"AGAIN?!" Loki shouted as she stared at the boy, who was now starting to sweat, while most of the other executives just laughed."

"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Bell shouted in a high-pitched voice, trying to defend himself.

This however, just caused the other members to laugh even harder. Flustered, the red-eyed boy ran out of the hall, leaving Ais to deal with the Familia members by herself again.

"Bell..." Ais said in a quite whisper as she watched him run off.

As the laughter continued, Ais could only look down at her plate with a little blush on her face. However, as the laughter died down, and she looked up, she could see all the executive staring at her with slight grins, except for Bete, who was glaring at her. Ais had a bad feeling about this…

"So Ais, you and Bell certainly have gotten close. Mind telling us your feelings for the boy?" Finn curiously asked.

She was on the spot. All eyes were on her as they all wanted to hear the reply. Panicking, she only said the one word which came to her head,

"Bunny."

Laughter erupted.

"HAHAHA, Ais you kill me!"

"Haha, seriously Ais you got our hopes up for a second there."

Ais could only look down in embarrassment as it was the second day in a row she had been teased this much. Once again, the laughter died down and everyone enjoyed their breakfast, that was except for the little rabbit who ran away.

In the Streets of Orario..

'ARGGG! Why did I run away again. Even worse, Ais has to deal with them by herself now!' Bell berated himself in his head, however like the wimp he was, he decided not to return to the Loki Familia Mansion to help Ais.

When Bell stopped running, he found himself in front of the guild hall, and decided to go on and talk to Eina, hopefully she would have some advice for him.

"YOU WHAT?!" Eina shouted in the soundproof room.

She was completely surprised at what Bell just told her. He had kissed Ais Wallenstein? 'The' Sword Princess? Twice!? And she let him? So many thoughts were going through her mind, but she had to hand it to the boy, she never thought in a million years Bell would be close to Ais, let alone kiss her.

"Umm yeahh, but I don't know what to do now. I don't want it to be awkward between us. And I'm pretty sure the other low-level members hate me for it now." Bell stated as he rubbed the back of his head. He viewed Eina as an older sister, so he found it easy to come to her with problems such as these, even though she was only his guild advisor.

"Well Bell, to be honest you completely exceeded my expectations. You know she supposedly turned down 1000 courtships? Guess 1001th was the charm. You should tell her how you feel, I'm sure she would accept whatever you had to say. And don't worry about the other adventurer's, give them time, and once they get to know you, they'll see what a nice person you are." Eina stated in a nurturing way.

"Thanks Eina." Bell stated as his resolve strengthened, and as he made his way back to the mansion.

Little did he know that the real Eina was tied up at his old mansion and the one he just talked to was an imposter.

'Hehehehe. Now Sir Bell will get rejected by the Sword Princess and Lily will pick up the pieces! He will be all mine.' The shapeshifting Prum though as a smile graced her lips.

At the Loki Familia Mansion…

As Bell opened the main entrance doors, he was met with the faces of Tione and Tiona. Both looked in surprise to see he was back so early, especially after what happened at breakfast. Believing he was teased enough in the morning for the time being, and because they wanted to go on an adventure with him, rather than teasing him about Ais, they asked if he wanted to go in to the Dungeon with them and Ais. Bell, happy he got to spend more time with Ais and his Familia members gladly accepted. All there was now to do was wait for Ais to come downstairs.

As Ais finished preparing for the dungeon, she walked downstairs and noticed a white-haired adventurer with the two sisters.

"Finally! Lets get going. Oh, and Argonaut-kun is joining us." The younger of the Hyrute sisters stated as she made her way to the door.

"Hi Bell," Ais said with a smile, causing Bell's checks to tint red.

In the 18th floor…

With Bell doing most of the fighting as to try to impress Ais, they had made it to the 18th floor. Just finishing the battle against the Goliath, the group was tired and decided to rest on the 18th floor. As they were eating, Bell remembered what had happened the last time they were on this floor, causing him to look down in embarrassment with his face bright red. This didn't go unnoticed, as Tione and Tiona were now bored and looking for something interesting to do.

"Say Bell, what's with the blush," Tiona asked with a slight grin on her face

"Wha'cha thinking about Argonaut-kun?" Tiona asked with a bright smile

"Whhaaa? Nothing!" Bell exclaimed trying to defend himself. His eyes however, were a dead giveaway, as he accidently looked at Ais, causing his cheeks to brighten even further.

"Ohh, thinking about the time you saw Ais in the pool huh?" Tione asked like she just cracked the code.

"Wow didn't think Argonaut had it in him," Tiona said joining the teasing.

As Bell was lost for words, he looked at Ais, who happened to be avoiding eye contact with him, with cheeks burning bright red. Bell knew it was too dangerous to run away, so he had to endure the embarrassment from the two sisters, and with Ais just sitting there hearing everything!

