It's not really cutting off if there isn't really a connection there - he doesn't know those people, so he's not losing anything not knowing them, and he already gain said magic inheritance without getting that involved with them.
It is cutting off when someone opens a communication channel and the other party simply refuses to respond. It can even happen right through the 2 parties' introduction. I'm pretty sure he gained the grimoire for the magic inheritance and the awareness of it mattering as he was battling on Sapde soil, in the Spade royal castle, not at the GD HQs where it would've been just as useful and necessary and after already learning about his true origins. And I'm also pretty sure he's gotten it to keep it.
Give me a proper reason why he would completely refuse to get to know and learn more about Spade, cause I can only find the opposite, the more I look into it: one more reason would be Kira and his idiot clique getting paranoid over his lineage and presence in Clover, even more so over his aiming to become WK, imagining some conspiracy to conquer Clover from within, so they'd want him as out as they do Asta(well, this one they want dead, but it can be tagged onto Yuno just as well, knowing that lot). Kira is already freaking out whenever Julius or his proxies, Anegoleon as well, easily steal the show and lead of an event he takes place in.
He would basically have to unlearn the majority of his magic history, presuming one could even lose the magic they were born with. Conversely, the Star magic so far appears based from the grimoire, meaning choosing to not use it would be far simpler. And the separation removed the elven minds. That a small part remain isn't really an issue if it's not controlling Yuno or risking his soul.
Why would he have to unlearn anything, if he can have access to 2 affinities and 2 grimoires with the elf soul's approval(I've already argued on their continued presence in the reply for ch 310)...and it's sort of hard to see Yuno giving up any form of progress he gets, taking him closer to whatever goal he has.
We learnt during the award ceremony for the squads that invasions appear to happen quite a bit. It's one of the things that causes issue with the Spade/devil plotline. I don't know why he can't tone down his magic, when we saw when he saved Asta that all his spells weren't massively destructive.
Quite a bit is not as often as we've seen Julius involved in non-combative events(either friendly visits, skipping work or diplomatic and official public functions which I've also taken into account, I was under the impression I needn't spell that out)
And while he does have administrative duties, I don't recall us ever being told he couldn't deal with things personally. The one time I call recall him being told off by Marx was when he was hanging around the city looking for new magics, with that seeming to be the thing that annoyed Marx. We know, that even if he normally isn't involved in combat, he does get involved with large-scale situations.
The same argument in the first sentence of this quote from you is what I could make regarding the King of Spade, or how Yuno could reform the position as(in case the position Allen and Zenon used to compete for was any sort of actual parallel for the WK one). Yes, Julius/the WK does get involved with large scale situations, diplomatic, official functions, you know, everything in the job description of the political king as well....and 2 or 3 fights. One off page, 1 of very specific interest to them, where the risk was having to fight Patolli(the same dude who'd almost killed Fuego), and one he wasintentionally tricked/pursued into by the other party.
But he's also more restricted from access to the battlefield, just like the highest military rankers in real life as well. Admirals, Grand Generals or (Field) Marshals don't always/usually take the field in battles, unless the forces they're up against require their very specific skill set or clearance on certain decisions. The fact remains is that we've had more chances at hearing of and seeing Julius outside of combat, because that's his role, to delegate above fighting himself, and it's in line with real life circumstances as well. But if a state is highly militaristic, you could easily see the top military rank being assimilated into the political ruler position. If the state is in a more precarious situation owed to resources, either material or human(and the latter is of interest here), I can't see why the clearly most powerful mage in/from Spade, Yuno, wouldn't assimilate the top military position into the kingly one for as long as it's necessary to restore Spade to whatever level of normalcy.
It's true we don't know of the Spade political system, but presumably the king would be at the top
I've never argued about the opposite, I was only deeming it far more likely that the Spade King's job description and actual activity was more similar and in line with the Heart Queens' than that of lazy a** Kira.
Afterall, killing the king and his family was what allowed Dante to take over as king. If the king doesn't matter then why would Yuno need to take that role?
