Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 305

Hyung, aren’t I cute? 305 (305/500)

The video’s title is [Bloom(開花 – Gaika, meaning flowering or blooming)].

Fittingly, the music Seo Su-hyeon provided made the petals fully bloom.

A blank white screen signals the start of the video.

A black pen quickly draws, as if erasing the snow symbolizing winter.

[Hello. This is SihaPepe. It’s been a while.]

[This time’s theme is flowers. Huh? Pepe again, you ask? ㅠㅠ]

[As you all know, Pepe is love.]

[Let’s see what kind of drawing will come out today. I’ve prepared a flower viewing for you all.]

The drawing in the video features four Pepes drawn simultaneously in a screen divided into four sections.

In reality, each was drawn and recorded separately on a new layer, but Si-hyeok combined the scenes into one.

That way, he might be able to find the hidden flower within this drawing.

Of course, some might not notice.

Many people probably won’t. But everything in a video has a hidden intention.

Since he was uploading it as a video, it seemed better to utilize it fully.

[‘Humans’ each possess a flower.]

A pattern is drawn on Pepe’s belly.

[But it’s not easy to bloom it on their own.]

Color is added, completing the drawing.

[That’s why we live together.]

As if folding paper, the four-sectioned screen folds vertically.

There are now two Pepes.

The screen appears divided into two sections, top and bottom.

[The bonds humans form with each other]

And then it folds horizontally.

The screen becomes one. Because the drawings are combined, one Pepe has its head on the ground, while the other has its head in the sky.

[The conflicts humans experience with each other]

It folds once more, and the face of the Pepe with its head on the ground rises.

A flower pattern is completed on its belly.

[That’s why it blooms profusely]

[A single flower.]

So, the video’s title was [Bloom(開花)].

What kind of bloom was already explained through the editing.

Si-hyeok made Siha’s drawing even more special by giving it a ‘story’.

He added the nourishment of a story so that the flower could fully bloom in the fun game of a puzzle.

It could have just been a video where people were simply amazed, like, “Oh! It combines to make a flower!” and found it fascinating.

But by adding subtitles and music, he added some intention.

[That’s all for the story.]

[Thank you.]

In the end, two signs, [Subscribe] and [Like], popped up in the hands of the Pepe holding a flower.

-At first, I was like, where’s the flower? I only see penguins, but wow, lol.

-It was hidden, lol.

-SihaPepe is really amazing!!!

-I got goosebumps from the subtitles that appeared as the drawing folded and combined.

-22222

-A production aiming for a movie!

-Isn’t that too much of an exaggeration?

Everyone loved this video.

But as always, there was an interpreter who left a lengthy post.

[As expected of SihaPepe! Leaving a warm message.

Everyone’s just watching, but I knew it all along!

The last video was ‘Spring has come!’

And this video is ‘Bloom!’

It feels like an epilogue.]

That wasn’t it.

It was just inspiration that came to him after seeing flower friends while camping.

The previous video’s drawing had nothing to do with it.

[The countless bonds and conflicts it took for unknown birds to bloom a single flower!]

It’s not related at all.

[Wow, really! Amazing! Is this finally SihaPepe’s ‘series’!

The drawings SihaPepe continues to draw!

Why can’t everyone notice it!]

It wasn’t a series at all.

But replies started appearing, saying it was plausible.

People who came from Pixiv [Japanese online community for artists] began to judge it as SihaPepe’s series.

The interpreter’s influence was enormous.

***

Mid-April.

The day of the Haereum [literary club] club’s play arrived.

Thankfully, we were invited to the first performance, so Siha and I decided to go see it.

I was looking forward to it.

I had read the scenario, but it was my first time seeing the performance from beginning to end.

Imagining it through text.

Seeing the actors perform.

The gap in that fun made my heart flutter.

What kind of difference would there be? There would be, right? What would the feeling of the text being visualized be like?

I saw it briefly in the promotional video, but that wasn’t enough.

I wanted to see and feel the parts I had written with my own eyes.

“Siha, the play will be fun, right?”

“Hyung, aren’t you doing it?”

“Huh? I can’t because I didn’t properly learn acting.”

“No. Hyung is good at it.”

Yeah. I guess I look like I’m good at everything in your eyes. Because I’m Red Hyung.

In reality, there are things I’m good at and things I’m not good at.

“Siha, look. There’s the poster.”

“Siha poster!”

The poster was attached to the theater entrance.

Siha looked up at the poster with sparkling eyes.

“Hyung. It’s amazing. Siha poster is here.”

“I know.”

It must be amazing to see the drawing he drew attached as a poster to promote the play.

People around us were also talking about the poster, wondering if they had come to see the play.

“This is really well drawn, isn’t it?”

“It’s simple, but it has a clear meaning.”

“I saw the trailer and the poster, and I really wanted to go see it.”

I lowered my head and whispered in a small voice.

“I heard they were thinking of coming to see the play after seeing Siha’s poster?”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Siha must be happy.”

We entered the theater with anticipation.

It seemed like they had prepared seats in the front row, so we sat there.

The audience was full, but I don’t know if it was because it was the first performance or because they received a lot of invitations like us.

Still, I hoped that the people here would think they did a good job coming to see it.

Thud.

The lights go out.

“Siha. It’s starting.”

“Hyung. Shh. You have to be quiet here.”

“Pfft. Our Siha knows well.”

“Siha knows everything.”

The stage lights came on.

Like the trailer, the flow of funds came out, showing the situation of the times.

The pronunciation was good, so the sound was easy to hear, and the expressions were surprisingly easy to see.

Even if it was in the back seat, I would have enjoyed watching it.

‘Interesting.’

The play proceeded according to a series of familiar flows, but the male and female leads seemed to have a ratio of about 6:4.

In particular, I could see what kind of details were added to the information part of the female lead.

“It is common to go to eat around 13:00 [1 PM]. There is a woman he meets secretly. He is having an affair.”

The female lead, Yu Eun-mi, begins to talk in detail about the officer’s secret private life.

What’s surprising is not only that.

She spreads a piece of paper on the desk and pretends to draw something.

“The building where Officer Minamoto lives. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors have this structure.”

She held up the paper and attached it to the blackboard prepared on the set.

Surprisingly, the building’s blueprints, up to two books’ worth, were all included in detail.

Even the placement of the people guarding it and the routes they take.

“To assassinate him, you can’t just wait. You need to plant someone who will clearly guide him to walk this way, and you also need the boldness to pull the trigger accurately. And the escape route is….”

She simply drew a map of the area and drew on it with a red pen.

“It must mesh like gears to escape. But if it doesn’t….”

A cruel sentence was dropped.

“You have to die. How many people would have that spirit.”

A man retorted to that.

“There is one person who can carry it out flawlessly.”

“???