Chapter 25

The aftertaste of Goro clung to the inside of Rei #1's mouth. Or, more accurately, she could still taste him in her various clones' mouths. Noriko had asked for her to kill and eat Goro, so she had obliged. If you thought about it, it was actually a sweet, thoughtful thing she'd done, though also, she was pretty sure that she had acquired his form. Which would be helpful. She could probably fuck Setsuko... that woman was pretty hot, with nice big tits. Not quite as big as hers, but, that was the point, wasn't it?

She wouldn't actually fuck Setsuko as Goro. Dicks felt like trash compared to pussies, Drake really was suffering for it. Still, she was skipping as she left Loki's office, her 'anima banner' fading. Why was she skipping? The reason was obvious - she'd just killed Noriko's abusive asshole dad, as requested, so that girl had basically no choice but to eat her out, and getting eaten out by Noriko was incredible. As much for how good Noriko's tongue-clit felt while she rode the quiet girl's senses.

"Yo," she said, grabbing Noriko's shoulder. She was just sitting in the library reading. "I just did something really fucking awesome, and we're gonna go celebrate in the bedroom."

"I see. What is this something?"

"Secret," she said, with a wink, and Noriko considered for a long second, before simply nodding.

She followed Rei into the bedroom, and once they were alone, she spoke again. "What is it?"

Rei took a quick look around the room, grabbing a piece of paper and a pen, and scribbling down: I KILLED GORO. She raised it up for Noriko to look at, then ate the paper.

"I see. In that case, I will eat you out for as long as you wish. Thank you for doing this for me, Rei."

"Yeah, I am pretty great, but a cutie like you deserves to live without fear." She quickly wormed her way out of her pants and panties (she still wasn't quite in 'skirt-wearing' territory, though maybe she should try it out for Drake) and plopped her butt down on the bed. "Here's my delicious pussy."

"Your pussy is not delicious," Noriko said, as she moved to kneel before Rei. She looked into Rei's eyes for just a second, but that was a second long enough to leap onto Noriko's senses.

"It is," Rei said, grabbing the back of Noriko's head and just shoving her in there. "Also, from now on, you have to call me, nnm, joou, joousama," she panted, as she felt Noriko just start licking and slobbering against her insides.

Noriko paused for a moment. "No," she said, then returned to eating her out. The ecstasy of that tongue rubbing against her pussy was enough she didn't bother to argue.

* * *

Rei #2 enjoyed watching Erza's tits as she waved down one of the maids at the Hostess of Fertility. She also enjoyed checking out said maid's body. It was Syr, who was probably Freya. She also enjoyed getting a nice look at Chloe's tits. And Ryu's tits. And Anya's tits. She was undecided on whether she liked Mia Grand's tits.

The thing about having ten sets of eyes, all of which could now share one another's information (and being super fucking smart) was that it made it easy to get a good look at whatever you wanted without getting caught.

"Syr, this is my comrade and co-wife Rei!" Erza said, gesturing to Rei, whose bodies all waved simultaneously. They'd gotten a couple tables pushed together to accommodate their sheer numbers. "I'll be paying for her food. She's just reached the Second Level!"

"Oh my," Syr said, raising her hand to her mouth. Rei was focused utterly on this girl's expression, because as far as she knew, she was the only girl here who was bi. Unless Chloe would maybe as into loli as she was into shota? She'd have to try that later, though the tits would be an obstacle... "That's quite impressive."

"Oh, yeah, but Erza's making it sound like a bigger deal than it is. I've been training in the Dungeon nonstop for the past two weeks." The key to bragging was that you had to make it sound like you really had no idea how amazing what you did was. By acting like, hey, she had pushed herself really hard, it's not like she was exceptional - that would make it not sound like bragging, which was half the trick of bragging.

"I've been training for the past three months, and have yet to break past the Level Two barrier. Don't be so modest, Rei!" Erza chimed in, pretty much exactly the perfect line for a wingman to remind Syr that, hey, Erza Scarlet wasn't Level Two, despite working at it for six times as long.

"Wait, is it really that big a deal?" Rei #5 chimed in, with utterly perfect timing. Frankly she was lucky that Reis #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10 hadn't all echoed those words. "I just figured that everybody did it after they killed a Goliath, and you were just unlucky, Erza."

Erza raised one hand to her chest, bowing her head slightly. "No. I am afraid that merely slaying the Goliath has yet to let me break past that barrier, even though I've done it twice."

