This manga is great illustration of how the ruling class genuinely fearing for their life at the hands of the populace provides such lovely benefits as public education and the abolition of corporal punishment
It also illustrates the fantastical level effort needed to make them learn and grow...
Just heaping on the ominous foreshadowing and set up are we?
This wouldn’t be the first Korean GL I’ve read where the story potentially mortal danger out of the blue.