Summary: After returning home with his father, Gyebaek tells Eungo that he must leave. As a farewell gift, Eungo gives him an embroidered pouch.
It’s not a pouch, it’s an amulet in a pouch. =/
I really do wish that they had done translations of the background stuff that pops up on the screen. Usually whenever they name drop or date drop there’s some note on screen that doesn’t get translated. Boo.
We left off with the Evil Queen™ resigning and getting ready to launch a full assault against her king. For the good of the country, of course! She even claims to have heaven’s consent because she’s clearly the one in the right!
The only thing she’s right about is her outfit. This show has great costuming.
Of course, the Evil Queen proves more coniving, more deceitful, and far more cunning than the King. The last straw is broken, and the King basically gives up. Spineless idiot.
Meanwhile, Gye Baek plans on leaving town with his Dad. The two have no idea what went down, and if they’d only been a bit quicker in their plans they could have already been off fly fishing in the mountains or something. But no… Gye Baek wants to say goodbye to his lady love. She isn’t so high minded as we thought, and Gye Baek does have some fantastic one liners. So she gives him a good luck charm. Dwwaaaa.
Did I mention the King sucks? He sucks. He gives into the Queen and captures Mu Jin and Gye Baek, has them locked up, and plans on letting them take the fall in exchange for his son.
By the way, the last thing the Queen wants is her old, one sided flame who narrowly escaped death, executed. Poor Mu Jin.
Of course, his last ditch effort to destroy the woman who ruined his life takes a really odd, tragic turn.
This is both soul destroying and brilliant. We all wanted to see Mu Jin cut the bitch down. Maybe part of her wanted to die at his hand. Instead, now she can’t kill Uija, all stand in witness to his saving her life, the ultimate act of honor and loyalty! And the Prince [i]knows[i] how much she loved Mu Jin. So now everyone is in a great deal of pain, especially Gye Baek who witnessed the whole thing.
And the Prince tries to drink himself into oblivion.
The King is still a coward, but it’s nice to watch him make the queen squirm for a bit after all this horribleness. Of course she vows revenge. Lovely irony there.
Her son almost decapitates Mu Jin’s body to stick his head on a pike. Part of me wishes he did it, just to piss off her royal evil bitchness even more.
Did I mention Gye Baek is still useless at this point? Granted, he’s just supposed to be a normal teenager…
Also… the Evil Queen gives Mu Jin a viking funeral because he is just that badass.
Meanwhile, I think Gye Baek is being sold off into slavery or something. Maybe it’ll be a character building experience for him. OH wait, no… they just shipped him to the outer edges of the kingdom to be burned alive.
But it’s okay, because Silla raids the place and he gets to live.
Meanwhile, Eungo proves to be smarter than everyone and continues to curry favor with the Evil Queen. She even manages to save the suicidal Prince Uija from his murder-suicide plot by pointing out the obvious.
Did I jump the gun a bit? NOW Gye Baek is a slave. Some time has clearly passed… as they have traded in their previous Gye Baek’s to an older model. One who is now kicking ass (although he isn’t very attractive… oh well.)
The men he’s with seem to hold him in high regard. They even offer him that HORRIBLE BOILED CHICKEN people in this series keep ingesting and it’s honestly starting to make me sick looking at it….
I was wondering how Gye Baek had managed to hold on to the good luck charm Eungo gave him. Presumably he kicked the ass of anyone who tried to take it. (We have presidence for that with the whole street urchin thing.)
They call him the ‘wolf’ now, and he catches the eye of his commander and well, if history tells us anything, that’s the best way for a conscripted soldier to get a real position in anything.
This is the first time the episode leaves off on a somewhat random still, of Gye Baek on the ground during a fight. Not exactly dramatic… that.
To Be Continued….
Gye Baek can be watched on Crunchyroll or Hulu. Hulu’s stream is 16 x 9 (I believe Crunchyroll’s free stream is 4 x 3). Each episode is a whopping 60+ minutes.
As usual, I encourage anyone to watch along with me! It’s not too late to catch up, after all, the series is long over.
