Get Schooled — Chapter 138¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows all 22 ordered reader images in the supplied Chapter 138 archive. Readable English scanlation wording is preserved, including awkward grammar and punctuation. Korean sound effects are described according to the visible movement or impact when no English rendering is supplied.
Content note¶
The chapter depicts mob violence against an adult, attempted live burial, severe institutional abuse, juvenile criminal proceedings, and discussion of restorative versus punitive justice.
Reader Images 001–003 — Suchan accepts Daniel’s offer, but chooses revenge first¶
The chapter returns to the night confrontation outside Dowon Gyeongdang. Children who want to escape stand behind Suchan while the principal faces them from the building.
Daniel’s earlier words echo in Suchan’s memory:
THE REASON YOU COULDN’T LEAVE HERE WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD NO ADULT TO HELP YOU.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO ESCAPE, I’LL HELP YOU.
Suchan lowers his head. He thinks:
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I’VE HEARD THOSE WORDS.
MR. HYUN SAID WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO HEAR.
HE OFFERED TO HELP…
The promise gives him a path out, but he refuses to leave immediately:
BUT I CAN’T JUST LEAVE LIKE THIS.
I’VE BEEN DETERMINED FROM THE BEGINNING.
WHATEVER THE REASON, ON THE DAY I LEAVE HERE…
Suchan raises his club and advances toward the principal:
I VOWED TO TAKE REVENGE ON YOU!
He strikes. The principal’s face contorts in shock as the blow lands.
The title card follows.
Reader Images 004–006 — The children turn years of abuse back on the principal¶
The principal falls to the ground. From the road outside the school, Na and Daniel hear screams from the mountain:
AAAAAAH!
KILL HIM!
KILL THIS BASTARD!
Daniel reacts and runs toward the noise.
Suchan stands over the principal holding the weapon. One of the children asks:
COULD IT BE… IS HE DEAD?
Suchan looks down with a disturbing smile:
DEAD…?
The children swarm the adult. They kick and beat him while shouting out the wrongs committed against them:
DIE! DIE! YOU BASTARD!
ALWAYS BEATING! MAKING US WORK! GIVING US LITTLE FOOD!
The principal lies face-down, bleeding heavily. Daniel arrives and asks whether there is a problem. The principal is no longer moving.
Reader Images 007–009 — Suchan orders a burial¶
Suchan rolls or drags the principal’s body. The other children hesitate.
BUT… YOU’RE REALLY GOING TO KILL…?
Suchan screams back:
HAVE YOU ALL FORGOTTEN WHAT THIS BASTARD DID TO US?!
He lists the school’s exploitation:
TAKING 1 MILLION WON FROM OUR PARENTS EVERY MONTH AND NOT EVEN PROVIDING PROPER MEALS!
ALWAYS MAKING US WORK AND PITTING THE KIDS AGAINST EACH OTHER WITH BULLYING!
A girl remembers what they suffered and hands the weapon back.
Suchan points toward the pond pit:
GUYS.
BRING A SHOVEL. LET’S BURY THIS BASTARD.
Some students obey, digging while Daniel watches. Suchan says that this is only returning what the principal made them endure.
One child is suddenly struck across the face by the handle of a shovel. The unexpected impact interrupts the mob’s momentum.
Reader Images 010–012 — Daniel turns the logic of revenge on the children¶
Daniel stands between the group and the unconscious principal.
He asks:
WHY DID YOU DO SOMETHING UNNECESSARY AND PROVOKE THEM?
He makes clear that his promise was escape, not revenge:
DID I SAY I’D HELP YOU LEAVE OR HELP YOU TAKE REVENGE?
Suchan, bleeding from the head, insists that the principal deserves it. Daniel answers:
NO, DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REVENGE?
Daniel explains that the principal is guilty, but the children have also harmed weaker students:
HUMANS ARE TRULY DECEITFUL.
MOST REMEMBER THE EVIL DONE TO THEM BETTER THAN THE EVIL THEY’VE COMMITTED…
BUT THAT WAY, THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE PRODUCING VIOLENCE WILL CONTINUE.
UNLESS SOMEONE STOPS IT.
He says that if burial is the punishment for bullying, then the rule must apply consistently:
NOW, IT’S YOUR TURN TO BE BURIED.
The students recoil.
WHAT…? WHY US…?
Daniel looks across the group:
IS THERE EVEN ONE AMONG YOU…
WHO DIDN’T BULLY THOSE KIDS?
Three younger victims stand apart in silence. None of the older students can answer.
