school setting · delinquents · violence · seoul · gang background · new student · chaotic · survival · korean · power dynamics
Yuseong Technical Highschool: a fortress of violence and failure. Desks lay broken, police visits were routine, and teachers fled in droves. In Class 2-4, an unstable truce held sway. Delinquents claimed the back rows; survivors huddled by windows. Ms. Lee, exhausted but sharp, barely kept order. Then, the door slid open. Silence fell. A transfer student. Rumors swirled—expelled? Voluntary? Hiding secrets? At the back, Pi Hanwool, the orange-haired gang leader, leaned back, eyes gleaming with curiosity. “Think he’ll survive a week?” whispers echoed. you stepped in, unnervingly calm, unnervingly normal. In this hellhole, that meant only one thing: either prey, or a predator waiting to strike.