Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 354

Hyung, Aren’t I Cute? 354

The next day.

Siha bragged about the movie he watched yesterday at daycare.

“A horror movie! A scary movie! A ghost movie!”

This was a badge of honor to brag about.

“Siha wasn’t scared at all! So I watched it all! Hyung was having fun too!”

Actually, Siha was scared that his car might turn out like that, but that memory had already flown far away.

Seungjun and Hana clapped, saying he was amazing.

“Siha is awesome!”

“Wow! Siha is cool!”

Siha puffed out his chest, showing off.

It felt like he had cleared the final boss in a video game.

Seungjun said.

“I want to watch a scary movie too.”

“Me too. Me too.”

“Siha will show you ghost cartoons later. Hyung said he’ll show me one every day.”

He was actually showing them because there was an animation.

Seungjun and Hana asked what kind of cartoon it was.

“Ghost Detective!”

It was a popular cartoon among kindergarteners and lower elementary school students these days.

It evokes laughter from children with its mysterious and unique problem-solving.

“Wow. Ghost Detective? I haven’t seen it, I should watch it too.”

“Oppa [Korean term for older brother, used by females]. Let’s watch it together with Hana. Hana is scared to watch it alone.”

“Oh, you. What’s so scary about that? Okay. Let’s watch it together. You have to hold Oppa’s hand tightly.”

“Okay.”

It was Seungjun acting like an older brother for the first time in a while.

Yeonju wasn’t very interested in cartoons. These days, she was more interested in dramas or movies.

She often pestered her mom to watch them together, so she was dissatisfied.

Because she couldn’t watch what she wanted by herself.

“I really want to watch a horror movie. I want to see how everyone acts.”

“Siha heard you. That’s only for adults to watch.”

“Yeah, but I want to watch it too.”

“They say you can get hurt because it’s really scary.”

Then Jaehwi said, shivering.

“It’s really scary, but if Yeonju wants to watch it, I’ll watch it with you. But ghosts might catch us.”

“That can’t be true.”

“No, ghosts exist. Th-that’s why, Yeonju. You shouldn’t watch it alone.”

Because Jaehwi was trembling and talking, Yeonju felt like there might really be ghosts.

Then Jongsu stepped in.

“Ghosts might exist. There are actually people who catch ghosts. We just can’t see them.”

“See! Scary!”

Jongsu made Jaehwi even more scared.

Smart Jongsu believed in ghosts.

Because.

“I saw a ghost when I was little too. I woke up from sleep and couldn’t see Mom and Dad, but suddenly there were white clothes swishing, so I was so scared that I went into the blanket. It’s a ghost. A ghost.”

Jongsu doesn’t know, but that was Mom just hanging white laundry on the drying rack.

In short, Jongsu was mistaken in his sleep.

But it was a truly scary story for the children.

Ghost stories. Something you can’t miss in the summer.

“S-scary.”

Jaehwi sat crouched, covering his head.

Yeonju patted Jaehwi next to him, calming him down.

“Hey. Lee Siha. Have you seen a ghost?!”

“Ghost?! Ghost~ Ghost~”

Siha imitated a ghost with his arms raised and his hands drooping.

It wasn’t scary, just cute.

“Hey. Don’t imitate, have you seen a ghost or not.”

“Can’t see ghost. Why can’t I see it? Ah! Siha has Hyung [Korean term for older brother, used by males], so Hyung scolds them all away, so I can’t see them. Hyung is cool!”

“???”

Why does the conclusion jump there?

Jongsu couldn’t understand for a moment and tilted his head.

Anyway, Siha hasn’t seen a ghost.

But saying it like that made it feel like not seeing a ghost wasn’t something to be proud of.

Because it sounded like he was more proud of not seeing it thanks to Si혁 Hyung.

Jongsu felt like he had lost again.

“Hmph! He hasn’t even seen a ghost.”

He could only say that.

“Alright, everyone! Are we telling ghost stories?”

The teacher, who had been listening quietly, stepped in.

You can’t miss this kind of opportunity. You have to play as much as you can when you’re interested.

“The teacher likes ghost stories too. Should I tell you a scary one?”

“No!”

“Then shall we play ghost games?”

“Ghost games?”

