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May you spare my father!
You must save my father!
Father... Father! Father!!
Father...
I am the son of Prince Sado.
As Prince Sado's son, I shall protect continuance of our royal line,
and hereby proclaim my enthronement before you!
I shall devise a solution to this matter.
Solution, you say?!
Your wish is my command, Sire.
May you aid our Noron party to escape from these direful quicksands.
The third restoration of our dynasty could be a possibility.
So your only design is to uncover the truth behind that secret will.
Episode 2
What is the matter?
You...Your Majesty!
Sire!
For failing to even protect your royal berth,
we deserve to bear the grunt of your punishing blade!
May you punish us!
By any chance...
Before I entered the Jonhyeongak*,
*Building which Jeongjo (and former kings) used for studies, and often slept in
did any of the Queen Mother's servants or eunuchs visit this place?
Did they or did they not?!
There were no court ladies or eunuchs,
but we saw two court attendants,
claiming Her Highness sent Your Majesty an eventide morsel.
You must take what happened here today to your graves.
Should anyone defy my wishes, he shall be beheaded.
Jeongbok, write down the names of everyone here.
Is that clear?
Yes, Your Majesty!
I see you are enjoying a morning saunter.
Talebearing about the former king's secret will echoed past my gates.
I always felt grief and repentance deep down those eyes of his.
If he conveyed such grieving throes over losing his son in this secret will,
why would he not leave it to me,
let alone entrusting it to someone like Chae Jegong, not even in the court*?
*In 1762, Chae resigned from his post because of his father's death
He might have not been in the court at the time,
but only one man spent eight days fervently imploring the former king...
to change his mind and save my father, and that was Chae Jegong.
Have you forgotten already?
I was thrown out of the palace, after that day.
Before he was your father,
Prince Sado was my one and only spouse.
If the former king had truly left a secret will behind,
it would be natural I should know about it.
Since you doubt its existence, I shall disclose it to you.
It was two years after we buried my father, in the first month of Gabshin*.
*January 1764
San.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Know what this is?
A fan.
Right.
It was the same fan Chief Royal Secretary Chae Jegong used...
Sire.
to relieve your father of the midsummer heat burning that chest,
after defying the harrowing command this old man subjected him to.
San!
Engrave what this old man is about to say deep down your soul.
Yes, Grandfather.
A country is a place where the king, his subjects,
all courtiers and people have to live together in harmony.
The crown might bedeck my pate,
but if there is something even a king cannot control,
that is a throng of subjects or people united in their opposing resolve.
Your Majesty.
Today I shall confide in him the truth,
so do not try to stop me, Secretary.
I shall comply with your wishes, Sire.
San.
Should this grandfather of yours say anything betraying today's confession,
know that it is not with sincerity that I will utter such words.
I shall forever bear this in mind.
The truth is that Chae Jegong is a selfless subject of mine,
and that he shall forever pledge fealty to you,
so trust and lean onto him as if he were a father.
I will do so, Grandfather.
Chae Jegong.
Inscribe the vexatious despair of a father who slew his own son.
Sire!
What was the will about?
The former king continued to reminisce upon his grieving sense of guilt,
but all the bitter tears I shed that day erased those words from my mind.
If the former king, Chae Jegong and you were the only people there,
would people believe the existence of such will?
That is why the Secretary concealed the will under the ancestral tablet.
I promised myself to never forget that day,
in front of Queen Jeongseong's shrine.
Did the former king mention my name in any way?
The secret will must still be at Hwiryeong Palace,
under the ancestral tablet of Queen Jeongseong.
It must be.
The breeze is turning cold, Mother.
Master.
So, how did it go?
I found the gunpowder, just as you asked.
And it does not end there.
I even found the pigment.
It is of excellent quality.
Hmmm... remarkable indeed.
Well done.
Hey! Give me some more!
I looked around, and it seemed to be smugglers headed for Wa territory.
Smugglers?!
Anyhow, the price is good, and if we can secure the amount we need,
we shall be able to monopolize trade for the painting operations.
And I implored the heavens to show up and help... They did indeed!
Rummage the place, and find out those thieving scoundrels at all cost!
I was just about to do the same, Master!
Come back to work!
Ahhh... yes!!
Her Highness Lady Hyegyeong sent this urgently.
Did she ask for a retort?
She did not mention that.
Extend her my gratitude, then.
I shall leave you alone, Your Excellency.
Just because you were blessed with a comely countenance,
are you planning to defy the rules of your profession?!
