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My destiny depends on the Black Cloud Sword.

Has the king finally descended low?

The fighter and the captain. Have you heard of Lee Baek Roek?

Who was the one who killed them?

It's Wang Myung.

Since Jung Yeon loved you, you search for her.

She made a promise with you. Why don't you look for her instead of thinking that she ran away?

I am called Yeon.

Your majesty, I will handle the matter tonight.

Is it Wang Myung?

Throw down your sword. It's all finished now.

Episode 2

Capture them at once!

[Forty seven signs of a nation's demise]

[A nation like this will fall]

[A small nation with an enormous debt]

[The king's power is light weight while his servants hold the influence over the land]

Hey, did we fall into a trap?

Let's split up for now.

Your majesty.

How did it go?

Due to the clouds covering the moon, we've failed.

[King - Lee Shi Jae]

Bring that bastard. Bring that eunuch here!

We might have all died.

If we die, we die.

When were we ever concerned about losing our necks?!

You shouldn't have let your feelings overtake you!

Hurry and bring that eunuch!

He always came to us.

I've never sought him out.

Captain, didn't you meet with him privately!?

All of you, stop now.

We're not doing this to die.

If this happens again, we'll all die then.

Five things symbolizing defeat: Courtesan, alcohol, music, dance.

Who are you?!

I'm Lee Baek Kyul's older brother.

Is he inside?

Just who are these men that...

they escaped our trap and took all their injured men?

We're at a complete loss in investigating them.

We're not completely at a loss.

His swordsmanship gives me a clue.

I saw it too.

He ties a rope to the sword and wields it like a pirate.

This was my first time actually seeing it.

Then, you've heard of it before?

That swordsmanship is a deadly technique originally from the Qings.

It came from the bodyguard of the Qing princesses who were wed into the royalty during the Koryeo era.

Koryeo era eunuchs secretly learned it from the Qing bodyguards.

Eunuchs?

The Koryeo eunuchs were kept even after King Tae Jo established the new kingdom.

This sword technique was kept alive by the eunuchs.

I had heard it is secretly passed down among them through the generations.

So, this has a link to the palace.

How is she? Has she regained consciousness?

She just opened her eyes, but...

the physician says her arm needs to be amputated due to the severe injury.

What?

Oh my!

Your excellency.

Although the girl is a raving beauty, she's now maimed.

Will you still want her at your court?

Just stay lying down.

Even the well-trained soldiers naturally avoid the sword.

What were you thinking that...

My apologies, but I didn't think and plan that.

I automatically moved without thinking.

Since you saved my life,

I will be like an arm for you in the future.

If there is anything you want, say it.

Is there no other way than amputating it?

Excuse me?

What do you mean "amputate?"

Didn't you say her arm needs to be amputated?

Luckily, her arm wasn't damaged, so we don't need to amputate it.

I'm sorry. Your excellency was so shocked...

I've never seen you like that before. I was jesting.

What a great relief.

It's fate.

Officer, you have a visitor.

I told you not to visit me.

I heard the first vice-premier was attacked. What's going on?

You don't need to know. Go back.

Is there really nothing going on?

I told you, nothing's going on.

Fine.

Must you really work where these kind of attacks happen?

Can't you ask your father-in-law to assign you a post somewhere else?

What do you know about anything, Hyung?

Hurry and go.

Hyung.

She came.

Jung Yeon.

What did you just say now?

The one you so searched for. Jung Yeon's come back.

Is it really Jung Yeon?

Where is she?

Here.

Here where? Lead the way.

Not now. She was injured a little.

Was she wounded much?

No. She should be better in a few days.

What a relief.

What a great relief that she's alive.

It's not a relief for me.

Hyung, you have some too.

I ate a lot a while ago. You eat your fill.

Don't smile. You'll grow on me.

Hyung, why are you so good to me?

I'm not being good to you.

Are you curious?

Why I'm here alone from Hanyang...

Who my parents are, or who I am.

What's so important about those?

You're my younger brother, just like Kyul.

Hyung, then...

Whenever and wherever... will you protect me?

