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Who is it?
Aigoo... Yes! I'm coming.
Aigoo...
What brings you here at this belated hour?
Judging by your parlance, meseems you might come from afar.
But I wonder what brought you to these derelict lands.
A few more and then you can come up.
Have some of these.
My gratitude.
No need to be so bashful! Is this your first child?
A look at your spouse, and another dozen would be in order.
Aigoo... His first teeth must be appearing.
He's all grown up, all right.
Enough to get...
And... And what is this...
Don't let it startle you... He was just jesting with me.
It's...
a monster!
Forgive me.
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Have you awakened?
I found you lying unconscious, so I brought you here.
So you saved my life.
Thank you.
But... Where exactly is this place?
It's known as Jangpyeong, twenty odd ri from Mount Baekdu.
How far is it from the sea?
If that was your destination, methinks you've taken the wrong path.
It is my spouse.
She is suffering from ill-natured ailments.
What arcane ailment could it possibly be, forcing her to howl that way?
I sure wish I had an answer to such question.
I hope you'll forgive us for causing such discomfiture.
Never you mind. Did that soothe her in any way?
Perchance,
are you headed somewhere?
Harrowing elements as they might be, it is leisure I can ill afford.
Enjoy some respite.
But, tell me...
You did not happen to see a tablet lying about, did you?
About this big, and adorned by colored threads.
Of course I was not insinuating you took it...
Try to ask the patron next door.
He aided me as I carried you to your quarters.
He has not left his since his arrival here a month past,
so he will surely be there.
If you'll excuse me, I shall take my leave.
There are...
blood stains on your garments.
What?
Right here.
Excuse me?
I am the patron next door.
If you hear no answer, take your leave.
How can you violate someone else's quarters?
Your demeanor does not bode well, indeed.
But aren't those my quarters?
What are you standing there for?
Come here and help me.
And you are?
- What are you doing in my quarters? - Lower your voice.
Knew it didn't bode well...
"Give me a good reason to help you," is that it?
What on earth are you...
And when did you steal that from me?
This is mine.
Yours is over there.
What kind of people is the Shinmuhwe recruiting these days?!
- Then, are you... - So what's your position?
I am Kim Hyeongdo of the Office of Inspector-General.
Inspector?!
Methinks I'm the elder on the field, so I shall spare the honorifics.
Can you see it?
I can't see a thing!
You as well...
Let's make another.
Was not perseverance the very embodiment of investigation?
So let us at least hear what I should display perseverance for.
No need for such solemn gazes.
I'm Lee Banghyeon from our Hamgyeong branch.
What brings you all the way here from Hanyang?
Looks like Hamgyeong is filled with garrulous specimens.
So, let's hear it.
What brings you here?
How does it taste?
Like every other meat soup.
But what kind of meat?
Let us ignore all that idle blather and try to pleasingly convive instead.
In a matter of days, this sandstorm will be tamed as well.
By any chance,
ever heard of black taverns?
You're an Office inspector, after all.
If your intent was to startle me, quite puerile.
So, what,
are you suggesting I'm feasting on human flesh?
I really...
An injured hunter used to lodge in your same quarters.
That is until he suddenly disappeared, three days past.
Does not sound much too convincing a piece of evidence...
Evidence?
The keeper claims he gave him a burial outside here.
What are you suggesting,
that we start digging graves or something?
Actually, I was trailing a creature feasting on human...
No, feasting on human blood, to be precise.
If we're simply dealing with a black tavern selling human flesh,
it will only amount to murder,
but if it turns out the keeper here is feeding off of human blood,
then that is a whole different story.
So you're suggesting that selling human flesh only amounts to murder?
Murdering men and selling their flesh is a matter of economic activity,
therefore concerning the State Tribunal.
But if they feast on human blood firsthand,
then we're dealing with the abnormal, with bona fide monsters.
Would it not be our turn to step forward, then?
Those howls...
Are they frequent?
I have heard of his bedridden wife...
But I haven't seen her firsthand as of yet.
Then again, considering your affinity with poking holes,
I am sure it must have been too daunting a task.
Listen...
Poking that hole was no laughing matter.
So, what,
did it lead you to any significant piece of evidence?
Other than the gourd taken in to treat her, nothing else.
Meaning that you have no evidence whatsoever, isn't it?
I guess.
Fleeting an encounter as it may be,
would you not relish the chance of partaking in parley with a fellow wayfarer?
Indeed... Well said.
We shall stay for the night.
Palbok, Ilchang.
Go out and inspect the premises.
- Yes. - Yes.
Let me importune you for some victuals.
And quarters for the night.
We already have lodgers, so...
Then, allow us to use your quarters instead.
Forgive me, Naeuri.
As my spouse is suffering from ailments...
We could put the tables together and use those instead.
Do you want me to spend the night here?
We need some quarters!
We will leave once the storm has been tamed, so try to be understanding.
There is a room you can use upstairs.
In appreciation for your noble efforts,
this fellow has volunteered his room out of gratitude.
Aigoo... It's so regrettable we have to importune you on our first meeting.
My gratitude.
Never you mind.
Leave them your quarters, will you?
And why does it have to be me?
