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Episode 18
What is the matter?
Someone infiltrated the palace.
Infiltrated the palace?!
All the guards protecting the poison warehouse were slayed.
What wretched discipline moved such undexterous dullards...
to allow such obtrusion?!
May you forgive my remissness, Sire.
Apprehend the culprit and immediately bring him to me!
Yes.
Your Majesty! Abate your ire.
Should this be the time my fury dwindles in placidity?!
Not a full moon wended by since the night they pierced my heart,
and I already face another endangerment besetting my sleep?!
I am mortified, Sire.
What did you find?
He must have already escaped the palace, Your Majesty.
You commiserable rapscallions!
How many of those damned steel plates beleaguer these walls?!
And you still haven't found a thing?!
Remove the Chief of Security from his post,
and make him savor the wintry pavements of our prisons!
Yes.
What did they appropriate from that warehouse?
That...
Speak to me!
It was an antidote we stored there.
Antidote?
You mean an antidote to the toadstools Dojin asked for?
Yes, Your Majesty.
Hmmm... it surely must be a Goguryeo spy's doing.
Cut off any passageway connecting with Goguryeo,
and send troops to find that man. You must apprehend him!
At all costs!
Did you find the antidote?
The physicians are sparing no effort, but they still haven't found it.
More than the court physicians, it would be wiser to...
leave things to that physician working for Mahwang.
Still no news of His Highness?
Nothing.
He wouldn't just disappear like this?!
I am concerned.
The stupefaction must have befuddled him,
but he shall overcome it all.
With His Majesty and Goguryeo engulfed by this quandary,
there is no way he would just vanish.
After the Chief of Security distributed water from the Amnoksu*,
the epidemic was stopped from spreading among our people.
How many patients were contaminated so far?
Only from the southern and northern gates, they number in the several hundreds,
and there are even some inside the palace.
But, the physicians are strenuously looking for an antidote,
so you needn't worry, Your Majesty.
I shall head outside the palace and ascertain it first hand,
so make all preparations.
Sire! It is much too hazardous.
Should the patients come into contact with you...
Are you saying I should enshroud myself inside these walls, daunted by my people's conniption?!
You have my orders!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
Are you telling me even His Majesty was contaminated?
Yes.
How could something like this happen?
Not even someone down at the market, but His Majesty!
Surely someone must be behind this.
I am mortified.
Apprehend all of His Majesty's servants,
and find out who's responsible for this!
Yes.
Nobody shall learn of His Majesty's ailments.
Don't let the news leak outside the palace, by any means necessary.
What did the physician say?
Over-exertion caused this malady, so some repose shall give you solace.
Hence, I suggest we adjourn your plans outside the palace.
What?!
Were you looking for us?
What is the matter?
His Majesty has contracted this pestilence.
Before his condition worsens, you must find that antidote.
Summon that physician working under Mahwang, and ask her if there is any progress.
Yes.
King Yuri collapsed, whereas the market is brimming with...
the echoes of public rankling towards the king.
Everything is going according to our plans.
The antidote?!
No matter how hard they try, they shall never get their hands on it.
Sangganim.
Isn't this the perfect time to give King Yuri the fatal blow?
It is time we avenge all the ignominy he put us through.
Immediately summon the Council!
Do you still feel nauseous?
After you cleanse his alvine throes with saltwater, serve him some baekchosang*.
All right.
Did the patients who drank flagroot show any improvement?
None.
- Give them licorice pellets. - Yeon!
If you keep this up, when are you ever going to find the antidote? Uh?
Keep this up, and the Master will perish!
Physician!
You may leave us.
Did you find the antidote?
Not yet.
Is there any other way?
His Majesty is in grave condition, so we must find a solution.
We found the poison, so shouldn't you also discover an antidote?!
Give me some more time.
My callowness dissatisfied your expectations,
but I shall now abide by all my obligations as a prince,
so may you recoup your vigor. Show me the path that shall lead me.
You needn't worry.
I shall soon find the strength to stand by your side.
What is the matter?
The chieftains of the Council seek audience with Your Majesty.
Did they still come, fully aware of His Majesty's ailments?
Tell everyone to leave!
His Majesty shall not be importuned.
No.
I shall head to the council hall.
You must not, Sire!
The more enfeebled their king appears to be,
the more unseemly my throne will become.
You shall come with me, Yeojin.
You must show you have enough resolve to confront them.
I sense traces of wearisome ordeals on your visage, Sire.
What is the reason you requested my presence?
Your Majesty.
Are you aware of the nefarious calamity which is engulfing the capital?
Would oblivion befit the crown adorning your king?
Then,
are you also aware of the reason why such adversity beclouds us?
I could ask you the same question.
Devising contemptible ploys, blazoning such mendacious talebearing,
planting the seed of discord between my people and me.
What bourne are you *** after?
Your Majesty!
Are you misdoubting us?
Misdoubt it is not,
certitude is in my mind.
Upon what evidence are those grave insinuations based?
The people believe these heinous events were caused...
by a prince who perished twenty years ago.
That is the truth, Your Majesty!