Orabeoni.
You must come.
Dahm...
Dahm has been alive?
She is So Yi?
[Episode 13]
That man, why?
Dahm...
Dahm...!
Dahm!
To this humble servant, my father was my entire world.
However, when I was left alone suddenly,
that was frightening, and the world that could kill my father without any reason or wrong,
was very frightening.
Dahm...
Are you Orabeoni?
Are you really Orabeoni?
Dahm!
Are you really my Dahm?
Kang Chae Yoon?
Right now, you mean?
Yes, about a Gak (15 minutes) ago, he took flight after pushing off the royal troop who tried to block him.
Officer Jeong is chasing after him with an army so we will receive word soon.
A Gak (15 min) ago, would mean close to 3 kyeong 5 point (1:00 am)
It's likely that Kang Chae Yoon solved the Gye-Eon Mountain code and thus is moving.
Then... Court maiden So Yi as well?
You must find them.
Royal Guard Troop?
Royal Guard Troop is chasing after Kang Chae Yoon?
Why?
The reason is unknown.
But I put men to trail them for now.
You lost So Yi?
What are you talking about?
I'm told she suddenly jumped off a cliff.
Hence, we ran an urgent search,
and found a hair ribbon that belongs to So Yi.
They couldn't even handle one chick?
Bonwon!
Send Jeongmoo Troop. ( Milbon military )
We must find her.
I will have it done.
Maksoo.
How are you here?
Kang Chae Yoon is being chased by Royal Guard Troop.
He's hiding in this mountain.
Kang Chae Yoon is?
Are you really Ddol Bok Orabeoni?
Really?
Dahm.
Why can't you talk?
How did it happen?
Why can't you talk?
You really,
really can't talk?
Is it...
because of the trauma from then?
It's true. Mister Ggeolsang died before your eyes.
And you saw all your companions die in front of you at your young age.
Then... something else happened?
What happened?
What else happened, Dahm?
You don't even remember?
Dahm...!
What exactly happened that you are so scared of sleeping?
Well that guilty conscience is a scary thing, you see.
I think when she was little she played smart and it caused her family to die or something.
You don't know writing, huh!
It's because of you!
If you read it wrong, then it's your fault!
Because of you, everyone's dying!
It's because of you.
Orabeoni.
When I awoke,
I was in the Queen's chamber.
I awoke from the dream where you were pressing me like that.
And words wouldn't come out.
I felt so, so, so...
sorry toward you.
So resentful of you.
You couldn't even imagine it.
Kang Chae Yoon is definitely in this mountain.
You must return to the palace at once to alert them of this fact and bring support troops.
Got it?
Yes.
So all these years, you've lived with that lodged in your heart?
So you've lived in a hell worse than mine.
It's alright.
You being alive is enough.
You've paid me back with that, Orabeoni.
O...
Your Majesty!
It's Myeongwoon Mountain.
Myeongwoon Mountain would be...
near Hanjit village where the late Lord Shim Ohn used to live.
Yes, it seems likely Chae Yoon saw the cipher So Yi left and began his movement.
Hurry and draw the entire Royal Guard Troop with you.
And search that entire mountain.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Wait!
What do you intend to do?
Let's end it.
Surrender the Milbon pledge, Kang Chae Yoon.
No, Ddol Bok.
Set the court maiden free first.
Walk here slowly in that pose.
I said to free her first!
What you need...
is this, no?
You deliver this at once.
Got it.
Why are you doing this?
You have that so it should be good.
Hurry.
Hurry and set her free.
Someone who's seen that,
I can't let him live.
You are filth,
who should not have meddled in it in the first place.
Orabeoni!
Now,
I will end it for you.
No!
To the right!
Orabeoni!
Top!
Myobang!
[ Myobang = 4'o clock direction ]
Chookbang, low.
[ Chookbang = 1'o clock direction ]
Kill that chick first.
Yes.
Moo Hyul!
They are rebels who've transgressed the national law!
Seize them all!
Go!
[ Milbon, secret society founded by Jeong Do Jeon to limit the monarch's power]
It's nearly the hour. What will you do?
