User blog comment:B214/Anime Discussion/@comment-24098614-20160110000210/@comment-1359322-20160110022518

Who said Ikki underwent those trouble for Stella? They made trouble out of his relationship with Stella.

Also Itsuki does care for Ikki, he just doesn't show it outwardly to people because to Itsuki, his duty supersedes his family. Quite a lot of people in this world are like Itsuki, you'll managed to find some police Superintendent that spends more time in his job and some is even willing to send their children to jail for the crimes they committed. Of course that was just an example cause Ikki clearly did nothing wrong here at all, Itsuki did it under a stupid reason of for the sake of maintaining the "order of the Mage Knight system" which i don't think is an effective measure at all.