Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 134

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?”

“I also know that Amazon has translated martial arts novels into English. I’ve read them, and they’re artistic. How did you capture the unique American novel sensibility so well?”

“Haha.”

Hearing that makes me feel a little shy.

First, I didn’t expect Koreans to read martial arts novels in English.

Second, he read all the books I translated.

And third, he remembered my name.

This is quite a thankful thing.

I guess this is when I feel a sense of accomplishment as a translator.

I feel dazed and good for no reason.

It makes me think that some people translate for this feeling, and I look back once again.

“I heard you’re translating ‘The Golden Clock Hand’ this time. I’m really looking forward to it. I like medical novels.”

“If you can read it in English, you can buy it and read it, right?”

“Haha. Actually, I don’t read much in English. It’s more like I accidentally read your book and started looking for more of your work.”

“Is that so?”

Something felt a little strange, but it didn’t seem impossible.

“Yes. But I think it’s really good that I happened to meet you like this.”

“Why is that so good….”

He put his hands together.

The look in his eyes looking at me is unusual.

“If you have time, please come to the Kangin University Game Development Club.”

“Ah, yes…. Yes? Kangin University?”

“Yes. Haha. Actually, we are third-year university students.”

“Ah…. I’m actually a third-year student at Kangin University too.”

“Really?! Wow! Really…. I thought you looked young because you have a child…….”

“Haha. Siha is my younger brother.”

“Ah. Come to think of it, he called you hyung [older brother]…….”

He nods as if he finally noticed.

Even so, I thought he was too slow to notice.

“Then that’s even better. We’re always in the club room. Can we exchange contact information if you’re okay with it?”

“It seems like you have something to ask.”

“Haha. I just thought we could talk…. Of course, I have a favor to ask. It seems like the story will be long if I say it here.”

“Yes. Okay. That sounds fun.”

I had questions while working with NM Game Company.

I was really curious about game development and the working environment.

Of course, meeting the players as an interpreter was also enjoyable.

Perhaps because of that experience, I thought it would be fun to talk with these people.

“What’s your name?”

He raised his glasses and said his name.

I don’t know why he’s raising his glasses.

“I’m Ahn Gyeong-ho.”

Why is he trying to make me laugh because his last name is Ahn [Ahn means ‘eye’ in Korean, and Gyeong-ho sounds like ‘glasses’]?

“Something…….”

“Yes. That’s right. It suits my face well, right? I’ve heard it a lot. Haha.”

“Ah, yes. Haha.”

After that, I introduced myself to the other two.

Park Kyung-joon, Shin Kyung-hwan.

Strangely, they were friends with the same ‘Kyung’ character in their names.

I heard that’s why they became closer.

It was a very strange trio.

Their impressions are similar too…….

“Then I’ll stop by when I have time. School will start soon, but I have to go to daycare even during vacation.”

“Yes! Definitely.”

That’s how we parted ways.

It was a short conversation, but the kids drank all the grape juice in the meantime.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah? Why?”

“Siha. Si~”

“Ah! Let’s go to the bathroom. Bathroom.”

I forgot to teach him this.

Siha, you have to go to the bathroom right after the movie ends.

We relieved ourselves in the bathroom and parted ways with Seung-joon and Hana.

Today, Siha’s first movie theater experience was successful.

***

Game development.

Development that can be done alone.

But considering the quality and diversity, it can never be done alone.

Everything is like that, but these days, there are many divisions of labor in teams, and games, in particular, require a variety of people.

So, when recruiting talent, they choose people who can get along well with teams rather than those with outstanding abilities.

If you pass the document screening, your abilities are all about the same.

That’s how important teamwork is and how organically connected it must be.

One person, each person, cooperates to fill in the gaps and create a single work!

That was the game.

“Today, let’s all create one work together.”

The daycare prepared a game for teamwork.

Kapla.

It’s a wooden block thinner than Jenga, and you can make various things with it.

You can build high towers or create railroads like trains.

As the saying goes that play is the best education, the daycare prepared various games today as well.

“Okay. Let’s freely imagine and create anything with this.”

“Yes!”

“Then I’ll decide on teams for the competition. The team that completes it well! I’ll give you one more chocolate!”

A small chocolate that is given to everyone as a snack.

But one is a bit disappointing.

