Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 190

The busiest time at a festival stage is always when celebrities appear.

It starts off a bit quiet, but gradually people snowball in like an avalanche, heading towards the main event.

Remember when the daycare kids danced?

In short, a lot of college students watched.

That buzz continued into the next day.

“Hey, did you see the stage yesterday?”

“Ugh, no. I was too tired, so I just went home.”

“Tsk, tsk. You missed out! The daycare kids came out on stage, and it was so heartwarming. After that, Shambles came out and, wow, totally killed it.”

“Was Shambles pretty?”

“Incredible.”

“And the kids were cute? Did they dance well?”

“They danced pretty well. I think they must have practiced a lot.”

“Ah, are they not performing today? That was a schedule for the afternoon, right?”

“Yeah. They’re not doing it today. Yesterday was a one-time thing.”

“Too bad.”

Many people expressed their regret at missing the performance.

While some were relieving stress, others were taking their remaining exams.

That frustration was naturally directed at the professors.

Why! Why did you schedule the exams so late!

But thanks to the exams ending today, many college students were burning the last of their energy.

“Let’s have fun today!”

While college students were making resolutions like that…

Words were spreading in another place.

At the game development booth where Alisa was working.

“Yesterday, Siha was so cute! Really, really cute.”

Alisa smiled, clearly pleased just thinking about it.

The Parang Mall [a fictional shopping center] members around her nodded in agreement.

Then one friend asked a practical question.

“That was great, but what are you going to do with the leftover stock?”

“Ah. This?”

“Yeah. There’s more left than I thought.”

“How much is left?”

“1300?”

“Did we even make that many?”

“That’s what I’m saying. We only sold 200 in two days.”

“It’s okay. This was just a trial sale. We can sell the rest at Parang Mall.”

“Do you think it’ll sell well there?”

“Or we can do an event where we include it as a free gift.”

“Wow. There won’t be any labor costs at all.”

“It’s okay as long as we don’t lose money. Still, it’s better than crying over spilled milk.”

The friend tilted her head.

“Is that really the right expression to use here? I think we’re already about to lose the whole herd!”

“We haven’t lost it *yet*, so isn’t it right? I’m studying Korean proverbs these days.”

“Uh? I don’t know. I get confused sometimes when I talk to Alisa. Please, let’s not try anything too fancy.”

“On-go-ji-sin! [A Korean proverb meaning ‘learn from the old to understand the new’] Learn the old and know the new!”

“Oh, okay. That’s right too.”

Alisa confidently put on an ‘ehem’ expression, wondering if she had used the proverb correctly.

Then, as if struck by a good idea, she exclaimed, “Ah!”

“We have 1000 left in the office, right?”

“Yeah.”

“And 300 here.”

“Yeah.”

“Then should we send the rest overseas? Pad bags are more popular overseas. Steve Baek might like it.”

“Oh! Really?”

“Of course.”

“But wouldn’t there be a lot of pad bags overseas too?”

“Ah. That’s right. It’s like a bolt from the blue!”

“I don’t think that’s the expression to use here…”

At that moment…

Suddenly, two women approached, holding up their phones, and asked,

“Excuse me.”

“Yes?”

“Did you sell this here?”

“What’s this?”

Alisa looked closely at the woman’s phone.

Instagram was open, and one of the Shambles members had posted that the bag was too cute.

She kindly added the hashtag ‘Kangin University Festival’.

“Uh?”

“The comments said you sell it here, is that true?”

“Yes! That’s right, we sell it here. After hardship comes happiness!”

The friend next to her thought,

You haven’t even suffered *yet*?!

Of course, she couldn’t say it out loud and sold the bag with a smiling face.

Starting with that, on the last day of the festival, the bags began to sell like hotcakes.

***

-Daycare Center.

Although the university festival hasn’t ended yet, the children are already sprawled out on the floor together with expressions that say, ‘I’ve burned myself out.’

