Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 398

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” Episode 398 (398/500)

I bought some bread and came home.

It seems like there’s more quantity than variety. I would never have bought this much in the summer.

Because it would have been left out for too long, and I wouldn’t have been able to eat it all.

It might be a war with bread from today.

“Sniff, sniff. What smells so good?”

Uncle must have smelled the bread because he came like a ghost.

That’s strange. It’s definitely wrapped in plastic, but how did he smell it?

“Yes. I bought some bread.”

“There’s a cake box in your hand?”

“Hahaha.”

In the end, Siha chose a small cake from my bread.

Actually, he was going to choose a big cake, but when I said I definitely couldn’t eat it all, he chose a small cake with a disappointed expression.

I wonder why a cake when it’s not even a birthday.

“Uncle. This is for Hyung. Siha chose it.”

“Ah. You chose it?”

“Yeah. Siha chose a roll cake too.”

“Then there must be one for Uncle too?”

“There is!”

Siha confidently rummaged through the bread bag and took out a red bean bread.

The one that looks like a pig with mean eyes.

He even chose three of them.

“For Uncle.”

Uncle looks at my bread, Siha’s bread, and Uncle’s bread.

Then he looks at Siha’s face once and then looks at the bread again carefully.

“Hey. Why am I the only pig? Why is mine the cheapest? Huh?”

“Uncle. Look. This looks like Uncle.”

“That’s not the point.”

“Uncle. Hyung is cool, so it’s a cake. Then Siha is cooler, so it’s a roll cake. Then Uncle!”

“No. The price difference is too big.”

“No. Uncle. Look. Three.”

“Are three important!”

Yes! Three is important to Siha.

And Siha took out another bread.

The lady gave us two as a service today.

“This is for Uncle. She gave it for free.”

“So it’s 0 won [Korean slang for free]?”

Well, if you want to calculate it in monetary terms, it was 0 won.

But in terms of quantity, it’s a lot!

Uncle won’t be able to just let this go.

It just feels like that. We both look fancy, but Uncle looks kind of simple.

“Hmm.”

“Uncle, it’s delicious, right?”

“Yeah. It looks delicious. Hahaha. Okay! Then I have to eat all of this.”

“Huh? No. This is Siha’s.”

“Siha can’t eat all of this.”

“No. Siha can eat it all.”

“But Uncle is only at home, so I have to take all of Siha’s and eat it.”

Uncle takes the roll cake from Siha’s hand and opens his mouth wide.

He pretends to eat it with a crunching sound.

Siha stretches out his hand and jumps up and down.

“It’s Siha’s.”

“If Siha leaves it, Uncle has to eat it all. Haha!”

“Waaah!”

In the end, it turned out to be teasing Siha again.

Well, Uncle would like red bean bread and cake.

“Uncle. Leave Siha’s alone and eat my cake. I can’t eat it alone.”

“Hmm. I don’t want to?”

“Why?”

“Because you have an attitude of whether you eat it or not?”

“What kind of nonsense reason is that? If you can’t eat this and throw it away, you’ll be in trouble.”

“No, why? Why me? I didn’t choose it?”

“If you can’t eat it all, it’s bread for every meal.”

“That’s not fair!”

“Eat it, or you’ll have to eat cake with kimchi. Got it?”

“?!”

Siha is saying next to me, ‘Hyung is amazing! Hyung is cool!’ as if I gave him a good blow.

Can I be considered amazing and cool for this?

I wonder.

Uncle said.

“Tsk. I should eat red bean bread.”

“Piggy. Piggy.”

“Siha. Are you talking about this bread?”

“Piggy bread.”

“I feel like I’ve been tricked?”

Siha’s timing is a bit like that.

It feels like a double meaning.

Yeah. There won’t be any malice. Maybe.

***

One day in March, I got a sudden call.

Director Go Dong-soo said he wanted to see me.

To be exact, actor Kim Seok-hyun called me first, but he said he wanted to meet up and have a meal together.

I asked if I could bring Siha, and he readily agreed, and I asked if I could bring my uncle just in case, and he agreed to that too.

