Characters / Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? -- Bell Cranel

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Bell Cranel

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (JP), Bryson Baugus (English) ^{Foreign VAs} Diego Santos (Latin American Spanish), Rubén Felis (European Spanish), Michaël Maino (French), Patrick Keller (German), Jacopo Calatroni (Italian), Pablo Argôllo (Brazilian Portuguese)

The main protagonist of the series.

Starting off as a rookie adventurer, Bell's life is put at risk after coming across a high-level Minotaur. However, he is saved by the seasoned adventurer Ais Wallenstein and ends up developing a crush on her. After the event, Bell ends up acquiring a rare skill, Liaris Freese, that allows for him to accelerate his growth so long as it corresponds with his strong feelings towards achieving something... such as catching up to Ais.

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A-I

• Above the Influence: Despite what his grandfather told him to do, he doesn't seem to like taking advantage of women. Unfortunately, Hermes tricks him into doing it by claiming he wanted to talk to Bell privately, only to lead him to a spot where they could see the women's bath before inadvertently making Bell fall into the bath as well. Luckily for him, a number of them (especially Hestia) didn't mind. As for the others, especially Lefiya... not so much.
• Accidental Pervert:
  • Bell has an odd habit of accidentally getting into some compromising situations, such as rolling straight into Ais' butt, though it's probably a given due to how many women are around him. Usually due to Hermes' schemes.
  • This saves him in Volume 7, where his accidental wandering into Haruhime's room and being mistaken for a client allows him to hide from his pursuers.
• Albinos Are Freaks: Inverted. Bell's snow-white hair and red eyes remind others of the cute, but dangerous almiraj (a rabbit with a horn on its head) monsters that inhabit the middle floors of the dungeon — this adds to his "pure" and "rabbit-like" appearance that others find endearing and cute, while Hestia, who is head over heels for him, considers them part of his "cool looks". Potentially subverted if one follows the Astraea Record event of Memoria Freese, when Bell's maternal aunt Alfia indicates Bell's white hair and red eyes were inherited through his mother and father respectively. This may imply his appearance may not be due to the albinism as we know it.
• All-Loving Hero: If he's able, he will come to the aid of anyone under monster threat, even those who have betrayed, harmed, or attempted to kill him and those he cares about. In fact, he is so all-loving that he is willing to alienate the entirety of Orario and jeopardize his reputation to save the sentient monster Wiene.
• All Men Are Perverts: Downplayed. He may not be willing to cross certain lines such as deliberately peeking on naked women, but he certainly doesn't mind being subjected to Marshmallow Hell from a goddess like Demeter.
• Almighty Janitor: Downplayed. He takes on Asterius, a Black Rhinos Xenos rated as a Level 7 threat, on his own even while he's a Level 3 (though he had the stats of a Level 4 and Asterius was at death's door thanks to Ais). He loses, but the fact that he's even alive at all is amazing (but this is partially due to Asterius' sense of honor and desire for an even greater rematch once they're both stronger).
• Amazon Chaser: He chases after the Sword Princess Ais to one day be on the same level as her.
• Animal Motifs: Bell often gets compared to a White Bunny—makes sense due to his albinism and his speed.based style of combat. Unfortunately for Bell, it makes it easy for him to be the butt of certain rabbit-related jokes, such as in the novels, when Lily disguised herself as a wolf-person, at least one onlooker said the "wolf" could eat the "rabbit" as emergency provisions.
• Apologizes a Lot: Does this often, usually when he ends up accidentally doing something perverted to women.
• Badass Adorable: Frequently called cute because of his rabbit-like appearance.
• Bad Liar: Bell Cranel Cannot Keep a Secret, but this is less because he blabs his mouth and more because he's a terrible liar.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Bell joins Hestia Familia because no one else would take him in, while she approached him and offered him the opportunity.
• Beware the Nice Ones: A genuine Nice Guy for the most part, but will get angry if someone he cares about gets hurt.
• BFS: He occasionally wields one, especially when his knives aren't enough for some reason, most prominently example being his fight with the Minoutaur of the 9th floor.
  • In an event of Memoria Freese the Hestia Knife gets a Greatsword variant crafted to help him fight against the current threat. It gets destroyed by the end.
• Black Swords Are Better: The Hestia Knife is a special black knife that only works for him. As Bell grows in power, so will it until they both reach the pinnacle of Orario. Naturally, it's all black.
• Book Dumb: He admits that he doesn't read many books, other than hero stories.
• Born Lucky: He's an extremely fortunate person, having been saved by Ais just as she was coming back up from an expedition and obtaining a ridiculously powerful and unheard of growth skill. This is further exemplified by the "Luck" skill he obtained after killing the Minotaur and reaching Level 2, which increases the chance of good things happening to him that might even help his friends. For instance, while visiting a casino for the first time, he manages to turn a mere three chips into 10,800 chips (a difference of 3,600 times) by repeatedly betting on a single number on roulette. ^note He did this three or four times, which has a 1/48275 to 1 in 1,500,625 chance of happening in real life, At first, Bell tries to pass this off as Beginner's Luck, but the results are increasingly obvious to him as he continues winning. And that's just from the effects of the fresh Luck skill at I rank. By the time he reaches Level 4, Luck's rank had increased to F, a whole three ranks higher. Also note that Luck is classified as a Development Ability, which are notoriously hard to level up, to the point even most veterans with decades-long careers only reach rank E.
