Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 367

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” 367

Now, they switched roles between police and thieves.

The difference from before was that both sides had lost a lot of stamina.

Especially Seung-joon, who seemed to have run around a lot, couldn’t unleash the same explosive speed as before.

Yeon-ju said.

“If we catch them, let’s not forget to snatch the keys from their pockets. Got it?”

“Yeah!”

“We win by protecting the treasure as much as possible.”

“Yeah!”

The police’s strategy was simple.

Having already done it once, they vowed not to repeat the mistakes Jong-soo’s team had made.

Jong-soo’s team also decided to use Si-ha’s team’s strategy as is.

Get the key first.

Treasure was important, but the key was essential to carry out various strategies.

“Listen up, everyone. We’ll get a key first and then steal the treasure. This time, we’re definitely going to win. We can win.”

“That’s right! We can win!”

“Puhaha. Win! Puhaha.”

“Yeah.”

With that strategy, the game began.

Four people acquired keys.

Yeon-ju and Hana blocked Jong-soo’s team from heading towards the treasure, but they inevitably had to let them go.

It was unavoidable due to the difference in physical abilities.

Especially Hana, who was a liability even without expending much stamina.

The kids slipped away easily.

“Hing!”

“Hana, don’t worry. Oppa [older brother/male friend] caught Jae-hwi. Now, guard the police station.”

“Yeah!”

Jae-hwi sighs, ‘Why, only me…….’

If Jong-soo’s team had a weak link, it was Jae-hwi.

With each other’s weak links out of the way, they face off once again.

The treasure to protect is now two.

Jong-soo couldn’t hide his excitement. Because the number of treasures left to win against Si-ha’s team was not much.

“I’ll quickly save Jae-hwi. You two steal the treasure. If I’m fast enough, the four of us can run to steal the treasure.”

If Si-ha’s team had abandoned Hana last time, this time Jong-soo’s team’s strategy was to save Jae-hwi.

Because they knew it was advantageous to have as many people running around as possible.

“Then let’s go.”

They escaped from the hideout and ran according to the plan.

Jong-soo also ran quickly towards Hana with the key.

Hana was flustered and tried to catch them.

The moment she showed an opening, Jong-soo would hand the key to Jae-hwi and take him away.

But Hana’s savior appears.

It was Si-ha.

“Jong-soo! I found you!”

“Ah! Hey. Lee Si-ha. Why are you here instead of going over there!”

“Jong-soo and Si-ha played together earlier. So Si-ha wants to play with Jong-soo too.”

“Tsk!”

As Jong-soo moves around, Si-ha follows.

Inevitably, he gives up and runs towards the treasure.

Si-ha follows, but Jong-soo suddenly turns and changes direction towards Jae-hwi.

Passing by Hana, the operation to hand over the key is a success.

“Jae-hwi, let’s go!”

“Yeah!”

They run away in an instant.

Hana reaches out her arm, but it was no use.

“Hahaha!”

Jong-soo’s mood was as if he was flying in the sky, having succeeded in the operation.

“Yoon-dong caught one treasure. If we catch one more treasure, we win!”

“Yeah!”

Seung-joon is trying to stop Yoon-dong somehow.

Jong-soo decided to use the same strategy Si-ha used earlier.

Get caught by Seung-joon!

Now, Eun-woo just needs to do well. Then we win.

“Puhaha. I’m caught. Puhaha!”

But the world doesn’t go as planned.

Eun-woo got caught by Si-ha and Yeon-ju.

There is one treasure left, but now the situation is unpredictable.

The surviving members of Jong-soo’s team are Yoon-dong and Jae-hwi.

The person guarding the prison is one person. Si-ha.

“Si-ha, there are two people, so you have to guard well. Got it?”

“Okay.”

Seung-joon leaves, earnestly asking.

Since there are now two people in the prison, Si-ha decided to guard instead of one.

In terms of power, it’s a somewhat even situation.

“Hey. Lee Si-ha. We’re going to win this time.”

“No. Si-ha wins. Si-ha is a police officer.”

“Do you think being a police officer means you always win?”

As he said that, the children started running around.

Jong-soo thought he had to distract Si-ha.

“You. You. If Seung-joon was on our team, we would have lost. It’s because Si-ha is on your team that we’re somewhat evenly matched.”

“Seung-joon doesn’t go to Jong-soo’s team. Seung-joon likes Si-ha more than Jong-soo.”

