Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 395

Hyung, aren’t I cute? Episode 395

I told them about playing soccer with Siha and Seungjun at daycare.

I also mentioned how I knocked down the cans with the soccer ball and how amazing Si-hyuk hyung was.

Even that Uncle got hit with the Indian club [a type of exercise club].

“Wow. Oppa, that sounds fun.”

“Hahaha. You couldn’t come, could you?”

“Hana has singing class. And Hana isn’t interested in soccer.”

“How could you not be!”

“But it’s kind of fun to watch Oppa play.”

“Right?!”

Hana enjoyed hearing about her oppa’s fun.

And she became interested in something else. She was intrigued that Seungjun was sad he couldn’t kick the can.

“But how do you play Can-Kicking?”

“Huh?”

Seungjun stammered, recalling the explanation he had heard.

The teacher was going to correct him if he made a mistake, but he was mostly right.

But you don’t really know the rules until you’ve actually played.

“Everyone, would you like to play Can-Kicking?”

“!!!”

“We even have delicious cans at daycare.”

She opened canned juice and handed it out to the children.

After they finished drinking, they would wash the cans with water and play with them.

The children drank the juice very happily.

Seungjun started singing a commercial jingle.

“Tararara~ You like me! Poca~” [Poca is likely a brand of juice or drink]

“Ugh. This isn’t an advertisement!”

The teacher quickly stopped him.

A question mark appeared over Seungjun’s head. He didn’t understand why she was stopping him.

Next, Hana looked at her juice and said.

“Tore! Tore! Toret.”

“Ugh! Just a moment, Hana. No!”

The teacher thought she was trying to express how good it tasted.

Whether she thought she had to do it too because the other children were doing it, Yeonju looked at her drink.

And said to Jaehwi.

“How many percent is your love lacking?” [A reference to a commercial for a drink that claimed to fill the missing percentage of love]

“Ugh!”

Jaehwi was flustered by the sudden question.

The teacher covered Yeonju’s mouth.

Jaehwi’s eyes darted around.

What should I answer? That was the look on his face. Jaehwi didn’t know this commercial. Well, they did it a lot in the old days, but they don’t do it now.

“Um. Yeonju. 1 percent?”

“???”

“I’ll do better.”

“?!”

Yeonju was just reciting a commercial, but she got an answer from Jaehwi.

Eunwoo laughed at the sight and looked at his juice.

“Beautiful days~! Lovely eyes~! Oh, oh, oh! Oran!” [Another commercial jingle, likely for orange juice]

“I can’t hear you. I can’t hear you.”

I couldn’t figure out why Eunwoo knew that old commercial.

Maybe Uncle, who writes dialect raps like, ‘Back in my day~,’ sang it.

There are people like that. The herd mentality of doing what everyone else is doing.

Yundong looked at the drink he was holding and seemed conflicted about whether he really had to do it too.

“Tempting the mango~ Caught you.” [Likely a reference to a mango-flavored drink commercial]

“Yundong, you don’t have to force yourself.”

“Ah…….”

Yundong’s eyes widened as if to ask if she was serious.

Of course, it felt like he had to do something, but anyway.

Before he knew it, Jaehwi glanced at Yeonju and sang.

“Beauties love pomegranates~ What should I do if I keep getting prettier.” [A pomegranate drink commercial]

“Jaehwi, what are you doing?”

Jongsu shook his head as he watched the children.

“Everyone is singing weird songs. You should have chosen the latest drink. Look at this.”

Jongsu showed his drink.

“Apple! Pop! Pop! Pop! Trophy!” [A commercial for apple juice]

“That’s really the latest!”

“That’s how you do a commercial.”

“Everyone. It’s not commercial time right now. Did you all get sponsored?”

The teacher looked around here and there.

She also looked at the ceiling, but all there was was CCTV [Closed-circuit television].

It’s not recording, but why is everyone doing commercials…….

Moreover, everyone’s products were different, and the companies they came from were also different.

Siha sipped his drink.

As if everyone was wondering why Siha wasn’t doing it, Siha made a silly noise, “Ah?”

After thinking for a moment.

“In the summer~ Iced coffee! In the summer! Coffee with hyung!” [A coffee commercial]

Siha. That’s a CM [Commercial Music] song that has nothing to do with the drink you’re holding?

Well, he did sing something famous.

