Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 247

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?”

I hurriedly left the house to meet the twins.

Siha put on the scarf he received from Baek Dong-hwan and stepped onto the soft snow.

The snow had already stopped.

It was as if urging us to go out and play.

Pooh.

“Hyung!”

Siha looked up at me, fascinated by the feeling of stepping on the snow.

He slightly lifted his leg and gently placed it on a spot without footprints.

Pooh.

“Hyung!”

Is ‘hyung’ an exclamation? Or is he really calling me?

I gave him an answer.

“Why? Is it a strange feeling?”

“Ah, it’s ppoduk. It’s ppoduk.”

“Pfft. Ah, ‘ppoduk’ [Korean onomatopoeia for the sound of stepping on fresh snow]? You’re really good at naming things. How is it? Stepping on the snow isn’t so bad, right?”

“Fun.”

He walked along, pitter-pattering, and looked back at the footprints he had left.

The reason his legs were still was probably because he didn’t want to mess up the shoe prints.

“Hyung, hurry.”

“Okay.”

A bit of playfulness arose.

I moved forward and placed my footprints on top of Siha’s.

Pooh.

Gradually erasing them, Siha’s footprints disappeared.

Siha looked back.

“Ah?”

“Siha’s footprints have turned into hyung’s footprints?”

“!!!”

What kind of reaction will he show?

“No.”

“Huh?”

“Hyung, follow Siha.”

Oh, so that’s what he’s going to think?

Siha wore a proud expression.

What’s with that face?

“Hyung, follow me well.”

“Okay.”

I ended up following Siha.

Baek Dong-hwan appeared behind us.

“Then I have to do it too!”

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Since he’s so big, his feet are also huge.

What’s his shoe size? Around 1000?

In an instant, my footprints were erased.

“Baek Dong hyung, no. Don’t do it.”

“No, why not me!”

Baek Dong-hwan stepped aside with a hurt expression.

He listens well while acting like that.

“This is hyung’s and Siha’s. Not Baek Dong’s.”

He’s claiming ownership of the footprints.

Even though they’re traces that will disappear anyway.

Baek Dong-hwan crossed his arms.

“Let me join in. I even gave you a scarf as a gift.”

“No.”

He’s very firm.

I tapped Baek Dong-hwan’s shoulder.

“Give up now. You can’t join this game.”

“Hyung-nim, why do you look so happy?”

“Me?”

“Then aren’t you?”

“Not at all?”

“It seems like you are.”

“Anyway, I knew it, but your feet are really big.”

“You’re changing the subject.”

“What?”

“Nothing!”

That’s how we walked towards the university.

We agreed to meet at the daycare center.

The building’s doors are closed, but the open space in front of it is open, so we can come and go anytime.

“Oh? Siha, it’s Seung-jun and Hana.”

“Where?”

“Over there.”

“Seung-jun! Hana!”

Siha ran off, belatedly discovering them.

He saw them yesterday, but he seems really happy.

The twins and Siha hugged once again.

Seriously, is this a family reunion?

I guess he’s happy to see a new world.

Seung-jun said.

“Haha, Siha, let’s have a snowball fight.”

“No, let’s make a snowman first.”

I greeted Seung-jun’s mom and made a suggestion to the three children.

“Then how about this? Let’s make a snowman boss first for the snowball fight competition.”

“Snowman boss?”

“Yeah, it’s a game where you divide into teams and protect the boss. How is it? Sounds fun, right?”

“Ah! Siha will do it!”

Siha always agrees with whatever I say.

Seung-jun also seemed interested, his eyes sparkling.

Hana was excited at the thought of making a snowman first.

This way, they can do both.

“Okay, then let’s make a snowman boss that we can protect very well!”

“Yay!”

Everyone squatted down and gathered snow in their hands.

Siha watched what the others were doing and pressed down on the snow with his small hands.

“Siha, once you’ve made it to some extent, you can roll it like this.”

“Roll it?”

“Yeah.”

Siha gently rolled the small snowball.

One step forward. Rolling. Another step forward. Rolling.

“Pfft, Siha, you can just sit here and roll it in a circle.”

“Ah?”

Seung-jun chimed in.

“I know! Roll it like a ball.”

“Ah, wait a minute!”

Seung-jun kicked the snowball he had made.

Pow.

The snowballs scattered.

“Gasp!”

It was already unrecognizable.

Seung-jun’s eyes trembled as he looked at the shattered snowball.

“Ha, ha, this is an ice shoot! Everything’s frozen!”

