Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 141

Hyung, aren’t I cute? 141

Siha’s shocked expression was so adorable that I watched him for a while.

To be honest, it was my first time dealing with something like this, so I spaced out for a moment before snapping back.

“Siha.”

“Hyung. Siha’s car. Hurt.”

“Yeah. Siha’s car is hurt. Hyung will take you to the hospital later, so let’s go to daycare first.”

“Siha’s car. Heal?”

“Yeah. If Siha’s car goes to the hospital, it will be all better. Come on, let’s go.”

“Ah.”

Nod, nod.

He answered well, but his eyes were glued to the car.

I gently took his small hand and headed to daycare with Siha.

Siha kept looking back at the car.

‘This is a problem.’

It’s a corporate lease vehicle, so I should probably contact them using the business card I received before.

It felt nice to walk for the first time in a while.

It hasn’t even been a year since I started driving, but I could tell we had become quite accustomed to it.

It really is convenient.

“Siha. It’s okay, I’m telling you.”

“Huh?”

I was embarrassed because he kept looking back even though the car was no longer visible.

“It’ll be all better if you go to the hospital. You know?”

“Ara [Okay/Understood].”

He knows that going to the hospital makes things better, but it’s human nature to worry.

That just means Siha has grown fond of the car.

“Okay. We’re here.”

“Ah. Bye-bye.”

“Okay. Bye-bye.”

I felt strange leaving Siha at daycare.

Maybe I’ve developed an affection for the car too.

I need to call and get the car fixed as soon as possible.

But would replacing the front windshield cost around 200,000 to 300,000 won [approximately $150-$230 USD]?

Thinking that, I picked up my phone.

***

Depressed.

Siha sighed as he looked out the window.

He was worried about the car.

Seung-jun noticed that Siha was acting strange today.

“Siha. What’s wrong?”

“Ah. Siha’s car. Hurt.”

“Siha’s car? You mean the red car?”

“Ah.”

“The car is hurt?”

“Hurt.”

“Wow! What should we do!”

Seung-jun worried about the car with Siha.

After pondering if there was anything he could do to help, a good idea came to him, and he jumped up.

“That’s it! That’s the one!”

“Huh?”

“Siha. There’s a way to get it better quickly!”

“Moya [What]?”

Seung-jun was so excited about the good idea that he started talking about this and that.

“It’s coins. Coins! If you throw coins into the lake and wish for it to get better quickly, it will get better!”

“Coins?”

“Yeah! You told me to throw coins into the round shape before!”

“Ah!”

Hana, who was next to him, also chimed in.

“Hana will throw coins too! Make wish come true!”

“Siha too!”

“Then let’s all go together!”

With that, the three children jumped up.

The teacher was watching them with a pleased expression, but she was flustered when they ran to the shoe rack.

“Okay! Stop right there! Freeze. Where are you going?”

“Teacher! The lake! The lake! There’s a lake here!”

There was definitely a lake at Gangin University.

Seung-jun cleverly remembered that they had gone there to take pictures before.

The teacher smiled wryly as if she was at a loss.

“There’s no place to throw coins there. And you don’t have any coins either.”

“No! We do!”

“Ah! Issuh [Have]! This!”

Siha wriggled his hand in his pocket and took out a jelly toy.

The teacher tilted her head.

“That’s a jelly toy?”

“Huh?”

Siha threw the jelly toy on the floor as if to say that wasn’t it.

If Moon Do-hwan had seen it, he would have shed tears, but fortunately, he wasn’t here.

Thud.

The jelly toy became one with the floor as if it loved it now.

“This!”

What came out of Siha’s pocket was a medal.

It was a silver medal he got from [Poop Poop Stationery] with Si-hyuk before.

He was thinking of using that instead of a coin.

“Ah…. You’re using that?”

“Ah.”

“I have one too! Teacher. Siha gave it to me.”

“Hana issuh [has]!”

They each had one, I don’t know when they chaenggyeotneunji [took/obtained].

The teacher was also at a loss, but these things happen often.

A crisis is always an opportunity.

You can call yourself a pro teacher if you can control this.

The head teacher is watching over there.

“Okay. Everything is ready. But! There’s a place that grants wishes even better than the lake!”

“Really?”

“Huh?”

“Really?”

The teacher laughed, “Hehehe.”

Kids are so easy to get their attention diverted like this.

