Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 373

Hyung, am I cute? Episode 373

Just as Si-hyuk had announced his move, Si-ha also announced his move from daycare.

Looking at Seung-joon.

“Si-ha hyung moved house!”

“Really?!”

“It’s super big!”

“Then we can go there for a new hide-and-seek place, so we should go sometime.”

“Seung-joon, come over to play.”

“Hana too! Hana too!”

“Hana is a set with Seung-joon, so you can come together.”

“Ew! Hana is not a set with oppa [older brother]!”

Hana made a disgusted face.

Seung-joon got angry.

“Hey! What’s wrong with me! You and I are twins!”

“But oppa and Hana are too different. Oppa always runs off somewhere first.”

“You run after me too.”

“Hana follows you because she’s worried you might be in danger.”

While the two were bickering, Si-ha said.

“Si-ha is having a housewarming with hyung [older brother/male friend]. Housewarming.”

Seung-joon and Hana turned their heads quickly.

They ask what a housewarming is.

Yeon-ju, who was next to them, answers.

“A housewarming is when you eat together to celebrate moving.”

“Seung-joon, it’s a party. A party.”

Si-ha added, and Seung-joon was excited to go too.

Hana too.

Yeon-ju was also slightly interested because the other kids were going.

“Then will you come to Si-ha’s housewarming?”

“I’ll go! I’ll go!”

“Hana too. Hana too.”

“If Hana goes, I’ll go too.”

Somehow, everyone was concluding that they would go to Si-ha’s housewarming.

Jong-soo’s family was also showing interest.

“Hey, Lee Si-ha! I heard you moved!”

“How did Jong-soo know? Jong-soo is smart!”

“I can hear everything when you talk so loudly next to me! That’s not it. Well, I might go if you invite me.”

“No. Si-ha didn’t invite you.”

“Hey!”

Lee Si-ha immediately blocked him, saying he wasn’t invited.

Si-ha didn’t know what he did wrong and just tilted his head.

Jae-hui fidgeted with his fingers behind Jong-soo.

“Then can I go?”

“It’s okay.”

“Hey! Lee Si-ha! What about me!”

“Si-ha hasn’t invited Jong-soo yet.”

“I’m going too!”

“Then Jong-soo can come too. Jong-soo has to bring three packs of tissues.”

“Why me!”

“Ah? Because you’re Jong-soo?”

“What does that mean!”

Yoon-dong and Eun-woo also wanted to come, so Si-ha told them all to come.

Without getting hyung’s permission.

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“So you told your friends to come to the housewarming?”

“Can’t I?”

“It’s not that you can’t. Should we have two housewarmings? I don’t think there will be enough space.”

“Three times?!”

“Three times is too much. Maybe. How about we have one with hyung’s friends first and then another one with the daycare friends the next day?”

Even though we moved, it’s not like it’s a 100-pyeong [approximately 3,558 square feet] house, so if that many people come, there won’t be enough space and it will burst.

And I also had the thought, ‘Surely not everyone will come?’

Surely the moms aren’t coming too, right? I hope the daycare teachers escort them well.

You can think of it as Si-ha inviting his friends to play at his house. Not a housewarming.

Yeah! That’s fine. Anyway, Hana and Seung-joon have come to play at the old house before, so it’s familiar.

“Si-ha is happy. Si-ha and his friends, together with hyung, all together, having fun!”

“Can you leave hyung out?”

“No way. Hyung is the most important. Three stars. Three stars.”

“You still remember that. Hahaha.”

First, I need to talk to the teacher and see if they’re really coming.

For food, I should order things that kids like, like chicken and pizza.

That’s it.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

“Excited. Excited.”

“Yeah. I’m excited. Hahaha.”

I don’t know why everyone is so serious about the housewarming.

Well, it’s good to see them like this.

And so, the day of the housewarming arrived.

“Hello! I’m Baek Dong-hwan! Si-hyuk hyung’s uncle! Nice to meet you!”

Baek Dong-hwan greets uncle.

Uncle was wary because of his large build.

He accepted the greeting and whispered to me.

“Si-hyuk.”

“Yes?”

“You don’t have any friends from special forces or anything like that, do you?”

“I’m a voice actor.”

