Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 365

Hyung, Aren’t I Cute? Episode 365 (365/500)

Autumn is said to be the season of farewells, but it feels more like a season of longing.

Perhaps it’s because Director Go Dong-soo’s movie also contains that longing, which makes me feel that way even more.

Sharing thoughts with someone feels like a great opening.

That’s why I think I put in a little more detail when proofreading the first and second volumes of the novel.

The game will be released soon, and the novel will be published, but strangely, there’s no excitement.

I guess the Kyung Trio will take care of the game, and the book is being printed and sold in the United States, so I don’t feel much.

It would be nice if it goes well, but if it doesn’t, there’s nothing I can do.

It feels like buying a lottery ticket. That’s my mindset.

“Siha, you have to go to daycare now.”

“Siha is already ready!”

Siha comes out toddling with her penguin bag.

I want to replace that penguin bag now because she’s used it for so long.

But if I try to throw it away, she definitely won’t let me.

Because there’s still a penguin pajama set in the closet that she can’t wear anymore.

It’s a memory, but farewell is also necessary.

Ah, thinking about it this way, autumn must be the season of farewells.

Now it’s November.

I don’t know how mindlessly I’ve been running.

So, I’m planning to work a little more leisurely in November and December.

I feel like I’ve been working non-stop until October. I’m a little tired.

“Opening the door.”

“Let’s go! Let’s go!”

Siha runs off quickly.

You’d think she’d be used to it by now, but Siha still seems to like the Red Car.

I should get her a very cool red car when she grows up.

“Hyung! There’s sweet red bean jelly.”

“Yeah. There’s a Red Car… Huh? Sweet red bean jelly?!”

When I got to the car, there really was a piece of sweet red bean jelly.

Not only that, but also a white envelope together.

I looked around, but no one was there.

Vroom.

It’s the morning rush hour, so only cars are passing by.

I have no idea where or who left this.

I wondered if I could find out, so I opened the envelope and found crumpled money inside.

300,000 won [approximately $250 USD].

“Hyung. What’s there? A letter?”

“No. There’s money. Six grandmas [slang for 50,000 won bills, as they feature historical female figures].”

“Money?!”

“Yeah. But who put this in here?”

Siha tugged at my pants.

“Hyung. Hyung. Siha knows.”

“Huh? Siha, do you know who left it? Did you see everything?”

“No. Siha doesn’t know. How would Siha know?”

“That’s true.”

You said you knew everything a minute ago! I really thought Siha saw who put this here.

“Teacher said. If you pick it up, you have to give it to the police uncle!”

“Oh? That’s right. That’s right. You learned well.”

“Siha knows everything!”

That’s what you knew!

Our Siha is saying that we have to find the owner of this.

Okay! Siha! Even if we can’t find the owner, let’s go to the police station and find them!

“Let’s go to the police station before going to daycare. Siha, hold this carefully.”

“Okay. Find the police uncle and the criminal.”

“Not the criminal, but the owner.”

“Oops!”

Siha lightly hit her forehead with her hand as if she made a mistake.

Well. The word ‘criminal’ is usually a set with ‘police’. It’s not Siha’s fault.

Anyway, today we’re going to the police station first, not daycare.

“Hyung. Beep beep many.”

“Yeah. There are many.”

Calling a police car ‘beep beep’. Isn’t the name too cute?

When we went inside, the police looked at us with questioning eyes.

“What brings you here?”

Siha said to that.

“Police uncle. Do police uncles blow ‘hoo’? Do you drink a lot of alcohol? Get out. Do you do it?”

“Huh? Uh-huh. Well, I do that sometimes.”

It seems Siha remembered the ‘Ghost Detective’ movie she saw before.

The police told him to blow ‘hoo’ [slang for breathalyzer test] at that time. Of course.

As expected, Siha’s memory is not to be underestimated.

“Then police uncle. Do you catch criminals too? Ghosts too?”

“Huh? I catch criminals, but I can’t catch ghosts. What should I do?”

“What should we really do! What if ghosts tease people! It’s a big deal!”

