I'm not in team Aria. It's not like her character would be dislikeable, but I don't appreciate her attitude of hiding major things from Akira and making decisions for him, without Akira having a single clue about what's going on. If she had asked him if he wanted his mana to be sealed, in order to avoid the nation's attention and to keep living a simple life, and he had agree, then it would be okay. But she did it without anyone knowing and then lied to him.
Medis is clumsy in her interactions with Akira and ends up roping him into all sorts of trouble, but she's not doing it in an underhanded manner. Not to mention Akira actually needs to get involved, to save the world. He won't have a peaceful life anyway if undead monsters rule the world. Nobody knows how Aria was planning to solve all of that. Maybe she wasn't.
Sealing his mana at first was to save him because of the backlash he received saving Medis and himself. However, as powerful as she seems to be....the two of them getting captured should honestly never had happened but the plot most flow. If she had asked him, Akira would have most likely said yes and we would still be in the same situation. But yeah, I agree that doing so willingly is better than being lied into it. He might have completely turned down loli witch from fixing his mana circuits (can't remember what they called her so borrowing term from type-moon) and either end up dead or they turn back before encountering the divine beast.
Akira called himself selfish because of what the kids are sacrificing their dreams and yada yada yada but that's bullshit, they are NOT there because they wanted to be. They are there due to a royal decree, Akira didn't know the fate of the world partly because Aria didn't tell him but also because it was kept silenced from the general public...which Akira was a part of. Slight edit: Aria had no reason to tell Akira the situation of the world since she would most likely protect him and his family from it.
Again, I'm pissed at this author's pinning blame on MC through the actions of others. Today's bullshitter is the Queen. Her suspecting Akira for only joining now DESPITE in the same conversation talking about the gag order SHE issued which would have made it IMPOSSIBLE for him to know Medis and the country's situation. Of course, she knew this and said that as a part of her scheme but still this is becoming a running theme.
"It's almost like I forced him into it, isn't it!?"
Me: I mean...
gives Katia the side eye SOMEONE did force him.....
Feel sorry for the "Berserker". She should gut the prince for daring to hurt that face, especially seeing as she's basically helping him undermine the queen.