Was what will come really unnecessary? Apparently it seems that it is something very important for the development of the story: the crime ordered by someone (who we suspect to be the politician), the consequences of this crime in the lives of Brett and Hayden and the other characters. The violence that happened was not a cheap sick fetish resource, it is treated as what it is: violence and a crime. And it seems very important for what comes next...
Yes, apart from the fact that nothing explicit is shown. It is only implied what happened.
A lot of people have a knee-jerk reaction to rape in stories even when they serve a valid narrative. In this story, as it is definitely being used as a serious narrative tool and not for titillation. I don’t feel it was gratuitous either because the artist/author did not focus on the act. It was mostly implied because that’s not the point, what’s important is it’s effects on Brett’s psyche.
Rape is all about dominance and power and humiliation and Brett is one cocky SOB.
The perpetrator knows him well and what better way to bring him down a peg but by having him face the ultimate humiliation?
This story has amoral rich people as characters.
Death is cheap.
The perpetrator didn’t want Brett to die (at least not yet), he wanted to humiliate him.
It is funny you expected anything else if you read the first 6 chapters lmao. It’s not exactly unnecessary in this story specifically because it actually goes towards brett’s plan. It wasn’t something that was just added in for fun.
I'm not ready for what is to come. as fucked up as this was initially it was honestly a book where I found these characters extremely intriguing however I cannot hold this manhwa as highly anymore. it was absolutely unnecessary to include that shit and I expected better from this author. even if the way it was portrayed a lot better than other stories