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[Final Episode]

Dae Gil! Dae Gil!

- Dae Gil! - Dae Gil!

Dae Gil!

Dae Gil!

So the war is over.

So is the war finally over?

Right.

Dae Gil.

Dae Gil!

Dae Gil, are you okay?

I thought you were dead. I was about to die with you.

How long was I unconscious?

About a day and a half.

Go on inside and lie down. I'll boil the medicine.

Sir, just as you had said, we were able to live.

The king promised that he would spare us.

What do you mean that came from His Majesty the King?

It is by the grace of Sir Baek Dae Gil!

Thank you so much, Sir!

Everyone, please return to your hometowns.

Go, not as traitors who took part in a rebellion,

but to live as the people of this country.

Do you understand me?

- Aigoo, thank you, Sir. - Thank you,

Sir. Baek Dae Gil, hoorah!

Hoorah! Hoorah! Hoorah!

King Yeongjo (Joseon's 21st King)

From the moment you joined forces with the traitors,

you crossed a river that you cannot uncross. I'm sure you know this.

Prince Milpung (Yi Tan, great-grandson of Crown Prince Sohyeon)

Let me ask you one thing.

Was it out of duty or out of your own greed?

Your Majesty! This lowly servant was dense,

and could not see things clearly.

Please, just only take my life.

Didn't I ask,

whether it was out of duty or out of greed.

I have seen

what the people of this nation want.

It was a decision made for the people, you say?

However, because I lacked virtue,

I was unable to recognize someone brimming with his own selfish ambition.

For me

to just cut your neck off right now, won't be sufficient.

Since you severed your ties with the traitor with your own hands,

and to honor the promise I made to Baek Dae Gil,

I will at least spare your life.

However, never

even turn your head again toward the capital.

Your Majesty.

Ten thousand years!

Ten thousand years, Your Majesty!

Ten thousand years! Ten thousand years!

He has caught the treasonous bastard!

Yi In Jwa

His Majesty the King.

Thousands of thousands of years. Thousands of thousands of years. Thousands of thousands of years. Thousands of thousands of years.

Having looked after the state affairs in my place, all this time,

you've all worked hard.

To maintain political stability,

what can't we do, Your Majesty?

Your Majesty, truly I congratulate you on your great victory! Choi Yi Seok (Left State Minister)

Congratulations.

But,

I have not decided yet

how to deal with the rebel ringleader Yi In Jwa,

That fellow Yi In Jwa, even if his body is dismembered, (Jo Il Soo, Prime Minister)

the punishment is not enough. He is a treacherous criminal.

His beheading must be swiftly executed.

Your Majesty, decapitate the criminal

and set him up as an example for the people.

Come in.

It's been so long.

Dae Gil.

Oh my! Have you been well?

You look even prettier when I look with my single eye.

I don't hate you.

When did you hate me?

You did it. You really did it, huh?

Is there news of my father and my master?

Were you looking for me?

What happened in Jeolla Province? What about Park Pil Hyeon?

Look at your father carefully. Nothing escapes me.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

I know what I'm doing. Right?

Your Majesty, what is all this?

They are the heads of the traitors Jeong Hee Ryang and Park Pil Hyeon, that I picked from the war. What do you think?

Decapitation?

Jeong Hee Ryang, who had raised an army in Yeongnam, was captured and decapitated.

In a sweep by the advancing forces of Seonsan Governor Park Pil Geon and the Gonyang Leader Woo Ha Hyeong.

Honam's Park Pil Hyeon participated in the rebellion from Jeonju. Before he was able to raise an army he was arrested, then hung.

Now that those who took part in the rebellion are dead and gone,

that fellow Yi In Jwa, probably no longer has any desire to live.

Let's raise Yi In Jwa up again?

Is that possible?

If we don't do that, we're the ones about to get the ax.

The reason that His Majesty hasn't punished that fellow Yi In Jwa yet...

Isn't it to completely clear the rest of the stragglers?

At this rate if a day were to come when

we are discovered to have been secretly in league with that traitor...

Excellency, shouldn't we do something quickly?

For the time I have invested in chasing you, killing you with just a single blow isn't fitting.

Confess... the names of the cabinet members who joined your cause.