  Bell: Haha... I was just lucky. [gets the roulette on the mark for the second time] Ahaha it's just luck. [gets another one perfectly] I was lucky again... [on the mark again] Luc... ky?! [on the mark one more time, giving him a mountain of chips as he stares on speechless]
  Onlookers: How lucky is he?!
• Born Unlucky: Bell has developed a habit of running into and fighting monsters that have greatly surpassed the limits of their own species abilities. From a Red Minotaur personality trained by Orario’s strongest Adventurer to a Juggernaut that ate different monsters of the 37th Floor in an attempt to kill him specifically after he severely weakened it in their second battle.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Inverted. Bell is willing to act perverted only toward Ais, it led to a Good Angel, Bad Angel moment in the third volume. Lampshade by Hestia after the events of volume 5.
• Casting Gag: Bell is voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka who is typecast as Stock Light Novel Heroes and Harem Genre protagonists. Most notably Kirito from Sword Art Online.
• The Champion: Starting from Volume 1, he has sworn himself to Ais. Can't actually act on that, though. Even if he were strong enough, he would be Bodyguarding a Badass.
• Changing Yourself for Love: Bell starts out as a Harem Seeker in search of the Rescue Romance his grandpa always told him about. After he's rescued from certain death by the devastatingly beautiful and incredibly powerful adventurer Ais Wallenstein, Bell is instantly smitten with her and vows to become strong enough to stand beside her one day. His desire to catch up to her is so strong that he gets a unique Meta Power Up that rapidly increases the rate at which his stats grow and lets him break the usual stat caps so long as his feelings for her persist. Because of this, he completely drops his Harem Seeker ways and dreams of becoming a hero to earn her affection.
• Charged Attack: Bell gets the skill Argonaut after reaching Level 2, allowing him to charge up his next physical or magical attack with a potentially enormous amount of extra power. However, he must stand still while using it, and it iniatially takes a full three minutes (later it increases to four when he hits Level 4, and to five when he becomes Level 5) to reach its maximum power, an eternity on the battlefield. Even after he becomes able to charge it while moving, he still will lose the charge if he is hit. But even a partially charged attack can gravely injure an opponent one level above him, while a fully-charged Argonaut attack is that can fell even a Floor Boss several levels above his own in a single hit.
• Chick Magnet:
  • He has girls falling for him all around him thanks to his striking Bishōnen looks, his sweet, mousy personality, and his reckless acts of heroism. To date, Hestia, Lili, Haruhime, Aisha, and Eina have demonstrated clear romantic interest in him, while Ais and Tione want to get to know him better.
  • It works to his detriment when he gets lost in the Pleasure District while tailing Mikoto and Chigusa, as he's considered so handsome that the girls of the Ishtar Familia all want a piece of him, nearly tearing him limb from limb in a Lover Tug of War and forcing him to flee for his life.
  • In Volume 16, he's coerced by Hedin Selland of the Freya Familia into undergoing brutal Training from Hell in order to make him a better date for Syr. This involves forcing him to change his posture, mannerisms, and speech patterns while being forced to rescue low-level female adventurers from pass parades until he can make them swoon every time. Failure to do so would result in a beating that would leave Bell vomiting and twitching on the floor.
  • Even the Xenos find themselves interested in him, with Wiene being clearly in love with him while Rei demonstrates serious interest. The gods even considered changing his alias to "All Okay" as they mistakenly believed that Bell has a monster fetish.
• The Chosen One:
  • He comes under the attention of Freya who becomes obsessed with making him stronger and nurturing him to his full potential.
  • Similarly, Hermes has decided to try and make Bell "the last hero" destined to defeat the One-Eyed Black Dragon that demolished the Zeus and Hera Familia.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He goes out of his way to help Lili, even after she betrays him and leaves him for dead. In general, if he can help someone, he will, even if it comes at a cost to himself. Hestia lampshades this, complaining that gods of hearth and home (i.e. herself) are less generous than he is. His desire to help others is so profound that he puts his reputation, livelihood, and life on the line to protect Wiene and the Xenos with full knowledge that it would make him an enemy of adventurers everywhere.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: He doesn't realize that there are girls falling for him left and right in his single-minded pursuit of Ais.
• Cold-Blooded Torture:
  • He's the victim of this in Memoria Freese's Date A Live crossover, he's subjected to the receiving end of one by a fake Kaguya Yamai, which results in his bones being broken and his flesh getting ripped in front of his friends, fortunately Shido came to the rescue.
  • In volume 17, in an attempt to make him hers, Freya kidnaps him and has the executives of her familia subject Bell to extremely harsh training. He ends up being constantly pushed to the brink of death and then brought back just to be beaten again everyday, all in an attempt to psychologically break him.
