Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 292

Siha is mouthing something, his lips moving. “Hyung, aren’t I cute?”

What is it? Why can’t I hear him?

It’s so faint that I can’t even guess what he’s saying.

“What did you say?”

“Wha?”

“Can you say it again?”

“Wha?”

“What about the sparkles?”

“Wha?”

Siha blinked.

What’s going on? Is my question not reaching him? Can he not hear other things too?

“Are the sparkles in your hand?”

“Sparkles in hand!”

He can hear this, it seems… I can infer that there’s some kind of reaction that tells me not to ask about the sparkles.

It seems like sparkles are appearing as the ability manifests, but I don’t know why only Siha can see them.

I also received the ability, so why can’t I see them?

Could it be that only young children like Siha can see them?

“Hyung. What shall we pway [play]?”

Looking at Siha asking so innocently, I wondered if it even mattered.

It’s not like it’s negatively affecting us.

Even though I received this ability, it’s up to me to utilize it.

And this knowledge isn’t perfect either.

There were things I had to study on my own, and some places had already changed a lot.

Siha will also have areas where he’s lacking and areas he needs to utilize.

I don’t know what those are, though.

“Hmm. What should we really play today?”

“Shall we sink [think] about it togevver [together]?”

“Pfft. Okay.”

Siha sat in front of me and started thinking.

Does he have to sit like this?

Since we’re together every day, I’m starting to worry about what to play with him.

You know how it is? Like worrying about what to eat today. It’s just that the worry has changed to what to play with the kid today.

Looking at it this way, adults might not be that different from when they were kids.

“Shall we play hide-and-seek?”

“Nu-uh [No]. I wanna pway [play] somefing [something] else today. Somfing [Something] new!”

“What new thing could there be…”

As I sat there blankly, I remembered the story of seeing the future through cloth.

Of course, I remembered it through the picture Siha drew.

Speaking of cloth, it transformed into an algorithm that I need to fold the laundry.

Even YouTube’s algorithm wouldn’t be this random.

Anyway, I can’t put this off. If I keep putting it off, it’ll become a hassle later.

I’ll run out of clothes to wear too.

“I have a good idea.”

“Wha [What]?”

“Let’s fold the clean clothes nicely!”

“Nu-uh [No].”

“If you do this with me, I’ll tell you a really fun game. A really, really secret game that I’ll only tell Siha.”

“Weally [Really]?!”

“Yeah!”

Siha ran to the drying rack.

I also gathered the clothes and piled them up like a mountain on the floor.

“Siha, can you fold the socks like this, overlapping them? Hyung will fold the tops and pants.”

“Siha good at it.”

Siha matched the socks.

He spread them out and stacked them on top of each other.

“You have to separate Siha’s and Hyung’s, okay?”

“Why? Hyung wear Siha’s socks too.”

“If Hyung wears Siha’s socks, they’ll stretch out. Is that okay?”

“Okay. Okay.”

“No. Even if they stretch out, they won’t cover Hyung’s feet.”

“Okay. Okay.”

I’m not okay, okay? It’s not important that you’re okay…….

Of course, you’d be okay. It’s not like you’re uncomfortable.

So, we folded the laundry.

“All done!”

“Wow. That was fast!”

“Hyung. Not yet?”

“Yeah. Hyung has to fold underwear too, so I have a lot to do. Then, can Siha fold the towels?”

“Towels?! How?”

“It’s easy. Here. Look.”

“Ahhh.”

“Fold it in half like this. And then fold it in half again. Next, fold it into thirds.”

“Siha know! Easy!”

“Easy, right?”

Siha folds the towels diligently with his small hands.

Folding laundry together like this reminds me of the old days.

I used to sit with my dad and watch TV while folding clothes.

At first, I folded everything by myself while my dad was working and got scolded.

Not because I couldn’t fold them, but because we should do these things together. Don’t do it alone. Why are you taking away the time I spend with Dad? I want to do it together.

‘I just wanted to be useful to Dad.’

That’s not what my dad wanted, actually.

I was like that when I was young.

I was always trying to read his mind and show him that I was needed.

I couldn’t help it. I was young.

“Hyung?”