“Huh? That’s not true. Hey! How do you know that? He might like me more. I’ve competed with him a lot.”

“Seung-joon and Si-ha greet each other a lot. It’s fun. But Seung-joon only waves his hand when he greets Jong-soo.”

Si-ha stuck out his belly with a look that said, “Aren’t you jealous?”

Jong-soo was dumbfounded.

What is that expression? Huh? I’m not jealous at all?!

At that moment, Jae-hwi runs up behind Si-ha with a grin.

If this continues, both of them can be released.

He had to make Si-ha look this way a little more.

“I’m very close with Jae-hwi!”

“That’s right. I’m with Jong-soo every day. Amazing!”

“Oh? Oh, that’s right. Aren’t you jealous?”

“Si-ha has a hyung [older brother/male friend]. Hyung is cool. Envious?”

“Hey! I asked first!”

“Si-ha is okay because he has a hyung. Not envious!”

“Are you always okay because you have a hyung!”

“Because hyung is cool. That’s why Si-ha is cool too.”

“What are you talking about. That!”

In that moment when the conversation wasn’t connecting.

Jae-hwi arrived and handed over the keys.

Two of them!

Eun-woo received one and handed one to Jong-soo.

And quickly ran out of the prison.

“Ehehe. I’m going!”

Suddenly.

“Huh?”

But Si-ha was faster.

Jong-soo was caught right away.

“Today, hyung [older brother/male friend] went to return the money he found to the police officer right away. He was even cooler because he zoomed in with the car. He went to the police station first instead of daycare. Returning the owner was more important.”

“Hey! That’s not it!”

Turns out, he didn’t catch him because he was released with the key, but because he was talking about his hyung and wondered where he was going, so he grabbed him. It was an amazing instantaneous force.

It was absurd.

He doesn’t usually show this kind of instantaneous force.

“Ah? Jong-soo. Do you have a key?”

“Huh?”

“Si-ha will take it.”

“Ah, no!”

In the end, only Jong-soo couldn’t escape, and only Eun-woo got out.

With that, the police side became a little more disadvantaged.

The game continued like that.

Yoon-dong handed the treasure to Eun-woo and got caught by Seung-joon.

Eun-woo leisurely returned to the hideout and collected all the treasures.

“Awesome! We won!”

Jong-soo watched that and shouted cheers.

“Awesome! Now let me go.”

“No way. Eun-woo and Jae-hwi have the treasure. Jong-soo is caught in the police station.”

“Oh? That’s right?”

“And Si-ha isn’t done talking. Hyung said I did well today. I brought the sweet jelly and money to the police station.”

“Hey! That’s what you were talking about earlier!”

“Hyung told Kang-i that if the professor says something important, he has to say it twice. So Si-ha says it twice too.”

“Hey! You’re saying it for the third time!”

“But Si-ha likes three times!”

“Hey!”

Jong-soo couldn’t high-five with his thief teammates even though he wanted to.

He didn’t know why he got caught up with Si-ha even though he won.

***

After checking the black box video file at the police station, it turned out that the sweet red bean jelly and the white envelope were left by a grandmother.

They didn’t know which neighborhood the grandmother lived in, so the police were asking around the nearby residents.

They said they would contact me if they found her.

I went to work at the company like that, and I got a call around the afternoon.

「Ah! We found that grandmother. She lives nearby.」

“Ah, really?”

「Yes. I’m on my way back after meeting her and delivering it.」

“But it seems like she just put it down for a moment and forgot. Thank you for finding what she forgot.”

「That’s…….」

The police seemed to be in trouble.

After hesitating for a moment, he opened his mouth.

「It wasn’t that she put it down and forgot.」

“Yes?”

「The grandmother’s daughter drives a red car, and she gave it to her granddaughter as a token of appreciation.」

“Ah! She must have mistaken the car.”

「Well, you could say that. Actually, the grandmother has early-stage dementia, so she goes back and forth.」

“Ah…….”

「Yes. Her daughter is married, but she doesn’t drive a red car. She drives a white sedan.」

I felt sorry for her because of those circumstances.

I don’t know what to say to Si-ha when I bring this news.

Should I just say that I found the owner, or should I say that the grandmother is losing her memory?

I don’t know how to say it in these situations.

As time passed, I went to pick up Si-ha.

“Si-ha!”

“Hyung [older brother/male friend]!”

“Yeah. Si-ha. Did you have fun today too?”

