Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 58

Hyung, Aren’t I Cute? 58 (58/500)

-In front of the zoo ticket booth.

Even though it was a weekday, there were quite a few people.

Children were chatting in groups of three or five, and it was heartwarming to see families together.

Among those children was our Siha.

Hana and Seungjun were also there.

“Seungjun! Hana!”

“Siha~ Let’s go see the giraffe today! Giraffe!”

“Hana wants to see deer. I want to see deer!”

How did I end up hanging out with these kids?

It started when Siha proudly announced at daycare that they were going to the zoo.

After that, Seungjun and Hana threw tantrums saying they wanted to go too, and as a result, we all decided to go together.

Siha also seemed subtly eager to go together.

I had no choice but to go to the zoo with the three kids.

Seeing them together like this, I wondered if they were triplets instead of twins.

“I’m not sure if our kids are intruding since they should be playing with their own siblings.”

I waved my hand at Seungjun’s mom’s words.

“Haha. It’s okay. If it were just the two of us, it would have been too quiet and quite boring.”

“Thank you for saying that. Ah! It’s our turn.”

We bought tickets in front of the ticket booth.

The interesting thing is that they are running an interesting event.

“Wow! Siha. They’re doing this event when you enter the zoo.”

“Ah?”

Siha tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

The bear hat on his head also tilted, making him even cuter.

He’s really cute.

Wouldn’t it be better to look at Siha than to look at a baby bear?

Let’s get a grip [get focused].

“They’re giving out prizes to people who find where the fox’s comb went when they leave.”

“Ah.”

“Okay. I’ll read it. Listen carefully.”

“Ah.”

Seungjun and Hana also focused on my words with sparkling eyes.

The paper that the ticket booth employee handed me read:

[There was a fox in the zoo.

The fox really cherished its tail fur.

It liked to comb its tail with its most precious comb.

But one day. The comb disappeared.

No matter how much it looked, it wasn’t there.

The fox thought it must have dropped it somewhere and went out to find the comb.

The first animal it met was a chicken.

The chicken said this.

“Didn’t someone pick it up?”

Who on earth picked it up?

Please find the animal that picked up the fox’s comb.]

This seems to be an event that even adults find interesting.

The children’s eyes sparkled when they heard this story.

Seungjun and Hana said.

“Siha, let’s find the fox’s comb!”

“Hana also likes combs!”

“Ah!”

They are very motivated.

I was also curious about the answer to this question.

“According to what’s written here, we should go to the monkey who is close to the fox’s house, right?”

“Let’s go to the monkey!”

“Hana suspects the monkey!”

“Ah. Siha too!”

Judging by the atmosphere, the monkey was already the culprit.

We entered the zoo and headed to where the monkeys were.

Ooh-ooh!

The monkeys were jumping around and playing.

They came to the cage and carefully examined people’s faces.

When an adult picked up a banana from the ground, they snatched it away and ate it.

Seeing that, Seungjun shouted.

“Look at that! The monkey stole the banana!”

“The monkey took the comb!”

“Ah!”

Let’s see.

I read the event sign in front of the monkey cage.

“Monkeys are quick with their hands. Could the monkey have taken the comb?”

Seungjun stuck out his belly.

“I knew it!”

When I poked his belly once, Seungjun bent over and tickled.

“I haven’t finished reading yet. The monkey danced and sang like this. The lion with the beautiful mane! The lion with the beautiful mane!”

At the word lion, Siha took out the lion Carnimal [stuffed animal] from the penguin bag on his back.

“Ahaha. Siha. Not that lion. Shall we go meet the next animal?”

“Ah!”

The kids were amazed to meet the animals, but they also seemed to like this reasoning event.

As we searched, we naturally looked around at the other animals nearby.

There was a unique musty smell of animals, but it evoked a vague nostalgia.

‘I used to come here with my father. I got lost then.’

I held back the urge to cry and looked for my dad.

Mixed in with the crowd, I moved along the winding path to an unknown place.

But it turned out that we were close to each other, so we couldn’t recognize each other.

If I had cried then, my father might have found me sooner.

The saying “the darkest place is under the lamp” applies to this situation.

“Hyung. Lion.”

I shook off my thoughts at Siha’s words.

“Yes. It’s a lion, isn’t it?”