For someone like me who will die regardless,

what do I have to regret that I would do such a thing?

I will give you a chance to end your own life.

In the event that you do not commit suicide,

I will have your body dismembered as the people look on.

Cut up the dismembered arms, legs, five viscera and six bowel organs (internal organs),

then have them tossed to the dogs.

You have become a monster.

Look at the mirror. In the end, you have also become a monster.

Seeing you call me a monster

is quite a relief.

A monster with a hundred eyes and a thousand ears.

Becoming a monster like Father was,

was my most sincere wish from the very depth of my being.

You have exactly until tomorrow morning.

Your Majesty, if Yi In Jwa is to die in this manner,

the evidence of conspiracy between him and the ministers cannot be found.

I don't need things such as evidence.

The cabinet members of the royal court move in accordance with the balance of power.

If I feared them, how could I be regarded as King?

What exactly are you worried about?

If they rise up again, I will trample them.

If they arm themselves with swords and shields to rise up like hornets, all I need to do is slay them.

There is no "single blow" in politics. Though the base is cut the roots must be left, so that they can be used.

Wait and see. When Yi In Jwa's whereabouts fade into the unknown,

on that very night, those bastards will be the first to make their move.

There is no use trying to understand.

Kim Che Geon

It cannot be understood.

Why? What is the reason for the change?

That is the path a king must take.

After shifting back and forth between life and death, at the end of that road, what's left is

only self-assertion and reliance on one's decisions. And probably loneliness.

It is something that utlimately those who do are not int that position cannot do.

Take it.

Who sent this?

I just did as I was told.

Older Brother, let's meet.

You go back home first.

He changed. That fellow Hwang Jin Gi, he's changed.

You said it yourself. (Hwang Jin Gi)

A nation that was for the people. You would install a king who would take care of his people.

But not only are you unable to fill the empty stomachs of the starving people,

but also you turned the very flesh on their backs into arrow shields. You did!

I have found out where Yi In Jwa is being held.

Before that fellow spills, we must act first!

Then... That, Your Excellency, means...

If you escaped, you should've lived as if you were dead. Why did you come here again?

One would have to be able to forget the taste of your sword, Hyungnim.

I've only been able to come thus far with the single determination to have your neck, Hyungnim.

Come.

You aren't like before.

Your skills have also improved a lot.

Did you try to pluck Yi In Jwa's neck with your own hands?

Doing so won't cleanse my own sins.

Jin Gi.

Please don't call me like that,

because I think of my mother when you call me like that.

I came to receive my punishment. The taste of the sword is just the icing.

This is a man's determination, so let's make this for sure.

Why... Why did you spare me?

There are just two people I need to spend my entire life atoning for.

First is my wife who met the wrong husband and nearly became a widow.

The second is you.

Spend the rest of your life reflecting on your past actions.

Thank you. Brother.

What happened?

He probably left to go far away. We will not be able to see him again.

Master, about Your Majesty. Do you think he could ever return

to His Highness, as he was before?

Don't get your hopes up.

In one's place, enduring the weight placed on one's shoulders, is life.

Have you come to save me or to kill me?

Seeing as you are talking this way, it seems you haven't told the King everything yet.

Your Excellencies, in the end, cannot throw me away.

Sorry,

but now you must die.

Current King...

That is the path a king must walk.

After shifting back and forth between life and death, at the end of that road, what's left is

only self-assertion and reliance on one's decisions.

And probably loneliness.

It is something that ultimately those who are not in that position cannot do.

Traitor Yi In Jwa will be dismembered and put on display.

Baek Dae Gil, go verify his death with your own eyes.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Even in the last moment, I guess the throne is something that you still regret not having.

As I said before, I never did such a thing as regretting.

But there is one thing.

Choosing you, Baek Dae Gil, is one of the most stupid pitiful things I've done.

Yi In Jwa, you are quite the oxymoron.

Your words and actions are the epitome of inconsistency.

It is not I who am a sack of inconsistency,

but this nation itself is an oxymoron.

Stop it. Your last...

My last moments are when I die in your hands.

What are you doing?

Wasn't it your wish to end my life?

Don't even think of dying so easily.

