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Your Excellency, have you been in good health?
Have you been in good health?
So, you're the new magistrate.
A busy schedule has delayed a proper greeting.
These facilities are quite old so there are many areas needing attention.
If there is any immediate work required, let Lee Bang know.
I'll tell him to give it special attention.
I will take care of my own property
so you don't need to concern yourself.
So, why did you ask for my audience?
You weren't asked.
You were summoned here.
And I'm sure you know very well why you were.
Is this about the grave-pit?
That's something I wanted to ask you about.
Why would someone in your position dig up that ghastly grave personally?
Then, in addition, delay closing the case?
It's an unprecedented multiple murder case.
It's not something to be rushed to close.
I'd like to know why you ordered to have it covered up.
Cover it up?
A murder case?
Are you writing a novel?
I suppose since you have nothing better to do,
you have to keep busy doing something.
Even if it's writing stories.
Sir!
You think...
the people in this village didn't know about that grave?
Anyone who lives in this town, aged 3 to 80, knows about it.
What are you talking about?
There was a tragic massacre from our last village war.
That tomb is a mass grave for those who died in it.
A grave from a village war?
It was a very traumatic event for the people in this village.
They have lived for years trying to forget about the tragedy.
How can I just sit by and watch a new magistrate
ignorantly bare their painful scar?
Do you really expect me to believe that?
What is there to believe or not believe?
Go ahead and ask those men right now.
I don't want our village shaken up by this.
All I want for this village is peace
for the times past, the present, and the future.
This peace you so earnestly desire,
who is it really for?
The fox always wants to be the leader in the tiger's den
while the tiger is away.
What shall I do about that?
Do you really think you can hide by closing your eyes?
What did you say?
Perhaps it's you who's using the tiger's powers to use in this situation.
I was quite shocked to hear Lord Kim had an illegitimate son like you.
An illegitimate son... from a mistress.
Mistress...
Mistress.
You are also a son of a slave?
Son of a slave?
On top of that, your mother is a daughter of a rebel.
Reb... rebel?
A rebel?
A mistress's bastard. Moreover, a traitor's offspring became the town's magistrate.
Oh, really...
I don't know if it's that the world has gotten better or if it's coming to ruins.
Personally, I can't acknowledge such world.
I have no intention of acknowledging you as this town's magistrate..
There is no place in Joseon
where a bastard can hold an office with his head held high.
Did you say I can't hide by closing my eyes?
Let me return those words to you.
Do you think you can hide who you are by closing your eyes?
Let's... let's go.
I don't know the reason for my father being here.
The myrtle trees are in blossom right now in Miryang.
The red blossoms in Yeonnamru are really a beautiful sight.
Would you like to go to Yeonnamru with me to see them?
Since you're not from around here, I want to take you there and show you.
Now that I think about it,
there are many things here that I want to show you.
Legitimate or illegitimate, they are people all the same.
Do you know what it means by being the same?
We all end up the same when we die.
What are you going to do?
Will you quietly leave here?
Or stay in office, acting like you're someone better than you are.
I can't stop you if you insist on staying.
However,
since they know the truth of your background now,
I have no idea how they'll treat you.
If there isn't anything else you want to say,
I'll take my leave.
Oh...
Let me offer you an advice.
If I were you, I'd save my father's face by going away quietly.
That's the way of a nobleman.
Something a person of lowly birth cannot understand.
Hey, you! Old man!
Look here, old man.
You keep saying illegitimate birth*. (*seochul - Seo also means west.)
What's wrong with that?
Who says you're inferior if you're born in the west?
Who made up that rule?
I know the Jade Emperor a little.
And there's no way he would have come up with a childish rule like that.
What?
- Why, you're that...! - That's right!
So where was your precious self born?
Since you hate the west so much, it can't be that.
Then is it the east?
The north?
The south?
Where do you have to be born to be better than others?
Oh, let me see.
Your home is in the east.
Then you were born in the east? The east?
W.. why, you... you wretched wench!
Look at you stuttering because even you think it's ridiculous.
People stutter when they know they're being unreasonable.
You... You should be torn to shreds!
