Suddenly, a gigantic object pierced the skies, emitting a rumbling sound.
All your other magistrates on the scene denied any such event took place,
so why are you spreading such heinous talebearing by yourself?
If you were put in charge of this, step down.
It can only be a meteor.
How do you explain the rumbling sound His Excellency heard?
I have heard talebearing of an entire village disappearing after that day.
- That lump of light. - Where can I see that?
Seems like this might be the village where people disappeared.
Disappeared?!
Kim Hyeongdo.
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Kim Hyeongdo.
Who are you?
No matter what might be attracting your curiosity,
I suggest you end your inquiries here and now.
Don't take a single step beyond these premises.
Ignore my warning, and you shall pay with your life.
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- Gangwon Governor's Offices -
How dare you subject an Office inspector to this infamy?
I was given express orders to slay you, should you display resistance.
And who gave you such orders?
What are you people trying to hide?
Shut your gob!
I might not be aware of what you're hiding,
but I shall not take this lying down.
An entire village has disappeared,
and I witnessed an enigmatic light float in the sky with my own eyes!
As it stands, there is nothing that will convince me to stop.
I shall make you pay for framing His Excellency,
despite being well aware of what was happening!
I was just informed that His Excellency the Governor...
acknowledged his treacherous complot.
Should you not accept your mentor's claims?
I shall allow your escape.
If you run away tonight, we will not try to stop you.
Go.
And forever forget anything you might have seen.
If you were put in charge of this, step down.
Master.
I beg you, do it for me.
Naeuri, care for a dr...
Sleeping?
Hyeongdo.
Since I'm piss drunk, and as someone who's lived a little longer than you,
allow me to give you a piece of advice.
What was it...
No matter if what you say is nothing but the truth,
if people say something didn't happen, it just didn't.
I'm not implying that what you said is wrong,
just that the important thing is what people want to believe.
Uh? You fool.
That is the only thing that matters. Like you'd have a clue...
Immediately head to Hanyang,
look for Inspector Hwang of the State Tribunal, and hand him this letter.
I'm from that village down the five-peak valley.
I came back after hunting wild boars for the last month or so,
and suddenly the whole place was surrounded by these strange lights.
The land started shaking in a frantic rage, and suddenly everyone disappeared.
If you head there, you can see the big light they all came from.
I have never experienced such a ghostly light before.
Ghostly light?!
Yes... They were flying in the air, flickering with light,
moving about and crossing each other's paths at will.
Wait a moment.
Are you saying you saw more than one?
Be careful, it's over there.
This is the place.
What are you doing?
You never know.
If he sees this light, my son might call my name.
Before that happens, someone else will see it.
If you were concerned about that, why even come here?
Ohh Ohh... I said don't!
- If they spot it, we'll be in peril! - Let go!
What are you trying to do?
Since you're here, go on and do what you came here for.
It's the one!
It is!
It's my son's sandal!
Where is my son?
Where has my son gone?
I can't allow this.
Those lights took away my son!
Give me my son back.
Give me my son!
Give him back!
My son...
Those wretched bastards took my poor son...
Give me my son back!
I said give him back to me!
Listen.
Wake up!
He might have perished.
Wait!
Pull back.
What are all these objects about?
Must you really see it for yourself?
What?
I told you to stay away from this.
Ma...Master!
Is this really what you saw?
- State Tribunal -
To Inspector Hwang.
I include evidence that might prove His Excellency's report was true,
in the hope you will live up to your repute and judge with fairness and objectivity.
Even court officers witnessed such events,
and a quick perusal of their testimonies shall suffice.
So, what, will this be the basis for your memorial to the king?
Indeed.
I see deranged fools have found another compeer.
Let us end this swiftly, Inspector Kim.
Is this the magistrate who traveled with you to Gangwon?
That's right.
I shall ask, then.
Are the claims he makes here truly what happened?
What are you waiting for?
Answer at once.
I did not...
witness any such thing.
Are you positive?
Yes.
