you going to give them all back?”
The system only notified me about the Reverse Quest but didn’t return all my memories.
If you’re giving me a new quest, shouldn’t you return the memories I haven’t gotten yet?
[If you retrieve all your memories now, your body won’t be able to withstand the shock.]
[You are too fragile to handle all your memories at once.]
[Your memories will gradually return as you meet certain conditions or as your quest progresses.]
Damn it. How bad was the shock that I can’t even handle my own memories?
In the end, all I’d been able to do was watch scandals explode all around me like fireworks.
…Yeah. Maybe that was the problem.
To sum up.
1. I have to survive as an actor and make my probability of dying on the date I died before I reincarnated 0%. I have to find out what caused my death and eliminate it to keep living as an actor.
2. To do that, I have to regain the memories of what made me want to die. But I still haven’t gotten back the memories of what made my life so unbearable.
After writing down my tasks in a memo app, I tossed my phone aside.
People don’t change.
That was what I used to tell myself, like a creed, before I reincarnated.
But can I really change just because I reincarnated?
Can I trust colleagues I couldn’t believe in, and genuinely do something for them?
Were all my choices back then really wrong?
I don’t know.
One thing’s for sure: Because of those choices, I died in the end.
So I reincarnated and came back this way.
Unlike before, when I distrusted others to survive, now I had to trust others to survive.
Just like I helped Joo Tae-kang make his comeback.
Which is harder?
Which will I regret more?
Honestly, thinking about this any longer would make my head explode, so I turned my eyes back to the Reincarnator Bulletin Board.
Reading through the posts, there were so many different reasons for reincarnation that I honestly had no idea what the standard for reincarnation was.
If I had to guess, maybe it’s just people who regretted something until they died.
But is there anyone who dies without regrets?
As I scrolled down, my finger stopped at a certain post title.
“Is that even possible, you idiot.”
Of course, I only thought this to myself and didn’t leave a comment.
Honestly, now wasn’t the time to worry about someone else; I had to think about what I needed to do tomorrow.
Anyway, since I decided to make a living as an actor this life, I had to struggle up as much as possible to rise, and in this business, the more people know you, the better you can help Jung Yun-woo or Park Min-tae or whoever else I don’t remember.
And that question was answered not long after.
[Oh, really? There’s an audition for a drama my director friend is doing soon. Want to try out for it?]
All thanks to Park Min-tae, the messenger of the Park family.