Barely safe
Brainwave Cube
Stergermann syndrome
breathing hole
Full Moon Day
Cherry blossoms fluttering in the rain
A lost child, I lost my memory
a hill overlooking the sea
Another world
To be a perfect child
Secrets to be kept
A hand that will never let go
Even though it's an obvious trap
Shameless and selfish
Who are you really?
You who were always by my side
Si-eun and Si-eun, and
Can I stay here?
In front of the cherry blossom rain again

Author's Note

★Bestselling author of the "Time Cat" series★
A full-fledged SF coming-of-age novel presented by Park Mi-yeon!

A World with Two Moons
This is the world I've lived in
… … It has to be that way

『To the Second Moon』 was published as the 122nd volume of the Consonant and Vowel Youth Literature series.
"To the Second Moon" is the first youth novel by Park Mi-yeon, the author of the children's book series "Time Cat," which has been a consistent bestseller with five volumes published, following the success of "Time Cat."


In 『To the Second Moon』, which stands out for its densely set SF worldview, various characters with three-dimensional personalities appear around the main character, Si-eun, who grows up.
This is an exciting work that will keep readers, both experienced and new to young adult literature, gripped by the suspenseful events that unfold with every turn of the page, the detailed worldview setting, unexpected villains that transcend the bounds of ordinary imagination, and the twists and turns that continue until the very end.

A world where parallel universes exist.
This is a world where two moons rise.
The protagonist, Si-eun, who recently woke up from a six-month coma following a car accident a year ago, has lost her memories of the past due to the aftereffects of the accident.
Because of that, his mind is still full of confusion, but he is desperately trying to regain his memories as his father wished, to find his original place.

On her first day as a transfer student at Youngjae High School, Si-eun gets lost in the tricks of her classmates and meets Ha-jun, a junior punching champion, and with his help, she solves an augmented reality maze.
After that, he tries to solve the brainwave cube that his father gave him as a gift for his entrance to school, but fails every time. His older brother, Si-hoo, takes the cube, solves it, and returns it to him with a memory-it with a place and time he has never seen before written on it.

When I touched the 'FINISH' button on the top of the completed cube, one side opened like a lid.
But the inside was empty.
I couldn't believe it, so I put my hand inside the cube and stirred it.
What was attached to the tip of my finger was a memory stick the size of a fingernail.
I pressed the memory button with a puzzled mind, and a message appeared in the air in an instant.

[October 21, 10:00 AM, in front of the cherry blossom tree at 1042 Oran-ro]

Ten seconds later, the holographic message containing my brother's familiar handwriting disappeared.
It was absurd.

_In the text

Si-eun, who went to the place written in the note her brother gave her, collapses with a severe headache after seeing the unseasonable cherry blossom rain falling in late autumn.
And in the dream, he sees himself hiding in a corner of the room, trembling with fear, in a world where a single moon rises.


Si-eun, who is feeling uneasy because she keeps having vivid dreams of the same flow, goes to the place where cherry blossom rain is falling once again to find out why she is having those dreams.
But rather than finding a clue, he feels more confused and anxious as he feels a discrepancy between the one moon he saw in his dream and the two moons floating in the real sky.


Then, Si-eun encounters a lost boy living in a rehabilitation center for Stergerman syndrome (a genetic disease that causes damage to the parietal lobe).
It turns out that the child was Ha-jun's younger brother, Lee-jun, and Ha-jun and Si-eun become close because of that incident.

One day, while Si-eun was going through a similar time as any other teenager, getting a little excited about Ha-jun, she bumped into a girl while walking down the street with Ha-jun.
And the girl looks at Si-eun, her face turns pale, and asks how she exists in this world.


“Do you know me?”
As I took a step closer and asked again, the girl hesitated and took a step back.
Then, he hurriedly turned on his smart band and displayed a hologram image next to my face.
Surprisingly, I was in the video.
He was laughing with a blonde girl, his face looking younger than before.

_In the text

I'm good at drawing and I like fish.
But why is he more talented at punching?
Why does the smell of fish make me sick?
Am I… … really me?

Si-eun learns the shocking truth from a girl who was her friend that she died in a car accident a year ago.
Si-eun, who couldn't believe the story, tried to think that the video was manipulated, but a feeling of unease lingered somewhere in her heart, so she went to the memorial park that was shown in the video with Ha-jun and regained some of the memories that she had lost, or rather, that had been suppressed by drugs.
The real Choi Si-eun is dead, and he is forced to remember the difficult story that he is the second Si-eun.

Si-eun's older brother, Si-hu, feels sorry for Si-eun, who is still in shock, but also tells her other information that Si-eun did not realize and a surprising story about her father.
It was a far-fetched, absurd story, but Shi-hoo insists that it is true and even reveals the terrifying plan he has figured out about his father.

“You could have just left it as it was without me remembering.
Then I wouldn't be so confused and miserable! Why did you tell me? Why!
Before I knew it, I was crying.
“I was going to do that too.
“If only your father were satisfied with you now.”

_In the text

Now, Si-eun must ponder the question, "Who am I really?" while simultaneously digging into the memories that have not yet fully returned.
And she must make every effort to become the 'Choi Si-eun' that her father wants her to be.
How many hurdles does Si-eun have left to overcome? How will her future change? And is Si-eun truly the second Si-eun?

"To the Second Moon" is a full-fledged science fiction novel that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very last page, packed with twists and action you don't often find in novels featuring female protagonists.
It is also a coming-of-age novel that is perfect for today's youth, reminding them of the obvious but easily forgotten proposition that "we must affirm ourselves and find our true selves."

If, while enduring a hellish reality, a new environment were presented that could break it, no one would want that environment to change.
But now someone is trying to take it away.
In that situation, would it be right to lie and hide my true self to protect what I have, and to reject those who love me, or would it be right to go back to the difficult reality I had before and face reality as my true self?


This book makes you seriously consider every moment which path you should take to achieve the happiness you truly desire, and then meticulously shows you the ideal and true reality you must reach at the end of that struggle.
The path forward while worrying is bound to be scary and fearful.
But that's okay.
He may seem like an annoying person at first glance because he is selfish and doesn't hesitate to lie when necessary, but somehow, Si-eun, who makes you want to hold his hand and pat him, will always be by his side.

I hope that the youth who are running forward as if being chased without time to think about what is right will begin the journey of finding their 'true selves' by walking in step with Si-eun in the moonlight of 'To the Second Moon'.

If the reality you face right now is unbearable, if it feels like no one is on your side, if you feel so inadequate and insignificant, if your thoughts are running wild and you feel suffocated, I hope you will recall the question that Si-eun has been holding onto all along.
And I look for the 'breathing hole' that allows me to live and breathe.
I believe that such small breathing holes will definitely help us get through anxious and shaky times.


_From the author's note