***

The finished cans were washed clean in running water.

Finally, Can-Kicking began.

First, the tagger was Seungjun, who lost in rock-paper-scissors.

“Who’s going to kick?”

“I’ll do it.”

Yundong kicked the can as it was. Once, twice, three times.

Seungjun stared blankly at the can that had gone far away.

The children ran to hide.

Seungjun ran to pick up the can.

After picking it all up, he closed his eyes and counted to 30.

“I’m coming to find you!”

Can-Kicking, an upgraded version of tag.

Originally, Can-Kicking is very disadvantageous to the tagger.

Because it is a fight between one person and many.

It may be a fight that may never end.

The teacher changed the rules here.

The person who kicks the can can escape from being tagged in the game.

In other words, instead of one against many, it was changed to a personal battle where individual survival was prioritized.

The person who is caught cannot survive.

“Hmm. Let’s see.”

Seungjun slowly looked around.

The children hid very well.

Not even a strand of hair can be seen, perhaps because they have played tag a lot.

But having played tag a lot means knowing where to hide.

“The slide is a must.”

The slide was a good place to lie down and hide.

Sure enough, one person was hiding.

“Found Jaehwi.”

“Ah!”

Seungjun jumped slightly.

“Found one lying on top of the slide.”

“Ah. Oppa!”

As Jaehwi stood up and ran, Seungjun smiled and quickly caught up.

There is an unavoidable difference in speed.

Seungjun is so fast that he is said to be the best in daycare.

Thump, thump, thump, thump.

He quickly stamped on the can with his foot.

“Yes! I won!”

“Ah!”

“Jaehwi eliminated! Hana eliminated!”

Hana walked leisurely from afar.

She gave up and didn’t run from the moment she was discovered.

In some ways, it was a wise method.

“Um. Next is.”

He looked at the playground once more, but they weren’t there either.

Then the only thing left was inside the daycare.

There is nowhere to hide in the open playground.

“Everyone is hiding here, right?”

Seungjun took off his shoes.

It can be disadvantageous to put on shoes late when running away later.

That was the same for the other children.

“Let’s see. Ah! Found Siha.”

“Fownd!”

“No. Siha shouldn’t be the one finding.”

Seungjun, who found him hiding behind the door, immediately went to the shoe rack.

But he ran into Jongsu, who was about to leave.

“Ugh.”

“Found Jongsu.”

Now it’s a running fight.

Jongsu, who put on his shoes first, ran away quickly.

Seungjun started late.

Clang!

But Yundong came out before Jongsu and kicked the can.

Yundong survived.

“Ugh!”

It was an unfortunate story for Jongsu.

Because Yundong kicked it far away, Jongsu had to run further to kick the can.

The longer the length, the higher the probability that Seungjun would catch up with Jongsu.

“Ehehehehe!”

In the end, he overtook Jongsu and stepped on the can.

“Jongsu eliminated. Siha eliminated.”

The remaining people were Eunwoo and Yeonju, but they couldn’t catch up with Seungjun’s running.

It would have been better to quickly go out and kick the can when Seungjun came in, like Yundong or Jongsu.

“What. Everyone except Yundong is eliminated.”

After doing it once, the children got a feel for it.

This means that you can win if you time it right, even if you are not fast at running.

“Then everyone do rock-paper-scissors.”

The eliminated people did rock-paper-scissors.

The tagger is Lee Siha.

The children hid again.

This time, the children had hope because the tagger was not Seungjun.

“Five, six.”

Siha, who had counted to 30, took something out of his bulging pocket.

A telescope that can only be seen with one eye.

“Ugh!”

The teacher looked at Siha with a dumbfounded expression.

When did he take that out?

When Seungjun found Siha earlier, he came out of daycare late, so he must have brought it then.

“Like dis. Like dis. Uncle did it like dis.”

“Oh? Yeah. Okay. Siha.”

For some reason, he tore off some grass on the floor and sprinkled it down.

He seems to be looking at the wind direction.

Uncle must have taught him, but I don’t know how much that will help in finding hiding people.

And there was not a single breeze, so it fell straight down.

“Ung. It’s blowing from there!”

“?”

The wind was blowing in the opposite direction.

Siha slightly turned his body and pointed his finger in the opposite direction.

“Ung! It’s blowing from there.”

“Siha. I saw everything wrong?”

