Closer to "Do as I say or everyone will know that I violently raped you with a sharpened stake." I seriously don't understand this threat, here and in the broader sense, at all. Why make it? Why accede to it? None of it makes sense. As soon as a plot uses this device I immediately stop caring because it's lost all believability to me, especially for crimes as monstrous as this.
Closer to "Do as I say or everyone will know that I violently raped you with a sharpened stake." I seriously don't understand this threat, here and in the broader sense, at all. Why make it? Why accede to it? None of it makes sense. As soon as a plot uses this device I immediately stop caring because it's lost all believability to me, especially for crimes as monstrous as this.
A western person probably wouldn't. But look, there are places on this goddamn world where a woman who has been raped in in risk of death from her male relatives because she is a shame for her family now. It happens every year, perhaps even every month. And Gensokyo is basically close to ancient japan in attitude, even in canonical sense. Who knows whether she would consider loss of face from having it known something like this has been done to her worse or unacceptable. Or she might fear what people would talk to her family and friends. Or it's a dumb plot device, that's also possible. It's pretty hard to read this sort of stuff, regardless, and I really aren't sure this isn't just guro fetishism instead of trying to tell a serious, dark story. Just felt like pointing out the world isn't simple, or not-horrible.
Edit: Oh great, it was a year ago, not a day ago as I first read. Sorry for necroing.