Then, what,
would you rather let them see your fine handiwork on the wall?
Was there any armed confrontation nearby?
The local outpost is involved, so you needn't worry.
Everything in order outside.
They couldn't possibly have been trailing us this far, in this weather.
Just in case, we shall take turns and stand guard.
I shall keep an eye on the premises,
so go and nourish yourselves.
Palbok, you will change shift with me.
Yes.
We shouldn't have trusted him on this all the way here...
So,
where are you from again?
Is that confidential military information as well?
- We're from Mount Baekdu. - You really...
Plenty of secrets to worry about, I see.
Since fate brought us together under this...
If there is anything you'd like to ask,
our superior can answer you firsthand.
Diligently at work, all right.
Giving it your best, are you not?
But what if the keeper discovers your propensity for drilling?
Is he not downstairs, anyhow?
And as for his spouse,
her ailments hardly make her a subject worthy of concern.
As you wish, then.
Found out anything of note?
Looked like you were closing in on something earlier on?
I guess they're after that changgwi as well.
Changgwi?!
When the departed soul of a child perishing before his parents...
is possessed by a cat, it becomes a changgwi feeding off human blood.
Haven't you heard of it?
So you believe such risible guile...
Risible guile?!
Some have even witnessed them?!
Why,
have you?
Back in Gyeongsang Province,
this damsel I heard of.
She was walking back home carrying freshly chopped beef,
when suddenly she sensed someone might have been following her.
And the moment she turned to behold,
no one in sight.
One more time,
and still no one in sight!
Well, thinking it was nothing, she kept walking.
- Enough... - When suddenly!
She felt a ponderous weight on the back of her trousers.
Back she beheld...
And my!
This child with rumpled hair was hanging from her waist,
licking,
as the blood was still dripping from that beef.
Ahh... Really, give it a rest, will you?
Done.
Let me take a look.
Stay put a moment.
Ehh Ehh... I said wait there!
Is she just lying...
Ahh... How many times...
Stop looking.
What is it?
What's the matter?
Ehh... Don't ask me.
You started this, so I'll let you finish it.
Listen, Inspector Kim.
Just be careful not to end on someone's plate by the morrow.
Since I'll take my leave once the weather starts showing some clemency.
So you're just going to ignore all this?
Ignore what?
All I saw happening from that hole...
was him bringing his wife an infusion, nothing more.
How preposterous... Going all out without a shred of evidence, aren't you?
Get up.
I said get up.
Why, plan to settle this one on one?
I would have hated to ruin your candor with my preposterous notions...
What are you...
He probably didn't have the chance to wipe it all off.
But are you really sure this is the place?
There is no doubt, I guarantee.
But if after digging we do indeed find a corpse, then what?
And you only say that now?
Just in case we might cause discomfiture to the dead.
What frivolous concerns...
Would it not be an even bigger discomfiture if there was no corpse at all?
And what is that supposed to mean?
If there is indeed no corpse,
then would that not mean that you did in fact eat him?
Come... Come... Come the hell out...
Let's get... Get... Get out of there once and for all!
But, tell me,
what brought you to such remote dwellings?
About ten years past, hearing that a cow with seven legs was found there,
I headed to Gyeongsang Province.
Where, Younghae County?
You knew that place?
I recently turned up near those venues.
I see our destinies have quite a lot in common.
Anyhow, during my investigations,
among the slash-and-burn farming communities in the area,
I found peculiar specimens feeding off of human blood.
Thirsty for blood, these savage beasts attacked the nearby villagers...
and slaughtered them all.
After I lost trace of them ten years past,
I have been looking for those changgwi ever since.
What's the matter?
I've been asking myself for a while, you know...
Am I not the only one digging here?
What exactly are you doing here?
So I guess you could continue digging the rest.
Ahh... What the hell...
Of all places, why follow me here?
Getting all bashful...
And you call yourself a man.
But is this really where he was buried?
No amount of digging seems to be enough.
I told you already.
Is this the man we're looking for?
It's likely him.
Seeing as the tiger-hunting squad is here, let us go request their help.
No way, no civilian can learn of this.
That of the changgwi are tales which must remain in the realm of legend.
But...
Don't these bite marks seem a little too small?
Where have you been?
What's wrong with you?
I asked you a question.
What are you doing?
We went to the latrine... The latrine.
Why would you go there together?
Going there alone daunted him, so I offered to escort him.
What did you do out there?
A look at your hands, and it almost feels as if you'd been digging corpses.
What is that supposed to mean?
Didn't he tell you we just went to the latrine?
I just went there myself.
But what is the matter with you people?
One of our men standing guard has suddenly vanished.
Have you looked upstairs?
No one is upstairs.
All right, then.
Search the premises one more time.
What did you do with Palbok?
Speak at once!
What did you do out there?
Unless you have something to hide, why wouldn't you confess?
Did you slay him and feed yourself with his blood?
What are you talking about?
Feed ourselves with his blood?!
You despicable beasts... There were more of you!
What do you mean by feed ourselves with his blood?
And you have the courage to ask that?
- You monst... - You knave!
Is this the man who suddenly disappeared?