So, two will be returned to the winning team.

The children were burning with fighting spirit.

The two teams that were decided.

As expected, Team Siha and Team Jong-soo.

Jong-soo looked at Siha and said.

“Hey, Siha. Let’s see who does better. I’m going to win.”

“Ah?”

Even if he suddenly burned with a sense of rivalry, Siha didn’t care.

Rather, he was thinking about what to make.

Seung-joon received those words.

“Jong-soo, we’re going to make something more amazing.”

“Seung-joon, you always lose to me.”

“No, I don’t! When did I lose!”

When Seung-joon got angry, Jong-soo snorted.

Jong-soo patted Jae-hui’s shoulder next to him.

“Jae-hui, you don’t want to lose either, do you?”

“…Uh-huh. I won’t lose.”

Jae-hui bluffed again today.

Actually, he just wanted to enjoy the wooden blocks.

“Okay! Let’s make it quickly. We can’t lose to Siha!”

“But what are we going to make?”

“Um…….”

The worries that started like that.

The same was true for Siha’s side.

“Siha, it’ll be difficult to make a ball with this, right?”

“Ah ah.”

Hana raised her hand.

“Hana wants to make a cutting board!”

“You idiot! You can’t win with that.”

“Hana is not an idiot.”

Hana put her hand on her waist and glared at her brother, Seung-joon flinched.

“Ahem. Let’s do something other than a cutting board.”

“Okay. Siha, what do you want to make?”

Siha thought about it and clapped his hands as if he had a good idea.

“Ah ah! Hyung!”

“Huh?”

“Hyung. Hyung.”

“No. You can’t make Si-hyuk hyung with this.”

“No. Hyung.”

“Um…. I don’t think it’ll work.”

Siha grabbed a wooden block to make Hyung.

First, he laid the foundation firmly and widely from the bottom as if laying the foundation.

“Hyung. Big.”

“Okay! Then let’s make something big first.”

“Ah ah.”

“Hana will make legs.”

That’s how the children’s making began.

First, they started making human feet and legs.

When Siha made his feet, Hana and Seung-joon started making them the same way.

Before they knew it, two legs were completed, and it was time to connect the two legs.

Hana sneezed without realizing it.

“Achoo!”

Without realizing it, she touched her legs, and they collapsed.

A look of despair.

The same was true for Siha.

“Hyung. Legs…. Broken…….”

Hyung’s legs are broken…….

He was stunned and shocked to see Hyung with one leg missing.

Seung-joon said something to Hana.

“Aah! What are you doing, knocking it down!”

“Heehee. Hana didn’t do it on purpose…. What to do…….”

When Hana was about to cry, Siha came to his senses.

He went to her side and patted her on the shoulder.

Seung-joon also hugged Hana because he felt sorry for her.

“It’s okay. It’s okay.”

“We can just make it again. Why are you trying to cry.”

“Ung…….”

The teacher watched the scene with a satisfied smile.

This play existed for this kind of education.

When you try to make something, there will definitely be trouble and mistakes.

Sometimes they get angry and clash, and then apologize again.

They also comfort each other and say let’s make it again.

I don’t know what kind of work the children will do in the future, but this experience is similar to social life.

Of course, society is more fierce and cold.

But they don’t have to know that coldness yet.

“Ah ah! Again!”

“Let’s do it together!”

“Ung…….”

That’s how the three children became one and started making Si-hyuk’s legs.

They made the body and arms.

I didn’t think they could make arms, but the teacher was impressed by this part.

In the middle of the thick leg part, the wooden block was made to protrude halfway, and the top was stacked in a curve to connect it to the body.

In that case, the weight of the arm was supported by the legs and the body.

Only after making the face as the finishing touch was Si-hyuk completed.

“Ah ah! Hyung!”

“Wow! Si-hyuk hyung? All?”

“Wow! Si-hyuk oppa [older sister’s brother]? All?”

It was inevitable to have doubts because it became a building that looked like a person, but it was ambiguous to see it as Si-hyuk.

“Ah ah. Siha.”

Siha grabbed a block.

He made a human sitting next to the made Si-hyuk.

He built a tower, made two legs with four blocks in front of it, and made a foot with one block.

Then it looked like a small human was sitting.

“Wow!”

“Wow!”

