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It was horn asking for permission to have a date with Bell (THAT ONE TIME THEY MET AT THE GAZEBO, JUST THAT ONE TIME), not Freya asking for permission. You got it mixed up. And the reason why Freya humored her request despite knowing her intentions is because (I believe) she knew that Bell would just see right through Horn.
Let's put it to you this way, Horn still has her own autonomy, her own wishes and desires. She wanted Bell dead because she felt like Freya would end up fully becoming a normal girl around Bell. So she approached Freya in Syr's form to petition a chance. Freya KNEW Horn wanted that chance to end him, but... If they had animated Episode Ryu and Episode Freya (Big mistake on JC Staff's part) you would know Freya loves to gamble. It's one of her only thrills in life, but... She hardly ever loses, especially since she can see into the souls of people and as a goddess tell if someone is lying... Bluffing and other trickery usually employed doesn't work on her. She let Horn do what she did KNOWING Bell would figure it out and that Horn would lose the bet. She had no reason to decline because she would only gain from it as the stipulation was for Horn to never see Bell again. I hope this clears up your confusion. 😆
About Freya, Horn and Syr. Usually Freya acted as Syr. The Syr of previous season were always Freya. Horn usually acted as a Doppleganger of Freya, except in personal meetings or Gods meetings like Denatus. If real Freya could, she just skipped her job as Syr and change to Freya to go there. But in some exceptions, Horn also changed to Syr to cover her when the real Freya was busy. But as Horn and Freya conciencies are connected, Horn also felt Freya love for Bell so she maintains a psycopatic hate&love for Bell. The previous scene of past episode of Syr meetings Freya, on that moment, Horn was Syr asking the real Freya to date Bell. And Freya warned her that if Bell recognized her, she won't meet him (as Syr) nevers again.
@@sketchkage1189 I rather Freya then her Syr personality. I’m team Ais when it comes to shipping Bell. Freya>=Hestia imo(Could go either way) Hestia Familia>>>>>>Freya familiar.
1:23 Sorry for my English, the reason why that scene hapenned is because Horn shares the same consiousness that Freya sometimes, a consequences of that she also loves Bell like Freya and that's the reason why she asked her to go to a date, but also in the same time she hates him because her goddes changed since he came to Orario.
@@FreshestAnime Aside from purely a whim of a goddess for her own entertainment, the fact that she is still playing as Syr at the time means that she wanted to have Bell as Syr. Because she fell in love with him not as the Goddess but as the girl(mentioned by Hegni to Bell last ep). Only at the end of last episode is when she failed to get Bell as the girl is when she's actually really determined that she would give everything up and let her defile herself just to have Bell as the goddess, as she killed the girl(Syr), the role that she created, and went back to being the goddess(Freya), the role that Horn desired for her to remain as.
@@FreshestAnimehorn is connected to freyja's feelings. So she felt her change when she fell in love with bell and was afraid she would sacrifice everything, including her to be with bell as a mortal (as freyja was willing to be syr forever if it meant being with bell). So horn asked freyja's permission to "date" bell with the secret intent of killing him to prevent freyja from changing. Freyja knew this and knew that bell would see through it, so she let it happen
4:47 I mean he is fully in love with her. Admiration is a very viable symptom of love. He wants to catch up simply because he believers she's out of his league
freya knows horn hate bell soo much that's why freya surprise on horn suit up being syr without asking her to duty. but freya that time have a letter for bell that's why horn deliver a mail on Bell's doorstep.
Bro is so confused at the beginning. Horn is almost NEVER Syr. Horn approached Freya, of her own will, for a chance to get closed to Bell to kill him. Freya was already going to go on the date with Bell, Horn just wanted a chance to get to him first. Freya thought this was interesting and agreed to it on the condition that if she was found out, she could never get close to him again. Long story short, Freya has always been Syr, even from before she met Bell. She played the role of a regular girl for entertainment. She loves her fellow waitresses, but she was going to throw it all away for Bell.
