Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 10¶
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Opening — The suspended legend¶
The chapter opens at night.
A tall student in a yellow outer jacket leads or participates in a violent street confrontation. Several boys lie injured around him.
A phone conversation identifies him as Yang Kwan-hyeok, a third-year electrical-engineering student and the school’s former number one.
He has been suspended after bringing a weapon, yet the punishment lasted only about two weeks.
Jo Hong-gi speaks with him by phone and reports on the changes inside the school.
Kwan-hyeok asks whether Hong-gi has established dominance. When he hears about the new “Protected Education” intervention, he dismisses it as bullshit.
The introduction makes him a threat from outside the system Na has already reorganized: the old school order’s strongest representative has not yet been subjected to the new rules.
The posted rules¶
At Sanmaeg, a board announces:
“HEALTHIER NORMS FOR A HEALTHIER SCHOOL”
“WE ARE GOOD STUDENTS”
The rules state, in substance:
- The only battles permitted are battles of grades.
- The field inspector accepts any challenge to his authority.
- Students must obey royalty.
The automotive and electrical departments now work, eat, and train together.
Their old hostility has not disappeared emotionally, but the rules make open fighting prohibitively costly.
Lunch by social rank¶
The score-based class system governs food.
Students in the Second Estate / Nobles range receive respectable meals.
Students in the Third Estate / Peasant range receive visibly inferior portions and complain that the arrangement is discrimination.
At the top, Hyeung-joo sits on his throne with an extravagant meal, multiple dishes, and privileged service.
He comments on the variety and then says:
“HMM…”
“I’LL PASS.”
The casual refusal enrages students who are hungry below him.
The scene gives Hyeung-joo the power to waste what his former abusers cannot obtain.
Hong-seong’s “rebellion”¶
Lee Hong-seong cannot tolerate the humiliation.
He grabs a giant wrench and smashes or overturns food and furniture.
He invokes a historical rebellion in exaggerated language, framing himself as a peasant rising against an unjust king.
He challenges Na directly.
A rule reminder appears: Na always welcomes challenges to his authority. An addendum notes that failure may result in bodily harm.
Na defeats Hong-seong immediately.
The failed revolution becomes another public humiliation.
Threatening the king¶
Later, Hong-seong corners Hyeung-joo in a hallway.
He grabs the smaller student and demands:
“HOW LONG YOU GONNA PLAY KING FOR?”
He promises that when Na leaves, Hyeung-joo will appear on the evening news:
“THIRD-YEAR CUNT BITCH FOUND FLOATING IN LAKE.”
Hyeung-joo’s face returns to the terrified expression seen at the beginning of the arc.
The formal rules say that a peasant who lays a hand on the king will receive divine punishment, but Hyeung-joo understands that rules may vanish when the inspector does.
Ritual loyalty¶
Na responds by intensifying the theatrical monarchy.
Students are made to chant loyalty and respect toward the king.
The better their grades, the better their treatment. Anyone who openly disrespects Hyeung-joo is punished.
Hyeung-joo sits through the ceremony with a strained expression, trapped between satisfaction and fear.
Na teases him that he appears to be enjoying the role and says he may have the potential to become a politician.
Hyeung-joo asks to resign¶
In private, Hyeung-joo tells Na that he wants to stop being king.
He believes he will die after the intervention ends. He endured three years of school violence to reach graduation; dying now would make all that effort meaningless.
Na tells him to stop whining.
He points out that the attackers are the same age, wear the same uniform, and have no natural right to rule him.
Hyeung-joo’s grades are the fruit of his labor, not a gift from Na.
Na also warns that the school will not truly change if the structure simply collapses when he leaves.
He asks:
“DO YOU KNOW WHO MADE THE OLD SYSTEM?”
Before the full answer can be explored, a new presence arrives.
Yang Kwan-hyeok returns¶
Kwan-hyeok approaches the school carrying a large sledgehammer.
He strikes or damages the entrance mechanism and forces his way inside.
His return is staged like the entrance of a final boss: yellow jacket, heavy bag, hard stare, and a weapon large enough to dominate the frame.
He introduces himself as a third-year electrical-engineering student and apologizes for being late on his first day back.
Na recognizes him:
“SO YOU’RE INFAMOUS YANG KWAN-HYEOK!”
“LATE, ON YOUR FIRST DAY!”
Kwan-hyeok says the principal told him Na caused the current situation. Na replies that he merely mellowed everyone out.
Kwan-hyeok apologizes for his bad habit of sleeping in—then swings the hammer.
Hammer versus baton¶
Na blocks the attack.
The impact fills the panel with speed lines and a heavy Korean SFX. The students watching from the background recoil.
Kwan-hyeok smiles:
“YOU’RE BETTER THAN YOU LOOK.”
He is genuinely pleased that Na is not a pushover.
Na evaluates the force behind the strike and notes that dealing with Kwan-hyeok’s shoulders will be troublesome.
Instead of concern, he grins.
“AIN’T THIS JUST A PARTY?”
The chapter closes with Na announcing that the school can now truly experience:
“TRUE EDUCATION.”
Chapter-level observations¶
1. Hyeung-joo’s throne is intentionally unsafe¶
Na gives him authority but does not hide the danger. The system forces Hyeung-joo to confront whether he can use earned status while refusing to believe in his own right to possess it.
2. The caste system exposes the old hierarchy’s logic¶
Students call score-based privilege unfair, even though they accepted violence-based privilege for years. The parody makes their moral inconsistency visible.
3. Kwan-hyeok is the creator-symbol of the old order¶
Na’s question about who made the system is answered by Kwan-hyeok’s entrance. He is not merely another strong student; he is the legend whose example taught later classes how power should operate.
4. The hammer signals a different scale of conflict¶
Hong-seong and Hong-gi defended positions within the school. Kwan-hyeok arrives expecting to restore an entire culture.