Yeah, no.

Seung-jun, face reality. Let’s make it again.

Hana looked at Seung-jun with a pathetic expression.

“Oppa [term for older brother used by females], are you stupid?”

“No, I’m not! I knew what I was doing!”

“Can we make a snowman boss today?”

“I can!”

I approached Seung-jun and handed him a snowball.

“Let’s make it with this. Okay?”

“Huh? Wow! Si-hyuk hyung, thank you.”

Hana saw that and said, ‘Ah!’ as she looked at her snowball and Seung-jun’s snowball.

“Hana wants to have it too.”

“Huh? Hana, they’re the same? Instead, should I help you? If you roll it quickly like this, it’ll get really big.”

I quickly made Hana’s snowball bigger for her.

Hana nodded, seemingly satisfied.

“Hyung!”

Siha hugged me from behind.

“Yeah?”

“Siha too. Siha too.”

“Haha, okay. Let’s make a snowman together.”

That’s how we made a snowman.

We picked up branches and stuck them in, and made eyes, nose, and mouth with stones.

“Now that two are finished, shall we have a snowball fight?”

“Ah!”

The kids still had plenty of energy even though they had made the snowballs so big.

“Then let’s decide on teams.”

Hyung team: Lee Si-hyuk, Lee Si-ha, Oh Hana.

Sports team: Baek Dong-hwan, Oh Seung-jun, Seung-jun’s mom.

“You attack the snowman with these snowballs. It ends when the snowman is destroyed.”

That’s how the game started.

Siha squatted down on the ground and pressed the snowballs tightly.

He ran towards the snowman in the distance to hit it.

In front of him, a large shield called Baek Dong-hwan was protecting the snowman.

“Siha, you won’t be able to hit the snowman.”

Siha looked around and ran in a large semicircle.

Baek Dong-hwan also followed Siha, circling around the snowman.

“Baek Dong hyung, stay still.”

“No, if I stay still, the snowman will get hit. That won’t do.”

“Siha’s ball is amazing. It hurts when you get hit.”

“Hahaha!”

“Siha learned baseball.”

“Oh! Really?”

“Ah.”

He’s saying to move because it hurts when you get hit.

Baek Dong-hwan wasn’t one to give in to such cute threats.

“Throw it.”

“Ah!”

Siha really threw it.

The snowball drew a parabola and hit Baek Dong-hwan’s clothes.

“Forkball!”

“Ugh, amazing.”

I matched his tone to make it more fun.

Siha looked at his hand and 착각했다 [chakkak haetda – 착각하다 (chakkak hada) means to misunderstand or be mistaken]. ‘Did I throw it really hard?’ he 착각했다.

At that time, Seung-jun shouted, ‘Agh!’

“Giant hyung, the snowman is getting hit!”

“Huh?”

While Baek Dong-hwan was distracted by Siha, Hana was holding snowballs and throwing them.

The snowman was already one-eyed.

“Ah! It’s a pincer attack!”

“Baek Dong hyung, it’s a forkball.”

“No, this isn’t a forkball……”

“No, it goes like this.”

The finger drew a straight line and added a semicircle.

Literally a fork shape.

According to that drawing, Baek Dong-hwan would have been hit in the back of the head.

“Ah, if it goes in that shape, it’ll hit. But is it really called a fork-shaped ball?”

It wasn’t exactly a forkball, but a fork operation.

Baek Dong-hwan was completely defeated by Siha and Hana.

While he was unable to do anything.

Seung-jun thought he had to do better and looked back at me.

“Si-hyuk hyung, be prepared.”

“Yeah, throw hard.”

“Here I go!”

Seung-jun threw the snowballs he had made a lot of at his feet.

He threw them alternately with both hands, but he only hit my body, not the snowman.

“You can’t hit the snowman?”

“No, Mom!”

This time, Seung-jun’s mom popped out from the side and threw it at the snowman.

Pow!

I reflexively reached out and blocked it.

At that timing, I threw a snowball.

As expected, Seung-jun was athletic.

But.

“Ah! You blocked it with your foot!”

I stretched out my foot and kicked it away.

“Hyung! Cool!”

Siha, don’t focus on me, hurry up and knock down the snowman.

“Eek! Again! Mom!”

Snowballs were stuck on the back of Seung-jun’s head as he called for his mom.

“Ouch!”

“Hehe! Oppa got hit!”

“Hey! Oh Hana!”

In an instant, the twins’ melee began.

I was just awkwardly facing Seung-jun’s mom.