Sure, why not? I will protect you.

Whenever and wherever.

Oppa! Roek oppa!

Oppa, there's big trouble.

Kyul went to the wolves' ravine to steal from the insurrectionists' corpses.

But they've commanded to bring the insurrectionists' heads in.

The soldiers are in route right now.

If Kyul gets caught, they'll think he's one of the insurrectionists.

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You can't let anything get away, even if it's a piglet.

Shhh...

Over there! Insurrectionist!

Get them. Don't let them get away. Get them!

Why did you do this? Aren't you even afraid of the heavens?

We can't even afford to eat meat. We can't even catch a fish.

Still, you can't...

It's alright. I'm to blame.

When I run out to them, you hurry and escape down.

Hey you!

Hurray for the spoils. Hurray for the spoils.

Hyung!

They're over there!

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You're the insurrection prisoner, huh?

Lee Baek Roek

He's an insurrectionist!

He's not an insurrectionist.

You wench!

Are you defending an insurrectionist now?

Is he alive, at least?

What is your relationship to him.

We are distant cousins.

But... what age?

Oppa is twenty-three.

No, no. Not him. I'm asking your age.

I'm twenty years old.

But... is he still alive?

He is alive... today.

However, he will be executed tomorrow.

Excuse me?

Sir, to be truthful, Lee Baek Roek is my love.

Please spare his life, sir.

He only stole from the corpse because he was so hungry.

Sir, please spare his life.

If you ask me to make a pair of shoes with my hair, I will.

Sir, please spare his life just this once.

So, what did that man say?

Noona, by any chance...

By any chance, what?

Are you asking me if I will give my body to him?

You can't do that.

Then, are you saying your older brother be left to die?

Tell me

Is it okay to let your brother be put to death? Especially... because of you?

Or...

Is it that you have money?

Do you have an uncle in the tribunal or something? Just how do you plan to rescue him? With what?

Hyung...

Is there anyone here who goes by the letters Shi and Jae?

Who are you?

Just answer my question!

I'm Shi Jae.

Lee Shi Jae.

You dummy.

If you came to say something, then say it and go.

Are you really going to go there?

To that disgusting old man?

-You dummy! -Who do you keep calling a dummy?

Just because I give my body to him,

do you think that old man, who's not even a magistrate, can save an insurrectionist's life?

And, even if Oppa's life was spared by those means, do you think Oppa would leave that old man alone?

He'll kill him.

Then, what are you doing now?

I'm going to die.

What did you say?

I'm going to get ready...and...

If Oppa is put to death, then I'm going to die there too.

Does this make sense?!

That's enough. Go.

Brother is not going to die.

Neither will you die.

I will save my brother.

I said I will save him!

I can't watch you die.

I will save my brother.

So, you run away and let's live.

Baek Kyul.

Go wait by the Soyang bridge.

And... if...

If...

If I return back alive... by chance if I come back... don't choose my brother.

Be with me.

Now, go.

Hurry and run.

-Hurry and go! -Baek Kyul!

Are you crazy you punk?!

Yes, I've gone crazy!

I didn't come to save you.

Jung Yeon was going to kill herself if you died.

So, I came to save Jung Yeon's life.

So, hurry and go, you idiot!

Fine. Then, you suffer as the older brother in the next life.

I'm not going to live with you in the next life.

Capture them right now!

Stop everything now!

What are you doing?

They are innocent.

Put away your swords.

They can go home.

Who says?

Will you go against the king's commands?

Hyung, I want to leave here.

Why?

You want to take the federal exams?

I can't live here like an animal all my life

I'm surely going to succeed and control the world with my own hands.

So that no one can mistreat us again.

Just wait a little bit longer.

As soon as my wounds heal, I will make some money.

I'm not going with you. You stifle me.

You punk!

You can't be out there without me.

This time... I...

I had hoped that you would die.

In that wolves' ravine, I had hoped that you wouldn't return alive.

Even when you were captured, I had wished that you'd be executed.

Why?

I like Jung Yeon.

I feel like an insane man at times.

I didn't only wish that you'd die.

I even wanted to kill you myself.

