Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 229

Hyung, Am I Cute? (229/500)

Winter’s color is black.

That’s why it’s called Hyundong (玄冬) [literally “dark winter” in Chinese characters], using the characters for black (玄) and winter (冬).

A season for conserving strength in preparation for the time when all things sprout.

The reason it’s black might be because animals hibernate, so it’s determined that way.

Some might think of white snow, but I think it has meaning because it’s black.

Because there’s something to endure in the dark.

The teacher thought of another game in that sense.

“Everyone. There’s an old saying, ‘Haste makes waste.'”

What I’ve prepared today is a game to help children develop patience.

If all things in winter conserve strength, how should people conserve strength?

Is it enough to eat well and lie down watching TV?

No. Of course, you can do that, but when the long winter of life comes, you have to run a marathon with patience to obtain sweet fruit.

It’s patience for that.

Actual athletes also recover through long rehabilitation treatments, right?

“Ah!”

Seung-joon raised his hand.

“Teacher!”

“Yes. Seung-joon, what’s wrong?”

“I have a sudden urge to poop, but if I go all the way to the bathroom, I’ll poop in my pants!”

“…….”

The teacher also thinks you can’t stand a sudden urge to poop.

You have to knock on a door nearby and ask to use the bathroom. If your pants get heavy….

No, that’s not it.

“Ahem. If it’s too urgent, don’t suddenly act on impulse, but think about quickly asking someone nearby to let you use the bathroom. It doesn’t mean walking all the way to the bathroom.”

It gets weirder the more I explain.

Why did we even get into the poop talk? It was all because of Oh Seung-joon.

“Ahem. So, if you keep going forward without giving up, you can achieve what you want.”

The teacher wanted to let them know that there was sweet fruit ahead.

Of course, a lecture with just words doesn’t resonate much.

Siha nodded.

“Sam [Teacher]. Go to the bathroom?”

“Yes. If you keep going silently, you can poop… No, that’s not it! You can achieve your dreams.”

“Hahaha! Poop. Poop!”

The children’s minds were already excited about poop.

Why do kids like poop and fart stories so much?

It’s dirty, you know.

Maybe it’s because they were familiar with the meeting of their butt and poop in diapers when they were babies.

Maybe friendship sprouted then.

“The teacher has prepared dominoes this time. Does everyone know dominoes?”

“No!”

“Ah, you don’t know this. Look closely. This square toy is a domino. If you put it on the floor and knock it over!”

Thump.

The row of 5 blocks falls over.

The children now knew what dominoes were.

Some of them just didn’t know the name.

“Ah, I know that!”

“Yes. You know it, right? The teacher brought a box full of them this time. Let’s all do it together. If you each make something cool, we’ll connect them all. Got it?”

“Yes!”

“If you guys succeed in this, I’ll give you two ‘Good Job’ stamps!”

The domino game began.

Each of them took a bucket and scooped up blocks.

Seung-joon said.

“I’m going to make a swirling ball like a snail. What are you going to make, Siha?”

“Make Siha hyung [older brother or male friend].”

“Huh? How do you make Siha hyung with this?”

“Can do.”

Hana also joined the conversation.

“Hana will make a flower~ It will bloom when it falls over.”

Everyone seemed to have something grand in mind.

They worked hard on their creations with their small hands.

Sometimes, if they made a mistake and it fell over, they screamed, ‘Aah!’

But they couldn’t give up, so they had to do it ‘again’.

A tedious process.

But in a way, it’s like passing through a long tunnel like winter to bear the fruit of completion.

Carefully placed blocks.

Silence fell in the daycare as everyone concentrated.

That was only for a moment.

“Wow. Now we can connect them!”

“Right!”

The process of taking out one line at a time and connecting them.

The meeting of each child’s work required cooperation with each other.

If you’re not careful.

“Aah. It fell over!”

Jaehwi trembled with wide eyes, shaking his hands.

He made a mistake in the process of connecting with Jongsu.

Thump.

The moment it was about to rush towards Jongsu’s work with momentum!

Yundong quickly knocked out the middle part with his hand, saving the rest.