Seung-joon and Hana followed suit as if they were amazed.

“Ah ah. Hyung. Siha. Seung-joon. Hana.”

Siha pointed out each person and said.

Sitting in a circle like this, it really looked like the three children and Si-hyuk.

The teacher was surprised and clapped her hands.

“Wow! That’s really amazing!”

I took a picture in advance in case it collapsed.

Click.

Jong-soo, who saw it, opened his mouth.

“Wow! How did you make it?”

But he didn’t want to lose, so he showed off his own.

“We’re amazing too!”

In fact, Jong-soo’s team also built a very high tower.

It was built higher than his height.

“Teacher, who won?”

At those words, the teacher thought about it and smiled.

Competition helps development, but excessive competition only kills each other.

Knowing that, I didn’t want to make someone win.

The world of competition is cold, but today is not the day to do such cold education.

Unless it’s a sport.

“Both are so outstanding that it’s a draw! I’ll give everyone two chocolates.”

“Tsk. I thought I’d win this time.”

“Choco!”

Jong-soo clicked his tongue, and Siha was happy at the thought of eating chocolate.

The teacher gathered all the children to take a picture.

Click.

That’s how the children learned the teamwork of filling each other’s shortcomings.

Just like a team that develops games.

***

After dropping Siha off at daycare, I stopped by the club room for an appointment with Ahn Gyeong-ho.

Knock knock.

When I knocked on the door, I heard the sound of a chair falling over and a rustling sound.

“Just a moment!”

Hurried and busy movements were conveyed to the outside of the door as to what they were doing.

Click.

Ahn Gyeong-ho came out.

He scratched his head and made an embarrassed expression.

“Did you wait long?”

“No. But it looks like you were cleaning something up?”

“Haha. Actually, I was cleaning up something hard before you came.”

“Ah…. You didn’t have to do that.”

“Haha. No. Come on in.”

When I went inside, I saw various books and A4 papers irregularly placed on the desk.

Was that what he cleaned up?

Ahn Gyeong-ho awkwardly smiles as if that question was in my eyes.

“I’m currently making something with the data I’m looking for. Haha. Even if it looks like that, it’s all organized. In my head.”

“I see.”

“You may not believe it, but everyone knows roughly where each piece of data is.”

“I understand.”

It may seem like something is not organized to others, but in reality, it is organized.

The moment several books are properly placed on the bookshelf, they will not be able to find where they are.

I don’t know because I’m not like that, but that’s everyday life for these people.

“Would you like some iced tea?”

“No. Just give me water.”

“Okay.”

I looked around and sat down.

The whiteboard was turned backwards, but it seemed like it was intentionally placed like that.

Ahn Gyeong-ho handed me water.

I moistened my throat slightly and said.

“It’s interesting. What you’re going to say.”

“Haha. It’s nothing.”

“It seems like it’s something. Isn’t that whiteboard something I turned over on purpose?”

“Yes? Haha.”

“Can I turn it around?”

“That’s a bit…….”

I shrugged my shoulders at the sight of his troubled expression.

“So feel free to say anything. I’m ready to listen to anything.”

“Hmm. We know that translator Lee Si-hyuk also does interpretation work. We also know that your English skills are quite high.”

“Well. I won’t deny it.”

Ahn Gyeong-ho’s eyes lit up.

“It’s a bit out of the blue, but we’re already running towards the end of our third year. It’s time to prepare for a job.”

“Well, so am I.”

“Yes. So we have to prepare, but we have a dream. That’s why we created this game development club.”

“That’s great.”

Ahn Gyeong-ho smiled shyly at the pure compliment.

“The dream is to have our game developed by a foreign company recognized. It would be even better if we could start full-scale development with that. I have no intention of staying in Korea.”

I nodded.

I think I know roughly.

What he’s going to ask me.

“Then am I supposed to participate in the game development? As a translator.”

“Half right and half wrong.”

“Half wrong?”

“Yes.”

Then what is it? What kind of favor is he trying to ask?

I became more curious and looked at Ahn Gyeong-ho’s mouth.

“Not as a translator…….”

Not?

“No. Is he even a translator?”

No. Is this person kidding me?

I felt uneasy at his clumsy appearance.

And I couldn’t help but be very interested in Ahn Gyeong-ho’s subsequent proposal.