She knew very well that it would have been useless if she had told a completely unrelated story.

“It’s a well. Everyone knows about mountain spirits, right?”

“Yeah! I know!”

Seung-jun stuck out his belly.

Siha and Hana also nodded as if they knew.

Other children were curious about what the teacher was saying and gathered one by one.

“Okay! Don’t stand in front of the shoe rack like this and come inside. The teacher will tell you a story about a place where wishes really come true.”

The children all returned to the room as if they were possessed.

The thought of going to the lake was already erased from their minds.

The teacher said triumphantly.

“Just like there are mountain spirits in the mountains, there are well spirits in the wells. You haven’t heard of them, have you?”

“No!”

“If you scoop up water from that well and make alcohol, 크으 [Keueu – sound of satisfaction]!”

The head teacher narrowed her eyes.

The teacher, startled by the sight, cleared her throat.

“Ah, anyway! It’s a spirit that makes the water taste amazing and makes people happy.”

The head teacher heard it as the alcohol tasting amazing. The children didn’t notice.

I just feel sorry for Yoo Da-hee, who enjoys honsul [drinking alone] so much that she even knows that.

“Huh?”

Seung-jun tilted his head.

“Then it doesn’t grant wishes?”

“No. This is a secret that only the teacher knows…….”

The teacher continued in a low voice.

The more she did, the more the children pricked up their ears and listened.

“If you make a wish earnestly in front of the well and throw it in, your wish will come true.”

“Really?!”

“But the coin has to be split in half when it goes into the well for the wish to come true. Isn’t it amazing?”

The children nodded.

The teacher couldn’t miss this opportunity.

It’s a golden opportunity to focus the children’s interests and play on this!

“Then shall we all make a well with big blocks? And throw coins and make wishes!”

“Yes!”

So the children excitedly started stacking large brick blocks in a circle.

They are making a well together.

“Brick…….”

Siha looked at the brick in his hand.

He didn’t like it because it looked exactly like the stone that attacked Siha’s car.

But life is about doing things you don’t like when you need to.

If making a well would make Siha’s car better, it was something he had to do.

Siha worked hard to stack the brick blocks.

A round well was made.

The teacher clapped her hands and said.

“Okay. Now it’s all done! Then shall we throw coins?”

The teacher gave the children 100 won coins [approximately $0.08 USD] that she had prepared.

She made sure they could throw from a reasonable distance so it wouldn’t be too close.

That’s because there has to be thrill.

She made the well big so that almost everything would fit.

Then Jong-soo raised his hand.

“Teacher!”

“Yes? Jong-soo. Why?”

“But aren’t you putting water in it?”

“Uh…. We’re not putting water in it.”

“Aww. It’s boring. But this won’t make my wish come true even if I throw it.”

Jong-soo is pouring cho [acting like a know-it-all] on it in the meantime.

Jae-hwi smiled hijuk [slyly] and was preparing to throw a coin, but he was startled by Jong-soo’s words.

He looked at the coin and Jong-soo, then stood slightly behind and claimed that he would participate too.

The teacher looked at the two people as if she was dumbfounded.

Hey. Jae-hwi. You can throw the coin…….

“No. It will come true. If this coin is split in half.”

“It won’t split. It’s so hard.”

“That’s because you’re not desperate enough. If you’re really, really~ desperate~, the energy of the universe will help you. Have you ever been so desperate? More than everyone else in the world!”

“Ah, no.”

Jong-soo stepped back as if he was startled by the teacher’s gibaek [spirit/energy].

Still, the thought that it might really come true if he was desperate enough to be number one took hold.

Jae-hwi put his heart into it with that word.

“Please let me get in touch with Yeon-joo. Please let me get in touch with Yeon-joo. Surely there isn’t anyone who wants to see Yeon-joo more than me, right?”

Jong-soo also pouted and glanced at Siha.

“I’m not desperate enough to be number one. But I’ll wish for Siha’s car to get better too. How about it, aren’t you grateful?”

“Huh? Ah.”

Siha nodded as if he was grateful.

In fact, it was a reflexive nod.

He was too busy making a wish right now.

Seung-jun next to him was the same.

“I hope Siha’s car gets better too! If we wish together, it’s double!”

“Hana too! Hana too! 3 times!”

Jong-soo got angry.

“Hey! Why are you excluding me!”

