I still have hope that one day Oomori will say that Bell is the reincarnation of Ais' father. Just like when Finn rejected Lyra because he felt a connection.

And in the end Bell chooses Ryuu.

This has me very interested does Bell have a unhealthy fetish for Elves.

at the beginning when he chooses the race and gender of the attendant, he says he likes elves. That's why Eina advises him because she is half elf.

Personally, I don't have a specific shipping, beyond wanting a particular girl, I want a coherent development for the relationship.

If hypothetically the series were to end right now, I would prefer Ryuu, because she has given Bell 1000 reasons to love her, unlike Ais. However, if Ais, hopefully sooner rather than later, starts giving Bell reasons why she and only her is worth loving, it's okay for him to stay faithful to her.

In short, I prefer that the one who has had the best development as a couple "wins", without having to force the plot in her favor.

@Guilo2018 "I still have hope that one day Oomori will say that Bell is the reincarnation of Ais' father."

Bell is a reincarnation of Argonaut.

@Leinad91 "However, if Ais, hopefully sooner rather than later, starts giving Bell reasons why she and only her is worth loving, it's okay for him to stay faithful to her."

Lol did she not do this in volume 1 and volume 17? Seems a bit weird to just ignore those volumes and Bell even saying, stating word for word, "I am glad you are the one I admire" on page 239 of volume 17. Seems like he was pretty happy to know that Ais is the correct choice for him....

I think what you are trying to say is Ais needs to give YOU good enough reasons to accept her as Bell's only love interest.

Ais has given enough reasons to Bell on why he should love her so much. What needs to happen is Bell needs to give Ais enough reasons to love him and for her to develop in that direction (which has begun to happen with the SS in volume 19 where Ais said she has been thinking about Bell more and more while smiling like a young maiden).

@AbigailWilliams2020

I don't know how the reincarnation system works.

I'm saying this because I prefer Ryuu.

He's already reincarnated as an Argonaut. 1000 years is enough time to reincarnate about 10 times.

Let's wait for the author's decision.

@AbigailWilliams2020

which has begun to happen with the SS in volume 19 where Ais said she has been thinking about Bell more and more while smiling like a young maiden

Are u sure? I don't remember such SS in vol 19.

@Longhatruong It’s the SS where Ryu and Ais cross paths and it got kind of awkward. They sit down and Ryu ask Ais what she thought of Bell and Ais started thinking about everything that has transpired between them recently (SO12, MS16-18). After that, she tells Ryu she has been thinking about him more and more while smiling like a young maiden (this shocked Ryu). I’m pretty sure it’s an SS from volume 19.

@AbigailWilliams2020

I ignored the examples you cite because they are not too good, the first one: Ais saving him from a minotaur, if you completely ignore that it was Ais who sent the minotaur to the 5th floor and got him into trouble..., Of course an immature child like Bell would obviously fall in love with such gallantry, but if saving him from a monster is the condition to make him fall in love then he should be crazy about Ryuu who has saved him from much worse monsters than that one (Black Goliath, Juggernaut and Freya family).

The second one, Ais overcoming the charm and saving him from Freya's miniature garden (vol 17), I didn't take it into account for 2 reasons: the first, because it wasn't due to Ais' merit, it was a plot convenience since it never made sense for only Ais to overcome the charm; Still, it could have been something very significant if Omori had continued down that line of argument, which brings me to the second point, volume 18.

You ask me why I ignore volume 17? I ask you, why do you ignore volume 18? Of all the girls close to Bell, only Ais ignored his problem. Are you going to say that that's nothing? Do the mental exercise of putting yourself in Bell's place. If you were going to be kidnapped for sexual harassment and the man you love was in a position to save you (at least try) but ignored your problem, would you still love him in the same way than before? In Bell's case, that was the case, but it's a plot convenience. It's only like that if you consider that to be kidnapped and to raped are trivial things that aren't worth it.

However, don't get me wrong, I never wanted to say that Ais hasn't done enough to make Bell love her, but there are better examples than the ones you mention, namely:

1. She was very attentive to him when he was level 1, she saved him 4 times, the last time she had to fight Ottar, what a great love!

2. She didn't abandon him when she knew she was wasting her time because no matter how much time she spent with him, she wasn't going to discover his secret of rapid growth, affection that ultimately took her to point 1 when she knew that another minotaur was going to kill him.

3. The peak of Ais' love for Bell, she stayed in the Edas village knowing that they revered her hated black dragon, because she knew that if she left Bell alone, Rakia's forces would capture him. When I read that I thought: "no wonder he only wants her." It's a shame that Omori didn't maintain this same quality in the following volumes.

So, if you read what I wrote carefully, you'll see that I didn't say that Ais needs to earn Bell's love (something she already has), what I said is that Ais needs to give him reasons to love her and only her, because as things stand I don't see any clear reason for Bell to think and feel that only she can be his woman, well none besides plot convenience I mean.

What you think is that it's Bell who must give her reasons to love him; I'm not disagreeing with your position but I'm expanding it in both directions; just as Bell must earn Ais' love, she must also earn Bell's exclusivity, because healthy relationships are reciprocal.

Lastly, these posts as Emiya put it are opinion articles, their purpose is for us to say what we think about it, because if we limit ourselves to the facts there's no point in making more posts about romance at all, since Omori already defined the matter, then there's nothing more to talk about it.