Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 332

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” Episode 332

A video was uploaded on the SihaPepe channel.

As always, they shared a heartwarming scene.

[Hello, this is SihaPepe.]

[Has it only been a month? Some of you want me to upload more often, but I don’t think that’s possible.]

[But I will say hello from time to time.]

A white background appears.

Siha turns on the recording app every time he draws.

The drawing starts with the familiar Pepe.

Black oil is smeared all over its body. It has a wrench in its hand.

He is drawing what he saw in the play.

[We get stained with various things in life.]

[It can be good or bad.]

[It would be nice to only see the good things, but that’s not always the case.]

[The harshness of society or various ideologies.]

The second picture is a pink Pepe.

It is holding a colorful bouquet, but it is covered with a tattered blanket.

Ironically, it captures a symmetrical appearance.

[Even people who look glamorous have burdens like that.]

[The light on the outside is so strong that we can’t see it.]

The third picture is of a male and female Pepe meeting each other.

A heart is drawn near each heart.

The hearts of the male and female Pepe are stained with black oil.

A red line is drawn in the middle.

As if to say, don’t cross it.

[A meeting where each person only shows their flaws, so they can’t easily muster courage.]

[How much are we missing out on?]

The fourth picture.

The two Pepes are hugging each other like lovers.

The hearts touching each other become one and are clean without oil stains.

Of course, the oil stains and tattered blanket on Pepe’s body remain.

However, the opacity was lowered to create a faint appearance.

[We bravely look at each other’s strengths.]

[We praise each other because we know each other’s wonderful points.]

[We don’t care about the stains on our bodies.]

[Because our hearts are already like fluffy new blankets.]

[We now have the same heart.]

[That’s all for today’s drawing.]

[Thank you.]

The title of the video was ‘Praise’.

People who saw this left comments.

-Shout out! SihaPepe!!

I don’t know what they’re shouting, but here’s one comment that always appears.

-It’s a warm story today too.

-Wow! The story is great.

-But the stains and shabby tattered blanket faded at the end, but they didn’t disappear. Goosebumps.

-That’s right. That means they accepted even that about each other.

-The fading is probably because each other’s strengths and loving hearts are clearer.

-The part where the heart becomes clean is even more goosebumps-inducing.

-Shout out! SihaPepe!!

-Stop shouting! I’m going to shout! SihaPepe!!

People were leaving comments about what they felt.

Now, unless it’s abusive, it automatically goes up, and there were many replies.

Among them, there was a post with the most replies.

It was an ID called the Interpreter.

[As expected, since there are so many people, there are many who can’t find the hidden secrets.

Look closely. SihaPepe is not that simple.

Everything has a reason.

I’m not saying that your interpretations are wrong.

But it’s still a pity that you didn’t see something hidden.

SihaPepe expressed a famous person’s phrase in writing! Why didn’t anyone notice? He already gave a hint with the title!

He’s even giving a lot of hints with explanations and pictures.

The third picture shows that seeing each other’s flaws means they thought they were incompatible.

But that’s just seeing each other’s positions differently.

The fourth picture is actually saying that they are on equal footing by praising each other’s strengths!]

You can tell that the interpreter is excited.

But it was too long.

People skimmed through it and looked at the conclusion.

[SihaPepe’s quote from a famous person.]

[A person does not lower himself by praising others. Rather, he puts himself in the same position as the other person. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-]

[He quoted this! As expected! SihaPepe!]

That’s not it.

It’s just that the text Si-hyuk wrote happened to look that way.

It just so happened that Siha was becoming independent, so he praised her a lot and decided on it with a feeling of pride.

He didn’t even think about Goethe.

But since people had no way of knowing that, they left comments saying they had goosebumps.

-Crazy! It’s real?!

-He showed that one phrase as a story?!

-He compares it to the courage of love so that ordinary people can relate to it?

-Wow! The interpreter who found that is amazing too. Seriously.

-SihaPepe! Why do you keep hiding it!!!

-Now you’re even quoting with pictures?!

That’s not it.

But people praised SihaPepe’s greatness.

The comments from people who followed from Pixiv [online community for artists] were now a kind of fun to praise.

Of course, there was also the thought that it seemed to fit a plausible interpretation.

***

Time flies so fast. The play is already over, and thanks to that, they say they will perform the play with this script next year as well.

Somehow, it feels strange that a part of my writing will be performed as a play again next year.

“Ah~ Ah~”

Siha is opening his mouth and making noises in front of the fan.

He did that last year too, but he’s still making strange noises this year without getting tired of it.

“Hyung. Strange voice coming out.”

“Yeah. It’s amazing.”

“Ah~ Ah~”

“Aren’t you going to do the getting a fat belly [blowing air into your stomach]?”

“Siha already did it.”

It seems he already blew air into his belly.

The course is perfect!

What should I do with the fact that even the fan has become a toy?

“Hyung~ Hyung~”

“Why?”

“What are we going to play today?”

“Hmm. I don’t know. Is there something you want to do?”

“Siha likes playing with Hyung.”

“Kuhuk!”

Where did you learn those lines?

I’m touched, but I’m wondering what to play.

To be honest, I don’t want to go outside.

It’s a bit hot today, so if I go out and play, I’ll get tired first.

But it’s a bit much to just stay inside.

