Get Schooled — Chapter 227¶

Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶

Scope¶

This transcription follows the 8 ordered long story strips embedded in the supplied Chapter 227 MHT, excluding its separate title/header image. Readable dialogue, reflection-essay material, the victim’s statement, juvenile dispositions, and the introduction of a hired attacker are preserved where legible.

Content note¶

The chapter contains fabricated evidence, parental blame-shifting, juvenile detention, organized crime, an assassination contract, and an armed hitman.

Strip 001 — “Insurance”¶

A flashback shows Lee Sechang and Sunghwan breaking objects inside their own apartment.

Sechang photographs the damage and calls it:

INSURANCE.

If Giseok’s father reported them or refused to withdraw, the staged evidence would be used to threaten him with criminal charges.

In court, the judge asks Sunghwan why he is suddenly exposing the false accusation.

Sunghwan answers that he is annoyed.

BECAUSE IT’S ALL HIS FAULT!!

His testimony does not sound selfless, but it destroys the central evidence supporting the prosecution of Giseok’s father.

Strip 002 — The father confronts his son¶

Outside the courtroom, Sechang explodes.

He asks how Sunghwan could betray him after everything he did to protect him.

Daniel steps between them and asks why Sechang is so angry.

Sunghwan’s behavior, Daniel says, is the habit produced by the way he was raised.

Sechang denies that parenting can be blamed.

Daniel hands him a folder.

It contains Sunghwan’s reflection essay from the juvenile classification center.

TAKE YOUR TIME READING IT.

Everything Daniel wants Sechang to understand is written there.

Strip 003 — An essay full of blame¶

At home, Sechang reads the document.

Most of the essay assigns responsibility elsewhere.

Sunghwan writes versions of claims such as:

Giseok did not tell him to stop clearly enough;
teachers failed to intervene;
the school exaggerated the situation;
adults forced him to apologize;
and the entire matter became serious because other people reacted badly.

Sechang initially becomes angry at the absence of remorse.

Then he reaches the final page.

The document is submitted at the juvenile-protection hearing.

The judge calls the essay ridiculous because it blames the victim, the school, and Sunghwan’s father.

Sunghwan is asked whether he is claiming complete innocence or simply trying to avoid responsibility.

Strip 004 — The final page accuses the parent¶

The final portion of the essay changes direction.

Sunghwan acknowledges that his father never set him straight when he made mistakes.

Instead of requiring an apology, Sechang repeatedly taught him to deny, counter-report, and find someone else to blame.

The judge asks Sechang what he thinks about his son’s accusation.

Sechang admits that he did not correct Sunghwan, but immediately blames society.

He says modern society ruins a person’s life over one mistake:

a single school-violence record may damage university admission;
celebrities are destroyed over past bullying;
and one stain can follow a child indefinitely.

He argues that he protected his son only because the world is brutally unforgiving.

Daniel and Hanrim recognize the same pattern continuing: father blames society, son blames father, and neither begins with the victim.

The judge says Sechang taught Sunghwan to shift responsibility.

Strip 005 — Giseok’s father submits a statement¶

The court reads the victim family’s statement, submitted through the TRPA.

Giseok’s father writes that when his son stopped attending school after a year and a half of bullying, he wanted the perpetrators to receive the harshest possible punishment.

After dealing with their parents, however, he developed another feeling alongside anger.

He began to pity the boys.

Why did the adults who claimed to love them refuse to correct their mistakes?

Apologizing and reflecting after doing wrong is one of the most basic requirements of social life.

He says he is willing to show mercy if the boys genuinely repent.

If they continue denying the obvious and refuse to admit what happened, severe punishment may be the only lesson left.

The statement is formally only the victim’s opinion and does not control the hearing.

The judge says he agrees with its underlying principle.

If parents fail to teach their children, the law must teach the seriousness of the crime.

Strip 006 — Disposition No. 10¶

The judge announces Sunghwan’s result:

DISPOSITION NO. 10

This is long-term commitment to a juvenile detention center for up to two years.

Sunghwan and Sechang erupt.

Sunghwan says he was told that exposing his father’s lies would keep him out of detention.

Sechang accuses the TRPA of bribing or deceiving the boy.

Daniel responds that if Sunghwan had admitted guilt and reflected from the beginning, the outcome might have been different.

Testifying truthfully repaired the false criminal case, but it could not erase the prolonged bullying, retaliatory conduct, and complete lack of earlier remorse.

Strip 007 — The other boys and Park Heunam’s revenge¶

The case closes with Kim Seunghoon and Park Seongil receiving Disposition No. 9, a serious juvenile protective measure below Sunghwan’s long-term detention result.

The fathers blame one another.

Park Heunam says he should never have left the strategy to Sunghwan’s father and vows to handle the TRPA his own way.

He meets a masked man dressed in black.

The man is identified as:

HITMAN DAVID HAN — AKA D.H.

A special note says he is an undocumented or illegal immigrant and therefore lacks ordinary identification records that would make tracking him easy.

Heunam describes him as a professional at quietly beating people and asks him to attack the inspectors.

Strip 008 — The targets are Hanrim and Daniel¶

Photographs of Hanrim and Daniel are placed on the table.

Heunam warns that Hanrim may look like a young woman but is a former special-forces soldier.

Even David may find it difficult to handle her quietly.

He dismisses Daniel as a tall, rude man with glasses and orders David to beat him half to death.

The hitman stares at the photographs and begins laughing.

Heunam mistakes the reaction for excitement over an easy assignment.

David’s expression suggests something more personal or disturbing.

He slams a boot into the furniture and reveals a blade.

The visible dialogue calls the country a joke for allowing a “psychopath” to work as a civil servant, but the exact object of that remark is not fully clarified before the chapter ends.

The closing cliffhanger launches the attack on Daniel and Hanrim.

Chapter-level continuity notes¶

Sunghwan’s testimony is not a complete moral transformation¶

He remains angry and blame-oriented, but truthfully exposing the fabricated evidence is a meaningful act with a personal cost.

Permanent school-violence consequences can be severe. That does not justify teaching a child to deny every wrong and retaliate against victims.

The victim’s father offers conditional mercy¶

He no longer demands maximum punishment automatically; the condition is genuine admission and reflection.

Disposition No. 10 follows the full pattern, not one prank¶

The court considers sustained bullying, retaliation, parental coaching, false accusations, and failure to repent.

Park Heunam escalates from legal manipulation to organized violence¶

Once institutional strategies fail, he treats government inspectors as targets for a professional criminal.