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Originally Posted by Jirachier
I think this entire volume is almost wasted, the author could've done much more with this than just discuss the engagement of Tatsuya and Miyuki, you can do a lot with 300 pages.
Now about the clans wanting to cancel the engagement. If I wasn't someone who thinks Miyuki is the worst character ever made and I want her to cease to exist, which is why I'm welcoming their interference in this engagement, I would think that what they are doing not only doesn't make sense but is also unfair.
Just because your own clans are bad and can't produce uber level talent doesn't make it the responsibility of the Yotsuba to give you their own, this is not a charity.
Then you have Gouki saying to Masaki that Tatsuya is his equal and he should show his might in their next endeavor, first of all it's funny that he actually thinks Masaki is on the same level as Tatsuya, but if you follow that logic then why are you willing to give Masaki away to the Yotsuba, if Tatsuya and Masaki ARE equals then at the end of the day the Yotsuba will end up with someone just as good as Tatsuya and the balance was not maintained, not to mention that the Ichijou clan will be weakened by having lost their strongest heir, the only party gaining anything would be the Saegusa which will have Tatsuya and in that case what you create is a system where 2 clans are stronger than the rest, not one with 10 clans balancing each other.
Also the main argument that they used is the lose of a great generation if there is inbreeding, if you're using that as your main argument then you still lose at the end because Maya can just go "ok, let's just marry them to someone else WITHIN the Yotsuba or get someone powerful into the family from the outside".
More importantly, what the clans still don't realize is that what matters isn't where Tatsuya and Miyuki are, but simply Tatsuya's position, because it determines who has the influence of nuking the entire planet.
I also like how the author just won't let Lina go to japan which i love since I also dislike her, but he really has no actual justification for that, he already set a completely irrational precedence last time when he sent her to japan even though she's a S-Class magician that should be protected and made sure to never fall into the hands of the enemy, so any argument like it's too danger cannot be made this time either.
Anyway, romance was always a subplot of mahouka, giving it all of this importance this time around is disappointing because that's not what i read mahouka for, give me plot and no romance in this case is not plot.
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I think, you misunderstood few details in the volume and characters' positions.
1. Gouki's reason for interference is the duty of magician to produce talented offspring, and he assumes, incestrous marriage may result in offspring with less talents, so current talents of Miyuki and Tatsuya may get lost and fail to pass down to the next generation. Masaki falling in love with Miyuki is just another push for Gouki. That is why Gouki does not care about 'power balance' between TMC and is willing to send his only son to Yotsuba. Tatsuya staying in Yotsuba is not his concern unlike Koichi.
2. Even though Koichi assumes Tatsuya as S-class magician responsible for Scorched Halloween, Koichi does not care whether Tatsuya joins Saegusa or any other clans as long as Tatsuya is out of Yotsuba. It may be due to the lack of information on Tatsuya, but Koichi's primary objective is making Tatsuya to leave Yotsuba.
3. I don't remember Gouki saying Masaki is equal to Tatsuya in vol.17. Are you talking about the preview for vol.18? I don't think, when Gouki says Masaki being equal to Tatsuya, Gouki is saying his son's strength is equal to Tatsuya. From my understanding, Gouki is saying Masaki is at the equal ground as Tatsuya when it comes to Miyuki because Maya told Gouki that Masaki can pursue/approach Miyuki.
