Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 233

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” Episode 233

Siha ran over and threw himself at me faster than ever before.

Thud.

He buried his face in the chubby Pepe mascot.

“Hyung Pepe!”

“You’ve already named him?”

“Ah ah!”

Siha looked up with sparkling eyes.

Looking up at me like that, he was so adorable. If his hands weren’t penguins, I would have taken a ton of pictures.

“Knock knock.”

Siha tapped Pepe’s belly with his hand.

“Hyung. Isser [Is there]?”

“Yeah. Hyung is inside.”

“Today, Siha play?”

“Yeah. We’re going to play a lot. Playing with Pepe. How is it? Amazing, right?”

“Siha. Habbokhae~ [Happy]”

Siha went limp.

He rubbed his face against Pepe’s belly.

He must be so happy to do this. It was like a child seeing Iron Man in real life.

Especially since Pepe was a character Siha created himself.

For that to pop out into reality…

“Then what should we play? You can do everything you wanted to do, Siha. Today.”

“Really?!”

“Yeah. Do everything you wanted to do with Pepe.”

“Ah ah!”

Siha pondered hard.

I was looking forward to it too. What kind of request would he make?

Actually, I had prepared a few things. In case Siha couldn’t think of anything.

My preparations were always perfect.

“Siha. Hyung Pepe, playground!”

“Huh? Really?”

“Ah ah!”

Ah, I didn’t even think about going out wearing this. Of course, it’s okay since my face isn’t visible.

“Okay. Let’s go.”

“Ah ah!”

Siha dropped his penguin bag in the room and grabbed my hand.

It wasn’t too cold outside.

It was warm inside the mascot, but I was also well dressed inside.

“Then let’s play at the playground for a bit and then play at home again.”

“Ah ah!”

I was worried about him catching a cold if we stayed outside for too long, so we should play moderately.

We should go back at least when the sun starts to set.

“Hyung Pepe. Slide!”

“Uh?”

“Gachi. Gachi [Together. Together].”

It was predictable, but I sat on the slide and didn’t move forward.

No, I couldn’t move. It was impossible to sit because it was too chubby.

“Gachi mota? [Can’t together?]”

“No. There’s a way!”

I climbed onto the slide. I laid down and firmly grabbed the sides.

“Now grab my head.”

“Ah ah.”

Siha probably imagined Pepe holding him tightly from behind and sliding down together.

Of course, that was impossible in reality.

Instead, we could slide down with his head attached to mine.

The problem was that other people would think it was some weird act if they saw us. But I didn’t care.

“Hyung Pepe. Start!”

“Start!”

We slid down.

Siha laughed gleefully as if he was having fun.

Encouraged by that, we rode it several times. After having enough fun, he turned his attention elsewhere.

“Hyung Pepe. Seesaw! Seesaw!”

“Okay.”

Squeak. Squeak. Up and down. Up and down.

Anyone who has ridden a seesaw with kids knows that it’s a lower body workout.

Of course, I wasn’t really riding it, but rather lying down and doing a pendulum motion up and down.

Wasn’t this also not the picture Siha wanted?

No. What could I do when Pepe’s legs are short…

At that moment, a passing child said.

“Mom! Penguin corpse! It’s a corpse! It’s sprawled out.”

“Oh my. It looks like dried fish.”

“Haha. I want to play with that kid too.”

“No. We have to go home quickly today.”

“Aaaa. I want to play. Play.”

I gave a bitter smile.

I can’t believe they’re saying that when the person who’s supposed to give it isn’t even thinking about it! Today, Hyung Pepe is all Siha’s.

Did Siha feel that sense of crisis?

“Hyung Pepe. Jibeser nora~ [Play at home]”

“Huh? Should we go home now?”

“Ah ah.”

He’s smart. He must think that he might not be able to occupy Hyung Pepe if he plays at the playground for too long.

But what if it’s his home ground?!

Defense is more difficult than offense, and Siha was using tactics to protect this.

He knows how to wage war? Maybe Zhuge Liang [famous strategist from the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history] would come and exclaim that he’s a genius.

‘Isn’t your head more of a war zone? The Korean War is nothing compared to it,’ I heard Moon Do-hwan’s voice.

Where is that hallucination coming from? Shoo shoo. Fly away.

I waved my penguin hands up in the sky.

“Hyung. Mohae? An ga? [What are you doing? Not going?]”

“Huh? Ah ah! We have to go.”

As I was about to leave holding Siha’s hand, the child who had just come to play started to sob.

“Ah, why are you leaving already! I was going to play with you too!”

“Oh my. They’re leaving. So let’s hurry up and go too!”

