"Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles." "Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad" "Episode 18" "What is the matter?" "Someone infiltrated the palace." "Infiltrated the palace?" "!" "All the guards protecting the poison warehouse were slayed." "What wretched discipline moved such undexterous dullards... to allow such obtrusion?" "!" "May you forgive my remissness, Sire." "Apprehend the culprit and immediately bring him to me!" "Yes." "Your Majesty!" "Abate your ire." "Should this be the time my fury dwindles in placidity?" "!" "Not a full moon wended by since the night they pierced my heart, and I already face another endangerment besetting my sleep?" "!" "I am mortified, Sire." "What did you find?" "He must have already escaped the palace, Your Majesty." "You commiserable rapscallions!" "How many of those damned steel plates beleaguer these walls?" "!" "And you still haven't found a thing?" "!" "Remove the Chief of Security from his post, and make him savor the wintry pavements of our prisons!" "Yes." "What did they appropriate from that warehouse?" "That..." "Speak to me!" "It was an antidote we stored there." "Antidote?" "You mean an antidote to the toadstools Dojin asked for?" "Yes, Your Majesty." "Hmmm... it surely must be a Goguryeo spy's doing." "Cut off any passageway connecting with Goguryeo, and send troops to find that man." "You must apprehend him!" "At all costs!" "Did you find the antidote?" "The physicians are sparing no effort, but they still haven't found it." "More than the court physicians, it would be wiser to... leave things to that physician working for Mahwang." "Still no news of His Highness?" "Nothing." "He wouldn't just disappear like this?" "!" "I am concerned." "The stupefaction must have befuddled him, but he shall overcome it all." "With His Majesty and Goguryeo engulfed by this quandary, there is no way he would just vanish." "*Yalu/Amnok River" "After the Chief of Security distributed water from the Amnoksu*, the epidemic was stopped from spreading among our people." "How many patients were contaminated so far?" "Only from the southern and northern gates, they number in the several hundreds, and there are even some inside the palace." "But, the physicians are strenuously looking for an antidote, so you needn't worry, Your Majesty." "I shall head outside the palace and ascertain it first hand, so make all preparations." "Sire!" "It is much too hazardous." "Should the patients come into contact with you..." "Are you saying I should enshroud myself inside these walls, daunted by my people's conniption?" "!" "You have my orders!" "Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty!" "Are you telling me even His Majesty was contaminated?" "Yes." "How could something like this happen?" "Not even someone down at the market, but His Majesty!" "Surely someone must be behind this." "I am mortified." "Apprehend all of His Majesty's servants, and find out who's responsible for this!" "Yes." "Nobody shall learn of His Majesty's ailments." "Don't let the news leak outside the palace, by any means necessary." "What did the physician say?" "Over-exertion caused this malady, so some repose shall give you solace." "Hence, I suggest we adjourn your plans outside the palace." "What?" "!" "Were you looking for us?" "What is the matter?" "His Majesty has contracted this pestilence." "Before his condition worsens, you must find that antidote." "Summon that physician working under Mahwang, and ask her if there is any progress." "Yes." "King Yuri collapsed, whereas the market is brimming with... the echoes of public rankling towards the king." "Everything is going according to our plans." "The antidote?" "!" "No matter how hard they try, they shall never get their hands on it." "Sangganim." "Isn't this the perfect time to give King Yuri the fatal blow?" "It is time we avenge all the ignominy he put us through." "Immediately summon the Council!" "Do you still feel nauseous?" "After you cleanse his alvine throes with saltwater, serve him some baekchosang*." "*Bai Cao Shuang/Pulvis Fumi Carbonisatus, carbonized soot found under cauldrons" "All right." "Did the patients who drank flagroot show any improvement?" "None." " Give them licorice pellets." " Yeon!" "If you keep this up, when are you ever going to find the antidote?" "Uh?" "Keep this up, and the Master will perish!" "Physician!" "You may leave us." "Did you find the antidote?" "Not yet." "Is there any other way?" "His Majesty is in grave condition, so we must find a solution." "We