While I'm fighting with Gwi in the underground palace, blow that place away.
I...
will die together with Gwi.
We will move the explosives tomorrow during the chaos when the people are protesting.
However, so none of the people will get hurt,
everything must end before the sun sets and Gwi becomes active. In the case of failure,
get out of the palace immediately and save the people.
Please plan for the future together with His Majesty.
Tomorrow will be the last day Gwi will live.
I see the end.
Kim Sung Yeol...
Hurry and come to kill me
because I will give a present of endless darkness that won't end.
Crazy bastard...
Now it will all end.
Queen, I will not let your death be in vain.
Where are you going?
I have someplace I need to visit for awhile.
The capitol is buzzing with soldiers looking for you so where would you go?
Are you going to His Lordship?
If the Scholar fights Gwi, there is a chance he will die.
That's why my blood-
You, too, know how dangerous that is, don't you?
It can not happen.
Scholar definitely won't lose to that strength, but find himself.
Even if he does, if you get captured by Gwi in the process, it's obvious that you will only become a burden.
If that happens,
I will commit suicide.
Oh, you came out?
Where is Kim Sung Yeol?
That...
He said he had something to discuss with the Black Robes.
Perhaps, did he go to the uprising by himself?
That's not it.
His Lordship warned that we have to protect His Majesty's health.
I already said I'm not the king anymore.
What are you saying?
Even if His Lordship gets rid of Gwi, everything will fall to dust if the person who has to lead this nation disappears.
If so... this is an order, get out of my way.
No. Please just kill me instead.
Do you think I want to stay here and guard the house?
I, too, wanted to follow His Lordship whether I died or not and I wanted to offer my blood and body.
It's not that I don't understand your feelings, but-
It was His Lordship's last request.
Please let me go.
The will to stay by His Lordship to the end and protect him, I understand it. However-
This is not only because of my love for the Scholar.
As you know, I'm one of Gwi's descendants and I'm one of the secret plans written in the memorandum.
In order to find me, the Scholar along with many others risked their life.
If I don't bear that responsibility, I will have to live my entire life cursing my destiny.
I came to see His Majesty.
You cannot see him now.
This is urgent!
Last night, Gwi made the palace into a blood bath.
Are you saying the palace became a vampire nest?
That is right, Your Majesty.
Palace maid Hong said she witnessed it herself.
I need to go to the palace immediately.
I will go as well.
Jo...
Now it is my turn to protect the Scholar.
Didn't you say you had a debt to me?
Please take me to the Scholar.
Even...
if I die, I will die next to the Scholar.
Yang Sun.
Please take Yang Sun there.
Who and with what can block that child's heart?
I understand.
However, you need to promise me.
Don't ever think about dying,
because you and Kim Sung Yeol are precious friends to me.
I will never lose you two. Do you understand?
Yes.
T-Then please let me come with you.
Since I already don't have the right to face His Lordship, I have to accomplish something so he can't nag.
Ho Jin.
Soo Hyang, I'll bring everyone back safely before the sun sets,
so prepare some drinks. Alright?
Help His Lordship and you must return back alive.
Hurry up.
If the palace is ruined, this nation is over as well so I will leave for Qing.
Yes.
Is this all the money and documents?
Yes, My Lord.
This...
Since I left in a hurry, there is something I left in the palace.
I'll quickly go to the palace and return so get ready to leave.
Yes, I understand.
Open the door! - Let us in!
Open the door! - Open up!
Open the door!
This is the palace this nation's King resides in!
Go back!
Are you protecting the vampire? Open the door quickly!
Open the door! -Open the door!
I said to go back!
Open the door! -Open the door!
Open it.
I don't even see an ant crawling around.
First, let's head towards the underground palace.
I can't feel Gwi's presence.
That's better. Using this chance, the explosives-
On the way here, I didn't see even one person protecting the palace.
I will go inside and check, so during that time,
check the surroundings.
It's a trap.
Open the gate.
Open the door! -Open the door!
Open the door! -Let us go in!
Isn't that person the Chief Minister?
How rude.- - Everyone knows that you accepted Gwi as your King
and mislead the people's hearts.
Mislead? Looking at it, you guys look like Confucian Scholars.
How can you
guys read that ridiculous book in Hangul and instigate the people? (Note: Confucian scholars, then, were suppose to read books in Chinese writing)
What? This is-
Look here, arrest all of them at once.
What? -You bastard!
Let us in! - You bastard!
What are you doing? Arrest them all.
Yes.
Arrest all of them.
Everyone, stop.
Do you know the situation inside the palace?
By situation?
Since when have you been a sentry?
The rotation didn't happen
even though the time has already passed.
While the soldiers and the people are harming each other outside,
Gwi is inside filling up the palace with vampires.
We are trying to go inside and exterminate Gwi.
If you are going to accept a person who harms the people as your King and protect him,
then it's no different
from you harming the people with your own hands.
He's right! -That's right!
Quickly open the door.
By any chance...
