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Then the substitute test-taker whom Moon Soo mentioned was Prince Yeoning?

Yes, and Noh Tae Pyeong was the maternal uncle of the dead Yoon Yeo Ok.

Why I didn't know it?

I remembered Noh Tae Pyeong's name from the case hearing.

I didn't report it because he wasn't an important person for the case.

But Noh Tae Pyeong disappeared and cannot be found anywhere.

Anyway, Prince Yeoning must be an important clue.

But it's hard to investigate Prince Yeoning with that.

How can we dare to investigate a royal family member without evidence?

That's why Lord Moon Soo is working on it, My Lord.

What? Moon Soo?

If I had known that you were a prince, I wouldn't have gone through a lot for nothing.

If you want to apologize because of yesterday's case, you don't need to.

I won't make an issue out of it.

What are you saying? Why should I apologize when someone else committed the crime?

What?

It seems I must make a special issue out of you, Your Highness.

Until when are you going to follow me?

Until the truth is revealed and justice flows like a river.

There must be a way for you to live a more useful life.

What do you mean? I've never had something more worthwhile to do than this.

Think about it. If a regular subject had done this, he would've already been dragged off.

But someone is just fine even though he broke a law.

The world should not be unfair like this, should it?

You don't have any flexibility at all. The world is originally like that.

The world is like that to someone who is in a high rank like you, Your Highness.

But the world in my head is a little different from that.

In the just world, people who commit crimes must get punished accordingly,

regardless who they are.

You're stupid, inflexible, and even dangerous.

You're peculiar in many ways so it makes you interesting.

But I can't agree with you.

You, too, are about to find out that unfairness is the real way of this world.

Your Highness!

If you want to follow me, you may.

Giddy up!

Hey, look! Your Highness!

Horse! Give me a horse! Hurry!

You should pay me first.

Here.

Over there! That could work fine.

A donkey?

Even if it's this one, give it to me! Hurry!

Prince Milpoong told you to kill me?

How could he have known that you are that substitute test-taker?

He probably ordered that thinking the substitute was just some unknown illegitimate guy.

How about Noh Tae Pyeong? I heard he disappeared.

Prince Milpoong also killed him?

Please, don't try to know everything! I don't even want to know either.

Just go far away for a while.

I'll find a ship by today.

You're saying I should hide until everything has calmed down.

I'll tidy up everything here by taking a dead beggar's corpse to him.

I beg you to please do that.

Just until things quiet down.

Until things quiet down?

Will things quiet down?

Today, I stop here.

Go now.

Now, now, go.

Disband.

But suddenly?

Go on.

Are you done telling your tales today?

Come at the hour of snake (9 - 11 AM) tomorrow.

I'll have a great romance story about a young gisaeng and the newly appointed magistrate.

- If it's about gisaengs, my story is better. - What?

Pure love, illicit affair, blind passion.

I've got one for each category.

What?

Enough of that.

I do have a fun story that's so good it will make your body ache.

Do you want to hear it?

Did you tell him?

Yes, exactly as you said. Maybe it was so scary that the storyteller's mouth dropped wide open.

This? Some woman conveyed this to you?

Yes.

It was the first time I've seen that face in the market.

I think it's best to fold on this, right?

If I wag about a story like this...

No. Tell it as it is.

The whole content. Without skipping anything.

I'll pull you outside of the capital if something happens, so don't worry.

Take this story to all the markets, wells, laundry places,

and the docks too,

so as many capital residents as possible can wag their tongues about this story.

Yes. I understand.

A young widow gets pregnant, so how can there not be gossip?

And then this prince kills the woman

and made it look like it was suicide.

But this isn't the end of it.

Oh my, that pitiful thing.

But she had a kin, a maternal uncle.

And that's the man that placed first on the last state exam.

So he killed him too, and that's why he's not showing up.

And that's really Prince Milpoong? They say he kills people and it's true?

And a scum like that is about to be our king. This is the state of our nation.

What do you think? It makes you tremble, right?

Not just the widow but even the maternal uncle got finished off.

Did you hear, Minister of the Interior? There is an uproar in the capital right now.

