"That punk's going to come to me, it says." "That punk that the King and the High Doctor have their sights on." "The Woodalchi General." "That he's coming this way?" "It seems so." "Along with the Woodalchi kids?" "Maybe." "Did you hear something?" "What could it be?" "Saying he's coming to seek me prepared to die?" "There's an intruder." "Episode 12." "It doesn't seem like there are any other intruders." "For now we increased the defense." "Not a frontal attack, nor an ambush attack?" "So the punk wants to commit theft." "My lord." "No more, right?" "Among the kids that jumped over the wall, was that kid there as well?" "The kid with the pretty eyes." "Let's go." "Pledged Brother's eyes were twinkling." "We've got to go and watch for him, right?" "Did he come to claim these tools?" "No." "Right." "So this was so dearly needed, I see." "What are you going to do?" "Loosen the kids and ransack more?" "Today's nocturnal trip, how about postponing it?" "You move at the same hour each month." "So today's nocturnal trip, the bastards might know." "They probably do." "Then were they trying to commit theft while you were absent?" "Wait a minute." "This punk is one who knows how to use his brain." "He merely wanted to commit theft while I was gone?" "But that's too unamusing." "That's the end?" "I think so." "He said to just make it look like we intruded, so this much should do, right?" "Intruded-like." "Then, what's going to happen?" "Hey, I don't know." "But you were listening too." "But why do I have to know more than you?" "Seriously irritating." "That child's telling me to bring the notebook to him." "Bring the notebook and meet quietly is what he's saying." "What's this talk?" "Then the thieves earlier?" "Bring it to him in person, or prepare to be met by theft." "Of course, I'll need to bring it to him in person then." "Here." "Right, here." "Don't move at all and don't get involved no matter what." "Just to wait?" "Stay glued to here." "If it's you, I think you'll do well." "Hide well and don't jump in no matter what happens to me." "So why?" "You'll know as you stay hidden." "What?" "At the moment it's about to end, there's an item you need to find." "And someone for you to bring that item to." "Got it?" "Where?" "Where is he?" "You people's general!" "Where is he right now?" "You were always glued to him so why are you here alone?" "He said not to follow him so I can't go." "I said, where?" "Where?" "!" "Have you waited long?" "Did you come alone?" "If I don't fight you with my strength alone, you wouldn't submit even in death, right?" "I had heard you were coming to me with your life wagered." "So you still had planted spies left?" "You were coming to me, but why did you wager your life?" "I need to wager the likes of my life, in order to kill you, my Lord, right?" "Why do you wish to kill me so badly?" "I heard the assassin band has entered Gae Kyeong." "I was thinking it might be you who called them." "Correct, I called them." "The people who are coming to His Majesty ... you intend to kill them all?" "Correct." "I intend to." "Even if it's dozens or hundreds?" "Now that I look at you, you are quite a sentimental fellow." "How did you travel the path of a warrior with that gentleness?" "To swallow the lives of hundreds, what exactly do you intend to gain?" "Why don't you take a guess then?" "Must you go so far, to subject His Majesty to obedience?" "Well that'd be nice." "However, it's not only that." "Indeed." "My thinking was correct." "What thinking?" "If I can just kill you, my Lord, this world will become a bit better to live in." "Alright, so where's your trap?" "If you were wagering your life to wait for me in the street corner where I'm moving in, you must have at least a trap prepared." "I gave up on it." "Why?" "To use a trap would be a lingering attachment to live no matter what." "To fight you with any lingering attachment, you are too powerful, my Lord." "So in the end, you intend to die?" "I'll ask you a last question." "What?" "High Doctor's notebook." "Did you bring it?" "I brought it." "It's enough." "Stop!" "High Doctor." "You too." "Don't come." "Both of you, to this extent ..." "Now stop it, please!" "It's dangerous, that knife." "Here." "I ..." "I'm a doctor from heaven." "I know very well where and how to cut," "So, it's an immediate painless death." "So you intend to die?" "Do you intend to kill me?" "Then will you answer me?" "When do I die?" "You at least should answer my question so I have reason to keep you living, don't you?" "Four ... about four years." "About five years later." "At whose hands do I die?" "Does the current king stay enthroned even after I die?" "Yes." "Then ... the one who will kill me is the King." "Did you ask me what I was doing right now?" "Right now, I am, that history of heaven