“I played cops and robbers today. It was so much fun.”

“Yeah. You played cops and robbers?”

“Si-ha won when he was a thief. But he lost when he was a police officer.”

“It’s 1 to 1?”

“I’ll do better next time.”

“Yeah. Let’s do better next time.”

I picked up Si-ha.

I left the daycare like that and put him in the car.

Si-ha asks.

“Hyung. Did you find the owner?”

“Oh? Yeah. I found the owner. The owner is a grandmother.”

“Really? Did Grandma forget to bring it because she was going to eat a snack?”

“Um. No. Actually, she was going to give it to her daughter. But she was supposed to give it to another red car instead of our car.”

“Red car! Does Grandma’s daughter like the same car as Si-ha?”

“She likes white cars now.”

“!!!”

Si-ha makes a face as if he’s been betrayed.

What’s with that face? Well, she might like white cars.

“But didn’t Grandma see the number? It says Si-ha’s car. There’s a number.”

“Yeah. There’s a license plate number.”

I’m thinking a lot.

I don’t know how to say it. I’ve never been educated on this, so I don’t know what to say.

“Grandma was sick. So she put it here.”

“Is Grandma very sick? She has to go to the hospital.”

“Yeah. That’s right. But it’s no use going to the hospital.”

“Why?”

“Grandma came from the past.”

“The past?”

“Yeah. So Grandma doesn’t know that her daughter is an adult. She doesn’t know she’s an adult. That’s what she said.”

“Did Grandma come to the future like Si-ha? Is this the future for Grandma?”

“Yeah. Grandma came from the past.”

“That’s a big problem. She has to go back to the past quickly. Si-ha went back because Hyung was worried. Let’s tell Grandma. Hyung. Her daughter is worried.”

“Yeah. I guess so.”

The police found someone, but the person the grandmother wants can’t be found here.

The daughter in the past has already become an older adult.

“Si-ha knows how to go back.”

“Huh?”

“If you cover yourself with a Pepe blanket, you can!”

“Huh?”

“If you use it like this and cover yourself, you can. Should Si-ha draw a picture and give it as a gift?”

“That’s a good idea?”

I don’t know her, but Si-ha’s heart is so beautiful that it would be nice to give her a gift.

I don’t want to oppose this.

I secretly searched for blanket production, and it wasn’t that expensive.

They also took orders for more than one piece and cost about 20,000 won per piece [approximately $15 USD].

“What are you going to draw?”

“Si-ha has thought of everything. It’s a picture of going back. Going back.”

“What is that?”

“Going back Pepe!”

Isn’t that an image only you know?

Well, I’ll find out later with the picture Si-ha draws.

Since we’re doing it anyway, it wouldn’t be bad to make one for Si-ha too.

“We’re here.”

As soon as he arrived home, Si-ha ran quickly.

I grabbed his neck and dragged him to the bathroom.

Because you have to wash your hands first when you come back.

This small action is a way to prevent disease.

“Now Si-ha draws a picture!”

“Yeah. Draw as much as you want.”

Si-ha starts drawing Pepe on the pad.

He was holding a circle in his hand.

“Is it a hula hoop?”

“That’s right! Hyung knows everything! Amazing!”

“Haha.”

But it’s not just a hula hoop.

The shape of a keyhole is engraved in the middle of the circle.

It seems that this hula hoop is a door that can go back to the original world.

“Aren’t you drawing a key?”

“No. I’m drawing it. There’s a key in my hand here.”

It seems that he will give the key to the hand on the opposite side of the hand holding the hula hoop.

A big key.

It is golden overall, but he gave a point by drawing two red lines on the key.

There was also a key ring, which consisted of three star shapes.

Does it mean that the stars grant wishes?

He’s going back to the past with the power of the stars.

Let’s ask him once. What is Si-ha’s intention?

“Are you going back to the past with the power of the stars? Sparkling?”

“No.”

“Huh? No?”

“Hyung said it. You have to say important things twice.”

“Yeah. I said that.”

“And you have to draw two lines with a red pen and draw three stars. The key is important.”

“!!!”

Ah, so. The reason why he put two red lines on the key and three stars on the key ring is because it’s important?!

Not going to the past with the power of the stars?!

Well, it’s not wrong.

You have to draw two underlines with a red pen and draw 3 stars. Because it’s important. Yes! Si-ha is a genius!

And the key is important to make him go to the past!

Who am I making excuses to?

Anyway, that was it.