Tell Prince Milpoong to come. Right away.

Report the whole story in detail to me.

Do not miss a thing.

Yes, Your Majesty.

And tonight, summon Prince Yeoning into the palace.

What? Not Prince Yeonryeong but Prince Yeoning?

Yes. Prince Yeoning. Geum.

What is up with you? Why are you here?

I was passing by. And for this.

Even a dog will give its feeder a tail wag before eating, so I should say thanks too.

I'll put it to good use when I play.

And a thing like this is a prince?

You're the royal family's shame.

What are you talking about? Another prince is hotter nowadays.

You, I mean.

Did you hear the rumor going around the capital?

That's your story, right?

What is he yakking about?

Did you dispose of the corpses well?

You better be careful, Tan.

Should it go awry and a corpse comes out, forget about the throne.

You could end up at the execution ground, you know.

Stop blowing rubbish. What the hell are you?

Everyone's crawling with trepidation around me but what's got you acting like such a brat?

Since I've got nothing to lose.

Also, you... are very laughable.

When I become king, I'll pull your limbs apart and kill you first.

My, so scary.

I'm looking forward to it.

Hey, you bastard!

Wait. Wait.

Coward!

It's spread all over the capital, not only in the marketplaces but also the water wells and laundry places.

It's very similar to the story of Prince Milpoong.

There's more to the story.

It says the disappeared Noh Tae Pyeong is dead.

The source seems to be a storyteller at a market but he's skipped out of the capital already, My Lord.

Do you think Noh Tae Pyeong was murdered too?

If it's the Prince Milpoong we know, he would do that and then some.

If that's the case, we need to find the corpse,

so we can pull Prince Milpoong down.

Father.

Please have some food first.

Let me get that, please, Madam.

You're working them too hard on a day off.

Have some of this first and we can finish the rest tomorrow.

Really? Yes.

No. We need to finish what we need to do today so—

Yeo Ji, you and I have something to do though.

Is Noh Tae Pyeong really dead?

If it's by Prince Milpoong's order,

how did they dispose the corpse?

In the river? In the mountain?

Or did they burn it?

Or did they cut it up into little pieces?

Hey, come on! A kid is listening, so watch your words.

Hey! Water! Water!

Oh no. What do I do?

You should've told me sooner, Joon Jae.

She cherishes these flowers, saying they only come from Hadong.

If they die, I'm dead too. What do I...

Flowers that only come from Hadong?

[Inspectors' Room]

She hung herself from this three-flowered maple tree.

It's a tree that only grows here.

That day, somehow it seemed eerily redder than usual.

Prince Milpoong, this crazy bastard.

These were his trophies. That was why he treasured them.

This one isn't fully dried yet.

Then could it be...

Shh!

Let's go. There's no time to waste.

- You startled me! - Looking for this?

- You— - Shh!

I'm pretty good at mimicking animal noises, aren't I?

Isn't it exactly the same?

What are you doing here?

You told me to follow you if I could.

I'm not one to back down from a challenge, you know.

Now then. It looks like I've won this round, so you should give me some answers now.

What were you just trying to do?

And why are you tailing those men?

Why don't you try following me more?

Who knows? You might just come across what you've been searching so hard for.

What was that about?

Oh, that guy, really...

Move faster. We need to finish this before day breaks.

Yes, sir.

What's up with those guys?

Why would they be shoveling in the middle of the night?

It looks like they're moving the body.

Body?! Whose?

Y-You don't mean... Noh Tae Pyeong?!

Do you mind giving me some space? And lower your voice.

I mean, is that really Noh Tae Pyeong?

Are you crazy? Why are you blowing air into my ear?

You wanted me to speak softer!

You're really a weird man. What is it?

What's that over there?

I think someone's coming!

Move out, everyone! Hurry!

Strike! Strike her down!

Yeo ji!

- Are you okay? - Lord Moon Soo.

He hit the target in this pitch black night?

Retreat! Retreat now!

You scoundrels! Where do you think you're going!

Stop right there! Stop!

Are you okay?

This is...

Drat, I lost them.

I can't tell where they've run off to since it's nighttime—

- Noh Tae Pyeong? - Noh Tae Pyeong.

