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Get him!

- Comrade. - Let's go.

As I expected, it was you. Lee Kang To, it's you.

You punk!

Are you crazy? Have you gone insane?

We finally caught him and you want to kill him?

Are you going to catch Gaksital or not?!

It's you, right? You're Gaksital, aren't you.

Nonsense!

I... love this girl.

What? What did you say?

So that's why you thought I was Gaksital?

So you lured me to that restaurant, just so you could put up this show to trap me?!

Despicable punk! How could you, in front of me...

How could you, you punk?

Please move aside.

You just called.

When they get there safely, they will call.

If you keep doing that our comrades will become anxious.

I'm sorry, Troupe Leader. But why do I feel so nervous?

They should have called by now.

Even though it's hard, hold it in.

I understand. I'll hold it in.

Why are you here?

These are identification papers and boat tickets.

It will be dangerous to go to China because of the war.

First go to Japan, then whether America or Canada, go somewhere safe.

What are you saying?

You and Lee Kang To together... Leave Joseon.

What do you mean by that?

That, somehow, I have come to love Lee Kang To.

I can't believe I fell in love with a Joseon man.

The organization I belong to has ordered me to kill him.

It's no surprise.

These past two days, all I have been able to think about is whether or not I could kill him.

So I have come to a conclusion.

Could it be, that she has caught on that Young Master is Gaksital?

If you don't take Lee Kang To away and leave, I will have to kill him.

What do I have to do with Lee Kang To that you speak like this?

It seems as if you have misunderstood. Please leave now.

Do you really not want to leave with that man?

With these tickets and this money, you could live happily without worry.

Because wherever he looks there are so many people suffering.

Now he is a person who can't take off that mask.

And I support that thinking and intent, and I love that he feels that way.

Are you really confident that you will not regret this?

In any case, I appreciate your sincerity.

Goodbye.

How did it go?

As I expected, Gaksital is Lee Kang To.

Lee Kang To?

That Joseon punk who saved the lady's life...

If she has known he was Gaksital and couldn't kill him...

If she has been hiding that punk's identity...

Lala is still a Joseon person.

Give the order.

Ueno Rie is a Joseon person?

She was a gisaeng at Myeongweol-gwan who served the chairman for a while.

May I... kill your daughter?

Ueno Rie, I only said that because I thought Chairman Ueno wouldn't kill his daughter.

So, did you kill Gaksital?

Just as I was about to kill him, Captain Kimura stopped me.

As soon as I checked his face, I wanted to skin him alive.

However, if we just kill that punk, we can't catch Yang Baek or Dong Jin.

Even if we kill Gaksital, as long as Yang Baek and Dong Jin are alive...

You will never find out Gaksital's identity, even if I die.

I will keep my eyes wide open and protect Gaksital.

Their national spirit will continue to breathe and live.

We must root them out to make the Joseon people grateful to His Majesty, the emperor,

for graciously saving Joseon from becoming a colony of a powerful Western country.

Kinbei, this conviction is the future of the Empire of Japan.

Kimura Shunji, keep the fact that I know Gaksital's identity a secret from Lala.

You also have to promise me one thing.

Promise?

Let me end Lee Kang To's life with my own hands.

[People's Clinic]

What happened?

I couldn't help Gaksital because I had to help Reporter Song escape.

I went back for him later, but he had already collapsed.

Don't worry. They said he will wake up soon.

I'll stay here, so you go ahead.

Actually, I do need to go to Reporter Song.

I'll leave him with you, Ms. Mok Dan.

Comrade Tasha.

Comrade Tasha.

Oh, I'm glad to see you.

What are you doing here at this time, Captain Kimura?

Bring me some liquor. Don't let anyone in.

Welcome.

- What would you like to drink? - Get out.

Good morning, everybody.

Who is this?

It's been so long, I've almost forgotten your face. Anyway, how have you been?

Still, there was a time when we Three Musketeers were Gyeongseong's hottest modern boys.

Madame, didn't I tell you not to let anyone in?

Hey, these days, don't you care about Joseon's handicrafts anymore?

Back in the day, you used to go crazy even for a bowl.

Hey, do you remember when Kang To and I went to that snow village to find snow shoes for you?

You're not going away?

The three of us pretended to ski wearing those snowshoes, rolling, and running.

You smile at that punk?

What? Friend?

Me? With a Joseon punk?

You can come out.

You don't have to worry about this person.

Young Master, are you awake?

Can you see me?

Boon.

How did I get here?

Comrade Ahn brought you here.

Comrade Ahn?

