Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 341

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?”

The nail polish itself is made for children, so it’s safe for their skin.

It’s also easy to apply on their own.

However, drawing something is not easy, even for adults.

Especially for children, who have small nails and require delicate hand movements.

“If it gets too hard, there are nail stickers here, so use them.”

There was a wide variety.

Dinosaurs, animals, fruits, superheroes, princesses, and more.

I prepared fun options to keep the kids interested.

Fortunately, thanks to the story, even the boys are excited and looking around.

Seung-jun says,

“Siha, let’s put on nail polish together. Draw a flame on my nail.”

Seung-jun cleverly realized that if he occupies Siha, he can get the ability he wants on his nail.

He was sure Siha could do it because he’s good at drawing!

But Hana had the same idea.

“Siha, do it with Hana, not Oppa [older brother or male friend].”

“Hey, Oh Hana, you can do it with Yeon-ju.”

“But Siha draws better. The three of us, Yeon-ju, Siha, and I, can do it together.”

“Why am I excluded!”

“Oppa will draw something weird again.”

“No, I’m going to draw poop.”

“See, you’re going to draw something weird! No way!”

Yeon-ju nods in agreement from behind.

She wanted something pretty on her nails, not weird poop or farts.

Siha looked back and forth between the two, falling into 고민 [a state of worry or contemplation].

“Seung-jun, Siha will do your hand.”

“Ahahaha! See! Siha chose me.”

“Hing [a sulky sound].”

“No. Siha will do Hana’s too.”

Hana’s face brightened up.

Siha couldn’t give up on either of them.

“But Siha can’t do many. Just one for each.”

“Ah! I was going to get nine abilities because of Hana.”

Since the pinky finger was already dyed with balsam, he could draw nine abilities.

There was no way Siha could think of all those abilities and draw them.

And the question was how well he would adapt to the unfamiliar nail polish brush.

After all, it was his first time using it.

“Um, Siha. Me too.”

Yeon-ju also subtly joined in.

She knew Siha’s skills better than anyone.

So, she hoped he would draw something pretty.

“Okay. Siha will do it for everyone!”

Lee Siha confidently accepted customers without even trying it once.

His guts were as big as a man.

The teacher said.

“Okay. Shall we all try it?”

In the end, the Siha gang and the Jong-su gang gathered together.

First, Yeon-ju and Hana started painting each other’s nails with their favorite colors.

Leaving only one drawing for Siha to do.

“Yeon-ju, we should leave two, right?”

“Why?”

“Because I want to put on a nail sticker.”

“Ah, right. We had those too. But let’s do that on the left hand with the balsam dye.”

“Ah, that’ll work.”

While the two were doing that, Siha looked at Seung-jun’s nails with a serious face.

He narrowed his eyes and looked closely, like someone appraising something.

“How is it? Can you make fire?”

“I can’t see it.”

“Oh no.”

“Huh? Siha couldn’t see because his eyes were closed.”

“You weren’t squinting?!”

“Can’t do it big. Have to do it small.”

Siha grabbed the orange nail polish first.

“Huh? Why orange?”

“Orange inside and red outside.”

“Ah!”

He drew a circle at the tip of the nail with orange.

Then, he drew a blazing flame shape with red.

Since it was his first time using it, he slipped slightly, but he covered up the mistake by utilizing the space well and coloring it in.

He used black to make two dots on the orange circle to create eyes.

In an instant, the fire became cute.

“Huh?! The fire has eyes?!”

“Cute. Pi-pai-ya.”

“Huh? What’s Pi-pai-ya? Is it a name?”

“It’s a name. Fire~”

“Ah…. So, Pi-pai-ya.”

Seung-jun thought it would have been better if he hadn’t drawn the eyes, but the more he looked at it, the cuter it became, and he liked it.

“If you say, ‘Come out, Pi-pai-ya,’ Pi-pai-ya will come out.”

“Huh? Not fire comes out, but this character comes out?”

“Come out. Come out.”

Unexpectedly, it felt like he was carrying around a monster like in a cartoon.

The added setting made it even better.

Being cool didn’t matter anymore.

“Oppa, show Hana too.”

“Huh? Yeah. Isn’t it cute?”

“Wow! It’s cute!”