“Mistake. Mistake.”

Siha went to the playground first.

He looked through the telescope.

Even if he does that, it will be difficult to find the children who have completely hidden their bodies.

But everyone has an unexpected point.

Siha has good concentration when he does what he likes. He is good at sitting down and drawing.

Like a sniper, he waits until the target slowly reveals itself.

That was then.

Feeling a little restless and not hearing any sound, Seungjun slightly poked his head out from the slide.

Siha discovered it from afar. With a telescope!

“Seungjun fownd on the swide!”

“Ugh!”

Seungjun’s plan was to run as fast as he could when Siha found him and kick the can.

But he didn’t know that Siha would find him from afar with a telescope.

Since the distance was already far away, it was impossible for Siha to catch up, no matter how fast Seungjun ran.

“Seungjun eliminated.”

He stepped on the can.

Seungjun opened his mouth and approached Siha.

“Wow. Siha. You’re really a genius. A telescope.”

“Siha see everything with dis.”

“Wow.”

Well, the telescope was a telescope, but the problem was that Seungjun couldn’t stand it and got up.

“Seungjun. Are you on the pwaygwound again?”

“That’s a secret.”

“Secret! Because it’s a secret, you are dere.”

“Ah!”

Siha, who had been ‘abused’ by his uncle [likely teasing or playful tricks], learned a lot that the word secret implies that something is hidden.

He went back to the playground.

The playground consists of a slide, jungle gym, seesaw, and rotating stage.

The only places to barely hide are the top and bottom of the slide.

These days, slides also have stairs and bridges, and there are places where you can grab ropes and climb in the middle, so it’s good for hiding.

“Siha has to go inside the daycare!”

He said that while holding up the telescope.

A trick he learned while playing hide-and-seek with his uncle.

He always said that and surprised him by going to where Siha was.

Siha was using what he had been through.

A person was seen slowly coming out near the slide.

It was Yundong.

He was hiding, preparing to run with the same thought as Seungjun.

But when Siha said he was going into the daycare, he thought it was an opportunity and peeked outside.

But he was deceived. He flinched when Siha spotted him with the telescope.

“Yundong fownd! He’s under the swide!”

Siha ran and stamped on the can.

“Yundong eliminated.”

Yundong was also dumbfounded, perhaps because he hadn’t thought of the telescope.

“Fownd Jaehwi and Yeonju!”

It wasn’t just Yundong who was fooled by Siha saying he was going into the daycare.

Jaehwi and Yeonju, who thought Siha had come in, quickly put on their shoes and came out after a while.

But Siha was outside, and two people were eliminated absurdly.

“Ah! Siha was outside?”

“Yeonju. We were fooled.”

“To be fooled by something like this…. I thought Siha had gone into the room.”

Assumptions are always dangerous.

Now the only people left were Jongsu and Eunwoo.

Siha had no choice but to go inside the daycare now.

Because they were children who wouldn’t come out even if he waited.

But there is still a way!

“Eunwoo. Eunwoo.”

“…….”

“Where’s Jongsu? If you tell me, Siha will just wet you.” [A childish threat, implying Siha will pee on Eunwoo]

“!!!”

Eunwoo hesitated and said loudly.

“Jongsu is in the bathroom!”

“!!!”

When Siha burst into the bathroom, Jongsu was so surprised that he froze.

He didn’t expect Eunwoo to betray him right away.

Eunwoo took the opportunity to put on his shoes and escape.

“Fownd Jongsu.”

Siha quickly put on his shoes and went out.

Jongsu reacted late.

Perhaps because he was flustered, he couldn’t put on his shoes properly.

“Aaaagh! Eunwoo!!! Lee Siha!!!”

He shouted like that, but Eunwoo kicked the can and Siha stepped on the can.

Huffing and puffing, Jongsu came late.

“Y-you traitor! You bad!”

“Puhaha. Jongsu is eliminated.”

“It’s because of you! Because of you!”

Siha said.

“Jongsu is eliminated. Jongsu is eliminated.”

“That’s unfair! Lee Siha!”

“Eliminated Jongsu!”

“It’s the same even if you say it differently!”

Today, Jongsu was completely defeated by Siha.

“Hey. Hey. Let’s do one more round. Let’s do it! I’ll be the tagger.”

And Jongsu showed the typical appearance of a loser.

Just like Uncle last time.