“Yes! Ghost games! Each of you makes the ghost you want to make. Um. The teacher made this kind of ghost.”

The teacher took out a sketchbook.

She also made it to show the children as an example.

A karaoke room was drawn.

“It’s a karaoke ghost.”

“!!!”

“Everyone has been to karaoke at least once. Now, look. The children are singing here for 1 hour.”

She turned the sketchbook over.

“But oh my goodness! 30 minutes have been added! They sing again to use up all the time.”

“But oh my goodness! 20 minutes have been added!”

“They can’t stop singing again.”

“They make the children sing until they are exhausted and their throats are hoarse. But the karaoke time is still not over. You can sing more.”

“The children are so tired that they tell each other to go.”

“They opened the door and went to the boss.”

The boss appears in the sketchbook.

“They said, ‘Thank you for giving us so much time, boss.'”

“But the boss makes a puzzled expression and says this.”

“I didn’t give you any service?”

“Goosebumps! That’s right. The karaoke ghost gave the service! It was a ghost that made the children exhausted and hoarse!”

The children’s eyes widened.

There’s such a scary ghost!

The teacher finished the story here.

“Yes. If you make a ghost like this and say how to defeat it, you win! That’s the ghost game.”

Jongsu raised his hand.

“Yes, Jongsu.”

“Then how did you defeat the karaoke ghost?”

“Are you curious about the next story? Is everyone curious?”

“Yes!”

The teacher thought it would be good to show an example again and nodded.

The story wasn’t over yet.

“Then I’ll tell you the next story.”

She opened the sketchbook.

The children are looking at the karaoke machine with very villainous smiles.

“I’ve come up with a way to defeat this ghost!”

“What is it?”

“It’s to change the karaoke machine to a coin karaoke machine!”

“!!!”

“That doesn’t record time, it records coins, so it can’t give time!”

Turning to the next page, there was a picture of the karaoke machine screen changed from time to coins.

3 coins per song. 9 coins are also written if you put in 1000 won [Korean currency].

“That way, the ghost couldn’t give extra time and disappeared!”

“Wow!”

The teacher was embarrassed by the children’s reaction.

Isn’t it really a trivial story?

“Then shall we all start the ghost game? First, make a ghost!”

That’s how ghost making began.

***

Unexpectedly, the children were seriously thinking about making ghosts.

They were working hard to figure out what kind of ghost to make.

Seungjun drew a circle first.

Jongsu, who saw it, said.

“Seungjun. Are you going to draw a soccer ball again!”

“No, I’m not! I’m not!”

Seungjun was taken aback and raised his voice instead.

He was completely caught. He was going to draw a soccer ball comfortably, but he had no choice but to draw a different ghost.

He draws eyes, nose, and mouth, and draws a square below it.

“Huh? What is that?”

“I’m not going to tell you in advance.”

Seungjun turns his head away.

Jongsu leaves as if he can’t help it.

In fact, he was exploring. What his friends were drawing.

“Hey. Lee Siha. What are you drawing?”

“Siha is drawing Pepe.”

“Pepe again?! Now it’s a Pepe ghost.”

“Siha likes Pepe.”

“I see.”

Alright! If it’s a Pepe ghost, it won’t be a big deal.

Thinking that, Jongsu fell into 고민 [Korean word for ‘worry’ or ‘trouble’] to devise a more amazing ghost than Pepe.

He thought that making such a ghost was an opportunity to show off his intelligence.

He imagines the children praising him, saying, “Jongsu, you’re amazing!”

“Haha.”

A smile flowed from Jongsu’s mouth.

Jaehwi, who was next to him, was startled by Jongsu suddenly laughing alone and muttered.

“Su, surely Jongsu is possessed by a ghost?!”

He trembled and poked Jongsu’s cheek to check.

In horror movies, there is always a character who checks if there is a ghost, and that was Jaehwi.

The person who dies first.

“Wah! Wh, what is it?!”

“Aah!”

Jongsu and Jaehwi were surprised at each other.

Jaehwi gasped, his heart pounding.

“Is it Jongsu?”

“Huh? Uh. Of course, it’s Jongsu. Jaehwi. Why did you suddenly poke my cheek?”