“Yeah?”

“Many towels weft [left].”

“Yeah. There are. Hyung is all done, though?”

“One to one!”

“Pfft. Really? Did you learn this kind of competition from Jongsu?”

“Jongsu always compete.”

Instead of showing off that I was good at things when I was little, I wish I had told him about the things that happened at daycare.

Siha seems to be in a similar environment to me, but he’s going in a completely different direction of thinking.

I don’t know if it’s because of his innate temperament or if there are other factors.

“Now Hyung has to help fold the towels, right?”

“Siha will perwmit [permit] it.”

“Pfft.”

Why do you need permission? He’s always funny.

“Okay. Thank you.”

“Ahhh. You’re welcome~”

You answer ‘you’re welcome’ with ‘you’re welcome’. That’s Siha.

We folded diligently and put them in the closet in order.

After putting all the towels in the bathroom, I felt like I had finished one task.

There won’t be any more real work to do now, right?

“Then I’ll tell you a really fun game.”

“Curious!”

I walked over to the drying rack.

And I took off all the clothespins.

“You can make toys with these.”

“!!!”

Personally, I think everyone has had this experience.

These clothespins look kind of cool, right?

The eyes are triangular, so they look cool, and the mouth is zigzag, so it bites tightly.

It looks a lot like a dinosaur’s face.

Is it just me?

Anyway, you can play with this as you like and spread your imagination.

Kuaang. Be prepared. It bites the toy robot.

And you can also use it for combination like Lego [Lego is a line of plastic construction toys].

“Look closely. You can combine them by biting the place where the clothespin is.”

“Combine?!”

Yeah. Kids can’t resist the excitement of combining.

I don’t know about girls, but boys know it well.

Combining is irresistible.

“If you bite the clothespin part and make the iron part bite in the middle. Ta-da! A wonderful airplane is born.”

“!!!”

Siha’s eyes sparkled more than ever.

I felt proud, but also a little embarrassed.

If someone saw me, I might have felt self-conscious.

No. Everyone does this once, right?

“Hyung. Amazing! Amazing!”

“Hehehe. Do you want to play with it too, Siha?”

“Yeah! Airplane! Cool!”

It’s a different shape from the existing airplane, but it’s special and cool enough.

I know how you feel.

Siha was holding the airplane and making a swoosh sound while flying it with his hand.

He seems to be having fun running around.

“Pipi. Airplane coming. Be careful.”

It passes the round part of the fish tank.

The curved flight is very artistic.

“You’re not supposed to take off your shoes to ride it. Baekdong lied.”

He still remembers that…. It must have been quite a shock.

Baekdong, apologize to Siha again.

The airplane went to our room and came back to me.

“Twip [Trip] over. Take out cawwiage [carriage].”

“Pfft.”

“Hyung. Amazing.”

“Right? Do you want to make something too, Siha?”

“This. This. Wook [Look] wike [like] fish.”

“It does feel like that. There’s also a king clothespin.”

A large, round clothespin. It looks different from the small clothespins.

“Hyung. Whawwe [Whale]. Whawwe [Whale]!”

“You can see it that way.”

“Siha gowing [growing] whawwe [whale] at home!”

That’s right. We’re already raising a whale at home. How far does your imagination stretch? Is this already a house with an aquarium?

“There are many clothespins, so you can play with them in various ways.”

“Many!”

Actually, you don’t need this many, but I bought some thinking about when I was little.

I thought Siha might play with them someday.

It doesn’t matter how many toys there are. Clothespins definitely have the magic to make you play with them.

That’s what I think.

“Kuaang! Kuaang!”

The clothespin bit my finger.

Siha made a serious face.

“Big pwobwem [problem]. Hyung in danger!”

Isn’t that danger you created?

“Have to hewp [help]! Stawt [Start]! Swoosh!”

The airplane I made took off.

Maybe it’s because I was attacked more while it was coming, he put down the airplane and clipped the clothespin on the remaining finger.

“Big pwobwem [problem]! Hyung huwt [hurt] a wot [lot]!”

You’re the one who hurt me?

“Going! Pew Pew! Pew Pew!”

Maybe something like a bullet came out of the airplane.

