Original subtitles

(Episode 2)

Did you lose him?

He's fast on his feet and he knows this area very well

Thank you for helping me here and at the dock

Not at all

Don't they say that by helping others you help yourself?

But... I wasn't much help

That bar girl and that thief are a team

Your pack looks awfully heavy

Are you carrying around a block of gold?

If you go back, they'll already have fled the scene

Give up on finding your pack

It's something I cannot give up

It's no use to report it to the Police Bureau

Small thieves like them pass on their goods to stolen-goods gangs

Thank you

I'll see you again if destiny allows

Did you catch him?

He was so fast that I didn't even see his face

Who's the dominant gang leader in Song-pah?

The oldest one is a guy who calls himself Chun and runs a whorehouse

The richest is one called Bae who runs a chophouse behind the fish shops

You go on ahead to the forge

I heard a gang leader called Chun was caught in Song-pah

Did you hear about it?

Chun?

What? You!

You won't tell me straight?!

This all came out of your house

How dare you stick out those duck-feet of yours?!

Who is it?! Who?!

Who brought these stolen good?!

How would I know that?

I went out in the morning to urinate...

and this was on the ground under the fence

Since I've lived for so long in such terrible poverty

I thought that God had thrown it to me

so I was just holding onto them so I could return them

What?

What would a man who owns two whorehouses in Song-pah

know about living in poverty?

You want me to mess up your mouth?!

Now see here!

Are you going to torture an innocent citizen?

Do what you will!

But...

Jung-Rang from the Ministry of Justice is like an uncle to me and if...

he knew that you captured and accused an innocent citizen of being

a gang leader, then you might have to change out of those clothes into rags!

Is that so?

Why you...!

Oh, it's you, Chae-Ohk

You scoundrel!

He runs so fast...

that he seems like he compresses space

so his nick name is Mah Chuk-Ji

A bar girl?

That bar girl is his wife

I heard that they live with a gang of merchants outside of the Seo-soh gate

Chae-Ohk! Chae-Ohk! Chae-Ohk!

Sir!

Where is Chae-Ohk rushing off to?

What was it she said?

Did she have to meet some other man?

What did you say?!

Who is it?!

Who is she meeting?

You idiot!

How would I know that, fool?

Darn it!

What is the matter?

My lord, that idiot...

He's chasing after Chae-Ohk right now

Chae-Ohk returned?

W-well... umm... uh...

What happened was...

Her sack of counterfeit coins was stolen by a band of thieves so...

Thieves?

Where did she go to find them?

I heard it was a gang outside the Seo-Soh gate...

She will return soon

What are you saying right now?!

You don't know what kind of men those guys are?

Are you crazy?!

Well, since she said it wasn't the gangsters but the people near them...

I... But... Chae-Ohk is just...

I just thought that nothing would happen because...

Is Chae-Ohk an armor-wearing soldier?

Is Chae-Ohk...

even a soldier?!

Man, why does he always gets mad at me whenever I do something?

- I'll just quit because I'm so sick of... - Officer... Officer

Among my subordinates

there's someone just like you

Anyway, if I see him in the morning, I get cranky for the whole day

What?! You jerk!

Honey

What's all this?

I knew it looked strangely heavy but...

Is this a dream or is this reality?

Honey!

Get off me!

We have no time to lose We can't let the others find out

Let's pack this away quick! OK

Honey, our troubles are over now, right?

Now we don't even have to work

All we have to do...

is sit back and relax...

and enjoy the pleasures of life

Who is it?!

If you take that money, your crime will only become bigger

Let go of me! Honey!

Oh my! Somebody save me!

Please save me! Please!

Who the heck are you?

Mr. Kok-Ji!

Mr. Kok-Ji, that man lost his sack somewhere...

and he's accusing us of having stolen it!

Sack?

Who would she be meeting in a hidden place like this?

He's so dead. I swear!

That is property of the Police Bureau

If you even touch any of it, you won't be let off

You look like a prostitute's brother and your threats...

Well, they say that skin from someone who eats well is soft...

so I'll have to spend as much of the Police's money I can before I die

Hey you jerks!

Don't move! Don't come near, you jerks!

And who the heck is that?

Don't worry, Chae-Ohk

I'm here...

Young Master

Move aside before you get hurt

Thanks, Chae-Ohk

I really... thought you went out to meet some man

I'll kill this guy!

Don't mind me

Even if...

Even if I die unable to protect you, I don't have any regrets

If only you survive...