The teacher also lay down next to Siha, unable to shake off the fatigue from yesterday.

“Teacher.”

“Yes, Siha. What is it?”

“What are you doing?”

“Right now, the teacher is performing an important ritual. When you finish a huge task, you give yourself a vacation. Work-life balance is important to people.”

“Worabel?”

“Work-life balance.”

Then Seungjun, who was next to her, said.

“I know! It’s Tinkerbell’s friend. I’m sure! The names are similar!”

“Ah! I don’t know at all. They help Tinkerbell fly. Did Siha hyung meet Worabel and bring back the clouds?”

The teacher chuckled at the children’s thoughts.

Then Jongsu said while lying flat.

“Hey! How can a person bring clouds! That doesn’t make sense!”

“Yes, he can! Siha hyung can do anything!”

“No matter what, that’s a lie!”

“No… It’s real…”

Hana pouted at Jongsu’s sharp rebuttal.

Siha lay on his side, looking at Jongsu, and said.

“No. Hyung. Brought clouds.”

“Haha. No matter what, what’s not true isn’t true.”

“Did it like this!”

Siha showed it with actions, stretching his hand forward.

But since it was where they were, the hand lying on its side had no choice but to go to Jongsu’s side.

Thwack. Thwack.

“Aaaah. It tickles! It tickles.”

“Did it like this.”

“I got it. It tickles!”

The teacher chuckled as she watched.

May heavenly punishment befall those who lack faith.

From the sight of Siha’s hand carefully grabbing the clouds, Jongsu’s side was targeted.

Jongsu rolled to the side because he was so ticklish and hit Jaehui.

“Ouch!”

“Ah. Jaehui, sorry.”

“Jongsu, you! Revenge!”

Jaehui didn’t hold back today because he had burned himself out.

He immediately pounced on Jongsu.

“Ugh.”

Jongsu ended up being pinned by Jaehui.

Seungjun, who saw that, thought it was the perfect time and jumped up, climbing on top of Jaehui.

“Ahaha! It’s a hamburger! A hamburger!”

“Aaaah! Hamburger.”

Seungjun, Siha, two patties landed.

Jongsu’s face turned red from the pressure.

“Uwaaaack!”

“Kuaaack!”

Poor Jaehui felt the pressure together.

Hana pushed her brother after seeing the four children rolling around.

“Eek!”

“Aaaah.”

The hamburger collapsed as it was.

Jongsu gasped for breath as if it had come to an end.

“Heo. I’m alive. Th, thank you. Hana.”

“Huh? No?”

“Huh? What?”

“I didn’t ride because Hana couldn’t climb up?”

“What?”

Hana sat on top of Jongsu.

It was a small revenge for the rebuttal earlier.

The teacher got up and stopped the bickering.

“Okay. Stop now. The teacher will tell you something more fun.”

But the children weren’t interested.

They didn’t feel like doing anything big.

The aftermath of yesterday’s dance had greatly depleted the children’s energy.

But the teacher wasn’t going to be defeated by that.

“Hehehe. Aren’t you all curious about how to make clouds?”

The children looked at the teacher in surprise.

Not bringing clouds, but *making* them?! How?

Jongsu said.

“L, liar!”

“The teacher doesn’t lie. If Siha hyung can bring clouds, the teacher knows how to make clouds!”

“L, liar!”

“If you’re curious, follow the teacher! The festival isn’t over yet!”

The children got up as if possessed.

It was a curiosity that would burn the last of the festival.

***

Natural Science Chemistry Department booth.

Everyone looks unmotivated because it’s the third day.

Because they already had a bitter experience on the first and second days.

The chemistry department prepared fabric freshener and hairspray for the festival.

The fabric freshener was always popular, so they put it out, and the hairspray was a new challenge this time.

That’s right. The chemistry department was confident!

They planned to introduce and sell unscented hairspray, but people’s reactions were indifferent.

To attract more attention, they tried to create mysterious reactions to induce participation, but it seemed to deviate from the original purpose.