He took out the clothespin on my hand.

“Hyung. Okay?”

“Yeah. I’m safe.”

“Nu-uh [No]. Have to go hospitaw [hospital]. Hospitaw [Hospital].”

“No. I’m okay, I tell you?”

Siha shook his head. It seems like I have a serious injury.

“Stawt [Start] to hospitaw [hospital]! Arwived [Arrived]!”

“I’m really okay.”

“No way! Have to have suwgery [surgery]. Hyung!”

I just got bitten by a clothespin, but I have to go to surgery?!

“Siha fix it.”

He even takes me to the hospital and Siha operates on me.

How many jobs do you have?

Just from what’s been said, pilot, doctor. Two jobs.

Are these compatible jobs?

“Injection. All better!”

He only gives me an injection, even though it’s surgery. Well, he hasn’t actually seen how surgery is done.

Is that rated 19+? No, 12+?

I don’t know.

“Hyung. All better.”

“Okay. Thank you. I lived thanks to Siha.”

“Phew. What if Siha not hewe [here].”

He’s saying, what if Siha wasn’t here, right?

“I’m so glad Siha is here.”

“Wight [Right]? Have to pway [play] wif [with] Siha a wot [lot] fwom [from] now on?”

“???”

That’s a huge build-up!

I was horrified by the fact that that was the conclusion of this story.

It seems like a bigger twist than the story I wrote?

“Is it over now?”

“Nu-uh [No]. Hyung make airplane and fight.”

“With who?”

“Enemy. Enemy.”

Siha diligently made another airplane with clothespins.

The same one I made.

Together, we made a swoosh sound and moved the airplane.

Wait a minute. It’s too embarrassing to make sounds together like this!

No one’s watching, but I’m embarrassed!

“Hyung. Still huwt [hurt]? Go hospitaw [hospital]? Face wed [red]. Fever. Fever.”

That’s because I’m playing with you. Don’t worry about it…. Pretend you don’t know!

“Hyung. Enemy. Fwied [Fried] shwimp [shrimp] enemy! Boss. Subowdinates Ippi, Ippi, Pipi.”

In the end, we’ve come to the point where fish and shrimp are enemies.

Siha said cheerfully as if he was having fun.

“Hyung. Pew, pew. Missile launch!”

“Do you know what a missile is? Where did you learn that?”

“Saw it in cartoon.”

“Oh, really? Okay. Missile is flying!”

“Nu-uh [No]. Pew, pew.”

“…….”

“Hurry. Hurry.”

“…Pe, pe, pew, pe…w.”

I wish you hadn’t saved me earlier!

“Fwied [Fried] shwimp [shrimp] became fwied [fried] shwimp [shrimp]!”

In the end, the shrimp must have become fried.

What…. That’s more cruel than dying…. I feel sorry for the shrimp.

They say they live according to their original name, but was this their destiny?

“Hyung. Fun!”

“Okay. As long as Siha is having fun.”

But next time, can you admit Hyung to the hospital?

Going straight to the battlefield after surgery is too rough on people, right?

Of course, Siha’s passive skill is ‘Together with Hyung!’, so that opinion will definitely be rejected.

***

Siha woke up early.

Hyung was sleeping quietly. The room was dark because the sun hadn’t risen yet.

He rubbed his eyes and raised only his upper body.

“Hyung?”

Because there was no light, Hyung looked like a black figure.

It felt a little scary.

It wasn’t that Hyung was scary, but just a vague fear of the darkness that he couldn’t see well.

At that time, pink light particles appeared from Siha’s hand.

They circled around Siha’s butt and feet.

They soared upwards and then went down.

Like the sand falling from an hourglass.

“Ah? Thank you.”

Siha stroked the pink light particles.

There was no feeling of touching his hand.

“Good idea. Siha dwaw [draw]. Thank you~”

The light particles wrapped around Siha’s hand.

“But Siha dwaw [draw] after sweep.”

Siha put the pillow in Hyung’s arms and put his head down. He closed his eyes.

He still needed more sleep.

“Snore.”

Until Siha’s breathing was evenly distributed, the pink light particles stayed by his side to reassure Siha.