You must at least go first.
Bonwon!
Attack!
What do I do?
What should I say?
Or should I fight to the finish here?
Your Majesty!
Your voice
can utter the sounds of speech.
Yes.
Your Majesty.
That's great.
Very.
Great.
Ddol Bok.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty's.
It's due to Your Majesty's royal grace.
In the end,
it was an ailment of the heart?
Your Majesty.
While your servant was investigating Milbon,
I received an intelligence in a rush so I couldn't report it in time.
And things got to here.
Ddol Bok.
What happened to your father...
I'm sorry.
But in regards to my great cause, some punk said,
"bullshit."
That man is none other than Kang Chae Yoon.
His Majesty already knew.
Even if you say you'll forgive,
it will remain something that can't be forgotten.
Even if someone tells you to forget,
it will remain a pain you can't emerge from.
To you, I am
sincerely
sorry.
I wanted to tell you that.
You must desire to kill me.
After your father died,
the only thing left for you...
would've been to kill me.
However,
now to you as well,
there is a different life left for you.
You have So Yi.
No.
You have Dahm, don't you?
Together with So Yi,
leave far away.
Your Majesty.
And live your new life.
My life?
Together with Dahm?
My life?
I believe you won't be the one at a loss.
You can
live your new life.
And I will live a bit longer,
and be able to go on my path.
However,
you've gained Dahm.
While I...
lose So Yi.
Go.
Your Majesty.
Live well.
This is another
royal command.
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Why did your village suffer so many deaths from the epidemic?
My offense deserved death as penalty.
I've recorded in the Native Korean prescription compilation that this weary and vomit-inducing contagious epidemic
should be treated with Cheongdae and Baekgancho. ( smartweed ) ( swallowwort )
I've said that the treatment would prevent the illness.
Isn't it true that you've failed to fulfil your duty?
Your Majesty.
Since I received your order, I've put up notices to alert the citizens on it.
However, the citizens still did not follow the order upon seeing them.
Have you ever seen such pathetic scum!
Your Majesty, you can't proceed further.
The epidemic is rampant here.
Your Majesty, you mustn't enter further.
Move aside!
Your Majesty!
Didn't you see this prescription?
What?
Didn't you see this notice to be prepared for the disease?
So what if this illiterate saw it?
So... that's why they've all died?
Did I tell you guys to study the Confucian classics?
Or did I tell you to memorize the Four Books and the Three Classics?
Just two thousand characters.
No, if you only knew just one thousand characters.
Then these children wouldn't have died like this.
Why in the world did you not learn writing?
A thousand characters you say? I get up everyday before sun rise and work till my back breaks.
I'm too busy working to even lie down for my fatigue.
When would I learn a thousand characters?
I don't even sleep two hours a day to work.
Not even two hours!
But you guys... You claim I do nothing for you?
We don't know writing, what are you even talking about?
Then...
Is not knowing writing so special?
My Lord, spare us. Save us.
Save us. Save us. Save us, My Lord.
Save us, Your Highness.
You all shut up at once!
Am I the one who killed you?
Why do you keep on asking me to save you?
"Save us"...
Did I do some bullshit again?
Useless bullshit?
Your Majesty, you mustn't.
Your Majesty, it's not a failure.
The agricultural techniques have come into wide-use and the people's lives are more affluent.
Why you politician!
You only look at the forest?
You don't look at the trees?
Inside the abundant forest,
the trees are rotting away one by one. You don't see that?
Everyone else leave.
Why do you look that way?
These long years, you don't change at all?
Exactly, how firm is your heart?
That it won't budge to open at all?
I've asked for your understanding and I've asked for your forgiveness.
The king of this nation, me! I've explained it all to you.
In order to save you,
I sent a secret letter but the letter was switched.
I didn't mean for you to die.
I can say it honorably to anyone in the world.
That I did all I could.
But it doesn't change.
Nor a wench like you, nor the world.
They don't change.
Is it entirely my fault that you are living like this?
That you are living life merely like this.
Is it entirely my fault?!
It isn't.
For your life, you've done nothing.
You guys are merely badgering the world like three-year-old children!
