Episode 12
The smell sure is disgusting.
Hey Ace of Sixes, stop fooling around and come at me.
What did you say?
As I see how you guys act, I don't feel like being a human any more.
I want to kill you by ripping you apart right now,
but I am restraining myself mightily, so
stop with this nonsense and fight me properly.
Do you want to die?
Yes, you have to react like that.
So now I can kill you.
Stop it.
Long time no see.
Baek Dae Gil.
No way.
You, did you come here to get the Ace of Sixes' head?
Why? Is it weird meeting like this?
Why did Dog Blade's plaything come here?
If you get an ax mark on this pretty face,
it will be hard to look at.
Our master said to deliver this message to you.
Even if you are going to lose, leave your neck behind.
Stop roaming around and get lost you wench.
I can't do that.
Master said to protect your neck.
Come have a talk with me.
Let go of my hands.
The Seol Im you knew does not exist now.
I am now Dog Blade's person.
Stop chit-chatting and shall we get started?
It seems like I wasn't late.
Gosh, here comes an annoying nobleman again.
What is it?
I can't miss such a rare, interesting game.
Play well.
By tomorrow morning, rumors will be spread out in the streets.
That the almighty Ace of Sixes is now history will spread.
Where is the game money?
Lee In Jwa.
I took twelve gambling houses away from that man in the countryside.
From there, the lands and houses' deeds and the receivable accounts, all of them add up to at least ten thousand nyang.
On top of that, I bet my life on it.
You sure are coming out strong.
Then, what should I bet?
The ownership of this gambling house and your life.
Fine.
A man cannot back off from his pride.
I am sorry to interfere in an interesting bet, but
what about giving an opportunity to the spectators as well?
I want to bet on the winning side.
Isn't a bet something like this?
I mean I feel jealous watching only the two of you having fun.
What are you scheming?
Bet on it, if you want to bet then you should.
I'm betting five thousand nyang.
Hey, White Faced Scholar!
It seems like you are making a mistake.
Yes, even in the afterlife there is order.
Are you done?
Let's start.
I was about to die from waiting.
My Lord, the Prince.
Who are you?
Do you know me?
Of course, I know you.
Are you looking for this?
Hwang Jin Gi.
Oh, it is an honor that even a high noble like you recognizes me.
A soldier that used to live off the royal court, in the end
became the dog of Lee In Jwa?
Dog? That's not right.
Why? Did you get scared?
I didn't even take out my sword yet.
One life for one statue.
We should act separately?
You should catch Ace of Sixes.
I will search in his vault and get the documents.
Your Highness, come here quickly before I bash that door down.
As I thought about it.
I don't think I can move all the documents in this room by myself.
How about you helping me out?
I will pay you very well.
Why? You don't want to?
What are you doing right now?
Seems like you don't like it.
Then I guess I don't have a choice.
This. You keep this.
So are you done talking?
Now I am going to finish this game with a double six. You know what happens after, right?
The disgustingly lucky bastard, that is me.
One is six and the other is broken.
Since it's not a double six, you can't even finish it in this round. So what now?
You are saying you broke it with your gripping power?
I don't know what you are talking about.
Well this round was void anyway.
What do you mean void? Who says so?
It is a void round.
If a die breaks, it's a redo. That is the basic law of this two dice game. Did you even not know this?
Bring in a new die.
This. Isn't this a face die?
What are you saying?
It seems like it is a die that only gives double sixes.
Change it.
Hey stop with the fooling around.
Fooling around? What do you mean fooling around when my life depends on this round?
Change it to cheap dice that are sold on the market instead of the dice that are made in this house.
Is there anyone with a die?
Do you now have any more complaints?
I don't have.
You know this, right? Everything ends if I get a double six.
I'm saying your neck is mine.
Hey, Ace of Sixes, since things turned out like this, what about making things more interesting?
Those dice, if it's a double three then I win and anything else, you win.
What are you saying? So I win if it's not a double three?
But if I win,
their lives are all mine.
Look at this bastard.
Your gut is for sure the number one in Joseon. Are you confident?
Why? Are you scared?
Hah, look at this bastard.
Fine, if a double three comes out, I will give all of those of guys' lives to you.
Open it.
One moment.
You, Ace of Sixes. You might lose everything in this round.
Hey White Faced Scholar, it's Ace of Sixes.
I'm telling you, I am Ace of Sixes.
Then
Three... Three
What is this?!
Now spit out the money you swallowed up.
The bloody tears you sucked on, spit it all out.
Who are you seriously?
I already said it, I am someone that is disgustingly lucky.