found the poison, so shouldn't you also discover an antidote?" "!" "Give me some more time." "My callowness dissatisfied your expectations, but I shall now abide by all my obligations as a prince, so may you recoup your vigor." "Show me the path that shall lead me." "You needn't worry." "I shall soon find the strength to stand by your side." "What is the matter?" "The chieftains of the Council seek audience with Your Majesty." "Did they still come, fully aware of His Majesty's ailments?" "Tell everyone to leave!" "His Majesty shall not be importuned." "No." "I shall head to the council hall." "You must not, Sire!" "The more enfeebled their king appears to be, the more unseemly my throne will become." "You shall come with me, Yeojin." "You must show you have enough resolve to confront them." "I sense traces of wearisome ordeals on your visage, Sire." "What is the reason you requested my presence?" "Your Majesty." "Are you aware of the nefarious calamity which is engulfing the capital?" "Would oblivion befit the crown adorning your king?" "Then, are you also aware of the reason why such adversity beclouds us?" "I could ask you the same question." "Devising contemptible ploys, blazoning such mendacious talebearing, planting the seed of discord between my people and me." "What bourne are you lusting after?" "Your Majesty!" "Are you misdoubting us?" "Misdoubt it is not, certitude is in my mind." "Upon what evidence are those grave insinuations based?" "The people believe these heinous events were caused... by a prince who perished twenty years ago." "That is the truth, Your Majesty!" "Such is what beclouds our people's joviality, but why is Your Majesty accusing these loyal servants of yours?" "Is conveying public sentiment a punishable malefaction?" "Or is beguiling one's people with shameful mendacity worse?" "Are you accusing your King of malefaction?" "!" "Your Majesty!" "Our people vividly recall how you swept away the claws of darkness... which engulfed us all twenty years ago." "But now, they believe your sacrifice to the heavens... is still wandering this world of the living." "How can you explain that?" "!" "May you reveal the truth, Sire!" "You aren't telling us you spared that child, out of fatherly love?" "!" "Your Majesty!" "Our people wish to learn the truth, so may you speak here and now!" "May you reveal the truth, Sire!" " Everyone shall leave." " The truth shan't be buried, Sire!" "You must tell us it is not deceit what you subjected us all to!" " Didn't His Majesty tell you to leave?" "!" " Speak no more!" "Dispel us out of these walls, and our people's dubiety... shall pursue your souls evermore!" "Should what the people believe turn out to be true, this Council shall by no means condone such contempt." "How can we uphold a throne laid upon carrions... of mendacity and disdain?" "!" "You vile whoreson!" "Do you dare challenge my throne?" "!" "Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty." " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" " Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty." "Regain your consciousness, Sire!" "How is His Majesty's condition?" "He still lies unconscious." "Regaining his vigor might be too arduous for him." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Just like all the people at the market," "His Majesty was envenomed by those toadstools." "Is that true?" "Under Guchu's command, the physicians are keeping quiet on the matter, but I've verified the truth first hand." "Nunim." "If only for Yeojin and your sake, should His Majesty depart..." "Shut that gob of yours!" "Before sitting on that throne as our king, that man is Yeojin's father and my spouse!" "Utter such blasphemous obloquy again, and you shall regret that day even came!" "Accept my apologies." "What if King Yuri doesn't regain consciousness?" "Then, Prince Yeojin will clearly inherit the throne." "But there is something you shall bear in mind, venerable chieftains." "It is positive Prince Yeojin is a legitimate heir to the throne, but his ascending to the throne or not solely depends on the Sangga." "That is natural, without question." "I came to this conclusion after carefully assessing your views, so I trust you will follow my wishes with no objections." "Those miserable dotards." "They jubilate one another, as if they moved a finger to achieve this." "What happened to that Muhyul?" "I am keeping an eye on him." "He shall be the first to perish if the situation demands it, so you must be aware of his movements at all times." "Yes." "I told you not to