Why did that punk appear where Reporter Song was being transported?

Does Lala intend to kill me?

Or, was it the Kishokai?

Lala came to see me.

She did?

She told me to leave the country with you and offered papers and money.

I refused, but no matter how I think about it, I feel anxious.

Does she know that you are Gaksital?

She said she needed to kill you.

Don't worry.

That woman has deceived me many times, but I could still feel her sincerity.

She seemed to be sincerely worried about you and seemed to like you.

A few years ago, I rescued a Joseon woman who was being humiliated by Japanese punks.

That woman was... Lala.

She is a Joseon person?

So that's why... She has that kind of past.

Thanks for staying by me.

Of course. I told you I'd follow you and be with you.

I'm thinking of accepting Sato Hiroshi as a Kishokai member.

I'm reconsidering because you strongly recommend him.

No, you can't.

I was thoughtless.

Why not?

As Kimura Taro said, is there a chance that he is Gaksital?

That's right.

The chances of him being Gaksital have increased with a new fact Kimura Shunji has found.

I think we should watch him some more.

Kinbei, I don't think it's time yet.

Now then...

Reporter Song. Gaksital rescued you.

He kept his promise.

Master, I'm sorry for making you worry.

Don't worry.

It's been a long time, Master.

Comrade Ahn.

My friend, you escorted the master into this fire?

You are enduring this fire.

The two of you must meet.

You must meet to live.

Of course. We need to meet. Of course we have to.

Master Yang Baek must have come with a great purpose.

Japan has increased the number of soldiers sent to the China expeditionary army to 1 million.

Master. Japan has increased the number of soldiers sent to the China expeditionary army to 1 million.

Japan has increased the number of soldiers sent to the China expeditionary army to 1 million.

But despite the surge, its army just barely seized several major ports and railways,

pushing it deeper into the pit of conflict.

This could be a sign that the Sino-Japanese War is entering a prolonged stage.

The war is taking a long time.

If so, Britain and America will enter the war.

If that happens, Japan will lose.

Finally, the time for us to become independent has come.

Master Yang Baek also thinks that.

That is why he wants to meet.

Where do I go to meet Master Yang Baek?

[Jongro Police Station]

Idiot!

You lost our connection to Dong Jin and to Gaksital?

When we need to catch Yang Baek and Dong Jin?

I'm sorry.

You are not going to tell me?

This is an order. Tell me what the plan is.

I'm sorry.

I... am Murayama Yoshio.

I can never forgive mutiny.

- Please don't do things you will regret. - What did you say?

Yang Baek and Dong Jin and even Gaksital, I will catch them all and bring them to you.

How will you be able to face me then, after acting this way?

Are you that confident?

If you fire a pistol, sometimes you will kill someone, but sometimes you won't.

However, a well prepared strategy, can even kill an enemy you can't see.

A punk who can't take responsibility for the words he says is trash.

I... am a person who needs to clear away trash to be satisfied.

I will keep that in mind.

You can get out.

Lieutenant Goiso!

Yes sir.

Didn't Lee Kang To come in? Why haven't I seen him?

That punk has been missing a lot lately.

I haven't seen him since yesterday.

Why don't you just take this chance and fire him?

Don't be like that. Aren't we a family?

He's a punk who will eventually appear.

Let's calm down.

How should I destroy this punk?

I'm sorry.

I was in an accident yesterday.

Accident? What kind of accident?

I was hurt a bit, but not enough to be worried about.

Really?

You need to be careful.

Sit.

Gaksital, how is it going?

As we discussed, I'm investigating people around President Park In Sam.

Kang To.

Didn't you know?

Gaksital took Dong Jin's staff member, Reporter Song, yesterday.

Really?

As you predicted, I think Gaksital is related to Dong Jin.

However I think about it, we shouldn't be investigating it separately.

We should do it together.

Why? You don't like it?

I don't like it?

If they are connected, we should work together.

That way, the chances of catching them will be greater.

Captain, it's time for the morning meeting.

Recently, among Joseon people, false rumors have been spreading like a contagious disease.

People who exaggerate hardship,

and people who say foul things about the current state of affairs,

are people who are spreading false rumors and all will be arrested for that.

Understood?

Yes sir!

Yesterday, my officers lost a member of Dong Jin's staff to Gaksital.

This is all because you don't have the Japanese mindset!

It's not a problem with the Japanese mindset, but a problem with morale.

Morale?

You promote and demote officers without proper justification.

Who would be devoted?

In order to maintain order within the Imperial Police Force,

I think Sato Hiroshi's demotion should be reversed.