“Huh? That’s right. Really. Hahaha.”

I poked Siha’s shoulder.

“Siha. That’s not what we came here to talk about.”

“Oops!”

Siha hits her forehead.

It seems she forgot because she was filling her curiosity. That can happen.

She hands the white envelope and sweet red bean jelly to the police officer.

“What is this?”

“This was in Siha’s car. Red car. But someone left it ‘kkamppang’ [a child’s mispronunciation of ‘kkamppak’, meaning ‘suddenly’].”

“Not ‘kkamppang’, but ‘kkamppak’.”

“Kkamppang.”

“If it’s ‘kkamppang’ [which actually means ‘jail’], it’s a big deal.”

The police laughed in disbelief.

I’m used to Siha’s pronunciation now, so I laugh along with her.

“Actually, a white envelope and sweet red bean jelly were placed on the front window of my car. There was money in it, but there’s no one who would give us something like that. Anyway, I don’t know what it is, so Siha came to the police station to give it to you.”

“Ah! I see. I thought you gave me a letter and sweet red bean jelly to thank me for my hard work.”

“Ahaha. You might be mistaken.”

Siha said to the police.

“Police uncle. You have to find the criminal and give it back. For sure.”

“Um, not the criminal, but the owner.”

“Oops! Siha said criminal again!”

“Pfft. Okay. This police uncle will definitely find the criminal for you. No! I’ll find the owner.”

Siha kept saying ‘criminal’, so even the police made a mistake.

He chuckled as if he found it funny that he misspoke.

He looked at me and said.

“Ah! Do you have a car black box [dashcam]?”

“Yes. I do.”

“Ah, then could you give it to me? I think the face of the person who left it might be on it.”

“Ah, but I have to take Siha to daycare now. Can I drop her off and come back?”

“Then do that.”

“Yes. Then I’ll see you later.”

“Police uncle. Bye-bye. Find it for sure.”

The police nodded and waved his hand, saying he would.

I should drop Siha off and check the black box.

Ah, I should call and say I might be late for work.

It won’t take that long because I just need to drop Siha off and check the black box again.

Just in case.

***

Siha arrived at daycare later than usual.

Seung-jun was curious about that and asked.

“Siha, why are you late today?”

“Siha picked up money and sweet red bean jelly. So, I gave it all to the police uncle.”

“Wow! Did you see the police car?”

“I saw ‘beep beep’. It was cool.”

“What about the picture?”

“!!! Siha couldn’t take a picture.”

“Let’s take a picture with the police car together next time. And the police motorcycle is cool too, so let’s take a picture with that too.”

“Siha didn’t see the police motorcycle.”

“Let’s see it together next time.”

The boys stealthily gathered around Siha and Seung-jun, talking about police cars and police motorcycles.

Jong-soo boasted.

“It was Police Day last month, and I wrote a letter and gave it to them! I took a lot of pictures too. How is it? Are you jealous!”

“What is Police Day? Is it the police’s birthday?”

“It’s a day to say ‘Thank you, police officers!’ Don’t you know that? Police officers patrol every night.”

“Siha knows. They say ‘hoo’. They do it.”

“Oh? They do that too.”

Jae-hui trembled.

“I’m scared of police officers.”

“What’s there to be scared of?”

“Just in case they say ‘You’re a criminal!’ and come to catch me.”

“Mom said they won’t arrest you if you don’t do bad things. She said they protect us.”

“Still scary.”

There are definitely children who are scared, as well as children who like them.

It couldn’t be helped.

The teacher heard that and came over.

“Then shall we play cops and robbers today?!”

“???”

“Ah… You don’t do that these days. Everyone did it when I was young!”

“???”

“It’s like hide-and-seek. One team is the police and one team is the robbers.”

“!!!”

The children’s eyes sparkled as if it looked fun.

The teacher also liked playing these active games.

At this chilly time. Move your body, lose stamina, and use your head.

One stone, three birds! It’s a very profitable game.

“Then I’ll explain the rules I thought of!”