In fact, if you include Jong-soo, it’s 4 times, but the twins excluded Jong-soo.

“Oh, right! I. for. got!”

Seung-jun couldn’t act at all.

Jong-soo’s eyebrows twitched, but he couldn’t say anything.

Hana didn’t notice that Jong-soo was included because she only listened to what her brother said.

“That’s right~ 4 times~”

“Ah. You bae [betrayer/mean].”

Siha borrowed the power of his friends to make a wish and then looked at the well.

It’s far.

He was about to go a little closer, but the teacher drew a white paper tape on the floor.

“Up to here!”

“Huh?”

Siha looked at his hand nervously.

The teacher next to him cheered him on.

“I’ll bet everything on this coin!”

The head teacher looked at her as if that was also cheering, but the teacher didn’t see it.

Siha’s fist was clenched tighter at the teacher’s words.

“Ah!”

Siha threw the coin.

Whirly. Clang.

Perhaps because he gave it too much strength, the coin was thrown to the floor.

It was like a jelly toy.

“Coin….”

Thud.

Siha put his hand on the ground as if he was upset.

Then Seung-jun said.

“Siha. You have a medal! You still have one more chance!”

“Huh?”

Siha raised his head sharply.

He took out the medal he had put in his pocket.

Only one chance.

Siha wished again earnestly.

That the red Siha car would be shiny and better.

“Ah!”

“Siha. Throw it!”

“Ah!”

“High! High!”

Advice began like a director.

The cheers of the children followed.

Siha threw the medal again.

Whirly. Thud.

The coin barely hit the brick block and bounced once.

The children watched the scene with sweaty hands.

It was like a basketball hitting the goal.

The warm sunlight shines on the coin, and the silver light flickers as if it is flashing.

After that, it went into the well with a thud.

The children cheered as if a 3-point shot had been dramatically successful.

Especially Seung-jun.

“Uwaaaaa! You did well. Siha!”

Seung-jun hugged Siha and messed up his hair.

“You’re my best player!”

The teacher who was listening from behind taekle [tackled] in her heart.

Hey Seung-jun? When did Siha become your player?

But that was that, and being happy was being happy.

What is this, the children praised Siha for doing well.

“Then it’s my turn!”

So Seung-jun threw a coin and put it in lightly.

Jong-soo also put it in with an expression that he couldn’t lose, and Hana also giwonhaeseo [wishing] put it in.

And after that, Jae-hwi also threw it, but it went out with a ding.

“It’s okay. Jae-hwi. It can happen.”

Jong-soo’s hand came up behind Jae-hwi’s shoulder, who was shocked, and patted him.

Hana watched Jae-hwi and swallowed chimeul kkulgeok [gulped], clenching her fist.

“Medal…….”

Hana had one more medal.

She went closer when the teacher wasn’t looking and put it in the well without failure.

“Only play with Si-hyuk oppa [older brother/male friend].”

Hana hadn’t given up on playing together yet.

***

-Taking Siha.

“Siha.”

“Hyung!”

Siha ran dododo [sound of running] and hugged me.

The penguin bag deulseok deulseok [shaking] shakes.

I lifted him up as he was and raised my body with Siha.

“Thank you again today, teacher.”

“No. This is my job. But Si-hyuk. I heard there was a big problem with Siha’s car?”

“Yes? Haha…. Has the word spread?”

“Yes. Siha was very worried. So we all put coins in the well and made a wish.”

“Really? Siha. Did you make a wish?”

I looked at Siha.

“Ah. Shiny. Car get better. Hesser [did].”

“Really? You said the car would get better? That’s good. It looks like your wish came true. The car is better now.”

“Huh?”

The teacher also widened her eyes as if she was surprised.

“Really? That’s fast.”

“Haha. Yes. It was fast.”

I was embarrassed and changed the subject.

“Then I’ll be on my way.”

“Yes. Goodbye. Siha. Goodbye.”

“Sam [Teacher]. Bye-bye.”

I came out like that and showed him the car I had brought.

“Siha. The car is all better, right?”

“Huh? No? Maja [right]?”

“Huh?”

“No. Maja [right]?”

Siha looked at the car as if he was confused.

I smiled wryly.

‘He has good observation skills…….’

Actually, I called to ask how to handle the corporate lease car when it was repaired…….

A new car came.

The shiny car was better as Siha wished.

Really, literally…….

I don’t know how this happened.