You little... Where the hell have you been?
What happened out there?
How can a man standing guard abandon his post?
That...
I felt an aching pain in the stomach, and left for the latrine,
but then I suddenly fell unconscious.
I see.
Any injuries?
I wonder if it happened while I fell unconscious, but my hand is a little...
Allow me to apologize.
Don't you mind.
They drew blood out of him.
Looks more like some kind of scar from a blade?!
The shed...
I know.
You mentioned monsters feasting on human blood, right?
Look...
Did you not point your blade at me, calling me a bloodthirsty beast?
That has nothing to do with you.
What's wrong?
Don't mention the changgwi.
And why?
They're clearly aware that he was attacked by a changgwi.
No, they're merely engaging in conjecture.
Officially acknowledging their existence is a whole different story.
Again with that logic of yours?
Suggesting that selling human meat is perfectly fine, but feasting on it is not.
I shall handle it by myself.
I am an Office inspector, my name is Kim Hyeongdo.
If you worry that disclosing confidential information will bring you trouble,
fear you not.
Was a changgwi responsible for this?
We are a tiger-hunting squad from Hamgyeong Province.
We found an injured man nearby, four days past.
He said the rest of his retinue was patrolling northeast of Mount Baekdu,
when a monster slaughtered everyone but him.
You survived all that by yourself, but what is this?
And that is when we began ransacking the entire valley, looking for that monster.
I never tried to minimize the situation,
but I never imagined I'd end up witnessing such harrowing sights.
Maundering without knowing where it would attack us or even how it looked like,
I lost two of my men.
Are you sure we are dealing with only one of them?
If there were even only two of them,
we would not be here to tell the story.
Who's there? Stop at once!
Who's there?
Ehh Ehh... I'll be damned. I cannot see a thing.
Who's there?
Where are all the others?
You startled me!
Wasn't I clear about not telling them anything?
What's that supposed to mean? Working together could only help us.
Let us just return before we get lost.
He might have gone back in.
I'll check the premises out here, so you go in.
Do not bother.
She's already on the verge of demise.
Up until now,
I maintained a scanty existence by feeding her blood to my son.
How can one commit such barbarity and still consider himself a human being?
Yes...
You are right.
It's a barbarity, indeed.
But...
that is how he was born, so what else could we do?
But methinks your son was not responsible for these wounds.
Those bite marks could never belong to a child.
Are you suggesting there is more than one of them?
The one who slew the hunter in the shed.
He might have let your son go.
What are you doing?
Stop there.
I must find my child before the tiger-hunting squad does!
I said stop!
No matter how dire the straits you're facing might be,
you still are guilty of murder.
And that is why I cannot let you go.
Please...
He must be terrified by now!
Where is our commander?
I never committed murder.
You seriously think my wife would be in that state,
if I had ever killed to feed my son?
We opened that clan grave of yours.
The bite marks on that corpse belonged to a child.
Did you not commit murder ten years past?
Gyeongsang Province, Younghae County!
No... I never did any such thing!
Then, what brought you to such inhospitable dwellings?
We were running away from those people as well!
For decades, our village had witnessed the birth of many abnormal creatures.
This particular year, a calf with seven legs was born,
and after some people from Hanyang came to investigate,
they left just as mysteriously as they came.
But, not long after they left,
the village was sweltered by sinister figures wearing black clothes and hoods,
who slaughtered people left and right, and burned the entire village to shreds.
Wearing black clothes and hoods, you said?
Yes!
I only fled all the way here to escape from them!
I need to find my child, please let me go!
No need to worry about your son.
For you shall soon meet him.
You were in peril.
What on earth are you doing?
This man did not pose any danger!
No.
I was only telling you that learning anything more would have put you in peril.
It could have even spelled your demise.
Stop it.
Killing him was not necessary, was it?
So why disclose secrets that should have forever lain dormant?
Do you know how many innocent lives have been sacrificed because of you?
And who on earth are you?
Another survivor from that village?
What is that gaze of yours?
Ten years past,
I saw you with my own eyes.
I'll be damned...
So you're telling me I could not recognize the man I trailed for ten years?
Don't stare at me as if glancing upon a monster!
I only fed myself with blood for the sake of survival.
So be glad I am still treating you like a human being.
If there is anything that can compensate the loss of a human life
it is another human life.
Why did you do something so heinous?
That fellow people call truth...
has always been quite the heinous specimen.
You think our duties only amounted to investigating and compiling records?
Someone must follow you closely, correcting any blemish that may arise.
Is it so precious a truth to conceal...
that you must commit murder to protect it?
Everything happens in due time.
In the morrow, people will come here to destroy all evidence.
They won't be benign as me, so I suggest you leave.
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We bid Your Excellency our warmest welcome.
Did it fall from the sky?
- It might not have been a meteor after all. - A meteor?
It can only suggest they're hiding something...
- And then... into the sea! - From the sky into the sea?
Our foremost duty is to serve them.
Can you really stomach those raw?
You can't have this in Hanyang!
It's only in places like this that you can.
Are you familiar with that in any way?
They are all parturient with them.
Are you telling me that all those people are pregnant?
Assistant Heo, wake up!
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