Atone for your sins before the people. With tears of penitence.

I am wronged.

For I stood up to save the people, to make a prosperous country with a strong army,

a country that does not cause suffering due to status.

For someone such as I, who attempted to found a nation that was for the people,

under what circumstances do I need to die?

Everyone watch out.

I, Yi In Jwa,

one day will...

WILL...

in this rotting land,

more than you all, one million, ten million times more,

be a needed person. You will know!

I, Yi In Jwa,

WILL NEVER DIE!

What is the meaning of this?

The former king bestowed this sword upon me to rescue the people,

and to protect Your Majesty, who are my friend and younger brother.

However, now I want to just live as an ordinary citizen.

The hearts of the people are like reeds in the wind.

So we cannot know what kind of wind will blow or when to shake them.

Please, with your mighty rule,

hold steady the hearts of the people so they do not waver.

I wil

I will remember it always.

Your grace is immeasurable.

♪ Even if my heart is drained that's the place you are ♪

Please remain a commendable person throughout and under the heavens,

as a wise king.♪ Will your heart be with me then? ♪

Are you leaving? Must you really?♪ Will your heart be with me then? ♪

Wherever you go,

please go to a place where I can always find you.♪ Because the words which have not yet been said remain ♪

♪ Because I cannot live a time without you ♪

In the end, that tenacious Yi In Jwa has died in such a manner.

Though we have one less burden to deal with

for some reason, a part of me feels...

I don't feel quite placated yet.

I also feel like a bone is stuck in my throat.

Of course, you must feel that way.

If you do not move according to the oath,

I will run as is to the palace.

I will reveal the records of conspiracy between your excellencies and Sire Yi In Jwa.

- You wench! - Even if you kill me right here on this spot,

letters have already been sent to dozens of comrades.

The choice is yours, Your Excellencies.

Please choose, Your Excellency.

Will you just die like this,

or will you at least struggle to stay alive?

Yi In Jwa. In the end it was that fellow who had a measured hold over us.

I will meet with Her Majesty the Queen Dowager.

Your Excellency, please head to the prisons.

Your Majesty the Queen Dowager, you must take a decisive step.

What is there to fear now? (Great Queen Dowager Gyeongsoon, King Gyeongjong's second queen, Queen Seonui))

Your lowly servants will put our lives at stake to protect you, Your Highness.

You must

surely succeed.

When was the Court Tasting Lady changed?

Taste the food again.

Why are you hesitating?

I told you to taste the food again.

Y-Your Majesty!

I have committed a sin worthy of death!

Y-Your Majesty.

Please spare me.

Who is it?

Who instigated you to do it?

Stop!

You bastards!

Since I can appease My Liege's soul even like this,

I won't have any regret.

San Gil.

I am sorry,

Your Majesty.

Current King,

you'll spend the rest of your life alone

and die lonely.

Crown Prince...

Crown Prince!

Haeng.

Arrest them!

What are you doing?

What's this?! Let go!

Let go! What are you doing?

Why, you bastards?

Who has taken part in poisoning the Crown Prince?

Poison?

That's utterly unreasonable, Your Majesty!

We have been wronged, Your Majesty!

Do I have to cut off an arm and a leg

for you all to tell me the truth?

Your Majesty,

we have nothing to do with this incident!

Do you know who this wench is?

That... That is...

Look very carefully!

Is she the court lady who goes in and out of the Dowager Queen's quarters?

Tell me now.

Then...

I will spare your lives.

At the Dowager Queen's quarters,

I have seen her a few times.

Behind you all

was the Dowager Queen.

Why?

If you choose the Dowager Queen,

do you think she can save your lives?

The criminals and their associates,

their relatives, in-laws,

and even their third cousins. Have them all arrested and brought in.

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!!

Your Majesty!!

Search thoroughly!

Yes!

Why did you have to

go that far?

Are you asking because you don't know?

I have not forgotten, not even once,

that day.

Now,

do you understand my pain?!

Confine Her Highness the Dowager Queen to the royal investigation quarters.

Also, if she takes even one step out of the royal investigating quarters,

at that instant, you must cut her neck.

Do you understand?

Yes, Your Majesty.

Summon Royal Secretaries and all of the chroniclers.