Aren't you?
Speak!
Say something!
Is not being able to talk so special?
How great for you!
If you say we're children, then you need to raise us.
From now on, write your opinion on that.
Write down your thoughts on what I'm about to say.
I plan to make writing.
An easy writing.
An easy writing that anyone can learn.
What do you think? Didn't you say to raise the child?
No matter how dumb,
an easy writing that anyone can learn.
I plan to make such a thing.
What do you think of it?
Yes.
Goyang-i (cat), Gae (dog), Gireum (oil), Golmok (alley), Gudeogi (maggot).
First, we need to find a word that is similar to the first sound of these words.
Yes, Your Majesty.
There are probably thousands of characters with the same first sound.
When will we find all these?
Our path is still so far.
I will rush, Your Majesty.
Deokgeum, what did you just draw?
It's Gang. ( river )
The Chinese characters that start with the similar first sound as Goyang-i (cat).
There are 3,234 in total.
Your Majesty!
It's really true that you have those tens of thousands of Chinese characters in your head?
Your Majesty, the work will be much easier.
She is better than a hundred of you combined.
Your Majesty!
From now on, you work on a pay just a hundreth of So Yi's stipend.
But Your Majesty, about that...
Are you laughing right now?
Am I laughable to you?
I am the King, you know!
If you want to receive your full stipend,
work diligently.
Your Excellency, it's nearly the time. You must go.
The preparations?
Yes, I've placed warriors around the meeting place.
I've taken measures at Royal Investigation Bureau too.
If there is no Milbon scroll,
contact Royal Investigation Bureau.
If there is a Milbon scroll,
we have to kill him. Jeong Gi Joon.
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Though it is already time,
Bonwon seems to be running late.
It's already past the time.
Why isn't he here?
[ Hyegang ] In the end, you don't have the Milbon pledge?
We've already related our intention to Bonwon.
If Bonwon doesn't show up here...
If Right State Minister signals us,
immediately alert Officer Seong Young Joon of Royal Investigation Bureau
to lay a siege upon this mountain.
Yes.
Show us the Milbon pledge.
I shall ask you first.
In the first place,
how did you become a Milbon?
Everyone present here.
When Joseon was established,
when you gave your oath to become a Milbon,
Teacher Sambong's great cause, to make Jeoson into a nation of Confucian followers,
you joined in on it, did you not?
But it's not a difficult question.
The intention and ideal that were embraced by Milbon,
have they changed now?
That is what I wish to ask you.
So you don't have the Milbon pledge, Jeong Gi Joon.
Everyone, including me,
that great will was embraced by all of us gathered here.
That's precisely,
what is written in Milbon pledge, is it not?
Do you have the Milbon pledge, or do you not have it? Bonwon!
Show it to us.
If you have the Milbon pledge,
there is no reason why you shouldn't show it to us.
It's true. Show it to us.
Show it to us!
Show it!
Give us your answer, Bonwon.
The great mission of Teacher Sambong,
do you have it?
Do I have Teacher Sambong's great mission?
Is that what you asked?
It's here.
That great mission you clamored for!
You bastards!
What you offered Teacher Sambong,
was your oath of allegiance!
Milbon's will?
Teacher Sambong's last will?
Great mission?
You bastards only want this piece of scrap.
This list of signatures you yourselves signed...
This is your great mission, isn't it?
Whether you will be cornered as a traitor.
How your name will remain in history.
You scums' empty reputations and security!
Aren't those what matter more to you than Teacher Sambong's will?
Is it or is it not?!
You scum,
as a Milbon,
except for the order to rise within the royal court, did you do anything else?
As a Joseon minister,
the very first thing you ought to have accomplished;
Kyeongyeon lessons and four academies erected by Teacher Sambong,
and the system of having the State Council limit the King's power.
However you scum,
just let the King build Jiphyunjeon and make a mockery out of Kyeongyeon.
While he went and made a secret organization,
carrying out work none of the branches know about, you did nothing.
Furthermore,
the power to implement policies,
by the ministers from the government branches,
you've let the King who stood atop the Jiphyunjeon scholars,
snatch them completely!