Didn't I tell you before?

I went to rescue you because of Jung Yeon.

Hyung, can you give up Jung Yeon for me?

I will really treat her well.

What use would it be to keep sharpening a bad knife?

You're accountable for sending us into a trap without first scoping out the situation.

Regardless of the situation, you cannot fail again.

Just pay out the compensation for my friends who lost their lives.

Kang Chi Soon''s son-in-law is your younger brother.

By chance, you didn't get soft because of that, did you?

That wasn't the case.

And, neither will it be in the future.

I trust that.

If you catch a tiger, the other wild animals naturally disperse.

If you hurt my brother intentionally,

I won't be able to guarantee which direction my sword will aim.

Such a fool.

You still have a long way to go.

The 2nd tier magistrate's vacant position poses a complicated problem.

Since we are urged to quickly fill the position, please appoint someone from the qualified candidates.

All the candidates are such vital government personalities.

We all regret that we can appoint one person for that position.

Likewise, I belabored much over the vacancy of the magistrate position.

While I was in futile contemplation, the vice-premier here assisted me.

What do you mean?

Reading the records of the decommissioned officials during your administration,

there was a candidate who was nonimated twice previously.

Sadly, the candidate himself had declined the nomination.

Now for this position, let's bring in the candidate whom you had so wanted to appoint.

I am deeply honored.

However, he loathed being involved in political affairs like a plague.

If knowing that about him, you still worked hard to nominate him,

then I am more the fortunate to have him among my ministers.

My apologies, but just who is this person?

Oh, that stings.

I told you to go study, and you go fist-fighting?

Mother, I misbehaved. Mother.

Oh, you rascals! I can't hear you reading.

How sad your deceased father would've been if he knew.

Yes, yes, yes. I was short-sighted, Mother.

Please punish me more.

Originally from Choonchun province, he qualified for all the exams at the age of twenty.

Being forthright and highly capable, he didn't join any factions.

When he resigned as the inspector general of Ham Kyung city,

all the people, even the aged and the children, followed him out to the city limits.

He would say, "Scholars and paths can be found in writings".

"Scholars believe that path, and walk that path."

"The world needs these kinds of scholars too."

Only that...

should he leave the world and come to Hanyang,

he must choose a side.

Would it be black or white?

Politics...after all...is a person.

We have to unite all the scholars out in the rurals to the palace.

An official messenger will be sent to Choonju tomorrow to extend the magistrateship to him.

Gyo Ju, I have made arrangements for you to travel there.

Meet him, and if he needs anything, offer it to him.

Lee Kyul, you accompany him there.

What if he declines the offer?

Why do you think Father-in-law is having me accompany you there?

I will take care of it then.

Black stones don't mix well with the white ones.

Should he decline our offer...

What a shame...

look at this...this great horse dies.

It is a confidential message.

Be sure to relay it to him privately.

Kang Chi Soon will not be idle.

However...

You must definitely bring him to Hanyang.

We appoint Bahk Yoon as the 2nd Tier magistrate.

Expediously come to Hanyang and assist the king.

I am deeply honored, but your humble servant cannot receive the command.

I am Kang Hyo Joo, the son of the first vice-premier, Kang Chi Soon.

He is my brother-in-law.

My father sent us to you because it is of utmost importance for you accept the position.

This is ginseng that my father sends you.

We are not fated to give and receive between us.

Sir, why aren't you upholding a royal command?

I am too small a vessel to work for the nation.

How can you tell how small a vessel is without first pouring water in it?

Being overly humble is actually arrogance.

Brother-in-law, aren't you being rude?

No. No, he's right.

The truth is, I am looking after my mother who became a widow early in her marriage.

Maybe it's because I caused her much heartache, she's lost her sanity.

She's reverted to her early years. She can't even recognize me, her son.

The root of loyalty is said to be filial duty.

How can this disobedient son even consider a position requiring loyalty?

Then, if your mother passes away, will you accept the governmental position?

Look here, Kyul!

If the vice-premier's son-in-law is this powerful,

then as we have heard, the vice-premier himself must be like the blazing moon over the mountains.