this woman speaks of, whether I can change it, I am putting it to test." "If I can... change the history recorded in heaven, at that hour, we... will have much to talk about." "There, until then, be careful of your body." "What the heck are you doing?" "Where do you think this is that you jump in?" "You dare to put a knife to your throat so fearlessly?" "Were you going mad to die?" "The one who went mad to die is you!" "You said you couldn't even beat him." "What's wrong with you?" "You fight alone and die and it'll be the end?" "How is it that you only think about yourself?" "That man called Prince of the Court from Deokseong!" "I never could flee from him, could I?" "Yet by myself, I left and said I didn't need you so move aside." "That's why you could do nothing but this, right?" "And if you were to die?" "Then it's me who killed you." "You know what it's like for those who remain, what they feel." "You are really so mean." "Don't do that." "You can't rub it." "It could get frostbitten, so don't move your fingers until your blood circulation returns." "It'd be better to put it in warm water." "I understand." "♪ Like the rain that falls endlessly," "♪ you fall deeply into my heart." "♪ Like sand that is uncountable." "♪ You are one who has filled my heart to the brim." "♪ Days of loneliness," "♪ tears that twisted and turned," "♪ I put them in my memory and send them off with a smile." "♪ Because my step lingers," "♪ because my heart lingers," "♪ I have come so far to reach you." "What I can do ..." "I thought it was the easiest method." "Just try it first, and if it doesn't work, then it doesn't." "I've always lived like that so it's become a habit." "♪ Even if time stops," "♪ even if my heart stops," "♪ it would live in my embrace again like a lie." "To wager life so easily," "I won't do it." "Never." "Therefore ... don't cry." "♪ Smile, you, and give me your tears." "♪ Because that is happiness of mine." "♪ It will never be again," "♪ not even in death," "♪ even if I throw out my heart, you are there." "I told you you mustn't use your inner power." "I told you so clearly to only use it briefly if you were to use your inner power." "By your skills, you could've fought that Woodalchi plenty without having to use inner power." "Could it be that, that bastard was that strong?" "That you had to use up all your reserved strength?" "That Yuan nation's going to fall soon anyway." "So then, it's Ming nation afterwards." "Soon, Yuan falls and Ming comes in." "Gi Cheol, I even remember how you die." "But I'm not going to tell you." "Why?" "Because you're a hapless jerk." "She said in four or five years." "How is a life set?" "By who and by how?" "Is something that's been set, does it become unchangeable then?" "Why?" "If the current king is to kill me, then I will switch the king, and if the current nation is to harm me, I will change the nation." "If it's heaven that sets it, then I will switch that heaven too." "Fine, I've come to my decision." "I've decided not to run away anymore." "You thought well." "Then, if I don't run away then what do I do?" "I have no other choice." "I have to stand up to fight him." "Run away or fighting ... could you just stay and not do such things?" "No I can't." "I can't just breathe and live." "That definitely won't do." "So I'm asking you, Choi Young." "Yes." "Why don't we become 'partners'?" "What?" "Right now, my goal is to claim my notebook that Gi Cheol has in possession." "And Choi Young's goal is to safeguard the King from Gi Cheol." "Right?" "For now, yes." "But that human being doesn't look like he'd give up my notebook, so if your king becomes strong, then he can just tell him, "give the High Doctor her notebook" and it'll do, right?" "So our goals are the same." "There's no other way then." "We'll have to be partners from now on." "Do as I do once." ""Partner."" "You're really not going to learn any heaven words?" "Pa-teu-neo." "Not really hard to pronounce either." "But what does that mean?" "Be on the same side and fight for the one shared goal." "For the gist, it's that." "First, sit." "What?" "I saved your life, dear, and you can't do this much?" "But to become partners, there are a few things we need to do for each other." "But to become partners, there are a few things we need to do for each other." "First." "We tell each other everything." "For example, like now, when you're taking the other person somewhere, say why and where." "We're going to Gangahnjeon." "We'll go there and ask for permission to have you go under the Queen's protection." "Good." "You did good." "And second." "Partners watch out for each other." "Each other, you said?" "I told you." "I told you." "I told you." "We fight together." "You can't just leave by yourself to fight alone without saying anything." "I'll do