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?

The entire world I believe, but I think it was only because of Evilus.

Evilus is certainly partly responsible, but the fact a Hero fails to kill a legendary monster & is now buried in shame as a result is what happened with Epimeteus.

If you take into account that Zeus & Hera were the gathering of the greatest heroes of the current Era & still hold that title 15 years later, there are objective reasons to despair, a hero failure can be attributed to the individual when it's a gathering it directly damage the concept of Hero.

Seeing the info on SO15, it finally joins with the MS and it involves the 60th floor.

The joint expedition between the HF (with FF members) and LF could happen after all. Perhaps a potential expedition like that will involve the Guild's elevator as well.

I doubt there is a joint expedition in SO15 because DM20 is about the Orariopiad. I think it’s referring to the timeline which the events of every SO volume from now on will happen at the same time as the events of the latest DM volume released.