This Bastard!
Have you ever killed someone?
Stop acting all cool and
try killing me. I'm saying to try killing me, you bastard!
Don't misinterpret it. It's not that I can't kill you. I'm just giving you away to someone else.
To those people.
Give us back our money.
You worm-like bastards.
Do you guys want to die?
Die my father and my mother's enemy!
Do you want me to tell you something?
Why your father died?
I am betting for the last time.
He put poison on my drink. So...
- Are you okay? -What are you saying? Aish.
I was staying beside Dog Blade in order to take my revenge against you.
I endured till now through everything just to take my revenge on you.
To take my revenge on you, the revenge on you!
Kill Ace of Sixes!
Kill him! Kill him!
While your master is getting beat up here, are you guys going to just sit back and watch?
Did you think I wouldn't have a back up like this?
Isn't it you Prince Yoening?
What brings you here?
Why are you here?
I came to witness the last moments of Ace of Sixes at Seoso gate.
Wasn't Ace of Sixes your man?
What do you mean trash like him is my man?
Your Highness, I understand that you are busy with your work, but you have to always keep in mind
whether you have forgotten something or missed something.
In the old sayings, they said to even knock on the stone bridge before crossing it.
What do you mean by that?
Then I will take my leave.
The punch you threw at me last time,
soon you will encounter it back two fold and three fold stronger.
Perhaps you might have to give up everything you have.
I will depart now.
Then let's meet again.
Your Highness.
Stop!
Violence? Did you guys forget that there is the righteous national law?
This man is not a human but a beast! A beast!
Yes, he is worse than a beast!
He has to die.
I will ask for forgiveness.
Your Highness.
For making the people in this land angry,
for failing to notice the tears of the people,
and for letting the people collapse to the ground,
on the behalf of the king and crown prince,
and the ministers of the royal courts,
I ask for forgiveness.
So, please stop.
Your Highness, please stand up now.
Human trafficking, illegal slave documents have all turned into ashes. So
take these people out and leave.
And this gambling house that caused wicked acts will soon...
It's fire, there's fire.
Hurry! Hurry to escape!
Quickly arrest that man.
Yes, Your Highness.
I am not going to take a single step from this gambling house.
Kill me. I am going to die here.
He died!
We have gained freedom!
We are now free!
Father and Mother are you watching from the heavens?
Let's go now.
What in the world are you saying? Non-chartered merchants union,
I put my life on the line and erased Ace of Sixes' stamp, but now you are saying you do not have the ledger?
How shall I live after this contemptible life is saved?
Whom am I going to blame?
Did you say that the man who took the ledger is Swindler Golsa?
Dae Gil, I heard all the rumors.
Well, still, I was the famous gambler back in the days.
Did you think I wouldn't know about that rumor?
But who is that woman?
I am Seol Im. Gae Seol Im.
Seol Im? And not Seol Lim?(Heart flutter)
So what do you do?
Perhaps are you someone that is in a relationship with him?
Stop with the nonsense. It's not something like that.
Then for what reason are you going around with a full grown woman?
- There are some reasons.-There are no reasons between a man and a woman.
So are your parents alive?
They passed away long time ago to Ace of Sixes.
But now it's fine. It's all thanks to Dae Gil.
Oh I see. So how old are you?
I turn twenty this year.
Oh that is a perfect age.
Grandpa, it's not something you are thinking about so just eat quietly.
Hey you bastard. Are you a son of a human or a pig?
Does the food go down your throat with a pretty woman like this next to you?
Here, hurry up and eat.
What are you doing here? You are going to mess up your pretty hands.
Leave it, just leave it and go inside.
I have to pay for the food so grandpa today go inside and rest.
I thought you were just pretty in the outside but you are in the inside as well.
Dae Gil Ah, it seems like you brought her here with a plan.
So why don't you just set up a wedding ce...
I said it's not what you think.
That guy.
I heard the rumor but is there no harm towards you?
What harm would there be for a single piece of trash disappearing?
I have heard that you have bet on that child, Baek Dae Gil.
The things you see is not everything.
Don't you think it is more clever
to take the remaining water than to just fill up jar that is about to break?
Everyone is waiting for you.
Let's go.
Your cleverness is sure amazing.
Just how did you clearly predict Prince Yeoning's action?
It's something not even close to a petty trick.
But what is that?
Didn't you empty your storeroom because of me?
Open up the storeroom for the people?
Yes, but I will fill again the storeroom you emptied for the people.
You will fill it up again.
And we will gain the people's minds?
