Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 306

Hyung, aren’t I cute? 306

Somehow, Baek Dong-hwan ended up participating in the game with Siha, who supposedly came from the past.

“So, the setup is that 3-year-old Siha came from the future?”

“He’s four.”

Baek Dong-hwan seemed to ponder something, then nodded.

“Siha, I’ve become the best voice actor at the broadcasting station now!”

“Baek Dong hyung, are you lying again?”

“No! It’s true!”

Siha gives Baek Dong-hwan a suspicious look.

You should have lied less. How could Siha not even accept the setup?

“Ahem. It’s real.”

“Really?”

“Of course!”

Siha averted his gaze.

“What about hyung?”

“Hmm. Me? I’m living diligently with Siha. And I’m working on raising Reds [referring to fans or supporters].”

“!!!”

“There will be many Reds in the world.”

“Amazing!”

Clap clap.

He clapped his hands, then stared at me as if something came to mind.

What is it? Is there something he’s curious about?

“Where does Siha go to school?”

“Ah! I was about to tell you that? There’s a department called Charm Studies. Hehehe.”

“Charm Studies?”

“Not ‘Charm’ [as in magical charm], but ‘Charm’ [as in attractiveness]. Siha is so cool that he got into that department.”

“!!!”

“It’s a place only cool people go. It just opened!”

Baek Dong-hwan subtly raised his hand from the side.

“Hyung-nim [term of respect], I’m also preparing to retake the entrance exam to get in there.”

“Sorry, but you’ll be rejected in the document screening.”

“Why!”

“You’re too bulky…. It’s not a place you can get into with the college entrance exam!”

“Aren’t my thick bones and muscles very attractive? Even my voice is good. I’m a voice actor, you know.”

“You’re too old…….”

“There’s an age limit too?! That’s too strict.”

“Thick bones aren’t allowed either.”

“Just say I can’t get in! Am I the only one included in the prohibited items!”

Baek Dong-hwan made an unfair expression.

Siha approached and patted him on the back with his hand.

“Baek Dong hyung. Cheer up. Fighting! [common Korean phrase for encouragement]”

“Thank you. You’re the only one for me, Siha.”

“Baek Dong hyung is not ugly.”

“It’s not that I can’t get in because I’m ugly! There was no such thing!”

That’s why Siha is saying you’re not ugly.

Anyway, that Baek Dong-hwan. He can’t take words purely.

“Baek Dong hyung. You’re not stupid either. Siha knows.”

“No. It’s obvious that I’m not stupid, but when you say it like that, it’s like…….”

“It’s okay. It’s okay.”

Baek Dong-hwan seemed to become gloomy.

Just saying something obvious, but the attack power is enormous.

Maybe the attack power is even greater because there’s no malice.

“Hyung, Siha is going now.”

“Huh? Already going?”

“Siha wants to be with hyung too. But Siha is not here, so I’m worried about hyung~”.

It seems he wants to be with me but is trying to go back because he’s worried about the past me.

Siha is so kind after all!

“Just live with hyung?”

“No. Siha has to go. The Siha here is with hyung. If the hyung over there doesn’t have Siha, he’ll be sick.”

“Okay. Okay. Then take good care of hyung. Got it?”

“Siha will do well.”

Siha put his hands on his waist and stuck out his belly.

I tickled the protruding belly with my finger.

“Ticklish!”

Siha takes a step back.

That sight is so cute that I can’t help but laugh.

“Hyung. Bye-bye.”

“Okay. Bye-bye.”

He crawls into the place covered with blankets.

And then comes out again.

“Hyung. Siha is here!”

“Huh? Siha. Where did you go?”

“I went to meet hyung.”

“Huh? Hyung was here all the time?”

“I went to meet future hyung. We had a fun talk. Siha went to Charm Studies!”

“Oh? Is that so.”

“But Baek Dong hyung. Why are you here?”

Baek Dong-hwan said in an absurd tone.

“Why? Can’t I be here?”

“No. You weren’t here when Siha was 4 years old!”

It seems that Baek Dong-hwan didn’t come home in the past setting.

