Melonbooks: Syr and Idunn

Who is Idunn?

Idun (sometime translated eden) is the Goddess from Volume 18 flashback, the one who tell Freya that she was looking for an Odr.

She currently is one of the School District teacher.

Ryuu, Aisa, and Asfi were a fun dynamic during both the Xenos incident and the battle against Filvis, so good to see more of them together.

I forget if Aisha was a Level 3 during Volume 7, or if she was always a Level 4. If it's the latter than there is a possibility she'll become a Level 5 at some point in the future, Asfi at the very least is definitely gonna level up by the time of the climax.

She was a high level 3, she rank up after an off-screen training a little after her defeat against Bell.

All her stats during MS 10 were at I so unless she gets the Lefiya treatment no further rank up would be possible during the story. As for Asfi by luck Bell has still to repaid Aisha's Favor during the Ryuu Arc by joining Hermes Familia expedition.

Yeah I remembered Aisha being the same level as Bell during their fight in Volume 7, but only her Lv 4 stats were posted, so wasn't sure if I just completely misconstrued that or not. So she's not getting another level up.

I'm pretty sure that we will see every character get 1 Level up by story's end, so everyone who hasn't gotten a level up since before the start of Volume 1 will get one, and everyone who has won't get another (with Bell, Ryuu, and potentially Ais being the only exceptions to get multiple).

Animated: Nina @ Hestia Familia: Hopefully this will be something better than just annoying jealousy scenes because Nina is in love with Bell and they only focus on that when they receive her. It would be better to focus on professional socialization with the family and field adventures to learn how to work together.

Melonbooks: Syr and Idunn: I don't think this is going to be something extremely interesting but it doesn't hurt to know Syr's new approaches regarding the search for her Odr with the person who embarked her on said search. Also if Syr shows a truly contrite attitude for her bad actions it would help improve her perception with fans who still despise her.

Bookwalker: Ryu, Asfi and Aisha: This trio has worked together in different adventures, even in DanMemo and I personally like it; Of course, now that Ryuu is level 6 it becomes more complicated to maintain it for practical purposes (2 levels of difference is a lot), but it could serve for a closer collaboration between the Hestia and Hermes families, both parties would benefit from it.

Gamers: Leon and Ottar: By far I find this the most interesting thing about these SS, and not only to know who is stronger than who, which has been the most recurrent doubt in this regard, but I have other more interesting questions, for example how did Leon get to level 7? How has he gotten stronger living far from Orario and therefore without the dungeon? And most importantly, how do they plan to get to level 8? Truth be told I see it as very complicated due to lack of options. As long as some of these issues are addressed I'll be satisfied.

The dynamic between Ryu, Asfi and Aisha was good especially during the fight against Filvis because they were pretty much equals at the time. But now that Ryu is Lv6 and an official member of one of the top familias in Orario, it now looks more like Ryu is the one leading the group with Asfi and Aisha supporting her. Asfi and Aisha need to rank up to Lv5 so that even if Ryu is still much stronger they could look like equals when they are all first tier adventurers.

Asfi is one thing but Aisha can not level up to 5 anymore.

But Aisha has still the possibility of getting a powerful skill that will reduce the power gap, it wouldn't be the 1st time we see skill give a 1 level boost.

The relationship between Asfi and Ryuu has always been one of the most interesting to me because it feels like she is one of the very few people Asfi genuinely cares about. We see how aloof and closed off she is most of the time, following the "bigger picture" perspective of Hermes, but there are many times we see her go out of her way to help or listen to Ryuu. Even in volume 18, very much paraphrasing, she says to Hermes something to the effect of "It's not like I particuarly care what happens to the others, I'm just worried for Lion's sake." So I wonder if there's something else there that happened that got the emotionally detached girl to feel that way, or if it's just Ryuu's natural charm, the same way that got Syr/Freya to like her.