I know it must have been hard to notice at Bell's stress and anxiety level at the time but it also pisses me off when a character CLEARLY reacts to something and others do not pick up on it. Hestia took at least a solid second or two looking around with her eyes and her voice was not natural either. I feel like in series like this where characters are SUPERHUMAN things like this should be picked up on a lot more. Bell could have picked up on Hestia's subtle attitude and perhaps even Hestia could have tried just a bit more to make it clear to only Bell that she remembers. There has to be SOME way that she can communicate that won't be easily understood by Freya familia right ? But for drama Bell has to believe not even Hestia remembers him Also if everyone forgot Bell. How do they even rationalize who was the original Hestia family member that was there BEFORE the rest joined to support them against Apollo familia ?
People didn't forget bell. They got implemented fake memories of bell having joined freyja family from the start. So they probably just have fake memories of having joined hestia family on their own. Which (if bell was emotionally smart) bell could use to find plot holes and make them doubt their fake memories
Syr is a fitting name for this goddess of love. Why? In my language, Syr means cheese, which is a true representation of her personality full of holes and mold!
2:20 horn ask for the later date where she got attacked by Freya familia, remember when she said "I lost the gamble, you can go" to bell after bell said he knew "syr" (horn) was pretending to be syr
I imagine it's because even from Freya's perspective if Horn win's over Bell's love posing as Syr, she can always be immediately replaced and killed off by Freya. Letting Horn try is a win/win for Freya. *Edit: Also, I think the reason why Horn asked the question to begin with from Freya is because of what Horn said in the previous episode. She would try to kill Bell or die trying. And as that is Horn's consciousness Freya shouldn't of been privy to that side of her "mentality/personality". Literally schizo shit*
" we need aiz, where is she " she can't do anything against Ottar, the anime didn't show it for some reason but Aiz tried to help she was with the amazon sisters but they were stopped by hogni then hedin came too So they couldn't do anything
2:52 You're so right, and that's the problem with Danmachi and the rest of light novels getting a adaptation, since S1 they are cutting tons of content, and these changes makes the history and the characters looks generics and plains, when that's not the reality, things like that don't happens in big franchises (only Fate).
Freya has to wait a year before she gets to have bell join her fagmilia and that is when the fagmilia war will happened and its gonna be so fun to watch
I would like to add a little side note if I may: about Bell loving Ais… I think that (sadly, as far as I’m concerned) that’s were it will go in the end… It’s not that I absolutely dislike Ais, it’s just that I like other girls much better (especially Ryu and Haruhime) but here comes my question: I know that it’s always difficult to define “love”, but, HOW ACTUALLY DEEP is Bell’s love for Ais? I’ll be honest: for me, it’s not that deep as it could seem on a surface level… (but I could be wrong, clearly, that’s just my idea😉) I think that he “loves” Ais for WHAT she is and not WHO she is. I’ll try to explain it: she’s the person who saved his life, and it looks to me that Bell looks at her more like A TARGET, A GOAL TO REACH, an aspiration, than a potential “romantic partner”… Of course there’s nothing wrong to fall in love with the person that saved you, but I think that Bell’s is the exact definition of a “Platonic kind of love” if it makes sense… You can’t really love someone in the true sense of the word (or be loved by someone) if you don’t perceive the other as an equal: if you think that the other is superior to you, you can’t love him/her; you can respect her, admire her… But by putting someone on a pedestal (like Bell is doing with Ais) you are risking to go through the process of “Idolization” (She’s awesome, she’s fantastic, she’s beautiful) and even worse, possibly to the “Angelification” of that person (SHE’S PERFECT, SHE CAN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG, EVERYTHING SHE SAYS IT’S RIGHT, EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG) that’s basically what all those parasites in the Freya Familia are doing with their “excuse of a goddess” Now, Bell wouldn’t go that far, but I just wanted to say that by idolizing someone (like bell is doing with Ais) you risk to move him/her away from you… To put it in a simple way: how much of it is “just” ADMIRATION, and how much of it is “true love”? I feel like Bell is still very immature and can’t properly define love (as it’s absolutely normal, for a 15 years old boy) but I think that his feelings towards Ais are about 65/70% admiration and 30% or so “romantic interest”… Sure, love can grow overtime, but right now I think it’ would be more accurate to say that he ADMIRES her, that she’s a “model” for him, that she inspires him, rather than he loves her… In conclusion probably Bell loves her for What she has done for him and for what she REPRESENTS FOR HIM, rather than the person that she is…. I feel like he has much better chemistry with other girls, but if that’s where the author wants to go…😔 (As I already said this is just my opinion and I understand that everyone has different thoughts about it, and it’s welcome to differ🤗) P.S. I WANT TO CLARIFY that this is the opinion of a person who’s only watching the anime, and HASN’T READ the LN, so please, don’t jump on my throat (like someone else did) and keep this in mind, thank you… I’m giving my opinion PURELY based on what I’m seeing (I’ve heard that the anime adaption screwed up the LN a bit)😅🤗
I mean, he loves her so much that he developed the most broken skill in history just so he could reach hear in terms of power asap. Also this same love is what makes him immune to mind manipulation effects like the charms of a goddess of beauty and similar. If he didn't love her and it was just admiration it would have stoped after what she did in season 3 wich was way worse in the novels btw and also he probably would have fallen in love with Ryu after the events of season 4. He is definitely in love with Aiz it's just that the anime has skipped or badly adapted parts of their relationship and chemistry in part because most of it comes as inner dialogue in their minds. If you want to see their true chemistry I recommend reading the spin off Sword oratoria manga if you are not a fan of reading novels. But funnily what you said about idolization is way closer to what Bell feels towards Hestia than Aiz. That's why he could never fall in love with her despite him saying that she is the most important person to him. That and also Hestia is way too much of a mother figure to him to ever see her as a lover which is a pretty bad combo.
