And so, with the most combat-capable captives at his back, Jang-hyun confronts the royal troops…
led by the ever-fanatical Yeon-joon.
If they only surrender, he insists, there’ll be fair trials all round.
I wonder, says Jang-hyun, if you’re really that naive — or are you just pretending not to know?
As swords are drawn, we fast-forward to that glorious, bitter scene from the very first episode: Jang-hyun on the beach, surrounded and dying.
He grasps at his last threads of strength.
Fighters fall.
Yeon-joon, standing by a team of archers, barks out for them to hold fire — but they refuse.
As arrows plummet through the air, Jang-hyun closes his eyes.