You seriously expect an oppressed mass to stop for a while and look at bigger picture? i don't. They will try to remove the source of their oppresion(Shu), have some petty plans for future(either impossible to realise or too vauge)..
Asking questions can be dangerous, if you know what i mean.
I also noticed that they ran out of ideas for voids for NPC/not-important students.
About Arisa's whoring, well - i get the whoring part - i used the word 'whore' in original post not as a profession/thing she did, but to insult her. Backstabbing, without thinking enough isn't like her.
Writers can't decide the power level of the OP-SWORD(tm) since the beginning...