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ALCHEMY OF SOULS PART 2

If something happens to Yul,

Uk will see red.

He has been suppressing his anger for a very long time.

But…

if the men from Cheonbugwan harm Yul,

Uk will explode.

I hope nothing happens...

I know where the gambling den is. Let me take you there.

I also know where the gambling den in Gaema Village is.

Something might have happened there, so please stay here.

Yul.

Yul.

Uk.

I am sorry.

Not a single person…

will be able to walk out of here alive.

What is this blood parasite?

It is a creature

that you put in someone's bloodstream.

We put it in So-i's bloodstream,

but I do not know why Seo Yul has it.

Who put that thing in So-i's body?

- Was it Jin Mu's doing? - Yes.

Yul.

Yul.

Seo Yul was attacked by mages of Cheonbugwan?

What do you mean?

I just heard from Songrim.

Everyone is panicking.

They must be mistaken.

Why would Cheonbugwan mages ever attack him?

My lord!

We have a problem.

Yeom-su and our mages were attacked at the gambling den in Gaema Village.

What?

Why? Who attacked them?

It was Jang Uk. He single-handedly subdued them all.

More than ten Cheonbugwan mages attacked Seo Yul.

Had it not been for Jang Uk,

Yul would have died.

Did you say Yul was taken to Sejukwon?

How is he?

Seo Yul's health is in grave danger, Your Majesty.

If Seo Yul dies,

it will start a great clash between Songrim and Cheonbugwan.

The blood parasite is inside his core of energy.

Then you should remove it.

There is no way to remove a blood parasite that is inside a mage's core of energy.

It will only come out after he dies.

Using his energy

would have surged the blood parasite's energy,

thus making it painful for him.

He fought in this state.

One can only imagine how much pain he was in until the last moment.

What do you mean, last moment?

Are you telling me he will die?

Yul.

Please find a way.

We cannot let him die like this.

He must have suffered unbearable pain.

Yul.

Yul's Lantern of Life is in Seoho Fortress.

SEO YUL

The light will die out if Yul passes away.

Then his father, General Seo,

will immediately come to the capital

to find out the cause of his abrupt death.

The Seo family obeyed Master Seo Gyeong's commands

and has been protecting Seoho Fortress along the borders.

If they come to the capital and clash with Cheonbugwan,

a war could break out.

Seo Il

is your elder brother, is he not?

Please try to dissuade him.

He would never listen to his sister

who has the appearance of Shaman Choi as a result of the alchemy of souls.

Instead,

you should worry about how Songrim will react to this.

I have not seen Uk for a while now.

I believe

he has gone to Cheonbugwan.

I have no intentions of dissuading him.

They pushed the heir of the Seo family to the brink of death.

Cheonbugwan should pay for what they have done.

I will support Uk.

What will Songrim do?

Uncle.

I am not yet confident to represent Songrim.

But given what happened to my friend,

I will support Uk as well.

Park Dang-gu.

As the leader of Songrim, you should protect it.

Master Heo, please take care of Yul.

Gather the mages.

I will go to Cheonbugwan myself.

Seo Yul's death must never be attributed to Cheonbugwan.

Summon the Unanimous Assembly right now. We must plead our innocence.

- Yes. - My lord.

- He is on his way. - Who is?

Jang Uk is coming to Cheonbugwan as we speak.

Jang Uk

is coming for me.

Gather all the mages of Cheonbugwan.

Stop Jang Uk from entering Cheonbugwan!

Yes, my lord.

Jang Uk is headed to Cheonbugwan.

Songrim is taking action as well.

Your Royal Highness, what shall we do?

Fire!

Stop! His Royal Highness is here.

- Stop it here, Jang Uk. - Please move.

Will you keep fighting them?

I do not care.

I will

kill Jin Mu.

To do that,

you will have to kill all of Cheonbugwan's mages

as well as

all of the royal soldiers.

If they get in my way to protect him,

then I have no other choice.

You are not an exception.

So…

keep hiding behind him, like you always do.

I am not trying to protect Jin Mu from you!

I do not want all your hard work to come to no avail.

I know that the sword in your hands

reflects your grief, hatred, and rage.

Then you must also know

to whom these emotions are directed.

I know it is because of me.

That is the reason I was uncomfortable with facing you.

To stop yourself from wielding that sword at the world,

you painstakingly suppressed and buried all those feelings inside.

I do not want your hard work to go down the drain.

