Brother, Am I Cute? [EN]: Chapter 412

“Hyung, aren’t I cute?” Episode 412 (412/500)

Siha is confident. He doesn’t run away or hide. But why am I the one being introduced?

Well, I was introduced at the premiere too, so I’m used to it.

As soon as it’s revealed that it’s Siha, the people in front of us go wild, exclaiming that it’s really him!

“Can I take a picture with you?”

“Yeah!”

I didn’t give permission, but Siha nods as if he doesn’t care.

Well, if Siha is okay with it, I’m okay too.

Recognizing us like this is only temporary anyway.

People only recognize you if you keep working on projects, and just because you’ve become a hot topic once doesn’t mean they’ll remember you forever.

And Siha will grow up, so even fewer people will recognize him.

People stared at me, so I nodded.

Fortunately, there weren’t many people wanting to take pictures, probably because we came out late.

“Hyung and *gachi* [together]!”

“Huh? Oh, sure.”

Click!

For some reason, I ended up taking a picture with Siha too.

I participated in the movie, but I didn’t even appear in it, so I wondered if it was okay to take pictures like this.

Well, let’s just enjoy this passing moment.

Thinking, so this is what it’s like.

“Thank you, Siha. Bye~”

“Bye-bye.”

He even waved his hand diligently, and we came out of the movie theater.

“Suhyun, should I give you a ride home?”

“Huh? Ah! Thank you!”

“Then let’s go to the parking lot together.”

“Yes! I saved on transportation costs.”

I chuckled at that.

Seo Suhyun clenches her fist and then releases it.

“But won’t Siha become super famous later?”

“Maybe?”

“Total scene-stealer. He left a strong impression.”

“That’s true.”

“Judging by the momentum, it seems like it’ll reach ten million viewers?”

“Hmm.”

Saying ten million is one thing, but it’s an enormous number.

The influence it has is truly undeniable.

Of course, there are things I can’t feel in my skin because I haven’t experienced it myself.

“Still, they probably won’t recognize him right away. Unless they are fans.”

“That’s true.”

If they’re fans, they’ll recognize him no matter how he tries to hide his face.

But Siha only appeared briefly in front of the public for the first time, so there’s no way they’d recognize him easily.

Of course, our Siha is also five years old now!

He’s grown up! Anyway, he’s grown up a lot!

It’s an argument that no one else would believe, though.

“Hyung!”

“Yeah?”

“*Bado jaemi isseo!* [It was fun to see it again!]”

“Really? But what do you know about it?”

“*Eung! Ellelle haesseo.* [Yeah! He did ‘ellelle’.]”

“Kim Seokhyun did make such a strange expression.”

“*Maja!* [Right!]”

Seo Suhyun’s eyes widened as if she was amazed.

“Oppa [older brother/term of endearment for a male]. How did you guess ‘ellelle’?”

“Huh? Just because?”

This much is basic for an interpreter. Ahem.

While I was thinking that, Siha puts his hands on his hips and sticks out his belly.

“*Uri hyeong-aya!* [He’s my hyung!]”

Seo Suhyun laughed at the sight.

“Let’s get in the car now, Siha.”

We had already arrived at the parking lot.

***

It took exactly eight days for ‘Ant’ to reach 5 million viewers.

In the meantime, France also began its release.

It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, but it had not yet been released in France.

It was being released with a perfect translation already done.

As it was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan in order, June passed.

It had reached 9 million viewers and was now approaching 10 million.

There were still countries where it had not been released.

The hot summer passes. In July, ‘Ant’ easily surpassed 10 million viewers, and as the cumulative number of viewers gradually increased, it overturned all of Director Go’s previous records.

And in October, when autumn comes, ‘Ant’ was finally released in the United States.

Many interviews came in from abroad, so Sihyuk had to stick close to Director Go and work.

In November, the Blue Dragon Film Awards [a prestigious South Korean film award ceremony] were held.

The ‘Ant’ actors also attended, but unfortunately, only two of them received awards. Leaving behind a film festival full of questions, Sihyuk fell into one concern.

