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Episode 17
How did it go?
We haven't found the culprit yet,
but Muhyul helped us immensely in finding the cause of all these events.
There is something more urgent than finding the culprit.
And what would that be?
Eerie talebearing is spreading on the streets.
Eerie talebearing?!
They're talking about a wraith.
Such talebearing is spreading all over the capital.
What is even more fearsome than tales about chimerical wraiths...
are the jitters of all the people who believe such hearsay.
If we don't hurry up and stop the innuendo,
the situation could become much more serious.
I think it would be best if Your Majesty disclosed the truth about this matter.
Go ahead and tell me.
What are these wraith stories about?
That a wraith has come back to life, and brought along ominous consequences.
A wraith has come back to life?!
They say that is the wraith of a prince, who perished twenty years ago.
That such prince, who should have met his demise, is either still alive...
or he has come back as a wraith to avenge his past.
Your Majesty.
Don't let such heedless talebearing dispirit you.
His Highness's fate has nothing to do with this adversity.
This is surely someone's execrable expedient to foster discord in the court.
Wasn't it clearly shown by all the clues His Highness discovered?
Then...
do those men know Muhyul's identity?
Aware he's alive, did they commit such harrowing deviltry?!
Yes, Your Majesty.
What on earth is happening here?
Hey.
Are you aware of anything?
A prince who perished twenty years ago?! What is that all about?
If you know anything, tell us.
What could possibly be the reason His Majesty's visage...
was beclouded by dread, the moment he heard of this?
I only learned of this not long ago myself.
The entire palace is trying to shroud a cyclopean secret.
A secret?!
They say His Highness Prince Yeojin is not the King's third,
but in truth is his fourth son.
Before Prince Yeojin, His Majesty's third son was born...
and perished right after.
What?! Why did the third prince die?
Apparently, His Majesty bestowed him to the heavens in sacrifice.
His Majesty?!
Killed his own son?
He was born under the nefarious fate of causing Goguryeo's downfall,
and after His Highness was born, endless calamity engulfed our country.
Even his mother, Her Majesty the Empress, withered in demise.
Then, what's all that talebearing about?
He already perished, bestowed to the heavens in sacrifice.
Why are people insinuating he's still alive?
Does it make sense that a specter would come back to life?
And what would I know?!
Then, is the third prince still alive?
Make some sense, will you?
I have a favor to ask you.
If that boy is truly alive,
the chieftains of the Council will not spare his life.
So, give me your help in finding that boy.
If you wish to find His Highness, wouldn't it be best to alert the supervisor?
The council is trying to espy Hye Ap's movements.
Should she find that boy, we risk exposing his identity.
Hence, it is your help I need.
We would love to aid Your Highness in every way,
but know nothing regarding His Highness the Prince.
At the shrine, you will find an ancestral chamber,
where all the royals' relics lie.
There, you shall find my mother and Haemyeong's relics as well,
so that child's relics will be surely there.
Are you telling us to enter the shrine?!
Yes.
Enter the shrine, and find anything which will help us...
ascertain that boy's whereabouts.
Entering the shrine without His Majesty's consent is proscribed by law.
How are we going to enter that place?
I am fully aware of how toilsome this task will be.
But that is our only chance at the moment,
so find a way to enter that place.
What now?
What do you think? I can't.
Didn't you see Her Highness imploring us to?
Muhyul.
We'll have to help her.
Do you have a death wish?!
Everyone dreads this mysterious prince,
but Her Highness is the only one trying to protect him.
Let us help her.
Hey! Are we in any position to help others?
Balso is right about that.
It's too daunting a task for us alone.
Every day you and I live is a gift.
Hadn't His Majesty spared our lives, we would already be wandering the netherworld.
If His Highness Haemyeong were still alive,
he would have wished to protect his brother.
You lunatic fool.
The ancestral chamber is strictly interdicted by royal command.
If they capture us there, our necks will be on the line!
That is why I can't do it alone.
I need someone like you, aware of all the palace's secret paths.
What happened?
Talebearing regarding the third prince being alive is whelming the market,
and the people's thundering grievances for King Yuri are on the rise.
To protect his child,
he engaged in such villainous calumny with the Council and his people.
It is only natural this would happen.
This baleful gale shall certainly swelter King Yuri's resolve.
But should he learn our Biryu clan beclouded his legacy through these events,
we shall bear in mind an even more impetuous tempest could hit us.
