The wait is over, a perfect ending that exceeds expectations!
The second story of Lee Kkot-nim's "The Child I Want to Kill"

The second story of Lee Kkot-nim's "The Child I Want to Kill," which rewrote the history of Korean youth literature, has now arrived.
A perfect sequel that exceeds expectations, living up to the reputation of "The Child Who Wants to Kill," which instantly captivated hundreds of thousands of readers with its overwhelming immersion and sweeping plot.


If "The Child Who Wants to Kill" evoked passionate sympathy from teenage readers with its dramatic twists, concise and powerful sentences, and the burning sense of crisis embedded within it, this book, no less than the previous work, captures the dramatic events and the characters' deep inner selves in even greater detail with the author's signature clear perspective and suspenseful story.


The moment I thought everything was over
The story begins again

A death occurs at school and a 17-year-old girl is identified as the prime suspect in her friend's murder.
The case, which had been a breathless battle for the truth, faced an unexpected situation with twists and turns, and eventually ended with a chilling conclusion in "The Child Who Wants to Kill."
This is why readers left on the edge of a cliffhanger desperately demand a sequel.

"The Child Who Wants to Kill 2" begins again at the moment just before the truth is revealed.
In the first half, the story reaches its climax as the details of all the events are finally revealed, and the story moves towards an ending that no one could have predicted… … .

“Without writing this story
“I thought it would be difficult to write another work.”

Even in stories that end with "The prince and the princess lived happily ever after," we ask, "Really?"
If the story ends with a shocking ending, the questions are bound to become more persistent and persistent.
I read the work with a trembling heart, and I was so curious about the well-being of the characters in it.

The writer creates the story, but the book leaves the writer's hands and lives its own destiny.
If the lives of the characters in the work continue after the story ends, what would have happened to them after they were caught up in a shocking incident that shook their lives to their very foundations?

Three years after the story ended, readers still couldn't let go of the characters in the novel, and the author often couldn't sleep thinking about them.
The author, who realized that he could no longer move forward without taking responsibility for the characters in “The Child Who Wants to Kill,” eventually confessed, “I realized that it would be difficult to write other works without writing this story.”

When all that talk was finally over
You will definitely cry.

Even after such bitter wounds and tears, can we continue to embrace each other? If the first story of "The Child Who Wants to Kill" was about truth and lies themselves, reflecting the world like a broken mirror, the second is about the desperate heart that somehow tries to navigate between those truths and lies.


“If the first story was about truth and faith,
The second story is about rebuilding a shattered life.
I don't know how many tears I shed while writing this story.

Because no matter how much a life has collapsed, it must be built again.
“Because that’s how life has to be.” - Lee Kkotnim

When the story, which leaves no room for a moment of distraction, ends and all the clues fit together like a puzzle, readers who have been watching with bated breath will find themselves rubbing their eyes, their hearts warmed by the emotion that has seeped into them without them even realizing it.

Is it possible to go back to before reading this book?
Crossing the cold world where good and evil and truth are distinguished
Warm faces met with faith and goodwill

Until now, Lee Kkot-nim's world of work seemed to be divided into two parts: on the one hand, heartwarming stories that gently touch the hearts of teenagers, and on the other, intense and chilling stories that directly confront the absurdity of the world.


However, in "The Child I Want to Kill 2," the author clearly observes the other side of conflict and cynicism, while movingly showing that suppressing a sharp voice is a warm and strong heart that does not give up good will and faith under any circumstances.


Ultimately, this book is a story about hope blooming at the end of despair.
Who could have created this age-old, yet unwavering, message—the very raison d'être of youth literature—so "entertaining" and "emotional"? Only within the sheer power of the story, which unfolds captivatingly from beginning to end, does the warmth of Lee Kkotnim's world finally come to fruition.


Author's Note

“Taking responsibility for the characters in the book.
It was a question that had been lingering in my throat like a thorn and had kept me up at night.
Was I responsible for the main characters?
Can you say you did your best?
no.
If I answered yes, I would be lying.
“I felt that I couldn’t write another story without taking responsibility for ‘The Child I Want to Kill.’”

“I don’t know how many tears I shed while writing this story.
Because no matter how much a life has collapsed, it must be built again.
Because that's how life has to be.
“It was only after writing ‘The Child I Want to Kill 2’ that I realized the second story should have come out sooner.”