“Snore~”

“The lion must have been very tired. He’s sleeping over there.”

“Ah.”

Seungjun pulled on my pants.

“Siha hyung. Is the lion the culprit?”

“Culprit? We don’t know if he stole it or not yet, so he’s not the culprit.”

“No, he must be the culprit.”

“Really? Then let’s see. Siha, aren’t you curious too?”

“Ah.”

“Hana too. Hana is also curious!”

I read the sign.

“Mr. Lion. Mr. Lion. Did you take my comb?”

“The lion said.”

“The king doesn’t pick it up with his own hands.”

“The fox couldn’t find the comb this time either.”

“The king said. The tiger with the pretty fur is suspicious.”

It seems that the fox is destined to go to the tiger.

“Then shall we go to the tiger?”

“Ah.”

Holding Siha and Hana’s hands tightly, we went to the next animal.

Surprisingly, the tiger was awake.

It was pacing around and watching us.

Roar!

It made a loud roar and opened its mouth wide.

Siha clung to my leg.

Hana too.

“Hana hates tigers!”

“Siha. Scawy [scary].”

Seungjun pointed at the two of them.

“Haha! It’s not scary at all! I can win!”

Yeah, Seungjun.

It’s not convincing if you say that from far away.

It makes me want to tease him.

“Seungjun, then come here.”

“No.”

“Seungjun wins against the tiger, so he has to protect Siha and Hana here.”

“No.”

“Isn’t it? Is it?”

“I keep my distance when I fight.”

Indeed. He’s talking about the importance of distance here.

It was quite logical.

“But the tiger will attack the person closest to him first.”

“Uh?!”

Seungjun hesitated, perhaps because he hadn’t thought of that, and came closer to me.

“If I just had a soccer ball, I could take down that tiger in one shot!”

“Hehe. Yeah.”

I don’t know if he’ll be able to kick the soccer ball with his legs shaking.

“But it seems like the tiger doesn’t have the comb. The cool, manly tiger doesn’t use a comb.”

“Ah?”

“The giraffe with the long neck might have seen it.”

“Ah! Giraffe!”

Everyone’s eyes sparkled at the word giraffe.

Finally, it was that giraffe in question.

It was that giraffe that fought with its cries.

Which one is right for the giraffe’s cry, ‘Giri’, ‘Jigeoooeeon’, or ‘Moo’?

To be honest, I’ve never heard a giraffe cry.

When I searched the internet, it said that they don’t cry.

“Let’s go.”

Everyone went to see the giraffe with expectant faces.

The long neck can be seen from afar.

It would really hurt if you used that neck like a whip, right?

“Okay. It’s a giraffe.”

“Ah. Giraffe!”

“Okay! Cry! Jigeoooeeon!”

“No. It cries Giri!”

Everyone shouted at the giraffe, but the giraffe didn’t react at all.

It was just smacking its lips.

Sometimes it just licked its tongue.

Seungjun sat on the floor and said he would stay there until he heard the cry.

Seungjun’s mom is trying to get Seungjun up quickly, but he’s stubborn.

I thought about it and said to Seungjun, Hana, and Siha.

“The giraffe can’t make a sound today because his throat is hoarse.”

“Siha hyung. Weally [really]?”

“Yeah. He sang a lot at the giraffe-only karaoke yesterday, so his throat isn’t good.”

“Tsk!”

“He was only going to sing for two hours, but the staff gave him an extra 20 minutes and 30 minutes, so he sang all of it and his throat got hoarse.”

Seungjun’s mom next to me looked like it wouldn’t work.

“Ah! I know that too! When I go to karaoke with my mom and dad, they give me more time.”

“Right?”

Did it work?

I didn’t even think this would work.

“Siha oppa is sma.art [smart]!”

Hana looked at me with sparkling eyes.

My conscience pricks me for making up the story.

“Hyung. Karaoke?”

“Ah. Siha doesn’t know? Let’s go to a coin karaoke [cheap karaoke box] with Hyung later.”

“Ah.”

“But Siha hyung. Did the giraffe find the fox’s comb?”

“Ah. That’s right. Let’s see.”

I didn’t see the comb, but it said that they knew the animal that passed by the fox’s place.

That animal is said to be a crocodile, an elephant, and a rabbit.