You spoke too harshly. Loyalty and filial duty are synonymous.

You mocked both.

I hate most men like him.

If he's correct,

then he's undermined all the unrecognized scholars who want to serve our nation but have no opportunity.

Is it our turn now?

Is it time to find out what's written in here?

Hey, you go bring her back. I'm so tired I can't seem to.

People with that illness usually return home themselves if you leave them alone.

Oh my, my!

I thought you said she'll just take a walk and return home?

I'm indebted to you. I'm really grateful.

You don't accept governmental positions, do you?

That's right.

The rumor all over the Josun land.

They say you were appointed to the 2nd Tier Magistrates.

Ah, yes. It's not a big deal.

How can I take care of the nation's affairs when my mother is in that state?

Oh...it's just an excuse.

Excuse me?

It's not like you never worked for the government before.

You were an investigator even.

You seem to know much about me.

By talking with you, I can tell you're a good person, but one thing does bother me.

By chance, it is because you can't trust people?

What about you? Do you trust...

people?

Of course not.

Here.

Why do you think the writings describe the sky as black?

Is the sky normally blue?

I especially can't believe the sky over Hanyang.

How many scholars were killed from orders that seem to change with each turning day?

Well...that.

But I think the current sky there is quite alright.

Yoon, you rascal!

Where are you?

Come right now with the spanking rod.

Oh my. I was hoping she wouldn't have a spell today.

Please excuse me.

The spanking rod...

School is a place to learn, not a place for fistfights.

Mother, you must discipline a child strong with a rod.

Mother.

But... why are you coming home so late?

Excuse me?

Dear, didn't you even miss me?

Excuse me?

Oh my.

Mother is mistaking you for my late young father.

Ah, I see.

Dear.

Dear.

Teacher, please help here.

Father, I honor you with a formal bow.

Oh, this man!

What is going on?

Don't you hear the bugs coming?

Excuse me?

The air is thick with bloodthirstiness all around.

Oh...who?

Teacher, although you declined the government office,

you could've accepted the gift of ginseng from the vice-premier.

Ginseng.

...if your mother passes away, will you accept the governmental office?

Then... mother... who... my mother...

What about my mother?

Please hold a minute. You can't go out.

Honey.

Yoon.

Mother.

Mother!

Mother!

It's dangerous!

Let me go, you rascals.

Mother! Get back in, Mother!

Let me go!

Mother!

Let go! Let go!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

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Honey. Honey.

Kang Chi Soon's dogs.

Your cruelty is just like your master's.

So, you've improved much.

I'll talk to Father.

You try to calm yourself a little.

Brother-in-law, it's still not too late even now.

It's fine.

As long as I'm in charge of this task, no blood will be shed.

Mother!

Mother!

One sword is like three thousand hells.

What hell are you in the process of making?

Kill the old woman.

What?

To bring Bahk Yoon to Hanyang, we have to convince him that Kang Chi Soon killed his mother.

Stop!

Stop this shit!

Fool!

This is his majesty's work.

Where did your loyalty go?

Doesn't make sense.

This nation already doesn't make sense.

That's why he's trying to restructure it correctly.

Wasn't that the very thing you and I set out to do?

Honey, I'm scared.

Honey, this is scary.

I'm scared. Oh goodness.

Fool!

Did you forget your promise to his majesty!?

Mother!

Mother!

Mother! Mother!

Mother! Mother! Mother!

Please open your eyes, Mother. Mother.

Remember, you have to punish me, Mother. Mother.

Mother! Mother!

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A man...

with a knife...

Have you heard anything of his excellency's failed assassination attempt?

You want free information?

Someone is on the move with a grand plan.

Small. Death. Grand. Purpose.

Don't try to reason or make any judgements.

That's the Black Cloud Sword.

Bring back even one of them.

Are you the Black Cloud Swords?

If you comply, you will live.

Someone has discovered and invaded our home base.

There's a traitor among us.

You abandoned Jung Yeon, didn't you?

Why did you lie?!

Let's go back.

To the hills.

Never again...

I'll never leave you again.