Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 280

Hyung, Aren’t I Cute? 280

My kindergarten gave out a new assignment.

It was to introduce a fun book to friends.

Or, they could create something different and make up a story.

Siha was in deep thought.

Which book should he read and introduce?

“Hyung, what book should Siha do?”

“Siha can just introduce what he enjoyed reading. What did you read recently?”

“This!”

Siha held out a fairy tale book he borrowed from the library.

The Sun and the Moon.

It was a famous Korean folktale.

“Then you can introduce this.”

“Siha wants to do something else.”

“Other than this?”

“No. I want to change the story.”

“Hmm. You want to modify it?”

“Uh-huh.”

It seemed Siha wanted to tell a special story.

Why would he? Is his desire for creation bubbling up?

“Why do you want to change it?”

“Friends all know it.”

It seemed his friends mostly knew the fairy tales.

Well, they read these kinds of folktales a lot at home too.

It always seemed like Siha was the only one who didn’t know, but now that he’s been going to kindergarten for a year, he knows a lot more.

“Hmm. I see. Ah! Then how about making the story fun like Teacher Yoo Da-hee?”

“Huh?”

“No. Hyung misspoke.”

Teacher Yoo Da-hee’s stories have lessons and are fun, but the hidden settings are too realistic.

Although it’s an eccentric and lively charm.

“Siha, if you were to change it, how would you want to change it?”

“Pepe.”

Penguin vs. Tiger.

That would be quite a fight.

“What do you think about a rope coming down from the sky?”

“Ooh. Fun.”

“Really?”

I don’t think much of it.

In the end, it’s a situation where you have to rely on someone.

If possible, I wish they would defeat it coolly.

I stroked Siha’s head.

“Then think about it carefully.”

“Okay. Siha will think!”

Siha puts his right index finger to his temple.

He puts his left index finger to my temple.

“What are you doing?”

“Shh! Hyung’s head and Siha’s head are connected. Think together.”

So, you’re saying it’s connected to my brain through your arm?

That’s an amazing ability.

“Hyung. I can hear you. Siha spoke in his mind.”

“Of course, I can hear you. You’re talking with your mouth.”

“No. Siha didn’t open his mouth.”

Anyone can see you’re opening and closing your mouth!

I guess it’s a setting where he’s sending telepathy.

“Okay, Siha. I can hear you well. I can hear you. I can hear Siha’s voice in my head!”

“Hyung is telling Siha the story he made. Can’t lie.”

“Aren’t you trying to get away with too much?”

“What’s getting away with? Is it yummy?”

“Hmm.”

It is delicious. Honey-like. But it’s a bit difficult to explain.

Let’s move on to another story.

“The tiger ate the Sun and the Moon.”

“Huh?”

“That’s the ending I thought of. The end!”

In reality, it would be a tragedy where the children get eaten.

Siha widened his eyes in surprise.

It must have been shocking.

The finger connected to my head fell off.

Thud.

Siha put both hands on the floor.

“Can’t do this……”

I’m sorry. I gave you an idea you can’t use.

Don’t try to get away with your homework, do it yourself.

But it’s not bad to let him know it’s a tragic ending, right?

Of course, I like happy endings more.

“Siha, if I give you a rice cake, won’t you eat me?”

“Huh? Siha doesn’t have rice cake.”

“It’s here?”

I grabbed Siha’s cheek.

Soft and squishy.

“Mochi [Japanese rice cake].”

“Huh?”

Siha grabbed his cheek in surprise.

“Siha needs cheek.”

“I’ll just taste it a little.”

Siha hesitated and then turned around.

Did he pout, by any chance?

But he sticks his butt out.

“Hyung. Taste Siha’s butt.”

“Pfft.”

“Siha knows. Hyung bit Siha when Siha was young.”

He’s coming up with a compromise.

But I don’t know why cheeks aren’t allowed but butts are.

I poked Siha’s butt with my hand.

“Ang!”

His butt is also mochi.

