Let's talk about Rino and the Pig King

For those who don't know, the Pig King is Malty's uncle. He never happens in the flesh, but it's said that he's a deranged serial killer rapist who loves torturing noblewomen in the most agonizing way possible and has killed 9999 women (Malty is the 10 000th bride) - he manages to rape and kill Malty in the WN, but is killed before he can do it in the LN. In both versions Mirellia arranged a marriage between him and Malty before Naofumi was summoned

As for Rino, she's a LN-only character. She was a girl from Motoyasu's party that Malty sold into sex slavery out of jealousy, got recruited by Mirellia, became one of her Shadows and got revenge on Malty by sadistically torturing her, mutilating her face and killing her.

The thing is, both characters are basically plot devices who only exist to punish Malty in a way that relates to her femininity : Rino takes away her beauty by mutilating her face, and the Pig King rapes her. Like some people on this sub say, her beauty is her biggest curse !

I've seen many people calling Rino a plot device because Aneko had to replace the Pig King, but the latter is actually even more of a plot device. He doesn't even appear in person, we don't know his name, the only introduction we have for him is Mirellia's short explanation. He's not even a one-dimensionally evil character, he's a non-character ! Plus, being sent to the Pig King really come across as "you're a beautiful manipulative woman ? Well you'll be punished for it" because the main reason Malty is hated is because she screwed over Naofumi and made him a pariah (something that gets resolved pretty soon in the story)

PS : Since the Pig King has no name, I hesitate between nicknaming him Keyaru (like Redo of Healer's MC) or Honest (like the fat tyrant from Akame Ga Kill that still manages to be more interesting and complex than most of ROTSH's characters despite being a one-dimensional villain). You can replace him with a volcano (for example, Malty being sentenced to be thrown into said volcano) and the story would literally stays the same.

What do you think ?