Get Schooled — Chapter 226¶
Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶
Scope¶
This transcription follows the 8 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 226 MHT, excluding its separate title/header image. Readable dialogue, family flashbacks, settlement discussions, juvenile-center material, courtroom testimony, and major actions are preserved where legible.
Content note¶
The chapter contains child abuse in a parent’s past, parental enablement, school bullying, false criminal accusations, juvenile detention risk, and perjury.
Strip 001 — Four weeks before the juvenile hearing¶
The three accused boys are loaded into a transport van.
Their fathers protest that the TRPA has already blocked university admission through the school-violence record and is now trying to send children to juvenile detention over “pranks.”
Daniel tells them to stop speaking before they make the situation worse.
The boys will spend approximately four weeks at a juvenile classification and assessment center before trial.
The period is the families’ best opportunity to reach a settlement with Giseok’s family.
Without a settlement, a heavy protective disposition becomes much more likely.
Daniel looks directly at the parents.
BUT I DOUBT YOUR ATTITUDES WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE.
The van leaves while the fathers continue treating the process as an attack on their families rather than the consequence of sustained abuse.
Strips 002–003 — Why Lee Sechang believed he was a loving father¶
The narrative enters Lee Sechang’s childhood.
His own father was violently authoritarian.
Whenever Sechang failed a test or irritated him, he was beaten with a stick while another adult pleaded for the violence to stop.
Sechang does not describe the man as an unusual monster.
He says this was simply the barbaric way many parents ruled their children at the time.
He swore his own child would be surrounded by love rather than violence.
When Sunghwan was in first grade, he injured a girl’s face.
The girl’s mother demanded a School Violence Committee hearing and asked how such a young child could be so violent.
Sechang immediately defended his son.
He said the girl provoked him first, called the mother’s harsh language child abuse, and threatened to file counterclaims for verbal abuse and ostracism.
He secretly recorded the conversation and used the recording as leverage.
WANT TO END IT HERE? OR DRAG THIS TO COURT?
The other parent backed down.
Sechang considered the outcome calm, intellectual parenting.
The pattern repeated through later incidents.
If Sunghwan watched inappropriate videos in class, mocked people, or caused “small trouble,” Sechang prevented teachers and parents from disciplining him by threatening complaints and lawsuits.
Father and son became unusually close during adolescence.
They laughed together like friends.
Sechang viewed that closeness as proof that he had corrected the cruelty of his own childhood.
THIS IS MY DREAM FAMILY.
IT’S PROOF THAT I WAS RIGHT.
He never recognized that protection without correction allowed Sunghwan to become increasingly cruel.
Strip 004 — The fathers kneel for settlement¶
The three fathers visit Giseok’s father and kneel in the street.
They say their sons wronged Giseok and ask him to withdraw the complaint.
They also offer to drop the fabricated criminal charges against him.
An envelope of money or settlement documents is presented as proof of sincerity.
Giseok’s father strikes or throws the envelope back.
He refuses.
For months, the perpetrators’ families solved every problem through threats, evidence manipulation, money, and pressure.
They continued victimizing him even after the school established what happened.
I WILL NOT SETTLE WITH YOU.
He says he no longer cares whether the false criminal case gives him a record.
Watching adults like them face consequences will be an education for both sets of children.
The fathers leave furious rather than humbled.
Strip 005 — Sunghwan fears detention¶
The men continue telling themselves that court battles exhaust ordinary people and that Giseok’s father will eventually yield.
The first juvenile hearing is roughly three weeks away.
Inside the classification center, Sunghwan asks Daniel whether he is genuinely going to juvenile detention.
He believed the committee’s measure was not the maximum possible punishment and therefore assumed the court could not go much further.
Daniel says he is not the judge and cannot promise the outcome.
The attempted settlement is failing.
Sunghwan begins blaming Giseok’s “stubborn old man” for everything.
If the victim’s father had bowed his head earlier, Sunghwan says, the case would never have reached this stage.
Strip 006 — Daniel identifies the original cause¶
Daniel tells Sunghwan he still has not repented.
His father played a major role in bringing him to the center, but the original cause was Sunghwan choosing to bully Giseok.
The boy’s instinct is to blame every person except himself because his parents never taught him reflection.
Daniel says there is still one thing Sunghwan can do.
Sunghwan asks what possible action remains.
Daniel leans close and explains a way to make an apology look close enough to sincere that the court may recognize a change.
The exact instruction is initially withheld.
He emphasizes that the choice belongs to Sunghwan.
Strip 007 — The false criminal trial begins¶
The scene moves to the criminal trial against Giseok’s father for alleged:
- trespassing,
- property damage,
- assault,
- and intimidation.
A next-door neighbor testifies for Lee Sechang.
He says he heard fighting and objects breaking, stepped outside, and saw Giseok’s father holding someone by the collar with murderous eyes.
Sechang and the other fathers are delighted.
They believe the staged physical evidence, witness testimony, and the victim’s public defender guarantee victory.
They promise to appeal repeatedly if necessary and financially destroy the man who challenged their families.
The court calls the second witness.
Lee Sunghwan enters.
Strip 008 — Sunghwan tells the truth about his father’s evidence¶
The judge asks Sunghwan to describe what happened when Giseok’s father came to the apartment.
Sunghwan hesitates under his father’s stare.
Then he says:
- Giseok’s father remained at the doorway;
- he never entered the house;
- he only scuffled briefly with Sechang and left;
- and the photographs of broken objects were staged.
IT WAS ALL MADE UP BY MY DAD.
Sechang’s confidence collapses.
Daniel and Hanrim watch from the gallery as Sunghwan performs the first action that genuinely accepts a consequence rather than merely saying the word “sorry.”
The chapter ends on the son exposing the false accusation his father constructed to protect him.
Chapter-level continuity notes¶
Sechang’s parenting was built as a reaction to abuse¶
He correctly rejected physical cruelty but confused love with preventing every consequence.
The father-son friendship replaced parental responsibility¶
Sunghwan received companionship and legal protection but no adult willing to tell him he was wrong.
The attempted settlement is still coercive¶
The fathers offer to withdraw charges they fabricated, treating the end of their own abuse as a favor.
Daniel gives Sunghwan a concrete route to responsibility¶
Testifying against his father carries a cost and directly repairs part of the harm done to Giseok’s family.
The chapter separates influence from cause¶
The parents shaped the boys, but the boys’ own bullying decisions still matter.