I think the argument she is trying to make specifically is “it’s fine since it produces a similar effect in a person”, still far fetched though. It would come down to what is actually “written in the law”.
Maybe that is her true calling:
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You all may have noticed that I haven’t been commenting. I read the first chapter and then got super distracted. Without spoilers, is the story progressing nicely or is it still slow and convoluted?
There’s action at least, but I wouldn’t say that there’s massive progress yet. Hopefully something happens in the big climax that seems to be brewing.
So… either everything was cleared up while Beldarut sent out those flying letters or the people on the other side of the pocket portal are now patiently waiting while Koko info dumps about the situation with Engendil 
Also, where is Quifry in all this? Isn’t he literally just a stone’s throw away?
Well, there are certainly a lot of…developments, but I’m not sure they’re at the fronts you’re interested in. You want us to call you back when it looks like Koko is making progress on unstoning her mother or something?
Meanwhile…lalala, still nothing I can comment on without spoilers.
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Thousands of Tongari mages, through generations: “we can’t use magic to heal people, it’s forbidden”.
A random young girl: “but what if we did just a little bit tho?”
Tongari mages: “Oh yeah, good point!”
And they lived happily ever after.
Still couldn’t get my hands on the next volume yet, so I’ll probably drop out temporarily. I could probably arrange a digital version in the interim but I can’t say that I’m too sad about taking a break from this manga. Maybe if I wait until a few more volumes are out and I read through them faster it won’t feel as slow moving…
And it’s not even direct healing. The way they implemented it as an effect applied by an external device really makes me wonder why they wouldn’t have invented some kind of stasis blanket for emergency transport of injured people a long time ago (except for plot reasons, of course). They do have pots that keep soup fresh indefinitely, so there must have been people who were like “what if I put a hamster in there, or … 
”.
Yeah, you and @footnote hit upon the problem I was hinting at the entire time.
There are some circumstances you can kind of use to make this feel more plausible. For example, they just replaced one of the three sages with a young, idealistic guy, so I can somewhat make myself believe that the old member he replaced was so hardcore conservative this couldn’t have happened while he was in charge. And they were facing a crisis of epic scope that had already forced them to work together with the king they’d formerly distrusted too much to share information with, which is why they found out he had a blood replenishing tower - without that, maybe it felt less useful to have spells that prolong the lives of fatally injured people.
But in the end, it still feels like main character syndrome.
I think a more general issue for me is that it’s not super clear what the stakes and the overall objective is at this point precisely. If you take your usual “adventure” manga, they often wander wildly off-course but at least it’s pretty clear what the top level concern is: you want to collect the Dragon Balls, you want to discover the philosopher’s stone, you want to save your sister, etc…
But here ostensibly the driving force is saving Koco’s mum, but none of what’s been happening since the snake path has really had anything to do with that as far as I can tell, and instead now it seems to be about Coko becoming a tongari Che Guevara? And basically all the other characters in the OG cast with the exception of K-dog are just here in the background doing much of nothing?
I’m not into Harry Potter but I remember hearing somebody discussing the Fantastic Beasts prequel movies (which I haven’t seen) and pointing out that bringing up World War 2 in the Harry Potter universe was a problem because it immediately leads to all sorts of awkward follow-up questions like “why didn’t the wizards prevent the holocaust?”. Of course you can argue that these questions always existed, but since Harry Potter didn’t really have anything to do with WW2 you could just suspend your disbelief and ignore it, but if the authors themselves decide to bring it up in their work then you can’t really avoid this line of thought.
I feel like tongari falls in the same trap: from the start I remember thinking that, realistically, the tsubaari would be able to subdue the tongari effortlessly: they have unrestrained access to magic and they could easily recruit hordes of “futsū” people into their ranks. If you’re a tsubaari, wouldn’t spreading magic far and wide be by far the best way to undermine the tongari order? But ok, maybe it’s not that simple, maybe it’s not the point, I can ignore it.
But then… Kustas does just that, and it seems extremely effective. So… why is he the first to do this? That seems a lot more effective than giving a singular magic book to a singular young girl and then wait for years for something to maybe happen. At this point the only way it makes sense is if you accept that the tsubaari are all complete idiots who just want to kick puppies and do other evil things for the sake of being evil.