"Twice?" Syr asked, blinking several times as she looked over at Erza. What the heck? This girl was paying attention to Erza instead of her? Could she not see her insane boobs and/or her beautiful soul that glistened with the eternal beauty of Luna? She thought she saw just the glimmer of a smile in Syr's eyes - dammit! She was doing it on purpose to tease her! "I remember that one time it attacked you, up in one of the higher floor."

"Ryu and I went hunting for it two weeks ago, in the hopes of helping my co-wife with her troubles, by pushing me past the Level Two barrier... I'm afraid that I failed."

"Oh, that really is too bad. Ah, but you killed the Goliath together with Rei, didn't you? Perhaps you've broken past the barrier now." Erza nodded along to that.

Rei had to quiet her soul so that it wasn't screaming 'pay attention to me,' since that was clearly the reason why Syr was pretending like she didn't care. How best to do that, though? She'd need a distraction, to refocus her attention elsewhere. Maybe she could do some math in her head? Prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97... oh this was too easy and too boring! Maybe she should seduce Ryu, that'd teach Syr a lesson for ignoring her!

"Actually, who is that cute elf waitress?" Rei asked, feigning innocence as she fluttered her eyelashes up at Syr. Syr glanced at her for a moment, her eyes narrowing. "It's my first time here." Inwardly, Rei smiled - her lie detection wouldn't let her see through that!

"That's Ryu."

"Can we have her serve us instead?" Rei #4 was the one to ask the question, but Rei #2 would have asked it herself if she hadn't.

Syr's lips thinned for a moment, an icy look in her gaze. "Why do you want that?"

"She just seems friendlier," Rei #5 said, in a blatant, bald-faced lie, delivered perfectly, but of course it wouldn't slip past Syr's lie detector.

Syr gave her a long, quiet glare, then sniffed. "I'll go get her," Syr declared.

Ryu was maybe a little more receptive to Rei's flirting than Syr was, but it was like bouncing off a brick wall, kind of like trying to flirt with Noriko. Still, at least Rei didn't have to worry about Syr's stupid mind-reading type superpowers from being obviously Freya.

She didn't care what Julia, Cass, or Drake had to say about Syr, and how she was actually an adventurer or whatever. She was just too obviously Freya to be anybody but Freya. It was just that simple.

* * *

I sat next to Julia in the theater hall, up in one of those nice balcony seats that overlooks everybody else and is a private space. It had been expensive, but we made a lot of money, and I figured that since I planned to fuck her tonight, the least I could do was properly romance her in the leadup. I'd spent three months fucking just her throat and ass, after all.

Julia herself looked unbelievably good, and I'd frequently catch my eyes wandering her body. She was literally peak human in physical attractiveness, and she knew her way around a makeup kit and a wardrobe, and it showed at the moment. Sleek, frilly, sexy, form-fitting, cleavage-revealing, and pretty much perfect, those were the kinds of words you could use to describe her beautiful white dress that contrasted her dark skin sexily.

Unfortunately, Julia was still Julia, and she appeared to consider my choice of location to watch a play - I had specifically chosen one that featured a "romantic" murder-suicide, just for her tastes - to signal something entirely different from wanting to have a nice, private, romantic spot. "Ahh... goshujinsama, you're hard," she said, her hand going for my groin. "Do you want me to take care of it with my mouth while you enjoy the play and completely ignore me?"

There was an obvious light of lust in her eyes. I considered for probably a couple seconds longer than I really should have, but then took a hold of her wrist and pulled it away from my groin. "No. This is going to be the last play you watch as a virgin, I want you to properly enjoy it." Not the most romantic way to put it, but it seemed to work, by the way she perked up and started actually paying attention to the play.

The story itself was basically a classic star crossed lovers story, between two feuding familias - ones actively engaged in a blood feud. The gods of the two familias were cast as heroes, trying to stop a war from killing their children, but the children in question were too driven by hate to let things go. It was only with the murder-suicide of two of their youngest, most promising members, that the two familias put aside their differences.

The death scene actually used special effects - it wasn't a poisoning like Romeo and Juliet, but instead, the male lover actually killed the female lover with a spear, which I'm pretty sure actually penetrated a bag of pig's blood that said woman was holding in her armpit, causing blood to squirt out all over him as he begged her forgiveness. It wasn't like he was just murdering her, though, she'd asked for him to be the one to kill her because...

