Behold Jon Barton's magic swords Sanctity and Torment, earned in battle upon his arrival at the world of Ipra.
Author pseudonymn Byzfan The story centers upon what, at first glance, looks like the traditional isekai summoning tale. Small problem, the main character is not the teenage boy the summoning spell targeted, but instead his doting father, who doesn't take it well, seeing it as a state-sponsored kidnapping, conscription, and in his case, straight up murder as his soul was violently yanked out of his body in the process. He straight up attacks what looks like the angel that's the middle-man in the transfer, and after being beaten into promising to never go after his family again, the angel states that's she's just a middle-man, and actually has no control over the process, to guarantee his son's safety, the main character would have to shut down the ritual on the other side, permanently.
The main character wakes up to see the ritual site undergoing Rape, Pillage, and Burn, heavy emphasis on the rape part, (at least the aftermath) with the leader of the enemy army trying to kill him.
He goes nuts. Not only is the invading demon army slain to the last, the head priestess walks up to him and calls his son's name. Cue Cold-Blooded Torture.
Then things really get bad.
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Associated Tropes:
- Anyone Can Die: As is revealed at the end of Volume 1, thanks to a church ambush, even main characters are not exempt from dying. Even Jon may have briefly died after taking a Fantastic Nuke to the face.
- Artistic License - Astronomy: Okay, the world of Ipra having a planetary rotation of 16 hours as opposed to Earth's 24, and an orbital period of 386 of those rotations compared to Earth's 365.25 of the 24 hour rotations is easy enough to suspend disbelief. But Jon, over the course of volumes 1, 2, and 3 has endured a little under a year on Ipra and has lived through the world building up to a summer solstice that has the sun in the sky all 16 hours and a winter solstice where the sky is night-time all 16 hours. The suspension of disbelief is much harder to justify in the latter part without the entire country of Tourin being a barren desert as the temperature gradient between the summer and winter seasons should be extreme to the point of being completely inhospitable to life.
- Blaming the Victim: Whenever a woman is the victim of rape, by drugging, magic, or just some pervert abusing his position of authority, the population at large sees it as her fault.
- Crapsack World: The world of Ipra has a culture in the middle ages, with the rampant sexism, rape shaming, and a church of Knight Templar zealouts who think they are the epitome of righteousness simply because they claim to be working in the name of their patron goddess Metia, but according to Jon Barton, rival the Catholic Church in its darkest days on the level of sheer depravity and fanaticism. That's the good part. Monsters like goblins and orcs kidnap women and rape them all 16 hours of the day, 8 days a week, as mindless beasts just looking to breed, until the women's bodies just stop working. Being raped by a demon, even once, taints a woman's womb so she can only birth monsters, no matter who the father is, Jon breaking the curse causes irreversible sterility. There's a prevalent rape culture that blames the woman for losing her chastity. And the hero summoning ritual only exists to kidnap teens because they're old enough to be useful but young enough to be easily manipulated and conscripted into a foreign war as child soldiers.
- Crime of Self-Defense: The series. Whenever some antagonist goes after Jon, for whatever reason, using brainwashing magic, attack magic, physical violence, or attack the people he cares for because he's too strong to go after directly, and he just refuses to obediently lay down and die, they go running to the powers that be and label him the criminal, up to the end of volume 3 where the Church of Metia, after launching numerous armed invasions, kidnappings, and so on, and getting fought off, come back with a writ that labels him the enemy of all life, a Lich King, and order not only his extermination, but the purging of anyone and everyone who allies with him, including unborn children, for the "blasphemy" of having and researching better healing magics than they can use and daring to defend himself, his harem, and unborn children from each and every antagonist that went after him, whether it's the church itself or one of its many sponsored pawns.