Killing me by tearing me to shreds will only hurt your hands.
Try it.
- Go ahead and do it! - Why, you!
What are you doing here?
What's going on here?
Let's talk about it later.
You rascal!
Let go of my hand.
Let go of him.
I'll take him with me and leave.
Please release him.
You rascal!
Let us leave!
I'll be back.
What we couldn't do today, we'll do it next time.
You...
How dare you?
That kid.
I won't let it end with this.
Let's go!
You...
Every time you move, you cause trouble.
How can you act so fearless?
I'm not like someone who can see injustice and ignore it.
What?
West or east?
Even north and south?
I was so embarrassed, I didn't know what to do.
It wasn't because I didn't know the term.
When you're dealing with ignorant people, you have to use ignorant means.
Wearing a nobleman's hat doesn't automatically make you smart.
I should just keep my mouth shut.
Where were you going to go with him?
How would I know?
I didn't get to go because of you.
Should I go and find out?
You're not going anywhere.
A grown woman doesn't go chasing after a man.
Don't you know the proper behavior between a man and a woman?
Proper behavior?
It appears your background isn't so lofty either,
so why so many rules?
What?
Just live according to who you are.
Don't expend unnecessary energy.
There are lots of smart people who were born in the west.
By the way, you look great in your magistrate outfit.
Did you know Ju Wal was out there behaving so foolishly?
You couldn't have known.
That's the kind of sly person he is.
A girl?
He even brought that girl here yesterday.
You know how careful I was
in protecting this house for you.
Several decades...
I've protected you for all those years
and now he's out there being so reckless.
Are you going to let him continue?
I got it.
You may leave.
Madam!
I said you can leave!
I'll take care of it.
Young Master, you're home just now?
You'll be having your supper.
I'll have it ready shortly.
No need.
You should not skip meals.
Legitimate or illegitimate, they are people all the same.
Do you know what it means by being the same?
We all end up the same when we die.
Those rascals!
Your Excellency.
What is it?
There are some village men who keep hanging around the magistrate's office.
What? Why?
I don't know the exact reason.
Shall I go and find out what they're up to?
There's something else I need you to do first.
Pardon?
Gather up some men who can fight.
There's someone I need to teach a lesson to.
Yes, Sir.
There can be no mistakes made.
He must be taught a severe lesson.
You can trust me.
Why isn't she out today?
I'm not the kind of person to go to a woman's house looking for her.
Oh, man.
But it's an important matter for my young master
so I'll put my principles aside for now.
It should be somewhere near here.
I need to be able to offer something more than just kimchee to the spirits soon.
To do that, I have to get out there and make some money.
But I just can't go out there and show my face.
Where? What? Huh?
It's you who startled me.
What...
What brings you here?
That is...
Why is it bothering me so much?
He's just staying in there, all cooped up.
He didn't even eat lunch.
He must have serious worries.
Are you sure she's a ghost or a nine-tailed fox?
I don't know.
What I do know is that she's not a person.
Do you think you'll be able to tell right away?
Of... of course.
You'll keep you promise to set a fine table for my spirit general, right?
Don't worry.
It's the least I can do when you're saving my young master.
But...
But why have you been addressing me formally?
What?
Oh, that's just...
See here, young lady!
Are you in there?
There aren't any shoes.
She must not be in there.
Then wait here just a minute.
I'll go and look for her.
Why is it so hot?
Any why is my heart beating so hard?
Am I going to die before my spirit general comes to me?
Oh, it's...!
A talisman to get rid of a girl...
Are you still skulking around him?
Huh? How did she know?
But what? Skulk?
You've used him enough. Let him go now.
Use him?
This shaman has gotten quite bold while I've been gone.
She's frowning. She's definitely not an easy one.
Why can't you say anything?
Oh, I see.
You're going to pretend you don't understand?
So if you open your eyes wide to look innocent and say,
"I don't understand. I can't hear," they all fall for it, right?
Even so, it won't work on him.
You don't know he came to me to get rid of you, right?
What is she talking about?
What?
Hey, you!
You shaman girl, you're in for it now.
