I Was Happy to Be Dumped by My Fiancé, But Something Seems Off - Episode 40

A scene that would make one want to close their eyes unfolded in the chapel where the goddess’s followers usually offered prayers. “Unfolded” because it had just ended moments ago. Alistair shuddered at Inanna, who, though half-human, had driven Agnes to the brink of mental collapse using methods no ordinary person would conceive of.

When Agnes and Luigi were thrown into the chapel, the intention was to make them understand the pain of the Annaloro Duke and Duchess. Would anyone normally consider committing such defiling acts in a sacred place? It made one want to clutch their head in despair.

“Agnes! Agnes!”

Luigi’s cries didn’t reach Agnes, who was in a state of shock.

“Agnes-chan.”

Her naked body, drenched in sweat and flushed red, was obscene as she curled up. A faint remnant of reason forcing her into that position.

Inanna, sitting close to Agnes’s face, touched her heated cheek. When Agnes flinched in response, Inanna gave a faint smile.

“How was it? How did it feel to be violated by someone you don’t love, right in front of the person you do love?”

“Agnes! Agnes!!”

“Alistair, put a gag in Luigi-kun’s mouth.”

She cast an illusion making Luigi appear as Crow to Agnes. Since Agnes saw Luigi who kept calling her name as Crow, her despair only deepened.

Annoyed by Luigi’s continued screaming, Inanna had Alistair gag him, then turned back to question Agnes again.

“I did consider you, Duchess Agnes-chan, so I arranged for you to be with a very popular boy from the male brothel. Didn’t you like him? Or was it because I made you think you were with a doll?”

In contrast to Inanna’s cheerful tone, Agnes remained catatonic.

“Hey~ Agnes-chan. Do you understand a little of how Crow-kun felt now~? The despair of being violated by someone you don’t love, unable to scream or resist no matter how much you wanted to?”

Agnes said nothing. When Inanna stroked Agnes’s sweat-damp hair, Luigi gagged and unable to form words made incoherent noises. Inanna moved away from Agnes and over to Luigi. Laughing at his transformation, something that would shock anyone who knew him she looked at his restrained, immobile form and came up with an idea.

“Alistair~ take Luigi-kun to the male brothel where the boy who served Agnes-chan is from~”

“Wh-what!? What are you thinking!?”

“If his beloved wife was forcibly violated, then the husband should be forcibly violated too so he understands the pain~”

“How cruel to make me do such a thing…”

“That’s all you can say?” Alistair could only pity Luigi as he was carried away by priests who had been summoned at some point. Though it was clear from Inanna’s words where he was being taken, he continued to scream Agnes’s name in wordless cries.

Once Luigi was gone, silence returned to the chapel.

“Work hard every day until the parliament decides the Moldio couple’s charges. Oh, don’t worry, I’ll arrange for skilled boys.”

When Alistair expressed astonishment that the crucial interrogation hadn’t been done, Inanna said she’d finished it long ago. “Eh?” he muttered, and she gave him a seductive smile.

“Fufu! I used a shortcut because I wanted to have fun quickly.”

Alistair could only be utterly exasperated by Inanna, who was thoroughly enjoying herself.

“What did you do?”

“I’ll tell you later. More importantly, Agnes-chan still has more work to do, so have the priests wash her later~”

“She’s still the Duchess for now.”

“She’ll only be executed anyway.”

Currently, the Moldio Duke and Duchess’s misdeeds were exposed and under deliberation in the parliament, which included the king. Their execution was unavoidable. Regarding their noble rank, given their past achievements, they might be demoted to baron or, at worst, stripped of their title. If stripped, a new noble would have to be chosen to manage the Moldio territory.

“Couldn’t we just give the Moldio territory to the Annaloro Duke and Duchess as compensation?”

“The Annaloro territory is already quite large, you know? Adding the Moldio territory would make management extremely difficult~”

It was the kingdom’s decision, not the cathedral’s. The reason the Moldio couple was in Inanna’s custody until execution was for her amusement and for the sake of the Annaloro Duke and Duchess.

Agnes, violated by someone who wasn’t her beloved brother, had been crying and screaming the whole time. “Help me, Brother! Brother!” Since Luigi, under an illusion to appear as Crow was restrained and thrown to the floor beside her, the effect was even greater.

The male prostitute who had been with Agnes was very popular with women, and Inanna had offered triple the usual rate to the brothel owner to borrow several popular boys. He happily agreed.

Thinking the prostitute would dislike being with a crying, screaming partner, Alistair learned that such situations occasionally occurred in the line of work. “There are all kinds of women,” he mused with a distant look, while Inanna laughed and watched Agnes, unable to resist or escape—being violated by a stranger and screaming.

“Agnes-chan, rest until your next partner arrives.”

“……”

Agnes had been catatonic since the act ended. Even when Inanna provoked her or Luigi screamed, Agnes showed no reaction.

“……A heart that breaks this easily; you’re not allowed to have that, you know?”

Right after Inanna spoke, Agnes previously unresponsive suddenly moved. Seeing her situation, she began to shriek.

“Nooooooo!! B-Brother! Brother, help me!! Why, why with a man other than Brother, uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

“What did you do?”

“I just brought her back to her senses.”

“You are the incarnation of the goddess Maria, aren’t you? If you defile yourself with such acts—”

“How foolish! Why do you think I have half-human blood flowing in me?”

“!”

If she had only the blood of the goddess Maria, her body would have been defiled long ago and Inanna wouldn’t exist. It’s precisely because she’s half-human that she’s alive. Humans are resilient to corruption.

Inanna laughed—”Fufu”—and entrusted the shrieking Agnes to the arriving priests. Silence once again filled the chapel.

Sitting on one of the installed benches and crossing her legs, Inanna began to speak about Agnes’s past life.

“Agnes-chan had a brother she was proud of in her past life, too. It seems her brother took care of her in place of their parents, who were busy with work.”

Agnes, who had a handsome brother, gradually elevated her feelings for him into genuine romantic love. She harassed and eliminated his childhood friends and other girls around him, trying to mold him into an ideal brother who would only look at her. However, her brother, unable to endure it any longer, disappeared. Her parents seemed to know his whereabouts but thoroughly managed to keep it from Agnes.

Upon realizing she would never see her brother again, Agnes fell into despair, screamed her grievances at her parents, and committed suicide right in front of them.

Hearing this, Alistair made an indescribable expression.

“Somehow, it feels like it’s the parents’ fault for neglecting their children under the pretext of work.”

“That’s right! …… When I looked into what happened after the past Agnes-chan died, I found that Agnes’s parents cried continuously. Too late, though~”

“The past Agnes-sama died, and in this life, she’ll die soon too. If she had wished for ordinary happiness, she could have maintained a good relationship with the Annaloro Duke and remained close siblings.”

“What Agnes-chan desires is to become the woman her brother loves. Being siblings is meaningless to her.”

“How pitiful…”

Inanna laughed again—”Fufu.”

Agnes’s power of fascination is like a blessing given to reincarnated humans. It’s said to grant them a chance to obtain what they couldn’t in their past life.

“Maria made a mistake in her selection too. Thanks to that, it’s been quite a mess.”

“You seem to be enjoying it, despite that.”

“Of course, I am?”

“……Is that so?”

Alistair sighed, thinking himself a fool for having asked Inanna.