That is why I am standing before you

even though I know you can slay me.

He is about to attack His Royal Highness! Fire!

Stop!

From now on, Songrim will support Jang Uk.

We will stand with his decisions

and fight alongside him.

So, Jang Uk,

deliberate carefully

where you point that sword.

If you point your sword towards me

and wield it against me,

then I will have to fight them as well.

I know that you neither like nor trust me.

However,

please do not fall short of my expectations.

Then I will wait here.

Bring Jin Mu to me.

Cheonbugwan officials may have harmed Seo Yul,

but they all died at Jang Uk's hand.

We could follow the mages' customs and drop this issue.

So why

must I take responsibility for Seo Yul?

You must take responsibility for the blood parasite.

The blood parasite?

His life is at risk

due to the blood parasite in his core of energy.

Before he died,

Yeom-su confessed that it was your doing.

I only put that blood parasite in an individual

to keep them under my control.

So I do not know how it ended up

in Seo Yul's body.

Nevertheless,

if Cheonbugwan officials tried to kill him to keep it a secret,

you must take responsibility as the Gwanju.

But why did the blood parasite…

Thankfully, Seo Yul is still alive.

If you find a way to save him,

they will not try to kill you.

I do not know.

Jin U-tak was the one who took that blood parasite from Jinyowon.

I do not know how to control it,

let alone remove it from his core of energy.

You must find a way.

If not,

Jang Uk will never back down.

Will you be staying here until Jin Mu comes?

I am waiting so as to act with deliberation.

Then my target will appear before me.

Is Jin Mu not your target?

Please stay by Yul's side.

I will find a way to save him and return.

You endangered the heir of the Seo family?

Jin Mu, you must take full responsibility for this incident.

If this causes Seoho Fortress to take action,

a war will be inevitable.

What will you do?

Look what you have done!

I summoned you all here

so that we could find a way to prevent that outcome.

How would we know how to remove a blood parasite

when we have never seen one before?

If Seo Yul dies, you will also die at the hands of Jang Uk.

You must beg for his forgiveness at once and sacrifice yourself!

Then at least we can prevent a war from occurring!

You must do that!

- We cannot have a war! - Take full responsibility!

Please calm down.

I desperately plead

for your help.

If the blood parasite is from Jinyowon,

then Lady Jin may know how to take it out.

But she has a heavy grudge against Gwanju Jin Mu.

I doubt she will help.

He will have to beg.

Jinyowon is our only hope.

Ho-gyeong.

Please save your brother.

I have come here to beg before you on my knees.

What a humiliating sight for the Gwanju of Cheonbugwan.

I guess you must fear Jang Uk after all.

Jinyowon is not completely innocent either

since the blood parasite came from here.

That was done by Jin U-tak and you. It had nothing to do with me.

Lady Jin.

If Seo Yul dies like this,

the Seo family will have resentment toward you as well.

I am not afraid.

Let us say Seo Yul dies, and my life is at stake.

Do you think I will die alone?

You and I are both from the Jin family.

We must share the responsibility

and Jinyowon must share my demise.

I command Lady Jin to find a way to save Seo Yul

and make Jang Uk leave.

It is nerve-racking to know that he is out there.

It suffocates me.

Find a way to settle this matter,

whether it is by sacrificing yourselves or offering a solution.

As I said I would,

I have brought Jin Mu.

I believe there has been a deep misunderstanding.

But as the Gwanju of Cheonbugwan, I take full responsibility and apologize

for putting the heir of the Seo family at risk.

No.

You should apologize to Yul, not me.

After curing him.

Of course.

That is exactly why I have found a way to save him.

Ho-gyeong.

I have persuaded her and found a way.

Here we are

once again.

You have managed to drag me out at last

after causing all this mess.

That is why

you should have told me earlier when I was asking politely.

So-i was not captured and brought here.

She came on her own to save Yul, did she not?

So he was the one she was desperately trying to save.

You know a way to remove that blood parasite, right?

Yul is dying.

Please help him. I beg of you.

I am not interested in whether he lives or dies.

I am sorry.

You said you were not interested,

so I tried to grab your attention.

And in the end,

here you are.

I did not have to move from this place.

You were not here to slay me after all.

You were using me to persuade her.

With my friend's life at stake, my top priority is to save him.

Not to kill someone with the likes of you.

The likes of me?

You should have let me in on this if you knew in advance.

Then I would not have had to humiliate myself by apologizing to him.

