Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 379

Hyung, Am I Cute? Episode 379

I’m on my way home from work.

It feels like I did something that seems trivial but is actually a big deal.

I wonder if Siha had something delicious with his uncle and came home happy today.

I wonder if they’re bickering again.

Why does my uncle joke around so much? He’s been like that since I was little, so I’m used to it, but shouldn’t a person become a little more serious as they get older?

It feels like he’s become even more playful.

“I’m home.”

“Hyung! You’re home?”

Siha runs and hugs me.

It feels good when Siha wraps his arms around my neck and squeezes.

I like Siha’s solid weight more than a fluffy pillow.

“Oh! Welcome home.”

Uncle is lying on the sofa, waving his hand.

Then he turns his gaze to the TV, completely engrossed, as if he’s watching some interesting entertainment show.

“Puhaha.”

“Uncle, thank you for looking after Siha today.”

“It’s nothing.”

“But what did you eat today?”

“We just ate something simple.”

Siha patted my shoulder.

“Hyung. Put me down.”

“Oh? Okay.”

He goes to the kitchen, climbs onto a chair, and brings a plastic bag.

It’s been there for a while; what’s in that black bag?

“Hyung. This. Siha packed it.”

“Huh?”

“Siha ate tteokbokki [spicy rice cakes] and sundae [Korean blood sausage] with Samchun [Uncle] today. This is for Hyung.”

“Wow. That looks delicious.”

There was sundae inside.

Of course, Uncle paid for it, but I was so proud that he packed it for his brother.

But it must be cold by now.

“Shall we try some?”

“Hyung. This is yummy.”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

“Hyung, eat a lot and grow big.”

“Hyung doesn’t grow anymore.”

“Then eat a lot and get healthy.”

“Puhup. Okay.”

I looked at my uncle.

I playfully slapped my uncle’s leg, who was lazing around.

“Ouch! Why?”

“Even so, how can you feed him tteokbokki for dinner?”

“It’s delicious. Tteokbokki. It’s a national dish.”

It’s strange to hear a foreigner say that.

“Anyway, please take care of Siha’s diet.”

“You have to know how to eat like this when you’re young. And we ate rice too. Fried rice.”

“What about vegetables?”

“Hahaha. Vegetables. Well…”

“What about fruit?”

“You can live well without eating fruit.”

I chuckled.

I stroked Siha’s head.

“You have to eat a balanced diet. Got it?”

“Siha is like Hyung and eats well. I ate onions today too.”

“Wow. Onions?”

“They made fried rice, and I asked what it was. But the lady said it was onions.”

“I see.”

“But it tastes like tteokbokki.”

“Puhup. Because the sauce is tteokbokki sauce.”

I opened the sundae and put it in my mouth.

Well, sundae is delicious even when it’s cold. Siha watched me eat and opened his mouth.

I put a piece in his mouth.

“Hyung. Yummy.”

“Yeah. It’s delicious.”

As I ate one by one, it disappeared before I knew it.

I don’t usually eat like this at this hour, but I had no choice but to eat it all in front of him because Siha bought it for me.

“Hyung ate it all!”

“I know, you don’t have to tell the whole neighborhood.”

“Samchun! Hyung ate it all!”

I told him not to tell anyone, but Siha told his uncle too.

Uncle playfully pushed Siha’s head as if he was annoyed.

“I can’t see.”

“Samchun always watches TV. Play with Siha.”

“Hyung is here, so you can ask him to play with you.”

“Hyung and Samchun will play together.”

Siha stood in front of the uncle, blocking his view of the TV.

As much as the uncle’s hand couldn’t reach.

“Haha! Then there’s a way to sit down!”

Siha runs to the kitchen, drags a chair, and puts it in front of the TV.

And he goes up and stretches out his arms.

“Wow. I didn’t even think of that?”

“Samchun, are you going to stop watching now?”

“This is an important scene!”

“You’ve seen this before. Siha knows everything!”

“You have an unnecessarily good memory.”

“Hyung is amazing.”

“???”

Maybe in Siha’s head, Hyung has a good memory, so Siha, who resembles him, also has a good memory. So Hyung is amazing. I guess such a formula was established.

Uncle now makes a ‘Hmph!’ expression, as if he’s used to Siha’s logic.