Why didn't I think of it earlier?
The palace is filled with vampires.
Every minute is precious. Everything will turn when the sun sets.
Quickly open the door! Let's all go to the palace with His Majesty!
-Let's go! -Let's go!
-Open the door! -Open the door!
Hurry.
-Open the door! -Let's go!
Open the door. -Yes.
Let's go. -Let's go.
Since the palace is dangerous right now, all of you should stay here.
By any chance, if we don't return even when the sun sets,
anyone trying to come out from inside is definitely a vampire,
so you must never let them come out.
Everyone gather your strength together and block them.
Yes. -Yes, I understand.
Is anyone there?
Are you trying to take the riches with you?
T-That's not it.
The people have created a rebellion outside the palace, so to report to you-
Is that so?
Why are you here and not in the underground palace?
You said you're reporting,
so why did you come here and not there?
T-That is-
You must have thought that I would have been immobilized since its daytime.
There is someone who sometimes forgets their place and tries to light a fire in the lion's den.
It's my job to get rid of those kinds of guys.
It's fine.
Even though I may not be able to see politics inside the palace without you,
I can still kill a person.
I spared your life and let you go thinking that you wouldn't be worth killing;
yet, you crawled back in here on your own out of greed.
T-That...
T-That's not it...
Take all of it...
to the underworld.
Today I have drunk a lot of blood,
but I just can't drink your blood.
even though I have a good stomach.
I-I will kill all of them.
You're holding it backwards.
There's no need for you to hold a gun as well.
It's right to know it just in case to be ready.
Is this the right way to hold it?
Your Majesty!
Aigoo, Jo!
I am fine.
Thank you.
The sun will set soon so we have to find Kim Sung Yeol before it's too late.
There are only traces of fighting left in the underground palace.
It seems Kim Sung Yeol has gone there.
It's ok. The fact that he isn't visible means he's fine.
Then,
is this all that's left?
Jo! H-hurry!
Please escape.
Run away!
I'll hold them back, so you two escape.
Please go!
Hurry, hurry and leave!
My Lord.
All of you stand back.
His Lordship...
Scholar.
My Lord...
Why did you come here?
It is dangerous. Hurry and get out of here together with Ho Jin.
But...
Jo-
Hurry!
Are you okay?
I'm fine. I've gotten rid of all of the vampires living in the palace.
Except one.
Gwi has also realized that himself so he is coming to us right now. - Then...
I will lure Gwi to the underground palace
so you should use that time to hide.
When I and Gwi enter,
that's when you will end everything.
You truly-
Don't you know as well that this is the only way?
I have to prevent any more sacrifices.
I understand.
This is the King's sword.
If I don't receive it back, I have no face to see my ancestors.
So even if the underground palace collapses,
definitely come back.
But you can't delay our plan by waiting for me.
When the explosives are ready, you must set them off without hesitation.
From here on I can go alone.
Isn't it dangerous?
It's quiet, it's still as death.
I am okay, so go and help the Scholar.
Okay. Don't stray off into another path and just go straight outside and wait.
Promise?
So you came.
Did you wait for me until the sun set?
You were the one waiting for me.
The present I prepared for you, did you like it?
It seems you still view murder as a joke.
The pain suffered by the ones who died, I will return it to you tenfold.
I'd be thankful.
But...
what is a vampire doing holding a human's toy?
You look quite exhausted, Kim Sung Yeol.
Like this, I can't tie him up.
Where are you going? Have you also forgotten the way to escape?
You must want the site where your past lover died as your burial ground.
It isn't bad.
Let's see the end.
Scholar...
Yang Sun!
What are you doing here?
Gwi will be here soon.
Didn't I tell you?
I am with you in both life and death.
So hurry and take my blood-
Do you really not know why I am trying to protect you?
As you said, why is it you don't know my heart?
Before I met you, I had nothing to lose
so I would have done anything to get rid of Gwi.
But right now it is different.
You're not losing me.
Because wherever you go, I will be with you.
Quickly, drink my blood.
If you don't, you won't be able to fulfill your plans.
No.
I can't do that, Yang Sun.
Quickly.
I love you.
That is the reason I want to protect you.
Because of that, I will definitely
remember you
and I won't lose that heart.
Finally, did you drink that child's blood?
If you want to fight me now,
you'll have to have no areas in which you're lacking.
Why?
Is your lover's blood not enough?
Take more of it. I will wait.
Why can't you get back to your senses?
Perhaps, are you still withstanding it?
Then,
I will make you come back to your senses.
Now the festival's table is set up abundantly.
So you're still alive.
Are you saying you'll go against me with the mere skills you trained when you were a human?
Now the blood of the human Kim Sung Yeol that runs in my veins,
has been conquered by and disappeared with the blood of the others that you have consumed for over 100 years.
Acknowledge it.
You already died 120 years ago so isn't it time for you to disappear already?
Fine.
But you will go with me.
I am no longer a human, or a beast.
Have you awoken?
But why are you just letting your prey leave?