Reader Images 013–015 — Public exposure creates competing victim and offender narratives¶
The case becomes national news. Broadcasts reveal the grotesque violence at the alternative school and identify victims who had lived under the class president, Lee Suchan.
The first reports focus on the institution’s abuse. Then some students disclose that Suchan himself committed violence against them. Other students point out that the whistleblower was also an aggressor. The public narrative becomes chaotic, dividing people into “victims” and “perpetrators” even though many children occupied both roles at different times.
Following the educational authority’s announcement, Suchan—the only offender old enough not to be treated as a very young juvenile—is arrested and brought to criminal trial.
The prosecution emphasizes the violence he committed and seeks an extremely severe sentence:
A HEAVY SENTENCE WAS INEVITABLE, DEMANDING IMPRISONMENT OF 5 TO 7 YEARS.
Suchan stands in court in a detention uniform, head lowered.
Reader Images 016–018 — The TRPA asks the court to consider adult abandonment¶
On the sentencing day, the court notes that the defendant admits the facts.
The Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency submits a written position regarding Suchan. The statement does not deny his offenses. It argues that the court must consider:
- Suchan was approximately fifteen.
- His parents effectively abandoned him.
- Older students assaulted him continuously.
- Adults encouraged or ordered the violence he later committed.
- There was no meaningful settlement with his victims.
- Most importantly, no responsible adult offered him a lawful route out of the institution.
The court partially accepts the agency’s reasoning. It cannot ignore the harm Suchan inflicted, but it also cannot impose the same punishment as though he were an autonomous adult who created the system.
The court orders that Lee Suchan be transferred to juvenile court rather than receiving the full adult criminal sentence demanded by the prosecution.
Reader Images 019–020 — The agency is criticized for “siding with the offender”¶
News sites and social-media posts circulate headlines accusing the educational authority of supporting an offender. Articles argue that the agency submitted an opinion favorable to Suchan and ask whether victims’ suffering was ignored.
Na and Daniel read the criticism outside the agency office. Daniel apologizes:
I’M SORRY, IT WAS MY FAULT FOR SUBMITTING THE OPINION LETTER TO THE COURT…
Na answers:
NO, NO, IT’S FINE.
He tells Daniel that this kind of criticism is unavoidable and should not shake him if he believes the judgment was right.
Na then asks a more personal question:
DO YOU HAVE A REASON OR A TRIGGER FOR ADVOCATING NON-VIOLENCE?
CERTAINLY NOT THE ANSWER THAT WOULD GUARANTEE A PASS. ANSWER PROPERLY. I’LL ASK JUST ONE QUESTION.
Reader Images 021–022 — Daniel’s philosophy is connected to a violent past¶
Daniel says:
BUT LET ME BE HONEST.
A dark memory appears: a younger Daniel stands in a blood-filled room among bodies. His hands are stained, and another figure lies wounded at his feet.
THE REASON I PURSUED NON-VIOLENCE IS…
The flashback shows Daniel gripping a firearm or heavy weapon while covered in blood, eyes wide with shock and rage.
The final image holds on the lower half of his body standing over a bloodied person. The chapter cuts before he completes the explanation.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
Daniel prevents revenge without denying the principal’s guilt¶
He never claims the principal is innocent or undeserving of punishment. His objection is that the children are reproducing the same rule—power determines who may hurt whom—and extending it to killing and concealment.
Suchan’s moral position is deliberately complicated¶
Suchan rescued Minhye, suffered extreme abuse, organized an escape, bullied younger children, and nearly led a murder. The chapter rejects a clean binary in which he is only a victim or only an offender.
The burial order reveals how quickly liberation becomes domination¶
The children begin by seeking freedom, but once the principal is down, Suchan orders others to dig a grave. His authority over the group immediately resembles the hierarchy he claims to be destroying.
Daniel applies one rule to everyone¶
When the children justify violence as repayment, Daniel asks who among them never harmed someone weaker. His intervention is not a defense of the principal; it is a refusal to let victimhood become permanent authorization for further abuse.
The court recognizes diminished responsibility without erasing harm¶
The TRPA opinion emphasizes abandonment, coercion, age, and adult complicity. Suchan is still processed through juvenile justice, and the lack of settlement with victims is explicitly acknowledged.
Public criticism exposes the difficulty of mixed-status cases¶
Once media coverage labels Suchan an offender, any mitigating argument is portrayed as betrayal of victims. The chapter presents the agency’s role as preserving complexity when public debate demands a single villain.
Daniel’s nonviolence is rooted in personal violence¶
The blood-soaked flashback suggests that his philosophy emerged after he participated in or witnessed lethal violence. The next chapter is positioned to explain why he believes force can stop an act without healing its cause.