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Episode 18

She is not here.

The princess escaped with that fellow named Heo Jun.

If they intended to hide, what would be useful even if I give you the soldiers?

Since you do not wish to lose her after commanding her beheading,

using the soldiers I will capture the runaway princess.

Do you think that because I trust you that I've also accepted your intentions?

If not for the princess, then the hatred of the people will instead be for you, wouldn't it?

I know very well that is why you allied yourself with me.

The princess has taken all the blame. What are you hesitating for?

If we pull out the root of the plague and famine, the princess, then the people will hail you as a gracious king.

No longer can anyone despise you for being of indirect royal lineage.

What do you seek to earn by vexing me?

Despite... having committed so many heinous crimes, you're not hoping to receive extenuation, are you?

It is only because my intentions fit yours briefly that I ordered the beheading of the princess.

I have no intention of remaining silent on your crimes.

I know.

If the princess is gone that is all I wish for. I have nothing else I'd like from Your Majesty.

I'll give you the soldiers. So catch the Princess no matter what it takes.

When I catch the Princess,

Please order Head Taoist Choi Poong Yeon of Taoist Temple to kill the Princess.

Are you saying to me to order Poong Yeon to kill the Princess right now?

Only Choi Poong Yeon who has an ability to ignite a fire by the internal spiritual force can kill the cursed Princess.

Poong Yeon even disobeyed my order staking his own life for protecting the Princess.

This time, he won't disobey your order.

Step aside!

Step aside!

Step aside!

Step aside! Step aside!

Step aside!

Step aside!

Step aside! Medicine

Because of the cursed Princess, my children have died with a plague!

Let's hurry and tell to hand over that fox.

Let's go! Let's go!

- That uncanny thing is a princess ghost! - That's right.

That's unlucky. Burn it quickly!

Burn it! Quickly! How unlucky it is so the epidemic is circulating!

Aigoo! Burn it quickly!

How unlucky!

Burn it!

Young Master.

Have you found Yeon Hee?

I think it"ll be better if she doesn't come back.

Right now, the people's complaints are too much so it's better for her to run away or hide herself.

However, it's a big problem because there are not much time left to light the candles.

Before Hong Joo catches Yeon Hee, we must find her first.

I think it's better I'd look for her separately.

I'll go the cave where she hid herself last time.

Yes.

Young Master.

Are you all right?

I'm alright. Please hurry up.

Can you really catch it?

Just wait!

We may starve today.

Hey, do you think I really make you starve? Wait.

I like we stay together like this.

Miss Yeon Hee.

Tell me what you liked today.

I liked walking on the mountain paths holding your hand.

I also liked your carrying me on your back when we crossed the streamlet.

It was fun that you couldn't catch fish.

I like being together like this as well.

For me, I liked that you smiled.

♪ Dazzling, sunlit memories ♪

♪ Shouts that start the day ♪

If I were not bound to such a curse,

Will we be able to meet? ♪ Flowers blossomed between the walls ♪

♪ Faces inside the faded memories ♪

What are you?

♪ It’s the reason I’m shining ♪

Like today, we would live ordinarily.

In the very ordinary way... we would probably meet each other.

One day,

on the way passing by, we would recognize each other.

Talk to me with informal language, like you did before.

We are not even that close to talk to each other with informal language.

Pay no mind to me.

The ordinary days would be special.

♪ But now I know the reason ♪

I would just want to see you more. If I saw you, then I would smile myself again and again.

I would feel the moments when we are together are short.

I'd want to forever hold onto the times we are together.

♪ Where is the kite that was flying in the wind? ♪

Just like now. ♪ It’s the reason I’m shining ♪

♪ The reason I was here from the start ♪

♪ My soul was slowly disappearing ♪

♪ But now I know the reason it’s coming back to life ♪

Scholar Heo!

Yeon Hee!

No, you said they ran away. Do you think they would come back already?

You never know it. Those two people don't have anywhere else to go.

Originally, this place is where anybody just can't comes in.

Since the situation is urgent right now, I can't help but bring you in.

Scholar Heo. Scholar Heo!

Yeon Hee!

They are not here?

Where exactly could they be?

Yeon Hee. Yeon Hee!

Why are you chasing us?

This is the King's order!

Yeon Hee.

Jun!

What about Jun?

I will go now and look for him.

The soldiers must be still outside.

I don't care.

Let me go, Brother.

I have to look for Jun.

Jun is...

Yeon Hee!

Calm down. I will go outside and find him.

Jun did nothing wrong.

Everything is my fault.

Everything is my wrongdoing.

But why, Jun? Because of me, Jun...

If Jun dies, what am I going to do? No!

No, please!

No!

Jun!

Please stop right there!

You let the Princess escape.

Please don't worry too much. I'll definitely catch her soon.

Did you dispatch the soldiers to catch the Princess?

People saw the Princess' true figure.

This time even if you ask me to help the Princess, I can't help her any longer.

