“Heroes are ‘shit’”

“Heroes are ‘conquerers’”

“Heroes are gone”

Are these lines from the volume? Could these be what Leon think of heroes?

I feel as though Leon's knowledge of Bell is more than just reputation. Perhaps Leon knows of Bell's origins.

I'm now sure what to make of this cover, but perhaps it's another trial for Bell to grow even further.

I doubt Bell fights Leon unless it's training. But that cover looks badass, one of the coolest yet I'd say.

SO15 also looks great. So much for more Lefiya focus, there's Ais taking pride of place.

Really looking forward to these two, hopefully we can get Danmachi back on track.

The cover for SO 15 is clearly in the dungeon and we know the vol 20 plot seems to be completely unrelated, yet SO 15s current description says this will be the when the main series and sword oratoria intersect

Despite the cool cover and hint, I still think DM 20 will be a chill vol. Excited for SO 15 though a bit disappointed if the glacial zone has been transformed into corrupt spirit zone.

Ais will appear in DM20 Ch2 so I’m guessing the intersection will be in early chapters of DM20 and SO15. Looks like Loki Familia or at least their strongest members won’t be participating in Orariopiad since they will be in the dungeon.

Probably Lefiya will have her first debut in MS by participating in Orariopiad.

I'm still skeptical that Bell himself will be participating in Orariopiad. A Level 5 in an athletic competition against Level 1s and 2s is like Derrick Henry running against a middle school defense.

@Longhatruong Hope she get rekt :D

@AP24 How do you know that she's appearing in Ch2?

Anyway, does anyone have an idea of how SD can face Orario?? We know that the students are at most level 3, and then there's just Leon. So it would be pretty unfair, even if Bell and Lefiya decide to help Leon. Maybe we're going to have a few 1vs1 or something like that. Also the festival talks about "sport", so maybe they're not going to be straight up fights (yeah, this would suck)?

The conditions of the challenge between the SD and Orario is probably to help the SD students get better at adventuring in the dungeon.

Perhaps the SD selects a familia to represent them and have their students temporarily go on expeditions to determine their performance with those specific families.