Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 144

Am I Cute, Hyung? 144

The next day.

We stopped by the bank for the first time in a while.

I needed to check how much money was in Siha’s account.

It’s convenient that you can update your bankbook at the ATM without having to take a number.

It seems like a very convenient world.

“Siha, you know that if you put your bankbook in here, you’ll get little circles stamped on it, right?”

“Ah.”

Siha hugged the bankbook tightly.

She seemed curious about how many circles there were.

She might not know the exact amount, but at least she can tell that the numbers have changed.

“Then let’s put it in here.”

I lifted Siha up and had her insert the bankbook.

Swish.

The bankbook was sucked into the machine.

I clicked on ‘Bankbook Update’.

Whirr. Whirr. Whirr.

The sound of money being printed on the bankbook.

The bankbook came out in an instant, and I took it out and showed it to Siha.

“Ta-da! How is it! Amazing, right?!”

Siha quickly lowered her head and stared at the bankbook.

I guess she was surprised by the huge amount of money.

Well, it’s quite a large sum, so it’s understandable that she’s surprised.

K Company had a promotion, so they must have raised a lot of money.

Of course, even so, emoticons that don’t sell won’t sell.

But was it because of my sales skills?

Pepe-ticons sold a lot.

The amount of money deposited into Siha’s account was a whopping 9 million won [approximately $7,500 USD]!

Adding that to the money already in Siha’s account, she had a total of ten million won [approximately $8,300 USD]!

Ten million won is like seven Donggeulies [stuffed animals] that Siha likes!

The sales will plummet to the ground soon, but it was still a good run for a quick buck.

‘I think it’s a big deal that the emoticons were distributed to the entire game company.’

It must have made a huge contribution to Siha’s income.

If that hadn’t happened, it would have been difficult to earn this much.

It was distributed to the entire company, after all.

“Siha, how is it? You have so much money, right?”

“Huh? No.”

“Huh?”

“Donggeuli. One.”

“???”

After checking, I realized that the money was listed down to the 10 won unit, so there was only one 0.

Lee Siha thinks that there has to be a lot of 0s to have a lot of money.

So cute.

Should I make some 0s for her then?

Just as I was thinking about withdrawing some money to make some 0s.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah? Ah! Actually, the money printed here, the longer this part is, the more money you have.”

“Huh? Here?”

“Yeah. It’s one space longer than before, right? That means you have more money.”

“Ah! Mana [Korean word for ‘many’]!”

“Yeah. You have more than before, so Siha is rich now.”

Siha nodded as if she understood.

Wait a minute. If I teach her this way, won’t it have to get longer later?

Then it’ll be a hundred million [approximately $83,000 USD]?

‘Well, Siha will be able to save up a hundred million soon enough. She’s a genius!’

Maybe she’ll succeed as a famous emoticon artist first and earn a salary of a hundred million?

Our Siha earns more than her Hyung [older brother/male friend]…

I had a nice dream for a moment.

“You’ll get money next month too. It’ll probably be less than this, but don’t be disappointed.”

“Ah!”

Actually, she won’t be disappointed.

She doesn’t know much about money yet, and she doesn’t know how much she’s sold by looking at the money coming in.

‘Should I try to promote it to the company one more time if the emoticon gets approved next time?’

That’s why the Sales Kings of the Month get so many incentives.

“Hyung. Siha. Rich?”

“Yeah. Rich.”

Siha slammed the bankbook shut and placed it on my palm.

“?”

“Hyung. Toy. Buy!”

“What? You want me to buy a toy for Hyung with this? With Siha’s money?”

“Ah.”

“Ahaha.”

It’s too much money to refuse, but let’s refuse.

I want to save the money so that Siha can do what she wants to do someday.

I hope she doesn’t spend it as much as possible.

I hope she just grows up spending the money I earn until she’s all grown up.

This money might be the capital that will allow Siha to achieve what she really wants.

She’s too young to understand and know that feeling, right?

“Hyung had a toy he wanted, so I’ll just buy that one. Let’s save the rest of the money so Siha can buy something delicious to eat. Okay?”

“Ah.”

Nod, nod.

Siha seemed to like my answer and hugged me.

Burying her head in my chest.

“Hyung!”

“Do you like it that much? For doing something for Hyung?”

“Ah!”

“Hyung likes it too~”

But Siha.

I lied about buying a toy.

Will you forgive this little lie?

I ruffled Siha’s admirable hair.

“Huh?”

Siha tilted her head at Hyung’s rough touch.

She probably will never know that I scratched her head because my heart was ticklish.

“Just because I like you.”

“Siha too. Hyung. Like.”

“Hyung too!”

***

-Club room.

I took out the scenario with a ticklish heart.

“I’ve revised the scenario a lot today.”

I was that confident.

I looked at the whiteboard filled with something and erased it with an eraser.

The more I erased, the more my thoughts were erased, and a white path was carved between the black letters that looked like dense bricks.

When a road was created on the stuffy wall, the traffic jam that had been stagnant disappeared.

I hit the chalkboard with a bang.

“Let’s look at the proper scenario today. I’ve changed the narrative part to a game-style scenario.”

Ahn Gyeongho looked disbelieving.

“In two days?”

“Yes. In two days.”

Shin Gyeonghwan crossed his arms as if to watch and see, and Park Gyeongjun smiled and looked like he didn’t care.

“Then let’s start the planning meeting. First, look here.”

I wrote letters with a board marker.

[Controls]

“Every game starts with how to operate it. But it’s a mistake to think that I’m introducing it because you really don’t know how to operate it. This is the narrative in the game.”

I wrote down the narrative part that we had envisioned.