How dare you step foot on this property?
W... what is the problem?
What do you mean, w.. what is the problem?
You come here.
- You wench! - Get that girl!
Get her!
What's going on?
What are you doing?
What's going on?
Get her! Get her!
Get her!
Yeom Ra,
you keep scowling so this isn't any fun.
How would you feel if you lost your fairy maiden?
Go ahead and scowl.
Scowl as much as you want.
This is all because they see us as being pushovers, just because of someone here!
When are you going to tell Moo Young?
How long are you going to leave him like that?
Oh, that startled me.
What are you doing?
Why are you lurking around?
Huh?
I was just walking by.
Um, by the way...
I heard the myrtle trees in Yeonnamru are really beautiful.
Do you want to go and see?
Going to look at flowers in the middle of the night?
It could make you feel better.
Okay?
Fine. We'll go.
Just a minute.
What?
This is all there was?
Why? You don't like it?
When you were a ghost, you wore the same clothes for 3 years.
Did you go to the shaman and ask her to get me away from you?
What are you talking about?
Why did you suddenly want to come see flowers at this time of the night?
I was going to go with the young master earlier today,
but we couldn't go and I was curious.
Wow.
I like flowers.
I like them the best.
When I die, I'm going to come back as a flower.
No, I'll come back as a butterfly.
They're so pretty.
Master Ju Wal has fine taste.
You wandered around Miryang for 3 years as a ghost.
This is your first time seeing flowers?
No. I saw lots of them.
I saw them until I got sick and tired of them.
Are you playing games with me?
But this is the first time I'm seeing them with you.
So, the same scene can look different.
W.. what tricks are you up to now?
Can I have a peach?
Because of the mood you were in,
I wasn't able to eat anything all day.
Do you hear that?
That's why you kept pacing back and forth in front of my room?
Yeah.
What other reason could there have been?
Don't you have any peaches?
Oh, really!
You can't just make a peach appear out of nowhere.
You should have told me then I would have brought some.
I can't believe you tricked me.
When did I trick you?
Did you come out here to eat peaches or look at flowers?
Wouldn't it have been great to do both?
Aigoo, I need to just keep silent.
So, why are you searching so hard for your mother?
As you said, I don't have a mother or a father so I don't know.
Sometimes I don't get why you act the way you do.
My mother disappeared because of me.
The daughter of a rebel...
She spent her entire life holding a grudge.
She spent every day seeking revenge on some unknown person.
I wasn't even in her consciousness.
That's the mother I remember from the time I was 4 or 5 years old.
In my mother's world,
my father and I didn't exist.
I felt sorry for my mother for that.
You felt sorry for her? You didn't hate her?
I did hate... the world.
And I felt sorry for my mother.
It was just one moment.
I was angry with my mother.
For the first time, I felt angry at her.
It was just once.
I didn't have any control over my heart.
That's when I realized.
I had hated my mother all along.
If someone you hate disappears,
isn't it a good thing?
Oh, yeah.
Why did I think I could talk to you about this?
Who are those men?
Did you call for them?
What do you want?
Yes, well...
If you happen to have some money on you,
we'd like for you to give it to us.
Don't just laugh.
Fine.
You're awfully bold, aren't you?
You dare to attack a magistrate?
You just go and stand over there.
Don't worry about me.
Okay, I got it.
You'll soon be seeing the back shores of the Styx River.
It'll be thrilling for you.
Where are the angels of death?
They're going to end up losing him.
Where are we going? Where? Where are we going?
Let go of me!
Let go!
There's something strange about them.
I don't think they're angels of death.
Hey!
Who are you guys?
Which side are you from?
I was a ghost for a while so I know a thing or two.
A soul stays here as a ghost because he wants to.
You can't force it on him.
It doesn't look right.
Do you want to be a ghost?
Arang!
Hey!
Why are you carrying that thing?
It's no use to cut me with that.
Just take him and leave.
I'll pretend I didn't see anything.
Magistrate!
Didn't I tell you to remain still?
What's going on?
Who are they?
Who are those guys?
What is their problem?
Why are you glaring at me?