“With that body? Really? Someone who looks like they could strangle a wild boar in the mountains? Really? You’re not a martial arts fighter, are you?”

“Hahaha. No, I’m not.”

“Really? No lies?”

“Really. I’m really a voice actor.”

Uncle seemed suspicious of Baek Dong-hwan.

Well, it’s understandable. Who would think Baek Dong-hwan is a voice actor? No one would.

Doesn’t a voice actor usually have an image?

A voice that sounds familiar or a good voice.

He looks like someone who’s been working out. Well.

“Hahaha. I became a voice actor last year and I’m still working hard. I have quite a few things that my voice is in. Would you like to see them!”

He friendly pulled uncle to the sofa.

Si-ha was also curious and said, ‘Baek Dong hyung! Baek Dong hyung! Me too!’ and sat down next to them.

The three of them were huddled together looking at the small smartphone.

It looked even smaller in Baek Dong-hwan’s hand.

Ding-dong-

Another person came, so I quickly went out.

This time it was the Kyung Trio.

Ahn Kyung-ho, Park Kyung-joon, and Shin Kyung-hwan greeted me in that order.

“Oh! Congratulations on moving!”

“I spread the news that you moved all over the neighborhood!”

“Hello. Si-hyuk. Ignore those crazy guys.”

Ahn Kyung-ho looked wronged. He just gave a normal greeting.

Everyone brought a lot of housewarming gifts.

Two packs of tissues, two boxes of tissues, two bottles of wine.

Everyone brought two in each hand.

“You didn’t have to bring so much. Come on in.”

“Actually, I was going to bring four, but I only have two hands, so I only bought two. Wow, nice house.”

“I bought tissues because Kyung-ho was buying tissues! Aren’t tissues more convenient?”

“I couldn’t let these two make me buy tissues, so I chose wine. Let’s drink this today.”

I was thankful to the three of them, but it felt like those two just picked something randomly, while Shin Kyung-hwan’s gift seemed like he put a lot of thought into it.

I didn’t expect him to bring wine.

I haven’t had alcohol in a while, so it would be nice to drink today.

He has good sense.

Ahn Kyung-ho scolded him, seeing that.

“What’s with the wine? You should have just bought soju [Korean distilled spirit] or beer.”

“Tsk tsk. What do you know.”

Shin Kyung-hwan shook his head.

Just then, Seo Soo-hyun arrived.

“Oppa [older brother/male friend]. Congratulations on moving.”

“Oh. You came. Thank you.”

“This is a housewarming gift.”

“It’s not something weird, is it? Like a bullfrog popping out when I open the wrapping paper?”

“This oppa really! It’s not something like that!”

“Or chocolate with frogs moving?”

“Where in the world is there something like that! And who gives something like that as a housewarming gift!”

“Hehe. Anyway, thank you. Can I open it?”

“Yes. It’s nothing special.”

“Oh. It’s really nothing special.”

“You haven’t opened it yet! You jerk!”

“You jerk?”

“…I mean, young master of the Lee family.”

“Pfft. Come on in. Come on in.”

I went inside and tore open the wrapping paper.

A waffle maker.

It would be great to make for Si-ha.

I heard you can put triangular rice balls in it, croissants, and all sorts of things.

“Oh! Sense! [referring to the good choice of gift]”

“Hehe. It’ll be used more often than you think?”

“It’ll be good for making snacks for Si-ha.”

“Right? Right? I thought you wouldn’t have this.”

“Thank you.”

“Later, you’ll be like, ‘How did I live without this?'”

“Isn’t that too much of an exaggeration?”

Seo Soo-hyun shook her index finger from side to side.

I chuckled.

I heard there are three things that change your life these days.

A robot vacuum cleaner, a dishwasher, and a dryer.

You don’t know until you use them.

When I went to buy Si-ha’s desk before, uncle somehow knew and tried to buy those three things.

He said they were essential items.

I realize it now. Those tools are really convenient.

However, there were some things that weren’t so great personally.

In particular, the mopping function of the robot vacuum cleaner didn’t seem very good. It felt cleaner to mop that part, so I don’t use the mopping function.

“Oppa?”

“Huh? Ah! Sit down and rest. I need to take out the food I bought.”

“Are you cooking? Can I help you?”