“Then if we go straight from here, the crocodile will come out first.”

We moved to see the crocodile.

The funny thing is that it wasn’t a real crocodile, but a crocodile model that you could touch.

It was scary with its mouth wide open.

I was mischievous and put my body in its mouth and maintained a prone position.

I pretended to be passed out with my body drooping.

When I glanced at Siha.

“Hyung! Ah! Hyung!”

Siha was very flustered and shook my body.

Shaking, shaking.

“Hyung…….

“Siha, run away. Hyung was bitten by a crocodile.”

“Ah.”

Shake shake.

Siha shook his head violently.

He looked around and went close to the crocodile statue.

“Bad!”

He slapped the crocodile’s eyes as they were.

If it were a real crocodile, it would have been poked in the eye.

Still, he found the weakness and attacked well!

Siha must be a genius after all.

“Bad! Bad!”

Smack. Smack.

He hit the crocodile’s eyes hard.

Then Hana climbed on top of the crocodile and slapped it.

Looking at the pose alone, it was a perfect mount position [dominant position in wrestling or martial arts].

“Siha oppa. Save.”

“Siha, I’ll help you too.”

The crocodile statue was sadly attacked in both eyes and waist.

I gently slipped my body out.

“Wow! I’m alive! Thank you, kids!”

“Ah. Hyung!”

“Siha oppa!”

“Siha hyung!”

Everyone ran into my arms, so I hugged them as they were.

They are all good kids.

“Then shall we see the next animals?”

We walked around the zoo and saw elephants, bears, pigs, alpacas, and so on.

Finally, we went to the rabbit farm.

Was the rabbit the animal that picked up the comb after all?

There was an employee here, which was adjacent to the exit.

Seungjun said.

“The rabbit is the culprit after all!”

“The rabbit is the culprit!”

“Ah!”

Finally, we have reached the end of this long journey.

The employee said.

“Thank you for your hard work in coming here.”

“Ah, thank you.”

“Lastly, if you give the rabbit food, the rabbit will tell you the information.”

We gave the rabbits snacks.

Siha was also curious and stared at the rabbits eating.

“Ah. Hyung.”

“Yeah. The rabbit is eating really well. Right?”

“Ah.”

While we were watching the rabbit making a crunching sound, the employee said.

“The rabbit said to the fox, ‘I know where the comb is. I saw it when you went into the cave.'”

After saying that, he asked us if we knew who took the comb.

Siha shook his head, saying he didn’t know at all.

Seungjun pointed to the rabbit as the culprit.

Hana insisted that it was actually a giraffe.

The employee glanced at Seungjun’s mom and me.

“Oh my. I don’t know. Wasn’t the culprit a monkey?”

I guess not.

The employee stared at me.

‘Hmm.’

Let’s think about it a little.

Why did the question ask from the beginning, “Who ‘picked up’ the comb?”

I thought there was a trap here.

Did the fox, who cherished its tail, really drop the comb somewhere?

If it had been stolen, it would have been clearly stated that it was stolen.

But it may not make sense that the fox dropped it somewhere.

What if no one actually picked it up?

“Could it be the fox?”

“Oh! Why do you think so?”

“Usually, foxes don’t come out with a good image, right?”

“That’s not the reason, but the answer is the fox! Since you got the answer right, I’ll give you a prize. Here’s a fox doll.”

I received a fox doll.

“But where was the comb?”

“The comb was stuck behind the fox’s tail. So the fox couldn’t see it well.”

The employee smiled and gave me a piece of paper.

I read what was written there.

“Your precious treasure is near you, not elsewhere.”

The zoo’s event was a very instructive event.

It continued to generate interest in the middle so that people would not give up and have perseverance.

In the end, he said that your precious things are close to you, so don’t turn your eyes elsewhere.

“Siha, did you have fun today?”

“Ah.”

Does Siha also have something precious nearby?

Wouldn’t he look for that precious thing from others?

Perhaps I have been given the role of presenting a path while watching Siha like that.

“What’s precious to Hyung is Siha.”

“Siha too~”

I smiled softly.

Maybe I was so conscious of other people’s eyes and words that I was neglecting Siha.

This event was more like a warning to me.

‘I have to be careful.’

I’m really glad I came to this zoo.