It was almost Siha’s birthday.

“I’m home.”

“Welcome home.”

Uncle greets Sihyuk.

Siha runs to him as soon as he hears that Hyung is home and hugs him.

“Hyung!”

“Yeah, Siha.”

“Hyung! Hyung!”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

“Why are you so busy?”

“Hyung is a bit busy these days. But haven’t I been coming home early lately?”

“*Maja!* [Right!]”

Well, I was a little busy in October. Interview requests came in from the United States.

I stopped by for interviews, but it wasn’t easy to take Siha with me.

Since I was coming back to Korea soon anyway.

It was a schedule I couldn’t have handled without Uncle. Fortunately, there weren’t that many.

Director Go said that I had to go to the United States again in December and work together, so I had to take Siha with me then.

It’s hard for Siha and me to be apart for too long.

It seems that Director Go is moving quickly for the February Academy Awards.

As the number of overseas schedules increases, I am also hired as an interpreter and am busy.

But anyway, I have to take care of Siha’s birthday in early December.

“Siha’s birthday is coming up soon, isn’t it?”

“*Maja!* [Right!]”

“Is there anything you want?”

“Uuung.”

Siha pondered hard.

It seemed like he didn’t want anything.

It was like this before, but now I don’t know what kind of gift to give.

I want to give Siha anything he likes.

“Hyung. Siha is saying.”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

“*Gachi with Hyung!* [Together with Hyung!]”

“Keuheuk!”

I covered my mouth.

Siha still wants to be with Hyung!

Let’s stay warm together with Hyung on these cold winter days.

Anyway, what kind of gift would be good?

“Really, there’s nothing you want? Anything you want to do?”

“Uuung. Siha has something to do!”

“Oh! Really?”

“Siha will speak English well!”

“Eueung? English?”

“Yeah! Siha practiced English a lot. I talk to Samchun [Uncle] in English.”

“Really?”

Since when did he practice talking to Uncle in English?

I’m so curious. I wonder how much his skills have improved.

I did teach him some words diligently.

Inevitably, I’m an interpreter, so I listen to English in the morning. I have to practice listening to and repeating other languages, but when Siha is around, it’s mostly English.

I thought it wouldn’t be good for Siha to use too many languages.

Maybe Siha doesn’t know about that consideration.

It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t know. I wasn’t doing it because I wanted him to know.

Still, I wanted Siha to become familiar with English and learn it as a second language.

It’s great to know another language.

“Uncle!”

“Oooooh!”

It’s not *Samchun*, it’s Uncle. But Siha, shouldn’t you just call him by his name?

Thomson.

Uncle reacts indifferently to Siha’s words.

It seems to be a pretty repeated situation.

“Why?”

“Let’s play game! okay?”

“No.”

“Stop! watching TV!”

“That’s all you know.”

“*Anya!* [No!] Siha knows pizza and hamburger too.”

It seems like they had this kind of conversation.

Wow! Our Siha is amazing! He’s a genius! He’s already using English, he’s a language genius!

At first, he couldn’t even speak well, and tears welled up in my eyes, but now he’s even using English.

“Sa.rang.hae.yeo. yeon.ye.ga.jeong.gae! [I love you, celebrity family!] Siha knows everything. Samchun told me everything.”

Siha, that’s not English, that’s Korean spoken by a foreigner, isn’t it?

“Keuk keuk.”

It seems that Uncle taught him that as a joke. Anyway, he taught him useless things, didn’t he?

“Uncle. Don’t teach Siha strange things.”

“Why? It’s fun. Is this strange? It’s very important.”

“In what way? In what way?”

“You need to know this so that Siha and we don’t have a generation gap later. Back in my day, we had this! If I say that and Siha makes a ‘ugh’ expression, what should I do?”

“Our Siha doesn’t do that.”

“You never know.”

I don’t know, but our Siha doesn’t do that!

He’s a good Siha who listens to stories well.

“Anyway, Siha’s English has improved a lot.”

“What has improved? That’s all he knows.”

“Maybe it’s at a middle school level. No. Maybe even high school level?”

