Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 258

After watching the sunrise, everyone busily prepared to leave.

I stretched once.

“Ugh! That was great.”

“Hyung-nim [term of respect], it was really great. The scenery is etched in my eyes.”

“Wasn’t it bounced out because of your muscles?”

“How could that be!”

“Never mind then.”

Looking at Baek Dong-hwan, I’m reminded of the muscle supremacy theory.

After watching people leave for a while, Siha showed interest in something else.

He ran to the photographer.

“Mister, are you taking pictures?”

“Huh? Haha. I’ve already taken all the pictures.”

“Why are you taking pictures? Because it’s pretty?”

“Yeah. It’s pretty, and it’s a beautiful landscape too. How about it? Should I take a picture of you?”

“Siha?”

“Yeah. Siha, you. You have a pretty name!”

“Thank you~”

“Puhaha.”

The photographer smiled, finding Siha cute.

I didn’t expect him to talk so casually.

I quietly approached Siha.

“Hahaha. I hope my brother hasn’t been rude.”

“No, it’s okay. It’s natural for a child to be curious. Thanks to him, I have a good model.”

“A photo model?”

“Yes. Actually, I’m a portrait photographer. I just set up here to take landscapes because it’s the new year.”

Portrait photos, huh.

I wonder if he captures something different.

Certainly, being photographed by a professional feels different.

“Can I use this, by any chance?”

“Where are you going to use it?”

“Just, you know, upload it to a gallery or something. It’s actually hard to find models.”

I widened my eyes.

“Is it hard?”

“Well, it’s not easy. Ah! Famous photographers find them easily. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own difficulties. They often break appointments.”

“Ah, really?”

“That’s right. So, I like taking pictures of people I know. In that sense, shall we have a meal together?”

“Suddenly?”

“I think it’s important to get to know each other first.”

“That’s a bit… Haha.”

It would be awkward to eat with a stranger.

“Then I guess there’s no helping it.”

“Well, you can upload our photos as your work.”

“Oh! Thank you!”

His eyes sparkled.

I don’t know how famous he is, but I thought it wouldn’t be bad to have such a photo of us.

Only those who look for it will see it anyway.

“Then can we try a concept for a moment?”

“What kind of concept?”

“Lying down and facing each other. Upside down.”

“Upside down?”

“Yes.”

I thought this would be a good experience for Siha.

“Siha, do you want to try taking a picture?”

“Ah!”

We faced each other.

It was less nerve-wracking since we didn’t have to look at the camera.

“Please talk to each other naturally.”

Isn’t this pose unnatural to begin with?

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

Siha raised his hand and placed it on my face.

Touching and touching.

I squinted slightly because it tickled.

“Oh! Great. That’s it.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

The photo session ended surprisingly quickly.

Is it always like this?

Sensing my gaze, he said.

“It’s important to capture the moment. That’s why it came out so quickly. Do you want to see it?”

Our two faces are visible.

I’m squinting, and Siha is touching my cheek with sparkling eyes.

He definitely captured something different.

“I really like portrait photos. I usually want to get to know the person. It feels different.”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right. Other photographers may not, but I think photos capture ‘relationships’.”

Capturing relationships.

That was a cool thing to say.

“The relationship between the photographer and the subject. The relationship between two brothers. The relationship between this landscape and the model. Because of the naturalness, I often ask people who are not models.”

“That’s cool.”

“Hahaha. I get rejected a lot too. The photos I upload are only of people who were really persuaded or readily accepted. I think I get rejected nine out of ten times.”

“Ah! But do you process it? Since you’re a photographer.”

“I process it sometimes, and sometimes I don’t… If I do, I’ll send it to you.”

“Thank you.”

Siha seemed curious and asked him.

“Mister, why did you do it like this?”

“What? The pose?”

“Ah, ah. The pose.”

“That’s… um… You two are brothers, right? I wanted to express the discord, even though you’re looking at each other. Not knowing everything? That kind of feeling?”