You needn't worry about that.
But, do you really think that servant of Prince Haemyeong...
is indeed the third prince?
We can just observe how King Yuri approaches this matter.
I am curious myself.
Whether he is truly a prince or not.
I see something bedims your soul.
Is that man responsible for the clouds which engulf you?
If you wish to succeed,
your resolve shall twinge any personal pathos.
Yes.
Thanks to you, we can finally find some respite.
What is it you wish me to do now?
We shall take this opportunity, and continue smothering King Yuri's resolve.
Continue on this path, until this calamity crumbles that throne.
Yes.
- Your Excellency. - What is the matter?
Anseung arrived.
Anseung?!
Master!
Master.
- Did you find out? - Yes.
I was spying on the Biryu clan, but nothing to report.
- Nothing? - Yes.
- Are you sure? - Yes!
All the private guards were in complete silence.
That... Who was it again... That... That... Her Majesty's brother...
- Anseung, you mean? - Yes! Anseung, Anseung!
Aside from that man coming out with the Ubo,
I didn't see any chieftain there to meet the Sangga.
So I was right, after all!
Right about what?
Think about it. The entire capital is being turned upside down.
Why would the chieftains quietly sit back?
I'm smelling something, that's what it is.
Keep observing the Biryu clan.
Ahh... and if they find out, then what?
If they do, then it's your pro...
We finally get a decent chance, and you can't even take a few risks?
Chance?!
No need to know.
Yeon!
I shall inundate you with herbs, so take good care of those patients.
There is something more urgent than getting herbs.
What is that?
The patients are all scared by those rumors.
What is this talebearing about the ghost of a prince who died twenty years ago...
suddenly coming back to life?
Ehhh! It's all balderdash!
Back then, His Majesty bestowed the prince to the heavens in sacrifice.
The third prince perished that day, for sure!
I saw it clearly with my own eyes!
Then, why is such falsehood spreading?
Isn't this old man bestirring himself to find that out?!
Hey. How are we going to enter that?
There surely must be a way.
And Chubalso?!
He left, saying he'll go ask around.
Ask whom?
Don't ask me.
You know he's a man of endless wiles,
so he might find something we can't even imagine.
The pestilence which started in the capital is rapidly spreading nationwide.
The emergency herbs and rations we stored are giving us some relief,
but there is no way to curb this solicitous public sentiment.
Your Majesty.
We must swiftly unravel a solution for this quandary.
If we don't do something, a terrible quagmire might engulf us all.
Do you think everything that is happening...
is heaven's reprisal for sparing Muhyul's life?
I would never believe that.
This entire calamity was concocted from the start.
A mere contrivance it could be,
but it still doesn't explain this pestilence.
Were you looking for me?
Dreadful misfortune is clouding Goguryeo's skies.
Was this your doing?
Nunim!
You may leave us!
What is your underlying motive for such villainy?
Is smothering our royal family what you wish for?!
Was this really the Biryu clan's doing?
Everything that is happening is for Prince Yeojin's sake.
For Yeojin's sake?! And what's that supposed to mean?
Someone enfeebling His Highness's future legacy is among us,
so you can't just sit and stare at his malefaction.
The fruitless tattle about a third prince?
And I thought you were a sagacious specimen.
Does Your Excellency let nitwitted talebearing from the market...
besmirch your acumen?
There is a very good chance that third prince could be alive.
What I'm saying is,
both the Biryu clan and Your Majesty have been beguiled by the king.
Is that the truth?
Then, who is this third prince supposed to be?
A man His Majesty and Prince Haemyeong wished to protect,
Muhyul.
There is a very strong possibility he's the third prince.
You don't really know me?! Balso!
Hey!
I was just about to succeed. It all went in vain because of you!
Don't you think you're going too far?! If you want to help us, do it right!
We're desperate to find a solution, but you're here doing that?!
Ehhh... you miserable mooncalf.
What is the use of pondering all day, when you don't have the brain for it?
What is that about?
Know who that court lady was?
She serves at the shrine.
Did you find out?
There is a secret passageway only the shrine's servants know.
If you take that path, you will directly reach the ancestral chamber.
Nunim, simmer down, I beg you.
Is this the time to simmer down?!
If that Muhyul is truly a prince, then it will be a disaster.
Why would it be?!
I shall slay him for you.
Slay him?!
We can't spare someone who could bring our downfall.
We don't even have any concrete evidence he's the prince.
Do we need anything like that?
Even with the slightest possibility, we can't spare him!
Leave all this to me, and stop worrying.
Anyone who poses a threat to you or Yeojin...
shall crumble before my punishing sword.
This is where I stop. I can't go any farther.
Hey! How can you leave us alone now?!
They say if you enter the chamber,
the heavens' wrathful resolve can smother you.
That is why the servants never enter it.
I will go.
Muhyul!
No worries.
Muhyul!
If anything happens, come out right away.
At the ancestral chamber, you will find a bronze chest...
used when that boy was offered in sacrifice.
If you open that chest, you shall find evidence...
which will lead us to his whereabouts.
*Emperor
"May you accept this child the Son of Heaven* bestows upon thee."
"His name is..."
"...of no beating heart nor flowing blood,"
"Muhyul"
Guchu.
I don't know if sparing that child was the right thing.
Your Majesty!
His life was all I wanted to preserve.
It was covetous indulgence.
Even more piercing and heinous throes...
are all I could give him by sparing his life.
You know His Highness's whereabouts?!
May you tell me.
Your Majesty!
Remember the boy who served Haemyeong?
The one you saved, and is now working under Hye Ap...
Right.
That boy is Muhyul.
It was only recently that I found out myself he was Muhyul.
Haemyeong took that boy under his wings.
Your Majesty!
Seeing as someone is trying to beguile our people,
they must be already aware of His Highness's identity.
We must swiftly expose his identity, and protect him!
The sorceress's divine revelation is still devouring my soul.
How could I accept him as a prince?
Your Majesty!
She said that child...
shall slay his brethren, cause his parents' demise,
and, in the end, even kill his own son!
Even Haemyeong met his demise, protecting him.
Why isn't he coming back?
What if something happened to him?
This won't do. I'll have to go in.
Hey...
Muhyul!
How did it go?
What happened?
Did you find any clue?
Muhyul!
Why don't you call me Hyungnim*?
*Older brother/close friend
Try it once.
Hy...Hyungnim.
You don't know how nice that sounds.
You deserve this.
It will be an arduous battle,
but you must survive.
If you survive and come back,
then I shall show you how to use that.
She said that child...
shall slay his brethren, cause his parents' demise,
and, in the end, even kill his own son!
Even Haemyeong met his demise, protecting him.
Muhyul?!
He's still inside. Doesn't move no matter what I tell him.
Maybe he encountered a specter?
Is this the time to jest?
I mean, it's strange any way you put it.
He came out looking as if he was possessed.
You have nothing better to do?
Hey, where are you going?!
It's a message from my sister, Your Excellency.
Will you accept her proposal?
I have no reason to refuse.
Ahh... Her Majesty wishes to proclaim one of our Biryu clan women...
as the Crown Princess, why would I refuse?
You may tell me.
What is it that she wants, in exchange for this opportunity?
Slay Muhyul for us.
You can convey this to Her Majesty.
That everything shall go according to her wishes,
so she can rest assured.
We put our trust in you, Your Excellency.
The Empress wishes to see Muhyul dead.
If it's really true he's a prince,
then that will harm any chance to become Crown Prince for Yeojin.
So she must be engulfed by unrestful strain.
Are you really going to slay Muhyul?
Sooner or later, that day will come.
But now is not the time.
We finally have the perfect chance to put King Yuri into a corner.
We can't just kill Muhyul and ruin everything.
But, whenever I issue the order,
you must be fully prepared to follow my command.
What on earth is happening? Muhyul disappeared?!
I don't know either.
He was here last night, for sure.
I thought he could have gone to seek audience with Princess Seryu,
but he didn't go there either.
Her Highness, why?!
Why would Muhyul seek audience with Her Highness?
Speak to me! What happened last night?!
Under Her Highness's request, we were investigating about the third prince.
She said we would find some clues about the prince...
at the shrine's ancestral chamber.
Are you telling me you entered the shrine?
No! Maro and I didn't!
Muhyul went in alone.
I don't know why, but after that, Muhyul looked quite distressed.
No matter how often I asked, he wouldn't answer.
Why are you only telling us now?!
Her Highness told us to keep it secret, what could we do?
Go find Muhyul immediately. Now!
Yes.
Is Your Highness...
really my brother?
Am I really...
your younger brother?
So, was that the reason you tried to shelter me,
even though you knew what that would bring you?