Well, it wasn't really clear. But what was clear, was that watching a guy brutally stab his girlfriend, killing her, then himself, had Julia panting in open desire and look about five seconds from just fucking me on the balcony right there. She had restrained herself for the past two hours, but the promise of losing her virginity had probably put her on simmering - now she was in heat.

"Let me carry you back home," I said to her, making her pant and nod as I hefted her up in my arms, easily lifting her bridal style - one of the nice things about super strength, you could carry your girls with ease, and vice versa - and walking out of one of the building's windows, simply soaring through the night sky. She started licking my neck partway, nibbling hungrily on it, then making her way up to my earlobe as she ground her tits against me, her perky nipples very hard through the fabric of her top. I guess she wasn't really too concerned about me dropping her, as we soared over the city - she could survive a fall from any distance, pretty much.

I soon set down inside the Twilight Manor, still carrying Julia as I made my way inside. She intentionally made a show of things, her tongue wiggling along my bare skin, blue eyes occasionally flicking over to the gate guard and whoever else. We actually wound up passing Bete in the halls, which resulted in an entirely predictable response from Julia: "Ahh, goshujinsama's about to take my virginity, aren't you jealous, Bete?"

His scowl had a decent amount of confusion mixed into it, but I was moving too fast to give him much chance to offer more than a "Fuck off," which seemed to just get Julia even more excited as we arrived at the bedroom.

Rei had made her tits huge since she'd first arrived here. They were at the very edge of good taste, and probably past it in many people's opinions, a pair of volleyball sized breasts. She was also currently lounging on the bed as Noriko ate her out, just relaxing and enjoying herself as I stepped into the room. "Hey," she said. "Noriko's been eating me out for... a while now," she said, licking her lips noisily. "If you want her mouth, you can have it." Noriko started to pull out, and Rei's legs gripped her head, stopping her instantly. "Only if he wants it, duhhh," Rei said. "You owe me, remember."

"Is... you know what, dealt with, then?" I asked Rei, as I stepped towards the bed. Rei just mimed chomping on something, and I let out a sigh of relief.

"I'll go, y'know, convince Setsuko to fuck you. I can do it, no worries," Rei said, panting as Noriko kept going.

"I'm about to pop Julia's cherry," I told Rei, who instantly tilted her head forward, her grey eyes meeting Julia's blue pair for a moment. "Could you give us some space?"

Rei just nodded, wiggling from the center of the bed to one side, Noriko's head still in between her thighs as I laid Julia down on the bed. Julia spoke before I could actually get her dress pushed up, though - "Ah, goshujinsama, you should make me eat Noriko's pussy, while Rei sits on her face, and then you can make out with my soulmate above me as I'm forced to eat out a woman that I'm not even attracted to, while I lose my virginity." Her voice got ever more desperate and horny with each passing word, and I did seriously consider it, but there was one problem with it:

"I want to hear you talk as I pop your cherry, Bitch," I told her. I spun her around so she was on her belly instead of her back, hefting her up by the hips. Her pussy was soon presented to me, as I pulled back her dress - then I decided to just tear it off, using superhuman strength to rip it pretty much in half and tossing it aside. She gasped at the sharp movement, but by the way her hips wiggled happily, she clearly wasn't offended. I tore her panties aside too (I was honestly a little surprised she was wearing them), then just slammed my cock in her waiting pussy.

She squealed in pleasure - not quite an orgasm, but definitely very much enjoying herself as I hilted myself inside her. I reached down for her hair, grabbing a tangle of it, hefting her up by it, twisting her to look over at Rei. Rei was very clearly enjoying both Noriko's pussy-eating, and my cock in Julia's pussy, gauging by the pink flush to her cheeks and the way she twitched in constant pleasure. I forced her to look Rei right in the eyes. "That's your soulmate you're looking at, Bitch," I told her. "But I'm the one who popped your cherry."

Even though I hadn't actually started fucking her by that point - I was simply resting inside her - she came right then and there, spasming on my dick, eyes rolling up in pleasure. Rei soon orgasmed herself (I was pretty sure she was riding Julia's senses), and I just relished the feeling of Julia's pussy gripping and squeezing my dick. Once her orgasm came down, I kept her staring into Rei's eyes as I began to slowly, methodically pump inside of Julia's tight virginal pussy.

"Ahhh, joousama," she mewled out, which made Noriko wiggle a little even as Rei kept her firmly in place between her legs. "I'm getting fucked by another person, right in front of you. Does it make you je~ealous?" Her voice hitched as I upped my pace inside her, pumping away at her tight pussy.