***

Today was the day Siha introduced a book to the children.

One person each day.

It was important to introduce what each person enjoyed reading.

Not only can they improve their presentation skills, but sharing what they like is a good topic for conversation.

This assignment was given to help them become closer and talk more.

Of course, they were already as close as they could be.

“Yes! Today is the day Siha introduces a book. Siha, what book did you bring?”

Siha opened his penguin bag.

Taking out a book from inside.

“Tada! Siha brought The Sun and the Moon.”

The reaction Siha expected from the children burst out.

“I know that!”

“Me too!”

“You brought something everyone knows! Siha, you’re out of options!”

Jong-soo was the most excited.

But Siha raised his index finger like Teacher Yoo Da-hee and shook his head from side to side.

“Siha changed the story.”

“!!!”

“Siha will tell you the story.”

Jong-soo had his mouth wide open.

He didn’t expect him to modify the story.

He sat down in his seat as if he was upset.

He watched carefully, thinking that Lee Siha was not an easy opponent.

The teacher scratched her forehead.

What is Jong-soo fighting about?

“Sun, Moon, have hyung.”

Originally, the mother raised the siblings, but Siha changed it to hyung [older brother or male friend].

“Hyung said.”

“I’m going to work hard! I’ll earn a lot of money.”

“Went to a foreign country.”

The teacher chuckled.

No, it’s a folktale, but isn’t he going too global?

“The tiger came to the Sun and the Moon.”

“I’m hungry. If you give me a rice cake, I won’t eat you!”

It was a tremendous story development.

The tiger appeared right away. He even changed it to demanding rice cakes from the Sun and the Moon.

The children were subtly focused on listening.

“Sun and Moon went to the door. Tiger is there. Worried.”

“Oppa [older brother or male friend]. What do we do?”

“It’s okay. I’ll punish him with soccer.”

It seemed the siblings were transformed into Seung-joon and Hana.

Seung-joon noticed this and snorted excitedly.

Seung-joon. Aren’t you too immersed?

“Younger sibling said. Hana will sing. Tiger will kick the ball when he sees Hana.”

Siha. Your younger sibling has become Hana, is that okay?!?

You’re just rattling off what you have as role models in your head.

“Hana sang and oppa kicked the ball. Tiger got hit and said, ‘Ack!’”

Isn’t “Ack!” what you’re good at?

Did Siha become the tiger?!

It seems the words Siha usually uses are coming out in the story.

The tiger suddenly became cute.

“Tiger got angry. Said he would eat them.”

“Oppa and younger sibling ran away. Climbed up a tree.”

“Tiger is also climbing up.”

“Oppa and younger sibling asked to be saved.”

“Saved from the sky!”

It’s finally time for the rope to come down.

I expected it to follow a normal flow from here.

“Pepe came down from the sky.”

What? What did you say?

It was the sudden appearance of a penguin.

“It was hyung. Wearing a Pepe hat and coming down holding a rope. Hands full of mochi.”

It turned out to be hyung who went abroad.

He’s holding rice cakes like in the original.

“Threw a lot of rice cakes and put them in the tiger’s mouth. Tiger got choked and fell from the tree. Tiger ran away.”

It was a logical story flow in its own way.

“Si-hyuk hyung is amazing! Si-hyuk oppa is amazing!”

Siha? Hyung has become Si-hyuk?!

Is this really the story of the Sun and the Moon?

Since when did the Sun and the Moon become Hana and Seung-joon?

But the main character of the story’s activities was hyung, Si-hyuk.

Shouldn’t we change the title to ‘Hyung’s Story’ at this point?

“Ate strawberry mochi deliciously and became happy. All done!”

The story is finally over.

The story seems to have been severely corrupted, but the ending was happy anyway.

Clap clap clap.

The children applauded enthusiastically.

“Wow. Fun.”

“Siha. It’s more fun because Hana came out.”

“Siha, you’re even good at making up stories. I’ll bring an even more amazing story next time!”

