Warriors of the Dawn Page #3

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Kill that traitorous scoundrel!

Stop.

That's enough.

Your Highness, do not listen to

the unworthy words of a low born.

There is no high or low born in reason.

I hated riding in that thing, anyway.

It was hot and made me nauseous.

We still have a long way to go.

He could've decided sooner.

Please don't kill me.

I don't know who the attackers were

but I could take you to him.

He doesn't know who the attackers were.

Have Konishi's men made

it this far already?

This is not one of ours, sir.

Who are they, then? Local thieves?

I guess we should offer the

Crown Prince our protection.

Please, spare my life!

Let's go. We want him alive, not dead.

Tell the main camp to

meet back in Ganggye.

Man, I wouldn't be surprised

if a tiger jumped out.

I haven't seen the barbarian all day.

Maybe the tiger got him.

There ain't much of him worth eating,

and he stinks to high heaven.

What is it?

Something wrong?

Everyone split up!

Run!

Split!

Assassins!

Run, Your Highness!

No!

Your Highness.

Help His Highness!

Help!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

If you want to cut your opponent,

you must look at him first.

Then, without hesitation!

Your life or death is

decided in a single breath.

Stab him, Your Highness.

Stab him!

Your Highness!

Stab him! Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Your Highness!

It's over, you can come out.

Valleys like this are

filled with tigers.

Really?

I saw one following me

earlier, smelling my blood.

But if you do this,

they can't smell you.

Was there really a tiger?

Of course. It tracked

me all the way here.

It even tried to kill me.

I'm getting out. I'm

discordant with water.

How did you come in here,

if you're scared of water?

I guess I'm more scared of tigers.

You can only muster courage when

you have something to fear.

War books tell you never to fight

an enemy whose back is to a cliff.

I think I'm still looking for my cliff.

But you don't seem to

be afraid of anything.

Kim Pal-bok, Hong

Man-sik, Yi Byung-sam...

We only get our real

names back after we die.

No matter how many times it happens,

I can never get used to it.

Seeing the men that I fight beside die.

This is my fear.

How could they have

followed us this far?

We traveled through deep forest.

There's a spy among us.

How dare you make such

an outrageous claim.

Do you have good reason to believe that?

What did you find?

The barbarian didn't run away.

Tell me what you saw.

Just like you said, I

followed from afar.

Somebody lagged behind the group

and tied a note to a branch.

I got closer to see his face

but the little rascal ran off.

So what did you do?

So I went after,

and found this.

Get him!

Traitor!

Get him.

Conspiracy to treason

against the Crown Prince...

It must be the western faction

who went with the King.

Or the supporters of Prince Sinseong?

If he wasn't so young,

he'd've been Crown Prince.

Choose your words carefully.

Who put you up to this?

Was it the western faction?

Or was it Prince Imhae's men?

Is Imhae behind all this? Answer me.

There's no one in the court that

wants this expedition to succeed.

Including His Majesty.

How dare you speak of His Majesty?

Have you lost your mind?

My father?

Why would he want me to fail?

Do you know who your mother was?

I don't even know her face.

I do. She was a kitchen servant.

She won the King's favor and

gave birth to you and Imhae

but the King grew tired.

- When she died having you...

- Shut your mouth!

Continue.

Every time he sees you, he sees himself.

What?

The King wasn't a

legitimate child himself.

He doesn't want another

bastard son to succeed him,

who's not even the eldest.

How dare you! I'll rip out your tongue.

Hit him hard.

I won't hear any more.

We have to know the truth.

This is the only way.

Say it!

- Who is trying to kill us?

- I'll tell you!

I'll tell you...

I was only doing what I was told.

The man who ordered it was...

I said I don't want to know!

Leave him alone.

Don't you feel sorry for him?

How devastated he must be!

It's more devastating

to not know the truth.

These men aren't one of ours.

The Crown Prince isn't here.

How long has it been since they died?

Less than a day.

They're not far. Let's go.

What about this man?

Please, don't kill me!

Why the f*** does lineage

matter in a time like this?

They rely on blood when

it only poisons the nation.

Are we gonna get caught

in the crossfire?

We won't be spared if something

happens to the prince.

You all right, man?

Pockface...

Come on, get up.

Hang in there.

I say just f*** it.

We should've never come

on this expedition.

Let them figure out their own mess.

Thinking too much only gets you killed.

I don't mind dying

fighting the Japanese.

We were headed for doom when

we beat up those civilians.

You wanted to change your fate.

Did you expect that to be easy?

Change fate, my ass!

This wasn't an opportunity.

Now it'll get us all killed.

So, you want to turn tail and run?

What about all these people?

What...

Did you make a deal

behind us or something?

What?

Did the prince promise a special status

if you see this through?

Stop it.

Where were you when we were fighting?

Come on, man.

Whatever happened to

my brother's life over mine?

You've changed.

You have changed, man.

Who here doesn't want to change?

Do you want to die as a shadow?

What changes then?

What is it?

He says he can't anymore.

He wants us to go without him.

You'll be fine.

We've been through Hell and back.

We're gonna go home together.

Stay strong, Your Highness.

My heart suffers more than my body.

My mother wouldn't have

died if I wasn't born.

I tried hard to please my father

to make up for the sadness I caused him

but I understand now.

He saw himself

every time he saw me.

That's why he never gave me

his love.

Your Highness...

This will appease your hunger a little.

Go to a nearby village

and find some food.

You want us to be robbers now?

We should've never

come to the mountains.

We'll all starve to death thanks to you.

Mother...

I told you to keep the cliff

to your back, not jump off.

Your father to Ming China and

you, to the afterlife...

Does running away run

in your family's genes?

I was never meant to be a king.

I never even wanted it

in the first place.

Then why did you bring all

those books and manuals?

You struck me saying you cherished

them more than your life.

I was made Crown Prince

only to be a sacrifice.

The wooden dummy thrown

in the fire in place of the King.

A son forsaken by his own father,

what's the point of going on?

I will never be a king.

If I'm gone, people's

suffering will end.

In my next life, I just want to

be born into a normal family.

There is no next life.

Goksu... why did you come back?

He died.

You knew he wouldn't last.

Did you bury him?

Isn't that why you left me with him?

While I was burying him,

I thought 'what now'?

Then a face flashed through my mind.

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