Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 391

Hyung, am I cute? Episode 391

Today, Si-hyuk couldn’t pick up Si-ha due to work again.

So, his uncle came to pick up Si-ha.

“Si-ha.”

At his uncle’s voice, Si-ha came running out of the room.

“Uncle! Why are you here so early?”

“I always pick you up at this time, don’t I?”

“Uncle is usually sleeping soundly, so he comes late.”

“It’s true I sleep in, but I don’t sleep so much that I can’t pick you up. It’s not like hibernation.”

Si-ha reacted immediately, as if he recognized a word from his uncle’s words.

“Si-ha knows hibernation. Bears are cold. Need to turn on the boiler! Ah, it’s warm. Because it’s warm, I feel sleepy? I should sleep. And when I woke up, oh? It’s spring.”

“What bear turns on the boiler?”

“They turn on the boiler these days.”

“You. Are you saying that to tease me? You’re not there yet.”

“Why?”

“If it’s warm, they don’t hibernate. And the house isn’t a cave, so there’s no boiler.”

“Really?”

“Really. Their fur is so warm that they don’t need a boiler. And they don’t just sleep all winter; they wake up and eat tangerines they’ve stored beforehand.”

“Tangerines?!”

A bear peeling tangerines.

That image was already imprinted in Si-ha’s mind.

Even though it’s not true.

“They peel tangerines while watching TV.”

“But it’s a cave, so they can’t watch TV. No electricity. Si-ha knows everything.”

“Since it’s a cave, they can watch even better. You’ve seen how dark movie theaters are, right?”

“I have.”

“That’s actually made like a cave.”

“!!!”

Si-ha believed the ridiculous story.

His uncle smiled, seeing that he was fooled again, and only then did he come to his senses.

“Uncle is lying!”

“No? It’s true?”

“Uncle’s face is weird. Si-ha knows everything. It’s a lie. A lie.”

“Now you can tell everything by looking at my expression.”

Now Si-ha can distinguish playful expressions.

Because.

“Si-ha is 5 years old. I know everything now. I know everything.”

“5 years old is an age when you can read expressions?”

A skill that rivals a lie detector?

What is it about being 5 years old that gives you such amazing abilities?

His uncle maintained a straight face.

“This is called a poker face. You can’t read anything like this.”

“Are you trying to tease Si-ha again?”

“Oh? How did you know?”

“Si-ha is 5 years old. I know everything.”

His uncle looked at Si-ha with an expression that said, ‘What kind of kid is this?’

That appearance is so cute that he teases him every time.

“Let’s go now. Pack your bag.”

“Uncle. You have to wait here. Got it? Wait!”

“Am I a dog?”

“Huh? Uncle isn’t a dog, he’s unemployed.”

“…….”

His uncle was speechless at Si-ha’s blunt statement.

Even though I look unemployed, I clearly have a job.

But it’s also true that I play around.

Si-ha went inside to get his bag, not knowing or caring about his uncle’s feelings.

“I should go outside.”

His uncle went out the door.

Soon after, Si-ha shouted, “Where’s Uncle! You said to wait!”

“Si-ha took too long, so Uncle is going first. Si-ha, come on your own. Got it? Hahaha!”

“Waaah!”

Si-ha struggled to put on his shoes and came outside.

His uncle was really far away, waving his hand while running.

“Uncle! You have to go with Si-ha!”

“Si-ha is all grown up, so you have to come alone. You’re 5 years old!”

“When Si-ha is 10 years old, I can go home alone!”

“What are you deciding now?”

His uncle was dumbfounded and ran back to Si-ha.

“When I’m 11 years old, I can use fire, so when I’m 10 years old, I can go home alone.”

“Okay.”

“Uncle. Hand.”

Si-ha took his uncle’s hand and walked.

His uncle was curious and asked.

“But until when can you hold hands?”

“Uncle’s hand is until I’m 6 years old. Hyung [older brother] is forever.”

“Why is Hyung forever?”

“Because Hyung is cooler.”

“What kind of logic is that.”

His uncle scoffed.

No matter what, you won’t hold hands when you grow up to some extent.

Even more so when puberty comes.

“Ah. Right. Si-ha. It’s Hyung’s graduation ceremony now.”

