Get Schooled — Chapter 218¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows the 8 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 218 MHT, excluding its separate title/header image. Readable dialogue, money amounts, employment details, flashback material, and major actions are preserved where legible. Where the scanlation wording is awkward, the visible meaning is described conservatively rather than silently rewritten.
Content note¶
The chapter contains organized loan-sharking, extortion, physical assault, a knife, family trauma, and a former juvenile offender being recruited back into crime.
Strip 001 — The adult who keeps searching for him¶
A broad, middle-aged man finds a badly beaten young man crouched behind a wall.
He asks whether the boy is all right and explains that he searched because the boy failed to appear for dinner.
The man examines the injuries and praises him for not fighting back.
GOOD JOB.
He tells him to come eat.
The wounded youth cannot understand the kindness.
He says he once beat the man’s son and stole the son’s money, yet the father is now helping him.
Unless the man is a saint, there must be another reason.
He demands to know what the adult gains by trying to reform people.
The confrontation establishes the philosophy inherited by Lee Jun-bin: a youth’s past crime does not end an adult’s responsibility to keep reaching toward him.
Strip 002 — Jun-bin finds money and a knife¶
The story shifts to Kang Changsung’s room.
Attorney and counselor Lee Jun-bin enters without warning.
Changsung reflexively holds a folding knife and says Jun-bin cannot simply barge into the place where he lives.
Jun-bin asks why he keeps the weapon.
Changsung says that in his former life he needed a knife merely to sleep.
He initially claims he mistook Jun-bin for a thief.
Jun-bin notices a bundle of cash and asks where it came from.
Changsung smiles and tries to reduce the suspicion.
He says that falling back into old habits is exactly why Jun-bin is worried.
The money is connected to loan-sharking, though Changsung insists he has not simply resumed his old business.
He asks whether Jun-bin will believe him if he explains.
Strip 003 — Honest wages feel painfully small¶
At Changsung’s part-time workplace, a supervisor gives him three days’ wages early.
The normal payday is much later, but the supervisor knows his circumstances.
The visible amount is approximately ₩200,000.
The supervisor tells Changsung to keep living honestly, at least for Attorney Jun-bin’s sake.
That night, Changsung compares the money with the labor required to earn it.
Working roughly six hours a day for three days at around ₩20,000 per day or a little over minimum hourly pay feels unbearably slow compared with the money he once handled.
A local criminal approaches him.
The man recognizes him as:
KANG CHANGSUNG
and calls him a legendary private lender or loan shark.
He says he has a good job available.
Strip 004 — A startup built from Changsung’s old violence¶
The recruiters show Changsung recordings from his criminal past.
In the footage, he brutally beats a debtor who begs for another day to obtain money from his father’s bank account.
The group says it copied Changsung’s old methods exactly.
While he was under probation, they took over his territory and built a new loan-sharking operation.
They call themselves a startup still short on clients and experience.
They want Changsung’s reputation, knowledge, and ability to intimidate debtors.
A large cash bundle is offered as a signing bonus.
The recruiter tells him there are no strings attached.
He may take a week to decide and return the money if he refuses.
Strip 005 — Changsung admits what money means to him¶
Jun-bin confronts Changsung with the signing money.
Changsung says simply touching it feels like returning to his former life.
As a runaway, he searched constantly for cash to buy food and survive.
The obsession grew beyond survival.
He wanted one huge score and a flashy life.
He remembers that his father’s desperation over money nearly ended in murder.
Changsung admits he is still dangerously attracted to wealth.
Then he says meeting Jun-bin changed the decision.
No matter how dirty or “trashy” he may be, he does not want to disappoint the first adult who continued believing in him.
If Jun-bin cannot trust the explanation, Changsung tells him to come along and see the truth—or lock him up again.
Strip 006 — Jun-bin accompanies him to the gang’s yard¶
Jun-bin asks when Changsung must answer.
The deadline is the following day.
He agrees to accompany him because it is not too late to turn back.
At night they enter an industrial yard filled with containers and gang members.
The recruiters are surprised that Changsung brought an adult.
Changsung identifies Jun-bin as his probation officer or supervising counselor.
The gang mocks him for needing an adult protector and even asks whether Jun-bin wants to join the operation.
Jun-bin asks whether they pressured Changsung back into loan-sharking.
He tells them to return the criminal money and stop.
Strip 007 — Jun-bin refuses to protect the gang’s profits¶
The gang leader says Changsung may return the signing bonus and leave.
Jun-bin says the matter is not that simple.
The operation’s money consists of criminal proceeds.
He intends to represent the victims rather than the offenders and will waive legal fees for those harmed by the loan-sharking ring.
The gang orders its members to attack.
Jun-bin says he hates violence but calls the immediate fight clear self-defense.
He blocks, throws, and strikes the first group of attackers.
Even when several men rush at once, he remains controlled and technically capable.
Strip 008 — The entire organization emerges¶
The leader calls everyone out.
More armed members pour from the surrounding buildings.
What appeared to be a small recruitment group is revealed as a substantial operation.
Jun-bin remarks that accepting the victims’ case will create a large professional and financial burden.
He still refuses to withdraw the promise.
I’LL WAIVE THE LEGAL FEES FOR ALL OF YOU.
The chapter ends with Jun-bin standing between Changsung and a crowd of loan sharks, prepared to dismantle the business whose easy money almost pulled the youth back into crime.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
Changsung’s temptation is real rather than staged at first glance¶
The chapter does not pretend honest work immediately feels rewarding. Criminal money remains faster, larger, and emotionally familiar.
Jun-bin investigates by accompanying rather than merely accusing¶
He does not accept Changsung’s explanation blindly, but he gives the youth a chance to demonstrate the decision.
The recruitment uses nostalgia and status¶
The gang presents Changsung’s past violence as expertise, reputation, and a business opportunity.
The opening adult models Jun-bin’s approach¶
Helping a youth who harmed one’s own family is not presented as naïve forgiveness. It is the origin of a demanding, persistent form of rehabilitation.
Legal help becomes Jun-bin’s answer to criminal profit¶
He intends to redirect his professional labor toward the people whose money the gang extracted.