Since you guys have opened up your storerooms for the people.
Of course it is the right thing for me to fill up the storeroom again.
You sure are amazing, sure are amazing.
Lord however, have you met the crown prince?
I sure did, that also went the way you mentioned before.
Then by now.
Your Majesty, did I just mishear it?
You did not hear it wrong.
From this point on, I am going to remove you from the position I gave you in the Office of the Inspector General
What exactly is the reason for it?
You personally interfered with the common people's situation and
the fire in the gambling house in Seoso Gate.
And I have heard that someone had died and on top of that
you knelt down.
You knelt down in the place of His Majesty.
It is not that I do not understand you but do you know
how dangerous your childish actions are?
Who do you think you are to dare to harm the king's status and how dare you...
How dare you ask for forgiveness on behalf of me?
You won't have any to say even if you had hundred mouths. You will step down from all your positions and
for the mean time remain quiet.
Yes, Your Highness.
It is such a relief since the wings of the almighty prince Yeoning hav come off.
He won't be able to talk about the abolition of the ban on non-chartered merchants anymore.
No it's not, this is still not enough.
Since many eyes inside and outside the royal court are watching you.
Careful, you should have been careful all the time.
I have nothing to say.
Your Highness, don't put yourself down and be confident.
You should meet His Majesty, you should meet the king and ask for help.
Aside from the king
there is no one who can help you.
Sook Jong
What brings you here?
I
Have come to my royal father to seek your advice.
Prince Yoeun Ryong(Lee Hyun, the king's sixth son)
Advice?
Did you say advice?
You stupid fool, who stabbed your own foot with a knife given to your hand.
What do you mean advice, huh?
Prince, go outside.
The position of Chief in Office of the Inspector General,
what on earth does it mean to you?
You can't do anything if you don't have such a position?
I asked you don't you have anything if you don't have such a shell?
The public opinion looks like
the water in the container.
The water happens to flow toward the direction of the tilt of the container.
Are you water or container?
Deciding where to spill water has already depended on your hands. How do you ask?
Are you being dragged up without your backbone?
Whether you live or die,
you'd better act with your principle.
I'll keep in mind your Royal Father's advice deeply.
It's frustrating.
Do you know the whereabouts of Baek Dae Gil?
Back then, after I separated from you,
I didn't have anywhere to go back to.
With the life that was saved thanks to you, Dae Gil, I would avenge my father and mother.
I thought that I would die without regret.
Damn it!
Damn it.
Don't touch the woman.
As of that day, I became Dog Blade's minion.
I said that I would stay under him until I kill Ace of Sixes.
Now that it's all over,
I'm going to tell Dog Blade that I'm leaving.
I'm sorry. About last night -
I took care of all your problems.
How is it that you're celebrating by yourselves?
Ah, the one from yesterday. But who are you? (informally speaking.)
How comes every body around you doesn't know the manners?
I'm older than you.
What's that so important? We are friends.
What?
He said you are friends.
Dae Gil. Did you have this kind of friend, too?
Friend? Call me Hyungnim (older brother).
What are you saying?
What's your problem? It's written all over your face.
Didn't you come looking for your hyungnim?
Just tell hyeongnim everything frankly.
You... do you even know who I am while you're chattering away?
Why, are you His Royal Highness?
That's right. I'm His Royal Highness.
- Yeah right.- It's true. He's His Royal Highness.
Restaurant & Lounge
Just tell me why you came to see me.
It seems like you're thinking of cutting of Lee In Jwa's arms and legs.
Then, are you planing to break Swindler Golsa at Mapo as well?
-If it's Swindler Golsaㅡ- Arms.
What do you care whether I break Swindler Golsa or not?
Why? Are you worrying about Hyungnim? What a worry!
This bastard...
On your meal table,
I try to put my spoon.
Tell me so that I can understand you easily.
My goal is to abolish the ban on non-chartered merchants and to cut off the Lee In Jwa's fund strings.
Mercantile monopoly privilege.
That is the useless law that pushes the small non-chartered merchants to the place of death.
Anyhow, I need the ledger that the chartered merchants' wicked deeds were recorded on.
Swindler GolSa has that ledger.
Would it be alright if I spoke?
Put your arms down.
The thing is, about that Swindler GolSa.
There's something I heard.
Swindler GolSa!
Swindler GolSa, Gol Sa! Where is that bastard GolSa?
Where is that damnable bastard?
Swindler GolSa!
In my life, there are exactly two bad relationships that I can't rid myself of.
The second one is the aloof scholar Lee In Jwa.
