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Episode 17

This is the traitors' hideout! Wipe up thoroughly!

Yes!

Search through to the last corner!

The criminal Hong Joo, disobeyed her duty as a lead shamaness of Palace Shaman Council,

Search every corner!

threatened the Royal Family using her black magic,

made killing ghost called Red Robes and killed innocent country people.

Did you want to live that much?

Since you were so aggressively coming at me, I thought you must have had a hidden plan

Making this unsightly scene, what state are you in?

Say something if you want. Why are you so quiet?

It's not as if you were regretting your wrong doings, isn't it?

Yes.

I've regretted them deeply.

You've regretted them deeply.

But the crime you have committed is so huge that I might not be able to forgive you.

I will make you being burned alive as a punishment.

With black magic, you put the royal family in danger and using Red Robes,

you put this country in confusion so I'll burn you alive to death in front of my country people.

It's my intention to regain the authority of the Royal Family that you have brought down.

For letting me die so splendidly.

Thank you, His Majesty.

Do you think that Father will be all right?

His Excellency would want you to worry only about yourself right now.

Yeon Hee.

Before the Northern Star disappears, there is no much time left.

There is big trouble, Yeon Hee!

Hong Joo was sentenced to burning to death.

It's a good thing for all of us since she got sentenced to burning to death, isn't it?

Hong Joo should not die.

If Yeon Hee light the rest of the candles to lift the curse, the curse will return to the occulter, Hong Joo.

Hong Joo must die with the curse, so Yeon Hee will be able to escape from it completely.

- You can't do that. - How dare you!

Please get out.

Are you crazy or something?

Seeing you pay an unexpected visit indiscreetly like this.

Are you really comfortable with me or what?

I apologize, Your Majesty.

There is something I need to tell you.

What is it?

Please, I'm asking you to cancel the King's order.

You should not burn Hong Joo to death.

What did you say?

She is the wicked one who despised me and played with the Royal Court.

It is not enough to cut her head off right now, yet you are asking not to burn her at the stake.

What's the reason you are asking me to do this?

If Hong Joo dies, then the Princess...

It is impossible to lift the Princess' curse.

What do you mean by saying that?

When the Princess' curse is transferred to Hong Joo, then she can be burnt.

If the source of the curse disappears, the Princess will also perish.

You mean even if I have her in my own hands, I cannot kill her, do you?

How the hell does she have to pay for her crime?

Your Majesty! I will definitely make her pay for her crime.

I'm the one who lifted Your Majesty's curse, ain't I? I will solve the Princess' curse for sure.

So I am asking you to stop your sentence to her, Your Majesty.

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Child.

The other baby will be in serious danger soon.

Child.

The other baby will be in danger soon.

Are you all right?

What is it? Where does it hurt?

Please tell me.

What's wrong?

The truth is that...

I don't have much time left.

What do you mean by saying that?

Soon the day the Northern Star disappears will come.

There are only around 10 days left.

If I haven't been able to break the curse by then...

No, you can't!

It is all because the curse I have caused,

I cannot lose even you.

So please allow me to be with Jun even for that time left.

l will light the candles and break the curse with him.

I understand.

You must definitely break the curse.

Jun.

Jun!

Wake up.

You're not going to wake up?

Jun.

Jun!

Do you like it?

What kind of dream did you have that you're smiling so much?

What! You should've woken me up.

You're a mess. Even when I woke you up, you kept smiling.

What? What is it? Are you disappointed that I'm not the person you hoped I would be?

Who did you hope it to be? Seo Ri?

Yeon Hee?

Hey! Then, Persimmon?

Ah! Her Highness the Princess?

You mess.

Come to your senses quick,

and get ready to leave.

What kind of preparations?

Her Highness the Queen Dowager is looking for you.

There are many things I'm thankful towards you for.

Please understand that I cannot help but speak unkindly.

Yeon Hee said she'd be with you,

but I do not welcome the fact that you are beside her.

Though I feel apologetic because I caused you concern, I still have work to do.

I know the prescription for the miraculous medicine Her Highness the Princess needs to light the candles.

I will help Her Highness the Princess break the curse for sure.

However, after Yeon Hee breaks the curse what exactly are you thinking to do?

When the Princess manages to light all the candles and break the curse,

then I will take it that you will leave her.

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You were so adamant about refusing when I asked you to take it on,

now that you thought about it, was that position appealing to you all of a sudden?

That woman called Hong Joo may have lost her black magic power, but she won't give up that easily.

It is to protect the royal family with what little power I do have.

Are you really doing all this for the Royal Family's sake?

Seeing that it was a request from a longtime friend, I bestowed upon you the position of Head of the Taoist Temple.