that." "But you too." "But you too." "Don't be going around wherever as you please without saying anything." "Fine." "Here, handshake." "But isn't this handshake thing what you do when you meet or when you greet?" ""Fine, let's give it a good go together."" "We use that for that occasion too." "Here." "We hold hands like this and shake up and down hard." "Didn't you say we'd help each other out?" "Of course." "You safeguard me and I safeguard you." "You safeguard me and I safeguard you." "That's "partner."" "Then before that, could you safeguard my face (honor/dignity/reputation)?" "I heard you left alone." "I tried, of course." "But on my way, I heard this human being was in danger so I ran back again." "It was such hard work overnight." "Why?" "Did something happen?" "It's nothing." "What do you mean it's nothing." "This person, you see." "It's nothing much." "Ouch." "There's intelligence that an assassin band has entered Gae Kyeong." "I came to seek your permission to grant High Doctor to be protected under the Queen's garrison." "Will it be alright for you?" "I permit." "Court Lady Choi and the warrior maidens are with me." "Hence High Doctor, you will be protected the same as me from now on." "But High Doctor." "Yes." "May I ask you more about the future days you spoke of before?" "Was it "Joseon" that you said previously?" "What does that mean?" "There's a nation by that name." "Joseon." "Over there, somewhere under South-East Asia or something." "So there ..." "lot of people from the Yi clan lived there." "Your Majesty." "Yes, High Doctor." "Actually, I don't really know." "The story about the future days I know." "If you don't really know, then don't." "Well that ..." "I'm not sure if those future days happened after I got here, or if I know the days before I came here." "Do you not hear what I'm saying?" "It's not like I'm telling him saying I know something." "At any rate." "Just because I don't know, I can't even talk?" "Why do you speak of something you don't know in front of His Majesty?" "Hey, this person!" "This isn't how partners are like." "You're giving me commands one-sidedly." "I said, don't." "Don't do what?" "So what am I suppose to do?" "Go into some big jar and live like the dead in hiding?" "Don't meet people and don't talk?" "Feign ignorance before injured people as well?" "Don't even breathe?" "History, future?" "Give it to the dog!" "I don't know so I'm just going to live." "I said, I'm going to have to live!" "What?" "You have a gripe about my decision?" "The one who put out the hand first was clearly High Doctor." "Like this." "So then our General, that hand ... grabbed it like this and like this ..." "Our General?" "That's right." "He grabbed High Doctor's hand and dragged her?" "Look at this rascal, just because he went alone, he's making up lies." "I'm telling you it's true." "Honestly, our General and a woman?" "And the hand of the High Doctor at that?" "Nah, that's not it." "But I saw it clearly with my two eyes!" "You saw it too, right?" "Our General grabbed High Doctor's hand and pulled it." "But I didn't see it." "But I saw that." "See what now?" "When our High Doctor saved our General." "What when she saved him?" "This punk's always, right as he's about to talk ..." "High Doctor blew out breaths on our General's mouth." "And not just once or twice, but lots and lots." "So our General got his breath back." "I saw that." "It seems the Doctor somehow knew to run off to you before you committed something futile." "I was surprised that there was someone in the world who could stop you." "Wait, oh right, she isn't of this world..." "Because of that it's become complicated." "Instead of just Gi Cheol dying now one by one all of the bad guys I have to" "For the guy that thought to die together is that something you boast about?" "Ah, just wait!" "Right now I am just so busy!" "First, those who are to come to the sermon, I have to put them in refuge." "I'll give you some warrior maidens if you need." "It's to fight those Chilsa punks though." "The issue is that those assassins can't be located." "Since that is those bastard's biggest weapon." "To be unseen and unfound." "To show up only in need." "Wait a minute." "Did you say there's a spy among us?" "He knew it precisely." "That I'd wager my life to go to Prince of the Court from Deokseong." "Those words, where did it leak from?" "I said those." "In front of the Queen." "Who else was there?" "I'll settle it accordingly." "Why don't you not settle it?" "Not?" "Counter-plot." "Use the spy?" "I'll take it on." "Can you?" "First, I just need to pull out the assassins for you?" "First, it'd be the best if you can drag one out at a time at the location I want." "To fight all of them at once, I can't vouch for it." "We'll give it a try then." "Then?" "So