I would have never suffered the humiliation of coming here by myself.

You may go now.

Come to Jinyowon, and I will tell you what the solution is.

You had been obedient for the past three years.

But you put everyone in a state of panic simply by coming here.

Cheonbugwan, Songrim, Jinyowon,

the royal family, the Unanimous Assembly, and even Seoho Fortress.

You sure are incredible.

Nevertheless,

I stopped like you asked me to.

Gwanju.

You should go to the constellation basin and pray to the stars

that Yul will survive this ordeal by whatever means.

If Yul does not survive,

you will surely die.

I am sorry.

I should have immediately let the others know

when I detected that in you.

But all I can do is see.

There is nothing I can do.

Only three breaths.

I cherish all the memories I had in Danhyanggok.

Do not touch him without permission.

Do you not understand that he is in a dire situation?

I heard you kept quiet all along despite being aware of his condition.

Stop interfering and leave.

What was that just now?

Young Lady Heo.

I do not know which medicine Young Master Seo has been taking.

He had packed up his belongings, so I brought them all.

Are you looking for his medicine?

Yes.

What is that?

It seems to be a letter sealed with energy.

I told you not to touch anything without permission.

I thought maybe he wrote down the name of his medicine.

I can look at it myself.

You should go.

Was Young Master Seo the one who sealed it?

I believe so.

I asked him to come to Danhyanggok with me when he was in pain.

But what was that memory about?

There is no way I went to Danhyanggok with Seo Yul before.

Young Lady Bu-yeon.

There is a way. We can save Yul!

Is that so?

Lady Jin said there is a way to remove the blood parasite.

My uncle and Uk have gone to Jinyowon to speak with her.

My mother agreed to tell Uk how to remove the blood parasite?

Yes, if Lady Jin helps us, Yul will be able to live.

Uk will do anything she asks him to do.

He will save Yul at all costs.

I am sure he will.

He should.

At all costs.

The blood parasite is like an insect.

And birds are the greatest predators of insects.

Jinyowon has the most powerful bird.

The fire bird.

The fire bird is the solution?

It is too dangerous.

It is dangerous, but it is not impossible.

Because we have Jang Uk.

I will do anything you want. So please tell me how to save him.

In that case, let me ask you something.

You need my help to save him.

If I agree to help, will you truly do anything I ask of you?

Send Bu-yeon back home.

Then I will help you.

If you refuse,

I will not help you.

In that case, you will not be able to save him

even if you know how to.

All right.

I will do as you say.

So please help us.

As for Bu-yeon,

I will send her back.

Thank you.

Since you are a witness, I will trust that Uk will keep his word.

I will help you save Seo Yul.

Thank you for agreeing to help.

The fire bird?

It may be dangerous, but it is worth a shot.

Dang-gu, go fetch Cho-yeon.

We will need the Jin family's blood.

All right, I will fetch her right away.

You should go to Seoho Fortress.

If Yul's father hears strange rumors,

it will be a headache.

Let him know the details of the situation and reassure him.

I will tell him that Yul will live at all costs,

so please save him.

Uk, you have the biggest role.

You must enter Jinyowon.

You will meet someone who will help you there.

- Do not fight with him. - Him?

Who is he?

I will enter Jinyowon alongside Jang Uk.

If you argue in there and awaken the fire bird,

this world will go down in flames.

This will be dangerous.

That is why, Lady Jin,

you must tell Jang Uk beforehand that he must listen to me.

Come on. Do you think the Crown Prince will listen to me?

If he does not swallow his pride and listen to me, everything will fail.

He went to Master Heo himself

and offered to help save Yul.

Could it be because of the turtle?

What turtle?

He is acting like a turtle and slowly crawling toward me.

Or you could be slowly letting him in.

But Uk…

Will you really be all right without her?

I did expect Lady Jin

to ask for her daughter back in return for helping us.

If she goes back,

you will not be able to kill yourself by removing that ice stone.

Just like how you made those dreadful noodles for me,

I was comforted by someone else too.

That is when her words,

"It is better to die than to do nothing," came to mind.

In fact,

it was her way of encouraging me to do anything I could.

Uk,

who would you save if Maidservant Kim and I were drowning?

Maidservant Kim.

You should save both of us, you fool.

Yul and Bu-yeon are drowning right now.

And you are planning to give up on her because Yul is in grave danger.

Since he is in grave danger,

I cannot afford to think about saving her.