“Then shall we check how good your memory is?”

“How?”

“It’s a memory game.”

“!!!”

So the three of us played a memory game.

Uncle brought picture cards from the room. When did you buy them?

Seeing that there are such picture cards, it seems that he bought them to play with Siha.

I can’t believe he bought it to play alone at home.

Anyway, he’s taking good care of Siha.

“Okay! Here are animal cards. I’m just mixing them. Like this. Like this.”

“!!!”

“And put it on the floor. One person can flip it twice. If you find the same picture, you get it. The person who finds the most wins.”

“Siha is smart because he looks like Hyung.”

“Okay. Let’s see how much you look alike. For your information, Uncle is a gold medalist in matching the same pictures in America.”

“There’s a gold medal too?!”

There’s no way there is such a thing.

No. Is there a competition like that? Anyway, there’s no way Uncle would win.

“Of course! There is. Yeah! You better work hard?”

“Then Siha is on a team with Hyung.”

“Hey! That’s too unfair. Try hard alone.”

“Samchun has a gold medal. It’s unfair.”

“If Siha resembles Hyung, he can beat Samchun, who is a gold medalist. Because Si-hyeok always beats Samchun.”

“!!!”

I thought about whether I had ever played a matching game with my uncle.

I don’t think I’ve ever done that.

“Siha is good at it alone.”

“Okay. It’s all individual. Got it?”

Uncle puts the cards on the floor one by one.

I don’t know why there are so many.

Is it because there are two of the same picture?

“Then let’s start. I’ll go first.”

Depending on your point of view, it may be advantageous to play this game for the first time.

If all the wrong cards come out in the early stages, you can be in a very advantageous position when it’s your turn next time.

Of course, that’s if you remember all the cards.

A monkey and a rabbit came out.

“Shall Hyung go next?”

“Ah ah.”

Flip. Flip. Flip two cards.

Elephant and snake.

Siha flips a card. Monkey. This is the card Uncle picked earlier. He was lucky.

Siha rolls his eyes as if he remembered it.

Yeah. Siha. You can do it.

You’re still young, so your brain is fresher than anyone else’s.

“Here!”

Siha remembered where the monkey was.

He jumps for joy that he got it right. And flip two more.

Rhinoceros and giraffe.

This time, a different card came out.

Uncle smiles. He quickly uses his hands and starts taking the same cards.

His memory wasn’t bad.

Rather, it was on the good side. He was not only taking all the animals that came out like a ghost, but he was also lucky.

He takes them one by one.

“Hahaha. Siha. I think Uncle will win?”

“No way!”

Uncle has 6 animals. Siha has 1. I have 0.

It’s definitely dangerous if this continues.

In particular, the more I get right, the more disadvantageous it will be for Siha.

I can’t help it.

I have to go with the unlucky meta today [strategy of intentionally playing poorly] .

“I think Uncle won this round?”

“Right?”

“Yes. Shall we move on to the next round?”

The game doesn’t end in one go.

There are things you need to do to make Siha win.

“I’ll mix it this time.”

I take the cards and start shuffling them.

I’m more confident in my memory than anyone else here.

In particular, instant memory is a virtue that is somewhat necessary for interpreters.

Of course, I also carry a notebook.

“Siha, do you want to mix it too?”

“I will!”

Siha also shuffles the cards hard.

I watched the scene carefully.

“Then I’ll arrange it.”

I don’t know why I’m doing this much for this.

The cards are laid out on the floor.

Siha did it first.

“Ahko!” [baby talk for “wrong!”]

You can’t help but be wrong at first.

Uncle opens the card. He’s wrong again.

I also open the card, and the picture Siha picked came out. Elephant.

But I pretend I don’t know and open another card.

“Ah! Hyung. You’re wrong!”

“Yeah. I forgot.”

I was wrong on purpose.

Siha naturally opened the elephant card and took it.

He was lucky and matched one more and passed it to his uncle.

He got two animals.

“Si-hyeok is mean. You pretended you didn’t remember so Siha could pick it, right?”

“Haha. I wonder?”

“Hyung. Really?!”

I just smiled.

If Siha wins, Hyung wins.

Uncle was also formidable. Because he got two animals.

Now is the time to get some right.