“Excuse me? Are you listening to me?”

“If he does it for another year, he’ll be at a university level.”

“It’s not that level! Come back! You’re on the third Earth!”

“As expected, he’s working hard to be like Hyung. Siha! Siha is a genius!”

“He worked hard, but he’s not a genius.”

Siha liked it, saying, ‘Really?!’

I shook my head at Uncle.

“Uncle. You don’t know how much he’s grown because you’re always close to him. Look. Siha has already grown this much. In a little while, he’ll be as tall as a basketball player.”

“He hasn’t grown much. He’s the smallest kid in daycare.”

“Wow. He’s changing so much because it’s his birthday.”

“Listen to me! Don’t just talk about yourself!”

“So, what kind of gift do you think would be good?”

“Why? It seems like you already have an answer. I guess the gift is already decided too. Why are you asking me?”

Uncle turned around and lay down on the sofa.

Why is he sulking about something like that again?

Anyway, he even knows the word ‘*dapjeongneo*’ [someone who already has an answer in mind]. Uncle has really become a Korean.

“Um. Ah! Right!”

“What? Did you have a good idea?”

“Yes.”

Siha was curious.

“*Moya?* [What is it?]”

“It’s a secret. Look forward to your birthday.”

“Hyung. Siha won’t tell anyone. Tell me secretly.”

“You’re the last person I should tell?”

“Ah?”

No matter how cutely he puts his hands to his ears like that, a secret is a secret. I can never tell him.

Uncle said.

“secret.”

“Siha *ara*. Secret Juju [Siha knows. Secret Jouju – a Korean doll brand].”

Let’s leave out Juju, Siha. That’s a doll.

***

After Siha’s birthday, the new year comes again, and he’ll be six years old then. I think it’s time to throw away that penguin bag.

But it won’t be easy to throw away that bag.

Lee Siha is the type to keep what he used to use.

That’s why this bag will be made of Pepe.

If it was just a penguin bag until now, now we’re making a better Pepe bag.

Since Siha has already drawn Pepe, all I have to do is place a custom order.

These days, there are companies that make these things, so it’s convenient.

“I just have to wait for it to arrive, but what gift did Uncle prepare?”

“Me?”

“Yes. Don’t tell me you didn’t prepare anything?”

“Well, I prepared something simple. A gift that Siha will like, hehehe.”

“Something’s fishy.”

“There’s something I’ve always wanted to try.”

“What?”

“Anyway, I really wanted to try it. Sihyuk is too big, so I couldn’t do it, but it’s possible with Siha.”

“So what is it?”

He’s saying it like that, so I’m anxious again.

What is he planning? I have to press him so he can’t gloss over it.

“Tell me quickly. Hurry.”

“Hmm. Ah, I shouldn’t say it yet. I think it’ll arrive soon. It’s an overseas delivery, so I ordered it in advance.”

“What is it?”

“Magic. Science magic.”

“Huh?”

“You know the plasma ball? The one that shows electricity while telling your fortune.”

“Ah, that. But do you have to buy it overseas?”

Can’t you just buy it in Korea? There’s no reason to ship it overseas?

Uncle avoids my eyes slightly.

What is it? Something’s up? I was worried for a moment, but then something suddenly came to mind.

“How big is it?”

“Eueung? Well, it’s. Haha.”

“Why can’t you say it?”

“It’s bigger than a basketball? Maybe? I asked for the biggest one……”

The size of a basketball is about this big, so if it’s bigger than that…….

No. Why do I need this?

If you want to make it amazing, it can be small, right?

When I looked at Uncle, he avoided my gaze.

“Haha. Haha.”

“You rascal! Where are you going to put it!”

“Sihyuk. Calm down. Sometimes men are like that. The bigger it is, the more excited they get.”

“No, what. It’s not like I’m going to take it to a lecture, why did you order such a big one!”

“It’s pretty at night!”

“I bet it is!”

“This is every boy’s dream!”

Isn’t that Uncle’s dream? Oh my. It seems like a gift disguised as trash has appeared.