However, if Your Majesty doesn't do it,

that you suffered the monstrous disease by the black magic,

and that you tried to get it treated by the black magic as well,

and the fact you were fooled by a mere shamaness,

I will reveal everything.

Yes, reveal everything!

If you want to destroy the Royal Family,

well, try to do so.

From when did you cherish the Princess so much?

Are you really doing this for the sake of the Princess?

Or you're doing this because you're afraid of being revealed that you committed the wrongdoings by black magic?

How dare you...

Are you afraid of me?

Am I a chief state minister?

Or a left state minister?

Huh? You don't have to do this much!

Why do you send me into exile?

Hey! You bastards!

Heo Jun. Heo Jun!

How about Yeon Hee? Is Yeon Hee safe?

Please come back to your senses. Please come back to your senses!

Yeon Hee has disappeared.

I have to go and look for her so you stay still here.

Sir.

I'll go too.

Will your body be all right?

Yeon Hee's body is worse than mine.

So where exactly could she go?

She thought something bad would've happened to you. So she lost her reason.

Then... She might have gone to the Palace.

I'll follow you, so hurry go to the palace.

Sir.

Sir.

So... you are saying... that you'll kill me right now.

Why? I can't kill you?

You're fretting over not being able to kill me.

Princess!

There is no need for you to worry about me any longer.

Jun is dead.

They killed him.

Stop all this immediately! How dare you threaten the King and do you still hope to live?

Why me? Why should I die as you please?!

You still don't know the reason?

You were a child born because of their selfishness and greed. I mean you were originally born to die.

Shut up your mouth!

For the sake of such those people, why are you staking your life for lifting a curse?

The people, who you are trying to help, have already abandoned you.

For sure, they did it.

Your biological mother was also abandoned after being used like you.

What do you mean by saying that?

The person who made you be born was I.

Since I made you be born by black magic, that's why you were cursed.

Aren't you curious how that happened like that?

I said to shut up your mouth! Yeon Hee, please come back to your senses.

Your biological mother is not Her Highness the Queen Dowager but someone else.

Her Highness the Queen Dowager had infertility problem so she couldn't bear a child.

So your real mother, a court lady, conceived you and the Crown Prince instead of her.

And I transferred it to Her Highness the Queen Dowager using the black magic.

And... Queen Dowager was the one that killed your real mother.

Child, that's how your curse started.

You can return your curse to this place where you got such a pain.

Shut up. That's your revenge that you want to do on this palace.

What do I have to do with me whether you have a grudge against the palace or not?

Why do I have to die for the sake of your revenge?

Why do I have to be sacrificed for the sake of your wrongful ambitions?

Why do I have to be sacrificed for the sake of your wrongful ambitions?

You did wrong, then you should die!

No. I don't need all of this.

Let's die all together.

Sir! Please don't ever forget who you are.

Don't boast yourself.

From the moment I saw you right by Yeon Hee's side, I hated you.

If you hadn't appeared and met her, I would've been right by Yeon Hee's side now.

Sir. Because of that blind mind, you fell into Hong Joo and almost killed Yeon Hee.

Wake up now. You shook off your crooked mind at that time.

All happened because of you bastard.

If you hadn't appeared and met her, I would've been right by Yeon Hee's side now.

If you hadn't appeared and met her,

this horrid things would've not happened to Yeon Hee.

Sir...

Your present mind have decided to help her.

Sir, you have to shake off the low whispering of the black spirit in your mind.

You can do it.

Sir, just think about the thing that you definitely want to protect the most.

Yeon Hee is in serious danger now.

Aren't you a person who can even throw away your life for the sake of Yeon Hee?

Sir.

Leave now and save Yeon Hee. Immediately!

Yeon Hee!

I wanted to live in the ordinary way like others.

I just wanted to love that person and live with him just ordinarily.

Is that wrong?

Why is it that all of the people whom I love must die?!

Yeon Hee. Don't do it.

Arrest her!

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

Queen Dowager!

Your Highness!

Your Majesty.

Don't say a word.

Listen to me, please.

Because she thought that I had died, she did such a thing.

I am not interested in your love.

Didn't the Princess say that with her own mouth?

She said she would kill me.

Why did you try to kill Her Highness the Princess?

You know very well that a plague or a disaster such a thing has nothing to do with the Princess.

I'll investigate the plague that's spread the town by all means.

I'll visit each of them who got sick by a plague.

And I'll find out the cause of plague and the treatment of it. I'll do whatever needs to do.

So, please spare Her Highness the Princess' life.

Then the rumor about Queen Dowager's having committed the wrongdoings by black magic was true.

The Princess must've been cursed.

Whether a plague is caused from the Princess,

that's not even important.

The Princess who is the direct royal lineage was born by the black magic.

Once I know this fact,

I can't cover up this matter.

Didn't you say you want to become a good King?

Just,

because you are afraid of the people who put blame on you, are you only going to avert your responsibility?

The people lay the fault to the Princess because it's hard for them to live a life.