I'm guessing you're still a little confused. Horn also loves Bell, considering she shares Freya's feelings, hence she could fool Freya by asking her permission to go on a date with Bell. But her true motivation was to kill him.
@@FreshestAnime She still not sure about her feeling before the date, it is truly love or something else. Now after the date she knows that she truly fall for him but got rejected. then now she willing to do anything, even cast genjutsu to the entire orario
another reason to why only Hestia knew sum was wrong with horn (at that moment pretending to be Freya) is bc gods can hide their divinity, that's also why Bell doesn't knows his granpa is actually Zeus
The scene about Horn Freya Syr makes no fucking sense even after reading the LN. i know who likes/hates who and does what, but that fcking scene is still making no sense.
Here is a simple explanation, horn ask freya to date bell in days 2 fetival, day 1 festival is freya dating bell. Why horn ask freya to date bell? Because horn love bell too Why horn love bell? Cus she share conscious with freya Why horn share conscius with freya? Cuz horn want to be freya and freya granted it. Why freya granted it? Cuz freya love every family she have. And yeah anime is skipping a lot of scene
I despise freya now. I don’t care about how much of a baddie she is 😤. Also what horn wanted was a chance to kill bell not date him. That’s why the freya familia was trying to kill her and the syr we knew all this time was basically just a costume worn by horn and freya.
To be fair to me it never really seemed bell loved Ais. It was just gratitude and lust the series called love. If he developed his skill after he spent time with Ais I could believe it was love. However, he got the skill from the first time he saw her knowing literally nothing about her. The typical story love at first sight which is more lust at first sight.
In the light novel its layed out way more. The anime unfortunately cut out so much of Ais and bells interaction throughout the series. But yes Bell is deeply in love with Ais
@vestal896 I've read the novel up to the xenos. From when he met her to when he developed the skill from his "love" that same night having had no dialogue with her is not really love imo. If you want to say he fell in love after then sure that is fine. But his skill developed and locked him in far before.
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It was horn asking for permission to have a date with Bell (THAT ONE TIME THEY MET AT THE GAZEBO, JUST THAT ONE TIME), not Freya asking for permission. You got it mixed up. And the reason why Freya humored her request despite knowing her intentions is because (I believe) she knew that Bell would just see right through Horn.
This guy hit it on the head!
Let's put it to you this way, Horn still has her own autonomy, her own wishes and desires. She wanted Bell dead because she felt like Freya would end up fully becoming a normal girl around Bell. So she approached Freya in Syr's form to petition a chance. Freya KNEW Horn wanted that chance to end him, but... If they had animated Episode Ryu and Episode Freya (Big mistake on JC Staff's part) you would know Freya loves to gamble. It's one of her only thrills in life, but... She hardly ever loses, especially since she can see into the souls of people and as a goddess tell if someone is lying... Bluffing and other trickery usually employed doesn't work on her.
She let Horn do what she did KNOWING Bell would figure it out and that Horn would lose the bet. She had no reason to decline because she would only gain from it as the stipulation was for Horn to never see Bell again.
I hope this clears up your confusion. 😆
About Freya, Horn and Syr.