Flip. Flip. Get two animals. Flip. Flip. Get two more animals.

There are 3 animals left. There are 6 cards.

Two of them are open.

Then I have to pick 2 out of 4 cards, excluding that.

Because the next turn is Siha’s.

Current score. I have 4 pairs, Uncle has 2 pairs, Siha has 2 pairs.

If you match everything left, you can get 3 more pairs.

If Siha picks them all, he will get 5 pairs.

This is the design and teamwork.

Even though it’s an individual match.

“This. This. Ah! They’re both different animals?”

“!!!”

“Ah, I was unlucky.”

Siha’s eyes sparkled.

There are now 3 unopened cards.

Siha flipped the cards and matched them one by one.

“Yes! Siha won!”

“Wow! Congratulations!”

“Yes!”

Uncle smirks.

As if he knew everything.

Well, it was practically 2 vs 1.

“Aren’t you deliberately losing too much?”

“No? I was unlucky.”

“You must be pretending to be unlucky.”

“Uncle, aren’t you trying to win too seriously against a child?”

“You have to go all out in these games to be considerate of the other person!”

That kind of mindset is good.

Don’t underestimate and do your best! It’s a good saying and a famous saying. But that can be a bad word, not a famous saying, depending on the situation.

No. Is there anyone who likes to lose? If you lose too much, you get stressed.

“The bitter taste of life is also a good lesson.”

“Would you like to see the bitter taste of your back?”

“Now you’re hitting my back. Come on! Uncle will accept it all.”

“Really?”

“No. Don’t try to hit me for real. My bones ache these days because I’m getting old.”

“Isn’t it because you’re always rolling around at home and not getting enough exercise?”

“Aaaaaa. I can’t hear you~”

Uncle put his hand on and off his ear.

I’m not sure if he’s doing these childish things on purpose or if he’s really like that.

Siha said to his uncle.

“Samchun! Siha is smart. Siha knows everything alone.”

“Puh. You’re not there yet.”

“Why? Siha won.”

“Siha. Didn’t Uncle win earlier, so isn’t it 1 to 1?”

“!!!”

In the end, I played the card game again.

I tried to help hard, but I couldn’t get the angle, so I just finished it by winning.

If Uncle wins, he’ll tease Siha again.

It’s better for me to win.

I won two games in a row and finished the game.

Siha liked it with sparkling eyes, saying, ‘As expected, Hyung is amazing!’

You lost, but you like it so much that Hyung won?

Isn’t it okay if Uncle doesn’t win?

***

A little bit back in time.

Around the time Siha and Uncle were eating tteokbokki.

“Samchun. Siha made a gift for Hyung today. It’s a grip tok [phone grip]. Grip Tok.”

“Oh. The one you broke before?”

“Siha prepared a birthday present for Hyung.”

Siha told Uncle about what happened at daycare today, just like he told Si-hyeok.

He left out the part about preparing a gift for Uncle.

And there are things that Siha can’t tell Si-hyeok about what happened at daycare today, so he tells them here and there.

Uncle puts down his chopsticks while eating sundae.

“That. Siha.”

“Huh?”

“What day is Si-hyeok’s birthday?”

“Oh, Samchun. You don’t even know that?”

“Oh? Oh. Um. It’s because I’ve been abroad for too long. But Siha. What day is it today?”

“I don’t know.”

Uncle didn’t even know what day it was today because he was playing so much.

“But. Why don’t you know Hyung’s birthday? Samchun did wrong. Didn’t do wrong.”

“I’m sorry.”

Only then did Siha tell him Hyung’s birthday.

“125. 125. It’s the same as Siha’s birthday.”

“Oh. That’s right. I remember now!”

“Lie!”

“It’s true.”

“Lie!”

“Well, I’m going to prepare a huge gift for Siha!”

“!!!”

“Uncle is going to bring a huge cake. Don’t be surprised.”

“Siha’s gift is better.”

Uncle scoffed.

But he was a little anxious inside.

What does Si-hyeok like? What does he need? What would be a good gift?

He was worried about that.

So I thought it would be a good idea to ask Siha.

“Ah, but Siha. I’m just asking out of curiosity, but what does Hyung like?”

“Siha!”

Uncle looked at Siha in disbelief.

No. That’s not what I asked.