then?" "What?" "What did that person say to you as she was stopping you from your crazy act?" "Did she expose some ways of the heaven or something?" "Life." "She lay down her own life." "She is seriously too fearless and she can't distinguish earth and sky, and for someone who says she hates the smell of blood, she put the knife on her own throat!" "Seriously." "Woah, all these clothes ..." "There is layer upon layer..." "So complicated!" "And you want me to wear all this?" "I'll tend to her myself." "You guys go out." "I'll tend to you." "Ah..yes." "Actually, I have a request to ask of you." "Yes, go ahead." "But that punk Young is rather disinclined." "He said since you were from heaven, you wouldn't be fond of lying." "So what you need my help for, is for me to lie?" "If it's difficult, I will seek another method." "Omo." "Let me have a look." "Is there a problem?" "Do you remember your face at age 20?" "My age of 20?" "Just a little handwork and I can create your face at age 20." "Pull a bit here, and remove some wrinkles." "And the forehead, put some filler and under the eyes ..." "Handwork?" "On what?" "You don't want it?" "My face at age 20?" "You will make it?" "On me?" "Yes." "You don't want it?" "Well ... that's possible?" "You got tricked, right?" "I lie well." "I do it all the time." "The full-moon on which the royal sermon will be held is four days away." "So today and tomorrow are said to be crucial." "Everyone is constantly on the move to be prepared, so likely nothing will happen." "That man is truly intending to dispose anything that is coming my way, it seems." "He will block it." "Get rid of anyone who is not on his side?" "How is a human life so easy to him?" "How great and important am I?" "On the account of just me, so many lives so easily ..." "It isn't the same." "He and Your Majesty." "They are not the same." "The one who said to hold the sermon is precisely me." "To prove one person, me, I wagered the lives of many and spoke such." "You are still different." "How?" "You just need to show them you are different." "If Your Majesty doesn't believe in Your Majesty, those who toil for Your Majesty," "become too pitiful." "Furtively, so you are not caught in the gaze of others no matter what." "The people involved could resist." "There isn't time for persuasion, so see to it yourself and do well." "Did you say, Teacher Ikjae, Yi Jae Hyeon?" "Yes." "Why, have we invited him wrong?" "If it's him, then he's someone you needn't really worry about." "He's not on Your Majesty's side." "Nor his disciples." "I think it was that in his last years, he went to Yuan nation and ate well and lived well." "So High Doctor has begun to open her mouth." "Those who would become the king's right and left hand and ones who'd come to his advantage and betrayal." "She's giving out the names one by one, I'm told." "And she's not giving them out all at once." "Only when the hour and time is pertinent." "So then, the name after that?" "Gwon ..." "Gwon Hyeok." "Who is this person?" "Protect him." "He will become a great strength to His Majesty in the future." "And also ..." "Mokgeun ..." "Yi Saek?" "Yi Saek." "It's different." "It's not the roster of names we ordered for elimination." "Young Im Mu." "But he is one we ordered for elimination." "Later on he will stand in the force opposing the king, is what I heard." "If it's the force opposing the King, then it'd be our side." "What do we do?" "Hello there." "Did you sell well?" "Oh!" "Now I'm remembering it." "About what?" "That year, the King gathered talents and did this." "Those he truly needed, he put them in a witness protection "program" and hid them in a safety house." "Protection "p"?" "STT "witness protection program"" "Similar to what "FBI" does." "Though you needn't record everything, since it's heaven language." "Yes, High Doctor." "This is what you need to know." "His Majesty gathered important people separately and furtively, he protected them." "And the place where they were kept hidden, only one," "only one person knew the location." "He was the King's bodyguard." "Yes, I understand." "I will tell His Majesty right away and put it to action." "Who's there?" "What are you doing at someone else's house?" "Look here!" "You!" "The people disappeared while we ran helter-skelter?" "Yes." "The roster we knew and the new roster we came to know." "So now we can't tell who are the allies and foes among them." "At current, that is so." "Possibly, the ones I killed could have become a great strength of mine in the future?" "If what that woman called High Doctor said is true, that is a good interpretation." "How cute." "Only one knows the location of those disappeared, she did say." "It must be that man Choi Young then." ""Don't go snooping elsewhere."" ""Come to me, I'll fight you