lose sight of that man." "My apologies." "He's not even at one of the Bureau's abodes?" "That is correct." "He will surely show up at Mahwang's sanatorium." "Send some troops there, and the moment he appears, report immediately." " Yes." " Yes." "Milady!" "What happened to you?" "Where have you been?" "I brought you the antidote." "Then... did you go to Buyeo?" "Yes." "How could you do something so danger..." "Give those patients this antidote, hurry up." "Take this antidote to the palace." "His Majesty is in grave condition as well." "Hey, Muhyul!" "What happened to you?" "!" "Where have you been?" " The Supervisor?" "!" " She's meeting the Daebo." "We questioned all of His Majesty's servants and physicians, but we still couldn't find who's responsible." "Finding the culprit is not our top priority." "If we don't find that antidote..." "Supervisor!" "What happened?" "Where on earth have you been?" "I have heard of His Majesty's ailments." "I brought the antidote." "Tell me." "What happened?" "!" "Know how worried I was?" "At least tell me something, before you disappear like that!" "Forgive me." "He completely lost it without you." "Should this happen again, you and I are done." "How is His Majesty's condition?" "We still need to wait and see, but he pulled through the crisis." "Then, Muhyul not only saved His Majesty, but also Goguryeo." "Isn't that right, Supervisor?" "That's true." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Know how much you made the Supervisor suffer?" "Offer her your apologies." "Leave us for a moment." "Chamgunnim." "Is there something we don't know?" "You know, right?" "Tell us." "Follow me." "Supervisor." "I apologize." "May you forgive me, Your Highness." "I have known your identity for a long time, but hid the truth from you." "If I had never learned of this..." "If I had spent the rest of my days as a decorator..." "If I was still that Muhyul serving His Highness and nothing more, all this would have never happened." "But what I have now become... is a Muhyul bedeviled by this nefarious curse." "Your Highness." "I can't accept this." "I shan't live like this!" "You must accept it." "Accept your grewsome legacy, and overcome it with your resolve." "How can I accept all this?" "I would then slay my brethren and forebears, and cause this country's downfall, according to that revelation." "How am I supposed to accept that?" "!" "There is... nothing I can do." "I shall leave this place." "Avoiding this matter will not bring back the past." "However unwelcoming your soul is to that curse, this is the place Your Highness belongs to, and protecting this country is your call." "Why were you sent to me in the caves?" "For whom did His Highness take his own life?" "King Daeso and his Buyeo never stop badgering our motherland." "And conspiracy against His Majesty abounds within our frontiers." "We never know when misfortune might swelter us all." "Are you going to elude all this?" "Do not ask me that." "No, Your Highness shall answer me." "His Majesty shall soon regain his strength, and he has Prince Yeojin by his side." "But, why me?" "Why should I... let this cumbrous millstone becloud my soul?" "It's because His Highness Prince Haemyeong wishes for you to do so." "Because if you strip your soul off those shackles of misfortune, then you shall become our next ruler." "His Highness's journey ended that day on the plains of Pyeongcheon, but it is through you that he wished to..." "*River extending from Hebei Province to Inner Mongolia pass Buyeo and cross the Luan River*, and gallop in the scorching sun over our long-lost fatherland." "Muhyul, that fool now doesn't even pay attention to me." "He knows what I'm feeling, but he says nothing." "He ignores me." "Chamgunnim." "Can people act that way?" "You know that well, don't you?" "What Muhyul and I went through together." "From the moment we left the caves and joined the guards under your command." "You know what kind of bond we had." "Chamgunnim." "It is time you tell us." "What is it that really happened?" "Muhyul is the third prince." "Is this the time to jest?" "It's no fun." "I didn't say that to amuse you!" "It's the truth." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Muhyul is the third prince?" "!" "Stop calling him Muhyul." "He's His Highness Prince Muhyul." "What did you just say?" "They found the antidote, and King Yuri is regaining his strength." "How do you explain that?" "!" "Didn't you assure me they would never find the antidote?" "!" "Hurry up and find what happened." "Now!" "Yes." "Drink it all." "All the way." "Ehhh... that would be enough." "Here, next one." "Orabeoni!" "Did Muhyul really find the antidote?" "Yes." "Then... did he go look for it in Buyeo?" "I never imagined he would do something so dangerous." "You weren't contaminated, right?" "I will give you the antidote, so bring it to the Biryu clan for your patients." "No." "I've heard nobody was contaminated there." "I shall leave you to your patients." "Muhyul, that fool!" "I can't take this anymore!" "Slay him!" "One day... you and I could find ourselves pointing that sword at each other." "Who are you?" "Who are you spying on?" "!" "Chamgunnim!" "What happened to you?" "An assassin was trying to harm Your Highness." "We need to treat this, follow me!" "Why are you trying to abandon His Majesty?" "I've heard it from the Supervisor." "You never know when the Council might engage in treason." "Shouldn't you protect His Majesty, Your Highness?" "It's a deep wound." "We need to treat it." "Tell me!" "Were you in truth such a feeble-minded and rueful man?" "If you planned to escape from this all, why did you get that antidote?" "Why did you risk your life for His Majesty and Goguryeo?" "!" "Your Highness shall never leave this place!" "That would be abandoning His Highness Prince Haemyeong." "Can you really do that?" "!" "Your Majesty!" "Can you hear me?" "Do you recognize your humble servant?" "What happened with the pestilence?" "You needn't worry anymore." "Did you find an antidote?" "Yes!" "His Highness Prince Muhyul brought it to us." "He left for Buyeo alone, and brought the antidote." "His Highness saved your life!" "His Majesty has regained his consciousness." "He wishes to see you." "Is it true His Majesty regained his consciousness?" "Yes, Your Highness." "Announce my presence." "You can't meet him now." "His Majesty is not inside the palace, at the moment." "He's not here?" "!" "Then, where on earth did he go?" "I am not allowed to disclose that." "Your Majesty." "Come closer." "You know what this is?" "It is something I kept when I left Buyeo." "For someone like me, who never met his father, it was the only sign which could lead me to my father." "The moment His Deceased Majesty* saw this broken dagger," "*Jumong" "he accepted me as his son." "I thought, when I would meet my father, all my grief would be swept away by jubilation." "When he abandoned my mother and me, and left for Buyeo," "I thought I'd forget all my days spent enduring the... scorn and disdain a fatherless boy can face." "But... that wasn't the truth." "Even after I was acknowledged as a prince, the resentment I harbored for my father never vanished." "So..." "I can understand what you feel now." "Know why I summoned you here?" "It was here... that I first heard of your nefarious fate, and the place where I planned to slay you." "Why didn't you kill me?" "Why did you defy the heavens' revelation, and spared my life?" "Even if only now, fulfill your duty and slay me." "Stop this nefarious fate of mine... from beclouding all creation." "I shall... accept you as my son and prince of this country." "The heavens say I will cause your demise, Sire." "Will you... still acknowledge me as your son?" "If you do so, not only the chieftains, but even the people shall turn their backs on you." "Will you... still accept me as a prince?" "I shall no longer dread whichever path the heavens gleam." "Whatever ordeal it might bring, you are my son." "His Majesty ordered us to escort you back." "I shan't go back to Buyeo." "You may leave." " Take her!" " Yes." "What do we do?" "You swiftly alert the Chief." "Everyone else, follow me." "Yeon!" "The Black Shadows know our whereabouts, so it's dangerous here." "We need to leave this place." "Wherever you go, I shall follow you." "What's wrong?" "Is anything the matter?" "The reason I tried to leave this place... was to escape from my own incoming ordeals." "But..." "I now realize how fatuous my belief was." "Now..." "I shall no longer run away." "Milady." "Whichever change may befall me, don't be surprised." "My promise of staying by your side... shall never be broken." "Muhyul." "Hey!" "What's wrong with you?" "We heard everything about Your Highness." "I beg your forgiveness for acting as such all this time!" "Don't do this!" "If even you treat me this way, then what am I supposed to do?" "Maro." "Chubalso." "Until the day I die, you shall forever be my compeers." "Muhyul!" "Nunim!" "Nunim." "Nunim." "Let us show some dignity, for once." "You always act so bluntly, it's no surprise the courtiers look