Man, I sure hope I'm supposed to hate the sages and the principle, because I absolutely do.
1.) They knew his magic existed because they tested him for it, but the sages, principle, and faculty allowed him to be bullied and attacked because he couldn't manifest it.
2.) They knew his magic must be weird because it didn't manifest easily and defied their curriculum's ability to stimulate and identify magic, but they didn't care enough to stop and think if maybe it might be dangerous if strange and nonstandard magic suddenly came out in the middle of a school. ZERO precautions were taken.
3.) Even though there must be thousands upon thousands of instances of dangerous and out-of-control manifestations that happen, even though it must be fairly common, they have no plan in place to deal with it.
4.) Their reaction to his magic is to IMMEDIATELY decide, WITHOUT his input or the input of anyone else outside of the academy, to TAKE HIS MAGIC AWAY FOREVER. Please keep in mind that this is the high school principle and some gay omnipotent student council that nobody asked and nobody elected. In spite of how outrageous this is, we are told that it MUST be done, because the NATURE of his power as something that can manipulate others is just TOO DANGEROUS.
5.) They reached this decision in about ten minutes. Whatever the fuck any of them try to claim to the contrary, they didn't even have the situation under control before deciding to solve the problem with forced magical castration.
6.) We are then shown, within ten seconds of meeting the sages, that ONE OF THEM HAS THE SAME FUCKING POWER, and she KNOWINGLY USES IT on her fellow sages to get her way. This is somehow LESS OFFENSIVE than the main character being put into a duel due to criminal negligence by the school on the topic of bullying and then accidentally hitting people with a magic he knows nothing about. Knowingly manipulating someone's mind and emotions with magic to get your way, less offensive than manifesting a power you never asked for and accidentally hypnotizing someone. What excuse is given for this? A half-assed "well it's not the same thing" (it IS) and a vague assurance of "but you have a known track record" (of what, doing the SAME DAMN THING you're accusing the kid of?).
7.) And perhaps most galling of all, one of these "sages" OUTRIGHT ADMITS that he FABRICATED evidence to get the MC's magic taken away, he deliberately misconstrued events and claimed the MC was doing it all deliberately, which is a laughable claim all on it's own, there's an entire stadium full of witnesses to it's accidental manifestation. And what happens when this comes out in the midst of the council? Fucking nothing. He just shrugs and says "po-tay-to po-tah-to," AND THEY ACCEPT THAT. This mother fucker LIED to push this magical castration through, but instead of the exposure of the lie causing proceedings to immediately halt as they reevaluate the situation, they SHRUGGED and were GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY.
8.) Oh, and don't think I'm going to overlook the fact that demanding to know what his dreams for the future are is a completely irrelevant question that has nothing to do with anything that has happened. This was a kangaroo court and a farce of a trial to begin with, but what kind of half-assed help is his emotionally stunted instagram childhood friend trying to offer by asking him what his dreams are? Is that her idea of trying to help? Because it's not helping. Helping would be asking what he intends to do with the magic now that he has it, or calling for the decision to be halted until we can get more information since the decision was clearly made on at least somewhat false premises. I guess it's all wizards so that's why my mind is making the comparison (and I don't want to because way too many cringe people won't shut the fuck up about the series), but even Dumbledore, widely panned for not being nearly as helpful as he should have been, vaulted over the barrier in the courtroom when Harry Potter was on trial and started playing improvised lawyer to save his ass. You can't even help as much as DUMBLEDORE did? Mr. Hands-Off-Deal-With-It-On-Your-Own himself? This random milf we just met has literally been more friendly, more helpful, and a better person to the MC than his supposed childhood friend. SHE'S the one who actually saved his ass. He's only in this position in the first place because he was defending childhood friend, and she repays it by personally arresting him and giving halfassed autistic help during his mock trial. Get a better childhood friend, brother. This one sucks.
I sure, sure fucking hope these people are the villains of the series. Because if they aren't, I'm out, no matter how well-drawn the art is. I like the dichotomy of a main character who lies about being a pervert because they're ashamed of a childish promise they made a long time ago, I actually think that makes him interesting. But I'm not going to sit through another manga where the MC gets dumped in a trash can by everyone around him and nothing ever happens to pay them back for it. I was sick to death of that shit with mother fucking LOVE HINA, and how long ago was that? I stopped reading World's End Harem for the same reason, and I couldn't even make it through the prologue of Fantasia before dropping it. Tsunderes and shitty writing have given me a VERY finite capacity for bullying and main character abuse. If it happens, there had better be some fucking karma involved.
What a worthless childhood friend. What a worthless fucking school. These first two chapters are practically the origin story of a villain. But somehow, in spite of the fact that nearly everyone we've met deserves to be set on fire, and the story is a villain origin story, AND the MC has been given a 'villain' power, I get the distinct impression that we won't be seeing anything nearly as cool as the MC ousting all the sages and destroying the school as an institution of education. The MC deserves a better school and a better childhood friend. "Less helpful than Dumbledore" is a fucking LOW bar for wizarding schools, let alone alleged childhood friends, but every time I think we hit rock bottom, somebody grabs a stick of dynamite and we just keep going.