That is wrong.

If it is someone dear to you,

you should not think of letting them go as if you are abandoning them.

I felt bad for keeping her by my side.

It is all…

for the best.

- I heard you went to Jinyowon. - I did.

Did my mother tell you how to save Yul?

Yes.

That is a relief.

Let me help.

Maybe I could be of use as well.

You have already done everything you could to help.

Still.

I should do everything I can until the very end.

You do not need to do that.

Just stay here.

I will explain everything

once it is over.

I am not doing this for you.

He is my friend as well.

I feel indebted to him.

I want to help.

Fine.

You can help.

Let us go.

He chose to let me go.

Let me brief you on this parasite-removal operation

that Master Heo has planned out for Yul.

A blood parasite is in the core of his energy,

and it has sucked all of his torrent of energy.

He can only live if we remove it and leave his torrent of energy behind.

The fire bird can remove the blood parasite from his body.

We must remove the blood parasite

with the energy of the fire bird that is inside Jinyowon

and make it expel the torrent of energy it has consumed.

But there are two critical issues.

First,

we cannot take him to Jinyowon, given his state.

And the fire bird cannot be taken out of Jinyowon either.

Second, it is too dangerous to break the fire bird's barrier.

So we must use its energy without breaking down the barrier.

The first issue is already impossible to resolve.

We can neither move him nor the fire bird.

So how will it get rid of the parasite?

That is exactly why we called you here.

You must enter Jinyowon instead of him.

Me?

This is a water wick that the Seo family uses

for their Lanterns of Life.

The Seo family fills their wicks with their energy.

Then they connect their Lanterns of Life

with the core of their energy.

I am going to fill this with the remainder of his energy.

Then the blood parasite will mistake this

for his core of energy and enter it as well.

Then we can remove the blood parasite with this.

Did I not tell you

that it must expel his torrent of energy?

But why

must I be the one to take it to Jinyowon?

That is because the blood parasite was made with your family's blood.

Pardon?

Why do you think Jin Mu put the parasite in So-i's body?

He put your family's energy in the parasite

and put it inside her so she could open the door to Jinyowon.

So the blood parasite was made with Cho-yeon's blood.

Once the blood parasite mistakes this for Yul's core of energy and enters it,

I will put this in Cho-yeon's body

since her blood's energy is identical to that of the blood parasite.

- Would that not be dangerous? - All you need to do

is put this in your mouth and do not open it.

Then…

I will do it.

All right, this is something you can do even without skills.

You will be fine as long as you have no blood parasite

- and are not with child. - Sorry?

Wait.

Young Lady Jin.

Remember that night?

The day we revisited the house we were supposed to move into.

Maybe…

She cannot do it.

It will be too dangerous if there is any chance she is pregnant.

You little…

Then do we need to ask Lady Jin to do it?

She must stay outside Jinyowon's door and make sure the other relics

do not become agitated.

In that case,

I can do it.

But you two are already married.

Will you be all right with it?

We are fine.

There is no possibility of it.

- Not at all? - No.

Not even the slightest chance.

She is right.

- I am telling you. - I see.

Then you can be the one to move his energy, Bu-yeon.

Goodness, we still need to tackle the second problem.

How can we extract the fire bird's energy without breaking its barrier?

The barrier of the fire bird is made with an energy similar to that

of the volcano where the fire bird was born.

It is made with the energy of gold weighing 30,000 nyang.

We must create the same energy with the gold, expand the barrier,

and go inside.

The energy of 30,000 nyang of gold?

Where could we possibly get that much gold right now?

Sang-ho is gathering the gold as we speak.

We are in a rush,

but I am afraid it will take some time to gather such an amount.

I have 30,000 nyang of gold.

I also have that much fortune.

I just do not have it with me right now.

No, I have it right now.

It is at Jeongjingak.

What?

Here?

Yes.

I stashed the Crown Prince's rewards

for slaying the soul shifters here.

You just left all of this here?

I had nothing to spend them on

and could not be bothered to take them home.

I get 1,000 nyang per kill,

so this is definitely more than 30,000 nyang.

Great.

We are fully ready to remove that blood parasite.

Let us begin.

Dang-gu and Cho-yeon, move the gold to Jinyowon.

I will escort Bu-yeon after she receives Yul's energy.

Yul will no longer have any energy within him.

I will send all the energy in his core

to the Lantern of Life's water wick.

I can see the blood parasite's energy moving upward from the core of his energy.

