Haechi (해치)

Return, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

I'm dying soon, Prince Yeoning.

Get out!

Let me go!

There is nothing suspicious about Inspector Han's death.

How can the likes of you act up at a time like this?

The government is facing a huge crisis due to His Majesty's passing.

It must be a crisis only to you

because the crown prince the Norons objected to will become the king.

Don't run off at the mouth. Do you seriously want to die?

I am going to survive this with my eyes wide open

until I catch that bastard... that bastard who killed my lord inspector.

This bitch... still dares to...!

Yeo Ji!

Are you okay? - Hyung-nim.

Saheonbu?

How can trash like you keep law and order?

You just wait and see.

I am going to enter this place without fail and wipe out all of you!

The ones dying then

will be you!

Do I have to keep listening to their sob story?

Never allow them to set foot in Saheonbu again.

Yes!

Let this go!

Lead Inspector!

Hey, you, Lead Inspector!

In the end, you left the court in the mire, Your Majesty.

The useless, heirless crown prince succeeds to the throne.

What do you think this country will come to?

No, you cannot! - Out of my way! I shall see the Minister of the Interior!

Your Highness! - Leave us!

Since he seems to have come to see me.

Prince Yeonryeong, Hwon, did not die suddenly due to an unknown cause.

He was murdered by Prince Milpoong.

That may be.

Are you saying you covered it up even then?

The one who backed Prince Yeonryeong was you, Minister of the Interior!

I did. But would catching Prince Milpoong undo the cracks in this pottery?

Minister of the Interior. - Your Highness.

Whether Prince Yeonryeong died a mysterious sudden death or was murdered,

whether there is another reason or not,

politics is what determines the answers as needed.

As needed, you say?

Who? Who dares to decide that as they want?!

We do, Your Highness! As we have always done. - With what authority?

Because we have preserved this country through the past centuries, shedding much blood.

Because we have preserved it.

You shall live, Your Highness.

Even in this state, because you're a royal.

But if you dare to go further out, what do you think will happen to your playmates?

Not them, they are all I have left. Don't touch the remaining ones.

If it weren't for you, Inspector Han could have lived.

Didn't that thought ever occur to you?

Why didn't you rather dream of becoming the king?

If you became the king,

even if just a little bit of it, you might have gotten something called power.

Why?

Even if you have lowly blood running in your body,

nominally you are a royal, too, aren't you, Your Highness?

Hyung-nim Jeong Seok!

Are you really fine with

not one of your own getting beaten, robbed, and killed?!

Is that why you let others get hurt instead?

Excuse me, some nobleman asked me to give this to you.

After all, didn't you do the same, Your Highness?

Rather than retreat and pretend not to know, facing it was easier.

It's fun to be teased like this.

I am happy to see you again, Hyung-nim!

Your grace is immeasurable!

But you're the bigger pushover, so what am I supposed to do?

What? This punk...

Why didn't you rather dream of becoming the king?

Why didn't you rather

dream of becoming the king?

You are the king. - What?

That's right.

You are really the king.

If you became the king,

even if just a little bit of it, - even if just a little bit of it,

you might have gotten something called power.

you might have gotten something called power.

Something called power...!

Hurry up! - But how can we...?

It this the time for figuring that out? Let's run first.

Let's go!

Oh my, what do I do about this?

What happened? Why is the royal robe small?

Thousand apologies. His royal figure has changed lately and...

What?

My Queen.

But Your Majesty...

The morning colloquium will be on the Analects of Confucius, led by the chief scholar.

Since you have prepared for it well, do not feel nervous,

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, regretfully

the morning colloquium needs to be cancelled.

Here comes His Majesty.

Your Majesty!

This

d-d-dawn,

a d-do-dozen prisoners

b-broke down the prison gate

and e-escaped, I hear.

Insolent things! You dare to humiliate His Majesty and even titter about it!

In whose presence do you dare?!

That is enough, Queen.

This is where you stop.

Your Highness Queen Dowager.

I have heard about this morning's incident.

However, this is not the time for having any cries be heard from inside the palace walls.

How can you ask me to overlook even these things now?

It means even the court maids look down on His Majesty.

Is this not all because His Majesty has no heir?

They are saying he is a powerless king.

Queen...

A prison break? When has something like this ever happened in a civilized world?

How can you call this the shape a proper country should be in, Your Majesty!

I will take that into consideration.

The southern parts of the country are suffering from a draught day in and day out and in the northwestern part, the earth jolted.

The subjects are blaming all these on Your Majesty's inadequacy

and saying things that ought not to be uttered.

If those ought not to be uttered, then don't say them!

Did I say those things? The subjects did!

Don't distort the public opinion.

It must be Norons' opinion.

Why do you have to mention the faction names here?

E-nough.

A-as I will

take everything into consideration.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, if you do not understand the learned opinions of your ministers, you should ask questions

and sometimes you need to come up with ideas of your own, too.

How can you just say "I will take it into consideration" every single time?

Of course, I ought to... take that into consideration as well.

Harrumph...

Well, now, harrumph...

Why don't you reappoint the right state councillor, Your Majesty?

At times like these, Jo Tae Gu with little experience is not a proper person for the position of the right state councillor.

The proper thing to do is to replace him.

That must not be allowed. Do not allow it, Your Majesty!

His Excellency Jo Tae Gu is already on his way to Hanyang (capital) .

That is not possible. Please listen to our counsel.

Please listen to our counsel!

Please dismiss the newly appointed right state councillor this minute!

Please listen to our counsel!

Your Majesty!

I... understand. I shall

go with the Minister of the Interior's counsel.

Really?

"I-I-I will take it into consideration."

Waiting for him to finish, I almost breathed my last.

I thought his lisp was getting better for a while and why is he doing it again?

Is that because he was f-f-flustered?

Even a young paraplegic does not deserve to have his misfortune be laughed at.

That goes without saying when he's this country's king.

Minister of the Interior, it was just a joke among ourselves.

And you are this country's prime minister, Your Excellency!

Mind your dignity.

It was just one post, the right state councillor.

The six ministries, the three offices

all were taken by the Norons.

Just one among them, we got the post of the right state councillor.

But even that will not be allowed us.

If this doesn't show Noron's intent to monopolize all government posts, what does?

You gave it to them too easily, Your Majesty.

Hurry and throw open the gate and welcome the Dashing King (from Li Zicheng's Rebellion during the final years of the Ming Dynasty, 1644 CE)

When the Dashing King comes, no need to pay taxes.

Your Majesty, what do you mean?

What on earth is he thinking?

How can he be so calm?

Seriously...

Aigoo, look at this drunkard.

Just let him be.

Seriously...

Throw on him, quickly.

What are you waiting for? I told you to throw on him.

Still, he is a royal. How can I?

The sun is already in mid-sky, prince.

Here... here is my official uniform, right?

Was I entrusted with it?

It must be around here. Look for it.

Are you done changing?

Insolent punk. You throw water on someone with the title of a royal?

Oh, that was the water I washed my feet in. Next time, I am going to throw cesspool water.

You might have your funeral at the end of that joke.

Meat is there to chew on and words are there to spit out.

Right, I will overlook it this time because I'm in a hurry to go act like a human being.

Yes.

You've been behaving well for a while but you got boozed up again.

Old habits die hard. I just remembered a tune or two that I used to play.

This is the overcoat you left here the last time. It's been starched nicely.

What a good boy.

Different from a punk who grew up roughly without observing and learning anything.

But I come from a beggar background as well.

Then, you must have had an ancestor who was a treasonous nobleman.

Keep it here.

It seems like a few prisoners broke out of the prison last night.