The first is Swindler GolSa.
My eye. The one who took out my eye is that bastard GolSa.
On that day, I did swindle it.
Double eights.
Elder, if you swindle in this area, you know what happens to you, don't you?
If I don't have this hand, what will I use to touch money and women with?
That's why I'm not interested in your hand.
However, I like your eyeball.
There's something I heard.
What is Swindler Golsa's specialty?
He doesn't have any specialty because he is a maker.
Maker?
Domino, dices, tags...
He can make anything. Just how the customer wants it.
But that's all old news now.
Right now, he owns the market at Mapo.
He's a man of great influence.
Even the officials in charge of vessel management and transportation, in front of Swindler Golsa,
are just mice in front of a cat.
Without Swindler Golsa's permission, you can't even load a piece of chestnut.
At the very least, in Ma Po, that bastard GolSa is king.
Then, if one catches GolSa, one could bend Lee In Jwa as well.
Of course.
For Lee In Jwa's money sources, the first one is from the chartered merchants.
The second is from Hong Mae's gambling place.
The third is from Swindler Golsa. And continuing the sources.
Let me speak also.
Swindler Golsa has a troublemaker kid who's being held.
As White-Faced Scholar's hostage.
Swindler Golsa who's clenched the Mapo trading.
And Lee In Jwa who takes in half of that enormous earning.
But all this was a transaction over his child who's being held a hostage?
What if that hostage were to disappear?
Where would that hostage be?
Attack them? We wouldn't need to do that.
Because we have you, Your Highness.
Aigoo! I'm dying!
Aigoo! Save me!
Hey, elder! Are you okay?
- Stand up! Try standing up! - Aigoo...
Go away.
Aigoo! Aigoo!
All of the sudden my eyes and mouth are acting up!
Aigoo!
Why this elder...
Do your best, Your Highness.
Hey elder. Are you alright?
Pat the back of my neck for me.
Aigoo... I feel better now.
This happens to me once every two weeks.
Ah, that's right. Since I'm already here,
can I take a look around the gambling house?
I won again!
You want to become a gisaeng for Wol Ryang Restaurant?
Your face doesn't seem too bad.
So where were you before you came here?
I was a pretty popular gisaeng in Busan.
Okay.
Do you have any specialities?
If it's not over here...
You are quite skilled, but your physiognomy tells me you are an impulsive one.
Excuse me?
No, wait...
You're not an impulsive one, but you're a Baek Ho Dae Sal. (Bringer of terrible misfortune)
Yes, you are a Baek Ho Dae Sal.
In your young body, you hold a venemous and cruel spirit.
So anyone who comes in contact with you will have a hard time avoiding death.
What do you think?
Is what I said wrong?
Go back to where you came from.
The Baek Ho Dae Sal...
Is a terrible misfortune amongst misfortune.
Shall I teach you
a way for you to remove that terrible misfortune that is embedded in your body?
Who is it?
So you are acquainted with martial skills.
There is nothing in this room, so if you are a thief, leave at once.
It's double tens!
Where have you been all along,
my double tens?
What is it?
It's not like this is your first time striking a double ten, so what's with the loud commotion?
What do you mean a "loud commotion"?
Look over here, Hong Mae!
I'm just playing for the first time after so many years.
Aigoo, look at all this money!
Aigoo, pretty money! Aigoo, my cute money!
Alright, I had a great time tonight!
Who are you?
Swindler Gol Sa. You know him?
I asked you a question first, so why are you replying back with a question?
Are you in there?
What's the matter?
I brought books that you said you wanted to read.
If there is anything bothering you, don't hesistate to let me know.
I have none.
Okay.
I'll save you, so let's escape here together.
Do you even know who I am?
You're Swindler Gol Sa's precious daughter.
You're not a normal one.
Since you could detect me with just my footsteps.
I don't know who you are,
but it seems we have a misunderstanding.
I am not here in Wol Ryang Restaurant as a hostage.
If you do not want your father to die,
you'll need to behave well.
As you can see, there isn't anyone who is watching over me,
so I can leave anytime I want.
So obviously I am not a hostage.
Then you won't care...
If I kill Swindler Gol Sa.
I'm sure you've heard about the rumors about the destruction of Ace of Six.
The person who destroyed Ace of Six was me.
Baek Dae Gil.
You came?
Baek Man Geum's child.
♪ Longing for you even if the tears well up ♪
♪ I will withstand you. Even if my heart fills up more ♪
♪ Because the words which have not yet been said remain ♪
♪ Because I cannot live a time without you ♪
♪ To you... ♪