Is It Depraved to Attempt to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? V ‒ Episode 4

Who’s extra great, the goddess or the lady? Or no longer it is a ask that DanMachi has asked off and on all thru its elope, holding up assorted examples each time. Ryu’s answer was that the lady(s) were when she abandoned her goddess after the deaths of the alternative girls people in her familia. Hestia tranquil hasn’t reach to an answer, but her two selves – a woman and a goddess – are barely distinguishable from each other. And for Freya? As of the finish of this episode, it looks fancy she was hoping to brand the lady extra important, but when that did no longer work, she determined to pull out all the stops as the goddess. Her final declaration that “Syr” is dead and that she’s going to now grasp Bell as “Freya” is chilling no longer accurate because she’s going to snatch another goddess’ child, but also because it lets us know that she’s given up on her dreams of an oðr coming to her by fair means. She’s ready to play scandalous.

I discussed prior to that Freya Familia operates extra fancy a cult than the alternative familias we have seen thus far. This largely comes from the fanatical devotion to their goddess exhibited by the familia participants, something we examine writ large in this episode. Hörn’s attempt to extinguish Bell while disguising herself as Freya’s “Syr” persona is accomplished totally to stop her goddess from becoming sullied by her base feelings for an unworthy boy. She sees herself as saving Freya no longer accurate from Bell, but from herself – her overwhelming desire for the boy has, in Hörn’s mind, made her blind to the responsibilities of her divinity and dignity. She wants her goddess to remain pure, a being she can continue to unquestioningly treasure, and that’s led her to attempt to “save” her from an imagined threat. She may be tangentially aware that a romance exterior of the familia(s) can be hard, but she’s keener to maintain her idea of who and what Freya ought to be than she is to stop an inter-familia mess. We may also examine this cultlike aspect of Freya Familia in the interaction between Anya and Alan – Alan, as we all know, is nicknamed Vana Freya, but now we learn that Anya is Vana Alfi, indicating that she, too, was once part of the staff. Alan is particularly biting when he talks to his sister, and that Anya snaps that she goes by accurate “Anya” these days seems to point to a break no longer accurate between the siblings, but between Anya and Freya Familia. Did she free herself from the cult? And does her brother resent that?

This all contrasts sharply with Bell and Welf’s discussion earlier in the episode. Their interaction is incredibly brotherly, with Welf taking on the feature of Bell’s older brother as he carefully explains the situation with Syr’s feelings and how Bell ought to proceed. His bluntness is tempered by genuine love for his fellow Hestia Familia member, and it is clear that he’s trying to assist while also being as perfect as that you can think of. He is aware of it’d be easier for Bell to accurate ignore the indicators Syr is giving him, but he outlines why that can be a jerk transfer, gently helping Bell to grow up a little. Does it backfire? Probably, but that’s hardly Welf’s or Bell’s fault; they assign no longer yet know that Freya and Syr are the same particular person. Welf accurate wants Bell to be a apt man, and Bell also would no longer want to lie to somebody who’s been kind to him ever since he arrived in Orario. The challenge handiest arises because gods aren’t certain to the same laws as humans.

There are really no apt answers for Bell. Be aware, the heart-broken child is handiest fourteen, and he’s far exterior his comfort zone with Syr’s sexual advances – we have barely gotten any evidence that his crush on Ais is on that level. He wants to be a apt particular person, but he’s being pushed too far, and the total date had him looking extra uncomfortable than happy. The title of this week’s episode, seidr (extra properly seiðr), refers to an ancient invent of Norse magic about telling and shaping the prolonged elope. Both Hörn and Freya can be argued to be using it. The ask turns into what kind of future Freya is about to unleash.

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