I asked with the thought that there’s no way he’d allow this, but he didn’t seem to care, which made me think he was really amazing.

Usually, if there’s someone you’re meeting for the first time, the place is uncomfortable or awkward, but he didn’t seem to worry about it at all.

He’s a very easygoing person, but it’s the opposite of how meticulously he takes care of things in movies.

Anyway, we arrived at the restaurant together.

“Oh? Here. Here.”

Director Go Dong-soo waved his hand.

I’ve also become quite close while working on the translation, so it’s not awkward.

I thought it would be awkward because it’s been a while since I’ve seen him, but it seems better than I thought.

As I sat down, I introduced him as my uncle, and actor Kim Seok-hyun and Director Go looked surprised.

That’s because they wouldn’t have expected a foreigner to appear out of nowhere.

“I thought he was Korean because you called him uncle, but I had a prejudice. Nice to meet you. I’m Go Dong-soo.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Raymond Thompson.”

“Oh my. Mr. Thompson. Do you drink by any chance?”

“I can’t drink because I don’t have anyone to drink with.”

Uncle glanced at me.

Director Go Dong-soo chuckled as if he noticed the gaze.

“If you have a kid, that’s how it is. Haha. I can drink today because I have someone to drink with?”

“Can you keep up?”

“Oh ho. That’s a very dangerous provocation, you know? You know that you shouldn’t brag about your strength, gaming skills, or drinking skills in Korea.”

“I can. Oh, except for gaming.”

“Wow.”

Director Go and Uncle met for the first time, but they had a very friendly conversation.

As expected, you get closer when you drink! No. They haven’t even started drinking yet?

I looked to the side.

Actor Kim Seok-hyun was grilling diligently, probably because he had ordered the meat in advance.

“Hello.”

“Yes. Hello. But when are we going to stop using honorifics? Aren’t we friends?”

“No, we’re not.”

“Oh, I guess not. I was the only one who thought so.”

“Hahaha. I’m kidding. I’m kidding.”

“Then shall we speak informally? Ah! Can you drink today?”

“Just a little. I didn’t bring my car either.”

“Nice. Ah! Hello, Siha.”

“Hello.”

“Oh my. Our son.”

“I’m not your son. Siha is not your son in the movie. Yeon-ju is your daughter.”

“You remember all that?”

“Siha is smart. He looks like Hyung.”

“Puhut. He’s really smart.”

I nodded hard next to him.

In the movie, Siha plays the role of the villain’s son for a short time.

Unfortunately, there is no battle with actor Kim Seok-hyun.

Maybe with Yeon-ju.

Anyway, our Siha is smart because he looks like me!

“Here, the sausage is all grilled first. Siha, are you very hungry? Eat this.”

“Thank you. Delicious!”

“You. It’s not even in your mouth yet.”

Actor Kim Seok-hyun looks around.

Why is he suddenly doing that?

“I thought there was a camera here. Your reaction is completely mechanical. Mechanical.”

“Siha is a person?”

“Oh? Oh, yeah. You’re a person. A person.”

Siha said that and ate the sausage, yum.

He had a satisfied face as if it was delicious.

Ding-dong-

I rang the bell.

Even if I ordered the meat in advance, I didn’t order the alcohol in advance.

“Please give me two bottles of beer and two bottles of soju [Korean distilled rice liquor]. And if you have Coolpis [Korean juice drink], please give me one too. If you don’t have it, give me cider.”

“Yes. I understand. What kind of beer and soju would you like?”

We ordered the brand roughly and poured the alcohol.

Uncle and Director Go matched their minds, saying that soju and beer are the best!

No, aren’t these two people meeting for the first time today?

The mystery of a culture that becomes one with alcohol.

Well, it’s been a long time since Uncle and I had a drink since the housewarming party.

I’m not going to go anywhere and be a drinking partner.

I’m trying not to drink as much as possible because Siha is here.

And when I eat out, I always bring my car.

So naturally, I wasn’t drinking alcohol.

But today, I thought it would be nice to drink together because it was a special occasion, so I didn’t bring my car.

