are we even reading the same story..?
literally jacques and luca explained to ume that summoning of blessed maidens caused wars as sorcerers were using them to gain power, so individual (ig factionless) sorcerers summoning blessed maidens became prohibited
Tf is ume gonna do, talk no jutsu their way out? Theo did break the law here, bro knew what he did and what the consequences were
Bro.....
Just what story and how have you been reading and understanding this manga this whole time???????????
I'm shocked by the logic you gave
from what i read it seems that the government outlawed it because they didn't want sorcerers getting more power to over throw the government in anyways. it didn't seem to have to deal with morality or anything, they just didn't want some rando guy taking over every three months.
time to rush him "home" to heal. umm where is that now? also, why can't umi just tell them "i am the maiden in question and since i was his, i can tell you, he doesn't want anything from the government, and we worked it out so that i am treated like an equal. really this is more like i got called for a family member. poor dear is no good at tending to his own needs. if i wanted to be freed of him i would have just let him starve himself to death."