"Nah," Rei got out. Julia just gasped and twitched on my cock, and I let go of her hair for a moment, letting her land face first on the bed - then I grabbed one of her arms in either hand, soon pulling her up by them to force her to stare at Rei in a somewhat more uncomfortable position, arms pulled together behind her back, her bare naked skin starting to lightly glisten with sweat. "Drake's hot, you're hot, I like you both, you can fuck all you want."

"See that?" I said, wanting Julia's first time to be as special as possible. "Even your own soulmate doesn't care about you, Bitch. You're nothing but my bitch onahole. Nobody cares who uses your pussy, mouth, or ass - not even me. Maybe I'll whore you out to another day laborer tomorrow. I might charge a whole twenty valis." Julia promptly came again, spasming beneath me, breasts bouncing freely as her pussy just went absolutely wild on my cock.

"Man, she's really, a fucking, freak, huh?" Rei panted out, as Noriko continued to noisily lick at her pussy.

"Choke her," I suggested. Rei took in a sharp breath through her nose, smiled, then reached up for Julia's throat - in mere anticipation, Julia tightened on my cock, a bit of saliva slipping free from her mouth as Rei started to squeeze. I paused inside her, relishing the sensation, and realized that in my rush to fuck my horny wife, I had forgotten the other thing I wanted to do with her for our first time, other than just pop her cherry for a romantic date.

I held myself inside her, watching as her eyes rolled up and she spasmed on my cock, an orgasm hitting her body as Rei just blatantly enjoying the whole thing, squirming and writhing in pleasure. Eventually, she let go of Julia's throat, and Julia started to desperately gasp for air.

In response, I flipped her onto her back again, easily manhandling her with superhuman strength as I took in her naked body, her dark nipples perky with arousal, her lips parted in pleasure as she stared up at me. Then I spoke. "Here it is, Bitch. Your heart's desire," I told her. Then I activated You and Yours Stance.

An orgasm hit her again, and she started thrashing in pleasure on my cock, eyes rolling around in her skull freely. Rei wasn't paying attention any longer, just staring at my naked body, her lips parted with uninhibited desire, her eyes staring. Only Noriko was unaffected, probably because she couldn't see any of it going on.

* * *

The nameless girl was in heaven. Above her was the man she loved, but she didn't see him, she saw a possibility, a might-be, a reality that she couldn't dare to verbalize, couldn't dare to speak of. It would be wrong, because what she wanted was so very wrong, so terrible and awful yet so lovely and desirable that even suggesting it might invite it.

Looking up at him, though, filled her with the sensation of that wild fantasy, the one that was so debauched and mad that she couldn't speak its name yet it wandered her thoughts even outside the bedroom, even when arousal hadn't overtaken her so that she was a drooling panting bitch in heat.

The hand wrapping around her throat was the hand of a perfect finality. Oboro or Donny Boghan or whoever else - it was being turned into nothing but a sex toy, a being truly incapable of ever having any existence beyond her sexual use. She shivered beneath Drake as his fingers squeezed, going cross-eyed with lust as he simply took her, as he claimed her, as he silently declared that soon enough, she wouldn't be able to think of anything but cock in every one of her holes, that her arms and legs would be useless organs because all she would be was a convenient masturbation aid for any man who wanted her, an onahole bitch in the truest sense of the word.

There was nothing else. Nothing higher. Nothing more. As those fingers gripped her throat, she could give into the fantasy, truly lose herself in it, if only for a moment. She couldn't bring herself to fight back, to try to stop it. She was nothing. She was a cumdump. She was a woman turned to stone except for her pussy and asshole. She was a meat doll whose personality had been erased, leaving only a computer program communicated via collar. She was a public use toilet, stuffed into a wall so her cunt and mouth were presented for use, her arms and legs bound in place, her soul having long since slipped out of her body as she became nothing but a sexual object.

She was nothing. She wanted nothing. She needed nothing. She didn't have any responsibilities, any worries. No moral duties to meet, as Drake choked her, as her body spasmed in endless orgasm. There were no villains to kill, no innocents to save. No one could blame her for it, either, she was just meat, flesh, a woman turned into nothing, and she hadn't agreed to it. Her tiny, sparking, fragmentary mind noted that Drake had simply activated this Skill of his, she hadn't been given the chance to resist, hadn't even considered it. In a certain sense it was a shocking betrayal - but her brain started to stutter back to life, as he let go of her throat to instead grope her tits, because it wasn't a shocking betrayal, and she knew that, because Drake loved her and wanted her to be happy, and that was why he was doing this.