“Ah?”

“Is it difficult? Like Siha putting his hand on Hyung’s face, it shows closeness, but it doesn’t mean he knows all of Hyung’s heart. It’s the same love, but a slightly different feeling, should I say?”

“No. Same. Hyung likes Siha. Siha knows.”

“Puhaha. Yeah.”

That’s what the concept was.

It sounds plausible when I hear it.

“Siha, do you want to see other photos?”

“Ah!”

Siha liked it and showed me the photos he took.

I asked him if there were any photos he was curious about.

“Why are you covering the face?”

“Well, why do you think?”

***

Siha turned 20 years old.

It feels like just yesterday we saw the new year and met the photographer, but time has really flown by like an arrow.

It’s a strange feeling to be a college student this year.

“Siha, you need to eat.”

“Ah!”

The familiar dining table seems old already.

He shuffles his short legs and comes over.

He grabs a fork, pokes at the side dishes, and munches on them.

“Hyung, delicious.”

“Really? You have to go to university now.”

“Ah.”

He goes outside.

A red car is emitting a beautiful figure.

Click.

The door opens, and Siha sits in the driver’s seat.

He grabs the steering wheel with his small hands and moves the car.

Vroom.

“You have to drive carefully.”

“Siha knows. Good.”

Kangin University, which he arrived at before he knew it.

“Go with Hyung!”

“Okay.”

I took the lectures together too.

Professor Kim Ho-seop is still in office, projecting PPTs in front.

I wonder about his unchanging appearance.

“Hyung, write. Write.”

“Oh, okay.”

Siha is moving the pencil diligently.

Looking at the notebook, he’s not taking notes but drawing Pepe [internet meme] all over it.

I wondered what was going on, so I looked at the blackboard, and Kim Ho-seop was also drawing Pepe.

The PPT was about a subject called Understanding Emoticons.

Ah, I see, and nodded.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

“Finished.”

“Really?”

Looking at the time, it’s lunchtime.

I ate lunch with Siha. Today, I ordered pork cutlet and ate it well.

The pork cutlet here didn’t seem to have changed much even after several years.

“Hyung!”

He sticks the pork cutlet out to me.

I quickly took it and ate it. Other classmates are eating with Siha and stroking his head because he’s cute.

It was like looking at a 3-year-old child.

In fact, his appearance is no different from when he was 3 years old.

Uh? That’s weird?

Suddenly, I felt a sense of incongruity.

No, that’s strange. He still looks like he’s 3 years old?

“Siha, how old are you?”

“Twenty-three.”

“You pronounce twenty-three this time?”

“Ah, ah! Twenty-three.”

“Do you have an ID card?”

Siha took out a penguin coin purse that he didn’t know when he got.

He opened the zipper and handed me his ID card.

“Let’s see.”

The name and resident registration number are written, and the age is written again below.

-20 years old (3 years old)

What is this? The original age is not written.

Strangely, my head doesn’t turn.

Looking at Siha again, I saw that the children had increased.

“Hyung. Siha’s classmates.”

“They’re kindergarten friends.”

Everyone seems to have entered Kangin University.

Of course, like Siha, they are still 3 years old.

Okay. I get it now. This is a dream. Seeing that I’m thinking slowly, I realized it too late.

No wonder the pork cutlet didn’t taste anything, and the scenes changed quickly.

“Oh? Hyung Do-hwan?”

From afar, Moon Do-hwan was approaching Siha with a serious expression.

Pointing his finger.

“Lee Siha.”

“Ah?”

“You’ve been 3 years old all this time!”

“Ah!”

So, if you calculate it, how many years is it? Since he’s 20 years old…

Strangely, I can’t calculate it.

***

Suddenly.

I opened my eyes. Next to me, Siha is sleeping like a shrimp, with his hands tightly clenched into fists.