However, promise one thing to me.

Now that I know Hong Joo's scheme,

I need to block her no matter what, for the sake of the Royal Family.

So you must not betray me, ever again.

My deepest congratulations to you, Queen.

A pregnancy! What happier news is there in the palace? (Queen Park)

I am overwhelmed by Your Highness.

There are a lot of things recently that cause me to carry a heavy heart. So it has been hard for me to laugh as I used to.

Thanks to you, it seems like a good spirit is coming into the palace. So I am very happy.

Since it is a child that you have conceived after much difficulty. You must be cautious and again take even more care.

Yes.

Queen Dowager, the Princess has just arrived.

- Let her in. - Yes.

We will take our leave now.

Did anything good happen?

The Queen is pregnant.

Is that true?

It is truly a happy eve—

Child.

Child.

The other baby will be in danger soon.

What is the matter?

Ah. It is nothing.

When the Princess manages to light all the candles and break the curse,

I will know that you will leave her side.

The other baby will be in danger soon.

Your Highness the Princess!

Persimmon!

Jun!

What were you so intensely thinking about?

No. It is nothing.

Wow. It seems the palace atmosphere has gotten much better.

His Majesty's illness has gotten better and now even Her Highness the Queen is pregnant,

so the palace maids were saying that we are over one obstacle.

Yeon Hee, the only thing left for us is to light all the candles.

Yes.

How about we... start with somewhere close instead of going far?

A wish?

Well for me, it is to become the wealthiest in this nation of Joseon so that I can just eat and play.

You're really the one playing around now.

Ajusshi, you're really going to get hit then.

What did I say? I told you that it would be useless.

Why? What is it?

Never mind. Just take the rice soup and continue to live in your fantasy world for a lifetime.

However, what about you Taoist? Don't you have any wishes?

- Me? - Yes.

- A wish? - Yes.

For me, I want this all to be wrapped up nicely, then for all of us to go back to our proper places, and be happy.

There's nothing else that I would want.

You sure have snort so powerful. I'm just going to pluck off your nose!

Here. Grilled Korean beef is here.

It was me who ordered the grilled Korean beef. It was me.

I have weak stamina. For recovery, the grilled Korean beef is the best.

Aigoo, Aigoo! You must pay first.

Ah! Yes.

Miss, eat a lot.

Grilled Korean meat. Let's eat grilled Korean meat.

Oh! Excuse me there!

I'll eat it very well.

Hey girl, why are you eating it all by yourself? I want a bite of it!

- Let's eat together. - I'm the one who ordered

- Why are you eating it? - Aigoo you really!

Please stop immediately.

What brings you here?

I'm definitely sure you are not here because you missed me.

Using my father, what are you planning on doing?

After having my black magic taken away,

and being locked up in a prison cell powerlessly, how can I do anything?

Father tried to harm Her Highness the Queen.

It's something you ordered him to do.

Exactly. How would I be able to do that?

You must wish to kill me.

Go ahead and do it then.

You are acting completely depraved since I cannot kill you.

Simply wringing a neck, or stabbing a knife in a neck, isn't only way to death.

Wait and see. I'll definitely break the curse

and I'll lock you away in a curse even more gruesome than death.

Please go ahead and try.

Let's see who dies with that curse.

On the day that the sky lost its light, and a dark clouds came,

a princess cursed by the royal family was born.

A powerful white-haired monster disguised as a princess has caused a plague to ravage all the land.

Because of the princess, the nation's misfortunes have been incessant, and soon a terrible disaster will strike.

Have you heard the rumor?

The posters were pasted all over the villages.

- Poster? - What kind of poster?

That the princess is cursed so that's why the plague is circulating,

and because of Her Highness the Princess, the nation will be doomed!

I... To be honest, I saw her last night.

What is it?

The princess's eyes turned purple and she didn't even touch a person but she pushed him over like this!

There is a rumor?

That the root of the plague ravaging the nation,

is the cursed princess.

It has been rapidly spreading amongst the people.

What did you say?

It is an impossible nonsensical rumor.

We cannot let the reputation and dignity of the royal family be tarnished because of an ill-rumor.

Dispel the rumors. You must resolve the minds of the people.

How can the rumors be silenced?

I am sorry to say sire, but in every corner there are posters,

and the rumors have already spread beyond control. It is difficult to

disperse them.

As long as the plague rages on and disasters continue to hound the nation,

the fingers pointed at the princess cannot be avoided.

It has nothing to do with the princess.

It's not someone else's business!

Please help us, Your Majesty!

Since the Princess has been allowed back into the palace,

it is something I warned you about.