Keep the settings straight. Baek Dong-hwan.

“This is too much!”

Anyway, the future play seems to be over.

But I realized something I had forgotten.

“But Dong-hwan. What’s going on?”

“Are you only asking now?! It’s too late.”

“No. I forgot because I was playing with him so mindlessly.”

“Actually, I forgot too.”

What. He forgot why he came here too.

“Ah! I’m here to give you this.”

“Huh?”

Baek Dong-hwan took something thick out of his bag.

When I checked, it was a photo album.

“I printed these out. The ones we took during camping.”

“Is this also ‘gaem-seong’ [a Korean slang term for something that evokes nostalgia or sentimentality]?”

“Haha. I just thought it would be nice to leave them like this.”

I slowly flipped through the photos.

All the photos uploaded to the group chat were printed.

“The cherry blossoms and the sky are all captured.”

“Keu [Korean interjection, similar to ‘wow’]. It’s art, right? The scenery was so good that I couldn’t help but print them out.”

“Are you giving all of these to us?”

“I printed them separately to give to hyung-nim [another term of respect].”

“Ah, you had a printer at your house. Right.”

Baek Dong-hwan really liked ‘gaem-seong’ things, which didn’t match his bulky image.

“Then I can do whatever I want with these?”

“Yes? Ah, well. Yeah. But what are you going to do?”

“Ah, this?”

I waved the photo in my hand.

“I’m going to doodle on it.”

“Yes?”

Baek Dong-hwan had an expression that his ‘gaem-seong’ was shattered.

***

Things around you can be great play tools.

Even blankets and chairs can become hideouts, and clothespins are good toys for children.

Then what about photos?

Doodling might be considered dirty and messy.

But does doodling on existing photos really have a bad effect on children?

Not necessarily.

Isn’t taking photos and working on them with Photoshop also a form of doodling?

This kind of doodling can also be a fun game and a device to develop creativity.

“Siha. The photos are here.”

“Photos?”

Siha sat down with me and looked at the photos.

I try not to pay attention to Baek Dong-hwan, who is making a disappointed face in the corner.

“And hyung prepared a pen!”

“???”

“Oops. I can see Siha’s face. I need to draw glasses.”

I drew round glasses on Siha’s face.

It’s a bit boring with just that, so I added a fedora on top.

“!!!”

Siha’s eyes sparkled when he saw it.

Children can’t resist doodling. Everyone has doodled on the wallpaper without their mom’s permission at least once.

Or doodling in textbooks.

Isn’t that what everyone does?

“Hyung. Siha too! Siha too!”

“Okay. Here’s a pen.”

Siha grabbed the pen and started doodling like me.

Baek Dong-hwan watched it with an astonished expression.

“Don’t just stand there, doodle with us.”

“M, my photos…….”

“Why are they your photos? You said you were going to give them to me, right?”

“No. Still.”

“This is quite fun?”

“…….”

Baek Dong-hwan quietly came over and grabbed a pen.

“When you hold a pen, it feels like you’re holding a stubby pencil.”

“You’re exaggerating too much.”

“???”

I’m serious? I didn’t add any exaggeration.

Siha would think so too?

“Hyung. Look at this.”

“Huh? Let’s see. Is it star-shaped glasses?”

“No. It’s sparkly.”

My eyes were full of stars.

Siha’s hands also had a lot of stars.

The stars are really shining in broad daylight.

“You drew it really well.”

“Siha is wearing glasses and a hat and has sparkles too.”

“That’s right.”

“Hyung has sparkles and a sword in his hand too.”

“That’s right. Huh? A sword?”

Before I knew it, Siha drew a sword in my hand.

Ah, you can’t leave out a sword when doodling.

“Hehehe. Hyung-nim. I added aura around it. It’s Super Saiyan [reference to Dragon Ball Z].”

“Thank you.”

Baek Dong-hwan is already enjoying it.

But expressing the flow of aura around you is also a basic of doodling.

Siha must have thought he couldn’t lose, so he added lightning.

“Hyung. Siha is more amazing. Look. Lightning is coming out of hyung.”