I did not witness anything he wrote on that memorial.
- Magistrate Jang! - Forgive me,
but meseems you might have been deceived by your own imagination.
Magistrate Jang...
Magistrate Jang!
Here you are, Your Excellency.
Is this the object this fellow brought?
This is Inspector Kim Hyeongdo of the Office...
You... You!
How insolent!
How dare you address His Excellency the Left Royal Secretary that way?
Royal Secretary?!
And what would this be?
The proof that those "lumps of light" exist, he claims.
Is that so?
When it comes to being peculiar, it indeed is second to none.
Your Excellency must have seen the very same thing!
That object flying about!
Have you ever met me before?
I did, back in Gangneung.
I'm afraid I don't recall your face?
Your Excellency! Why are you acting this way?
A second-ranked governor's life is at stake here!
Were you not commanding a throng of soldiers back in Gangneung?
Your imagination is amusing.
Methinks illusions might be perturbing his thoughts,
so I trust you will enlighten him, Inspector Hwang.
So long.
Your Excellency...
Your Excellency!
Your Excellency!!
Kim Hyeongdo.
You conspired with the governor in this treacherous complot.
After mere meteors graced the skies of Gangwon,
he aggrandized his report with mendacious claims of a bizarre flying object,
while you endorsed his vile fabrications by presenting so-called "evidence."
Not to mention, is not Lee Hyeongwook your mentor?
Master and disciple partake in treason?!
Your Excellency...
You might be adamant about having spoken the truth,
but how will you cope with the influence your claims will have on public sentiment?
Before our people's ears, every wall is always too thin.
Should talebearing spread about this being some kind of...
divine retaliation against His Majesty's alleged lack of virtue,
it will only spell catastrophe for this court.
You'll turn these kingly walls into a wasteland!
What do you want from me?
Eager to live, I trust?
And grant your master survival, as well.
Could you envision any winning stratagem to deal with public discontent?
Should you succeed,
both you and your mentor shall be graced with leniency.
You must succeed, whatever it takes.
There is no one but you who can bring an end to this impasse.
Your pate will end on a gibbet for high treason anyhow,
what could you possibly have to lose?
Is that truly all I need to do to free His Excellency from any accusation?
Kim Hyeongdo.
You've only been given a temporary release, so you will not go far.
That retainer of yours must be waiting outside?!
Listen... Naeuri.
Yesterday, I was just...
I've already forgotten.
Is it not all in the past, as you said?
Neither truth nor reality has any importance.
Is it not what we believe that truly matters?
Was this the way?
Ahh... Yes, right here.
Anyone in?
Listen,
we were looking for Lady Heo.
But, tell me.
How did you know there was a place making such things?
I could tell you, but...
I see.
Naeuri.
I will tell you, then.
Inspector Hwang of the State Tribunal said we could find all sorts of information here...
What?
I...
By any chance...
Kim Hyeongdo of the Office of Inspector-General.
I bid you welcome.
Have a seat.
Is this what you were looking for?
Sino-Korean transliterations of *Europe and **Holland
These records come from a place in Gurapa* called Hwaran**.
They narrate of an inexplicable flying object which appeared on that day.
Flying object?!
As the description suggests, it could fly on its own.
And what were those objects about?
Seems that nobody had any tangible explanation.
This is what I was thinking about.
Would you be able to make something like this?
And where would you use that?
It's not something I'd be proud to talk about,
but I intend to make it fly.
Would you be able to make one?
The Court Arsenal would be more than capable of building such things?!
The situation requires the utmost secrecy, that's why.
Will you do it?
I can't say.
I wonder if I could truly be of any assistance to you.
A human life is at stake here.
That of someone who means the world to me.
His life depends on it.
What on earth did you do for a living, Milady?
Why are you asking?
Let alone knowing such precious lectures by hand,
you brim with mysterious talents,
and possess the kind of artisanship that would shock most Court Arsenal officers.
I'm just wondering, because I couldn't possibly begin to understand this.
