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Gu-cheon.
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Are you all right?
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There was a reason why the Crown Prince
had lured the plague spirits right to us.
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A great calamity
is about to befall the entire palace.
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I apologize,
Your Majesty, that seat belongs to…
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As you well know, His Majesty's life
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currently stands in grave peril.
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Your Majesty, that is just not true.
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I know that the spirit still wishes
to kill the King.
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I arrived here already knowing that,
Chief Royal Secretary.
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There is no one else but me who can
take his place on this empty throne.
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I am the only one.
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It is only I
who can save the abundance altar
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and the Jongmyo Shrine!
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I will save it all!
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Mark my every word!
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I alone
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will protect it all.
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I alone will protect it all.
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I must…
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- Left State Councillor.
- Councillor.
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Councillor!
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- Councillor.
- What is happening to him?
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Left State Councillor.
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THE EAST PALACE
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Do you believe what happened in the palace
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is tied to the Crown Prince?
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Gu-cheon?
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Gu-cheon.
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Sorry, what did you just say?
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That the palace feels off right now.
You don't look any better either.
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It's because the Crown Prince
has grown stronger.
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That is why I must seal him in here.
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Seal him?
Without sending him to the afterlife?
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That will be impossible to do now.
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Once the plague spirits' souls
are devoured, they'll be entangled.
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Oh, for heaven's sake.
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Don't look at me
as though I'm about to die.
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You should stop frowning.
It makes you look ugly.
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You haven't looked yourself
since you acquired the gwi-mae's eyes.
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Just like the well gwi-mae,
you will become--
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Are you afraid that if I do this,
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I'll lose my mind
and kill someone out there?
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That will not happen.
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Sealing is a more useful method,
making it simpler to destroy them.
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All I have to do is seal him in here.
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And that will work?
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The appeasement rite will be very helpful.
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If we soothe
the souls of the plague spirits,
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we can weaken the Crown Prince's powers.
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I will walk you back to your quarters.
Let us go together.
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No need to. Do I look ill to you?
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Yes, because you are.
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It all comes down to this.
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By tonight, this will all end.
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That's right.
Whether it becomes porridge or rice.
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What will you do when this is over
and you leave the palace?
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Hmm…
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Get dead drunk, I suppose.
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And sleep for three or four days.
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No, I didn't mean like that.
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How do you wanna live?
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What do you wanna do with your life?
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I've never thought about it.
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But I will return to the temple.
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Really?
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You said you hated the head monk there,
and yet you wanna go back?
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The thing is, about 2,000 yards
to the southeast of the temple,
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there's a river
that runs along a sheer cliff.
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Right near there…
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is where my mother died.
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So even in death,
I cannot leave the temple.
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I truly am sorry.
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In order to solve this case, I, uh…
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- I pulled someone in who didn't--
- You're only now beating that drum?
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After using me?
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You have such a talent for telling someone
the meanest, most hurtful things.
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And after working up the courage
to be honest with you…
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Tonight, it will be you who dies.
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The one who failed to die with his mother.
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The one who should not be allowed to live.
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The one who is neither man nor spirit.
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Tonight, it will be you who dies.
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Tonight, it will be you who dies.
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The one who must die alongside his mother
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will be the one to die tonight.
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What did the emaciated gwi-mae just say?
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Turtle, turtle
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Poke your head out
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If you do not
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I will roast you and eat you up
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Is it almost done?
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The ritual will begin
at the Hour of the Ox.
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It's nearly ready.
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I have been thinking.
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I shall go with you
to that realm to help you.
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Have I not constantly told you
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that if you go in there, you will die?
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Don't even consider it.
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It's all set.
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I'll get going now.
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Wait a moment.
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Drink this
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so your yang energy is replenished.
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The ingredients are valuable.
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Good heavens.
You didn't have to do this now.
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You should've given it to me sooner.
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Ugh. This medicine is so bitter.
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Is there anything I can do to help?
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I'm sorry, no.
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Princess.
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The Crown Prince is after you as well.
Don't forget that.
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So keep yourself hidden away.
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What is wrong?
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Earlier today,
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I may have gone to see my grandmother.
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Why did you go there?
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You made her seem like your enemy.
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It will take half a day for you
to wake up after this.
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Why?
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- Why?
- I don't know. I honestly don't.
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The moment I heard the gwi-mae mention
that you would meet your end,
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my body moved before I was able to stop.
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You are the only one in this palace
I can trust and rely on. That is why…
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I will make sure
you don't meet your end tonight.
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I will save you, even if that means
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sacrificing my own life for yours.
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Thank you for always protecting me.
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So from now on,
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I will take your place in this battle.
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The appeasement rite will begin soon.
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It seems the shaman has a strategy.
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Your Majesty.
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Do not make a scene.
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I know the Crown Prince is here.
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So you did become
an ak-gwi after all, brother.
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Do not think of interfering.
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All of that bitterness
you must be feeling.
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I understand it myself.
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A man who was killed by his own father,
it's only natural you'd feel that way.
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Brother, stop!
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He abandoned me
for hearing the voices of spirits, too,
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and my mother died
because of him, brother!
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I hate Father as much as you do!
Look at me!
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I told you not to interfere.
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I will make sure
you don't meet your end tonight.
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Even if that means sacrificing
my own life for yours.
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Are you telling me not to do it?
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This is the only way
I'm able to save the Princess.
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She was willing to risk her life for me,
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so I must answer that resolve.
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Humans
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advance towards death
from the moment they are born.
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No matter what one's status is,
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or what kind of person they are,
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none of it matters.
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At the end of every fate,
death is equal to all.
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So there is no reason to grieve
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or feel wronged by it.