Our first encounter started with your promise to free me from the gisaeng roster.
I never promised as such.
If such is the case, then neither did I promise to devour the night with you.
May you leave.
You wench!
I shall denude you haughty slattern for sure tonight!
Stay put!
What is this?
How dare you interfere in my fornicating endeavors?
The sound of your woeful misconduct echoed past these walls.
Ohhh... right! You must be this supercilious harlot's own pander!
No matter how much this world has changed,
nobody can rival your skills in blending nectars.
These mixed spirits have their own immutable balance.
Break the balance between Andong Soju and Dongdongju* even slightly,
*Traditional liquor from Gyeonggi Province, a.k.a. Bueuiju
and you will lose its nonpareil flavor.
Methinks it resembles its maker.
Should anyone else attempt to make it, the taste would never be the same,
so how else can you explain this?
I just have a keen hand for mixed spirits, nothing else.
Right... right.
Military officials like us only need swift hands and keen eyes,
isn't that right?
Yes, indeed you do.
While fealty and acumen are a courtier's best compeers,
military officials need to have a mercurial blade to fulfill their call.
Then, what do you gisaeng need?
Is your body maintaining that special balance all by itself?
It is our hearts.
Our bodies might be any opulent patron's feasible fancy,
but only allowing a select few to open the gates of our hearts...
is what keeps our dignity intact.
That is the reason you cannot open such gates, Choi Gichong.
Ohh Ohhh... Listen!
She stabbed you right where it hurts!
It is me, So Hyangbi.
Your benevolence for coming to my aid in the midst of vile debauchery...
is as boundless as the mountains and seas.
I was not forced by anyone to do it against my wishes, so you need not say so.
The bedclothes and pillow are ready.
Bedclothes?!
Don't tell me you are surprised?!
I trust you are aware of the rules governing this gibang*.
*Gisaeng parlor
The rules?!
Her first paid encounter did not go as planned,
hence she must now compensate by spending the night in your company.
Should you refuse her company after being designated,
gibang rules dictate that two consecutive missteps will force our So Hyangbi...
to a life in the scullery.
Their shallow scholarly attainments their one and only blade,
our past failure robbed all my compeers from witnessing the new genesis,
and only allowed myself to survive.
A new world, without kings, courtiers or nobles.
A world ruled by the people for the people, allowing them a life of equality.
This is the divine secret I am prepared to disclose,
in my attempt to find new compeers who will fight for our cause.
Seobangnim!
Your garments...
I decided to act as their guard.
Nothing prohibits me from joining their cause for a just reward.
But I have heard becoming one of their compeers is no laughing matter.
If it enables me to free you from this harrowing cage, I will do anything.
Seobangnim.
I shall forget it all.
My only remaining hope is living in happiness with you,
in the new genesis which will befall us all.
It brings me great relief to hear all those pathways have been scoured.
The issue is when His Majesty will begin...
- Inspector. - Yes, Your Excellency.
We must make sure coaction between the Royal Guard Garrison...
~ Suwon General Jo Shimtae ~
and the local forces is efficacious, even before the procession begins.
Yes.
His Majesty will escort Lady Hyegyeong to Hwaseong,
and honor the anniversary of Prince Sado's passing.
Of his passing?!
"O, crimson jacket, grisly garments."
"Wooden bearers of mourning grief."
"Will a thousand years suffice to make these lamentable throes vanish?"
"O, my son Prince Sado!"
"How I wish you could return to my fatherly embrace."
Prince Sado entered a wooden rice chest that day,
and it was a blood-drenched jacket what brought him to his demise.
The secret will we believed could never exist...
now deluges our eyes, so what can we do now?
What are you planning to do?!
The secret will that so fervently daunted you is nothing but ashes now.
Whatever His Majesty and Chae Jegong try to contend with us,
their secret will is now a mere vagary with no evidence.
All that remains now is asking His Majesty to show us evidence of his claims.
Exactly that.
Your Excellency, were you looking for me?
You must know His Excellency Dasan*.
*Jeong Yakyong's moniker
I saw him direct public works from afar.
~ Choi Gisu ~
For the time being, I shall entrust you his protection.
I am counting on you.
I shall serve Your Excellency.
Naeuri... we... We're in trouble!
What trouble are you referring to?
There has been a murder at the construction site.
What? A murder?!
He was part of our merchant group.
Isn't this cheokseodan?
It's exactly the kind His Majesty imported from the Qing, cheokseodan.
There were rumors cheokseodan stolen from the past summer's provision...
was being smuggled, so we were investigating it already.