Look.

As soon as the princess returned to the palace, there has never been an hour that this court has remained quiet.

On top of that now that we are swept in ill-rumors, isn't it harming the court?

- Your Majesty! - Your Highness the Queen Dowager!

As for the rumors,

they shall be left as they are, until they have quieted down. That is the plan.

Despite that being so, if your highness must step in,

then involve yourself as much as you wish. I will allow anything you desire.

However the entire responsibility

shall be wielded by you, Your Highness.

What is it that brings you here?

I came because I have something to request of you.

Please go ahead and tell me.

In the streets, I wish for you to hold a ritual to be rid of the plague for the princess's sake.

Are you asking me to hold a ceremony for all the spirits of the natural world?

Seeing that many people are dying from the plague,

I am thinking that resentment is being directed at the princess.

If you were to hold the ceremony as the head of the taoist temple,

I was thinking of having the princess take part.

Showing the people the sincere prayer and effort of the princess

is the only way to dispel the groundless rumors that surround her.

- However, I am still...- I beg you.

The only one who can protect now the Royal Family and the Princess is you.

I understand.

I will do it.

Thank you. I'll put my trust in you.

Brother.

Are you all right?

I came over because I thought that you'd be all depressed with a sullen expression on your face,

but it seems that its even worse than I had suspected.

Don't worry too much.

I, your brother, will surely protect you.

Brother! Are you all right?

Does it hurt a lot?

Please allow me to see your wound.

I'm all right.

You do need treatment.

Please show it to me.

Don't worry about it.

Slowly, it's getting better.

I will overcome this for sure.

I regret it.

That day, I shouldn't have taken you out.

I'm sorry.

I told you that I would protect you then but I couldn't protect you.

Thanks to you,

I could have the day I took a chance to see the world for the first time. subtitles ripped and synced by riri13

For me it was the happiest day of my life.

Since I was stuck with my own hellish mind, I could almost kill you.

Knowing that I cannot buy one's heart with the help of black magic thing,

I rested my hope on that.

Solve the curse and prove me how foolish I was.

Then someday,

I would be able to let go of you.

Brother.

I...

Don't tell me to let you go immediately.

For the life I have live, you have always been in my heart.

If I ever let you go,

don't you think I'd need the time just as much?

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Is your body all right?

Are you here to watch me if I might turn into a bad ghost?

When Yeon Hee breaks the curse, what will you do?

Will you keep being right by her side?

A lover.

If you are willing to be with her as a lover,

Both you and Yeo Hee,

will get hurt each other.

Sir.

I hope you"ll get better as soon as possible

I will hold the ritual for all the spirits of nature with Yeon Hee.

It must be very shivering and scary on her own, stay right beside Yeon Hee.

Now that it's almost done.

Deprived of the black magic,

do you think I am tumbling down?

Without people's ugliness, the black magic would never work.

Everybody just doesn't want to accept their mistakes, so they would blame everything on the black magic

Now that the black magic is gone, on what thing will everybody blame?

Please take a look at it with your own eyes.

Aigoo! Excuse me.

- Oh! You came? - Yes. What's the matter?

What is everybody gather for?

Today I was told that at the ritual for all the spirits of the nature held in front of the Palace will the Princess appear.

Yeon Hee? The Princess?

The Princess with white hair and strange power in the rumor circulating.

The Princess...

That can make people gather around!

I could smell money! I could smell some fortune!

Keep that in mind again and again.

Never in front of the people,

do anything that could be found fault with.

Please head and kneel down!

All rise!

They said the princess was a white-head, but she's completely fine!

What white hair. Her hair's black and pretty.

- Is it a baseless rumor? - I said it wasn't true.

What is that ahjusshi doing there?

Please take pity on us.

We pray like this.

Please...

Please save us! Please save us!

May the sea of east, the country of Chosun have auspicious days with full of energies.

Let the heaven and earth open and may the gods of heaven and earth response to this!

May all phenomena of negative and positive for universal matters go smoothly, so the human's life and death be treated—

What the hell is that?

Move away!

Yeon Hee...

If you do take just one more step, this place will become a sea of blood.

Father.

Your Excellency!

Don't worry much about it. Today, I am here only to see Heo Jun.

It a scheme!

It a scheme. Don't be fooled.

- But... - Don't do it!

Shoot!

She is a witch! She is a witch! A witch!

Capture the witch!

The rumor was true!

Don't come near! Stop!

Capture that witch!

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Yeon Hee.

Go. Don't follow me.

Yeon Hee.

Give us the Princess! Give us the Princess!

I should have never let you live, you wench. I should have killed you.