That child’s mother’s voice was bright.

Her heart must be full of thoughts of going home.

“Hyung Pepe.”

“Yeah?”

“Jibeseo mohae? [What to do at home?]”

“Hmm.”

He probably can’t think of what to do at home. Well, he must have been full of thoughts of playing at the playground.

“Should we play hide-and-seek?”

“Ah ah!”

Siha liked it.

***

Does he really know war?

Siha set the stage to his advantage. What I mean is that Siha is the seeker. He just wants to be the seeker.

No matter how I look at it, I’m not a size that can hide…

Anyway, I quickly looked for a place to hide while Siha counted.

“One! Two! Seoi! Four! Five!”

“Not yet!”

Even if there’s no place to hide, I had to pretend.

I yanked open the closet, took out a blanket, and buried my head in it.

My body didn’t fit. And there’s no need to organize the blanket since I was going to take it out anyway.

It’s a necessary sacrifice.

“Hyung Pepe. Da sumeosseo? [All hidden?]”

“……”

I can hear Siha’s footsteps. It sounds like he’s coming into the room.

“Ah? Butt.”

He’s probably looking at Pepe’s butt. I’m caught. I’m caught. How can hide-and-seek end in 1 second?

“Eodi~jji~ [Where~is it~]”

Um, Siha? Didn’t you just say butt?!

Pretending not to see it. Where did you learn such advanced techniques?

Tap tap tap.

I can feel a rhythm on my butt.

Siha must be hitting it.

“An boyeo~ Eodijji? [Can’t see~ Where is it?]”

No way. There’s no way he can’t see Pepe’s butt.

He even patted my butt.

He’s nonchalantly pretending not to know and preparing to go somewhere else.

“Yeogi eopseo! [Not here!]”

I can hear his footsteps moving away.

I, who only buried my face, was like, where am I? Who am I? And waited for Siha to find me quickly.

But it’s boring to be standing here like this.

Should I peek a little?

I took my face out of the closet and looked towards the door.

“Ah?”

“Huh?”

Siha, who was hiding right against the wall and looking at the room, made eye contact with me.

Um, Siha? Were you pretending to go somewhere else and watching here?

Just imagining it makes it look ridiculous.

I definitely don’t want to show it to anyone.

“Chajatta! [Found you!]”

Siha points at Hyung Pepe with his finger.

As if he really just discovered it. He seems to be acting a bit.

“Ah, I got caught!”

“Hyung Pepe. Jyeosseo! [Lost!]”

“Yeah. Hyung Pepe lost. Now I’m the seeker!”

“Ah ah!”

“Siha, hide.”

“Ah ah!”

I came out to the living room and counted.

One, two, seoi, four. Aish! I said seoi and four without even realizing it. What’s with the addiction…

“…Ten! Is everyone hidden!”

“Siha da sumeosseo! [Siha all hidden!]”

“You’re not supposed to say that……”

I felt it before, but Siha was honest and told me everything.

Well, the house isn’t that big, so I can find him quickly.

“Where could Siha be?”

But I didn’t let my guard down.

I moved my feet quietly and searched diligently with my eyes.

I found Siha.

A round part that protruded noticeably from the messy blankets.

Anyone could see that he was in there.

“Should I look in the closet?”

“Woop.”

I could hear Siha holding his breath.

I deliberately went back and forth to the part where Siha’s head was.

Making footsteps.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

“Hmm. He’s not here? Where is he? Uh?”

I pretended to trip over Siha’s body.

“Ugh, I fell.”

“Woop.”

“No. What is this? There’s something hard?!”

I gave the signal that he was caught. Siha. Come out now.

“Chair. Chair.”

He’s thinking of deceiving me with that?!

Then I have to play along.

“Should I try sitting on it?”

I pretended to sit on Siha’s back gently. It’s been a while since I’ve done squats.

“Anya. Weak chair. Weak chair. Break. Break. [No. Weak chair. Weak chair. Break. Break.]”

“What chair is talking.”

“Ah?”

Oops. I guess what I was thinking came out of my mouth without me realizing it.

But this could be resolved with natural ad-libs.

“That’s why it’s so suspicious!”

“Siha anya. Chairya. Say. Ah ah! Phone chairya. Phone chair. [Siha no. Chair. Say. Ah ah! Phone chair. Phone chair.]”

The development of science has become strange. A smartphone chair. It must be really inconvenient to carry around.

I’ll stop here and lift the blanket.

“Siha was here!”

“Ah ah! Chajatta! [Found you!]”

Why are you shouting that you found him?

As I did it, there were a lot of absurd situations.