- Deadly Euphemism: Whenever nobles talk about being members of a Flower Society, they're not talking about vegetation. They're bragging that they're members of a rape gang who entertain themselves by deflowering virgins through rape, using drugs, brainwashing, abusing their position, whatever methods, breaking their victims down psychologically until said victims believe they deserve it and then leave them in the streets to die, abandoned, when said victims are goaded to "confess" and no longer have anyone to turn to.
- Deconstructor Fleet: The story takes as many of the common isekai tropes as it can find, throws them into a shredder, sets the pieces on fire, and then scatters the ashes to the wind.
- Hero's Slave Harem: Volume 1 is all about how utterly broken women have to be to agree to be in a slave harem; at the tiniest sign of their master's displeasure, they beat each other bloody, to the brink of death, and Jon has to heal them up again, nearly killing himself in the process. While he's unconscious, they rape him, not because they bear malice, but because they've been used as sex toys for so long, they can't remember being validated any other way. It gets worse. The world's slavery magic does absolutely nothing to ensure slaves remain loyal, and they can betray their master at any time. Plus, a slave's behavior reflects on their master. By confessing she tricked him in public, Oracle Angelles, Avalina Faphyri basically condemned herself to be legally sold, abandoned, or just straight up killed. In short, a slave harem is not a comfort or aid, but a huge liability.
- Make an Example of Them: In theory, public displays of especially brutal acts in response to crimes will keep those with less than honorable intentions honest for fear that the brutality will come at them. In practice, those with more ego than sense, especially the particularly self-righteous, will either write off the reports they receive as exaggerated, or see the brutal acts as a vindication of their original stance and double down. Jon is hit with both types, as the world of Ipra doesn't have reliable mass-media and his actions, such as ripping out souls, is unheard of. Then there's the "unwritten rules" at play. Sure, Jon would be fine in taking down the Glendales, since they are a lower rank, but a duke? He wouldn't dare.
- Reincarnate in Another World: In volume 3, while Jon is trying to get a much needed education in Stormgarde, he encounters a native from another country who is a reincarnated woman that had her memories awaken after a traumatic experience in her home country. The problem in her case comes from the fact that this country has had this happen several times and knows what to look for. The crown prince Conrad used some Engineered Heroics to gain her trust, intentionally triggering the trauma with having specially trained beasts attack her, and once she's in his service proceeds to make her a Sex Slave in all but name and treats her as an Ungrateful Bitch when she tries to escape, with Legalized Evil helping him. Unfortunately for this Prince Charmless, he goes after Jon's harem to try and get at her, among the haremettes are a princess of Tourin, and a duke's daughter. Rector Tharick has the gall to be shocked that Jon has to kill the creep to prevent one or both of these high-value women from being defiled by the lout, and blames Jon for it all.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Or Roaring Rampage of Rescue. The short-term benefit of going after the people who wronged you or your loved ones is in no way worth the long-term liability, and it just makes it easier for your enemies to demonize you.
- Sex for Solace: Jon and the many women in his life use sex, a lot, to bury the trauma of all the crap they go through, and while Jon is an invoked Sex God, making the sex very, very pleasant, which keeps them all stable, the trauma is still there, waiting under the surface. PTSD is a very, very real aspect of their daily lives.
- Stock Light-Novel Hero: The summoning magic used to bring teens with super powers is only about calling for aid against an existential threat on paper. In practice, it's a state sanctioned kidnapping and sometimes murder, just to grab easily exploited child soldiers.
- Summon Everyman Hero: Being summoned to another world is seriously unlikely to be like the common isekai fantasy. At best, you're just a political tool and conscript in an alien war.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Jon constantly has to question himself, or his harem, if he's got the moral high ground to do what would be considered decent on earth, because even though the written rules are similar, the unwritten rules are very, very different.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: The narrative treats women being raped very, very seriously, as it should. There's no shortage of women broken, traumatized, and harmed both physically and mentally. When John's unconscious though? Nobody bats an eye at the harem he's saddled with either using aphrodisiac magic to rape him themselves, or selling off the privilege to random women. Nobody knows how many women have been impregnated because of it. The narrative then sticks Jon with no recourse, at all.