Usually Freya acted as Syr. The Syr of previous season were always Freya.
Horn usually acted as a Doppleganger of Freya, except in personal meetings or Gods meetings like Denatus.
If real Freya could, she just skipped her job as Syr and change to Freya to go there. But in some exceptions, Horn also changed to Syr to cover her when the real Freya was busy.
But as Horn and Freya conciencies are connected, Horn also felt Freya love for Bell so she maintains a psycopatic hate&love for Bell.
The previous scene of past episode of Syr meetings Freya, on that moment, Horn was Syr asking the real Freya to date Bell. And Freya warned her that if Bell recognized her, she won't meet him (as Syr) nevers again.
I’m sorry Ryu but Syr ain ever coming back to the tavern.🥹
Team Freya all the way.😎
You in the wrong neighborhood buster, we team Lyu over here
@@sketchkage1189 I rather Freya then her Syr personality. I’m team Ais when it comes to shipping Bell.
Freya>=Hestia imo(Could go either way)
Hestia Familia>>>>>>Freya familiar.
Are you on fucking Crack @jadonF
1:23 Sorry for my English, the reason why that scene hapenned is because Horn shares the same consiousness that Freya sometimes, a consequences of that she also loves Bell like Freya and that's the reason why she asked her to go to a date, but also in the same time she hates him because her goddes changed since he came to Orario.
Isnt Freya willing to give up everything to be with Bell, why would she give Horn a chance to date him?
@@FreshestAnime the gods love challenges and games.
@@FreshestAnime Aside from purely a whim of a goddess for her own entertainment, the fact that she is still playing as Syr at the time means that she wanted to have Bell as Syr.
Because she fell in love with him not as the Goddess but as the girl(mentioned by Hegni to Bell last ep). Only at the end of last episode is when she failed to get Bell as the girl is when she's actually really determined that she would give everything up and let her defile herself just to have Bell as the goddess, as she killed the girl(Syr), the role that she created, and went back to being the goddess(Freya), the role that Horn desired for her to remain as.
@@FreshestAnimehorn is connected to freyja's feelings. So she felt her change when she fell in love with bell and was afraid she would sacrifice everything, including her to be with bell as a mortal (as freyja was willing to be syr forever if it meant being with bell). So horn asked freyja's permission to "date" bell with the secret intent of killing him to prevent freyja from changing. Freyja knew this and knew that bell would see through it, so she let it happen
16:45 bell is literally having a mental breakdown rn he is not in the right state of mind to pick up on shit like that (even if he wasnt so dense)
Love how I reacted in a very similar way as Joey to that scene: I shouted "Just do what he says!"
4:47 I mean he is fully in love with her. Admiration is a very viable symptom of love. He wants to catch up simply because he believers she's out of his league
They didn't pay attention.
Bell made it clear that he will confess to Ais when he reaches her level.
freya knows horn hate bell soo much that's why freya surprise on horn suit up being syr without asking her to duty.
but freya that time have a letter for bell that's why horn deliver a mail on Bell's doorstep.
Damn, Hell has no fury like a Goddess scorned. Bell rejected her, and now she's having her people spin the block on his Familia and snatching him up.
Bro is so confused at the beginning. Horn is almost NEVER Syr. Horn approached Freya, of her own will, for a chance to get closed to Bell to kill him. Freya was already going to go on the date with Bell, Horn just wanted a chance to get to him first. Freya thought this was interesting and agreed to it on the condition that if she was found out, she could never get close to him again. Long story short, Freya has always been Syr, even from before she met Bell. She played the role of a regular girl for entertainment. She loves her fellow waitresses, but she was going to throw it all away for Bell.
I mean, you're not wrong with your explanation on Bell's admiration towards Aiz.
the story is going wild
I know it must have been hard to notice at Bell's stress and anxiety level at the time but it also pisses me off when a character CLEARLY reacts to something and others do not pick up on it. Hestia took at least a solid second or two looking around with her eyes and her voice was not natural either. I feel like in series like this where characters are SUPERHUMAN things like this should be picked up on a lot more. Bell could have picked up on Hestia's subtle attitude and perhaps even Hestia could have tried just a bit more to make it clear to only Bell that she remembers. There has to be SOME way that she can communicate that won't be easily understood by Freya familia right ? But for drama Bell has to believe not even Hestia remembers him
Also if everyone forgot Bell. How do they even rationalize who was the original Hestia family member that was there BEFORE the rest joined to support them against Apollo familia ?