I'm afraid I don't have the liberty to disclose that.
Actually, I don't remember a single thing from my past.
What?
It is all done now, Naeuri.
It is set to be fired at the hour of the dog (7~9 pm).
That will be ideal.
I have already sent word.
And should it fail?
A deranged lunatic will be "belittling this court."
It will soon be time.
Fire it.
Yes.
- Daeyeok (High Treason) -
A report from the Capital Prefecture.
"We successfully tested our new cannons."
"Not only did the Court Arsenal pave the way for this test in Gangwon,"
"but now even our latest test in the capital has succeeded."
"By proving the efficiency of this heretofore unseen new armament,"
"we bolstered our defensive capabilities in the capital."
- Sentenced for High Treason - LEE Hyeongwook
What's the matter, now?
What's that?
His Excellency the Governor's belongings.
His... belongings?!
Hurry up and go to him!
At the State Tribunal, they're...
Considering the heat, let us have only three days of ceremony.
Finally awake.
Bear no resentment against me.
Those were odds you could never cope with, anyhow.
You were threatening the Minister of Rites' own survival.
I did just as I was told!
So why was he executed?
It was certainly not what I wished for,
but I am not responsible for his death, either.
They merely were abiding by our codes of law.
And based on what accusations?
Despite being aware that the court was testing a new cannon,
the governor spread mendacious talebearing about bizarre objects flying in the sky,
plunging public sentiment into a vortex of confusion and dissent.
Who proved that his accusations were legit, I wonder?
Was it not you?
Or you could also put it this way.
To instigate public fervor, he staged these events in Gangwon and Hanyang,
inveigling the people and deriding the court.
I was the one responsible for all that!
Listen well, Inspector Kim.
For your own sake,
your mentor confessed he was the sole man responsible for this all.
He was well aware...
of the fact they wouldn't have spared both.
Lamentable, isn't it?
Then, jot it down.
Your every experience and anything you witnessed, without fail.
And what purpose would writing all that down serve now?
You needn't know what purpose it might serve.
Go ahead.
Write it all down, and forever seal it.
No man shall ever read this again.
So why did you encourage me to write something nobody will see?
Take a look around you.
This place preserves records.
Secret investigation records.
Secret... investigation records?!
They narrate of arcane, mystifying phenomena,
and all the observations such occurrences produced.
Secret records of investigations whose results can never be disclosed.
These are no historical documents.
One day in the remote future, should anyone be able to explain such arcane events,
these records might very well be rendered fruitless.
For how long have these records been written?
*Lee Seonggye, founder of Joseon Dynasty
Ever since Taejo the Great*.
And what is the reason you would disclose their existence to me?
So that you will take part in their compilation, from here on in.
On whose authority?
His Majesty holds that stubborn honesty of yours in high regard.
Although it does concern us, to be perfectly honest.
Us?!
You shall find out in due time.
A double life divided between your Office duties,
and helping compile these secret records as one of us.
I have no intention of devoting my life to records nobody will ever read.
Our search for the truth is not driven by fealty for the crown,
but by our devotion to the pages of history.
One distant day,
wouldn�t our descendants celebrate our efforts in gratitude?
I'd like to ask you a favor, if I may.
Could you keep this book for me?
- Diary of Governor Lee -
I could not keep it myself.
I'll be counting on you.
With all the books you have here,
- you can hide it anywhere... - I will take good care of it.
My gratitude.
For everything you've done to help, despite being fruitless endeavors.
Fruitless, you say?
Did I not make your acquaintance in return?
Have a seat.
I will serve you some tea.
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What's that?
- What's wrong with his face? - It's a curse!
That's only because you don't know what you're talking about.
Are you telling me osmanthus caused all that?
It's a secret of gargantuan proportions.
A millennium past, people witnessed the very same thing.
A curse? Yeah, right...
What could those people in the paintings have been staring at?
And if I tell you, will you finally believe me?
An immense secret?!
I must tell the truth,
no matter what that thing may be!
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