I-It's OK if I die

It's OK if I die

Send him to Go-tae village!

Are you all right?

Who are you?

Why are you watching my back?

I just... came to find your sack

I'm asking you why you're looking for my sack for me?

I thought it would be hard... for a woman...

My lord!

Get out!

My lord! You don't understand! This man...

Who are you?

This isn't a typical gangster's level of skill

The Sword of the Fallen Evil Spirit...

You use a monk's swordsmanship style not used in the Police Bureau

Take off your hat

Who the heck are you?!

My lord, this person has been helping me

Why didn't you tell me earlier?

I was being rude

I am Commander Hwangbo Yoon of the Left Police Bureau

You're the police commander...

for whom everyone says no one is a match

Do you know me?

Is there anyone who carries a sword

who does not know who you are?

Then you must be a female inspector for the Police

Why are you watching my back?

I got carried away I shouldn't have gotten involved

To be able to recognize a secret-style of swordsmanship with only one look

He's not an ordinary man

Did you see his face?

I did not

Other than my master...

the only person who can recognize my sword technique...

is Hwang Hyun-Ki

Excuse me?

What are you saying?

Even if the chivalrous Hwang Hyun-Ki were alive...

he'd be over 100 years old

He may be his student

What are you staring at?

Why are you strutting around?

Sorry

My lord

I am going to dip my feet in the water for a moment

You know we're short on hands, right?

Don't get sick

Mother

Our Jae-Hui's so pretty

(15 years ago)

(1679, Dir. of the gov't library Jang Il-Soon's house in Han-yang)

What does this mean?

Bal... Mook...

It means to grind an ink block

I'm not asking for a literal meaning

Do you not understand the deeper meaning?

Only when you put all of your sincerity into grinding an ink block

will pure ink and the smell of ink be created

People are just the same

Father

Then does a man who is sincere in everything smell like ink?

Jae-Hui, come over here

How old are you now?

I'm seven years old

Seven?

Seven years old

You're only seven now?

I'm sorry

Please forgive...

this father who could not protect you to the end

Forgive me

Forgive me

Jae-Mo

No matter what happens...

always be with your sister

Yes, father

My lord

The traitor Jang Il-Soon will receive the King's command!

Jae-Hui! Jae-Hui!

No!

Jae-Hui! Jae-Hui!

Brother! Brother! Brother!

Brother!

Jae-Hui! Jae-Hui!

Brother!

Jae-Hui! Jae-Hui!

Jae-Hui! Jae-Hui!

Brother...

I knew it...

I thought his looks and his voice were too soft like a child

He was a girl

She's really something

You're such a dirty pig

That's not a girl! She's a female police inspector

OK, OK!

We have to grab her clothes so she can't follow us

Who're you trying to teach?

Just cover me well

Man, she's so...

Please save us!

Please save us!

Please my lady! Please!

Please me lady!

I'll let you live

But this world doesn't gain anything

from having more thieves like you

In exchange for your lives, I will castrate you

Please let us off this once!

I made him do it! It was me!

I'm not going to forgive you either

We ran away because we couldn't stand living as slaves worse than animals

Do you think we wanted to live like this?

We can't settle anywhere because we're constantly on the run

We stole your pack in order to get food to live

I made him do everything!

Kill me instead!

Please let my husband live!

Honey!

You did no wrong so why are you doing this?

I'm the one to blame! No no!

If you're at fault for anything

it's that you fell in love with a worthless man like me

Castrate me or kill me, do as you wish!

But please let my wife who's lived such a terrible life go

She's such a poor person. Her feet are raw from running her whole life

Honey

Stop it

I've already loosened my belt so I'll make things easier for you

Honey! No! Honey!

If you don't stop now, I'll really do it!

Then...

Then...

Are you letting us go?

Swear to me that you will wash your hands clean of crime I swear!

I swear a thousand times! Ten thousand times!

Should I bite my fingertip and write in blood?

No matter how uncivilized, a man should never break a promise

If I ever see you again

I'll cut off your hand

Of course!

With heaven and earth as are our witnesses

would a man lie?

Thank you

Thank you! Thank you!

Honey!

From now on

I will serve you with loyalty

Please accept our bows

Why would I need the loyalty of former crooks?

I'm also really young so why do you keep addressing me as someone older?

Then should I call you a brother?

Just don't call me

I'm useful too

You saw how fast I can run

Farm or sell goods Find a decent way of life

Please take me with you

I can fight a little and I can be used in many ways

Give us eighteen liters of barley for every fifteen days. That's cheap!