- Evil Versus Evil: Everybody involved in the conflict is scum, the main character, Jon Barton (alias) is not exempt, though he's at least willing to admit it and he has standards.
- The demon country of Drasritor has, and happily continues to, do things so horrible that giving them all straight up genocide would be too lenient a punishment.
- The kingdom of Tourin, where most of the story takes place, has two equally vile factions that can't decide if they want to work together or fight each other: a Corrupt Church of goddess Metia that thinks they're righteousness incarnate because they work in her name but force all their female clergy, including the half-elf oracle, the very mouth of Metia herself, into prostitution, especially if they're victims or rape, like the oracle Jon meets at the start, and see Jon as a "heretic" that has to die because he is actually an adult they can't control or manipulate, and he refuses to hand over the holy sword that has bonded to him, and he needs to defend himself. On the other side, there's the local nobility. In addition to the rampant sexism that was found during medieval times on Earth, the nobility see absolutely nothing wrong with forming rape gangs, in every way imaginable: blackmail, brainwashing magic, charm magic, drugs, Scarpia Ultimatum, Sexual Extortion, or just the simple abuse of power that comes from their station, and if they're held to task? They proclaim they're the good guys!
- The Empire of Aquecia, when they summoned the stereotypical Japanese teens, were the Roman Empire under Nero on steroids, plied the teens, who didn't know anything about the local culture, with all sorts of drugs and seductions, and the top brass just summarily decided one day that the male "hero" should just share the "exotic" women with them, kidnapping and gang-raping on a repeated basis the gods' decreed "Saint" and have the gall to be shocked that the remaining three went on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue, hunting down and killing every last one of the perverts involved, including the emperor. But it gets worse. When they take over the government, the teens come to the conclusion that the best government they can put in place is Nazi Germany, and all the horrors that go with it, plus becoming a major importer of slaves. Because they've deluded themselves that only they are real people and everyone else is an NPC in some kind of virtual reality "survival game."
- Fantastic Nuke: The spell [Metia's Verdict] is a huge blast of [Holy] energy that Inquistors can use when they have no other choice, as Jon finds out the hard way.
- Gratuitous Rape: In just about everyway imaginable and played for drama.
- The half-elf Avalina was, on paper, the second princess of Tourin, but her older sister one day decided she was "getting uppity" so hired a known member of the Flower Society (Serial Rapist) to drug Avalina's wine and have his way with her, when she ran to the Church of Metia for aid, they made her an oracle and then just passed her around, forcing her into prostitution, and then when she's at the summoning site they sent her to, the demon army rapes her and all the mana exhausted church elites with her, so they can corrupt the ritual, out pops Jon and things just get worse from there.
- Women are shown mentally broken after continuous rape from goblins and orcs.
- Charm Magic and extremely potent aphrodisiacs are used to trick women into thinking they've given consent. Marriages and lives are ruined as a result.
- The Aquecia empire thought it a brilliant idea to use Mental Domination magics to kidnap and gang-rape, on a repeated basis, one of the four heroes they summoned to help protect them from the incoming demon army.
- One of Jon's wives is drugged and nearly raped right in front of him and when he legally executes the offenders, as the law and his position as the adopted son of a duke demands, their uncle goes "they were good boys." To Jon's ire and disgust.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: Several high-ranking rulers and people of authority have things completely fall apart on them because they couldn't be bothered to do their due diligence and preferred to live in blissful ignorance.