“No. No. I just bought it. Some of it just needs to be heated up, and some of it is already cooked.”

“What’s cooked?”

Seo Soo-hyun followed me to the kitchen.

I opened the lid of a large pot.

“Wow! Pork back ribs! Did oppa season and make this?”

“Yeah. I made it. I simmered it well so the seasoning is well absorbed. It should be easy to tear apart with chopsticks, right?”

“Wow. How are we going to eat all this?”

“What are you talking about? It’s a side dish to eat tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.”

“Then I should pack some to take home.”

“Then buy some and take it.”

“Pork back ribs?”

“No. Frogs. I’ll grill them for you. No, should I catch some frogs? Should we go to the mountain behind us?”

“This oppa really! Always teasing me!”

I grabbed a spoon and handed it over.

There were so many people that I couldn’t match the number of metal spoons. So I just took out wooden chopsticks and plastic spoons.

It’s also easy to clean up.

“If you’re going to help, take this first. I’ll put the rest in bowls and you can move them.”

“Yes!”

Seo Soo-hyun carried the food with a bright expression, as if she was excited about something.

Seasoned chicken, jokbal [pig’s trotter dish], pork back ribs, egg rolls, etc.

I also made a salmon salad roughly and put it on the table.

I also tore kimchi [fermented cabbage] into large pieces and put it on a large plate.

I also serve rice.

I just put it out roughly, but isn’t this enough?

“Okay. Let’s start the housewarming. Si-ha, what are you doing?”

“Huh?”

Si-ha was looking at the housewarming gifts on one side.

Was he curious about what was there?

“Hyung. Si-ha is counting the tissues.”

“Pfft.”

He must be worried about what I said with uncle before.

That he has to move if he uses up all the tissues.

No, it was so funny that he was really counting them.

“So how many are there?”

“I don’t know. There are some inside too, so I have to open them.”

“Ah, right.”

If you’re going to count, you need to know multiplication.

But it’s usually written on the plastic.

“The number is written there. Si-ha.”

“!!!”

“There are 30 in this one. This one also has 30. So how many?”

“I don’t know.”

Oops. He hasn’t learned addition yet.

I forgot.

“Um. You can use these two for a hundred nights.”

“Really?!”

Oh? That. I don’t really know if it’s true?

Since there are three of us living together now, the amount of tissues we use will increase, right?

Honestly, I don’t really know either.

“Maybe?”

“A hundred nights. A lot!”

Yeah. Si-ha. It’s when 100 nights seems like a lot, right?

It’s only been a little over 3 months, but.

Originally, a child’s year is very slow, right? They want to become adults quickly, but time feels slow.

If I play every day, I’ll think time is slow too!

After working, a week or a month goes by quickly.

“We’re going to eat now, so let’s count later. Okay?”

“Okay!”

Everyone was in front of the big table.

I bought a big table because people were coming to the housewarming, but I don’t know when I’ll unfold it again.

Ah! I’ll unfold it again when the daycare kids come.

Ahn Kyung-ho coughed and said.

“Si-hyuk. Why is everyone drinking Coolpis [Korean juice drink]?”

“Ah. Si-ha is going to drink with us, so I thought we could drink alcohol later.”

“That’s true. Um. Um. Okay, everyone, raise your glasses!”

We raised our glasses filled with Coolpis.

“Today is a celebration of Si-hyuk moving and publishing his book. And our game is selling well. Congratulations to everyone. When I say ‘Daebak! [Jackpot/Great Success]’ please shout ‘Congratulations!’ Got it?”

“Yeah!”

“Daebak!”

“Congratulations!”

We clinked glasses.

“Hyung too, Si-ha too. Si-ha too.”

“Yeah. Okay. Cheers.”

“Again. Again.”

“Again?”

“We have to do it three times. Si-ha does.”

“Ah, okay.”

Three times again!

We clinked glasses three times.

Then uncle grabbed Si-ha’s wrist and made him clink it with my glass one more time.

And one more time.

It ended up being five times.

Si-ha’s pupils trembled.

“Hahaha. It wasn’t three times!”

“Waaah!”

Si-ha patted uncle’s thigh.

Hahaha. I showed a dumbfounded smile and drank the drink.

Um. Delicious.

It seemed like it would be a fun party.