Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 386

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?”

I see an ice rink.

Small holes are drilled, and everyone has a fishing rod.

Siha seems fascinated by the holes, not using the fishing rod and just staring into them.

He must like staring blankly.

Uncle said to Siha, who was staring like that.

“Siha, what are you doing? Should Uncle catch one for you?”

“No! Siha will do it!”

Siha started fishing.

After a while, he shakes the fishing rod here and there, but there’s no sign of anything.

I’m starting to doubt if there really are any smelt [small, silvery fish] here.

“Hyung. Iss dere smelt?”

“Yeah. There should be, but strangely, nothing’s being caught. I wonder why?”

“Smelt are sweepy. Dat’s why dey not come here.”

“Maybe that’s it?!”

It’s daytime now, but the smelt might be sleeping. They might not only sleep at night like people.

Anyway, maybe they can’t see the delicious bait because they’re sleeping and aren’t coming up.

“Wow! I caught one!”

Seung-jun shouted from over there.

Siha’s pupils tremble.

The smelt wasn’t sleeping and was caught by Seung-jun.

“Hyung. Shood we put bomb in?”

“Siha. That’s a bad thing to do.”

Siha started thinking about bad things because of his uncle.

Even if nothing is being caught, you shouldn’t do that.

Uncle, who was listening next to us, smirks.

“Should we really put a bomb in? Uncle always carries a bomb in his pocket.”

“Reawy?!”

“Yeah. Of course. Want me to show you?”

“Show me.”

Uncle takes out his smartphone from his pocket.

Siha and I couldn’t help but have question marks pop up in our heads.

“Samchun [Uncle]. Dat’s phone.”

“Yeah. You can make a bomb with this phone. If you apply a lot of heat or dent it a little, the battery will explode!”

“Lie!”

No, in some ways, it’s a plausible story.

I think I once saw an article about a battery exploding while charging due to a poorly designed external structure.

But I don’t know if it will actually happen because I haven’t experimented with it.

“It’s true! There’s electricity coming out of here. Electricity.”

“Huh?”

“You know phones use electricity, right? Zzzzt. Zzzzt.”

“Phone use million volt wike in cartoon?”

“It can inflict as much damage as a million volts.”

“!!!”

Siha’s eyes widened as if he had just learned this.

He probably thought the phone would shoot a million volts when it exerted force, but that doesn’t actually happen.

“Then should Uncle quickly make a bomb with this and put it in here?”

Siha shakes his head.

Is it because he knows it would be too dangerous if it really became a bomb?

“Siha want meet smelt, but can’t do bad ting.”

“Then should Uncle do it for you?”

“No. I won’t wet Samchun do bad ting.”

“Why?”

“If Samchun do bad ting, police take you. Den Siha have to go to police station. Siha busy.”

“Are you saying don’t bother Siha because he’s busy and stay still?”

Uncle looked at Siha in disbelief.

I guess he was expecting something touching, but shouldn’t he stop teasing him to get that?

“But what are you busy doing?”

“Siha busy pwaying wif Hyung.”

“What is this kid?”

Siha doesn’t just let Uncle get away with it.

He stabs him at least once no matter what.

Uncle must actually like Siha because he gets stabbed deeply once.

It’s funny to see them sitting on the chair and sticking together while saying that.

Of course, Siha and I are also sticking together.

“Siha!”

Seung-jun comes with a paper cup.

There was water and a smelt in it.

I actually thought there would be a huge smelt, but there was just a small one.

Is this all grown up?

Well, I probably can’t catch a very big fish with a toy-like fishing rod like this.

“How is it? Amazing, right?”

“Seung-jun. Dis is amazing. Smelt big.”

“Yeah. It’s huge.”

That must seem big to Siha.

Looking closely, it seemed bigger than the fish we keep at home.

Maybe Siha’s fish standard is the fish at home.

“It’s swimming around.”

“Swim swim. Swim swim.”

It doesn’t seem like it’s swimming around that much because the paper cup is small.