Now.

Open your mouth.

You are carrying

his remaining life in your mouth.

You must never

swallow it or open your mouth.

He only has that much time.

You must return

with his torrent of energy before time is up.

Uk, I trust you on this.

We will come back

in time.

Let us go.

This is everything I have rewarded Jang Uk with?

He did not use a single one of them.

Yul will live thanks to him.

We must protect Jinyowon's door alongside my mother.

Please wait here, Your Royal Highness.

Jang Uk and my sister will be arriving soon.

Bu-yeon will be here too?

Yes. Please do not argue with Uk.

Do not worry.

He and I share a turtle.

And it is a bright one.

Bu-yeon, why are you here?

Why are you also getting involved?

Have you not told her yet?

She is carrying Seo Yul's energy in her mouth,

so she cannot speak.

The Crown Prince will be waiting for you inside Jinyowon.

Go first.

If you do not keep your promise,

I will refuse to help.

I will keep my end of the bargain and send her home, so…

you can rest assured.

Turtle Shaman?

Why are you here?

Did you find work at Jinyowon?

I am currently working alongside the Crown Prince...

I mean, with His Royal Highness.

Thank you for waiting, Your Royal Highness.

That is right.

I am the Crown Prince.

I have been him all along.

Hold on.

Then are you Jin Bu-yeon?

Yes, this is her.

Then she is a Jinyowon priestess, not a shaman?

Do you know her?

Do you know him?

Then your husband is…

What is going on?

The turtle?

Right, the eunuch.

Him?

So the eunuch you mentioned

was His Royal Highness?

I finally understand

why you took care of my turtle.

Darn it.

His Royal Highness offered to help save Seo Yul

so that he could save you as well.

I hope that was not just an excuse he made.

Did you say His Royal Highness brought this turtle?

He saved it from getting killed.

He is raising something that is uselessly weak.

I will summon the gold's energy

and expand the barrier that is surrounding the fire bird's egg.

Then you can catch

the blood parasite as it escapes the water wick.

And it will come out of her body?

All right.

Shaman, come in.

So Uk was the one who was troubling you?

You must have suffered more than I thought.

Right, did you find your own room?

I said you can live with me if you failed to find your own room.

I live in a palace.

I did not lie about having many rooms, right?

What are you doing? Make the energy surge.

The blood parasite is moving through her bloodstream.

You need to wait until it expels all of Yul's torrent of energy.

Hang in there.

It has expelled everything.

We just need to remove it.

Where is it?

Hang on.

Are you all right?

It must hurt a lot.

Let us now go to Yul.

Let us go.

Me too.

You must not break the barrier of gold.

Be careful on your way out.

Let us hurry. We have no time.

Help me out too.

Hey!

We are almost out of time. Hurry, put it inside his mouth!

Put it inside! Right now!

Hurry!

We did it!

We did it!

We saved Yul!

Goodness, I can feel his pulse again.

Oh, my goodness.

We did it.

- We saved him. - Yul is alive.

- Yes, we did. - Good work, Jang Uk.

You did well too,

Your Royal Highness.

By the way,

I cannot believe you were the husband who troubled her.

Gosh.

How did she mistake you for a eunuch?

We saved a turtle together.

I should invite her to the palace and let her see the turtle next time.

If you are curious,

feel free to come with her.

The turtle?

Well done.

Thank you.

This letter was one of his belongings.

I should have given this to Lord Park before he left for Seoho Fortress.

He already left.

I see.

I guess I am late.

Then I should put it back.

The wound from where the parasite exited could rot.

Apply the ointment and take your medicine on time.

All right.

I will be fine even after I return.

I am not that dense.

I knew what my mother would ask for

in return for helping you.

She wants you to come back home.

- I agreed to send you back. - Do not say that.

I am going back out of my own will.

She gave me her word.

She promised not to lock me up anymore.

I have nothing to lose even if I leave.

- But I feel bad leaving you. - What do you mean?

I promised to help you rest comfortably.

That is why you took me with you.

But I could not do that.

You are still mistaken.

That is not why I took you.

Then…

what was the reason?

You do not need to know.

I have no use for you anymore.

I am fine with you leaving as well.

So do not feel sorry for me.

They say you can miss the brazier even during the summer.

Can you not just say that you will miss me?

A brazier during the summer

is just useless.

Who knows?

Maybe I will miss you

when it gets chilly.

Fine.