“The fabric freshener on the side is doing well, but why isn’t the hairspray popular?! It’s not rewarding. It’s not rewarding.”

“Maybe it’s because it’s better to buy hairspray from a verified brand?”

“This is also verified! It’s the culmination of effort from professors and students.”

“Maybe it’s the advertising…”

“Damn it. That’s why I hate big companies.”

“Suddenly?! But you’d join one if they offered you a job, right?”

“Isn’t that obvious? But what does that have to do with anything?”

Two students were killing time by doing such a comedy in front of the hairspray booth.

They only solicited customers when a few showed interest, and then sat down again when it was over.

“But yesterday’s performance was really fun, wasn’t it?”

“It was so much fun. The daycare kids were really cute.”

“It would be great if those kids came here and promoted it. But that’s impossible, right?”

As they were talking, something caught their eye in the distance.

“Huh? Aren’t those the kids from the daycare center?”

“That’s right. Is that their teacher? Oh? Hey, hey. Isn’t that the person we told to come see us this morning?”

“That’s right. She said she’d stop by later, but she was a daycare teacher?!

The children arrived.

The quiet booth became lively as it became a place where people were chattering.

The children spread good energy.

Hana said.

“Do you make clouds here?”

“Wow! I know that. It’s spray! Spray!”

“Cloud!”

The teacher laughed and grabbed an empty bottle on the desk.

“Okay. Look here. Clouds are made with this empty bottle.”

The children looked as if they couldn’t believe it.

The chemistry students were dumbfounded.

Excuse me? That’s what *we’re* supposed to introduce?

The teacher said without paying attention to the reactions of the people around her.

“Look. First, pour hot water here. Can you boil some water for me?”

“Ah, yes! It’ll be done soon.”

Hot water was put into an empty bottle.

Then, she handed the children hairspray and had them spray it.

Chik chik.

Jongsu and Jaehui sprayed it twice in the correct way, full of suspicion.

Seungjun sprayed it wildly as if he was excited, and Hana sprayed it moderately three times.

Yundong sprayed it only once as if he wasn’t interested.

Eunwoo smiled and sprayed as much as the children sprayed.

“Mongsil?”

Siha looked at the spray seriously.

‘Is Mongsil really coming out of here?’ he thought and shook it once.

The teacher who saw that urged him.

“Siha, you have to spray it quickly and close the lid.”

“Cloud jja-jan [onomatopoeia for ‘ta-da’]?”

“Yes. If you spray this, it will jja-jan.”

“Ah ah.”

Only then did he spray the spray and close the lid.

She put ice on top of it one by one.

“Huh? Seungjun. You can’t eat the ice.”

“Ah! I got caught.”

After waiting a little while like that, white smoke filled the bottle.

The children were amazed that clouds had formed.

“Wow! Real clouds are forming. It’s amazing!”

“Hana is also amazed!”

“Ah?! Mongsil!”

Siha was also happy to see Mongsil again.

But he was puzzled because Mongsil’s appearance was different than he had expected.

“Teacher. Cloud?”

“Yes. It’s a cloud. But this is a little different from the cloud Siha had before, right? That’s because there are many clouds.”

“Ah ah.”

Siha looked at it with sparkling eyes.

The teacher said that if they took off the lid now, they could see the clouds rising.

When the children took off the lid, white smoke rose slowly.

Siha looked at it and said.

“Weakling. Weakling.”

The clouds rising weakly.

It was different from Mongsil, but the form of returning to the sky was the same.

Going to meet friends in that sky.

Siha looked around.

It was the moment when he understood Mongsil and Weakling because there were children who were friends.

“Huh? Siha. You were here?”

“Hyung!”

“Buy this. This. Weakling jja-jan! Jja-jan!”

“Huh?”

Sihyuk tilted his head, not knowing what was going on.

The two chemistry students thought, *this is it!* and looked at Sihyuk.

It was the moment they found their sales target.