I was struggling with such an internal conflict, but I decided to watch YouTube first.

“Then Siha. Do you want to watch the video uploaded on the SihaPepe channel? I’ll tell you what people said.”

“Video!”

Siha sits down and watches the video.

He is watching if the editing was done well. He says, ‘Hyung. You’re cool!’ from the side.

You always think Hyung is cool?!

I was watching with that thought in mind when an email caught my eye.

An email from the children’s art museum.

I kept getting emails about doing some kind of program, but I was too busy to pay attention to it.

But now that it’s caught my eye like this, isn’t it a good thing?

I want to go see it if there’s a good exhibition.

Of course, I also had the thought that it would be fun if Siha participated.

[Body Painting Exhibition]

“Wow.”

“Hyung. Why? What does it say? Should Siha read it?”

“You can’t read.”

“No. Siha studied Korean and now I can read well. I can read books by myself.”

“Really? Then I don’t have to read picture books to you anymore?”

“!!!”

Siha’s eyes widened at those words.

His pupils wandered around.

“No. Siha can’t read everything. Siha knows how to read, but I don’t know everything.”

It seemed like he was saying that he could only read what he knew, so he couldn’t read the whole book.

That’s actually true.

“Then shall we read this email?”

“Okay.”

Siha read the email one by one.

“Stupid Pepe Jjajan!”

None of it was right. It’s a body painting exhibition.

He’s not saying Pepe because it has ‘Pe’ in it, is he?

Is he reading it as a fool because there’s a ‘B’ in it?

“Hello. I’m Pepe. Today, I’m going to tell you about Stupid Pepe. There was a Pepe. He got hit in the head with a stone. He became a fool. He met a princess and became a genius.”

What is it? It has nothing to do with the email.

Is there a separate letter that only good children can see?

Or is the text of this email actually in some kind of code that he is interpreting?

“Hyung. I read it all!”

Look at that confident expression.

Yeah. Siha. No matter what, that’s not the content.

And somehow the story reminds me of Fool Ondal [Korean folktale]?

Anyway, I think I should tell Siha what to tell him.

“They say they’re doing body painting.”

“Body Pepe?”

“No. Body painting is when you draw on your body and say, ‘How is it? Isn’t it cool?’”

“Draw a picture on my body?”

“Yeah. Should I say it’s a work that sublimates as art? They say they’re doing that kind of program this time? Maybe it will be exhibited when it’s completed.”

When I read it, it said that the children would draw on mannequin bodies and do face painting on their faces.

Real artists also participate, and they say they will film and exhibit videos through body painting.

Well, models can’t stand as sculptures for hours for the exhibition.

“Would you like to participate in this program?”

“Siha wants to try it. Draw a picture on my body.”

“Okay. Let’s do that.”

I filled out the application form.

You can’t easily have this kind of experience, so let’s do it this time.

An art museum created by children.

It’s really amazing.

It’s also amazing that there are people who support this kind of place in Korea.

Maybe only entrance exam art is well known to the public, but there may be places like this from time to time.

‘No. I hope there are more places like this in various regions.’

It was hard to find a place like this other than here.

Children may not all choose art as a career, but having this kind of opportunity is very good.

You never know.

Maybe a famous person will come out of the children who participated here.

Ah, then one person is already decided!

Siha will definitely become famous.

“Hyung. What are we going to play today?”

“Ah……”

Why don’t you do this program right away after applying?

The same old worries came back again.

What should I really play today?

***

Today, I decided to go to Seung-joon and Hana’s house.

I had to deliver the souvenirs I bought in Sweden, and it seemed like it would be good to play together.

I contacted them, and Seung-joon’s mother said it was okay to come.

I’m bringing gifts, but I felt bad about going in empty-handed, so I bought some drinks.

“Hello.”

“Ah, Si-hyuk. Welcome.”

Seung-joon and Hana popped out.

“Siha! Hello!”

“Siha, hello!”

“Seung-joon, Hana. Hello!”

They would have been together at daycare, but the children still greet each other happily when they meet.

I took out Seung-joon and Hana’s souvenirs from my bag.

“This is Seung-joon’s.”

“Wow! Soccer uniform!”

“It’s a Swedish soccer uniform. See the Swedish flag?”

“Si-hyuk hyung. Thank you!”

“This is Hana’s. It’s a magnet with a round badge-like feel, embedded with pretty pictures where you can feel the atmosphere of Stockholm.”

“Pretty! Si-hyuk oppa. Thank you. I will treasure it.”

It’s also good to collect them every time you travel because they sparkle.

“You don’t have to buy these things for the kids.”

Seung-joon’s mother smiles as if to say, ‘Why did you buy these things?’

“I’m grateful that Siha played well with them at the pajama party.”

“Hey. We are grateful. The kids like Siha so much. So does Si-hyuk. What a good friend he is.”

“Then let’s be grateful to each other. Hahaha.”

“Okay, then.”

Seung-joon and Hana grab my clothes.

“Si-hyuk hyung. What are we going to play today?”

“Si-hyuk oppa. What are we going to play today?”

“???”

No. I came all the way here, and you’re asking me that?

Siha asks brightly.

“Hyung. What are we going to play today?”

Please have mercy. Seriously.

“Shall we play pirates?”

That’s all I could think of.