Yeon-ju stopped painting Hana’s nails and looked at Siha’s character.

Her eyes sparkled as if she liked it.

“Siha, you have to draw something pretty for Hana too.”

“You have to draw for me too.”

“Siha will draw for you. You have to pay with a card~”

The teacher smiled wryly.

Wasn’t that nail art free?!?

Unexpectedly, Lee Siha was strong in life. To think he would charge money.

“Hahaha. Siha, I’m your best friend, so it’s free, right?”

“No.”

“Huh? No?”

“I’ll give you a discount. Because you’re my best friend.”

“Awesome! As expected!”

He was playing with Seung-jun’s mind.

While Hana and Yeon-ju were doing each other’s nails, Siha also decided to get a nail drawing from Seung-jun.

“What should I draw for you? Just tell me!”

“Draw water. Water.”

“Ah, water?”

Like the teacher said, Siha liked the ability of water.

The ability to put out fire with water!

“Okay. I’ll try my best.”

He made a water droplet shape with blue.

He tried to draw it exactly like the teacher’s sketchbook drawing.

But it wasn’t as easy as he thought.

“Ah. Sorry.”

“Why?”

“Um. I drew it too badly.”

“It’s okay. It’s okay. Seung-jun drew it as water. It is water.”

“Siha……”

Seung-jun was touched by Siha’s words.

The blue color was sticking out jaggedly, and it was painted so widely on the nail that it was hard to call it a water droplet, but Siha was satisfied.

It was passable as a water droplet.

“Ah! Can’t Siha draw this better?”

“No. Siha can’t use his left hand.”

“Ah. You drew this on your right hand.”

“It’s okay. It’s okay.”

Then the teacher approached.

“Shall I erase it for you? Do you want to try again?”

“!!!”

“It’s water-based, so it peels off like a sticker when it dries.”

The teacher blew on Siha’s hand to remove the nail polish.

She also re-groomed his nails with a shiner.

“Ta-da! Try again. Don’t fail again just because you can do it again, okay?”

“Yes! Siha, are you going to make it really small this time?”

“Ah ah.”

It was already quite difficult to draw something on the children’s small nails.

But Seung-jun was trembling and trying hard.

The teacher gave him advice.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to make a circle and paint a triangle on top of it?”

“Oh! Easy!”

It was difficult because he was trying to make a water droplet shape with a line like in the picture.

It was easy to make by combining a circle and a triangle.

Siha was also satisfied.

“Seung-jun, thank you!”

“Yeah! I’m glad it worked out this time.”

The teacher thought Siha was so pretty.

He always had the words ‘Thank you~’ on his lips, even for trivial things.

“Siha, do Hana too! Do Hana too!”

“Okay. Siha will do it. What should I draw?”

“Um. A cute monster for Hana too.”

“Gyu-ri Gyu-ri for you!”

“!!!”

Siha drew a circle with orange.

He drew eyes with black on top of it and 찍었다 [placed or dotted] a green stem on top.

“Gyu-ri Gyu-ri.”

“Huh?! It’s a tangerine!”

Did you name the tangerine Gyu-ri Gyu-ri?

“Not done yet. Need a straw.”

“Huh?”

“Straw.”

Siha used white to stick a thin straw into the tangerine.

“Now, when Gyu-ri Gyu-ri comes out, you can drink it with a straw. It’s delicious.”

“Wow!”

“Comes out again and again.”

“Can I drink tangerine juice every day?”

“Right.”

Siha nodded.

The teacher was amazed. How does he come up with such ideas? Amazing? An unexpected way to use it.

But when I think about it, Gyu-ri Gyu-ri is a bit pitiful.

Isn’t it always sucked when summoned?

It reminds me of a vampire.

“Siha, me too.”

“Yeon-ju, use ice. Ice.”

“Huh? Are you going to draw ice?”

“No. Snowman.”

Siha only drew the face of a snowman and put a Santa hat on top.

A cute snowman spirit was born.

“Does the snowman have a name? Maybe Nu-ni Nu-ni [snowy snowy]?”

“No.”

“Huh? No?”

“Bing-bing-i. Bing-su’s [shaved ice dessert] Bing-bing-i.”

Ah, ice is definitely bing-su.