“Huh? Grad-grad-uation?”

“Not grad-grad-uation, graduation ceremony.”

“What’s that?”

“It means you went to school really, really well. Now you don’t have to go anymore, you’ve studied enough. There’s nothing more to learn. Congratulations. That’s what it is.”

“Then Hyung won’t go to university anymore?”

“If you graduate, you don’t go. You only go to the company, right?”

“Hyung doesn’t go well even now. Si-ha knows everything.”

“That’s because all the lectures are over.”

Si-ha nodded.

He didn’t really know what a graduation ceremony was, but he knew it was about congratulating Hyung for finishing his studies!

His uncle felt like Si-ha didn’t quite grasp it, so he gave him an additional analogy.

“Si-ha has to graduate from daycare later too.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re going to elementary school. You’ve finished studying at daycare. Congratulations. You have to say that. And you might have to say goodbye to your friends.”

“Why?”

“Well. If you go to a different elementary school, that’s how it will be, right?”

“We can go to the same place.”

“It’s not that easy to do as you please.”

Your parents might want you to go to a good private school, or you might go to another elementary school with a good reputation.

Or you might have to move, so you might be assigned to an elementary school close to your house.

There was still a long way to go until elementary school, so his uncle didn’t know what would happen by then.

“Waaah. I don’t want to.”

“That’s why there’s a graduation ceremony. To congratulate you too. Let’s make a promise to call each other or hang out often, even though we’re breaking up now. Let’s do that.”

“Graduation ceremony is important!”

Only now did Si-ha realize the importance of the graduation ceremony.

In fact, it wasn’t necessarily that important, but either way, graduating from school meant adding a line to your resume [a summary of your educational and professional experience].

Of course, Si-ha wouldn’t understand that.

“I’ll conglatulate Hyung.”

“That’s right. You have to congratulate Hyung.”

“But how do I conglatulate him?”

“Usually you give a bouquet of flowers, take pictures, and throw your hat into the sky. Something like that? Maybe?”

His uncle hadn’t been to a graduation ceremony in so long that he had to search his memory for a long time.

Would it be similar now? That’s what he was thinking.

Si-ha had an expression that said, ‘I see.’

“Si-ha will give Hyung a flower bouquet too.”

“A machine gun?”

“No. A flower bouquet.”

“A flower bouquet, right.”

“That! I’ll give it to him! Si-ha knows everything. They sell it in front of the school!”

He had seen the sight of selling bouquets a lot while attending daycare.

The selling period was always fixed, such as for entrance ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, Parents’ Day, and Teachers’ Day, so he had seen it often while attending daycare for a long time.

“But Si-ha wants to give something else.”

“What? Like a graduation gift?”

“No. Pepe. I’ll give Pepe.”

“Isn’t that what you draw every day?”

“That’s right! Pepe flower bouquet. Pepe.”

“Oh! That’s a good idea?”

“Really?”

“Yeah. If Si-ha draws it, I’ll help you make the flower bouquet.”

“Okay!”

Si-ha smiled, thinking about the flower bouquet he would give to Hyung.

***

The next day. Daycare.

Si-ha had been thinking hard about Pepe since yesterday.

But the answer to what kind of Pepe to draw didn’t come out.

Flower bouquet Pepe to give to Hyung.

He wanted to draw something well and give it to him. And his uncle said he would make a doll out of this picture.

“Waaah.”

Seung-joon approached Si-ha, who was worried.

“Si-ha. What’s wrong?”

“Si-ha wants to give Hyung a gift. Graduation congratulation Pepe flower bouquet.”

“Graduation?”

“Yeah.”

“What is graduation?”

The other children didn’t know what graduation was either, so they blinked their eyes.

Jong-soo confidently came out and said.

“You graduate when you’ve finished studying at this school. Don’t you guys even know that? We have an entrance ceremony when we start here. So when we leave, we have a graduation ceremony. My mom told me.”

The source of knowledge was his mom.

Si-ha nodded. Because it was already a known fact.

“So I’m going to draw Pepe, but I’m worried about what to draw.”

“You idiot. Just draw the clothes you wear when you graduate.”

“Huh?”

“That black clothes. The grim reaper-like clothes.”