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So this is why
the palace reeks of yin energy.
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Was all of this you,
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Supreme Gwi-mae?
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I will comply with what you are asking.
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In return,
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I request the power you hold
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so I can save the Princess.
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How much longer, Your Majesty?
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End this!
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I, the sovereign, placed you,
the powerless, before the blade
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in an attempt to stop the plague.
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Without your consent,
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I tore apart your fates.
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And yet, I was unable to stop anything.
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All that reaches me now
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are your cries,
filled with rage and grief.
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This sin won't be washed away.
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It can't.
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These words are not spoken
in the hope of forgiveness.
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If you wish to…
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you may take my life this very instant.
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But if life is still granted to me,
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those remaining after your deaths,
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the parents,
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the siblings,
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the children,
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every stranded family…
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I will care for each one.
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I do this as a promise
for the people of my nation.
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And as for this sin
that I could not repay in this life,
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I will repay again and again
in the afterlife.
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So let go of your resentment…
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and move on.
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Lay down your ties to this world…
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and depart now…
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for the other side.
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I waited for the plague spirits to depart.
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It cannot end like this. It mustn't.
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Is your wish
to kill your father so important?
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As for me…
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I suffered my whole life
constantly believing
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that I killed my own mother.
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I thought
I would turn into an ak-gwi if I died,
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and I forced myself to keep on living
so I wouldn't become what you are.
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Why would you go so far
as to become an ak-gwi like this?
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I wanted to be King.
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But none of it matters anymore.
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If this palace
will not have me as its King…
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Be it that everyone here…
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…who live within these walls…
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…and those beyond it will all die soon.
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I will kill the lot.
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All this time, I've tried to avoid
obliterating souls if I could.
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You cannot get rid of me.
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If you obliterate someone's soul,
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then that karma
will make you an ak-gwi as well.
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I have always known that.
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However, the curse won't break,
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and the Princess will die
if I don't kill you.
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From the moment I met Mother Gwi-mae,
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I was ready to become an ak-gwi!
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It is finally over.
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Chief Eunuch Kim!
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Your…
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Gu-cheon!
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I will give you all the yang energy
I have left to give.
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So you can go back.
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No. Gu-cheon, wake up, please.
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Gu-cheon.
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Take my yang energy.
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Please take it.
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You cannot die like this.
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I will not let you go.
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Don't die.
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Don't die.
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Gu-cheon.
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I believe that is enough.
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Since this is it,
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why don't we have some fun?
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If my soul is just going to be devoured
by a gwi-mae, then I would rather…
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Your Majesty.
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There have been no further reports
of plague victims.
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The appeasement rites
have all concluded without incident,
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and the public sentiment
has already recovered dramatically.
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I understand.
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You may be dismissed.
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Your Majesty.
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All of the strange occurrences
that happened here
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have finally disappeared.
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Let us go.
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However,
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it is said that the Queen Dowager,
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who has withdrawn
to her private residence,
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is no longer of sound mind.
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And how is Prince Iksang?
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He is being discreetly investigated
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for summoning shamans
and using them to commit sorcery
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to harm you and the royal family,
Your Majesty.
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Very well, then.
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You may be dismissed.
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It has been three days.
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Princess.
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Should we not give up now
and lay Gu-cheon to rest?
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Last time, we thought he was dead as well.
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Yet he survived that.
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Even if it is Gu-cheon…
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Everyone is saying he is dead,
are they not?
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You can stop crying.
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He is not dead.
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See what you've done?
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You've even made her cry.
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So please stop boiling inside,
and return to yourself at once.
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If you cannot find your way back to me,
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ring the bell so that I can come
and find you myself.
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Ggeomeoksali.
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That is a special one.
It's a Ggeomeoksali.
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It latches to the living, not a place,
and completely depletes their yang.
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The living, not a place.
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He is alive.
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About 2,000 yards
to the southeast of the temple,
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there's a river
that runs along a sheer cliff.
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Right near there
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is where my mother died.
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So even in death,
I cannot leave the temple.
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Please…
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I knew you would be here.
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It's all in the past now.
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You can leave the palace if you'd like.
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You can escape now.
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So please,
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do not stay here alone!
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Come back with me.
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You once told me you were living
without purpose, unable to die.
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Then live.
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You can live like a spirit still among us.
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Just live!
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Are you listening to me at all?
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Apparently, your life mattered
more than anything, Gu-Cheon.
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You told me that!
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Did you think
I would be glad about what you did?
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That you met your end to save me?
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You bastard.
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Come back this instant, Gu-cheon,
or I'll drag you out!
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You're crying again.
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So you managed to return to us.
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Have you prepared to leave here yet?
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Yes, Your Majesty.
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However,
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it's quite the send-off
you have made for me.
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I take it you have no intention
of letting me go easily.
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I am aware of a few matters.
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Matters that you experienced here
in the palace that you shouldn't have.
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You know far too many secrets now.
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Secrets about the palace and myself.
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Stand up.
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They say one changes entering the outhouse
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and when they leave it.
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You must know, your word weighs
very little, Your Majesty.
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Is there something else you can see?
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I can see
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the souls of the departed King
and of the countless Princes
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who will never ascend to be Kings.
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You may leave.
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Are you freeing me?
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Only time will tell.
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He won't change his mind and kill me now,
will he? Mm?
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Why are you still standing there?
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You can't still be attached to the palace.
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Are you leaving too?
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I've decided to come with you.
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Huh?
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Why would you?
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You went out of your way
to help me settle my affairs.
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It's my turn now to help you.
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Heavens above.
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It will be very hard.
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Don't whine to me later
about how hard it will be for you.
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Let us go.
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THE EAST PALACE