I’m just going to take a taxi.

“Hyung. What is Somaek [soju and beer mix]?”

Uncle smiles and says.

“You don’t need to know, little one.”

“No. Siha can guess it.”

“Okay. Guess it. What is Somaek?”

“Cow.”

I knew a cow would come out.

But Siha. It’s not the animal cow, it’s the soju. Hyung ordered soju and beer earlier, didn’t you?

It seemed like he had forgotten.

“Mac is. Mac is.”

There’s nothing for Mac. Honestly, it was not an easy first letter even if you were playing word chain.

After shouting ‘Mac’ for a while, he seemed to remember something and said this.

“Roasted egg?”

“Puhup.”

The combination of cow and roasted egg. Combined, Somaek.

What kind of combination is that?

“Eat beef and roasted eggs together. It’s delicious!”

“I haven’t eaten it together, but it wouldn’t taste bad.”

Uncle told me honestly with a dumbfounded expression.

Director Go and actor Kim Seok-hyun are smiling like fathers because Siha is cute.

“Um. Siha. Somaek is. It’s a mix of soju and beer here.”

“!!!”

“They say it’s delicious when you mix it.”

Should I teach him this?

Well, he’s not going to drink it, but it’s a very useless piece of knowledge.

No. Well, he’ll find out later anyway.

“Hyung. Does Hyung eat it too?”

“Huh? Uh. I eat it too.”

“Then Siha will eat it too.”

“No. Siha can’t drink alcohol yet. The police officer will scold you?”

“No. Siha will drink Coolsa instead of alcohol. Coolsa.”

“What is Coolsa?”

“Coolpis and cider.”

He’s going to mix that and eat it?

No, well, it doesn’t seem bad. There are cases where you eat it like that in fruit punch.

I guess he wants to eat it like that because other people mix it.

Then, since cider is as clear as soju, should I pour as much as soju?

It makes me think of such absurd thoughts.

Uncle says it’ll be fun and orders another bottle of cider.

Excuse me? Are you already drunk without drinking alcohol?

“Hyung! It’s Coolsa!”

“Yeah. It is.”

He finally made Coolsa.

We cheered and clinked glasses.

Siha drinks hard.

“Hyung. Does it taste like Coolpis? Why?”

That’s because you put a lot of Coolpis in it.

“Can’t you feel the carbonation?”

“My throat doesn’t bubble.”

“No. Drink it carefully.”

“Bubble?”

It seems like he feels the carbonation and doesn’t feel it.

“Let’s eat meat.”

“Okay.”

Eat the grilled meat.

Actor Kim Seok-hyun puts the meat on again and eats it himself.

When I said I would do it, he tells me to feed Siha hard.

They are doing their respective roles even though no one has decided.

Like a script from a movie.

I think this kind of natural human relationship is not bad.

Actor Kim Seok-hyun said.

“But there’s something I’m curious about.”

“What is it?”

“You speak a lot of languages. I was wondering if you train every day.”

“Yes. I do. I do it in the morning while cooking so I don’t forget. I usually turn on the news. If it’s boring, I turn on music.”

“Oh! Awesome. You’re putting in effort usually.”

“Everyone does that, right? I also follow along with shadowing [mimicking speech to learn pronunciation].”

“You’re going to the Cannes Film Festival this May.”

I nodded.

I heard that it was invited to Cannes. I hope it will be released in Cannes in May and win an award.

And I hope it will be released in Korea and the score will be good.

“Cannes is in France. Do you speak French by any chance? I heard that you only did English when translating, so I was wondering if you can speak French too.”

“French is.”

When I was about to say something, I felt a tingling sensation in my thigh where my phone was.

My eyes widened at the sensation I felt for the first time in a long time.

And the words I was originally going to say came out of my mouth, but they were transformed.

「I can’t? Hmm. Have I become able to? Haha」

If this happens, French will automatically come out for a while. I should just drink quietly.

Actor Kim Seok-hyun covered his mouth with his hand.

“Wow. Awesome!”

I ended up doing a performance while eating meat against my will.