You won't be able to take one more step out of here.
Because this will be our grave.
If you want to die, you can just be buried here by yourself.
What is the reason you want to live so much?
A reason? Why do I need something like that?
I can get everything I want if I have this power and immortality.
That is why your desire can never be filled.
If you come to know that life is temporary, you will also see the world differently.
How long has a thing like you lived that you're trying to teach me?!
Although it's short compared to you, I've lived a radiant life.
But you didn't try living even once.
Gwi, you are only a person who has been dead forever.
Kim Sung Yeol!
Your Majesty!
She gave her blood to Kim Sung Yeol.
Although, fortunately, it doesn't seem like there's a danger to her health.
Take care of her.
Yes.
I have to finish installing the explosives,
so help Yang Sun here.
I will.
You probably thought you could win over me if you awoke.
But what to do?
I, too, have lived hundreds of years
and I've never consumed the blood of so many people at once.
What are you doing?
We need to end this fight quickly.
Come!
It really is beautiful.
♬ All the lights in the world ♬
♬ saturated just like that ♬
♬ My small life ♬
♬ becomes a present ♬
Even though I lived like a beast,
I saw the light for a bit through you.
Thank you, Yang Sun.
♬ The love won’t happen to me again ♬
♬ Even if we can’t see each other now ♬
♬ Even if we are a bit far away from each other ♬
♬ I will always be at that place ♬
♬ So don’t forget me ♬
♬ By the time my longing had grown ♬
♬ It will pain me to death ♬
♬ Since you gave me memories ♬
Are you awake?
♬ Don’t cry ♬
Scholar...
What about the Scholar?
He is in there, right?
We need to hurry and save him.
Jo...
Let's send the Scholar away now.
I don't want to.
I, with the Scholar-
His life was so hard;
but even so, before he left, he had days with you.
So His Lordship found happiness.
A-Are you a human?
Or vampire?
He's asking to open the door in broad daylight. If he's not human, then what would he be?
Hurry and open it.
Open the gate.
Soo Hyang,
His Lordship is...
A year later
Did you earn a lot of money? -Of course, I did.
Of course! Aigoo.
The marketplace is packed with people again today.
Why wouldn't it be?
Since our leader has completely gotten rid of the thugs in the marketplace, living has become more comfortable.
Hey, we have to see how long that will last.
That reminds me, are there any new interesting novels in Hangul lately?
Isn't the Moonlight Revolt writing anything new?
I don't know. There are even rumors that she stopped writing and went into the mountains.
Aigoo, what are you talking about?
About The Night Scholar series.
What is that?
What? It is a novel, of course.
Oh, this person! How is that only a novel?
Ah, Auntie!
Aigoo! Whether it's a novel or balloon, what's so important about that?
Everyone must find it easy to live now. I've been so busy since the sun went up.
Auntie, come over here.
Aigoo! I'm coming!
Please eat.
Aigoo, I'm coming.
I didn't come here to drink today, but to meet a man named Kim Hyang Soo.
I don't know anyone like that.
I came already knowing everything. Quickly escort me in.
He is not someone anyone can just meet if they want to.
Looking at it, you don't seem to be a broker but a Confucian Scholar. What's the matter?
There are novels I must find. I beg of you.
Please follow me.
My name is Yeo Nam.
I have an interest in new culture so I take pride in having an eye for things,
but this is the first time I'm seeing such rare and precious items.
You're this wealthy so why do you live in hiding?
I am only temporarily in charge of the inheritance from the Elder who took me in.
Some time, if that person returns,
the position will be returned.
If it's someone a person like you is serving, how great are they?
If we're talking about books, there is not a single one he hasn't seen. And also-
there is no one who can compare to him.
Then, where is that person?
Will I be able to meet him once?
Most likely, he won't be back in a hundred years.
Perhaps! He might return once again when this world
is in chaos again.
The books in this royal library are the nation's past as well as this nation's future
so make sure you don't neglect taking care of them.
Yes.
Your Majesty, I'm sorry to say but these types of books are adapting supplement stories among the people and trending.
I find it right that you should burn all of the copies and punish everyone involved to the highest degree.
Why is that?
The things recorded in history are definitely true-
The things recorded down in history are not everything.
How about looking at the world a bit more broadly and opening your heart
to spread your wings of imagination?
I apologize, but what are you saying?
Truthfully, isn't this more fun than a nonfiction?
So... [ga]
What is this?
Ga!
Good. Then...
This? - Gam!
You rascal.
Are you looking at the novel skipping all the words?
You were only looking at the pictures, right?
They say the Moonlight Revolt who wrote this book is you, Teacher.
Is that true?
Thats...what?
This!
Hey, I think I am correct.
Hurry and give it to me.
Hurry and give it to me!
I told you to give it to me!
Quickly!
I guess I am a little late.
Did you come already?
I thought I would have to wait another 50 years.
Let's leave.
To where?
Where do you want to go?
If it is with you,
I will follow you anywhere.
Hold on tightly.