Get Schooled — Chapter 135¶
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Scope¶
This transcription follows all 73 ordered reader images embedded in the supplied Chapter 135 MHT. Readable English dialogue, investigation scenes, and the major reveal at the end are preserved where legible. Promotional material and scanlation credits are summarized rather than reproduced line by line.
Content note¶
The chapter contains student-on-student extortion, sustained bullying tied to family status and money, assault, and a major reveal concerning a presumed victim.
Images 001–010 — A calm town, then an old case resurfaces¶
The chapter opens almost peacefully.
Neighborhood children are playing tag in the street.
An adult watching them comments that it feels nostalgic.
That calm is interrupted when a frightened boy is cornered.
Another adult tells someone nearby not to direct his anger at the child.
Na Hwa-jin arrives during this tension and is greeted by a local teacher or acquaintance who seems surprised to see him investigating the matter.
Na explains that he has come because of a bullying case.
The conversation turns serious immediately.
This is not a fresh schoolyard scuffle. It is part of an older, uglier chain of events.
Images 011–019 — The “victim” did not fit the usual pattern¶
Na questions a teacher who knew the female victim.
The teacher explains that the girl was difficult to read.
She did not have many visible friends, but she also did not feel like a classic loner.
She seemed to choose some of her distance.
A possible connection through the journalism club is mentioned.
Na asks whether the victim ever seemed like a typical passive target.
The answer is no.
The teacher says the most striking thing about her was the look in her eyes.
She did not seem like someone planning to simply endure whatever happened forever.
That matters.
It suggests the bullying may have escalated precisely because the aggressors knew she was not going to remain silent indefinitely.
Images 020–032 — Na catches a current act of extortion¶
While the discussion continues, Na finds a present-day incident in progress.
A boy is being cornered and beaten over money.
The aggressors insist he stole from them or owes them money and that they are only collecting what is theirs.
Na physically interrupts.
He asks whether they really expect him to believe that story.
When they keep acting tough, he attacks and beats them down.
The chapter stresses how easily he overpowers them despite their posturing.
Then Na reveals the evidence:
he checked the boy’s account transaction history, and the records show that the money was already transferred back.
In other words, the debt excuse is false.
The money has been repaid.
So why were they still beating him?
That question opens the deeper motive.
Images 033–038 — The truth is about status, not debt¶
Under pressure, the connection to the old female victim becomes clearer.
Na says the supposedly ordinary bullying and money conflict actually trace back to the victim’s family history.
The core shame is this:
the victim’s grandfather had once helped make the other families’ fortunes possible.
Those families and their descendants built their current status on that foundation.
If the truth became widely known, it would destroy the self-image and leverage they had cultivated.
The extortion and bullying were therefore never just about a missing sum of money.
They were about envy, resentment, and the fear of losing symbolic superiority.
The victim was dangerous because she knew the truth.
Na explains that to those students, their grandparents’ money was their foundation.
If it turned out that foundation was indebted to the victim’s family, the entire hierarchy would wobble.
And they cared more about preserving that hierarchy than about the girl’s life.
Images 039–043 — A student witness is brought in¶
A boy connected to the case is brought before Na and the others.
He hesitates, but eventually admits that the matter was never as simple as the earlier official account suggested.
Phone records had been traced back, and the student council or other school figures could no longer keep pretending ignorance.
The witness says that some people kept pressuring him to bring another student back, push the case harder, or ensure someone ended up in juvenile detention.
But, to him, punishment alone did not seem to address what was actually wrong.
He had started to suspect that the victim herself wanted something different—something closer to truly breaking the cycle instead of just sending people to jail.
This reframes the entire case.
The presumed victim may have been acting with far more intent and agency than anyone understood.
Images 044–045 — The impossible reveal¶
Then comes the chapter’s shock ending.
A girl appears.
The adults and students react as though they are seeing a ghost.
One person insists that this cannot be real because she was supposed to be dead.
The girl answers the confusion directly.
She says:
THE ONE YOU SHOULD BE DIRECTING YOUR HATRED AT WASN’T HIM. IT WAS ME.
And then:
I’M THE GIRL WHO BROKE THAT HELLISH CYCLE.
The chapter ends there, on the revelation that the presumed victim is alive and has returned personally to expose the truth.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
The bullied girl was never a simple helpless target¶
From the beginning, witnesses sensed something unusual about her. She endured, but not with the blank resignation expected of a typical victim.
Money was only the surface excuse¶
The real conflict concerns family history, inherited status, and the terror of losing social superiority.
The aggressors were protecting hierarchy¶
They bullied and extorted not merely for cash but to suppress a truth that threatened the prestige of multiple families.
The ending radically changes the case¶
What had looked like a completed tragedy is reopened by the victim’s own appearance. Her survival means the official story is incomplete, and the cycle she names may already have been intentionally broken by her.