Last thing aside,
You expect bell to understand Hestia?
😂
@@annurtahmid8967 Good point
People didn't forget bell. They got implemented fake memories of bell having joined freyja family from the start. So they probably just have fake memories of having joined hestia family on their own. Which (if bell was emotionally smart) bell could use to find plot holes and make them doubt their fake memories
Syr is a fitting name for this goddess of love. Why? In my language, Syr means cheese, which is a true representation of her personality full of holes and mold!
Freya is crazy Ais needs to come rescue our boy Bell somehow.
2:20 horn ask for the later date where she got attacked by Freya familia, remember when she said "I lost the gamble, you can go" to bell after bell said he knew "syr" (horn) was pretending to be syr
That's her gamble with Freya, it's obvious when this episode launched
Not sure what the gamble is but I have an idea cuz even though I don't read danmachi I got too spoiled to have some ideas on why and what
Bell just needs to act like a big piece of garbage so that Freya becomes repulsed by him.
Freya officially declared war on Hestia over Bell
Bell your problem can simply be fix by the harem route 😂
I imagine it's because even from Freya's perspective if Horn win's over Bell's love posing as Syr, she can always be immediately replaced and killed off by Freya. Letting Horn try is a win/win for Freya. *Edit: Also, I think the reason why Horn asked the question to begin with from Freya is because of what Horn said in the previous episode. She would try to kill Bell or die trying. And as that is Horn's consciousness Freya shouldn't of been privy to that side of her "mentality/personality". Literally schizo shit*
This episode Spoiler*
Wow can't believe Freya is about to gaslight Bell like this. So messed up.
Man. Gotta get a girl that loves you like Yandere Freya does. 😂
this was totally despicable from freya imagine how bell would feel
" we need aiz, where is she "
she can't do anything against Ottar, the anime didn't show it for some reason but Aiz tried to help she was with the amazon sisters but they were stopped by hogni then hedin came too
So they couldn't do anything
2:52 You're so right, and that's the problem with Danmachi and the rest of light novels getting a adaptation, since S1 they are cutting tons of content, and these changes makes the history and the characters looks generics and plains, when that's not the reality, things like that don't happens in big franchises (only Fate).
Freya has to wait a year before she gets to have bell join her fagmilia and that is when the fagmilia war will happened and its gonna be so fun to watch
I would like to add a little side note if I may: about Bell loving Ais… I think that (sadly, as far as I’m concerned) that’s were it will go in the end… It’s not that I absolutely dislike Ais, it’s just that I like other girls much better (especially Ryu and Haruhime) but here comes my question: I know that it’s always difficult to define “love”, but, HOW ACTUALLY DEEP is Bell’s love for Ais?
I’ll be honest: for me, it’s not that deep as it could seem on a surface level… (but I could be wrong, clearly, that’s just my idea😉)
I think that he “loves” Ais for WHAT she is and not WHO she is. I’ll try to explain it: she’s the person who saved his life, and it looks to me that Bell looks at her more like A TARGET, A GOAL TO REACH, an aspiration, than a potential “romantic partner”… Of course there’s nothing wrong to fall in love with the person that saved you, but I think that Bell’s is the exact definition of a “Platonic kind of love” if it makes sense…
You can’t really love someone in the true sense of the word (or be loved by someone) if you don’t perceive the other as an equal: if you think that the other is superior to you, you can’t love him/her; you can respect her, admire her… But by putting someone on a pedestal (like Bell is doing with Ais) you are risking to go through the process of “Idolization” (She’s awesome, she’s fantastic, she’s beautiful) and even worse, possibly to the “Angelification” of that person (SHE’S PERFECT, SHE CAN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG, EVERYTHING SHE SAYS IT’S RIGHT, EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG) that’s basically what all those parasites in the Freya Familia are doing with their “excuse of a goddess”
Now, Bell wouldn’t go that far, but I just wanted to say that by idolizing someone (like bell is doing with Ais) you risk to move him/her away from you…
To put it in a simple way: how much of it is “just” ADMIRATION, and how much of it is “true love”? I feel like Bell is still very immature and can’t properly define love (as it’s absolutely normal, for a 15 years old boy) but I think that his feelings towards Ais are about 65/70% admiration and 30% or so “romantic interest”… Sure, love can grow overtime, but right now I think it’ would be more accurate to say that he ADMIRES her, that she’s a “model” for him, that she inspires him, rather than he loves her…