I turned my eyes slightly to look at Siha, but he couldn’t escape Baek Dong-hwan’s grasp.

‘Ah, it’s going to be tough.’

It seemed like it wouldn’t end.

Well, it didn’t matter. The main purpose was a snowball fight rather than a competition anyway.

“From now on, if you get hit by a snowball, you’re out!”

A newly added rule.

At the same time, Baek Dong-hwan was hit by a snowball.

“Ah! Hyung-nim! That’s cheating!”

“Hahaha.”

I was aiming for it all along.

Pow.

“Si-hyuk ssi, you got hit by snow.”

“Ah……”

The problem is that I was hit the same way.

“Hyung, are you out?”

Siha blinked with a shocked expression from afar.

***

The snowball fight ended with the sports team’s victory.

This is because Siha lost his will to fight as I was eliminated.

Well, as you know, Hana fought fiercely with Seung-jun.

And then came the snowman making again.

I thought it was over after doing it earlier, but that was that and this is this.

However, they didn’t make it as big as they did during the competition.

“Hyung, Siha finished it.”

“Yeah, you’re done? The snowman is small and cute.”

“It’s ppoduk. Ppoduk.”

“The ppoduk you talked about this morning became a snowman?”

“Take this.”

“Huh?”

“Siha will raise it.”

It seems like he really wants to take the snowman.

I had no choice but to accept his heart.

His heart is so beautiful.

“Okay, let’s take ppoduk when we go home.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, really.”

Siha was happy and lifted ppoduk up.

The twins also looked at Seung-jun’s mom with their snowmen next to them.

I felt like I knew the question they wanted to ask without having to say it.

When Seung-jun’s mom gave permission, the children became even more excited.

It’s a snowman that will disappear later, but let’s let them be happy like that now.

“Siha, by the way, aren’t you cold?”

“No, hot.”

“Oh? That’s right. You must be hot after playing like that. But if you sweat, you’ll get colder later.”

“Why?”

“The wind cools you down and makes your body cold. Before that happens, let’s go to an amazing place.”

“Amazing?”

Siha tilted his head, wondering where that was.

The twins also seemed curious about where we were going.

“Yeah, right to the ramen shop!”

“Ramen?!”

“Yeah, ramen after playing in the snow is so delicious. You didn’t know?”

“Ah.”

The other children swallowed their saliva as they thought of ramen.

We took the snowmen and headed to a nearby ramen shop.

We lined up the snowmen outside the store.

It was so cute as if they were welcoming people.

“Let’s go in.”

We ordered at the ramen shop and it came out quickly.

The warm steam rose into the sky, making my mouth water.

I definitely ate breakfast before coming out, but I get hungry when I play like this.

I want to eat it right away, but I have to take care of Siha.

“Siha, it’s hot, so I’ll blow on it for you.”

I blew on it and put it in Siha’s mouth.

He chews well.

“Delicious!”

“Eat a lot.”

“Ah, hyung too.”

I put Siha in one bite and then put it in my mouth.

In the meantime, I made eye contact with Seung-jun’s mom.

We smiled awkwardly because we were doing the same thing and started eating.

Baek Dong-hwan said.

“Wow, hyung-nim, there’s not much noodles left already.”

“You eat hot things really well.”

“I’m good at eating noodles. Haha.”

As expected, it seemed like it would cost a lot to maintain that body.

Slurp.

The flavor of ramen fills my mouth.

The taste of the soup coming out of my nose and the chewy noodles break in my mouth and go down my throat.

A sip of the soup warms my body again and fills me up inside.

Kuh, this is the taste.

“Hyung-nim, so you’re definitely going tomorrow, right?”

“Ah, I know, I’m going.”

“That’s a relief.”

Seung-jun asked.

“Siha, where are you going tomorrow?”

“Siha is going to draw pictures tomorrow.”

“Really? I want to go too.”

“Go together. Together.”

I tilted my head, saying ‘Huh?’

Why are they making plans together?

Seung-jun’s mom asked curiously, so I told her that we were going to the children’s art museum.

When I said that, Hana next to me also said that she wanted to go.

I said that I had to make a reservation in advance, but Baek Dong-hwan next to me said that I could watch.

Only drawing VR pictures required prior application.

So everyone ended up going together.

Well, it wouldn’t matter.

“If you’re done eating, shall we go now?”

I came out of the store and looked at the snowmen.

“Huh?”

The snowmen were all destroyed.

As if someone had deliberately kicked them.