The murder must be connected with this cheokseodan.
His Majesty's procession shall soon begin,
so we must get to the root of all this.
Understood.
His Excellency Kim Jeongsu must have been fervently hastening for a solution.
So... what is it he plans to do next?
He plans to confer with His Majesty over his latest accusations.
It must be quite a spectacle, then.
But why did Lady Hyegyeong do something like that?
Then again, she was always the first to abandon herself in dread.
What if this ends up involving Your Highness?
My clan was persecuted and scattered all over the eight provinces...
when His Majesty ascended to the throne,
so what else would I possibly have to lose?
All we need to do is witness the spectacle which will ensue.
Then...
Are you telling me this secret will was merely a mendacious fancy of mine?
We are not accusing Your Majesty of mendacity.
We merely wish to peruse it and partake in this joyous discovery with our people.
Partake in this discovery?!
Lady Hyegyeong seeks audience, Sire.
Escort her in.
I hear the former king's secret will has been revealed.
Since we are all gathered here, I shall no longer pretend otherwise.
Jeongbok.
Yes.
Head to Hwiryeong Palace, and bring me the secret will.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Anyone!
Here is the pigment you requested, six gwan* as your servant said.
*1 gwan = 3.75kg/8.2 lbs
Knowing how precious and rare this Wa pigment is,
care to explain why you so swiftly bargained it off with a servant at a tavern?
I trust you don't believe I would have fallen for an unworldly hireling like Makswe?!
Ehh Ehh... Listen to that belligerent tongue of yours.
How dare you witless fawner behave like this in my presence?
Belligerent tongues is something we share...
by sailing on the same boat, my compeer.
Sailing the same boat?!
What discourteous palaver to utter at a first meeting!
Propitious windfall blessed your path so far,
but these valiant utterances might be your very last.
You... You wearisome caitiff!
- Boys! - Yes, Master!
Just like your head shall not abandon itself in vagaries about aging in leisure,
the Grim Reaper already listed my name on his records,
so why would we not sail the same boat?
Only cantankerous acrimony spurts from that viperous tongue!
Punish them!
Stop!
So before you enjoy the Grim Reaper's company,
I shall be your compeer on that boat?
If it is too much of a recondite trope for you,
would "associate" sound more conscionable?
What?
You wish to become an associate of mine?!
Before we reveal the secret will's content,
there is something we must make clear.
And that is the fact the revealing of this document was...
requested by Their Excellencies Kim Jeongsu and Shim Hwanji of the Noron party.
I trust you shall voice no further grievances after hearing its content.
Your grace is immeasurable.
Open it.
That shall suffice.
You may leave, Jeongbok.
Your Excellency.
I leave you the honors.
Read it for us all.
Why?
Can't your eyes see those words?
"O, crimson jacket, grisly garments."
"Wooden bearers of mourning grief."
"Will a thousand years suffice to make these lamentable throes vanish?"
"O, my son Prince Sado!"
"How I wish you could return to my fatherly embrace."
You said we must let our people partake in this discovery, if I recall.
Your Majesty...
So, is it something we should not divulge to our people?
Your Majesty.
Are you trying to beguile your king?!
Your Majesty!
Meseems Joseon is filled with many a valiant man knowing no fear.
Punishing those responsible and quenching the former king's grief...
would be a most befitting endeavor.
But as I am well aware of the dire repercussions which would befall our country,
whether I shall honor His Deceased Majesty's dying wishes,
or just follow what this secret will suggests to me...
will be subject of my deliberation in the coming days.
What is more,
I shall certainly accept that the Noron party does not approve of my reforms,
but I do expect them to consider my policies with a fresh new slant,
and that manifold party members shall from here on in support...
my reforms with enthusiasm.
If such is the case,
then I shall follow His Deceased Majesty's last wish,
and let this secret will be sweltered by the flames of oblivion.
Is that clear?
Your grace is immeasurable.
Jeongbok.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Bring me fire.
There is no soul under heaven we can trust.
Meseems decades of fealty cannot compare with a mere piece of paper.
Let us not abandon ourselves in such hyperbole.
That is not what I meant...
Your Excellency fervently requested my help in unveiling that will,
so I merely fulfilled your wishes.
Ahh... then...
Are you telling me you did not make a copy?
I sent you what was found under Queen Jeongseong's ancestral tablet,
just as you requested.
Ohh Ohh! Then...
Doesn't this mean His Majesty might have burned it,
but that he could produce a new one if needed?