Just give it a try and kill me. See how the Princess will be like.

What exactly have you done to my father?

Throwing away his life, His Excellency is trying to achieve the great work.

Young Master, please come to think about what it is that you can do for the Royal Family.

I will never fall for your cunning trick. Stop dreaming.

Why do you risk your life like that?

The Royal Family will desert you without hesitation once you are found to be useless anyhow.

Last time you have gone through with that, haven't you?

You don't want to risk your life to fight for such Royal Family.

That'll make you only pathetic.

In the end Young Master can't help but do what I want.

Petition letter

Give us the Princess! Give us the Princess!

There was an epidemic spreading due to her!

What the hell is going on in your mind?

I have nothing to lose any more.

It not like Your Majesty, who has many things to lose.

What made you so worried and come here?

You just do the things as usual.

Originally so-called the Royal Family is where one is found to be useless, then he is mercilessly deserted, isn't it?.

If that is the Princess, desert her.

And make yourself easy.

Is that your real intention?

Didn't you want to become a good King?

Can't you hear those people's outcries?

From now on, you should also consider about your child who will be born.

You wench!

Those dull people just need someone that they want to point their fingers at, spit, or blame on.

Your Majesty, you know how they feel very well, don't you?

Your Majesty, all you need to do is just to avert your face pretending not know it and hand out the Princess to them.

I am the only one who can kill the Princess.

After that, I'll take care of all.

What are you going to do if the people get to know what happens to the royal family?

Therefore, all you have to do is to blame everything on the Princess.

Please think about it well.

Whether you hand out the Princess or the throne.

Yeon Hee must be definitely shocked so I'm worried about her.

Taoist, please find where Yeon Hee and the fellow Heo Jun went.

Yes, Young Master.

Your Majesty, please!

The petition letters regarding the Princess from the confucian scholars hail down without a break.

You can't, Your Majesty!

Punish me. You can disthrone me.

Don't desert the Princess, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty! Don't do it.

I don't want to lose anything either.

Your Majesty!

Catch the Princess... And kill her.

I'll obey your order.

Scholar Heo!

How is Yeon Hee doing?

Scholar Heo.

Yeon Hee is deserted from the palace.

I want to run away.

To where there is no one.

I want to hide where no one knows me.

Yeon Hee.

Let's run away together.

Run away with me. Far away.

She is not here.

Your Majesty, please lend me your soldiers.

The Princess has fled away with and Heo Jun .

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

After you ordered to kill the Princess, you wouldn't want to lose catching her.

I'll catch the run-away Princess by dispatching the solders.

Do you think I accepted your offer because I trusted you?

If it were not Princess, all the people's resentments would return toward you right now, Your Majesty.

So, that's why you held my hands, I know well.

The King who is not direct lineage. That's why the King can't govern country well and the people suffer from poverty.

The rain has not come so all the land of country has bee dried out and the people suffer from a famine severely.

Moreover, looking that even the epidemic plaque is prevalent, even the Heaven deserted the King—

THAT MOUTH...

Shut your mouth.

That's how the people said like that before the Princess appeared.

However, no one points the finger at the Your Majesty right now.

That's why I stood up to kill the cursed Princess.

As the Princess is blamed everything on, why are you hesitating?

As long as you get rid of the Princess, the source of people's plaque and famine,

the people will respect you as a sage king.

No one despises you as a collateral royal lineage.

I'll give you the soldiers so no matter what happens you must catch the Princess.

When I catch the Princess,

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

I heard that you can light a fire by the internal spiritual force.

Your Majesty, please do not command me to do such a thing.

You'll resent me... No...

Until I die, you'll definitely hate me.

But, there is nothing else I can do.

Please help me only this time.

I just could get out from the criticism and the blame now.

This... is a chance for me to be recognized as a king.

If you avert every blame to the Princess,

will you really become a king that you want to be?

That's right.

It is so.

Thus... when Hong Joo captures and brings back the Princess,

I will command you to set a fire with your own hands to the Princess.

Your Majesty!

You..

Poong Yeon, you must follow my command.

If you dare to disobey me this time too,

I will definitely kill you with my own hands.

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.

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You must give back what I have stewarded to you.

Please come back to your senses.

Will you be able to kill me?

You must follow my command.

You'll want to forever hold onto the times we were together.

- Just like now. - How can you tell me to strike Your Excellency?

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

You have to shake off the low whispering of the black spirit.

Why are you risking your life to undo the curse when those who you are trying to help have abandoned you?

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

Jun!

Are you afraid of me?

To the place that has given you the curse, you can just pay them back the same.

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

You did wrong, then you should die!

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

♬ My love which is getting further away ♬