“I bragged to my dad too, and he said he would work hard to catch one. He followed along, shaking it up and down, and caught one.”

“Shake it up and down?”

“Yeah.”

Professor is slowly starting to fish in a place away from us. He doesn’t seem to be catching anything.

Baek Dong-hwan seems to be cheering him on from the side.

Isn’t it actually that the smelt are sensing Baek Dong-hwan’s energy and not coming close?

It looked strangely sad to see two adults separately holding holes and trying to catch smelt.

These two are serious about smelt fishing.

“Hyung. Have to shake up and down.”

“Yeah. I guess so.”

Siha bends and stretches his knees, shaking his butt up and down.

You have to shake the fishing rod, why are you shaking Siha’s body up and down?

Well, it’s cute though.

“Siha. Just shake the fishing rod up and down. Not your whole body.”

“Ahko!”

Siha slapped his forehead as if that’s what it was.

And Uncle didn’t miss this.

“Pfft. Siha. You’re a dummy. You’re a dummy.”

“Huh? Siha not dummy.”

“You’re a dummy. You’re a dummy.”

“Hyung, Siha not dummy, wight?”

“Yeah. You’re not a dummy. Uncle, stop teasing him.”

“Dat wight. Samchun. Siha not dummy. Siha smaht wike Hyung. Because Siha Hyung’s bwother.”

That’s a very perfect logic.

Uncle laughs and calls Siha a dummy and compares me to Pyeonggang [a princess known for her wisdom and strength in a Korean folktale].

Of course, Siha, who doesn’t know this story, just tilts his head, not knowing what that means.

“Siha said not dummy!”

“Yeah. Okay. I got it. Siha is not a dummy.”

“Dat wight!”

While they were arguing, the line was pulled taut.

Siha blinked as he felt a pulling force in his hand.

Uncle grabs Siha’s hand and says.

“Siha. It’s caught. Pull it up as it is!”

“Okay!”

The smelt that was lifted up with a whoosh was caught.

But it was a complete baby.

It seemed much smaller than the smelt Seung-jun showed, which was a shame.

“Hyung. Vewy smaw!”

“Yeah. It’s a baby smelt. Let’s look at it for a bit and then let it go.”

“Why?”

“Baby smelt need to grow up more and have children. Then we can catch more smelt when we come later.”

“Baby smelt have Hyung smelt, so have to wet go.”

A hyung smelt [older brother smelt].

I felt a tingling in my nose for no reason.

Originally, it could have been said that there were dad and mom smelt.

But Siha says hyung smelt.

That element is a little heartbreaking to me.

“Hyung. Wet’s catch Samchun smelt. Don’t wet go Samchun smelt.”

“Hey. Siha. Why me!”

“Huh? Siha tawking about Samchon smelt? Not tawking about Samchun.”

“Ugh. Ah! How do you know it’s a samchon smelt? It could be a hyung smelt.”

“Hyung smelt swim gently, and Samchun smelt swim flippity-floppity. Siha know everysing.”

“Was I that flippity-floppity?”

I burst out laughing at Siha’s expression.

He’s funny anyway.

It seems like we’re making really fun memories with just this smelt fishing.

“Hyung. Can Siha bwag to Seung-jun and den wet go?”

“Yeah. Go brag and come back.”

Siha carefully hugs the paper cup and approaches Seung-jun.

“Seung-jun. Siha caught it.”

“Really? Let’s see. Wow! It’s really cute!”

“Want see one too. Oof. Wow!”

The three children are huddled together, looking through the small paper cup.

That appearance is also cute, so I took a picture.

It seems like time has passed in a flash.

We could only use it for an hour, and an employee was tapping his watch in the distance, signaling that time was up.

I guess we should start packing up.

“Siha. We have to go now. Other people need to do smelt fishing too.”

“Okay.”

Siha said okay, but Baek Dong-hwan and Professor shouted no from afar.

It seems like they couldn’t catch even one.