My goodness, stop being like a mosquito

Wait! Wait! Leave her be!

We're lucky she let us live

But honey, are you really going to go clean now?

Well, I swore to her that I would...

but that's all I know how to do...

But the police are watching me now

I don't know what to do now

Crap! Why did it start raining?

It always starts raining randomly Stop that

Come to the training grounds

My lord

It is raining too hard...

Let's do sword training on a nicer day

My lord

You...

Use your own sword

Do you mean a real sword?

Follow me

Take up your stance

You...

How much confidence...

do you have in your sword?

I asked how much confidence you have in your sword!

I do not know

What don't you know?

Weren't you the one whom no one could match?

My lord

What am I to you?

You are the commander I serve

Is that it?

Is that all I am?!

I...

Since long ago, was I only...

your commander?

(15 years ago...) (1679 Hwang-hae Province village)

You hopeless fools

I asked you for a poem about after the rain is gone

And none of you remembered a single one?

Hwangbo Yoon! Why didn't you submit one?

Did you think you could just get by easily because it's your first day?

A child of a mistress will never take a civil exam

What use would he have for poems?

Be quiet!

Bring it here

Woo Hoo Yong Son Jang

Poong Jeon Bong Mi Yo

Tell me the meaning

Bamboo grows after the rain

and moves as the wind blows

When they are hollow with hardened roots

they will reach the sky soon

Do you mean to tell me that you knew this poem?

Your talent is too good to be wasted

Have you read the Seven Classic Books?

I have read them several times

and I have started to read the Book of Odes

Very impressive

Then we'll start studying the Book of Odes tomorrow

Teacher!

You've been teaching us from other texts...

but you're going to teach the Book of Odes to a newcomer?

On top of that, he's the son of a mistress!

You're being unfair

You fool!

When did I look at social status in teaching?

If you think it's unfair, then you should leave!

I should have as soon as you first accepted the child of a mistress

What's that?

You fool!

Everyone, get up

There are many schools other than this one

Get off your butts!

Don't you guys have any pride?

How dare a country scholar like him not know who's feeding him

Hey! You all know where the school in No-ru is, right?

We're going there, got it?

Turn back

Why, that jerk

Even if a father holds a government office

does his son hold it too?

If a government official can disregard the people, what value does he have?

What?

I guess the son of a gov't official learns to be rude to his teacher!

How dare you?!

How dare a child of a mistress like you speak to me like that?

Wanna die?

I'll quit attending that school

This isn't the first time

However, I will not stand to see a good teacher insulted because of me!

Go back and apologize!

Mr. Kim is no longer our teacher

You'll kneel down and beg us to forgive your rudeness

You just don't understand, do you?

Have mercy!

Spare me!

I was wrong

Please let me go!

Will you go back and apologize?!

OK, I will!

I'll apologize!

See here! See here!

What are you doing?!

This young master is the son of a government official!

I was just teaching him a lesson!

Stop this immediately!

Young master

Young master, are you all right?

Young master!

Who are you?

My name is Jae-Hui

She's a new servant girl

Servant girl?

Are you saying this little one...?

You're not so different from me

Now see here!

You have dignity so why are you being so kind to a servant girl?

If the lord finds out, you'll be in trouble

Dignity? What dignity is this?

Get on, I won't eat you

I wish I could fly...

Up to the sky...

I wish I could fly above that sky

Will you not beg for forgiveness?

He's a spiteful fool!

The child of a mistress is half noble blood

How did you raise him?

If you cannot raise even one child properly...

how can you call yourself a magistrate overlooking thousands of people?!

The grace of a king, teacher, and father are the same

Is it just for a son of a nobleman to ridicule his teacher?

You scoundrel!

How dare you have the gall!

Are you trying to teach me?

You fool!

Sir!

A punishment cannot be administered personally

Even before I'm his father, I am sitting here as a government official!

Allow me to handle this matter

Let's just wait and see!

Take him to his room

I told you to go to the laundry place What are you doing here?!

Hurry and go!

Yoon...

Please stop it now

I don't have the strength to face the lord again

Mother

Instead...

you and me...

should go somewhere far away, OK?

Mother...

Why did you give birth to me?

Why?

Why did you go into the kitchen?

Tell me this minute!

What is the matter this late at night?

Well, it's just that...

