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.

@Hurricane951 Chapter 2 is called "The Lion and the Sword Princess". Whether that's Lion as in "Ryuu Lion" or "Leon the Lion" we don't know for sure yet, but presumably the latter makes the most sense with how much focus Leon sounds to be getting in the book.

The Lion in the chapter title refers to the animal, it’s not a name. So it’s referring to Leon.

“Heroes are ‘shit’”

“Heroes are ‘conquerers’”

“Heroes are gone”

What if these lines aren't from Leon's thoughts but rather how the world views Heroes.

Didn't the world fall into chaos after the Zeus familia and Hera familia were defeated or was it just Orario?