down on you." "Ahhh... how am I going to betray my nature?" "!" "But, what is the reason His Majesty summoned the court for a meeting?" "He summoned the court?" "!" "You haven't heard?" "Not only the chieftains, but all courtiers have been summoned as well." "What is the reason behind this meeting?" "Couldn't it be something regarding our involvement in the calamity?" "That is impossible." "Whatever King Yuri uses to reciprocate, nothing will change." "He did solve this pestilence, after finding the antidote." "But the talebearing and public sentiment haven't changed." "Do you have any guess?" "I don't know myself." "Supervisor!" "What is the reason even troops outside the capital have been summoned, and security inside the palace strengthened?" "Is it related in any way to the court meeting?" "You shall soon find out." "All the courtiers and chieftains have gathered at the royal council hall." "I advise you to swiftly follow them." "His Majesty deigns you with his presence." "I trust everyone is aware of the talebearing regarding the third prince." "The people believe this calamity was brought by the prince's nefarious fate, but we already proved how it was mere concoction, and that even this pestilence was fruit of someone's malefaction." "Then, can you testify the third prince really perished that day?" "You must state it clearly!" "Did the third prince perish?" "You may enter." "This boy is my third-born prince," "Muhyul." "Your Majesty!" "How dare you christen him as such?" "!" "Have you forgotten what you said that day?" "That his nefarious fate would one day lead Goguryeo to its downfall." "But, how can you allow this man inside these kingly walls?" "!" "May he be indeed your son or not, the Council shall not acknowledge him as prince!" "If you do so, this Council shall no longer heed your command!" "I am fully aware I do not enjoy your approval." "And I understand your opposition to this matter." "But..." "I ask you to give me a chance." "A chance to prove by my own doing that there is... nothing nefarious about my fate." "And what would this chance signify?" "Time is all I ask." "Should I not show you the kind of meritorious deeds befitting of a prince..." "Should I therefore fail to gain your trust and confidence..." "Then, with my own hands..." "I shall take my life." "His Majesty cannot do this to me." "Without conferring a single word with me, he acknowledged that fool as a prince." "Am I really the mother of this state?" "Nunim." "If he thought about Yeojin even in the slightest, he would have never done this." "Abate your angst." "You must be even more resolute, at this juncture." "May the day I decided to spare that fool be damned." "He will become a wall impeding Yeojin's path." "What can we do?" "It was a much too daunting proposal." "Didn't you just entrust your life to the Council?" "I had no other way to stop their tirade, what can I say?" "All I can show for right now is my own life." "But... this life of mine shall become my fiercest weapon." "How does it look?" "Did I fully recover?" "You look much better, and your pulse has stabilized." "Looks like you can get up now." "Ahhh..." "I thought I would die in here!" "Yeon!" "Yes." "May I ask you something?" "That Muhyul who brought you the antidote." "What's going on between you two?" "Ahh... well, from what I can see, you two are just... somewhat close, I suppose?" "!" "Whatever your relationship with Muhyul," "I trust you will never forget whom you belong to, and that would be me." "Understand what I'm saying?" "Yes." " Right!" " Master!" "Master." "It..." "I..." "It's trouble!" "Why?" "That..." "Yeon." "Leave us alone." "Right, right!" "Master." "You know, that Muhyul?" "That man, he's a prince." "What kind of palaver is that?" "Believe me, I'm telling you the truth!" "His Majesty's third prince, don't you remember?" "All those rumors at the market, that's the one!" " Really?" "!" " Yes." "Is this going to benefit me?" "!" "Or the other way around?" "Ahhh..." "I can't decide." "Milady." "I came to escort you." "She is losing herself in the chalice's oblivion." "There's an obstacle on the way to Prince Yeojin's crowning, it's understandable." "Give her some solace, Your Excellency." "May the heavens curse me for not slaying him when I could!" "I present you His Highness Prince Muhyul." "Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad" "Main Translator  Timer:" "MisterX" "Timing QC: julier" "Editor/QC: thunderbolt" "Coordinators: mily2, ay_link" "Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles."