Episode 32
Be careful.
Priestess the princess is as cold as ice.
She's not breathing.
What if she dies?
Some can't die even if they want to
and some can't live even if they want to live.
How will you serve Priestess Jamyung
if you don't believe that?
Feed it to her.
JAMYUNG
The second queen added poison to my tonic.
CHA CHASUNG / MlCHU Her blood needs to be freshened with clean blood.
lLPUM
LAHEE'S CHAMBER JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG Don't ever get your hands dirty.
LAHEE / Princess of Nakrang Not the blood of your sibling
northe criticism that comes with it.
l'll bear all.
WANG JA-SlL Walk on the silk-lined path l lay out foryou
and become a queen that all the people love.
The great general has returned from Harap.
WANG JASlL'S CHAMBER JlNYANG PALACE
What did you add to Princess Jamyung's medicine?
lt's snake venom.
Did she die this time?
WANG HOL The Harap priestess told me
one's life and death is beyond human control.
Does that mean she's still alive?
l sympathize you.
Power isn't worth the blood of yourfamily.
There's no way of telling you won or lost.
Only time will tell in due course.
ln distant future?
What good is glory and praise when you're in a grave?
Sister.
Your sister is not a loser who dwells in the past
nor dreams about the future.
l only live in the present this very moment.
lf you don't become a man of the present
you can never be win.
MO HASO
CHOl Ll l can't see Mount Harap.
Jamyung found her way home
and now she's searching for herfuture.
Aren't you proud of her?
l am proud of her but my heart also goes out to her.
lt must be a foolish sentiment of the mother
who couldn't give her enough love.
Harap is that way.
Priestess?
Who are you?
JAMUK l'm the one
who tangled yourfate Princess.
He's Jamuk the priest of the Nakrang Commandery.
He's a friend of mine.
He's so obsessed with this world that he still can't leave.
l Jamuk have been wandering the netherworld
but came here to wait foryou to ask you a favor Princess.
What is it?
Please spare the second queen's life.
Who is she to you?
l admired her when l was alive
and l pity her in my death.
The second queen has done many evil deeds.
She deserves to die.
When l leave this place
l'll punish her on Heaven's behalf.
She does deserve to die by your hand.
lf l spare her life
will you tell me how l can save Nakrang?
JOLBON FORTRESS
On yourfeet.
The great general is here. Were you not notified?
Leave them be.
WU NARU Head of National Administration They're outcasts anyway.
What can you expect from them?
We're the ones who've been abandoned by Goguryeo.
Open the cage.
TAECHU / Soldier
PRlNCE HODONG
Ever since Prince Haemyeong killed himself
these outcasts have been living in cantankerous ways.
l taught you myself.
A Goguryeo prince needs to preserve his pride
as well as his life.
Uncle l won't kill myself.
Your pupil has always been a coward.
And like a coward l'll live here.
Suit yourself.
l don't have any affection foryou anymore.
Let's go!
Taechu.
Yes.
Assemble every soldier in the fortress.
What will you do?
Although l'm a prince in exile l must inspect the troops.
Pay your respects to Prince Hodong.
He's the new ruler of this fortress.
CHULSANG He's not here to rule
he's here on exile.
You!
lf you're a captain l'm also a captain.
lf Prince Haemyeong hadn't died
my father would have become the great general.
What are you doing?
You've been too lazy to become a captain.
lf you want to become a great general
you have a long way to go.
As of today we'll train as follows.
What training?
Archery from hour4 to 6.
Spearfighting from hour 7 to 9.
Sword fighting from hour 10 to 12.
Hand-to-hand combat from hour 13 to 15.
SUBAK/ Ancient martial art using hands CHUKGUK/ Ball play without letting the ball touch the ground And we'll play ball from hour 16 to 18.
SUBAK/ Ancient martial art using hands CHUKGUK/ Ball play without letting the ball touch the ground Since we're soldiers of the treasonous land
we're not even summoned to battlefields.
Yes, that was so until Yes, terday.
lf you are idle during the training or miss any of it
you will be punished by my sword.
JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG
Hearyour punishment for letting Hodong get away
and causing the death of the great general's men.
l hearyour command.
You need more than wisdom and knowledge to rule
during times of upheaval.
l have taught you the sword from when you were little
but you failed to protect yourself.
You cannot remain crown princess
if you can't save yourself from the enemy.
But she's a woman.
Then let her become a man as of now!
l'll teach herthe martial arts of Chunghaehun.
The great general and Lady Mo will teach her
the martial arts of Younghojangwon.
l'll obey your command Your Majesty.
l'll do my best to learn.
The crown princess is past marriageable age.
She's to find a suitable mate and wed.
Queen prepare for the crown princess's wedding.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Why are you not answering?
Where is your concentration?
Our soldiers will die with a leader like you.
Please rescind your command about my marriage.
Crown Princess!
l'm not ready yet.
You have not learned your lesson after
killing so many soldiers in Yeongyeong?
l was forbidden of my feelings since l became crown princess.
You forced me to hide my feelings
behind my position as crown princess.
JOLBON FORTRESS GOGURYEO
JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG
A king is not someone who talks but someone who listens.
Atrue king listens with his heart.
Even mere beasts have ears.
How could a crown princess who's to become queen
close her ears and engage in rash behavior?
Father l have suppressed my feelings again and again
before l spoke today.
l beg you to give me time to erase Hodong from my heart.
Your Majesty.
Not foryour mothers.
But forthe people of Nakrang who love and cherish you
l'll postpone your marriage.
Father.
From now on you'll empty your heart of Hodong
and fill it with Nakrang.
l will.
lf you cannot fill your heart with Nakrang and its people
l'll dethrone you and have the great general succeed me.
Yes, Your Majesty.
What?
HARAP MOUNTAlN House of the priestess How will the princess survive
if you seal the door?
lt's not easy to become a priestess
who must do the will of Heaven.
lf she doesn't learn to read the will of Heaven properly
she'll just become a lunatic.
What good is becoming a priestess
after she starves to death?
Who says there's nothing to eat?
Yes, there is a pond inside.
lf there are some fish and lizards.
she'll have something to eat
How atrocious.
A priestess must cherish all living things.
Then what will she eat?
The princess has lived an ordinary life.
She has to eat and sleep. She could really die.
Then she should.
When will this gate open?
lt'll open when it's time.
What if the time never comes?
Then it'll become Jamyung's grave.
She has a sack of barley powder.
Princess we're outside. Don't be scared.
Princess we won't leave you
until the day you hear your answer from Heaven.
JOLBON GOGURYEO
Lahee l wonder if this will find you.
l can imagine the trouble
you must be in for helping me get away.
This is another letterfrom Jolbon.
l miss you even more now that l'm in this forsaken place.
lf l could have gone to you every night as l do in my dreams
l'd have worn out your threshold already.
PRlNCE HODONG
YOUNGCHEON HALL MT. HARAP
You have calmed down a little.
lf you force yourself to see the future
you must exchange your life forthe foresight.
Are you sure you won't regret it?
lf that's the only way to save Nakrang l must do so.
XlA EMPlRE / Greatest Chinese dynasty Emperor Yu of Xia was
XlA EMPlRE / Greatest Chinese dynasty a virtuous king who was
guarded by two dragons from Heaven.
Dongfang Shuo the prime minister of Emperor Wudi
of Han was not a human
JUPlTER but a deity from Jupiter.
Can you believe it?
No.
Then do you believe my existence?
Part of me does.
Another part of me thinks it's either a dream or
an illusion from the poison.
A human thinks he understands the will of Heaven
with a tiny bit of knowledge but once you get rid of
the arrogance and prejudice in your heart
there is nothing you cannot see.
You must open your heart.
Your Highness our Red Team is losing morale
because we're playing Nakrang troops.
Prince make Taechu's team play Nakrang troops in the next game.
No way!
How dare you try to play the great Goguryeo army?
Don't even dream about it!
Whetheryou are on Chulsang's team or
Taechu's team whoever gets the opponent's flag first
will be made a great general.
And as a reward l'll give you my sword.
Red Team defend yourselves against
Goguryeo with all your might!
Don't be so weak!
Blue Team you're Prince Hodong's army.
Be proud and crush Nakrang's army.
To victory!
QUEEN JASlL'S CHAMBER JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG
What are all these?
l'll teach you about poison.
l won't study such things.
How can you love someone to death
if you don't have anyone you hate to death?
You must know about poison if you want to survive in a palace.
There will be people who use poison against you
and you'll have enemies you'll want to use poison on.
This is poison made from the root of windflower.
Best time to harvest is in spring.
But it'll make you cough up blood and leaves a trace.
This is oleander.
lt's strong poison but unfortunately
ANDRA lNDlA you can only find it in Japan and lndia.
The princess hasn't come out yet.
Huangdi one of the five emperors had a South Pointing Chariot
that led him out of any enemy attack so that
JlNAMCHA / Chariot pointing south CHl YOU / God of war even Chi You the God of War
JlNAMCHA / Chariot pointing south CHl YOU / God of war could not trap him with fog.
Do you believe it?
The emperor also had a drum of mystical powers
that helped him defeat Chi You's tribe.
The sound of the drum could be heard from
hundreds of miles away.
Can you believe it?
No.
You must be careful with snake venom.
Awould on your body would kill you.
l'm sorry General.
You couldn't sleep?
MO YANGHAE l'm old and don't need much sleep.
But with you is it because of Princess Jamyung?
l know you've been going to Harap Mountain often.
l feel sorry.
Why was she given such a life.
You love her.
Sister-in-law.
l told you in the Goguryeo palace.
Pity is the strongest emotion one person can have for another.
Maybe you are right.
l must be a burden on you.
Why would you say that?
You're a man with lust.
lf it weren't for me
you wouldn't be living the life of a monk.
l'll do my filial duty to you forthe rest of your life.
So don't ever say such things again.
Filial duty.
l saw the drum.
l don't know what that drum was but l saw that mystical drum.
You now face the last obstacle.
The owner of this horn.
Did you rid of him from your heart?
l couldn't rid of him from my heart
but l've learned to hide him in my heart.
l'm not foolish enough to jeopardize the lives of
300000 Nakrang people and 180000 Goguryeo people
because of my feelings for Prince Hodong.
Jamuk and l are leaving now.
Teacher.
You must keep your promise to spare the second queen's life.
l'll keep that promise but just once.
Princess let me offer you a piece of advice for
heeding this old ghost's request and taking me as yourteacher.
Yes. l'm listening.
Fate is like woven fabric.
Men's desires and the will of Heaven are woven together
OYOKCHlLJUNG Men's original lust and desire to make fate.
Therefore neitherthe will of Heaven nor
the will of men have complete control over one's fate.
Take Jamuk's words to heart Princess.
l'll take yourteachings to my heart Teachers.
2 YEARS LATER
Princess!
Princess.
We've been so worried we thought you could have
l wouldn't die without saying goodbye.
lt is you.
lt is you Princess.
l was worried it won't be the same
once you became a priestess.
lt's been 25 months Princess.
l'm happy you're safe Your Highness.
l have duties for all of you.
What are they?
Please go to the palace and bring the king.
Yes Your Highness.
lt's a difficult task but
it's something only you can do.
My life already belongs to you.
What can we do?
You're get excited about risking your life.
What is it that only Cha Chasung and l can do?
JOLBON GOGURYEO
Prince!
What's all the fuss?
Did you have a safe trip to Guknae Palace?
Yes, the princess sent some clothes foryou.
l doubt that's why you made such a fuss.
So tell me what's going on in the palace.
Yes, l have three surprises foryou.
That many?
Be easy on me.
Petitions say that you're raising
a treasonous army.
And?
HAEAEWU / Hodong's half-brother Song Maeseolsu's son Prince Haeaewu is about to be installed as crown prince.
HAEAEWU / Hodong's half-brother Song Maeseolsu's son Haeaewu has grown that big already?
They say he's very big for his age.
He's big enough to go off to battle.
Father must be happy.
Well that's not very surprising news.
What's the third piece of news?
They say Princess Nakrang will be married during
the Harvest Moon festival.
Who's the man?
Choi Li only has to select from countless suitors
but l doubt it's you.
Send a secret letter to the palace.
l must see Father.
Yes.
Taechu isn't there any other news
from the spy in Jinyang Palace?
What news?
About Puku...
l'm sure there's no news because
she's happily married to Wang Hol.
Choi Li killed Puku for killing a Nakrang general.
l'm...
going to marry the great general.
Are you happy with Wang Hol?
l'm sure yourfeelings have grown with time.
Wait for me.
l'm ready to leave for Nakrang.
Wait for me Puku.
MO HASO'S CHAMBER JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG Your Majesty
MO HASO'S CHAMBER JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG llpum is back from Harap.
Jamyung finally came out.
DONGGOBl Yes. He's with the king now.
Queen.
llpum it must've been hard serving the princess.
How is her health?
She is healthy after all the years of eating only raw food.
She doesn't seem like a person from this world.
What do you mean?
l can't explain.
We'll see when we meet her.
Jamyung wants to see me.
l'll leave for Harap when day breaks.
Let me go with you.
She only wishes to see His Majesty.
Did she send any message for me?
No.
l see.
What's keeping you? The crown princess is waiting.
SOSO l thought l saw Hangkai.
CHlSO He left after Puku died.
Did you see a ghost?
You should be grateful and serve the crown princess
since we took you in all tattered.
Don't let your mind wonder.
Forgive me ma'am.
Crown Princess is it true that Puku died?
Yes. Why do you ask?
Nothing. lt just seemed a bit odd.
l saw it with my own eyes.
l haven't heard her name in a long while.
Forgive me Your Majesty
but only you are allowed in the priestess's dwelling.
All right.
Sangcheol.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Jamyung.
l'm sorry l asked you to come all this way.
l wish to make a great big drum for Nakrang.
We already have war drums in the four corners of
the Jinyang Palace and Wanggeom Fortress.
This isn't a drum that will alert people of war
but one that will prevent wars.
How can there be such drum?
Dangun Wanggeom wants to bestow
this mystical drum Huangdi on Nakrang
JUNUK/One of the greatest emperors JUPARYONG / Alligator like animal that was once used to defeat Chi You.
How do you know of such things?
Just as people are afraid of Heaven
Goguryeo, Baekje and Mokji will be just as afraid of
the kingdom protected by Heaven.
They'll be too afraid of Nakrang's mystical drum to invade us.
Huangdi's drum sounded by itself.
And Nakrang's drum will also sound by itself.
Will it be possible?
Please have faith in me.
l'll soon go to Jinyang Palace to offer a ceremony to Dangun.
Please prepare the drum.
Hide from 300 bulls?
Can you really make a drum of that size sound by itself?
True determination will move the mountains and
divide the ocean.
Please have faith in me.
YULGUHYUN NAKRANG Can such a drum be possible?
Even if we make it how can it ring on itself?
Your Majesty l believe it.
The princess has survived in confinement for 25 months
on raw food alone.
l'm certain she can sound this drum.
This is Nakrang's sacred drum.
Neither Muhyul northe people of Nakrang can hear of it.
BUDAL Yes an object can only
be sacred if it's mysterious.
Search all over Han
and secretly bring in the hides of 300 bulls.
General build a temple to house the drum.
Yes, Your Majesty.
l'll bring the hides of 300 handsome bulls Your Majesty.
JOLBON GOGURYEO
The soldiers of Jolbon will escort you Prince.
The king said that only the prince and l can cross the North Gate.
The rumor of you raising a treasonous army in Jolbon
has spread to Guknae Palace.
You can't go without your army.
l understand your grudge.
Wait.
l promise of the day when you will be respected
as the army of Jolbon the army of Hodong
and the army of Goguryeo!
Your Highness we wish you safe trip.
Hooray forthe prince!
Hooray!
GUKNAE PALACE GOGURYEO
The troops of Jolbon have already crossed the line.
They're Prince Hodong's private army.
They're not Goguryeo's army.
The former king has ordained that the number
of troops in Jolbon not exceed 50.
But the number of
Prince Hodong's troops has exceeded 500.
CHU BALSO / Envoy for southern district The rumor of the prince's army attacking the palace
is all over the marketplace.
EUL DUJl / Officer of Right Watch your words.
EUL DUJl / Officer of Right People just talk.
There is no evidence the prince is plotting treason.
SONG OKGU The people's words are the will of Heaven.
lsn't that what you always say?
His Majesty has an army of 18000.
ls Prince Hodong foolish enough to plot treason
with 500 men?
KlNG DAEMUSHlN
A man can lose his mind when he's cornered.
l'm keeping the Biryuna tribe quiet
but the otherfourtribes are petitioning fervently to
make Prince Haeaewu crown prince.
Prince Hodong must feel threatened.
Chief Song the prince's army is the king's army.
Do not frame the prince.
Frame him?
You think that's what l'm doing?
You think l've conspired the prince's uncle and
his formerteacher to frame the prince?
Wu Naru speak.
Did you collude with the Biryuna tribe about this?
l'm only your subject Your Majesty.
The men of the Jolbon army are very ill in nature.
How can you consider displaced people of Buyeo
and the Seonbi tribe as your soldiers?
Most of all it isn't right for a prince in exile to raise an army.
Your Majesty.
Draw your conclusion whether Hodong's actions are truly
treasonous or not and we'll discuss then.
NORTH GATE GUKNAE FORTRESS
HAEAEWU
Your Majesty Haeaewu has improved.
How dare you fight yourfather?
Princess please look.
Haeaewu is winning his father.
YEORANG What will l do about my poor Hodong.
SONG MAESEOLSU Why would you feel sorry for him?
He's an immoral prince who built an army against the king.
Father l won.
Yes, you did. You won Haeaewu.
l'm proud of you my son.
Grow big.
You must master sword fighting before l get any older.
My son.
Who could bring me more joy?
My precious son.
Your Highness!
Hodong.
l Hodong the criminal of Goguryeo have returned
from Jolbon at your command.
Welcome back Prince.
Greetings Mother.
Jolbon must've been good foryou.
You look better. You look very dignified.
Thank you for your compliments.
Haeaewu pay your respects. He's your brother.
He'd have been yourteacher if he hadn't been exiled to Jolbon.
Brother l'm Haeaewu.
The tiny baby has grown a lot.
You must study diligently under Father's tutelage
and become my loyal subject.
Follow me.
Your Highness.
You have returned.
Your Highness.
Prince it's been a very long time.
l heard you've been training daily with yourtroops in Jolbon.
You look very healthy.
lt seems the joy from Haeaewu has made you younger.
Thank you Your Highness.
l think l can protect Prince Haeaewu
for another good 30, 40 years.
Leave us everyone.
Hadeok you too.
Yes, Your Majesty.
What are Hodong and the king talking about?
No one is to near the king's chamber.
He even sent his guards away.
Father.
Don't be anxious.
The five tribes are supporting Haeaewu
and Muhyul's heart has left Hodong.
Are the soldiers of Jolbon yours or mine?
They're your soldiers Goguryeo's soldiers.
Are the soldiers of Jolbon yours or mine?
Your Majesty forthe past two years
l have built a strong army to conquer Nakrang as l promised.
What are you afraid of?
Ten soldiers l've raised myself are more precious
than a hundred soldiers raised in darkness.
That's the true nature of a king.
There is no land in Goguryeo hidden from your sight.
The army of Nakrang has grown even stronger.
l'm sure Choi Li and Wang Hol strengthened their army
when their border fell last time.
Choi Li's daughter is getting married
but your name isn't on the list of possible suitors.
The five tribes support Haeaewu.
Hodong.
How will you bring Nakrang to me?
l'll camp along the Paesu River
and take my last chance.
You exiled me to Jolbon last time.
Give me up to Nakrang this time.
l Hodong will put Choi Li's suspicions to rest by
marrying Princess of Nakrang
and then invade Nakrang with the army.
JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG
That was great Your Highness.
You have improved greatly.
Thank you.
Now that you have mastered the martial arts
l'll decide your marriage.
Are you ready?
Yes, Your Majesty.
l'm ready to marry for Nakrang.
The priestess from Harap will come down and
offer a ceremony to Dangun.
l'll decide on your mate after consulting with her.
The priestess from Harap?
EUNPO BORDER NAKRANG
Aren't you from Goguryeo?
Prince Hodong.
lt's been a long time General Wang.
What's the Goguryeo prince doing here?
l heard you were exiled to Jolbon.
ljust escaped from Jolbon.
l Hodong seek asylum in Nakrang.