Again, my argument was about how much more disposable Kira and his particular faction were(thus, the anomaly reference), because the royal family in Clover still has 2 main branches with far more legitimacy at taking over, even in a non-coup way, than the Zogratis in Spade. It was even made fairly irelevant whether Kira has any direct descendants, since there are so many royals accounted for as more active and productive in their society(Mimosa was strengthening diplomatic, not military, bonds with Heart as a 13 or 14 year old, IIRC)
And despite August being weak and relatively meaningless to the great events going on, both the elves and his political rivals dedicated efforts to attempting to assassinate him
Yeah, because they saw how much like the monsters in their memory/tales they were told about he was...him being an excellent target for their rage as the fitting descendant of the cr*psack royal lot involved in the elven massacre doesn't make him an important and valuable to the kingdom per se ruler. You're trying to dodge the point, but it doesn't work like that. The rebels in the Zogratis faction and those in the EotMS both went to assassinate the de facto ruler, but it was for very different reasons and with very different magic means at their disposal. The Zogratis were empowered by 3 high ranking devils, Kira was targeted by the crumbs of the human EotMS who may have been MK rejects much like the Sally, Valtos and Rades trio, only far less talented and skilled., and those crumbs were acting at random in despair over their invasion coming to a failed end. They were only a threat because Kira and Sekke were not only incredibly lame, but had run away like headless chicken somewhere outside the castle.
Also, the point remains that Julius got the higher ground when he sent in the actual 2 contenders to Kira's authority and power, who were at the same time imposing MK squads captains, and technical heads of their respective royal houses.
The fact that Juluius had to play along with Damnatio's ruling, instead of fully opposing it would imply that while he and the other royal families have some political leverage, it's not enough to fully oppose the king's family.
It's not enough to fully oppose the Kiras whe you also want to avoid causing (more) civil strife, something they didn't need right after this mess with the elves and on top of the issues they were having with Diamond, while expecting trouble with Spade to arise as well and right after what happened to Julius. Julius didn't go for that high handed play not because they had no way of overpowering the Kiras, but because he placed the safety of the people as a whole, as well as that of the MK corps, as well as the opinion of the royal captains who are currently more focused on protecting the weak and vulnerable, over wresting control out of that family. Damnatio and his peers have their weak points too, in magic control, and if the theory on Damnatio being the 4th Z pans out, they will have to take him down as well, anyway. If Damnatio is who the theory says he is, the Kira are officially screwed anyway.
Sure there was, have him not dismiss Ralph as he did, or have Ralph interact with him again after that in a different way then just confirming Yuno was alive. Heck, why not have Yuno be the one who convinces Ralph and the rebels to assist in Nacht's plan, which would show him having some concern for Spade. Asta has had more interactions with the people of Spade then Yuno has.
So you mean Yuno had to make a 180 degrees change in personality, at the flip of a coin, just to show you a believable start of change in his interests, goals and objectives? He's been dismissing and dissing out for ages people he's been working closely with, and you expected him to be so much less reluctant in embracing all those shocking things Ralph told him about so that you could believe he can grow to care and want to live in and rule Spade?
It's not a contradiction to think it wouldn't happen due to Tabata's lack of interest in dedicating screentime to Yuno outside of battle. Such development would require several chapters, if not it's own mini-arc, to even give a connection between Yuno and Spade beyond parentage. Unless more plot things are gonna go down in Spade (which I guess could happen with the introduction of a fourth brother), it seems like it would be unlikely for Tabata to keep any focus there when he has other plotlines to deal with.
Things have already changed a great deal, GD has been reduced to half its force, on top of the elf possession fiasco and we might end up seeing Yuno more if, naturally, all these new conflicts lead to needing to chase after whomever the devils manipulate next, fix Spade and ensure some peaceful relations with it and whatever else follows. I'm pretty sure it's high time Tabata noticed that he can't have Yuno as MC and only show him around every once in a blue moon.