The government is the discipline of the world.
Political power cannot leave the hands of the governement even for a day.
Such is the will of Teacher Sambong.
You scum, snapped it!
You scum,
created the Lee Do of now.
That crime of yours,
how will you atone for it?
I don't care about the likes of you scums' intention.
As long as your oathes of allegiance are signed here,
Milbon's,
as well as my intention,
are what you must follow.
Your Majesty.
Is it true?
You sent So Yi off?
What about the Haerye? ( language explanation notes ) Without So Yi, the Haerye...
Starting now,
we'll make a new one, is all.
Ddol Bok...
Our Dahm...
I entrust Dahm to you.
Gyeomsabok (palace guard), Kang Chae Yoon is
Ddol Bok?
Yes.
I saw it myself.
Such an amusing fate it is.
Here.
You must be hungry.
What's this?
There's no bowl.
So I just brought the crock.
You stole it?
Well, of course I stole it.
Did you think I made it?
Here.
Eat up.
What about you?
Well, I'll just, of course...
eat like this.
Hurry and eat.
It's one big chestnut.
I think it fell off before ripening.
The taste is probably so-so.
Hurry and eat.
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So Yi!
Finally,
the middle phonemes are pictographed?
Your Majesty's gaze,
Your Majesty's voice say so.
Since you talk like this,
I can't say anything.
How is it that you penetrate my insights so clearly?
I can't do this!
If it's a no,
then tell me it's a no right away.
Wait, no.
While I wait for you to write 'no'...
my heart might just burst.
"It's a no!"
If you deem so,
then get up at once and leave.
Since the middle phonemes,
from the pronunciation organs,
they are not linked to them whatsoever, right?
Hence, I thought,
since they are not linked anyway,
use the law of nature.
If I embrace the root of all things in the universe,
how will that be? That's what I thought.
Actually,
this King's heart,
is what they hold.
Cheon. (Heaven / Sky)
Ji , all you Gods... (Earth / Ground)
The citizens.
Please watch over them.
Like this.
Human, Earth, Sky.
Put these three forces into writing form.
Use this as the root shape of the middle phonemes.
To write them out as Ah, Eu, Ee.
Oh, alright.
But So Yi, what's this?
It's as though I'm looking at a picture of a lake.
A container!
Ah.
Eo.
Oh. Oo!
They become that!
Wait a second.
Here.
Like this.
And it becomes Ya, Yo, Yeo, Yoo!
This is it!
It's great!
And above all else, it's easy, right?
This is precisely what I wished for!
Isn't this,
what I've agonized over for over five years?
But together with you, So Yi,
it takes less than 15 minutes.
Dahm.
Do you know what I just fantasized?
Up until now,
"shall I kill him like this or shall I kill him like that?"
"shall I kill with this or shall I kill with that?"
I've only imagined those.
But... Let's go back.
No.
We have to return.
To the palace.
What are you talking about?
There remains work I must do.
Work you must do?
A great cause.
What great cause?
His Majesty's great cause.
And also,
my great cause.
So you're saying,
His Majesty's great cause is your great cause?
Is that it?
Yup.
Why?
How?
How does the cause of those higher-ups concern us?
Since you've been living with those of such lofty rank,
you think you've become lofty-ranked too?
Is that it?
Hey, Dahm!
Wake up!
You and I, no matter how we've changed our ranks,
in this Joseon, the bottom-most ranked,
slaves are what we are!
Those higher-ups...
if they say to kill us for the great cause then we die. We're slaves, Dahm.
So how does those people's great cause concern us?
That's why it concerns us.
Those higher-ups,
because they killed my father, your father, all of them, and that's why.
Those higher-ups' great cause,
whether it will kill us or spare us,
we must watch with our eyes wide open.
What?
Let's go.
You must come with me too.
Orabeoni, you must do this work too.
And what is that?
What exactly is that great cause that...
The writing sytem is unbelievably easy to write and read.
That is a clear fact.
Yes, however,
weren't you going to show us the Haerye explanation notes on the principles and usage?
Well that...
It may take some time.
It's writing.