- King Tourin completely ignored his second daughter, Princess Alavina, being drugged, raped, and forced into prostitution, both by Baron Flyete of the Flower Society and the Church of Metia, respectively, because he couldn't be bothered until he couldn't ignore it any more and then just passed down the minimum possible punishment on the baron and did nothing in regards to the church. Sure, he may not have had any options in the latter part, seeing as the summoning ritual that bankrupted his country was his last, best hope to protect his people from genocide at the hands of the demon kingdom, but he continues to do nothing as the church does everything in its power to alienate and antagonize the very guy they summoned to deal with the demon threat out of self-righteous fanaticism, and because he wrote off Alavina as "officially dead", his first prince and first princess are willing to trigger a civil war over the throne, which would leave his country easy pickings for said demons, especially since the church prioritizes hounding and trying to kill the very guy they summoned to fight the demons over the demons themselves.
- Rector Tharick of Stormgarde is arrogant enough to believe he runs the place, rather than having his authority leant to him by House Lafhalf. As such, he completely ignores anything that might offend said house, such as the fact that one of his top professors uses a mind-control magic item to make himself a sex-slave ring and then openly uses said magic item right in the face of the new boss, Viscount Jon Barton, adopted son of Marquis Lafhalf, who doesn't take it kindly, resenting the fact that Jon uses his rightful authority to pin the guy to the ground by shoving the sword Tormentor through the guy's mouth and out the anus for the affront, and when told "Clean your house or I will do it for you" instead just dumps all the "problematic" students who were the guy's victims on Jon and then abandons and alienates them all by booting out Franzizka Frost, the 400-year-old elf who founded the academy and replacing her with a lich he knew would betray him first chance she got and pointedly ignored the antics of one Prince Conrad of another country who repeatedly tried to rape the third princess of Tourin and another Duke house, just because he didn't like being humbled by his new boss who wasn't going to tolerate his incompetence, especially when it endangered him and those he cared for. At the end, he refuses to admit fault and abuses his authority to expel student Jon Barton and shoves all the blame for his screw-ups on the protagonist.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The empire of Aquecia, as a whole. Both on the receiving and giving ends. Facing certain extinction at the Rape, Pillage, and Burn of the Demon armies, they summon four modern Japanese teens as "heroes" to defend them. To try and win their favor, they ply the teens with all sorts of boons, material, monetary, sexual, and all sorts of "forbidden pleasures" including drugs. Then the top brass decides that why not "join in the fun" because the empire's odds are poor, regardless, kidnapping one of the girls, to gang rape over and over again until she breaks, and planning to do the same with the rest. In return, the heroes go on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue, hunting down everyone responsible, including the emperor, replacing him with a puppet and instituting a policy where no man, save the male "hero" is anywhere near her, unless gelded, which is still defensible considering just how entrenched the rape culture is, but then they also spay all the women who go near the "hero" and institute Nazi Germany as the governing policy, and increase the slave trade coming into their borders, especially of demi-humans.
- Make an Example of Them: Jon repeatedly does this to those who antagonize him, and very publicly, yet it never, ever works for some reason he just can't understand.
- When his first legal wife was drugged and nearly raped, right in front of him, he calmly and methodically questions the power and position abusing guards involved, even calling them to task for their But for Me, It Was Tuesday attitude of exploiting so many women that way that they can't even remember how many they've gone through, before ignoring their uncle's pleas for mercy and giving them a swift execution.
- Jon, while in a coma after curing Alote Chastel of Leprosy, and having to go and fix all the scarring and organ failures caused by the Church of Metia's clumsy and counter-productive healing magic uses, has the ladies of his estate, including his wives, were all subjected to Sexual Extortion to one degree of another, some even suffering all the way to Scarpia Ultimatum, and when he woke, and learned of it, took the opportunity in greeting his household staff, several nearby nobles, etc. 200+ people in attendance, to bring the substitute seneschal to task by ripping out and summarily destroying the guy's soul in front of everyone to make it clear that Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil and he won't stand for it, especially where his harem's concerned, especially since the seneschal openly proclaimed "it's all your fault, you should have never woken up!" when he's being taken to task.