You didn't lose him, thanks to me.
You ruined everything.
That one or this one...
Neither one knows how to say thank you.
Didn't I tell you to stay still?
If I tell you to stay still, just be still!
When did you tell me that?
You just told me to go and stand over there.
Don't make me look for you.
Don't make me go looking for you.
Don't cause me to be concerned.
Moo Young,
did you finally raise your sword against me?
You have used lies to obtain personal gains,
you do not believe yet pretended to believe so as to deceive others,
you proclaimed what is wrong to be right,
you pretended to speak the truth and caused confusion.
For your sins,
you shall gnash your teeth in hell!
Then...
Yes.
Don't make me look for you.
Don't make me go looking for you.
Don't cause me to be concerned.
I'm the one who feels concern.
Why did he say something like that?
Oh, dear. He didn't say anything special.
But it's making me start to see him as a man.
You're returning just now?
Did you capture a lot of ghosts?
Yes.
Hurry and take them to Yeom Ra.
He needs to be kept busy to forget about his anger.
Yes.
I'm right here.
When did you come?
He took a detour while out capturing ghosts.
Where did he go?
I think he was trying to follow the demons.
He must have wanted to find out about them.
He acted on his own without reporting in.
Does that mean he caught on to their origin?
I don't think it's that he caught on. I think it's his instinctive nervousness.
He probably wants to confirm for himself.
It's clear to see from up here.
What's there to worry about?
But that one crucial thing is unknown.
The human mind...
The human mind?
There are so many layers, it's hard to get to the core.
What do you mean unknown?
If you sit in the seat of judgment like me, everything is clear.
There are 2 types of human minds.
The good and the bad...
There are some skewed among them.
The strange...
Is that so?
But even among those,
there are the good strange and the bad strange.
So just keep it simple.
Is Moo Young a good one or a bad one?
No, no. That's not right.
I was confused for an instant.
He's not human.
So there's no need to give it another thought.
What is it?
I gave it some thought.
About what?
Last night...
Why I said what I said...
I thought about it all night myself.
Why did you think about it all night?
Isn't it because of your mother?
How did you know?
What else could it have been?
Anyway, I have to stay safe for you to find your mother.
Isn't that it, Mama's Boy?
Yes. That's what it was.
So that's why I was acting so sensitive yesterday.
That's what I thought.
So I tried to come up with a way...
to worry less about you.
Self-defense training?
Yes.
If you get to where you can protect yourself,
I can worry less about you.
Magistrate, I already know how.
You pick that up naturally when you live as a ghost.
To us, it's not self-defense but survival.
Forget everything you've learned up until now.
You'll learn it properly from now on.
Never mind that.
Why don't you teach me how to use the sword?
Oh yeah.
What was that thing with the fan?
When a man comes at you like this...
Oh! Magistrate.
What is that nine-tailed fox doing?
But..
I like what she's doing.
Yes.
Beating him up like that will make him lose interest in her.
Magistrate, are you okay?
Oh... oww... hey!
I'm sorry.
What did I tell you?
I told you this body knows.
Okay then.
A different move this time.
I said I'm fine.
Be quiet and just turn around!
I already know it all.
Okay.
This time, when a man grabs you like this...
I already know.
What?
You're not going to do it?
Oh...
For today...
For today, this is enough!
We'll do the rest at the next session.
What are you doing? Are you playing with me?
Magistrate!
That... that...
He's showing all kinds of sides to him.
And that's the young master I serve.
Why do I have to suffer this embarrassment?
I shouldn't be passing judgment on anyone right now.
It wasn't on purpose but...
I did do that to the previous magistrates.
And it caused the situation in the village to become worse.
Magistrates! I'm sorry.
I didn't think it was a big deal at the time;
but when I remembered the trauma of my own death,
I can imagine how scared you must have been.
When I get there, I'll bow to the floor in repentance.
You still won't talk?
Why were you standing around in front of the magistrate's office?
I just had something to tell the magistrate.
Tell the magistrate something?
You loser!
What were you going to tell him?
What were you going to say to the magistrate?!
Tell me! Say it!