Professor confidently taught that they had to bite, but it’s ironic that he’s the only one who can’t catch anything.

***

You get hungry when you play hard.

We decided to grab a bite at the nearby snack bar.

There were so many things to eat, but we bought mini gimbap [Korean seaweed rice rolls], cup noodles, and fish cake soup and sat down.

“Wow. Looks delicious. Siha, let’s eat.”

Siha took a skewer and ate the fish cake with a bite.

He also munched on the mini gimbap.

Warm food eaten on a winter day is so delicious.

“Hyung. Dis yummy.”

“Yeah.”

“Samchun. Twy dis. Yummy.”

“Uncle already ate.”

“!!!”

Before I knew it, there was a skewer in front of Uncle.

He picks up a fish cake, takes one bite, two bites, and it disappears right away.

There are definitely people with huge mouths who can eat it all at once like that.

The fish cake disappears at a speed that makes you wonder if he’s chewing or swallowing.

“Samchun amazing.”

“Mmmmmm.”

“Samchun! Don’t talk wif mouf fuww.”

“Mmmmmm.”

“Siha know yummy.”

How are they communicating?

It’s something I’ve seen once before, but it’s still amazing.

“Siha, Uncle will tell you how to eat cup noodles deliciously. First, soak the gimbap in the ramen, then eat it with the noodles.”

“!!!”

Gimbap dunk. Noodles slurped.

Uncle’s mouth was like a black hole, sucking everything in.

You could even hear the sound of pickled radish being chewed in his mouth.

He definitely ate it very deliciously.

“Hyung. Siha too.”

“It’s too hot, so let’s pour it out and eat it like that.”

I poured out the ramen, dipped the gimbap in it, and took it out so Siha could eat it well.

It’s mini gimbap, but it’s long, so it won’t all fit in Siha’s mouth.

“Let’s bite it.”

Nom! Munch munch.

He ate it so well, as if it was delicious.

“Yummy.”

“Right?”

Seung-jun and Hana were also eating well, so it was nice to see.

They must have been hungry from playing so hard because a lot was going into their mouths.

“Should we eat this and go now?”

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

It seems like the kids have played enough.

***

On the way home.

I’m driving the car, and Uncle and Siha are both asleep in the back.

It was the same that one hand was on their stomach.

How can they be so close even while sleeping?

They say that fighting means you’re close, and I think that’s exactly what these two are talking about.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

Baek Dong-hwan is chewing gum in the passenger seat.

“Isn’t it very tiring because it’s a day trip? Have some gum.”

“No. It’s okay. If it gets too much, I’ll stop at a rest area or a nap area for a bit.”

“Yes. I think you should. Or I can drive.”

“Ah, that would be good. Aren’t you sleeping?”

“If I sleep in the passenger seat, the driver will also fall asleep.”

“That’s true. Anyway, thanks for today.”

“No problem. But why is it a day trip when you could book a hotel and sleep and go up?”

“Just because. I thought it would be better to go home quickly like this and rest tomorrow than to sleep and go.”

“No, not at all.”

“No, you seem disappointed that you can’t go camping?”

“Didn’t you say you’d get a crooked mouth if you go camping in the winter?”

“I did.”

The conversation we had last time comes to mind.

I’m grateful that he played with us this far, and I’m also grateful that he’s keeping me from falling asleep in the passenger seat like this.

“Is there anything you want?”

“Can I say what I want to do?”

“No. Don’t do it. Don’t say it.”

“Camp……”

“I said don’t say it! I won’t listen, so keep it in your throat.”

“Yes!”

Baek Dong-hwan picked up his phone.

“Shall I play a song?”

“Won’t Siha wake up?”

“Even a quiet song. Ah, then I’ll get sleepy. Then I should look at the funding. How much has come out.”

“Wouldn’t about 3,000 people have gathered?”

Baek Dong-hwan clicked a few times on his phone.

“Huh? Hyung…. Wow!”

I lost my sleep when I heard Baek Dong-hwan’s number.

More than I thought.