“That was dangerous.”

Jongsu brushed his chest.

Jaehwi apologized to Jongsu, saying, ‘I’m sorry.’

“It’s okay. It can happen.”

Jongsu’s lips trembled, but that’s what he said.

If a major disaster had occurred, he would have been very devastated.

Eunwoo found the sight so funny.

“Puhaha! You have to do it again. Again!”

“Hey! What’s so funny!”

“Ah, why! You can just do it again~”

“Then it’s okay to knock over yours, right?”

“Yeah. That’s why I made it small! Ta-da! It’s a hat.”

“Tch, that’s cheap!”

“Puhaha!”

Eunwoo made it small so he could make it again at any time.

He showed a surprisingly clever side.

Jongsu wanted to make it much bigger than Siha and Seungjoon, so he was greedy.

Whatever it was.

“Oh? Um. Yundong, thank you. I would have been in big trouble if you hadn’t stopped it.”

“Yeah. Let’s do it again quickly.”

Yundong nodded coolly and returned to his work. He made shoes.

Eunwoo asked.

“Yundong. What’s that?”

“This. It’s a shoe. Shoe.”

“Puhaha!”

“Hey, why are you laughing?”

“No. It’s a shoe. I thought it was poop.”

“Hey! Anyone can see it’s a shoe.”

Yundong had no talent for art except for dancing.

That’s how everyone’s work began to connect and was completed.

“Wow! Everyone! It’s all done!”

“Yes!”

“Then shall we take a commemorative photo?”

“Yes!”

Everyone took pictures behind the dominoes so they could be seen well.

The teacher wanted to create such a scene.

Even if they spend the same winter, the flowers that bloom are different.

That’s individuality.

That’s why I let each of them make it.

But even so, people don’t live alone and help each other.

In that sense, connection.

I wanted to show that if you don’t give up and move forward, you can be in a relationship with someone and bloom flowers together by your side.

Along with patience.

Of course, I don’t know if the children thought that way.

“Hehe. Yundong made poop?”

“Yundong made poop?”

“No, I didn’t. Seungjoon and Siha. Why are you guys doing this too!”

Maybe they just came together with poop.

This wasn’t intentional……?

“Okay, then shall we knock down the dominoes now?”

“No!”

Siha spread his arms and blocked it.

For some reason, he didn’t want to knock it down.

The other children shook their heads, thinking it was a waste to knock it down now.

The teacher thought the children’s hearts were beautiful.

“Then shall we knock it down a little later?”

“Yes!”

“Ah!”

“Then when shall we knock it down?”

“Hyung [older brother or male friend]. Hyung. Ba [See].”

Yes. Siha must have wanted to show this to Hyung.

Because Siha did that, the children were clamoring to show it to their mothers.

Inevitably, everyone agreed to do so.

“Kids? Where are you going?”

The children began to put up barricades with toy bricks as if they had promised.

Siha said.

“Can’t go.”

The dominoes were being protected by bricks.

A demilitarized zone was completed.

Invading would incur the children’s resentment.

“Hahaha.”

The teacher couldn’t help but laugh at the children’s 모습 [appearance].

***

I came to pick up Siha, but all the children were waiting in front of the entrance.

I wondered what was going on, but when I looked, the other mothers were also standing in front with faces that said, ‘What is this?’

Originally, there were few cases of encountering each other, but it felt different to see them all together like this.

“Hyung.”

“Yes. Siha, what’s going on?”

“Hurry, hurry.”

You can feel that Siha is Korean.

He’s already learning ‘hurry, hurry’.

The place he took me to was where the bricks were set up.

When I looked inside, there were 멋들어지게 [splendidly] dominoes set up.

I chuckled.

Because I thought I knew the children’s intentions.

I wondered if they were waiting like this to show this.

“Siha. You made it really well?”

“Ah. Siha did well? Hyung. Hyung.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Anyone could tell that it was a domino made by Siha.

It was set up in a square shape, mostly using red.

Black dominoes were drawing pictures in the middle.

[ㅇㅅㅎ] [initials of the character and Siha]

The initials of Siha and me.