Ja Dong! Ja Dong!

Your Highness! Why are you so late?

Chief Royal Secretary? Why are you—

You're here.

Noh Tae Pyeong's corpse was discovered.

Hurry and alert Lord Min Jin Heon.

I must see now how useful you are, Inspector Wi.

Seeing how you've only just arrived now, you must have been out drinking all night again.

You know where this is, don't you?

I had no idea that you would summon me to Bogyeongdang of all places, Your Majesty.

Have I hurt your feelings by summoning you to your mother's old quarters?

I apologize.

You didn't cry.

On the day you were born here in Bogyeongdang, you didn't cry.

Because of that, your mother and the court physician's faces went white with fear,

but I thought to myself that it would be best if you just died like that.

It would have been better had you been born a girl.

I wondered if a prince born from a low-class mother could ever live up to his name.

Who in this world would willingly call you a prince?

What is it that you want me to say?

"I'm sorry for not dying" or—

So are you happy?

I am asking whether you're happy to have ruined yourself just as this father of yours had sneered?

You could have proven me wrong by living differently.

No matter how much lowly blood flows through half of you,

you could have lived a decent life had you wanted to.

So then why are you living like this?

Why is this all that you've let yourself amount to?

I guess it was because I was born too great.

You want to know why I live like this?

Fine. I was born so high and mighty that this is the only way I can live, Your Majesty!

Even if I wanted to try to do something, there's nothing I could ever do,

so I figured I might as well try to become a good-for-nothing.

Indeed. That's how you were, Prince Yeoning.

Extremely quick-witted and exceptionally gifted.

That's what made my heart hurt even more

every time I saw the makings of a king in you.

Why are you being like this?

If it's because of my insolent jest—

I'm dying soon, Prince Yeoning.

Before that happens,

won't you reveal to the world the side of you that I know?

I am asking whether you can't restrain yourself just a little more

and show the rest of the world that worthy and respectable side of you.

Your Majesty.

That's what made my heart hurt even more

every time I saw the makings of a king in you.

I'm dying soon, Prince Yeoning.

Father.

Is that true? You're going to be a lead inspector? [Lead Inspector: leader of 13 regular inspectors]

That's right. I'm going to be officially appointed tomorrow.

That's great!

You'll be a huge help!

Of course, I'll strive to be so.

But what's happening with that other matter?

The connection between Prince Milpoong and the deceased Noh Tae Pyeong,

will you be able to prove that it exists?

Your Highness.

Can you do this for us?

If you testify that you were ordered to be a substitute test-taker by Prince Milpoong,

we'll be able to bring him into the Saheonbu for investigation.

And if I can't? What are you going to do if I say I won't do it?

Weren't you chasing after Prince Milpoong

because you already knew about his crime?

A person like that is trying to become our nation's king!

What does that have to do with me?

How naive you are.

What reason do I have to make that known?

I'm the only person whose crimes will increase by doing so.

But if that's true, then why—

Did I get involved in the first place?

Just for fun? That's it.

I just wanted to give him some trouble. That's all.

How did it go?

Close the gate.

Let's go.

Your Highness! Come out here!

What kind of behavior is this?

What reason could you have to back out at this point?

There's no use in picking a fight with him.

We'll just handle this ourselves. Let's go.

To think I actually considered you rather manly earlier!

It figures that all of you are on the same side!

Of course, a puppy will side with dogs.

A story so old that cows will yawn and dogs will laugh at it when hearing it!

What kind of person is Han Jeong Seok?

He's indeed an inspector with a strong sense of justice.

Even though he comes from a Noron family, he's at odds with his own kind.

Even so, it's the Saheonbu we're talking about.

When the Saheonbu is already under the Noron Faction's thumb,

what can a single low-ranked inspector accomplish?

There's one more person though.

Who?

This lowly, powerless prince?

You're futilely dreaming quite the idealist's dream.

That's why I want you to end it as just a dream.

I hope you won't hold such a futile dream in your heart.

What do you mean you're firing me from the lead inspector position?

Why is it that Wi Byeong Joo is taking my place?

Inspector General!