Why are you going only to cover it up?

Please look straight at the people's lives and find out the solutions.

Who are you?!

Who are you so you bubbles so carelessly?

THIS POSITION!... I'm protecting it by giving my life for it.

Don't bother me any longer.

Anybody there! Throw this fellow into prison!

Yes!

Are you all right?

I shouldn't have left you in the cave all alone.

Brother, this is not your fault.

Yeon Hee, don't worry about anything else.

Don't be scared either.

I want to run away with you right now.

But that's not what you want.

So, in this situation, with the way I can do,

I'll protect you.

After all... they can't do anything to you.

I...

will make that way.

Brother.

Yeon Hee.

This brother... likes you very much.

I'm very disappointed in you.

You are such a coward and weak person, I didn't...

You wench! Don't you release me instantly?

That's why I came here since I was afraid you'd act like this.

The Head Taoist of Taoist Temple was trying to commit suicide prior to accomplishing the great cause?

We can't ruin the matter futilely like this.

You can't get anything... from me.

Doesn't it hurt a lot?

Your love that you can't get anything from but only keep watching.

Please think about the pain that it brings you.

Then, you'll become comfortable.

Slowly, you are becoming a different person.

Hey! Did a war break out?

Why is an atmosphere in the capital like this?

It's said the Princess put a curse on this country, so a plague is circulating. That's why the country looks like this.

A plague? Then... W-wait...

Because of Heo Jun and the Princess, it looks like this way right now.

Then this means this is because of the Princess's curse, doesn't it?

Where is the Princess?

It's said she ran away somehow.

She ran away?

Then, you and I should catch the Princess and render a distinguished service.

Then what will happen to us?

The Princess has a queer power.

So she can throw people away only with her glance.

- Yes? - Huh?

We won't catch her then!

Book of Demon Banishment

I do know that this isn't the end.

I'm talking about the Book of Demon Banishment.

Your Excellency, what is it that you were keeping hidden?

Your Excellency can no longer refuse me.

I also no longer want to show my back toward you, Your Excellency.

Tell me what is it that you want?

I want to have the last page of the Book of Demon Banishment.

The last page you kept hiding from me, please bring it to me.

Ahjusshi! Ahjusshi...

I think I found the woman you are looking for.

Are you sure?

I heard she returned back to the Palace.

To the Palace?

No.

Yo Gwang.

Your Excellency.

You must give me back what I have stewarded to you.

What do you mean by saying that?

You must give me back... the last page of the Book of Demon Banishment. Give it back to me.

Why is it that you are looking for that now? It's been a while since I burned it.

After the count of 10, go and hide.

Right now!

Until here you reach, Your Excellency.

Will you be able to kill me?

I mean for someone like you, with absolutely no use.

If someone is expected to do it, then it will be me.

That's right.

Then, hurry and slash me.

But, if you are to save the princess, you will have to do it without fail.

I can't do it, Your Excellency.

How can you tell me to strike Your Excellency?

Please... Please, come back to your senses.

It is for Yeon Hee, Your Excellency.

Your Excellency, the one who you risked your life to protect is...

Your Excellency's daughter, Yeon Hee.

Ahjusshi! Ahjusshi! Ahjusshi!

What did you say just now?

They are going to carry out her highness the princess's sentence of burning alive, tomorrow morning.

Your Highness!

It is all for naught.

It wasn't meant to be.

What can I do for my pitiful child?

What can be done for our princess...

Princess.

Is this really how it is all going to end?

I can't do anything for Yeon Hee when she is in real danger.

Lead Shamaness, all preparations are ready for the Fire by the internal spiritual force Ceremony.

Sir.

Sir!

Please come back to your senses.

Sir, you must protect the one you cherish after all.

To have you live in regret and despair,

I don't want to see it again.

You fool! I told you that your mind would ruin you in the end.

No.

No.

Sir.

You... Who are you?

How is it that you ended up in such a place?

I got kicked out of where I used to live, then was walking aimlessly and ended up there.

Do you have a family?

I don't. I didn't since I was born.

Will you come along with me?

If you do, then I'll make sure there won't ever be a day in your life, you go hungry.

No! This can't happen!

I'm sorry.

No!

Why?!

Why?

Why?

Why?!

- Open it! - Yes.

- Her Highness! Her Highness the Princess! - Her Highness the Princess.

Her Highness! Her Highness the Princess.

Her Highness! Her Highness the Princess!

Her Highness! Her Highness the Princess!

Her Highness!

Her Highness the Princess!

- The criminal arrived! - Move side!

The witch! It's the witch! Kill her!

Step aside!

Step aside! I said step aside!

Kill her!

Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!

I will now carry out the sentence against the princess who cursed the land, and started the outbreak of epidemic

Hurry up and kill her!

Kill her!

Light the fire!

♪ Don't cry, sky. Let me see that person ♪

♪ My love which is getting further away ♪

♪ Don't cry, my heart. Let me hold onto him ♪