She licked her lips as she stared up at him, having lost that momentary dreamlike state. Should she seek it out again, as she stared into the figure of every one of those fantasies, as her tits were freely molested by the man she loved, as her supple breasts used like stress balls as he rutted inside her? He leaned down over her, and as his lips met hers, her thoughts were wiped clean again. Her mouth was a fuckhole. Her feelings were meaningless. She didn't need to talk. She couldn't. She had been wiped away, this reality had turned her breasts, her pussy, her mouth, into mere playthings...

The fantasy overwhelmed her once more. She was made to stand in the corner of the room, wearing a humiliating maid uniform, just a trophy in a collection, thoughtless and empty until she was called in to be used. She was a slave, naked, a collar around her neck, permitted to remember her past self only temporarily when it amused her master.

Then he came inside her, and he ended the Skill, bringing her back to reality, humming in pleasure into her husband's mouth as he kissed her on the lips and filled her body with his seed. She wondered if she would ever have his child - she knew he had the ability to choose whether and when she, or any of his other wives, would become pregnant. She knew having a child would invoke the Neverborn's whip, but she did want to have children, one day.

He broke off the kiss, panting, as his orgasm finished. "Fuck," he grunted, pulling out. "I also forgot your present." She could feel his cum slowly trickling out of her, sticky and wet, clinging to her thighs as he rose from the bed. He was surprisingly balanced and energetic, given he had just orgasmed, but she supposed that Endurance and Agility handled that sort of thing. She watched as he made his way over to the desk, removing a somewhat thick notebook, coming back to her to show it. "You're a bit sticky now, but... it's a smut novel I wrote, just for you," he said, sitting down on the edge of the bed. She smiled at that. "I went a bit crazy here and there-" that meant she'd probably like it, he would probably get much crazier in fiction than in real life, "-but the basic premise is, this supervillainess falls in love with a guy, and she proceeds to brainwash and possess various heroines to become his fucktoys."

The nameless girl panted at the idea, it was so intensely erotic. Even a bit romantic, sort of. Obviously one shouldn't do that kind of thing in real life, but it was a sexy thought. "Thank you, goshujinsama. I love it. I'll cherish it. Ahhh, let me go take a shower," she said, hopping to her feet, wondering if he'd stop her from leaving the room while she was naked with his cum dripping down her inner thighs.

He did.

* * *

Rei #2 had a challenge ahead of her, but she was up to it. She had to lie - but just the right kind of lying - to both Hephaistos, and to Setsuko, to convince them that Goro was going to leave Orario for good, and that Setsuko would be better off marrying Drake than pining after him still. That was a tall mountain to climb, which was why she was going to talk to Hephaistos first. She had thought things over pretty thoroughly, so she was pretty sure she could pull this off. The benefit if she succeeded was hot oyakodon threesomes with a couple Asian cuties. Negative consequences would be... probably she could just discorporate, which meant the last few hours of memories and thoughts would vanish into the aether.

It was pretty cool, though, being insanely tall. At seven feet, she towered over other people. She was strong as hell, too - a falna had a multiplicative effect, and this dude had, like, a Strength of 25 in Hero System, before you added the falna in. She rapped on the door to Hephaistos's office, and was soon allowed inside, as one of the woman's Level Fives.

"Goro," Hephaistos said, a thoughtful expression on her face. "What brings you here?"

"I've been thinking about things." A trivially true statement, since everybody had always been thinking about things, and of course thoughts motivate behavior. "Drake is a better man than I am." After all, he was a man. This dude had a dick that was like four and a half inches while hard, and yes, cocks fucking suuuucked. She couldn't wait to go back to having a pussy. "I have never struck Setsuko, but nonetheless, she would be afraid if she saw me now." After all, she was wearing her abusive husband's face. "I think this city would be better off without Goro Iwakari. I would like to ask your permission to leave Orario."

"I... see," Hephaistos said, her expression becoming both calmer and sharper. "Are you sure, Goro? Just the fact that you are thinking like this, suggests you may be ready to make a change."

"Habits are easiest to change if you move, first," Rei told her. Hephaistos grimaced at that, but nodded. The phrase was specifically calculated to make her think Goro was leaving open the possibility of a return. That this might just be a long sabbatical. Obviously, he was never coming back, unless you counted the next time she took a shit. "I'm going to speak to Setsuko, but... I want to divorce her."