But that was so cute that I laughed inside the mascot.

“Hyung Pepe won this time?”

“Ah ah! Museungbu! Museungbu! [Draw! Draw!]”

“Oh! You even know what a draw is? But let’s do the last round to see who wins. The winner wins!”

“Siha sulrae! [Siha seeker!]”

“Uh-uh. We have to do rock-paper-scissors. That’s……”

This is a fight where the seeker is bound to win.

It’s good to lose here, but it wasn’t bad to win either.

To be exact, it was revenge for the last rock-paper-scissors.

I know Siha’s intentions perfectly this time.

“Okay. Hyung is going to throw a fist [rock] this time.”

“Ah ah. Siha also fist! [rock!]”

Siha clenches his small hand.

Hoo hoo hoo. I know everything. Siha’s formula is ‘together with hyung,’ so he’ll definitely throw a fist!

Then I’ll throw a cloth [paper].

I have to be the seeker today. It’s too hard to hide wearing this mascot. It’s better to find him.

“Okay. Let’s go.”

“Ah ah!”

“Rock paper scissors!”

“Gaigaibo! [Rock, paper, scissors!]”

“???”

I am cloth [paper]. Siha is scissors.

How did this happen?

“Ah?”

Siha was also flustered and made a silly noise.

Could it be that I lost in the mind game?!

“Siha. Why didn’t you throw a fist [rock]?”

“Hyung. Ttan geo naesseo. [Threw something else.]”

“Uh. That’s obvious, and you threw something else just now.”

“Anya. Yetnalyetnare naesseo. [No. Threw a long time ago.]”

“Ah……”

So, to summarize, it’s like this.

Siha wanted to throw the same thing as Hyung, but he learned that he threw something different before.

Then what should Siha throw to throw the same thing as Hyung?

Of course, he has to throw something else.

That’s the result. Cloth [paper] and scissors.

Anyway, I lost and Siha decided to be the seeker.

The situation where who won was already decided.

I can’t help it. I have no choice but to use my ultimate move.

“Siha. Close your eyes and count. Got it?”

“Ah ah!”

Siha counted.

I quickly started hiding with a bang. There’s no time.

“Da sumeosseo? [All hidden?]”

“No! Just a little more! Count one more time.”

“Ah ah!”

Siha counted again.

“…Ten! Is everyone hidden?”

“……”

I could hear Siha running right away.

He approached Pepe, pretending not to know more leisurely than before.

He covered it with a blanket, but he couldn’t hide the huge face.

“Chajatta! [Found you!]”

Siha jumped onto the blanket.

But. Thud! Roll roll.

“Ah?”

Pepe’s face popped out.

When I lifted the blanket, Hyung wasn’t inside.

“Ah? Hyung?”

Siha put his head inside Pepe’s face.

“Hyung. Eodisseo? Yeogisseo? [Where are you? Here?]”

There’s no way he’d be there?

I was holding my breath behind the door and watching Siha.

He would see me right away if he turned around, but he didn’t notice.

“Ah?”

Siha’s head turned. He jumps over as if he found me.

“Hyung. Chajatta! [Found you!]”

“Puhaha. I got caught.”

Siha’s eyes sparkled as if he had accomplished something amazing.

As expected, my last resort turned into nothing.

Still, I must have made hide-and-seek more fun by flustering Siha.

“Siha. Should we sing a birthday song now? Just the two of us.”

“Why?”

“We didn’t do it with Hyung.”

“Ah ah!”

***

Si-hyuk and Siha sang in front of the birthday cake.

“Happy birthday to you~ Happy birthday to you~ Dear Lee Siha! Happy birthday to you! Wow!”

“Whoo!”

The candles go out.

“Siha. Did you make a wish?”

“Anya. [No.]”

“You didn’t make a wish?”

Siha nodded.

It was as if his wish had already come true.

He was very satisfied because he played a lot with Hyung today.

Sparkle sparkle.

Blue and pink lights drew a single cake.

As if to congratulate him.

Staring blankly at the air, he remembered what his friends had learned from the teacher every birthday at daycare.

“Born and done. Thank you. Conveyed.”

The pink and blue lights moved up and down as if nodding.

Siha learned everything today, even though the teacher didn’t teach him.

“Siha. Who are you talking to? Who should I convey it to?”

“Hyung. Mom. Dad.”

“Ah……”

Si-hyuk stroked Siha’s head.

“Hyung will definitely convey it.”

“Ah?”

“Our Siha learned really well. Good boy.”

Siha looked at Si-hyuk with questioning eyes.

Why is Hyung saying he’ll convey it?