Writing?
Made with sounds of the people.
A writing system that the people can easily read and write.
I am in charge of a portion.
Hey, Dahm.
Do you think we suffered what we suffered because we didn't know writing?
Or because I blamed you, saying you didn't know writing?
So you had nightmares, and the King told you he would make you writing?
It's not that.
If we knew writing,
you think we wouldn't have suffered that?
Even if we knew writing, those guys would've still done the deed, and we would've still suffered the same under a different method, you half-wit!
But at the very least,
that the young court girl lied,
we would've known that!
I...!
With my own mouth,
I wouldn't have sent the mister off like that!
He's using your heart, that King is!
Those people all use us like that and they trash us afterwards!
His Majesty is a sage king!
A sage king?
That is exactly what makes me go crazy the most!
Everyone in the world says he's a great king.
That he's a sage king and we live in great peace!
Everyone's living so happy and joyful, and so great in the world that man created!
But only I am miserable.
That's what makes me crazy!
You don't think those words came to the north?
His Majesty is always doing great work for his people.
Joseon is enjoying a reign of great peace!
Listen to me.
That night is a misunderstanding.
His majesty...
That's enough!
Right!
Let's say I misundertood.
His Majesty saved you,
and what happened wasn't his intention. Let's say that's true.
So let's say I understand fully His Majesty.
But what about my father?
What becomes of him?
If I understand His Majesty fully,
my father...
My father is too pitiful.
And what about me?
Isn't my life too pitiable?
And what about you? You should be thinking from me and my father and your father's side.
What are you?
You are one of those people too.
Why do you keep on, for that great cause or bullshit,
pretend you don't know about your father's death?!
Why don't you think about it from my side and why do you think from that King's side?!!!
I...
am not thinking from the King's side.
Orabeoni, just like you,
waging your life on killing the King,
I've wagered mine on creating writing.
That is...
to my dead father,
to your father I caused to die,
and also,
to the one I thought was dead,
to you,
I believed it as my atonement.
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But regarding my great cause, that punk...
he said, "bullshit".
That man is none other than Kang Chae Yoon.
Though he is the one I fear the most...
he's the one I can trust the most, right?
It can't be...
Then the other judge is...
Yes.
Father!
Before you died,
what you wanted to tell me,
was merely this?
Seoksam.
His Majesty is a sage king!
Why are you back?
To do my work.
Didn't I tell you to leave?
It doesn't concern you anymore.
From the beginning,
it was my work.
I will see it to its finish.
And also, soon, your second judge will come.
Endure and wait,
with patience alone,
even if it takes time, you said you would persuade him.
Your Majesty.
If Kang Chae Yoon returns to the palace,
it's because of court maiden So Yi's return
to follow Your Majesty.
So his emotions
would be obviously on fire. Hence, I...
The path for him to come,
vacate it.
What?
From Gwanghwamoon gate to Goonjeongjon hall.
From Sajeongjeong to Gangnyeonjeon.
Between them, the Royal Guard Troop, as well as the subordinate unit and palace guard troops,
vacate them all.
You mustn't, Your Majesty.
My second judge...
is coming. Didn't you hear?
Your Majesty!
She said to endure and wait and be patient then persuade him.
So I'm doing that.
The one who is furthest from me.
She's saying to persuade him myself, right?
Telling me to have it out with him in person.
Isn't she?
Though So Yi's action is audacious,
it puts me in a flutter.
It puts me in a flutter.
I slash, then I slash and slash.
Then I will die from being slashed too.
Yup, it is indeed Ddol Bok-like.
[ Gwanghwamoon Gate ]
Lee Do.
You came.
Thank you for watching with us! See you tomorrow
Preview.
Moo Hyul! Let your sword down.
If Your Majesty is on the path and this scum is on it,
then warrior Moo Hyul is also on the path.
The citizens, you see,
can die for the sole reason of knowing writing.
So stop your deception.
I am not deceiving you!
You are deceiving!
These are the words we've managed to collect.
It seems I've discovered something quite interesting.
From now on, this is the beginning.
I'm the one who killed Jiphyunjeon scholar officials.