You acted with excessive imprudence.
Did I not tell you this would be akin to walking...
inside a tiger's den of your own volition?
You must have heard his words.
"The revealing of this document was requested by Kim Jeongsu...
and Shim Hwanji of the Noron party."
And I recall he also warned you against voicing any further grievance.
The Noron party has been a major player in our country's politics...
for the last seventy years, so would they tacitly agree...
to step aside without voicing any grievance?
I am just daunted by the fact our Southerner Shipa faction...
cannot compare with the Noron Byeokpa* in terms of influence.
*Party of Principle, actively supported (and arguably caused) Prince Sado's death
That is why we must spare no effort in supporting His Majesty's reforms.
There is also the possibility riotous specimen might use...
the conflict between reformists and conservatives for their own advantage.
How would all the men of arms forced to remove their official robes feel,
once the reforms are complete?
If those willing to use those winds of discord for their own treasonous means...
end up convincing them, it would be a dire predicament.
I did not know you were here. I have been looking for you.
Did you find any clue?
There are rumors indicating it was one of the fortress workers...
who was involved with the cheokseodan.
A fortress worker?
If such talebearing is true, one wonders how a mere fortress worker...
found provisions of goods restricted by His Majesty in such large quantities.
So you are telling me this Makswe joined forces with an accomplice,
and furtively appropriated the cheokseodan you were trafficking?
Seems like that is how it went.
But this man whose identity is unknown suddenly murdered Makswe?!
Ehh Ehh... Then, was it some sultry slattern with a grudge?!
Because of the murder, the capital police have now started investigating,
so should the man who colluded with him be captured,
the trafficking of cheokseodan would be exposed,
and the perpetrating Daedong group you lead, punished.
So we must find this unknown accomplice,
and furtively rid you of...
If that were to happen, I would have no other wish!
Anything else to disclose?
The legacy of our merchant group is on the line,
how would I dare conceal anything?
I shall observe your skills in solving this matter,
and only then decide whether I will become your associate.
Yes, Master.
What was the name of the man we sent to infiltrate them again?
Han Jangbok, Master.
Jang Dongji*.
*Compeer, comrade
Find a man from the Daedong group in Hwaseong, by the name of Han Jangbok,
and slay him.
Master.
I apologize.
I shall depart immediately.
Just have faith in my plan.
Aigoo...
Jangbok, I was just looking for you.
Don't keep all the goods for yourself, let me have some.
What are you referring to?
What did you do with all the bricks you replaced on that faulty construction?
What faulty construction?!
Even the corpse of that Makswe they found,
it emanated this malodorous stench.
Do not even dare to talk about that.
Aigoo... since I'm forced to witness a deaf man gorge the morning away,
methinks I could just have a little colloquy with the public works official instead.
Foreman Bae! What's wrong with you?
Here... let me pour you a drink.
Jumo!
Ahh... Jumo! What is the most expensive side dish here?
The most expensive, you asked?
I could bring you sliced roast beef.
Since it used to be something only the King could have,
it's inevitable it would be so expensive.
All right, you can bring us that.
What else could we get... on the expensive side,
fresh as well?
I could serve you a mixture of ginseng and acorns, if you're interested.
Should I bring you that?
All right.
Listen!
Some sliced roast beef, mixed ginseng and more drinks for this table!
Indeed!
I am not asking you to hand me the entire lot.
Since you're here, let me have some for myself.
Seeing how things ended with Makswe,
we must leave Hwaseong, but it's out of my hands already.
So that is why you were drinking the day away in solitude?!
I have some cheokseodan.
Ch...Cheokseodan?!
So it was you!
Seeing what happened to Makswe after trying to get rid of it,
I couldn't figure a way to smuggle it out.
Aigoo... Hyungnim! Let us get up, shall we?
Here... Aigoo...
Ahhh... Hyungnim! Here...
I bid you welcome!
Look, look at those two dastardly miscreants!
You order a feast and then leave like that?!
You thieving scoundrels!
Aigoo!
I knew they didn't look right to begin with.
Look at what I have to endure!
I could take over their table, if it is of any help.
Yes, certainly.
I fear I might have caused you discomfiture by coming unannounced.
What do I have to hear, Your Highness?!
Discomfiture?!
Ever since I had to move my dwellings out of the main palace,
this old matron finds herself taking hint of her daughter-in-law.
May you abate such groundless concerns, Your Highness.
Who would ever dare to contend with Your Highness?
It might just be old age clouding my vision.
I trust my words will not dishearten you.
