You are talking about the second date a live crossover event. there, a shadow of ais expresses jealousy over the fact that bell is a hero to a lot of people.

While ais accepts the fact that he may save a lot of people, the idea of someone who is her hero and belongs to her to protect her happiness was one she never really forgot. it was her father's dialogue after all.

“You are talking about the second date a live crossover event. there, a shadow of ais expresses jealousy over the fact that bell is a hero to a lot of people”

Yes, I think it’s that one. I don’t think it’s a shadow of Ais though, I think it was a ring or something like that?

“While ais accepts the fact that he may save a lot of people, the idea of someone who is her hero and belongs to her to protect her happiness was one she never really forgot. it was her father's dialogue after all”

Yeah but she said something like she never expected Bell to be that hero to her considering he does save a lot of people and that’s just who he is. She hinted in that Bell didn’t fit that mold of the kind of hero she wanted or was looking for.

The only Memoria Freese event that is considered canon is Astraea Record, and Argonaut is semi-canon. Nothing that happens in a Date A Live Crossover can be considered relevant, so this really needs to end right there.

Beyond that, the fact that Ais doesn't expect Bell to be her hero even in that just means she's going to be surprised.

Astraea Record isn’t the only canon one, Argonaut and Knights of Fianna are too. As for the Date A Live event, it depends. Of course the story itself is definitely no canon beyond any doubt, but information (including depictions of a character’s thoughts and/or relation with another character) not necessarily.

It is simply a matter of whether or not Oomori worked in it. If I remember correctly he did work in the first one, but I don’t know about the second one.

@Vanesakroger21456

Can you provide a source? I don’t remember anything like that. Furthermore, the thing with Ais is that since no one came to save her she gave up on it and decided to fight herself.

@Rigel31415 can I post the link here? I don’t know the policy on fandom when it comes to external links, especially if they are YouTube links.

@ThatRabidPotato the story isn’t canon but the characters are still left in character. If you watch it for yourself, you can tell Bell and Ais remain in character the entire time. If I remember correctly, Omori said he use the event to test out ideas for the main story. And I think it is realistically possible that Ais doesn’t want Bell to be her hero and nor does she want one anymore anyways. Bell also in the event expressed the uncertainty of ever committing to being a hero to Ais because he has other people he has to and will save. Albert and Bell aren’t the same and I think Ais understands that. I know somewhere Bell reminds her of her father but Bell is still not the same like him where Albert can resign him to being only Arias hero, even turning his own daughter away when it came to that.

I meant the source for your claim that Ais said Bell doesn’t fit the type of hero she wants. And when I asked for a source I meant a quote, as well as the volume it us from.

Bell and Ais may seem like they were portrayed exactly as they are in the LN, but that is irrelevant, all that matters is whether it is canon or not.

Also, you seem to be severely misunderstanding what being Ais' hero means. The context in which Albert meant she'd get her own hero, and therefore the one the rest of users are talking, is someone that would protect her and be her couple, not someone who would only ever act as a hero for her and only her. Under that context Albert himself said that he was Aria's hero, but that didn’t stop him from continuing to save the test of the world.

Ryuu is already showing signs that she will become another of girls in love of Bell who refuses to give up and will try to fight for his love, her interaction with Ais in volume 17 is significant, her reluctance to tell her where Bell is despite the situation is already indicating to us how unwilling she is to give him to Ais, her confession in volume 18 is along the same lines, if she was already so clear that Bell only wants to be with Ais, said confession would be unnecessary and irrelevant, therefore , there is a clear purpose in this action.

It could happen that Bell, after his training with Hedin to flirt with girls and his traumatic experience with Syr/Freya, would mature and learn the dire consequences of not giving a clear answer and playing the fool as usual on him, if that happened, we would see him being clear with Ryuu and this matter would end once and for all, but I honestly doubt that will happen, I doubt that Bell will have any growth as a result of the aforementioned events, for which reason, I think that he will continue being the one he has always been with women. I'm already imagining Bell giving Ryuu the same ambiguous treatment he's been giving Hestia, where he doesn't confirm but doesn't reject either.

This is due to the open door policy used by the author of this series, where he never gives concrete resolutions to keep the options available, and since he, deliberately in my opinion, revived team Ryuu, I doubt very much that he's going to shut it down soon.

We may not like this because we don't see any sense in it, but if something became clear in volume 18, it is that Bell's love life is far from defined (as far as facts I mean).

The only thing I hope is that in his eagerness to maintain this "romantic comedy", he is not going to turn Ryuu into a second Hestia, in the sense that she applies her same harassment methods, because that would be horrible for Ryuu's character.

Yeah, no. bell might grow more as his own version of a hero but as a person any character growth he suffers from will probably be regressed. just my 2 cents though.

@Leinad91

"Ryuu is already showing signs that she will become another of girls in love of Bell who refuses to give up and will try to fight for his love, her interaction with Ais in volume 17 is significant, her reluctance to tell her where Bell is despite the situation is already indicating to us how unwilling she is to give him to Ais, her confession in volume 18 is along the same lines, if she was already so clear that Bell only wants to be with Ais, said confession would be unnecessary and irrelevant, therefore , there is a clear purpose in this action."

Yes I agree. MS17 started closing the door for us but than MS18 swung it completely wide open for us again and there was definitely intention behind it. Confession would make zero sense if it was just going to go away and disappear. Like you said "We may not like this because we don't see any sense in it, but if something became clear in volume 18, it is that Bell's love life is far from defined (as far as facts I mean)", we probably wont see Bells love life settled or define until maybe the later 30's or how ever long this book series is going to go. It will probably be in the last book of the series, calling it now. Ais will get us much romance as haruhime, freya, hestia, ryuu, and lily in her arc but she wont get more than them because it wouldn't be the final book of the series, it would just be in her arc, which I don't think will be the final book since I think dungeon will be the final books.

"Oomori never gives concrete resolutions", Leinad says, as if he didn't just have Bell shut Syr/Freya down as concretely as it's possible to do.