“Brother, you know, I’ve been feeling strange when I wake up lately.” Estella Ignacio was the youngest daughter of Count Ignacio. She lost her mother early, and her father as well as her brothers, died on the battlefield. She was taken in by the Duke of Montserrat, a comrade of her father, and lived in the Duke's household. There, she grew close to Mathias, the Duke's son, developing a warm sibling-like bond. One day, Estella told Mathias that she felt weird when she woke up. Unbeknownst to her, as soon as she fell asleep, the gentle and kind Mathias would pound her. “Hmm, yes, brother…” Occasionally, Estella would call out for Mathias in her sleep, as if asking him to chase away the man that raped her in dreams. Yet, what she didn’t realize was that Mathias was the one raping her in reality. Leaning closer, he whispered to her, “Your Brother is right here.”