Still, the name is cute. It’s not ‘Pat-pat-i [red-bean red-bean].’

“Bing-bing-i is cute too. Thank you.”

“Siha, thank you~”

“???”

Siha always says thank you in response to thank you.

Did Si-hyuk teach him that way?

Just as I was wondering about that, Jong-su came.

His hands were already full of traces of failure.

“Hey, Lee Siha. Do it for me too.”

That’s how customers come when they hear rumors.

Siha’s nail art shop was booming.

But.

“Siha is too tired now, so he won’t do it. Door closed.”

“You. You. You’re doing this on purpose because I said it!”

“Huh?”

“That’s right! Isn’t it!”

“No. It’s time to go home now. Time’s up.”

“It’s still a long way before your hyung [older brother or male friend] comes.”

Siha 고민 [thought for a moment] and said this.

“First come, first served! Only two people.”

Lee Siha was using what he learned from the teacher today.

In the meantime, he made sure to take care of ‘two people,’ so Jong-su had nothing to say.

“Two people again!”

***

Children’s Art Museum.

Yes-ssaem [Yes Teacher] and several staff members who conducted the program were sitting in the conference room.

Today, they are holding a meeting about the order of exhibits for body painting.

“Shall we divide it into elementary and preschool children like we did at Christmas? Show the preschoolers first and then the elementary school students’ works.”

Yes-ssaem opposed the idea.

“Isn’t that a bit much? There’s no elementary or preschool in what’s good and what’s bad.”

“To be sure, the elementary school students draw better.”

“Honestly, with drawing well, they’ve had years of experience. Even if they don’t, I know that they’ve grown more than preschoolers, so they can use their hands more delicately.”

Yes-ssaem coolly acknowledged that part.

These were children whose talents had not yet blossomed.

We’ll only know how this will bloom much later.

“But in terms of ideas, preschoolers are not inferior to elementary school students. Don’t you think?”

Smile-ssaem [Smile Teacher], who was in charge of another body painting, said.

“I agree with that. What are you thinking of decorating the exhibition with? Let’s decide that first.”

“Okay. I agree too.”

“In my opinion, looking at the structure of the building, I think it would be best to arrange the exhibits in order of lowest quality at the entrance.”

“If you do that, how is that different from dividing it into elementary and preschool?”

“That’s true too. Then let’s put the ones with the best ideas at the back.”

Various opinions came out.

Among them, there was also an opinion to exhibit by part.

The idea was to go in the order of head, then torso, arms, and legs, which are the first things you see when looking at a human.

Among these, they decided to divide the ones with outstanding ideas into each part and place them at the back.

The director 정리 [summarized].

“Then let’s do it this way. Then, in the end, what you see at the last exit is the legs. Are there any good works?”

“Yes! There are!”

“Me too!”

Yes-ssaem and Smile-ssaem looked at each other.

In fact, they have no reason to push their students because they are not their students, but they are people who work here and love art.

Still, they want the child they saw in their program to decorate the end if possible.

The director smiled.

“It seems like you both have works you like. Then let’s all take a look and decide by voting. Don’t fight each other.”

“When did we ever fight?”

“That’s right. Don’t start a fight for no reason.”

The director laughed ‘Hehehe’ and pretended not to know.

He’s a bit mischievous.

Everyone got up and looked around the works. Starting with the head representative.

They came to the legs after passing the torso and arms.

“Oh. This is. Difficult.”

The director scratched his head as if he was in trouble.

They were definitely works that could be called body painting.

A leg burned like charcoal.

It has individuality and is definitely something that can be called art.

A large penguin with a cut leg.

It’s a great idea in that it allows enough room for imagination.

“Well, everyone has something to think about, right? Don’t feel pressured and let’s do it comfortably. Comfortably.”

Even though the director said this, everyone seriously 고민 [contemplated] and chooses.

The work that is seen at the end was that important.

In a way, it can be the representative of an exhibition hall.

It can also represent a 결 [conclusion].

That’s why they choose one of the two.

Even though they are children’s works, everyone doesn’t choose carelessly because they are being shown in front of people.

And there’s also the experience of 미리 [prior] art museum exhibitions here.

“Okay. Shall we count the votes?”

The director checked the voting results and nodded.

“Then the last one is…….”