“I was trying to check if a ghost had entered Jongsu’s body.”

“Hey! I won’t lose to a ghost!”

“Th, that’s right? It’s Jongsu, right?”

“I told you it is!”

Jaehwi stroked his chest.

Yeonju was staring at that action, and Jaehwi flinched as if he noticed the gaze.

“Ye, Yeonju. If a ghost enters my body, I’ll protect you.”

“Okay. Thank you, Jaehwi.”

But in horror movies, only those kinds of female characters survive in the end.

If it were a horror movie, Yeonju would probably survive.

“Puhaha. A ghost entered my body! Then does it come out of my butt? Puhaha!”

“Are you going to draw a rapper ghost?”

“Puhaha rapper ghost! Puhaha.”

“That means you’re going to draw it.”

Eunwoo was still lost in his own world, and Yundong interpreted those words very well.

“Yundong, what are you going to draw?”

“Toilet ghost.”

“Puhaha. Toilet ghost! Huh? Not a dance ghost?”

“It’s a toilet ghost.”

“!!!”

That’s how the children decided on their own ghosts and started drawing hard.

They spent time diligently adding settings to the ghosts according to their own ideas.

That’s how the presentation time approached.

“Alright! Then shall we defeat the ghosts today! Ah! Defeating means defeating the ghosts.”

“Yes!”

“Now, who will send out the amazing ghost first!”

Unexpectedly, Yundong raised his hand first.

He usually raises his hand in the middle after watching the children do a little, but today was unusual.

“Oh! Yundong. You must have something you want to present quickly today?!”

“Yes.”

“Then introduce the ghost to your friends.”

Yundong showed his sketchbook.

There was a square and a circle below it.

There is also a ‘ㄴ’ [Korean letter similar to a backwards ‘L’] shaped figure that penetrates the circle.

I have no idea what that is.

The teacher always thought that Yundong drew very difficult pictures.

“What kind of picture is that?”

“This is a toilet ghost. He’s working hard to poop, but there’s no toilet paper. It’s a prank by the toilet ghost. He gets rid of the toilet paper.”

“That’s a terribly scary ghost.”

Will you give me red toilet paper? Will you give me blue toilet paper? It wasn’t that kind of toilet ghost.

“Mom always scolds Dad for not putting the toilet paper in after using it all.”

“Isn’t that unnecessary information?”

“No. That’s what the ghost is aiming for.”

“You’re aiming that far?!”

The children’s reactions were also quite positive.

Siha said, ‘Big deal! There’s no toilet paper! Scary!’

Seungjun said, ‘Eek! My dad gets scolded like that too!’

Hana agrees, saying, ‘Hana saw it too!’

Yeonju tells her experience, saying, ‘If there’s no toilet paper, you have to call Mom.’

Jongsu praises, saying, ‘Yundong is pretty good. It’s an amazing ghost.’

Jaehwi trembles, saying, ‘That’s too much.’

Eunwoo likes it, saying, ‘Puhaha! What is that! You can’t wipe your butt!’

“It’s an amazing ghost. It’s amazing!”

The teacher praised him first. It was a ghost that sniped at the tastes of children who like poop and farts.

Yundong was confident enough to come out and raise his hand first.

“Then how can we defeat this ghost?”

The problem is that we have to defeat this.

The children fell into 고민 [Korean word for ‘worry’ or ‘trouble’]. It was a very difficult problem.

Seungjun said.

“Then put a lot of toilet paper in the toilet!”

“It’s a ghost that takes all the toilet paper?”

“Huh? He’s very greedy. He takes all that much.”

The ghost became greedy in an instant.

Jongsu was also groaning because he couldn’t think of anything in particular.

Then Siha sang a song.

“Not ddakji [Korean game similar to tazos], but siseoyo [Korean word for ‘wash’]. Lululu~ lala~ Not ddakji, but siseoyo. Lululu~ lala~”

All the children looked at Siha.

“That’s it!!!”

“Huh?”

Siha was surprised.

It was a song he sang because he thought of the toilet when he thought of the toilet.

Jongsu shouted.

“If you wash with water, you don’t need toilet paper! Defeat it like that!”

It was the moment when Siha’s song became the answer.

Siha didn’t know what it was and just looked around.