You dare talk back to me, Murayama Yoshio?

Captain Kimura, do you want to be demoted as well?

Dismissed.

What did you say? Our Shunji?

He said Lee Kang To's demotion was unfair.

He challenged me in front of the officers.

He wouldn't do that!

Are you saying I'm making this up?

From what I've heard, he was promoted due to his connections.

Are you done talking?

I cannot permit insubordination just because he is your son, Commissioner.

I'm asking you to keep your private and public lives separate.

Excuse me, Commissioner.

You don't think anything has happened to my Soon Yi, do you?

Didn't I tell you not to bring up that matter again?

This...

[Flyer warning of girls being recruited supposedly for jobs but forced to be comfort women]

Since the principal sent her, this isn't where my Soon Yi went, right?

Do you want to be sent to jail for spreading false rumors?

No. I'm sorry.

[Joseon Government-General Building]

Since the war is moving slowly, the burden on the government is getting heavier.

Moreover, the Chinese National Party and Communist Party have joined hands.

So the Chinese are gathering their strength together to fight against our Imperial army.

I'm so worried about that.

Your Excellency, why are you so worried, when you have Joseon?

Announce the Act of Supporting Troops and get volunteer soldiers from Joseon immediately.

Commissioner, are you suggesting we give guns to Joseon people?

What if with those guns they chant "long live Joseon" instead of "long live the emperor"?

Chief Murayama, we can make weapons in factories right away.

But raising soldiers will take at least 15 years.

We have sent all our Japanese men so is there any answer other than Joseon people?

We are not able to catch the lone Gaksital, so we give them guns to become armed Gaksitals?

We can just have them shuffled off into His Majesty's Imperial Army (in China).

That's right, Commissioner Kimura.

That is it.

Immediately make plans to draft Joseon people into imperial soldiers.

Yes sir.

For now we should ban the Joseon language and prohibit the use of the Joseon alphabet.

Also, how about building Japanese shrines in every district,

and making sure all the people go to worship without fail?

Commissioner, most of all, we must teach them Japanese history.

First, we make them forget their own history, then their race won't have a future.

Whenever news comes to the headquarters of the Japanese Military,

saying that our Imperial Army is winning every battle, I feel so thrilled.

As one of the imperial subjects, my pride is overflowing.

Would it only be Chinese land?

Our Imperial Army will push even to the Pacific Ocean.

And make the Western people who look down on Asia scared to death.

By the way, Chief Murayama, do you know what rumors are being spread these days?

Rumors?

They say Yang Baek is in Gyeongseong.

Oh, I thought, that's surely not possible!

But how many years has the great Imperial Army been unable to catch Gaksital?

Honey, Honey.

If you speak like that, don't you know you can be arrested for spreading false rumors?

I'll leave first.

The rumor that you have come is spreading.

Even coming secretly is dangerous, but if the rumor keep growing...

Leader Jo. Joseon, where people already have a hard time surviving, will become a living hell.

To those people who are living in this land and having a hard time,

if I keep telling them from outside the country,

that we should unite, how can I move our people's minds even a little bit?

The war between China and Japan is dragging on,

and the Japanese are now recruiting young Joseon people as so-called volunteer soldiers,

to make them serve as human shields for bullets during battles.

But soon it will turn into conscription for soldiers and laborers, dragging them by force.

Wouldn't they drag even young students?

For the time when it will become a living hell for the young people, we should prepare.

For the sake of the greater cause, our fight for Joseon's independence,

I'm the one who gave suicide bombs to those young men, Yoon Bong Gil and Lee Bong Chang.

Even if only to pay the debt owed to those young men for sacrificing their lives, we must do this.

Our youth are being sent off because they have no country, because they are poor...

We must not allow a single one of our Joseon youths to die as human bullet shields in the Jap's battlefields!

That is my wish.

Seeing that Gaksital snatched Dong Jin's subordinate, it means Yang Baek has arrived.

Yang Baek and Dong Jin want to meet.

Since yesterday, the two police squads of the Gyeonggido police

have been surrounding the whole city.

The problem is that we still don't know the identity of Gaksital.

Yang Baek... Damsari... The Gaksital that I know so well...

Oh Mok Dan is the only key to us catching the three of them.

No matter what, I will have to investigate Oh Mok Dan, right?

I'm really going crazy.

No matter what, I need Mok Dan to tell me.

You saw it too, how she tried to go into the nail box by herself.

Torturing her isn't going to work at all.

What method should we use so that Mok Dan will tell me everything?

Well, would there be such a method?

We have to find it.

