1.
sleep
2.
friend
3.
size
4.
city
5.
world
6.
sense
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rice
8.
road
9.
house
10.
money
11.
study
12.
bullshit
13.
Hide and Seek
14.
tree
15.
alien
16.
fight
17.
hope
18.
we
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puzzle
20.
Tutu
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wall
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secret
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magic
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dark
25.
flight
26.
mystery
27.
ladder
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imagination
29.
flower

Author's Note

◆ I am the mysterious and mysterious Moonlight Queen!

Silence! This word shines.
A light that dispels fear, a light that doesn't create sadness, and above all, a light that allows me to live here undetected! Silence! I held this word's light in my heart.
Then the necklace began to glow.
-In the text

Perhaps because he lived with his grandmother when he was young, the child can't seem to get rid of his grandmother's way of speaking, which comes out suddenly like, "Oh my," or "Where should I look?"
And he thinks that maybe he is already an old child.
Although he is so small that no one can find him if he decides to hide, there are moments when the eyes and heart of this lonely and weary child become bright enough to illuminate the distant universe.
This is the moment when you discover the word, the light it contains.
The child regards the necklace given to him by his grandmother as a kind of magical tool that will allow him to discover the secrets of such words.


Rather than collecting words, children 'collect' them.
Although they are common words that are all around us, we capture new words with our own perspective, redefine their meanings, and store them in our hearts.
To go to the sea you have never been to before, you need the light of 'Alsongdalsong'; to live hidden in a goshiwon, you need the light of 'Quiet'; to play hide-and-seek without letting people know about your situation, you need the light of 'Kkokkok'; to live together with lonely neighbors with their own circumstances, you need the light of 'Moonlight'.
The child is not alone until the queen's modifier is completed.
The people around the child, including the headmaster who secretly looks after the father and child and becomes the child's daily conversation partner, the cafeteria lady who tells the child that he is not the only one who has never been to the beach, the grandmother who gives the child riddles to keep him entertained, and even the grandfather who gives him his only snack, watch over the child so that he does not grow tired in the difficult reality.

◆ The warm comfort of beautiful and mysterious things

I am the queen of words, imagining beautiful light to shine on the world.
-In the text

When children encounter unfamiliar words, they understand them in their own way.
The name of the goshiwon is a place where ghostly goshis live, and the rice that my father orders from the restaurant every morning is interpreted as meaning that if I eat it a hundred times, I can move to a big house.
Although the child understands that the circumstances are beyond his control, he protects himself by understanding the world in his own way.
And rather than remaining in one's own mind, one becomes an observer of those around oneself, striving to share the light of those words that have comforted one.


The child stays in a goshiwon and tries hard not to let anyone know about his existence.
But one day, a strange old woman approaches the child and tells him about a secret ladder in the wall.
The child begins to escape the hide-and-seek game in the gosiwon through his encounter with his grandmother.
Perhaps, like the man next door, he learns that there are people who have it harder than him, that there are people who understand his situation and share warmth with him, through the commotion in the goshiwon that goes back and forth between reality and fantasy.
Who is the grandmother? Who put the yogurt in the refrigerator? As you follow the story, filled with these mysterious questions, you soon find yourself losing track of what's fantasy and what's reality.
The mysterious and beautiful world that a child unfolds, and the light emitted by the words within it, will quietly shine and remain in your heart.