“I’m looking forward to Jong-soo’s story.”

Everyone said what they wanted to say enthusiastically.

The teacher watched with pleasure.

Because it seemed Siha had ignited the children’s desire to create.

Of course, there may be children who don’t, but she knew how important it was in life to stimulate them to try something.

Seung-joon said.

“But in the old days, if there were tigers in the mountains and they asked for rice cakes, how did they really beat the tigers?”

Jong-soo scoffed.

“A tiger wouldn’t really ask for rice cakes. Have you been to the zoo and still say that?”

“Did Jong-soo go to the old days and see a tiger? You didn’t, did you?”

“Huh? I didn’t see it, but……”

“So, you don’t know. They say tigers used to smoke in the old days.”

The days when tigers smoked.

I guess he picked up that saying from somewhere.

“There’s no way the tigers back then are different from the tigers now.”

“Why? Tigers lived in the mountains back then, so they could talk. They said there were mountain gods too.”

“That’s a lie.”

“It’s true? My dad told me.”

Seung-joon said confidently.

Hana nodded in agreement from the side.

Then Yeon-joo, who had been quiet, said.

“If you’re curious, you can go to the old days.”

“???”

“I heard from my dad that there’s an old village? He went to Gyeongbokgung Palace when he first came to Korea. I haven’t been there.”

The teacher understood what Yeon-joo was saying.

“Everyone, shall we go to the old village? Where the Sun and the Moon lived.”

“Teacher. Really?”

“Of course. There’s still an old village called the Folk Village.”

The teacher laughed and raised her hand.

“Time benders!”

The children blinked.

The teacher suddenly felt embarrassed and lowered her hand.

“Ahem. Anyway, time has stopped there, so it’s still there. Shall we ask for permission to go later?”

“Yes!”

It was decided to go on a trip from kindergarten after a long time.

***

I saw Siha’s report card today.

For some reason, I had become Seung-joon and Hana’s hyung, oppa.

How did Siha make me like this?

“Hyung. Siha told the story well today.”

“Really? I don’t think so?”

“No. I did really well.”

“Hyung appeared in the story today?”

“Huh? Siha didn’t say hyung’s name.”

Doesn’t he realize he said it without knowing?

Does he remember that the names of the Sun and the Moon were also changed?

“You put Seung-joon and Hana in the story too, right?”

“Ack!”

Siha hit his forehead with his palm.

“Siha mistake! Mistake!”

Tap tap tap.

He said the mistake twice, but he’s hitting his forehead three times.

It was so cute.

That’s not it.

“But there was a permission slip for going to the Folk Village on the report card? Does Siha want to go?”

“Siha wants to go!”

“Really?”

“With hyung!”

“???”

Why me again? Isn’t it time to just go with your friends?!

“If I allow this, I’m going with you too?”

“Hyung has to go together.”

“Hmm. I’m not going?”

“No. Together! Together!”

“Give me a reason why hyung has to go. Try to persuade me like you told the story today.”

“!!!”

Siha thought hard.

“Hyung. Sit here.”

“Okay.”

As expected, you have to sit down to talk seriously.

Siha got up and connected my head and his head.

“Connected with Siha. It’s a big deal if we fall off. Big deal.”

“Pfft. Shall we try falling off somewhere?”

I stepped back.

“It’s not a big deal?”

“One, two, three!”

Tap.

He put it back on.

“It’s okay if you count to three.”

That’s similar to the logic that it’s okay if you pick it up within 3 seconds, right?

“Don’t you have any other reasons besides this?”

“No. I have.”

“What is it?”

“Hyung likes Siha. Siha likes hyung too.”

“So, you’re saying we have to go together?”

“Uh-huh.”

“???”

This is amazing logic.

“Nothing else?”

“I have.”

“You have?”

“Siha learned one.”

What did he learn?

“Hyung and Siha are a set. Set menu. Siha learned English.”

Is that what a set menu is used to express?

No. Well. It’s not wrong, but…….