Gyebaek (계백)

Gye Baek

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Episode 10

Your Highness!

Your Highness, are you awake?

- Eun Go... - Your Highness!

Your Highness...!

I... I was afraid you wouldn't get up again...

I'm alright. Help me up.

Give me some water.

Now that I'm back in the living, that water tastes like honey.

Is that so?

It tastes like honey to me too.

Did you come back to life like me too?

I did.

Then we have the same life.

Our purpose is the same, therefore we have the same life.

My mother, Mu Jin, and poor Gye Baek...

All those that I love have left me.

The only one left is you.

You must be hungry. I'll go and bring some porridge.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Don't you recognize me?

- You know me? - How could I forget you?

I lived for this day!

You're not from Silla.

What grudge do you hold against me?

My father sacrificed everything for you, but you killed him!

Both my mothers died because of you.

You called me your younger brother.

You still don't recognize me?

Gye Baek...

Is that you, Gye Baek?

I should be grateful that you recognize me before you die!

Gye Baek...!

You were alive all this while?

When you're dead, you'll go to hell!

Yes, you alone have the right to take my life.

Slay me.

No!

It's Gye Baek.

Eun Go...

He's Gye Baek.

He's alive.

You're really...? You're really Gye Baek?

May I keep you in my heart when I leave?

You have yet to come to your senses!

Carry that around your neck. It'll help you come to your senses.

I thought you were dead...

But it really is you...

Don't come close!

I know why you're doing this.

But you must not harm His Highness. There is something you don't know.

I said stop!

Listen to me!

If you kill the Prince without knowing the truth, General Mu Jin's death will be pointless.

You don't have to explain anything.

Now that I've seen that you're alive, I have no regrets.

Get him!

He would have woken up anyway!

- Maybe he was just pretending! - Watch your flap!

You better be grateful to me and do your job properly!

It's the enemy!

What's going on?

What happened?

This way is towards the soldiers' tents. There is a way out through the other side.

Enemy!

What did you say? The Prince has been kidnapped?

There was a raid in his tent the moment he regained consciousness.

How can something like this happen within our encampment?

Dispatch men and rescue the Prince at once!

But if we do that, we may not be able to handle an enemy attack.

I'll bear responsibility for that! Go and find the Prince!

Yes, General!

You can let me go now.

Tell me.

Why did you do it?

To live.

She said there was something I didn't know.

I did it.

Gye Baek...

I can never seek forgiveness from you.

Slay me.

Go on!

Then slay me too!

Turn back!

There are two regrets in my life.

First, it is meeting both of you.

And second, it was becoming attached to both of you.

One came back from the dead.

But now the other is going to die.

I don't know if I can withstand this torment.

Will you kill and be killed?

Then kill me too and end my suffering.

- That's what my father wanted? - That's right.

The General used his own life to save you and the Prince.

That's ludicrous!

Even if my father told him to do this, how could he kill him after all he had done for him?

Because if he didn't, you were going to be killed.

How could the Prince do something so heinous as this?

Would he have this to save his own life?

Did I ask him to save me?

I was left behind. Do I look like I'm living a good life to you?

Is losing one's father and mother better than death?

You're right.

Your life must have been worse than death.

But it was the same for the Prince.

When the Prince heard you were dead, he was going to kill Queen Sataek and kill himself.

I stopped him.

I told him to live, become King and exact revenge!

Why?

Why do you protect the Prince?

Because it's the truth.

You've changed too.

I don't care what you say.

This belonged to the General.

The Prince has never let this leave his body.

It looks like a female doll.

But strangely, the Prince says it looks like you.

I think so too.

You're returning to the fortress? That's ridiculous!

If I don't, over a hundred of my fellow prisoners will die.

You'll die too.

It doesn't matter. I lived my life thus far to kill you.

My life now has no more meaning.

If it will change your mind, then take my life.

My father valued you more than his own family. He'll be angry with me.

Don't say such things.

You can't go!

Return to the Baekje encampment and rescue your comrades!

If we attack the fortress, they will send out the prisoners as human shields.

They were with me when I lived as an animal.

I cannot let them die so that I can live.

- Don't put your hopes in me. - Please don't go.

We've just been reunited.

How could I send you to your death? No! I won't let you!

If something happens to you, I don't know what the Prince will do and...

Is the Prince's life valuable, but the lives of a 100 prisoners rubbish?

They risked their own lives to send me out.

My life is worthless. But I will keep my promise.

- Number 127! - Yes.

- 134! - Here.

139!

139!

Hey, he's calling you!

Wake up! Wake up!

He's been sick since last night.

139? That's Yiri, isn't it?

Open the gate.

Please let him rest today. He's really sick.

Speak. When did Yiri leave?

No use chasing him. He left a year ago!

The other prisoners were unaware of this.

Are you the man favored by the governor, Sung Choong?

I don't know about being favored, but I am Sung Choong.

Don't be impertinent thinking the Governor will protect you.

All of you will be held responsible.

If you don't tell me where he is at the count of three,

all of you will be hacked to pieces.

One...

Two...

- Three. - General!

Yiri is...

It appears you have loyalty since you've returned to save your comrades.

I understand why you returned. So why did you leave?

- It's none of your business. - It is my business.

I must know everything about my subordinates.

Don't make me laugh. I'm no subordinate.

Is that so?

A prisoner is executed when they attempt escape.

But you killed one of my men doing so. You'll not be able to survive this.

Do as you wish.

I have no strength to continue living, let alone the will.

Why? Because you couldn't kill Euija?

I don't know the details, but I do know that you hate Euija with all your heart.

I heard that there was a commotion in the Baekje encampment because of an assassination attempt.

It must have been you who did it.

But the Baekje soldiers prevented you from taking Euija's life.

So you decided to return to save your comrades' lives.

- So what? - An enemy of one's enemy is a friend.

Tell the Governor you wanted to give him the head of Prince Euija to earn his favor,

and to become my subordinate.

That is the only way you'll keep your life.

You get to keep your life, and I'll gain a formidable strategist.

What of it, Yiri?

Get lost.

- You want to exchange prisoners? - That's right.

There are over a hundred prisoners of war in Gajam Fortress.

If we attack the fortress, they will send them out as human shields.

That will only plummet the morale of our soldiers.

That's ridiculous!

We've already lost a thousand lives and have two thousand wounded.

Exchanging prisoners is like stopping the war.

Are you suggesting we forfeit our sacrifice just to save a mere 100 men?

If we end the siege for these prisoners, His Majesty will be furious.

I'm not suggesting we stop the siege. Let's rescue the prisoners first and then plan our strategy.

The number of prisoners isn't important.

If we rescue these men, our soldiers will feel that the King values each of their lives.

Their morale will skyrocket!