4 police officers, 4 robbers.

Captured robbers can go to the police station, and robbers can save their captured comrades.

The way to save them is to find the key to the handcuffs.

One person can be released per key.

And if you find all the treasures and put them in the robbers’ hideout, you win.

The police are simple. If you catch all the robbers, you win.

It’s against the rules to keep waiting in front of the hideout. You have to go somewhere else after 3 minutes.

It’s also against the rules to guard in front of the treasure.

However, it is possible to guard the prison.

“…Those are the rules. Is it too difficult? You’ll get a feel for it once you try it! Let’s go outside!”

The teacher brought out a lot of hula hoops.

The place is a large yard in the daycare center.

There is also a playground.

She threw four hula hoops around.

“This is the robbers’ hideout.”

Then she threw the hula hoops away from the robbers’ hideout.

“This is the police station! Where the prison is.”

Just in case, she warned.

Don’t go up to the slide.

It’s a rule to prevent you from falling and getting hurt.

“Okay, then who wants to be the robbers and the police? Shall we decide?”

Everyone was talking about the police, so they wanted to be the police.

But not everyone can be the police!

“We’ll switch after this is over. So, who wants to be the robbers amicably!”

“Siha will be the robber!”

“Okay. Let’s be robbers, Siha.”

Seung-jun, who always follows Siha, also decided to be a robber.

Naturally, Yeon-ju follows if Hana goes to be on the same team as her brother.

As expected, the Siha team became the robbers.

The Jong-soo team was decided to be the police.

“Then I’ll put the treasure here.”

The teacher threw a hula hoop and put the treasure inside.

“Teacher. Is that a treasure?”

“Yes. It’s a treasure.”

“It’s a Jenga block?”

“Actually, this is a magic stone.”

“Magic Stone? Siha knows magic! Magic pants!”

“No. That magic is right, but. Anyway! You can use magic if you have this magic stone! So, it’s a treasure.”

“!!!”

It was originally up to the setting.

Props are up to recycling.

The teacher threw the hula hoop on the opposite side of the treasure.

And.

“There’s a key here!”

“Teacher. Is that a pirate roulette knife?”

“Yes. This is the handcuff key!”

“!!!”

Originally, props are up to how you use them.

Anyway, now the teacher has everyone located at the vertices of the diamond.

Police station, hideout, key, treasure.

They are facing each other.

If you arrange it like this, the police and robbers have no choice but to spread out to the sides.

“Then I’ll give you time to strategize. Everyone go to the police station and hideout and make a plan. We’ll start in 5 minutes.”

“Yes!”

I don’t know if the children will make a plan, but anyway, it started like this.

First of all, the brain of the Jong-soo team was Jong-soo.

“I’ve been thinking, let’s have three people go to the treasure side.”

“Why?”

“Of course, the treasure is the most important. It’s okay to take a few. Just protect the remaining treasure.”

“I see.”

“And let’s have the fastest person go to the key side. So you can catch them quickly.”

Jong-soo sends the fastest commando instead of reducing the number.

It was a great judgment.

“Let’s catch the slowest Hana first. Then Siha. Seung-jun is fast, so it can’t be helped. I can’t catch him.”

“That’s right.”

“So, let’s catch everyone except Seung-jun first. Got it?”

“Got it!”

“Haha. Oh Seung-jun can’t do anything alone.”

He gives up on catching Oh Seung-jun, who has the best athletic ability there, first.

Instead, he isolates him.

Jong-soo made the best plan based on his past experiences.

Proof that the past battles were not meaningless.

Today’s Jong-soo was shining.

“Then let’s fight!”

“Yes!”

While Jong-soo was determined, the Siha team was also making a plan.

Yeon-ju is the brain here, but Siha is the leader, so she waited for her to speak.

“Siha. What should we do?”

“Everyone lose right away!”

“Huh?”

“And let’s be the police right away!”

“!!!”

Four-year-old Lee Siha. She said she would be a robber at first, but she wanted to be a police officer quickly.

There was no strategy or anything.