Methinks summer this year shall visit us much earlier.
It certainly seems so, Your Highness.
Day by day, I can feel the bolstering warmth sweltering us all.
So I hear you are trading verbal jousts with His Majesty, these days.
Jousts?!
How could there be discord between mother and son?
Not to mention the fact this son is our ruler.
Indeed he is.
I do find it hard to believe,
but I was just staggered, hearing that our mighty ruler's beloved mother...
was used by her son in a rather unseemly manner.
It looks like hollow talebearing from the market reached the palace gates.
Is not this a world full of harebrained hearsay, after all?!
Like that of a woman abandoning her spouse to save herself.
Or that of a shrewd stepmother bewildering her credulous husband into...
drawing madness upon the visage of his perfectly judicious son.
It might feel like summer for some,
but wintry gales shall soon frighten their bolstering conceit.
And spring shall await to once again bless them, right?
I never imagined it would be this sumptuous a junket.
One word too many, and I could risk a dire predicament.
Still, yangban have a repute to protect,
you cannot go back on your word.
Ohh... it is certainly not because of my repute,
it was your beauty alluring me to keep my covenant, Jumo.
Aigoo!
Looks like you also have a talent for jesting, on top of your comely looks!
Meseems Hwaseong basks in quite the prosperity nowadays.
Still, just because business is good, it does not warrant a better life.
If business is good, how could it not improve your life?!
If all the artisans and merchants gather in Hwaseong,
then it is evident all the money in Joseon will follow their trail.
But so will all the black-hearted filchers in the eight provinces,
gathered here to lust after it, so how could our lives improve?
Black-hearted filchers?!
Look at how the same cheokseodan His Majesty granted us to alleviate our throes...
is being trafficked at the market as if those were meager goods.
Wouldn't that prove some rapscallion stole all that to begin with?
And it just doesn't end there.
Doesn't Jangan Gate collapse?!
Doesn't gunpowder get stolen?!
Now even murders are starting to happen,
so conducting trade alone in this Hwaseong only brings me dread.
What are you talking about?
The Jangan Gate collapses, and gunpowder was stolen?!
Not just Jangan Gate, there was another place called Gongshimdon,
and some people were talking of other places as well.
I thought I entrusted you the role of Chief State Councilor,
so how can you explain this memorial of resignation?
May you administer our court in a most resonant and masterly manner.
How could a criminal guilty of belittling his king wish for an official post?
May you accept my humble resignation, Sire.
Then...
Did Your Excellency have anyone else in mind,
suitable for succeeding you as State Councilor?
May you proclaim Chae Jegong as our Chief State Councilor,
and Shim Hwanji as Minister of War,
entrusted with the task of completing all your reforms in earnest.
If I proclaim a Shipa member like Chae Jegong as State Councilor,
then Noron's Shim Hwanji should either be Left or Right State Councilor*.
*The Chief and two other councilors (Left/Right) were the highest posts below the King
So, why Minister of War?
How could dauntless specimen involved in this secret will ignominy...
dare to dream of any high post, Sire?
Just the chance to prove our fealty through posts like Minister of War...
would already be undue benevolence on your part.
I shall reflect upon your offer.
Were it not for your aid,
the Noron party would have never demeaned itself in such manner.
My aid?!
Did you not show them the secret will?
Are you telling me now even your mother is a subject of your mistrust?
I merely asked you whether all the talebearing about...
this secret will's existence was true or not, Sire.
Why are you letting the Noron party involve you in their scheming?
How could the mother of our one and only ruler be inveigled by anyone?
Do you still owe the Noron party a debt of gratitude?
A debt?!
And what could this debt be?
There is none.
My father* might have led the party once,
~ *Hong Bonghan ~
but I spent my Crown Princess days knowing nothing about politics,
so how could I owe them any favor?
I would like to know what you felt when you read that will.
I might understand the grieving throes of a father having to slay his son,
but politics dictate that personal grief shall remain personal,
while loyalty to one's cause knows no boundaries.
I read those words on Grandfather Hong Bonghan's memorial of resignation.
You read those words, so you should also know...
what brought your grandfather to his demise.
This world is filled with dauntless specimen,
people whose resolve cannot be hampered by either a king,
or documents such as that secret will.
What else would have moved the former king to force demise upon his own son?
And what could possibly daunt you,
as mother of this country's ruler?!
Fear can only daunt those who acknowledge its consequences.
Sire.
That is something you are not aware of.
Doesn't that imply you are leaving politics altogether?