Your useless brazier has burnt itself to leave nothing but ashes.

I will disperse in the wind, and you can…

just freeze to death alone.

His torrent of energy is surging in his core of energy again.

The fire bird's energy completely banished the blood parasite.

Did you say Jang Uk and the Crown Prince saw the fire bird themselves?

Yes, Master.

Thankfully, they did not bicker and kept the fire bird under control.

Yul survived thanks to them.

I had told the Crown Prince

to check on Uk on the pretext of rewarding him.

And it paid off.

You saved my life once again.

This is different.

I saved you last time to kill Jang Uk.

But this time,

he and I joined hands to save Seo Yul.

In any case,

let me once again give you something as a token of my gratitude.

This is Jang Uk's constellation plate.

Is that the King's Star?

Correct, Your Royal Highness.

Like Jang Gang prophesized,

it is the star of the late king's son.

The late king's son?

Jang Uk

is the son of the late king who shifted souls with Jang Gang.

That is why he has the King's Star.

He has the Gold Plaque and the letter

that the late king had left behind for him.

He is a dangerous star who can take your place whenever he wants.

Is that why you told me to keep my distance from him?

Please allow me to send him far away,

Your Royal Highness.

You must have used up a lot of your energy while protecting Jinyowon.

Your hair

has become grayer in the past few days.

Cho-yeon.

Prepare Bu-yeon's room for her.

Is she coming back?

Jang Uk gave me his word.

So she will return soon.

Young Master,

is Young Master Seo all right now?

Yes, I wanted to be there when he woke up.

But I left in case my energy would be harmful to him.

That is a relief.

You did a terrific job of saving your friend.

What about Bu-yeon?

- Did she go safely? - Young Lady Bu-yeon?

She did not come home.

I thought you two were in Songrim.

She did not come home?

What is this? Did she leave right away without saying goodbye to you?

Leave?

Did she return to Jinyowon?

Yes, I promised Lady Jin that I would send her back to where she belonged.

Did you, now?

I see.

Young Master, give me your hand.

Give it to me.

Darn it! She is not an object you can send back whenever you want!

I only said that because that is where she belongs.

She belongs right by your side, does she not?

She never belonged here in the first place.

Goodness.

He will never know what he had until it is gone.

You will keep going back and forth.

Goodness, I hope

he comes to his senses.

She left right away

that day?

Your useless brazier has burnt itself to leave nothing but ashes.

I will disperse in the wind, and you can…

just freeze to death alone.

Her mother

would not do that again, would she?

I hope…

that makes it easier for you to find me.

I will keep you warm

and help you rest comfortably.

There, now you feel warm.

She left it here.

It would have made a good excuse to go see her.

I hope she arrived safely.

You can turn off the last lantern.

Since you are a great priestess of Jinyowon,

use your divine powers to turn it off.

See? I did that.

Yul.

Young Master Seo, are you finally awake?

What happened?

You were unconscious for three days.

You almost lost your life while fighting Cheonbugwan officials.

What happened to So-i?

Do you mean the girl you went there to save?

She died.

Lord Dang-gu took her body.

Master Heo and your friends

successfully removed the blood parasite from your body.

They took it out?

Yes, they did.

Are you finally awake?

You were in grave danger.

Young Lady Bu-yeon was of great help in getting rid of that parasite.

Had I known it was life-threatening,

I would not have kept it a secret.

I am sorry.

I had no idea when I invited you to Danhyanggok.

We had agreed to go there.

But we could not go.

Master Lee, Seo Yul has regained consciousness.

- Master Lee? - This is Master Lee.

He has been taking care of you.

He knows Master Lee.

He is Master Heo's master.

The "frivolous Yeom" that you often talked about

was Master Heo?

I found him adorable when he was your age.

Every now and then.

He took care of me for three years when I was ill.

He is the top physician in Daeho, so you will recover soon.

Bu-yeon.

Bring Yeom over.

He will be delighted to see Yul awake.

Yes, Master.

You have regained almost all of your torrent of energy,

so you will recover soon.

If you took care of her for three years,

then you must know her well.

Are you more curious about her than your condition right now?

That is right. I saved her.

And I will take good care of you now.

Young Lady Bu-yeon is in Sejukwon right now?

Yes.

Her mother thinks she is still at Uk's,

and Uk must think she is in Jinyowon.

Is it really over between them?

Whenever she left our house, he would bring her back every time.

She must be in Songrim

waiting for Uk to come and fetch her.