In conclusion probably Bell loves her for What she has done for him and for what she REPRESENTS FOR HIM, rather than the person that she is…. I feel like he has much better chemistry with other girls, but if that’s where the author wants to go…😔
(As I already said this is just my opinion and I understand that everyone has different thoughts about it, and it’s welcome to differ🤗)
P.S. I WANT TO CLARIFY that this is the opinion of a person who’s only watching the anime, and HASN’T READ the LN, so please, don’t jump on my throat (like someone else did) and keep this in mind, thank you…
I’m giving my opinion PURELY based on what I’m seeing (I’ve heard that the anime adaption screwed up the LN a bit)😅🤗
I mean, he loves her so much that he developed the most broken skill in history just so he could reach hear in terms of power asap. Also this same love is what makes him immune to mind manipulation effects like the charms of a goddess of beauty and similar. If he didn't love her and it was just admiration it would have stoped after what she did in season 3 wich was way worse in the novels btw and also he probably would have fallen in love with Ryu after the events of season 4. He is definitely in love with Aiz it's just that the anime has skipped or badly adapted parts of their relationship and chemistry in part because most of it comes as inner dialogue in their minds. If you want to see their true chemistry I recommend reading the spin off Sword oratoria manga if you are not a fan of reading novels.
But funnily what you said about idolization is way closer to what Bell feels towards Hestia than Aiz. That's why he could never fall in love with her despite him saying that she is the most important person to him. That and also Hestia is way too much of a mother figure to him to ever see her as a lover which is a pretty bad combo.
I'm guessing you're still a little confused. Horn also loves Bell, considering she shares Freya's feelings, hence she could fool Freya by asking her permission to go on a date with Bell. But her true motivation was to kill him.
Isnt Freya willing to give up everything to be with Bell, why would she give Horn a chance to date him?
@@FreshestAnime Goddess of Love is kinda her domain ironically and Hörn is part of her familia also
@@FreshestAnime She still not sure about her feeling before the date, it is truly love or something else. Now after the date she knows that she truly fall for him but got rejected. then now she willing to do anything, even cast genjutsu to the entire orario
another reason to why only Hestia knew sum was wrong with horn (at that moment pretending to be Freya) is bc gods can hide their divinity, that's also why Bell doesn't knows his granpa is actually Zeus
I like this episode on fire 🔥🔥🔥
The scene about Horn Freya Syr makes no fucking sense even after reading the LN. i know who likes/hates who and does what, but that fcking scene is still making no sense.
We getting gaslighted 🤣 4 season is a lie
No she killed the Syr part of her personality
Here is a simple explanation, horn ask freya to date bell in days 2 fetival, day 1 festival is freya dating bell.
Why horn ask freya to date bell? Because horn love bell too
Why horn love bell? Cus she share conscious with freya
Why horn share conscius with freya? Cuz horn want to be freya and freya granted it.
Why freya granted it? Cuz freya love every family she have.
And yeah anime is skipping a lot of scene
I despise freya now. I don’t care about how much of a baddie she is 😤. Also what horn wanted was a chance to kill bell not date him. That’s why the freya familia was trying to kill her and the syr we knew all this time was basically just a costume worn by horn and freya.
10:03 yeah why take the risk of getting beat the f up by a kid
hurry up and watch DAN DA DAN episode 5 crazy will blow your mind
This is really frustrating
No you not getting it
To be fair to me it never really seemed bell loved Ais. It was just gratitude and lust the series called love.
If he developed his skill after he spent time with Ais I could believe it was love. However, he got the skill from the first time he saw her knowing literally nothing about her.
The typical story love at first sight which is more lust at first sight.
In the light novel its layed out way more. The anime unfortunately cut out so much of Ais and bells interaction throughout the series. But yes Bell is deeply in love with Ais
@vestal896 I've read the novel up to the xenos. From when he met her to when he developed the skill from his "love" that same night having had no dialogue with her is not really love imo.
If you want to say he fell in love after then sure that is fine. But his skill developed and locked him in far before.