Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 199

Hyung, am I cute? 199

After having dinner with Siha at home.

I showed Siha the chocolate madeleine I bought from the cafe.

“Siha. Ta-da!”

“Ah?”

Siha looked inside the box and leaned his face close.

Sniff. Sniff.

He seems to be smelling it.

His puppy-like behavior makes me laugh.

But isn’t he leaning in too much? I think he’s going to go inside if I don’t stop him.

“Siha, you can back away now, okay?”

“Hyung, what’s this?”

“This is called a chocolate madeleine.”

“Chocolate?”

He doesn’t know what a madeleine is, but his ears perk up at the word chocolate.

He grabs it with his hand and takes a big bite near his mouth.

He must feel the sweetness of the chocolate and the moistness of the madeleine.

Siha chews and opens his eyes wide.

According to my Siha scout, it has grown exactly 0.23mm.

Well, believe it or not.

“Ah! Hyung! It’s delicious!”

“It’s very sweet, right?”

“Ah ah.”

“But the amazing thing is that it’s even more delicious when you eat it with milk.”

“Ah?”

I poured milk from the refrigerator.

Eat this and grow taller.

Siha received the milk and gulped it down.

It’s not water; there’s no need to drink it so quickly.

“Hyung, it’s delicious!”

“Yeah. Wipe the milk off your mouth first and then talk.”

I wiped his mouth with a tissue.

Siha started eating hard again.

He takes a bite of the madeleine, “yum,” puts it down, drinks a glass of milk, and “yum” again.

He diligently alternates between the two.

He could hold it in both hands, but I’m happy to see him keeping to the order.

“Hyung, you not eat?”

“Huh? Hyung is full just watching Siha eat.”

“Then Siha eat this?”

“Yeah. Siha eat.”

He puts the last madeleine in his mouth.

But Siha, shouldn’t you offer it one more time?

I want to take it and eat it because Siha is eating so deliciously.

Did he notice my gaze?

Siha holds out the madeleine.

“Hyung. Ah~”

“Hyung, are you giving me a bite?”

“Ah ah.”

“Okay. Ah~”

I took a bite gently.

Siha holds out the milk. I smiled and took a sip.

Then he starts eating the rest deliciously.

I wonder if he will offer it one more time?

I sent a desperate look again from the side.

“Ah?”

“Ah?”

“Hyung. What?”

“Uh? No. Nothing.”

I guess he didn’t notice my gaze earlier.

He starts eating hard again, saying it’s nothing.

Then the phone rang.

[Professor Jung Yong-soo]

“Yes. Professor.”

“What on earth did you do?”

“Yes?”

“Suddenly, Hying [likely a business contact] contacted me and told me to sign the contract. Did you go and persuade them again?”

“Me? I just chatted with them and worked. Ah! I gave them a chocolate madeleine at the end.”

“I don’t think so. They said you were a great help.”

“Haha. I guess the chocolate madeleine was a big help.”

Well, it would be polite not to talk about what happened.

The more people know, the more rumors spread.

If I did something wrong, I could be at a disadvantage.

The reason why Hying didn’t mention the scam was for that reason.

I don’t need to say anything about what they didn’t mention.

Trust is created from these trivial things.

And there’s also maintaining trade secrets.

“Chocolate madeleine… Is it some kind of food from the past? Was that the point? Am I right?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

“From now on, it’s always chocolate madeleines when we meet at this cafe.”

“No, that’s a bit…”

I don’t know whether to correct this misunderstanding or not.

He must be joking, right? Hey, no way. He’ll probably think something happened.

“Thank you. I was able to get the contract thanks to you. Now all that’s left is to work hard to produce it.”

“Yes. Good luck with that. I don’t need to get involved, do I?”

“Of course. But if it’s okay, can you translate the product description and that kind of thing?”

“Of course. I participated in the project as a translator.”

“I’ll make sure to take care of this matter later so you won’t be disappointed.”

“I’ll look forward to that a lot.”

Professor Jung Yong-soo laughed at my words.

I could feel that he was in a good mood even over the phone.

I wonder if he feels relieved?

He has completed a big task.

If you break through one like this, it will be the cornerstone for expanding the next one.

“Sorry for contacting you so late. Have a good night.”

“Yes. You too, Professor.”

When I ended the call, Siha held out his hand.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

“Siha hand. Wash hand.”

“Ah. I need to wash my hands. Shall we go to the bathroom?”

“Ah ah.”

Siha went into the bathroom and turned on the water.

Swaaa.

He forgot to turn the showerhead, and water fell on Siha’s head.

“Ah! Cold!”

“Ugh! Siha.”

He was going to wash his hands, but his clothes got wet.

I quickly turned it off so he didn’t get completely soaked.

“You should have turned this.”

“Siha don’t know.”

“I know, but why did you do that?”

Siha turned his eyes slightly and said.

“Siha shower. Hyung. Shower.”

“Still, Hyung doesn’t take a shower with his clothes on, right?”

“No. Laundry. Siha laundry.”

“Ah, really?”

Shower and laundry. And washing hands.

Was that the plan to do it all at once? It’s a logical excuse in its own way?

Click.

He turned the water on after turning it in the direction where the water comes out below, not the showerhead.

“But Siha, haven’t you finished imitating Hyung yet?”

“Ah ah. Siha be hyung.”

“I see.”

If he had imitated it so clumsily, everyone would not have been scammed.

Siha is still not good enough at imitating.

But I liked it.

I want Siha to grow up as Siha, not just imitating me.

Of course, he will be greatly influenced by me, but the day will surely come when he will bloom his own personality.

Just imitating someone.

That’s not always a good thing.