The teacher burst out laughing at that word.

A grim reaper. It was a truly childlike and fresh word.

That being said, it was kind of like grim reaper clothes.

“Everyone. That’s called an academic dress [a traditional gown worn at graduation ceremonies]. There’s also a hat called a mortarboard [a square academic cap] here.”

“Si-ha knows! Uncle said he throws the hat. He throws it in the sky.”

“I don’t know if they still throw it in the sky these days, but anyway, there’s a hat.”

The children had faces that said, ‘I see.’

The teacher took out a picture of an academic dress on her phone to make it easier to understand.

Si-ha’s eyes sparkled. It was the moment he thought, ‘This is it!’

Pepe wearing an academic dress.

He was going to draw this.

“But this is the basic form. Academic dresses are a little different for each university. Kangin University also has an academic dress.”

The teacher took out a picture and showed it.

But it wasn’t a university student, it was a child.

A picture of a child graduating from Kangin Daycare.

They were children who were seniors to Si-ha and his friends.

The graduation attire of Kangin Daycare was the same small design as the Kangin University academic dress.

It was decided by the Kangin Foundation, and the reasons were to hope that they would not forget Kangin University and that it would look cute if they wore it in mini size.

“How is it?”

“Cool! A magician. A magician.”

“Pfft.”

It looked like a magician’s gown.

It was basically black, and a long red line went down from the collar to the bottom.

There was also a red line around the wrist.

The Kangin University logo was engraved on the chest.

A laurel wreath in a circle.

The earth with only latitude and longitude drawn inside.

And the KI mark written inside the earth.

If you decipher the meaning, it is like this.

The laurel wreath symbolizes honor and glory, the earth symbolizes the world, and KI is the initials of Kangin University.

Kangin University students should go out into the world and become leaders who achieve honor and glory.

That was the meaning of the logo.

“How is it? It’s very cool, right?”

“Cool!”

Si-ha decided to draw Pepe wearing the Kangin University academic dress.

“Teacher. Give me your phone.”

“Huh? Why?”

“I’m going to look at it and draw it.”

“Ah. This?”

“Yes!”

Si-ha received the phone from the teacher and drew diligently on the pad.

The children looked at the picture Si-ha was drawing as if it was amazing.

The first one to speak was Seung-joon.

“Then we should also congratulate Si-hyuk hyung on his graduation. Right, Hana?”

“Oppa [older brother – used by females]. That’s a good idea for the first time in a while.”

“Hey! Oh Hana! If you say that, it sounds like I’m always saying useless things.”

“Oppa. You always say useless things.”

“!!!”

While the siblings were bickering like that, Jae-hui approached Yeon-joo.

“Yeon-joo, are you going to congratulate Si-hyuk hyung?”

“Huh? Yeah. Let’s congratulate him together.”

“Are you going to give him flowers too?”

“Isn’t it good to give them?”

“That’s true.”

The teacher listened to the children’s words and clapped her hands.

“But flowers are expensive. Right?”

“Are they expensive?”

“Yes. Just a bouquet of flowers is very expensive. And you have to water the flowers. But we can make flowers cheaply.”

“Really?”

“Of course. The teacher has prepared it for you. It’s origami [the art of paper folding]!”

“Aww.”

The children had faces that said, ‘What’s so pretty about that?’

But if you do three-dimensional origami, it’s very pretty.

“Knowing you would react like that, the teacher folded two flowers. Ta-da!”

“Wow!”

Tulips and roses.

The two flowers were blooming beautifully.

The teacher also made the stems, so it really looked like there was a flower.

“Now. Everyone. But you have to choose.”

“What.”

“Whether to do the easy one. Or the difficult one. Now! Tulips are relatively easy to fold! But roses are very difficult! What is your choice!”

Si-ha glanced at it, then turned his head and drew again.

“Teacher. Si-ha is busy.”

“Okay. Si-ha, let’s give him your own flower bouquet.”

“Okay.”

While the other children were worried about what to fold, Si-ha didn’t stop drawing.

Because there was Si-ha’s own special congratulatory flower bouquet.

The teacher didn’t stop it either.

She knew Si-ha’s heart, and she always thought that education should respect the children’s wishes.