“First, show the childhood of the main character and his friends in a picture for about 5 seconds. Exactly 5 seconds is good. If the wait is too long, it turns into boredom and eventually becomes a third-party perspective.”

Next is how to play.

From the beginning of the narrative, the player is immersed in the main character.

Under the pretext of learning how to operate it.

“You can learn how to operate it through a simple confrontation. You can show the quest pattern by retrieving the Holy Stone, and the control pattern by fighting the king.”

Ahn Gyeongho nodded.

“Then you can naturally learn the story? Because he’s the enemy.”

“Yes. From the beginning, you’ll know that the clear enemy is the king. That way, the main character eventually loses to the king and the game begins. The line in the middle is this.”

The main character is betrayed by the king.

He resists to the end, but he can’t defeat the king who ate half of the Holy Stone.

He revives with a sense of loss after losing all his friends and utters a short line.

“I will become king.”

The dream of usurpation and the revenge of friends.

This short line contains a lot of meaning.

“In the end, if the narrative continues to this point, the player will be strongly immersed. I’ll hand over the surrounding atmosphere and simple props to the artist. I’ve written down only what’s necessary separately.”

Everyone was impressed by the completely changed scenario.

This is because the storytelling for the game was done properly.

Otherwise, this kind of admiration would not have come out.

Park Gyeongjun’s eyes twinkled.

“You only did the necessary parts of the clothes design here, right?”

“Yes. I wanted you to put a cross mark near the ankles of the king’s clothes, no matter what.”

“Is that a sign of arrogance to put even God below you? Nice. Directing.”

“Yes. I just imagined this implication for a moment, but was it bad?”

“No. I like it. I really like it. Mark only what’s necessary, and the rest is free. You wrote it accurately.”

Park Gyeongjun was in charge of both programming and art.

Perhaps because of his personality, he is well suited for this slightly free and optimistic role.

I hope he fills in the blanks with his imagination.

“Actually, there are many shortcomings. I focused more on the characters. For example, I don’t know much about the attack motion and the judgment box part.”

The judgment box refers to the part where the character takes damage.

The method is to put a virtual rectangle and deal damage when the attack motion enters it.

If the player plays the game while understanding this, it becomes a ‘control play’.

“I think we can match this part while planning. It’s not my role.”

I moved on to the next one.

Before I knew it, the quests were briefly displayed on the chalkboard.

“I’m going to unravel the unfinished past stories with subquests. If you look here, there’s another friend character hitting a slave trader.”

All you have to do is add a short line here.

[If my teacher hadn’t saved me, I would have been living this kind of life too.]

With just this line, the player can guess what happened and naturally ‘experience’ the world with slaves.

This is the quest-style scenario.

“That’s all for the revised narrative. Should we do the rest of Act 1 as it is?”

Silence followed.

What? Did I do something wrong?

Clap clap clap.

Ahn Gyeongho started clapping.

“Wow! I didn’t know I could understand this much in two days.”

“Haha……”

Just as I was relieved, Shin Gyeonghwan raised his hand, his eyes shining sharply.

The ceiling lights reflected off his glasses.

As a result, his eyes seem to shine even cooler.

“Is there something you don’t like?”

“There is.”

“Ah……”

“Why did you suddenly switch to honorifics?”

“Yes? Ah! Yeah…. That’s right. But it’s easier to explain in honorifics. It’s also hard to set the mood.”

“Anyway, proceed in informal speech. We’re all friends.”

“Ah…. Is that why you raised your hand?”

“Yeah. That’s all. Rather, I’m impressed. I should say that you understand much better than we thought.”

Park Gyeongjun laughed loudly.

“Haha! We’re understanding with our senses.”

“That’s just you. Can you say half theory and half sense? Except for you.”

“Oh, why are you doing this!”

Shin Gyeongjun scratched his head.

“Anyway, I think we can proceed with the future planning like this. We can make the rest of the details while planning together. I think the story and characters are now clearly set for the game.”

Anyway, it’s done if it’s passed by the most picky person among them.

I thought we could work like this in the future.

Thank goodness.

“Thank goodness!”

Huh? Did someone say it for me?

It turned out that Ahn Gyeongho was shouting while banging his head on the desk.

“Now it’ll be made smoothly. The characters are good, and the story is good. It may start out grand but end weakly, but you have to make at least the dragon’s head. The beginning is important.”

I nodded.

It wasn’t wrong.

That’s why it’s good to collide a lot at the beginning and increase the perfection.

There are also many games that are popular because they maintain the character even though the plausibility is broken.

“Now there’s only one problem.”

Not only me, but everyone looked at Ahn Gyeongho with puzzled expressions.

Ahn Gyeongho avoided his eyes slyly.

“What’s the problem?”

“No. Ahem. Actually, he ran away.”

“What ran away? You don’t mean you ran away with the program.”

“Haha…. The composer. The guy who was going to compose for me ran away. He said he’s going to study abroad.”

Shin Gyeonghwan said in disbelief.

“Suddenly?”

“Ah. What do you mean suddenly? It was originally in the plan, but after actually going and living there, he said it was different from what he thought and told me to find someone else. He said there’s still plenty of time anyway.”

“What an absurd guy.”

“He’s kind of like that. Haha. Let’s find that out later.”

“We’re busy making programs and planning, who are we going to find?”

“Is there anyone we can ask?”

I quietly raised my hand.

Because there’s someone I can think of.

Ahn Gyeongho’s eyes twinkled.

“Really?!”

“Well… I can’t guarantee the quality.”

Maybe a bizarre work will be born.

Or a masterpiece will be born.

I nodded with a bitter face.