“Siha, you mustn’t commit fraud later, okay?”

“Ah? Fraud?”

“Um. Fraud is…”

“Hyung. Siha know. Siha know fraud.”

“Oh! You know fraud? Are you learning that these days?”

“Ah ah. Red fraud. Fraud.”

“Ah…”

I admit that Red [likely referring to a character from a game, like Among Us] is a fraud character.

But Siha, the fraud I’m talking about is not that fraud…

***

I didn’t use email much before I started working.

But since I started working as a translator, I’ve been using email a lot.

Important business matters are really discussed and informed by email from time to time.

For example, a company is closed and cannot receive business calls.

In fact, this happens, so trade payment fraud sometimes occurs on that day.

‘Um.’

I stared at the mailbox.

I have a habit of checking emails during work.

There are spams sometimes, but there are also many private emails.

‘Maybe it’s not a scam?’

Is it because such a thing happened in front of my eyes?

Strangely, I check the email address.

I’m like this, so Hying might be almost obsessive about checking.

‘I have no choice but to classify important email receipts separately.’

That’s why there seems to be a function to classify email addresses separately.

Then you won’t be confused about whether it came from that person or not.

You must also develop a habit of checking phone numbers carefully.

In that sense, I opened a new email.

I thought it was spam, but it was different.

[Title: Professor Jang Ha-jin, Department of Western Studies.]

[Content: The document has finally arrived, so I’m contacting you like this. You may or may not remember, but I mentioned that there was a fine arts advertising campaign before, right?

That’s right. That’s it.

There is no age limit to participate, but the award part is divided.

Future Department, Youth Department, General Department.

The Future Department also awards elementary school upper grades and lower grades separately.

Children under 7 are also included in the lower grades.

Creativity is the basis for the decision, so you never know how old you will be.

Of course, I’m just sending it to you so you can have fun.

As I said before, this theme is ‘water shortage’.

Still, I hope it will be exhibited after winning an award.

It will probably be exhibited in a gallery. Haha.

Then goodbye.]

[Attachment]

I downloaded the attachment and read the details.

Siha might want to do it.

First of all, shall we get him interested?

If he wants to participate, I will have to help him with all my heart.

And even if he doesn’t participate, it would be nice to let him know that this world exists.

Water shortage.

Singapore was also a country with no water.

Vietnam has adequate water, but the purification facilities are not very good, so people often buy it.

“Siha.”

“Koo.”

Siha tossed and turned in the room.

His arms are up and down as if he is still in dreamland.

He kicked the blanket with his feet, and it was under his butt.

What? How can you do that if you toss and turn like that?

I shook Siha’s body with that question.

“Siha, you have to get up now. Aren’t you going to daycare?”

“Ah?”

Siha opened his eyes slightly and stretched out his arms.

He wants me to hug him.

I like it when he acts like this.

I tried to resist for no reason.

“I don’t want to?”

“No. Hyung like. Like hug.”

“Hehe. Hyung won’t hug you, but I’ll give you a kiss. Kiss.”

“Ah ah.”

I massaged Siha’s arms and legs.

His body becomes very tired from the massage, so he closes his eyes.

“Ugh. You can’t sleep. You have to get up.”

“Siha get up.”

“Why didn’t you open your eyes even though you got up?”

“Siha eyes sleep. Open eyes.”

“Is this what you call opening your eyes? You don’t know because it’s small?”

“Ah ah.”

“It’s not the Siha eyes I know? It’s not that small?”

“No. Small. Small open.”

“Did you open it small?”

“Ah ah.”

“Then how many is this?”

I shook three fingers.

Siha opened his eyes a little more.

“Three.”

“I saw you open it just now. Let’s get up quickly. Hyung has something very fun.”

“What?”

“It’s a story about Mongsil and Bisil.”

“Mongsil. Bi…sil…?”

At that, Siha jumped up.

He opened his eyes wide and grabbed my collar.

“Mongsil. Bisil!”

“You didn’t forget?”

“Ah ah. Go to heaven.”

“Yeah. That’s right. Then shall we wash up and talk first?”

“Ah?”

At my words, Siha wriggled into the blanket.

“Siha. Sleep.”

“Hahaha. Okay. I’ll tell you the story first, so let’s get up.”

“Ah ah.”

“Before that, let’s stretch once. Now, up.”

“Ah ah! Up!”

Siha’s arms went up to the sky.

He was shivering, so cute.

“Then I’ll tell you the story. I’ll tell you what Mongsil and Bisil do when they meet their friends.”

“Play.”

“Yeah. They play, but aren’t you curious about how they play?”

“Curious!”

“Then I’ll teach you. Ta-da. Mongsil and Bisil work hard to gather cloud friends and become like this.”

I showed him a very large white cloud on my phone.

Siha looked at me blankly.

It’s an eye that urges me to stay still.

“But the cloud is close to the sun, right?”

“Ah ah.”

“So it got burnt black. It became a cloud mixed with black. This is called tanning.”

“Ah? Tanning?”

“Yeah.”

Well, that’s not really the case, but let’s just say that.

“Now, Bisil and Mongsil, who have tanned like this, start playing fun games. They’re making water.”

I played a video of rain falling.

Siha nodded as if he knew it.

“Rain! Hyung. Rain!”

“Yeah. Mongsil and Bisil work hard to make water and make it rain.”

“Wow!”

Siha exclaimed as if he had gained a huge realization.

I’m embarrassed because he reacted like that.

“In this way, rain becomes one with the river and the land, and there is more water. Then where will this water go?”

“Siha know!”

“Oh! Siha knows? Where?”

“Here!”

Siha patted his stomach.

Oh? Yeah. After all, it’s right to go there.