Hephaistos's eyebrows shot up at that in surprise. "You could..." she trailed off, seeing how serious Rei's expression was. She could do a mean 'serious and grim.' "Are you... sure? You were such a sweet couple, when you were younger."

"Noriko wasn't an accident," Rei said. "That was a lie." That was true, at least, in Noriko's original reality, but it was probably true here too, since the guy was such an unbelievable asshole and had married Setsuko after knocking her up. Nice way to force a woman into marriage, she guessed. Too bad you respond to her getting some gorgeous titties by getting angry instead of getting titfucks. Stupid fuck deserved his fate for that alone. "Setsuko may have thought it was, but it wasn't. I don't want to say more."

Hephaistos's expression became melancholic at that. "I... see," she said, at last. "If... Setsuko wants to stay, then I will bless your divorce. But you must talk to her before I'll agree to anything like that. She does love you, Goro."

Rei shook her head. "She doesn't love me. She loves the man who took her virginity, the man who makes her come. Goro, on the other hand? Has he ever done anything to earn her love, besides that?"

"I don't think that Setsuko is so shallow as that, Goro," Hephaistos started to argue, but Rei cut her off, having already planned for exactly that sort of line.

"She isn't. She's just innocent. The sort of woman who falls for any man, so long as he says a few sweet words and makes sweet love to her. There are plenty of men and women like that, who fall for the first person to lie with them; it's just that Setsuko has a particularly bad case."

"...okay, Goro. Go speak to her first. Perhaps..." Hephaistos trailed off. Of course, there wasn't really any 'perhaps,' but Rei understood what she was hoping for. The same thing that she'd been hoping for for the past couple weeks, that Goro would suddenly come to his senses and be a better man, the man she knew, blah blah blah. The man she knew had been torn apart by Rei and eaten, though. All his opportunities to improve as a person had been long lost.

* * *

Setsuko was crying her eyes out. Fucking Christ Hentalian women must just go absolutely bugfuck for a cock, because Rei was pretty sure Goro treated Setsuko as lower than dirt. It was almost enough to make her wish she had a dick, just so she could bang this beautiful big-tittied woman to be completely in love with her. Sadly, that wasn't happening. Sex as a dude was just awful. Something about the hormones even made it a fuckup for voyeuristic enjoyment - she was still riding Rei #1's senses, but ever since she'd gotten this cock, it was way worse than usual.

"I'm sorry," Rei said aloud. "It's all been a lie from the beginning. I didn't get you pregnant by accident - I purposefully made sure to do it, so you would have to marry me. I've cheated on you plenty of times, with lots of different whores in the Entertainment District." She turned away from Setsuko, staring into the distance as if remembering some beautiful babes. Actually, she made a lot of money in the Dungeon, she could probably fuck a whore, right? "You deserve better than me."

"We, we can still, muh, make it work," Setsuko sputtered out.

"We can't. I don't find you attractive." Total lie, but no goddess around to fuck it up, and by the loud sob that Setsuko made, it was probably completely in line with Goro's normal opinions. "Sorry, Setsuko. You deserve another man, a better man."

"Luh, like who, who would even want me," Setsuko sputtered out. "I'm, thuh, thirty-four, and a mother, used guh, goods, men don't want that except, fuh, for whores." She sniffled loudly again.

"I know one man would treat you kindly, and sweetly, and work his hardest to make sure that you're happy. He'd even give you another child, unlike me... I know because I've watched him with Noriko. Drake is... in all truth, a far better man than me. I think you would be happier with him. And isn't our little Noriko constantly suggesting that, now?"

She let out a sobbing laugh. "It's, it's a silly idea, that's just Noriko, she's a special girl, you know." She tapped her forehead as if to emphasize the point. "Drake wouldn't want a used up, fat-titted old whore like me, Goro."

"He definitely would," Rei reassured her. "I want you to be happy, and you can't be happy with me. But I really think you could be, with Drake."

You would think that it would be hard to pull off just convincing a woman that her husband totally, 100%, unironically, wanted her to go fuck another dude - but Goro had treated Setsuko like such trash that Rei was pretty sure she'd made good progress on it. After all, why wouldn't your horrible husband who hates you, when he finally comes to his senses and realizes abuse == bad, tell you to go find somebody else?

Rei eventually got them formally divorced, and 'Goro' left the city, once and for all.

Of course, after cresting the horizon, she turned into a crow and flew back inside.