all." "Chilsa?" "Send them all to me."" "I'll go." "That man." "I will fight him." "No." "There's something else you need to do." "Someone who you and pledged sister need to go to together and escort back." "Alright, let's go." "This damn discussion of politics gives me a headache." "Where should we go?" "I'd like to go somewhere rather far from the palace." "I came to escort you." "Is the circumstance so perilous?" "It seems it will be." "And the others?" "Those you mentioned have all been greeted and escorted." "I had thought this, since a new king is coming, that if nothing should happen, there is no hope." "If change were to occur, a new bloody storm will blow." "The place I will be escorting you to was put together in a haste, hence it will not be too pleasant." "In an era like this, a warrior as you is pitiful." "As you have to continue to slay before you are slayed." "The air is really too good." "It's completely chemical-free." "What are you doing here?" "This person... you don't even make any footstep sounds." "The warrior maidens who are protecting you?" "There is... over there!" "Look!" "Over there!" "I said I would walk alone." "From over there to here... to walk for a little while." "A very short while." "I heard you wedged in, at last." "Wedged in?" "Oh, you mean telling them about knowledge from heaven?" "How was it?" "Was it of help?" "Even if I stop you, you would continue right?" "Doing would you want." "How are you always so serious and grave and anxious and worried?" "You'll get yourself sick!" "Don't." "Look at this!" "The Queen gave it to me... how is it?" "Do I look like a Goryeo person?" "Please go in." "How's this place?" "What?" "In my world, partners, after they finish the day's work, they go to a bar and drink together." "But since there's no bar inside the palace, let's do it here." "Everyday, around this hour." "Once a day, we meet here." "Meet and do what?" "Verify what each other's fears are and talk about the next steps and cheer for each other's work." "I may be busy for a while." "I know." "I said so." "There's only one who knows it all, and that's the King's guard." "I heard you did well." "Lying act." "Very nicely." "So ... are you going to fight them all alone again?" "Since waiting for them has a better chance than finding them, when it comes to these men." "Then if you fight, can you win?" "If I fight properly, I don't think I will lose." "Raise your skirt." "Oh my." "What are you doing?" "Stay put for a bit." "That... is a knife!" "Try to take it out." "What do you want me to do with this?" "When you are in danger, use this." "Look here." "I'm a doctor!" "You want me to stab someone?" "If it's urgent, stab them first." "You can treat them later if you want." "Didn't you do that to me too." "Even though you said I don't even know how to use this... and to not stab anyone." "I will teach you how to use a knife." "I don't know if I can come every day." "But if I come here, we'll do it here." "Don't go far from them." "If you go outside of three steps, it will be hard for them to safeguard you." "Hey!" "Come back soon." "Ah, will you hold it in!" "The alcohol's intoxicating you and your nose's red." "This..." "Hey are you sure those things are after you only?" "I think so." "But it's seven of them total, right?" "That's a lot." "Anyways, those things are strong in attack." "If it's one against one, you punk, Choi Young, will be the one with the advantage." "But the issue is to fight one to one." "The one on the side's going to launch a sudden attack." "Hell, that's why I'm saying we're going to help!" "Hey, we just need to make one bastard run after you at a time, right?" "We're just going to help you out shortly, so know it." "We don't want to mingle with those disgusting assassins, alright?" "Hey, what's so happy that you're smiling like that?" "But still, you two are glad you can help someone, right?" "What's this kid talking about?" "Be honest!" "You were bored before!" "Even if you earn money, what's the use!" "There's nothing to spend it on!" "Hey, I drank during the day." "So the punk who's going to fight the assassins is making hoarse talks now." "But I can tell you're excited, it's obvious." "Why, I want to put this punk in the fish pickling jar!" "Aigo, let's go." "Hurry." "I'll give you a bowl of rice, so stuff yourself first before you go." "You're going to be fighting all night, so you need energy from food so you can win when you fight." "What are you doing?" "Let's go, I said." "Hell, that temper head!" "There are 24 shapes of pulse." "Their speed is telling." "That's what we're reading, right?" "Speed and strength." "Is the pulse rising or sinking?" "Does it feel like a bead rolling a bamboo scratch?" "There are strong pulses that sink as soon as you push." "And pulses that become stronger