The King and the Clown Page #4

Her blood is on your hands!

Heaven has seen the evils

of your tyranny.

And will punish you for it.

We should have left...

when we had the chance!

- Six Dix! Don't go!

- No! No!

Six Dix!

Come back!

By selfless sacrifice,

ministers have built

this kingdom.

Yet you invite gutter rats

to mock us?

Now it's your turn.

Take this. Take it.

Now, shoot me!

No, shoot her instead.

Here is a wench who stops

at no evil! Shoot!

Shoot!

Shoot!

Shoot, I say!

Heaven has seen the evils

of your tyranny.

My Lady, here is the flyer,

written by Gong-gil's hand.

Read it out loud!

In depravity upon depravity,

the King...

what's this about?

They say these flyers are

pasted all over Seoul!

Then this was written by?

You numbskull!

Now you see why

I wanted a copy of this?

Want to know who wrote this?

Look at it.

Haven't you heard?

There are flyers up

criticizing the King.

And not just the King either.

We're mentioned too,

and not in a nice way!

We too could end up dead.

Let's go.

Don't go.

Let's go, Captain!

No! Don't go!

You've gone mad!

No! No! No!

- Let go!

- Don't go!

Let go of me!

- Stop it! Stop it!

- Let go!

Write this.

In depravity upon depravity,

the King...

My Lady!

Keep writing!

In depravity upon depravity,

the King...

Keep writing, I say!

With dancing girls on his lap,

and clowns by his side...

The King indulges

in the most vulgar...

It's identical!

Arrest him!

Your Majesty, I know nothing

about this. My Lord!

But why?

You have the wrong man.

I wrote it. He's innocent.

The audacity of it has

my signature all over it.

After all, it was by audacity

that I got in the palace.

You're making this up!

Well, well.

A whore and her

tongue's work is never done.

How dare you!

Look closely.

He's lying!

Why would he confess so readily?

He learned to write from me.

He imitated my style.

That's why it looks the same.

But he has no guts

to write such a thing.

These words are mine.

He is the King's beloved.

Why would he do such a thing?

As soon as day breaks...

Behead him.

In bringing the minstrels

into the palace...

I wanted them to show

Your Majesty...

The corruption

plaguing your court.

And?

But in your lust for a boy,

you've become...

Do you wish to die?

Perhaps your time has come.

Death, I do not fear.

But to see the previous King...

Get out!

And appear never again!

My Lord! Spare him!

Spare him! My Lord!

Spare him! I beg you!

You're free to go.

Your work is done.

That's not by a Royal order,

is it?

Forget Gong-gil.

From up here, even the palace

looks no better than a hovel!

In a world full of scoundrels,

only here...

Did I meet the nastiest

of them all.

Ho! And the foul things

he would do!

Will you hear this tale then?

As the gods kill us

for their sport, so would he.

He killed more souls than...

There are tiles on these roofs.

His lust insatiable...

Even 2,000 virgins were

not enough.

Why, his pecker was this big.

No, this big!

With it he skewered clam

after virgin clam.

And when he got tired

of girls...

He wasted no time

mounting a boy.

Whoever pleased

his one-eyed snake...

was given delicacies

and silk robes.

And a title to boot!

My Lord! My Lord!

Please, no! My Lord! Spare him!

No! Your Majesty!

Pollute not thy hands

with the blood of the vulgar!

Well said.

You do it then.

Kill me instead.

Kill me!

I've nothing more to lose,

so strike!

Nothing to lose?

Hear my command!

Sear his eyes with iron!

No, no, no, no, no, no!

The date has been fixed.

You have served 3 Kings.

Join us in serving the 4th King.

It is not men...

But Heaven that mandates Kings.

Then let us obey the

will of Heaven.

Has Heaven not abandoned

this King?

How could I know...

what Heaven wills?

So whose idea was it to take

in the minstrels?

Bringing in some clowns

hardly requires an idea.

Jesters jest.

We laugh, and then it's over.

Hey you!

Shall I tell you a story?

When I worked as a servant

in my youth...

One day, the madam's ring

went missing.

The master was furious

with us servants.

But everybody kept mum.

It was unbearably cold that day.

So I said, "I did it".

So where's the ring? He says.

So I said, "I swallowed it".

Right then,

a club comes a-flying.

And whacks me right

in the mouth!

Man, did it sting!

Like it was on fire.

Just like my eyes right now.

Had I been hit

in my eye instead...

Maybe my mouth

would suffer today?

All my life,

I played at being blind.

Now that I'm really blind,

I'll never get to play it again.

And I was just getting

good at it too.

- I'm so sorry.

- For what?

I was the one who

stole the ring.

Let's run away together!

Don't look down!

I'm scared!

All around the rope is an abyss.

Neither land nor sky,

but an abyss.

All my life,

I played at being blind.

Now that I am really blind,

it's a shame I'll never

get to play one.

And I was just getting

good at it too.

Why?

Why?

Bastard!

Arrange a party, Cheo-seon.

Cheo-seon! Cheo-seon!

Being blind, I thought

I'd never walk the rope again.

But this is something else!

Truth be told,

I have a knack for going blind.

Listen to this story.

After I saw my first show,

I was blind to everything else.

What a high that was...

strutting on the stage,

rapping with a partner.

I could see nothing else!

When I came to Seoul,

the glitter of

money blinded me.

Then I came here...

to the palace...

And being blind, I saw nothing.

Didn't see the murderous

thief stealing a heart.

Well that's that.

Anyway, I see nothing

but an abyss now.

How sublime!

I should have gone blind sooner!

You damn fool!

Is it really so good

to be blind!

Yeah, it is!

I love it, I really do!

My, my, there's a fool,

rash and proud!

A sightless fool who knows

not where he stands!

Get down this instant!

Ho! A tongue most untamed!

I am the King of this palace,

you wench!

Indeed you are!

I've always wanted to

see my King.

And now I've seen thee, I see!

What? What do you see?

Thou art blind to what's high

and what's low.

So thou hast turned

this world upside down.

My Lady! My Lady!

What body shall

thy reborn soul take?

A nobleman's?

No, no.

A King's, then?

That displeases also.

I wish to be a minstrel again.

Witless fool!

Why seek again

thy cause for ruin?

Then what new body awaits thee?

It is none other!

A minstrel! And nothing more!

The world's but a stage!

Kingly is he who struts

for a while, then exits in style!

Then together again,

we shall royally

this blessed earth roam!

Hee haw!

Hey, hey!

Am I here and you there?

No, I'm here and you're there.

Oh, I'm there and you're here.

We're all here!

And there is neither you nor me.

Hi ho!

Hee haw!

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