Say! It!
Father!
Please save my father.
You go on home.
If you stay here, you won't be safe either.
What's all the commotion?
Please save my father.
It's that man that Keo Deol...
Lord Sir, please let my father go.
Please? Your Excellency!
Please let my father go.
Lord, please let my father go.
Your Excellency!
Please let my father go.
Be quiet.
Please let my father go.
I don't know what Keo Deol is doing but you tell him to finish it up.
Why is he doing something he wasn't told to do?
Oh, let me see. Your home is in the east.
Then you were born in the east? The east?
W.. why, you... you wench!
Look at you stuttering because even you think it's ridiculous.
People stutter when they know they're being unreasonable.
Why is that kid still safe?
Hong Ryun,
why are you leaving him alone?
Are you two...
planning something...
without letting me in on it?
Moo Young...
It's Ju Wal out here.
What is it?
There's something I'd like to ask you.
Come in.
What is it?
I'm not in very good spirits today.
If it's not urgent, let's do it another time.
You said...
she's immortal and that she cannot die.
Yes.
How is it possible for such a being to exist?
Would you tell me...
what she is?
Is she also...
not human?
Whatever she may be is of no interest to me.
My interest is in only one thing.
But...
Why do you have so much to say lately?
Just do as you're told.
How can it be possible for such a being to exist?
They can't.
Not unless they create them...
Was it...
to try and get me?
Fine, I'll accept it.
I'll give in, as much as I need to.
Lee Seo Rim who might have been in a one-sided love relationship.
That's fine, too.
It doesn't matter as long as I have some color.
What the magistrate said is true.
That young master is my only answer.
We see each other again, Magistrate.
What is it now?
I see Arang isn't here.
I was hoping to see her.
I asked you what you're here for.
I don't believe you need to know.
It's personal.
Personal?
That's interesting.
What personal reason
could the fiancé of the late magistrate's daughter
have to see a girl detective?
Furthermore,
it's not seemly for you to come looking for her so often.
Oh?
What we didn't get to do yesterday...
It would make me feel better if we did it so that's why I came back.
Can you leave now?
I'm glad you're here.
I was going to come see you.
Me?
You don't need to go with him.
Don't go.
Why are you acting like this?
Don't go.
Didn't I tell you?
I do or don't do what I want, when I want.
You can't tell me what to do.
Didn't I tell you to not cause me to worry?
I'm not comfortable with you spending time with him.
There's something suspicious about him hanging around you.
What's there to be suspicious about?
Don't go.
I'm going.
I want to ask him.
He can't remember her face or anything about her,
so why did he get engaged to her?
I want to know if he really doesn't know anything about Lee Seo Rim
or if he's just pretending he doesn't.
I'm going to ask him.
Young Master! Young Master!
Why is Master Ju Wal leaving with Arang?
When did they get so close to smile at each other like that?
They look like a pair of geese as they left.
Young Master.
Magistrate!
Magistrate.
Aren't you the magistrate?
Please save my father.
Please save my father, Sir.
Hey kid, where is your father for you to be here acting like this?
He's being held at Lord Choi's house.
If you don't do something, my father will die.
Please save my father, Magistrate.
Magistrate.
- Please save my father. - I don't know what this is about...
so why don't you go and find out?
What?
Why would I go to that house?
It's Lord Choi's house.
Get out of my way.
Do you think they'll pay attention to this slave's words?
Besides, I'm busy right now.
I have to go somewhere.
- Move. - Magistrate.
Please save my father.
Magistrate, sir...
Look kid,
go elsewhere for help.
Magistrate, please save my father.
Please, Magistrate.
Magistrate...
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What is your relationship with the magistrate?
How dare you come here?
Don't you know that you hindering my work
is obstructing the king's orders?
Be the magistrate?
It won't be so easy to do.
I came with you today because I have a lot of questions to ask you.
Why do you worry about me?
- Do you like me? - What?
Don't fall for me.
If I don't find out the truth by the second full moon, I have to go to hell.
Why are you telling me that just now?
I didn't tell you because it's not important.
It's not important?
You don't feel anything?
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