After a while, the two sisters left to get some supplies from Rivera, leaving Bell an Ais by themselves. To kill some, and because they were embarrassed to speak to each other, they decided to do some light sparing. While fighting Bell, Ais remember when he had seen her in the pool, causing her to blush and, losing control of her power, she accidently hit Bell to hard; knocking him out.

As Bell was laying there unconscious, Ais started to pet his hair. Then she moved his head up onto her lap to make him more comfortable, rather than lying his head on the ground. As she continued to pet his hair, Bell mumbled in his sleep.

"Aisss.."

As she leaned in closer, trying to figure out what he was trying to say, the hand she was leaning on slipped, causing her lips to crash onto his. Just at this moment Bell awoke, his eyes wide staring back at Ais's, both too shocked to move from place.

"Wow Ais, never expected you to be this bold," Tione said with a grin on her face as she was making her way back to the other two.

"Can't wait until the others hear what you just did Ais," Tiona said laughing.

Ais quickly leapt up, separating her lips from Bells. All she could do was stare at the two sisters in shock.

Little did they know however, there was a catman spying on them hiding in trees far away…

Back at Loki Familia Mansion…

The journey had been a long one, not through hard work, but due to the sheer awkwardness between Ais and Bell, and the constant teasing of the two Hyrute sisters. By the end of it, Ais and Bell couldn't even look at each other. As they all separated, Bell went into his room, he knew what would come next. Constant teasing at dinner, with an angry Loki. Although he had already experienced it twice, it was still too much for him. However, this time he vowed not to run away.

Bell was aware that he had done most of the heavy lifting on the dungeon even though his party was levels above him. He was also aware that he was close to level 3. So he decided to go to Loki's room in hopes for updating his status.

*knock knock*

"Come in would ya!"

Bell walks in the room.

"Ahh the Bunny. Wha'd ya want?"

"Could I have my status updated please?" Bell asked aware the person in front of him was angry at him for some reason.

"Yea, lay down would ya." Loki replied while gesturing him to hurry up.

*…Level 3…*

Eyes wide. Usually Loki would've been jumping with joy upon finding out that one of her familia members levelled up, but she knew the kid just wanted Ais, her favourite human, so she was a little petty about this.

"Rabbit trynna steal Ais…." Loki muttered.

"Sorry, I didn't hear you." Bell replied back, interested as to what his status was

"I SAID, you levelled up to 3!" Loki shouted back

Bell snatched the paper out of her hand and looked at it, his face portraying a wide smile. Afterwards, Loki and Bell finished the specifics and Bell left for his room.

During dinner time, Bell entered the cafeteria, he sat down in his usual place opposite Ais and ate with his head down, hoping he wouldn't draw too much attention to himself. However, instead of teasing today, he could hear the hate coming from his fellow lower. Apparently, a crying Loki about how Bell was going to steal Ais away had told everyone in the familia before Bell could announce it to the Guild. Even though, he was used to the other lower tier adventurers mean comments, he wasn't used to the glares of the upper-class adventurers. As bell looked up from his food, he could see the high-level people around him just stared at him, and in Bete's case, gave off a murderous aura.

"Congrats Bell." Finn said with a smile. He was the first one on that table to talk to Bell, and he knew that the other members might be a bit jealous of Bell's growth.

"Well done Argonaut-kun!" Tiona cheered.

As others on the table also began to congratulate him, he saw Ais stroking her hair to behind her ear, trying to get ready to talk to him.

"How do you grow so quickly?" Ais asked, anxious to know.

"Umm, I'm not sure myself. Sorry Ais." Bell replied, a bit sad he couldn't answer his idols question.

Ais noticing this replied back hastily,

"Don't worry about it Bell," Ais said as she gave him a smile.

As Bell smiled back, the conversation continued. The members asked Bell about his daily activities and his training in hopes they would find the reason for his high growth. Loki already knew and seeing how fast he was growing; she had to make a plan to separate them.

After dinner, everyone headed to their own rooms as it was getting late. Bell, on the other hand, couldn't sleep, so instead of laying on his bed he decided to explore the mansion. After taking a few wrong turns, he ended up in a room he hadn't seen before. As he was about to leave, he noticed the floor matt was a little out of place, so he decided to lift it up. Underneath he discovered a little door, so he decided to go through it. After a while of crawling through the cramped space, he noticed there were air vents and he could see into the rooms of his familia.

As he crawled past Tione's, he could see her planning for the Captain to marry her. Crawling past Bete, he could just see him brooding. Finn was just doing some paper work. He managed to crawl past a few others until he came across Ais's room. What surprised Bell the most was that Riveria was there, and they were talking about… HIM?