“That’s right.”

What is this even about!

I doodled on one photo and it was a complete mess.

That’s what doodling is like, but…….

“Siha will make Baek Dong hyung cool too!”

“Then I’ll make Siha cool.”

“Siha already drew everything.”

“It’s okay. I can still add more.”

Baek Dong-hwan put a flower on top of the fedora I drew.

It became more ridiculous than cool.

“Not cool.”

“Ahem.”

“Siha will make you cool!”

Siha took the photo and started adding Baek Dong-hwan’s arm like a cloud.

When I finished drawing, it felt like muscles were added.

Only arm muscles.

“All done!”

“Not cool! It’s a monster!”

“Sea squirt is cool.”

“It’s a monster, not a sea squirt. It’s a completely different pronunciation. Siha, did you do that on purpose?”

“Huh?”

Siha makes a face that he doesn’t know anything.

But it’s certain that Siha doesn’t know what a sea squirt is.

It’s a word I didn’t even mention. He’s never heard of it.

So Siha. Let’s be careful with pronunciation.

But when I hear it like that, Baek Dong-hwan’s arm looks like a sea squirt…….

You didn’t really draw it as a sea squirt, did you?

“But there are so many photos, why are we drawing on just one?”

“It just happened while we were doing it?”

“Together with hyung!”

Well, I know what you want to say to each other.

But let’s doodle separately.

“Shall we exhibit our doodles later? It would be fun.”

“This?”

“Siha likes it!”

Baek Dong-hwan has a reluctant face, and Siha raises his right hand with a fist, saying he likes it.

It’s okay. It’s enough if Siha likes it.

Originally, Baek Dong-hwan’s opinion is ignored.

“Then let’s each decorate it in a fun way. Sta~rt!”

We picked up our pens and started decorating quickly.

I took Siha’s photos and drew glasses.

I strangely want to draw glasses.

Siha mainly took photos with the sky in them and went to the other side as if it were a secret and drew pictures.

Baek Dong-hwan is now having fun doodling.

It’s been a long time since I felt like I was back to being a kid like this.

Of course, I was the type to doodle in textbooks sometimes.

“Dong-hwan, where did you doodle when you were young?”

“What about you, hyung-nim?”

“I doodled in textbooks.”

“I did a lot on the windows. By breathing on them.”

“Didn’t you do a lot on the blackboard too?”

“Sometimes I did. I was tall, so I doodled on the top to tease the kids.”

“But if you use a blackboard eraser, you can reach it all, right?”

“That was when I was in elementary school. The kids were small then.”

“You were big since you were young?”

“I was always the biggest.”

I couldn’t ask how big he was.

I didn’t even want to imagine it.

A giant standing tall among those little ones. It’s too scary. Not cute at all!

“I heard I was really cute when I was in elementary school.”

“Don’t lie! You’re lying as soon as you open your mouth.”

“It’s true?”

An unfair expression.

It comes out too often today. Poor guy.

“Um. Okay. I’ll believe you.”

“Was this a story that you had to believe!”

No. When I look at you now, I can’t imagine you being cute in elementary school.

It’s not just me, right?

Scribble scribble.

Before I knew it, we were quietly doodling.

This silence is not uncomfortable.

“All done!”

“Oh. Siha. Are you done?”

“Uh-huh.”

Siha brought three photos.

When I unfolded them, I immediately caught the theme.

Instead of putting pictures on people, he drew pictures on the clouds in the sky.

The first photo is a whale spouting water on its back.

The second photo is a chicken riding on a cloud.

The third photo is Pepe [likely referring to Pepe the Frog meme, though context might suggest a different character].

“Wow. You drew the clouds like this?”

“Cute!”

He drew animals by drawing a few lines.

Honestly, isn’t this a picture that everyone would have thought of at least once?

That cloud looks like this.

That cloud looks like an elephant.

I also had this experience. But I didn’t think of taking a picture and drawing a picture.

I only drew it in my head.

“Siha is really a genius. A genius.”

I can upload this picture drawn by Siha to Pixiv [online community for artists], right?