as you press even though they start out weak." "What do you feel?" "Have you been well?" "How is your body?" "This is the Gonseongjeon where the Queen is." "How are you coming in?" "To come to see High Doctor, of course." "High Doctor's spreading knowledge of the heaven and intelligence about the future, I heard." "Before it was so difficult to hear anything despite how hard I tried." "It didn't work when I treated you nice and it didn't work when I gave you fright either." "So what am I suppose to do?" "Didn't I say it." "Return my diary, and then we can talk." "Indeed that is to be the only method?" "What is this noise?" "!" "Have you been well, Your Highness the Queen." "It is your subject, Gi Cheol." "What are the people who are supposed to guarding this place doing?" "How on Earth is this absurd situation taking place?" "Prince of the Court from Deokseong, my Lord," "His Majesty is looking for you." "Please come to Gangahnjeon." "It seems my first meeting with the High Doctor started on the wrong footing." "Maybe I'll arrange a better meeting next time." "Why did that person come?" "I'm not sure..." "He is like a snake." "It's not the case that something happened to him, right?" "For him to come smiling so haplessly." "I see that my palace is like your courtyard now." "Don't be angry, Your Majesty." "Why?" "Are you here to check if there's anyone else you can kill?" "I came to take a brief look to see if the High Doctor is well." "When will you accept it?" "Around me, there is no one who will curl to the likes of your threats." "Are you certain?" "That Woodalchi general, that is not by your side at the moment and carelessly talked big in front of you, is most likely.." "regretting it like crazy." "Even he would get tired of this after many repeats, no?" "High Doctor seems rather smart." "Wouldn't she realize soon?" "Who has enough strength to protect her." "Now I know." "You came today to set variance." "My sister who is the Empress of Yuan sent me words." "Whether the newly ascended king is worth serving." "Whether Goryeo needs a better king." "I will do it." "Lady Choi." "Yes, Your Highness." "What do normal women do?" "Do what, are you talking about?" "When the husband is having a hard time or dispirited." "What do they do?" "I'm not sure." "That, I'm not very sure..." "You are married, right?" "Yes, I am." "During difficult or dispirited times, what does she do for you?" "In my wife's case ..." "I receive alcohol from her." "He said offering alcohol." "What alcohol...?" "We have Yihwaju made from rice." "And we have Soju from the traders which is good." "If he receives alcohol, would his mood become better?" "Didn't she ask you." "Uh, that..." "It's not just receiving the alcohol..." "That is... after drinking the alcohol..." "That is, after I become drunk..." "I cannot answer any further..." "Please gather." "What am I pressing?" "What big deal is that you're not answering?" "That you're upsetting Her Highness even?" "After you become drunk, what do you do?" "Your Highness!" "Tell me." "She and I..." "We sleep together." "The King has arrived." "Did something happen?" "Lady Choi." "Your Highness!" "Lady Choi!" "Do Chi." "Didn't I ask about what happened?" "Tell me." "Your Majesty..." "Your subject deserves death!" "Are you Prince Deok Heung?" "We are sent from the house of Prince of the Court from Deokseong." "We sent words beforehand." "Did you receive it?" "We received an order to escort you, my lord." "Do you know how to ride a horse?" "Or if not... should we prepare a carriage?" "The mountain ends and the water is swamped with no road left." "But the village of the blooming flower exists." "The mountain is high, and the water is thick, as though no road is left." "Another village stands there where the willow tree sways and the flowers bloom." "What did he just say?" "This is really nice." "Three." "Gist." "Let's end it here." "Your killing to make money anyway." "When you die, isn't it the end." "There is someone I know..." "To that person, the most important thing in this world... is living." "But... you guys and I don't know that." "To us, living... is not dying." "That's all." "But... that person is different." "That person... is really living." "And at that... with all her might." "That's why I'm saying..." "When I look at that person, I think..." ""Wait... what am I doing right now?"" "Four." "The feel of beads rolling." "Feel of bamboo scratch?" "The pulse that sinks as you press and the pulse that gets stronger as you press?" "Five." "Are you the High Doctor?" "Who are you?" "Other people call me Prince Deok Heung." "I am the current king's uncle." "You mean, you are his uncle?" "I heard you came from heaven... is that true?" "They said if I gave you this present, you would be pleased..." "Is that correct?"