Why couldn't you tell me earlier?!
Why didn't you tell me?!!
What can I do now?
What am I supposed to do now?! Now that you are no longer by my side?
What can I do now?!!
Hyungnim!!
What are you saying?
Muhyul found out everything?!
He must have entered the shrine.
The shrine?!
Yes, Your Majesty.
The shock must have startled him, and he's disappeared.
If the people who devised this calamity are aware of his identity,
they will never spare him.
We need to deploy our troops and look for His Highness, Sire.
If we deploy the troops in haste,
we will only confirm their suspicions about Muhyul.
You must look for him discreetly.
Yes.
What is the matter?
Not only the south, but also the eastern and western gates...
are brimming with people envenomed by the epidemic.
Wow... this is trouble, all right.
Leave the herbs, and go tend to the patients.
All right.
Did you find the cause?
I have never seen such direful pestilence before.
Master!
Master! Master.
What's wrong?
Yeon! What is happening to me?
- Move him! - Yes.
You must save him! Our Master can't die!
Die?! Who's going to die? You baneful scoundrel!
Yeon! Was I contaminated?
Yes.
You must save me, Yeon! Save my life!
Compared to the other patients, it's not as serious,
so don't worry too much.
Really?
When did your nails start looking this way?
Nails?! Oh my! Ohh...
Don't get up.
Your Highness.
I asked this of the physician.
Send me outside the palace, Your Highness.
What if you contract this pestilence?
Stop with those fruitless concerns.
Don't you realize weakening the soul weakens your body?
No matter how direful your ailments might be,
I shall never send you away.
Your Highness.
Here, drink it. Now.
Chief Retainer.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Can you ascertain Yeon's whereabouts?
What is the matter, suddenly?
I shall find Yeon.
I must meet her.
Your Majesty. Is anything the matter?
Tormentous nightmares daunt my sleep. It's Tak Rok.
He's gainsaying his treacherous demise.
He wants me to shelter Yeon for him.
Your Majesty.
It is merely a toilsome result of your weakened vigor.
I shall summon the shaman and prepare a ceremony to soothe your spirits.
My weakened vigor?!
Then, are you insinuating decrepitude haunts my soul?!
How would I dare, Your Majesty?
I believed your words and slayed Tak Rok.
But, contemplating the past,
I bemoan not believing Tak Rok's fealty with woeful regret.
Your Majesty.
We had clear evidence of the Wesaja's treacherous malefaction.
Such evidence...
was something which could have easily been concocted against him!
Your Majesty.
Is it dubiety this humble servant of yours aroused?
I am not suspecting you.
I just said all the people who wish for my demise...
could have easily connived such deviltry.
Swiftly find Yeon's whereabouts.
Bring Yeon to me!
Orabeoni.
Yeon.
Let's go somewhere else.
What is wrong?
I think the Black Shadows are here.
I thought that it was pestilence what was harming those people,
but it must be the poisonous mushrooms used by the Black Shadows.
What can we do?
If it's really the Black Shadows' doing,
then, you and that man are at risk as well.
Muhyul and I are just fine.
You needn't worry.
You must be careful, Orabeoni.
Your Majesty.
Did you find a remedy for this pestilence?
The physicians are strenuously trying, but we still...
Send envoys to our allies, and request their aid.
Your wish is my command, Sire.
Leave us briefly.
Yes.
What happened to Muhyul?
The Intelligence Bureau deployed their troops,
but it looks like they couldn't find him yet.
Fine.
Disappeared?!
That... He just left without saying a thing.
Did anything happen...
I'm sure it's nothing like that.
Nobody would cross the line with bureau officials like us.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Looks like the Black Shadows have come from Buyeo.
The Black Shadows?!
These patients were poisoned,
by the kind of poison the Black Shadows use.
What?!
The Black Shadows' poison?! Who told you such nonsense?
She works as a physician under Master Mahwang.
What are you blabbering about?! When did he ever employ physicians?
Be quiet.
After the water in the capital's wells was befouled with animal blood,
people have been refusing to drink it.
But they are still being contaminated even after that.
If it's true the Black Shadows used poison,
we will at least find some clues.
After the wells were contaminated,
people started using water from this brooklet for their cooking.
It's clear they wanted people to drink this water after the wells were polluted.
Those vile...
Stop.
We must find who instigated them.
Supervisor! It's poisonous mushrooms!
Are they Black Shadows?