I was sleeping but when I awoke, I didn't see this girl

So I went out and what do you know, the kitchen door was open

Girl, did you steal something to eat?

Won't you fess up?!

Tell me the truth this instant!

Hurry up!

Well, I knew it!

You wench!

Stealing food as soon as you get here!

Stop it!

How hungry must she have been to sneak into the kitchen at night?

Are you feeding her meals properly?

See here!

How hungry must the little one have been to do that?

Have sympathy and let her go to sleep

Listen, you!

If you do that one more time, I'm going to lock you up in storage!

Let's go!

I heard she was the daughter of a nobleman

but in just one day, she became a servant girl

How will she survive?

This is honey water

My goodness...

Then that child...

What is your dream?

What would I do if I had a dream?

You fool

How can you complain about your social status without having a dream?

Tell me

What's your dream?

I want to become strong

I want to destroy anything blocking my path

So is using your fists and acting like a gangster...

Is that your dream?

My lord, what can someone like me do?

Look at my status before you ask such a question

Do you know why I leave my wife and children in my house at Han-yang...

and take you to every post I'm assigned to?

Although one may be suppressed by the law

at the right point, one can become useful

But you...

You're wrong

Do you know what it means to be strong?

Even if mountains and oceans stand in your way...

you stake your life and strive for your dream

Pack your bags

You really have no fortune at all to meet an old geezer like me

I'm too old

Go back down and find a good teacher

I want to become strong

You want to become strong...

What will you do when you are strong?

I do not know yet

But I want to master myself

Master yourself?

Then show me your determination

The monk Hyae-Ka from China cut off his arm to show the great priest

how determined he was

Cut off one of your fingers

What? Not feeling up to it?

You came all the way up here without even that much determination?!

It will be a rough journey

Before you unpack, bow to Buddha 10,000 times

3121...

3122...

What did you feel?

My body was so small and weak

Is a human body...

Is my body...

something so feeble, monk?

Although one may be suppressed by the law

at the right time, one can become useful

But you...

You're wrong

Do you know what it means to be strong?

Even if mountains and oceans stand in your way...

you stake your life and strive for your dream

Pick it up again

Hurry

If this were a real sword...

you wouldn't have been able to pick that up again

This kind of sword wasn't originally mine

His name is Yoon

So he is the last student of Seung-Goon-Do-Chong-Seob

He is very remarkable

If you retain him, he will become useful

More than that

He will become a pillar for our nation

But he cannot take the military service exam

That is why I asked you to come personally, my lord

Are you saying that he is a commoner?

Do not worry

I will write him recommendations

I have come to ask about my lord's health

Why did you not call me until you were this ill?

Illness comes as frequently as a visitor

Why call you?

My lord...

So... Have you become strong like you wished?

I...

realized that I am hopelessly weak and feeble

Since you know that...

you won't get any worse now

Did you say Chief Joh Seh-Ook?

Yes

He is a general with little greed and personal ambition

Serve him well

I will do my best

There's a saying, "Heaven no life, purposeless person"

It means that heaven does not create useless people

You too...

will find your purpose somewhere

I have a request

Say it

I would like to take...

the child, Jae-Hui, as a tea servant for the Left Police Bureau

Yoon...

That child isn't just a servant girl

She's the blood of the respected library director, Jang Il-Soon

Since he was accused of treason, many eyes will be watching you

But you said that though one is suppressed by the law, one is useful...

Take her

But I'm just allowing it because it is a public affair

If this is because you have feelings for her...

she will be an obstacle for your future

And you will also be dishonoring your father

I will take that to heart...

my lord

Yoon

Yes

Call me father for once

My lord, how could you... when the law...

This boy has already stepped over the line of the law

Call me father

Come on

Father

Again

Father

Good

Even a bundle of grass has stories and destinies

Think twice before you take out your sword

Yes

Many people still remember what happened several years ago

Throw away the name, Jae-Hui

And from now on, call her, Chae-Ohk

Chae-Ohk?

A colorful marble... Chae-Ohk...

Jang Chae-Ohk and not Jang Jae-Hui

That's nice... Jang Chae-Ohk

Jang Chae-Ohk

Do you want to leave the Police Bureau?

My lord

I do not know what I have done wrong

You don't know your mistake

Fake money can be retrieved...

but a life cannot

You were almost killed by gangsters

Before you find your mother and brother...

you will die first

If you want to keep doing as you wish...

you don't have to be with me

Leave

The two of you should get married soon

That way I could ease my heart and leave the Police Bureau