How can you take such a crucial decision influencing our party's future...
without deliberating it with any other member?
How long did our party's history last?
We first gathered together as a party when Song Siyeol Seonsaengnim...
argued that Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism should be our governing foundation,
so already a century passed by.
Indeed.
Our Noron party is a century old.
We endured countless challenges and ordeals, but we were able to protect...
the nobles' nation all this time.
What I am saying is, this century-old valiant tiger will not shiver...
because of a single fang leaving its roaring countenance.
And neither should it!
Wiser words were never spoken, but...
Hence!
I plan to entrust our party and this country's future...
on Shim Hwanji's shoulders.
Your Excellency.
Offer your valuable opinion, venerable members.
If such are Your Excellency's wishes...
We certainly...
How do you feel, Your Excellency?
He is neither too moderate nor too belligerent,
so what can I say...
There is no reason I should refute someone of such staunch principles.
Minister Shim.
Yes, Your Excellency.
Joseon is ruled by and belongs to us nobles.
You must always bear in mind that this country's future,
our party's future, shall from now on depend on your decisions.
How can I free this Noron party from the chains hampering its path all by myself?
A propitious opportunity shall soon befall you.
Do not waste it.
Your Excellency.
His Excellency Butgol Seonsaengnim seeks audience.
The Queen Dowager is a member of our party as well,
so I shan't entrust the clearing of our past misunderstanding on you alone.
Hence, I summoned her cousin, Kim Hanju.
They asked you to forgive and forget their negligence shown as fellow party members.
If I tried to forget the fact my brother* died of malady on his way to his Naju exile,
*Kim Gwiju, one of the Noron members who accused Prince Sado of treason
would I ever be able to?!
Your grandfather and my uncle, His Excellency Kim Hanrok,
predicted this day would come, and protesting that the son of a sinner...
couldn't ascend to the throne, hampered the King's abdication.
When he was accused of treason and his clan exterminated,
ask those fellows what they did to stop it.
If I had to gather all the bitter tears I wept ever since I entered this palace aged fifteen,
a jar wouldn't suffice.
But after sending Kim Hanrok to his demise, and protecting the Royal Successor...
all the way to his crowning... What?!
Forgive and forget?!
Ha!
That barefaced, cunning old dullard!
He also suggested adopting a child to make him heir would be wise.
Say what?
Adopting?!
He suggested Prince Jeongye.
Prince Jeongye?!
Royal Prince Euneon's third son.
So, should I adopt a prince and use his blood line against the King,
they would aid my cause?
Because of His Majesty's crowning and his reforms,
our differing paths might have led us astray,
but they wish to remind you how they share your same roots,
and for the sake of our country's future, you shan't forget that.
The same roots?!
Yes, Your Highness.
That cunning cur.
I was looking for the right chance to visit you,
but why did you favor this place in a gibang's stead?
Isn't this a much too unconscionable place?
Amongst the talebearing visiting these unconscionable dwellings...
could lie truths the lavish sights of a gibang would hide from us.
I guess you have a point.
I learned my lesson today.
By the way,
was there really any case of faulty construction as I've heard?
There were a few suspicious spots.
I was planning to investigate those from the morrow.
We found some clues.
Is that so?
He knows his way around, so it was easy to get to the culprit.
I went to the construction site, and apparently dysentery was spreading there,
with people asking for cheokseodan more and more.
But then this fellow started acting suspicious.
They will meet at the witching hour* near the fortress.
*Jashi, hour of the rat (11.00pm~1.00am)
We must apprehend them alive.
So it shall be done.
Stops over Shim Hwanji's name, under "Byeongjo Panseo (Minister of War)"
Looks like time is running out,
why aren't they coming?
~ On the Next Episode of ~ EIGHT DAYS
"Let us partake in our worriment for the royal family's future"?!
"You may strike, I shall not oppose it."
The stars clearly suggest when the procession will start.
The fifth month will be the dawn of our new genesis.
It must be something much more grandiose than we think moving in the shadows.
Why did you not implore the former king to spare my father's life, that day?
Sire.
Was it because you did not love him?
Sire!
Why didn't you save my father?
This... must be the end for me!
Pretending derangement to save my life is a much too burdensome frolic now.
That, should any virtuous retainer be inclined to stage a restoration...
And who would ever dare...
If they had to conceal a much more venturesome secret,
would murder be out of the question?!
But should it be an armed suppression, wouldn't just cause be on our side?
On the ninth day of the fifth month.
Joseon's third restoration?!
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