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Originally Posted by blaspot
I like how there is different faction from different school having their own plan and goals, really spices up this story
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Absolutely. One of the things that sets this series apart from other shounen-harem types is there's actual depth to the setting. As opposed to just power levels and whatnot, there's a real element of just how gray morality can be.
In a world where "everyone" has a
real chance of realizing their dreams - at the cost of others' - you have to ask yourself how far you'd be willing to go to make those dreams come true. This is what the story means when it talks about how the Integrated Enterprise Foundation has warped society's views of morality: they've taught people to put their own goals above all else. In any
other shounen series, this would be a very clearly "bad" thing, but in this series, it's much more morally ambiguous, because a lot of those goals are what you'd consider "good", like Julis', for example.
My personal opinion is that this is the reason Ayato's sister sealed his powers - to give him an outsider's perspective on all of this. There's a quote attributed to Miyamoto Musashi which goes something like "Justice without power is empty. But power without justice is simply known as violence." Her act of sealing his powers teaches him both halves of this adage: the seal on him teaches him the first part - the value and necessity of power, and the second, because he's been made an outsider, he learns what happens when you have power, but lack the morality and discipline to wield that power correctly. In this sense, she really is "protecting" him by having sealed his abilities - protecting him from the distorted view of power that the Integrated Enterprise Foundation and the Ember Tears have brought on their world.