Just let them be.

There he is.

You only appreciate someone once you feel their absence.

My lord.

How was your trip?

You must be so tired.

I hurried over because I knew you would be waiting for me.

Goodness. He is watching us.

Come inside.

You should not move around just yet.

Were you already aware

of who she was?

You must know if you saved the body fished out of Lake Gyeongcheondaeho.

So you recognized her face.

I do remember you saying that you met her in Danhyanggok as a child.

Does this mean you saved her despite knowing

who she was?

Seo Yul.

If you are the only one who knows about this,

then feign ignorance.

Naksu's soul will disappear from her body soon.

Once the soul of Jin Bu-yeon, the true owner of that body, awakens,

Naksu's soul will disappear.

What?

I do not understand.

Two souls are coexisting in her body.

But the body belongs to Jin Bu-yeon.

Contrary to my intentions,

everything went according to Jin Bu-yeon's plans.

She will use up Naksu's energy.

And Naksu will soon disappear.

Young Lady Heo!

Master Heo is looking for you!

All right, Sun-i.

I will be there soon. You can go first.

Yes, my lady.

Is that not Young Master Seo's letter?

Is she peeking at it?

That woman…

is Naksu?

If it is someone dear to you,

you should not think of letting them go as if you are abandoning them.

She belongs right by your side, does she not?

It turned off. Did she break it?

It keeps turning on and off.

It must be out of its mind.

I was hoping for this.

I hoped that you would come for me…

despite being of no use to you.

I would be crazy

if I went back for her again.

If you drink that, it means we are officially married.

Go on. Drink up.

I shall always stay by your side.

Try summoning fireflies.

That is not an easy thing to do, you know.

Get a hold of yourself.

This is driving me crazy.

Mother knows you are here.

She told me to fetch you.

I was going to go today anyway.

I ran into Master Lee.

He had been taking care of Seo Yul,

and I wanted to see him wake up.

Jang Uk thinks you are in Jinyowon.

He will not come here for you.

I know.

Let us go.

I need to return Songrim's Spirit Plaque before I go.

I left it at Jeongjingak.

Let me go get it. Wait here.

You will be flogged 100 times if you lose this, you know.

I did not lose it.

What is it?

Do you want me to get punished?

I could not find you in Jinyowon.

Here you were.

Were you looking for me?

Why?

Because the lantern turned off.

And then,

it turned back on.

Lantern? The one in your study?

It kept flicking on and off. It is out of its mind.

It must be broken.

Throw it out if it is useless.

Right.

It belonged to Jinyowon, right?

Then send it back.

You think I abandoned you because you were useless, right?

To clear up the confusion,

I should clearly explain what your use was.

I brought you home

so you could take the ice stone out of me.

I know.

You said it would help you feel at ease.

Right.

I wanted to find peace.

But once it is removed,

I will die once again.

It is not your fault that you did not know this.

I should have been clear about it.

At first, I did not see the need to explain.

Later, I could not disclose that to someone who wanted to protect me.

And what about now?

I said I have no use for you.

What I am trying to say is

that I am very grateful

and sorry.

In that case,

I am glad that I am of no use to you.

I felt awful for being abandoned.

But you are thanking me and apologizing to me.

So that is why you came.

I heard you loud and clear, so I will go now.

I cannot wish you farewell, though.

What is it this time?

Do you want me to brace myself because you could have a change of heart?

I better not see you ever again,

or I will take that stone out of you.

I am not done yet.

I told you the lantern was flickering.

- So what? - So…

When it is on, I am sane.

It is clear to me

that I must send you back as I promised.

But I go insane when it turns off.

I just pine for you.

That is why I came to see you.

So?

What about now?

If you are upset and want to leave,

I should get a hold of myself…

and let you go.

What was that?

I turned it off.

I wanted to turn it off.

ALCHEMY OF SOULS PART 2

I knew the moment I saw you.

You are my husband.

"I promise to be a good man."

"Please allow me to marry your daughter."

Just let her stay with the person she wishes to be with

for a while.

If you do not intend to fight me over the Gold Plaque,

go to North Fortress, Jang Uk.

I have decided to accept this fight

in order to protect what I must.

I will soon introduce you to the secret organization.

I shall wholly support you.

Naksu's soul will disappear soon,

and Jin Bu-yeon will take over the body.

Allow me to test your divine powers.

Subtitle translation by: Soo-ji Kim