- Shortly afterwards, Rector Tharick "can't make it" to his inauguration as the new Lord of Stormgarde, and sends six employees to greet him instead. Among those six is a man wielding a magical artifact with the ability of charm magic, at best, straight up mind control magic at worst, and uses it without permission, trying to add Jon's harem to his his sex-slave ring. Jon confiscates this artifact and openly exposes the guy's history of using charm-magic to sexually exploit people, at which point, two of the women employees present become violently ill and in a state of shock openly describe how the oaf had been sexually abusing them, even the fact that two of the children one of them claimed was her husband's were actually his. Tharick only then dares to grace Jon with his presence and tries to magically compel Jon to hand the guy over, only to learn Jon is even stronger than he is, and Jon responds by skewering the offender mouth to anus, pinning him to the carpet and telling Tharick to clean up his house, or else he'll be compelled to.
- The Glendale family, the family of Jon's first wife, responsible for the rape attempt on her earlier? Don't learn their lesson, ignoring his show of mercy, her mother showing up at a ball and using charm magic on all the women in Jon's sphere of influence, indiscriminately, to try and drag her daughter away. End result: Jon gives the Glendale family the punishment he wanted to give them earlier, but his wife talked him out of, total extermination.
- The Chastel house, not learning the lesson of the Glendales, launches an armed invasion of Stormgarde, with Church of Metia backing, and even though they had Jon's Kryptonite Factor, completely underestimated him and his ingenuity, getting every last one of their soldiers and the house Champion shishkabobed. While Jon spares the rest of the house at Alote's request, Duke Chastel, the instigator, is very publicly executed, his soul brought back as an undead, just to be executed again.
- Moral Myopia: All the antagonists love to proclaim themselves as the epitome of virtue for doing vile things, or trying, but when their victims, especially Jon, retaliate, blame them as the spawn of the pit. To wit:
- Baron Flyete, the guy who drugged Alavina's wine and raped her, stealing her virginity and starting her long, cruel life of forced prostitution, began cackling with glee when he learned she was Jon's slave and schemed to steal her away to pick up where he was forced to leave off, blaming her for his exile when Alavina's father, the king learned about it and took action. Jon, using Super-Senses, hears the scheme and comes after him. Acting as if he's the wounded party, the Baron calls for a blood feud. He and his men are all killed to the last. And There Was Much Rejoicing.
- On the way to his adopted father's home town and the university Stormgarde, where Jon can hopefully learn the survival skills and rules of etiquette he needs to fit in and survive the world of Ipra, the Church of Metia repeatedly tries using assassins and hiding poison in Jon's meals, seeing him as a "heretic" because he refused to just obediently die, despite driving off the demon armies that were sure to win the war of extermination on the country of Thourin, so they ambush him in a dungeon that the adventurer's guild sent him to for much needed training. When he survives, even suffering crippling casualties, they decry him as the spawn of the pit and put wanted posters out for him.
- When Jon rescues his wife from an Attempted Rape, by drugging, executing the perpetrators, her own family comes for his head, because the one who set up the rape attempt is her family's ally, and they'd much rather beat up on their own daughter than alienate the scheming elf bitch responsible, and see themselves as the bastions of virtue and Jon as a criminal, even being willing to use charm magic to try and steal their daughter back so they can abuse her some more. The entire city of Redfield celebrates when Jon retaliates and wipes out said family.
- Duke Richard Chastel is a nasty Control Freak who sees his daughter Alote as a rebellious brat for: 1.) Being born without the ability to use magic. 2.) Catching Leprosy as a result of her husband's neglect and abuse. 3.) Suffering a miscarriage thanks to being afflicted by Leprosy and the Church of Metia's pitiful attempts at using inferior healing magic to deal with it. 4.) Being abandoned by her husband because of the miscarriage. 5.) Marrying Jon, the man who healed her, saved her life, and gave her the ability to use magic as a side-effect of the healing process. 6.) Turning away the guy to whom she was previously married, who tried to take her back at the Duke's orders, because Angelina is now a valuable trophy to the House. The Duke responds as if Jon is a kidnapper and storms Stormgarde with an army, causing untold collateral damage, and is shocked when Jon has the law on his side, his own wife and the rest of his immediate family turn on him, and Jon retaliates to his church-sponsored assassination attempt by ripping out his soul and howls in rage how Jon is pure evil before the soul is just summarily destroyed.