I got up and covered my face with my hands.

Now I can calculate properly. 16 years.

3 years old for 16 years. Isn’t that too much? Even if it’s a dream.

Seeing that there were wrinkles on my hands in the dream, only I got old.

No, even after 16 years, aren’t those wrinkles like a grandfather?

“Hyung?”

“Uh? Are you awake?”

“Okay?”

“Yeah, I’m okay. But Siha, how old are you now?”

“Twenty-three!”

“!!!”

Is this also a dream?

“Are you really three years old? Hasn’t a year passed?”

“Ah? Ah, ah! Four years old! Hyung. Siha is four years old.”

“Yeah. You’re four years old. Right?”

“Why?”

Siha tilts his head with an innocent face.

It’s nothing. I had a slightly disturbing dream.

A photo captures that moment.

Age, relationship, location.

If I were actually photographed and it was fixed, how terrible would the situation be?

Literally immortal. Not getting old and not dying.

Ah, but not getting old from the age of 3 is too much.

I guess I had this dream because I took a picture yesterday.

I talked too much with that person.

“Hyung. Photo come?”

“Huh? Ah! Right. I’ll check my email.”

I checked my email inbox on my phone.

An attachment had arrived with an unfamiliar ID.

“It’s here. Shall we take a look?”

“Ah.”

One was no different from what I saw then.

What’s a little different is that it feels like it’s been retouched?

And the other one.

“Wow. That’s amazing.”

“Wow!”

Our figures were erased in the photo.

What was filled in was the scenery of the sunrise, reflecting the bizarre cliffs and the sea.

“Siha and Hyung.”

“Oh? That’s right.”

It seemed like there was a message he wanted to convey.

“Hyung. Siha too. Siha too.”

“Uh?”

“Siha drawing.”

“Ah! Should I upload that?”

“Upload. Upload.”

It seemed like I had to upload a drawing inspired by the photographer.

I also have to say hello to those who are waiting for the new year.

I got up and immediately started working.

***

-Siha’s drawing. Pixiv [online art community] upload.

[Title: Dawn]

1. A penguin is drawn.

The paper is rolled up like a poster at the face position, and the penguin’s body is visible below.

The bottom is bright, and the penguin in the rolled paper part is dark.

[Happy new year!]

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#Happynewyear #Dawn

[Comments]

-Wow, Sihapepe is not doing 4-cut comics these days.

-The penguin is still cute.

-Happy New Year to everyone!

-Looking at the picture, it feels like the darkness is gone and the sun is rising below?

-Oh! I thought that too. I didn’t draw the sunrise, but it looks like I’m watching the sunrise.

-The production is crazy!

The comments were buzzing, and one person shouted.

-You’ll think it’s one-dimensional again!

-???

The interpreter was embarrassed and sent a question mark.

-No. You guys have come up a lot these days.

-Really? Is our interpretation correct?

-There’s a dawn, so what more interpretation is there? But there’s one thing that’s a bit disappointing in terms of detail. Why doesn’t anyone say that?

-That it’s a penguin?

-No. It’s already well known that penguins are used to compare humans as characters.

-So?

-The problem is the location where the paper is rolled up. It’s on the penguin’s face, so you can’t recognize it.

-Ah, that’s right.

The interpreter said confidently.

-Covering the face means it can be someone’s face.

-!!!

-It’s a warm message to us. It means that ‘everyone’ will be blessed in the new year.

-That someone is us?

-Of course. Who else would you say Happy New Year to here?

-Kyaa. As expected, Sihapepe. It’s a warm picture.

Siha just arranged it after seeing the photographer’s face-covering photo.

-By the way, when will Sihapepe release more goods! I regret missing out on that last time!

-I asked, but they said they don’t have any plans to make more yet? They don’t know how much it will sell.

-Ah, then do some funding. I’ll buy it! I’ll buy it!

Everyone wanted a New Year’s gift.