The vast majority of male rape victims never report their assaults for the very same reasons that female victims never do. Shame, humiliation from recalling their trauma, the fear of negative public reaction from being a male victim, the fear of no actions by authorities.
In some very conservative societies (like Asian societies), male victims are shamed as weak and inferior for letting this happen to them.
So this guy, recalling his trauma and unwilling to make public his experience towards a survey that have no action taken, puts an X. Just like all the other male rape victims IRL.
In both his dreams and reality, he treats people terribly as a means for survival. He uses them for his own ends, and appoints himself as arbiter of who lives and dies.
Which is cool and all, since villains exist.
But it all becomes very stupid when the MC comes to the conclusion that actually he dies at the hands of the hero protagonist because he is an asshole......and then proceeds to continue to be an asshole, just towards a different set of people. And furthermore, this pre-disaster version of himself is pretty shocked that he is capable of such violence, even though he already leads a bully gang in class and uses his fists as a means to get what he wants and escape accountability.
I will continue to read this story because I'm interested in whether the MC/ML will actively contribute towards the mental torturing of the hero protagonist towards also becoming an arbiter of who deserves to live and die (as implied in the dreams), but I've already put the MC in a box.
Its one thing to advise and want your child to be married to someone respectable and ambitious.
Its another to actively interfere in their life. Evil mother-in-law energy here. I've seen enough of that nonsense in live action dramas.
Came back to read this story ending and I gotta say if you have a lot of shit going on in your life, this story ain't the right one for you right now.
Bruh, you fucking me up in the classroom because my memory is bad and you're getting kicked to the curb.
All you had to do was confess. But nah, you gotta be a creepy, possessive mfer and drug your crush with the equivalent of a date rape drug.
Not only do those people assault and kidnap the Crown Prince, they also intend on selling him off as a sex slave.
Frankly, death is the fairest form of justice here. Who know how many people they have sold off into slavery.
but thats exactly the point. and now they may never know exactly how many people were sold off because they killed the people who knew. they should have been arrested and tried and interrogated for information and THEN paid for their lives.
what rishar did was not righteous, it was out of blind rage and fear because etty was in danger. which is understandable, but not in any way the "right thing" especially for someone responsible for upholding justice and who is "aspiring" to be emperor.