Regarding the traitor Yi In Jwa's war,

bring all the drafts you have prepared for the record up to now.

However, Your Majesty!

For the drafts prepared for the Annals, in order to prevent the writings from disappearing in history,

it is the law that the King shall not read the drafts personally.

What? Is there a law that is above even the king?

On the post-factum of me, the Annals, or the Journal of the Royal Secretariat,

no records of the traitors must remain.

What are you doing, not bringing me that immediately?

I can't tolerate even one hair of you, bastard.

Disappear without a trace from Joseon, Yi In Jwa.

Drag all of them out!

The Crown Prince has passed away.

The young Crown Prince? How?

It was poison.

It seems Yi In Jwa, the Sorons, and even the Dowager Queen schemed together.

Yi In Jwa.

Then the whole family who were arrested before...

He arrested all of the relatives and in-laws who were related to the Sorons.

He is thinking not only to bring about a disaster that wipes out a whole family but also to root out any seed of that family.

No matter what, I have to meet His Majesty.

Don't get involved.

Do you know how it feels to have lost a child?

Right now, you can neither persuade His Majesty nor comfort him.

- But— - Also, you have already left the king's side.

Stay put.

Don't take part in the matters of royal court... anymore.

It is now time for us to leave.

Dae Gil!

Dae Gil!

Hello.

Hello! Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome. They say that even though you're carrying bullets in your body, you can live a long life.

Current King, you'll spend the rest of your life alone and die lonely.

Now, do you understand my pain?

The King sitting on the throne has no time to feel such sadness.

Nor should he do so.

Your Majesty, you called for us?

How is the public sentiment?

Even though there are some people who are still sad about the Crown Prince's death, generally it's calm.

But...

Is there anyone in Joseon who does not know of Baek Dae Gil?

If you are hungry, he gives you rice, and if you need money, he lends you money.

He's a hundred times better than the king, of course.

By the way, they say that fellow Baek Dae Gil is of the king's bloodline.

I have heard that rumor as well! Here. Have some more to drink.

Baek Dae Gil.

Your Majesty, it's difficult to say this,

but the people in the eight provinces revere the fellow called Baek Dae Gil as a king.

We can't just stand and watch, Your Majesty!

That's right. Please have Baek Dae Gil arrested and brought in, and punish him severely.

You have to nip the source before such a traitor reveals his traitorous mind.

Are you guys being sincere?

I must nip the source before such a traitor reveals his traitorous mind? Then I must do so!

Immediately, arrest the fellow called Baek Dae Gil and behead him!

Why? Isn't this what you all wanted?

- What are you going to do if I go against you? - Really!

Seriously, he is worth 100 nyangs, but why am I worthy only 20 nyangs?

Why? Are you curious about that as well, Your Highness?

Your Highness?

Here, have a glass.

♪ It's all right, I've never let you go ♪

♪ Please ♪

- Don't run. You'll get hurt. ♪ Don't pound on your heart alone ♪

♪ Even if fate falls behind the world ♪

♪ This place for you is my spot as well ♪

By the way, who are you to block my way like this?

♪ After a long way, we will definitely meet again ♪

How about living here?

Everyone is so busy eating and living that the days are chaotically flying by.

Then you have no room to incubate other thoughts.

That's right. I came here today to kill you.

I heard there is someone who openly exercises power, like a king, even though there is someone on the throne.

That's why I came here.

Kill me.

The public sentiment is not something I can do anything about

The public sentiment kindled in the market streets has begun to bother the King's mind in the palace.

I have nothing to say even if it's called treason.

Tell me what's in your heart.

In your deep mind, have you ever shouted you are a king yourself?

I don't know.

If you didn't share the blood with me as a brother,

or if you were not at least my real brother,

I don't know... what I would have done.

Right now, do you know what you said means?

Everyone is telling me that I should be king.

They become earnest for me to be a king.

However,

even if I were to drag you out and come to sit on the throne,

indeed, do you think they'd like it?

The people are the ones who know about the natural law and reason.

Because I am an ordinary person like them, that's why they are more comforted and admire me more.

I mean, it's not at all that they really want me to overturn this country.

Why aren't you confident in your position?

Go down first.