- One Heccia Perbiepus is introduced at the start of Jon's first school term as the teacher in Umbra 1, the school of dark magic. This teacher starts the lecture by casting Charm magic on the entire class, confronts Hitomi, one of the four Aquecia heroes, for the latter's part in the retaliatory purge, and then goes on to call Hitomi a murderer as she proceeds to launch a scathing Post-Rape Taunt Slut-Shaming Ukemi, the victim of the country's repeated gang-raping, admitting that one of the biggest offenders is her own father. When the school's rector calls her out on it, holding her to her own standards of "you can't call my father a rapist and retaliate because he wasn't convicted" by stating "you can't call Hitomi a murderer and go after her because she wasn't convicted." She tries to proclaim the rector is a traitor because he was also a member of the Aqecia Senate. The rector points out that he retired from the senate 100 years ago but was still watching over his homeland, and the retaliatory purge was both legally and morally justified. She deflates and leaves the class, to never return, instead forcing her way into Jon's laboratory and used AOE mental domination magic, trying to make him her murder puppy, and unwittingly threatening his unborn child. She has the gall to not only think summoned heroes are nothing more than "unruly children that need to be tamed" but be utterly shocked that Jon's wife and everyone in the lab present retaliates and comes for her blood, Jon's wife even stabbing her to death.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: The rapists in the story all love to proclaim how they're innocent because their victims "grew to love it." Starting from the first on-screen perpetrator Baron Fleyete who used powerful aphrodisiacal drugs and magic to turn his victims into sex-slaves and once they were completely broken, would expose them, destroying them socially, before moving on.
- No Woman's Land: The planet Ipra is actually pretty damn misogynistic. Jon's harem not withstanding, women have little, if any, choice in who they're going to marry; a woman's father usually determines that, even if the woman in question has been exiled or otherwise driven out of the house, hence a couple of bru-ha-has Jon had to deal with in Volumes 2 and 3 where one of his wives had her parents suddenly want her back, after they were married, for one reason or another and Jon simply said "no" to their heavy handed and forceful, very forceful, attempts to make him give her back. Monsters like goblins or orcs don't just savage their own species females, they kidnap women to rape endlessly as savage beasts. Humanoid women who suffer rape from a demon species even once are offered either a cup of poison or the rest of their lives in a convent because they lose the ability to birth anything but monsters, and when Jon tried breaking the curse, succeeded at the price of rendering those women he treated permanently barren, though he's trying to find a cure for that too. In all countries, women have few, very few, social and legal rights or protections, and as has been mentioned above, are considered "disgraced" with the blame planted on them, if they're sexually exploited in any way. And that's just what's on screen. It's implied that things are actually much, much worse in parts of the world that haven't been explored yet.
- Unwanted Harem: Jon started the story saddled with a slave harem against his will, and because of the perks of his immense mana pool and his unique magics, (not to mention his addictive magic penis), women keep forcing themselves into his harem, and he's in a situation where he needs all the help he can get. By the mid-part of volume 4, he's got 22 official lovers, and it's still growing, with "one-night stands" and other women who just come and go, in the mix.
- World of Jerkass: Everyone in the story only exists to exploit everyone else. Even protagonist Jon is not exempt, though he at least has the decency to be up front about it, and he is well aware his harem are only with him for their own interests, which he's totally cool with as long as they don't openly betray him. People who are genuinely good and kind for their own sake don't live very long, or they become exploitive in self-defense. It's so bad, Jon gets a cult for treating women with the minimum of human decency, with the head priestess, leading the cult, saying he's the best man she's ever known, even considering that when they met, he tortured her to the point she begged for death and he denied her.