Come in. You should leave now.

Inspector General...

Are you disobeying my orders right now?

Do I have to deal with you per Saheonbu's code of conduct?

The Minister of the Interior asked me to put you in this position

to see if you can talk sense into Han Jeong Seok since you're close to him.

Inspector Han isn't one to be dissuaded with such a tactic.

You should do something more direct.

Direct?

I will open a jejwa [Saheonbu's supreme decision-making tribunal, council hearing]

to examine Prince Milpoong's crimes, My Lord.

O-open what? A jejwa hearing?

Have you lost your mind?

Are you suggesting that we drag down Prince Milpoong?!

The opposite will happen.

Inspector Han's argument will be destroyed when he has no proof to validate it.

It will make him unable to raise the matter ever again.

For a jejwa hearing, not just the inspectors,

but all the higher-ups above the chief inspector level will gather

to discuss the charge, won't they?

It looks like Inspector Wi is trying to help us.

But is this really going to help us?

If we can't prove our case in the hearing,

it may instead end up putting you, Inspector Han, at a disadvantage.

No. We still need to try everything that we can.

You haven't even drunk one glass.

Weren't you trying to get drunk?

I'm trying to decide whether I want to get drunk on liquor or drunk on dreams.

Here. Go on and decide which one already.

Get that decision out of the way and come have some fun with me, as you've always done.

I am asking whether you can't restrain yourself just a little more

and show the rest of the world that worthy and respectable side of you.

Prince Milpoong was being threatened by Noh Tae Pyeong, [Jejwa Hearing Room]

a maternal uncle of the deceased Yoon Yeo Ok.

It's a more than sufficient reason to murder Noh Tae Pyeong.

So where is the evidence that Prince Milpoong was threatened by him?

Prince Milpoong says he doesn't even know who he is!

There is a person that was ordered by Prince Milpoong

to be the substitute test-taker for Noh Tae Pyeong's civil service examination.

That person can speak to the truth of this matter as a direct informant.

An informant? There's really an informant?

Who exactly is that person?

How could you ask me that Inspector General?

Saheonbu officials don't disclose their informants.

And on top of that, no one can pressure us to do so!

That's the unwritten law upheld by the Saheonbu.

Are you a senior officer?!

How dare a mere inspector try to lecture me!

My Lord, don't try to protect Prince Milpoong any longer!

Did you all really not know?

You all knew about it.

About Prince Milpoong's crimes.

- Your Highness! - At one point in time,

- Saheonbu's officials were referred to as haechi. - Your Highness!

- We were called that because - Please come out!

we were trusted to be able to judge good from evil and uphold justice no matter whom we were dealing with.

But what are we like now?

For the sake of your own well-being,

you all are turning a blind eye to the truth.

The reckless brandishing of a sword by one with power has killed a feeble citizen.

Even in times like these, the people still look to us, the Saheonbu.

Even in times like these,

the people are still desperately looking at us to take their side.

They hope that we, the Saheonbu, will do our jobs properly!

Don't defame Saheonbu's name!

All you are doing is fabricating a crime so that you can arrest Prince Milpoong!

My Lord.

If not, then bring that so-called informant here.

Then we'll let you have Prince Milpoong as you want.

Where is this wretched informant, whose source nobody knows?!

Have you nothing more to say for yourself?

If there's really an informant, bring him here!

There's nothing more for us to hear from you.

If you can't reveal who your informant is,

then this must clearly be a false accusation!

Inspector Han deserves punishment!

Oh dear. What to do?

That wretched informant

is right here.

[Haechi Preview]

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If on top of one informant, I give you another?

That is why I propose that we arrest Prince Milpoong and investigate the matters!

Hey, you lunatics!

My Lord, slay him! Don't mind me!

You will lay out the future government yourself?

Shall I tell you how we've been prevailing so far?

Everyone, stop!

- Head Inspector! - My Lord!

We need to plant fear into everyone.

Can't be, Minister of the Interior.

What happens when you resist and how it ends.

To trample on them and traumatize them with fear so they will never stand up again.

If I can catch him, I will give you even my all.

That is why I voluntarily request to be exiled, Your Majesty.