How are you going to live from now on?

I am asking not as your king,

but as your brother.

I am one of the many people of this land.

I will work when I have to, play when I can,

and sometimes gamble as well. Probably, that's how I'll live.

Right. You had that kind of character too.

You used to be simple and innocent, and didn't have any of the worries of the world.

There was a time like that.

I suddenly... long for those days

So does this humble subject.

Will those days come again?

When we gamble together with a smile.

Those days... I mean.

Are you planning on leaving?

Will you come back?

My body is already old,

and so I don't think I will be able to be a source of strength to you.

This throne

is becoming more lonely.

It's delicious.

Catch it!

Come here, you punk!

Catch it!

I got it!

Oh! This one is ripe.

I haven't seen Dae Gil all day.

Yeah, I haven't seen him all day either.

Where did he go?

Could his disease be recurring?

Hey, he's getting married tomorrow. I don't think so.

Look at him! I knew this would happen.

This punk left his house again without controlling himself.

I told you that's not it.

Then, what should I do? Tomorrow is the wedding day... without a bridegroom...

Don't worry.

I'll find him before you finish cutting those onions.

Cut this watermelon nicely, huh?

- Aigoo, that punk! - This punk!

Without coming to his senses...

It has been a while.

Please line up.

Aigoo, it's been a while.

Welcome!

Wait, wait.

Are you Kim Sae Ttol from Dan Village?

Well... do I have some problem...

Problem? There's a ton of problems!

How many days have you been here now?

Every day you drink and lose all your money gambling. Why do you keep coming back?

You should not keep living from hand to mouth like this.

Please leave.

Well. Yes.

Welcome!

Do you have to see it?

I need to see it.

You are busy.

No. Is it possible he went to the gambling den?

That punk who'll marry,

why would he go to the gambling den unless he's gone crazy?

Ah, look at who is here!

Of course we came because those two are going to marry.

I can't miss this kind of day.

Hong Mae. You brought so much stuff on such a good day.

What kind of trouble are you going to stir up?

What do you mean, trouble?

Can't you see behind? I brought all that.

They're leaving for somewhere far. I wonder how they'll be able to carry all that.

Leaving? Are you serious?

They can't live here for thousand years or ten thousand years. Now they need to leave after saying goodbye.

Where are they going?

Have you decided where?

I heard it's a very good place.

- Grandpa, is that right? - Of course.

It's the place where Dae Gil will go. It must be much better place than here.

I guess I brought it all for nothing. I'll just take it all back.

No, what are you talking about?

Bring it here.

Anyhow, you brought it.

Let's go.

Welcome!

Aigoo.

He has no sense.

That's enough. Give it here.

Look closely from here.

Still, I'm getting it.

By the way, you punk... If your father gave an exhibition, you should react somehow!

Why do you have that expression on your face? (Kim Gwang Taek, Kim Che Geon's son)

Has anyone ever survived your training?

Did I kill you or what?

It's because I'm your son that I'm able to stick it out this long. In general...

Of course, someone has. Someone who looked exactly like you, who didn't listen at all and was a fool.

Really? Is he dead or alive?

He became a Great Tiger.

He honored the King's order above himself.

Under him, he saved the people of this country.

Back!

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This arrogant little brat talking to me in banmal (informally)!

Stop hitting me!

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♪ Drenched in the mournful cascading despair ♪

♪ In a fate which even the moonlight hides ♪

♪ A shining beam of light flickers and ♪

♪ It is you infecting my heart with love. ♪

♪ Will I be able to see time stop then? ♪

♪ Will your heart be with me then? ♪

♪ Longing for you even if the tears well up ♪

♪ I will withstand you. Even if my heart fills up more ♪

♪ Because the words which have not yet been said remain ♪

♪ Because I cannot live in a time without you ♪

♪ I call out for you again. The more my heart races ♪

♪ Going to you again I become more breathless ♪

♪ Although the road I'm traveling is lonely ♪

♪ Although in living I bear bruises ♪

♪ You can not melt like snow ♪

♪ You are a dream which cannot be sent to fly away to the end ♪

♪ I call out again for you. The more my heart races ♪

♪ The more breathless I am. I am going to you again ♪

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