They're not.
Who is behind this?
Confess right now!
We are...
What did you just say?
Hye Ap found out about the poison?
Yes.
Then, did she also find out that we did it?
No.
I got rid of every clue which could lead them to the Biryu clan.
Wouldn't they try to find an antidote?
You needn't worry.
They won't easily find an antidote for that.
What on earth happened to you?
And what's wrong with your face?
Everyone was worried after you disappeared.
What is going on?
Milady.
I will leave Gungnae Fortress.
Will you...
follow me along?
Master!
Master. Master.
Why? Did Yeon find the antidote?
Ahh... it's not that. Hye Ap... Ahh, no.
The supervisor is here.
- Hye Ap?! - Yes.
- Bring her in, hurry. - Yes.
I bid you welcome, Supervisor.
What brings you all the way here?
I'll have to take that physician who works under you.
Ahh... th...th...that... Why?
His Majesty wishes to meet her.
His... Majesty?!
And why would His Majesty wish to meet Yeon?
I will follow you.
Wherever you're headed to, I shall leave with you.
Milady!
But, there is something I must do before we leave.
Countless people are suffering because of this pestilence.
But that all started from the toadstools the Black Shadows used.
- Did the Black Shadows really do this? - Yes, I'm sure about it.
Only the Black Shadows know how to make poison from those toadstools.
I should amend for all the terrible misdeeds Buyeo committed.
Can't you find the antidote?
To my knowledge, it can only be found in Buyeo,
so it's impossible to get it swiftly here in Goguryeo.
Have your days been blessed with an healthful fettle, Sire?
I hear you were the one who discovered...
the calamity which is engulfing our people is not a pestilence...
but fruit of poisoning.
What kind of poison is it?
Tell His Majesty, Yeon.
It's poisonous toadstools.
Do you have an antidote?
It does exist, but we couldn't find it yet.
But Yeon is sparing no effort in trying to find it,
so we shall soon be blessed by auspicious news, Your Majesty.
Should you find that antidote, you will save me and our country.
I shall spare no effort to support you, so find that antidote at all costs.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty. If I may, I'd like to tell you something.
Go ahead.
Remember what happened twenty years ago?
Just like now, livestock and ravens were found dead,
and the water of our wells was drenched in bloody crimson.
I received orders from His Highness Prince Haemyeong to find a solution,
and we discovered those ravens were poisoned by the Biryu clan.
Then...
are you implying the Biryu clan is responsible for this?
Didn't she say that poison is only used by Black Shadows?
That would be correct.
Should it have been the same poison as twenty years ago,
they would have found the antidote already. But!
This time, they used poison only the Black Shadows know about.
Isn't that a peculiar situation?
The Biryu clan, using poison from Buyeo.
Are you telling me the Biryu clan...
conspired with Buyeo?
Ahhh... I can't confirm that with certainty,
but according to my observation of their movements after this calamity,
it's sure in Buyeo that this calam...
That this poison didn't envenom a single man.
Ahhh... finally the sun shines upon this old man!
Are you all right?
Ohh! Don't worry, I'm fine.
If what Mahwang said is true,
then we must deploy the troops, and accuse the Biryu clan of treason.
We are dealing with the Biryu clan.
We shan't proceed until we find clear evidence.
Supervisor, strengthen our surveillance of the Biryu clan,
and should you find anything proving Mahwang's assertion in the slightest,
immediately report to me.
Yes, Your Majesty.
And Daebo, summon the physicians and swiftly find an antidote.
Our most urgent concern is saving those people.
It shall be done, Your Majesty.
Muhyul...
What happened to Muhyul?
You still haven't found him?
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Did the third prince really perish that day?
Reveal the truth! Did the third prince die?
The son I bestowed in sacrifice to the heavens twenty years ago...
is alive.
It's dangerous here. Let's leave.
Wherever you go, I will follow you.
I shan't run away anymore.
I will keep my pledge and at all costs stay by your side.
This boy is the third prince, Muhyul.
She said he was born under the nefarious fate of bringing Goguryeo its downfall!
How can you consider him a prince?!
The Council shall not acknowledge him.
His Majesty ordered us to escort you.
Give me a chance.
I shan't go back to Buyeo.
Give me a chance to show you there is nothing nefarious about my fate.
- Go back! - Take her!
What chance are you referring to?!
If I will not prove my worth as a prince,
then I shall take my own life.
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