Even if someone else saw it, it was an obvious name that made them think, ‘Lee Siha must have made that.’

“Hyung carry. Together with Hyung.”

“Hyung wasn’t there, but you made it with the 마음 [feeling/heart] that you were together with Hyung?”

“Ah.”

Siha nodded and stuck out his stomach.

That proud look is so cute.

“Everyone has arrived. Then please gather around.”

The teacher gathered everyone.

The children looked at the dominoes to be knocked down and shouted one, two, three at the same time, touching them.

I don’t know if 7 fingers touched it, but the sight of the dominoes falling down was spectacular.

Maybe it’s because the children took the time to work hard to make it.

“Awesome!”

Siha’s eyes twinkled as if he felt proud.

I just stroked his head.

The other children grabbed their mothers’ hands, thinking it was all over.

“Hyung. Go home?”

“No. Siha. We played with dominoes like this, so what should we do?”

“Clean. Clean.”

“Yes. Let’s clean up.”

At my words, Siha began to clean up diligently.

I hope you’ll hold back on the sweet rest at home a little longer.

It would be better to go home if the 마무리 [finishing touches] is clean.

“Ah! I have to clean up too!”

“Hana too!”

The children began to clean up as if they had heard Siha and my words.

Of course, me too.

***

-Siha’s picture. Pixiv upload [online art community].

[Title: come back]

1. A picture of a penguin swinging a baseball bat.

2. A picture of a ball flying into the sky.

3. A picture where the ball is gone from where it was in the sky and replaced with a seagull.

The seagull is shown returning to the stadium, contrary to where the ball flew.

4. A picture of only an arm drawn largely, with surgery scars drawn on it.

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[Comments]

-Sihapepe♡♡♡

-Wow, it’s baseball this time.

-Just looking at the story, it seems like a pitcher who was hit by a ball had Tommy John surgery and came back?

-That’s right! The title is also comeback. That story is for sure!

-The hashtag invertedW refers to the pitching form. The seagull picture seems to be saying that.

-Wow, look at the expressiveness. Awesome.

-He drew it in a compressed way.

This was the first time Siha had properly made a story in 4 cuts.

The content he recalled while watching his own experience and Tyrone.

He expressed the 모습 [appearance/image] of returning to the stadium like the return of the king with a seagull.

-Tsk tsk tsk. The comments here haven’t changed at all.

-???

-Ahㅋㅋㅋ He’s here again. What did we miss again?

-That’s right! It’s written in detail in the hashtag, but we didn’t read the story?!

As always with the comeback of a pitcher, an interpreter appeared.

-Tsk tsk tsk!

-Say it!

-Is that all it contains? Do you even know how much patience Tommy John surgery requires of a pitcher in the first place?

-What is it? Does it have anything to do with this picture?

-Of course! Surgery takes 1 hour, but rehabilitation takes about 12 to 24 months! You can’t even imagine how much ‘patience’ you need to steadily endure a long rehabilitation!

-Wow. Is it that long?

-Of course. Even if you can’t endure this rehabilitation, there is a high possibility of failure, so even if you return, it won’t work properly!

-I see.

The interpreter who had laid the groundwork so far explained it step by step.

-Sihapepe’s paintings are always full of love. This picture is too. It’s not just about a pitcher coming back.

-Then?

-The seagull is a symbol of peace. But peace also requires a very long time of ‘patience’.

-Oh?! So you were talking about rehabilitation!

Siha didn’t have that intention.

He just drew the story of Tyrone being able to pitch well again.

-In the end, peace is not just achieved, just like surgery scars remain. The reason why he expressed it with surgery is because we humans have to perform the surgery ourselves.

-Oooo!! That sounds plausible?

-It’s not just plausible, Sihapepe’s paintings always have a hidden side. He brought it out through baseball to talk about this peace.

It’s right to just talk about baseball.

-As expected, Sihapepe. To throw a new message from such a simple everyday life!

-Shout!! Sihapepe!!!

The interpretation was always going crazy.

The problem is that the interpreter’s interpretation is so exquisitely 맞는단 [correct/accurate].