We need a way to make Mok Dan say "long live the emperor."

I will go to Gyeongseong Inn.

Why should I avoid Shunji when he comes?

If I avoid him, it will just cast more suspicion on Young Master and Father.

Please listen to me.

Go to either Jung Ja Ok Tailor Shop or Baek Gun ahjussi, and avoid Shunji.

If I disappear, Shunji would just torment Troupe Leader Jo.

Don't worry about me. I'll take care of myself.

Why does Gaksital always appear around you?

I thought that he was the Young Master whom I met when I was younger.

But though he saved me, he never showed me his face and left without saying anything.

I must have been mistaken.

Should I find him?

What are you talking about?

The young master whom you've been wanting to meet...

I'm a captain at Jongro Station, but I've been ignoring you.

It might take some time, but if I put in effort, I'll find him.

I will find him no matter what, and see what kind of punk he is.

No thanks. I don't want to be indebted to you.

Because of that guy, you didn't give me your heart.

Kimura Shunji.

Do you think you can have my heart?

I can't give up even if you die.

I won't give you to anyone.

What did Shunji say?

He just asked me if I had been contacted by Father and left.

He didn't bother you?

No matter how much Shunji bothers me, I don't mind.

From now on you're going to act this brave, aren't you?

Of course, whose daughter am I?

Thank you.

Please accept my bow.

The empire is now at war with China and is in urgent need

to send soldiers and workers to the battlefield.

Announce the law of national mobilization and gather private organizations

which cooperate with the empire's policy, and activate the League of National Mobilization.

I understand, Chairman.

We will establish the Joseon League in the central area.

Under local leagues in all provinces, we will form patriot units, one every ten households.

Through the patriot units, the movement to increase production and gather grain,

will be organized so that they can be prepared to draft soldiers.

We will teach the Japanese language as the national language.

As for the rest of the people who aren't fit to be soldiers,

they will be workers in supply units in preparation for all-out war.

Yes sir.

Because we couldn't live under Japan's tyrannical rule...

Because we didn't have the capacity to endure, because we felt it was just better to die...

Armed with only our bare fists, we cried out for Korea's independence.

This was the March 1st Manse* Movement in 1919. (*"Long live" or "Hail" - their cry)

Yes, that's right.

From Gyeongseong to Jeju, and beyond to Manchuria and Siberia...

Wherever our fellow countrymen were, the cries of "Manse!" never ceased.

How alarmed the bastards must have been for the Cabinet to intervene with all kinds of tactics,

portraying our independence movement as merely a demand for more say in government.

I risked my life to come here so that we can organize a second Manse Movement.

But unlike the non-violent March 1st Movement which collapsed helplessly in the face of gunfire,

this time, in all 13 provinces nationwide, we shall launch an organized, continuous... armed fight.

Master, if my young Gyeolsadae (Do-or-die Corp) and your people join forces,

we can advance the day of our independence.

Dong Jin, we really need your strength.

As a matter of fact, when the Japanese war started,

I thought the day of our independence was approaching.

So I set up secret Gyeolsadae in all 13 provinces to recruit to our cause.

As the war continues, the Japanese will soon draft young Joseon men by force.

Our Joseon youths, who would have joined the fight against the Japanese in the armed uprising...

We must not let them be dragged off to the bastards' war front

just to die a wretched death as human bullet shields. We absolutely must not!

In order to prevent that, we must start fighting now.

Then we need to convince men to resist the draft.

How are we going to start that kind of movement?

We need to get rid of the family registries that allow them to be drafted.

Family registries?

Yes, the family registry office in Gyeongseong City Hall,

and each branch of the office, must be burned or destroyed.

All right. How about we plan a simultaneous attack in all 13 provinces?

Thank you, Dong Jin.

Also, I wish to join the Gyeolsadae, Master Dong Jin.

Of course.

I have a good idea.

How about we throw them into confusion at the same time?

[Jongro Police Station]

I'm sorry.

I saw him meeting with Oh Mok Dan on the street car, but I lost him at Angel Club.

If you make one more mistake, you will die by my hand.

Captain, Gaksital is burning the family registry office of Gyeongseong City Hall.

What? Gaksital is?

Is that true?

Captain, he says that Gaksital is burning the family registry branch of Yeongseong.

Captain, he says that Gaksital is burning the family registry branch of the Eastern District.

Which branch hasn't been burned yet?

It's the Yongsan branch.

Everyone go to Yongsan!

Yes sir.

Lee Kang To, follow me.

Lee Kang To, what are you doing? Go catch that bastard!

Yes, sir.

Gaksital!

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