• Commonality Connection: Bell is attached to Lili because he saw how lonely she was, much like him before Hestia invited him to join her familia.
• Conveniently an Orphan: His only family was his grandfather who then died half a month before the start of the series.
• Covert Pervert: While he's a nice guy, his goal at first was to get a harem. While he's grown out of this, he still reacts positively to marshmallow hells. In the manga, he also wants to play with Liliruca's tail, fully aware of her Fantastic Arousal concerning her ears.
• The Cutie: Most older characters comment on his harmless huggableness the first time they see him, especially the goddesses that interrupt his "date" with Hestia.
• Defensive Feint Trap: In the War Game, Bell takes advantage of when Hyacinthos is, in order to lure The Bully into launching a reckless attack. It works like a charm.
• Determinator: Wants to become a high-level adventurer as soon as possible in order to catch up to Ais. In episode 11, despite his massive injuries, he singlehandedly carries an unconscious Lili and Welf to the 18th floor of the dungeon, barely getting past a boss that was in the process of respawning while also being physically exhausted.
• Dismemberment Is Cheap: Subverted. Bell's arm gets cut off in Volume 13, but he manages to get it reattached thanks to Marie's Mermaid Blood. In Volume 14, his arm is gravely damaged as he constantly used throughout the volume to block attacks. While he covered it with a special item that was extremely resilient, the shockwaves still hurt him. By the epilogue, it was only salvable due to extensive treatments done by the best medical faction and paid for by Ouranos and Hermes. But Hestia notes that the costs of this treatment had eight zeroes in front of it and was considered a special, emergency case, as Naza, another adventurer who lost an arm, got a prosthetic instead. In fact, it is noted that if parts of his arm had been lost, the reconstruction wouldn't have been possible.
• Divine Parentage: Downplayed. In episode 13, Hermes mentions that Bell is "Zeus's grandson" as he watches Bell defeat the Black Goliath, implying that Bell's grandfather was actually one of the most prominent deities in their world. In the light novels, however, it was noted that Zeus is only his adopted grandfather, and he is as much a human as everyone else. This does explain why he was raised to be a Harem Seeker though, since Zeus is infamous for sleeping with everybody.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Gets dragged into the pleasure quarters against his will, gets grabbed by Aisha and dragged into Ishtar's HQ, spends the whole night fleeing from them, and when he manages to escape and get home, he gets yelled at and punished by Hestia, who pointedly refuses to listen to anyone else speaking on his behalf and berates him so strongly he's too shaken to speak on his own behalf.
• Dramatic Irony: Played for Laughs. Bell went into the Dungeon to make a harem only to fall for Ais and give up on it. Yet in doing so he gained a harem and is completely oblivious to it.
• Dual Wielding: Bell eventually becomes a dual-wielder after obtaining a second weapon to coincide with the normal dagger he started off with.
• The Dulcinea Effect: He has the habit of jumping in and endangering himself to protect girls who are total strangers to him.
• Emotional Powers: Due to the Liaris Freese skill, his growth will accelerate depending on how strong his feelings are.
• Empathic Weapon: The Hestia Knife grows in tandem with Bell's own growth—that is to say, it gets stronger as he does—and since his growth is fueled by his emotions and want to get better, it fits.
• Endearingly Dorky: He's so innocent and kind that many people (mostly women) warm up to him almost immediately.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Apollo is very... interested in getting Bell to join his Familia in Volume 6.
• Famed In-Story: Granted, anyone that levels up gains some small amount of renown, but Bell is especially famous for shattering the record on how fast a rookie became Level 2. His following numerous misadventures do nothing but turn him more and more into the talk of the town, and further spread his fame worldwide.
• Farm Boy: He lived and worked in a farm when he was younger.
• First Kiss: In Memoria Freese he has his first kiss stolen by Ilia. The Unwanted Harem acts about as you would expect.
• Friendless Background: He had no friends growing up on his grandpa's farm and staved off the loneliness by reading about all of the heroic tales and stories his grandpa would write down and tell him.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Bell is naive and fairly easy to manipulate, but he's far from dumb, spending evenings studying the monsters in the dungeon and always looking to Take a Third Option when caught in a Morton's Fork. He admits that he's not a genius like Ais or a tactician like Finn, but his plucky resourcefulness gets him out of more than one scrap.
• Good Is Not Soft: We can't be sure if Bell has a strictly non-killing rule against humans/Xenos or not, (he hasn't killed anyone directly, even in critical moments), but if you press him enough he will fight you and your team and shoot all of you with a lot of Firebolts that can burn badly to end this quickly.
• Harem Seeker: Bell was one due to his grandfather's influence. Averted in the main narrative, as he is madly in love with Ais and gave up looking for a harem.
• Hero Protagonist: This is his story because the title is his goal. He wants to save girls in dungeons, and catch up to one girl in particular in power.
• Heroic Lineage: Downplayed. In Memoria Freese, it's revealed that Bell's father and mother were members of the Zeus and Hera Familia, the two most powerful familia in the history of Orario. But his father was merely a supporter, while his mother was too sickly to leave her bed. As such, they were not truly heroes or adventurers, but their ties to Zeus and Hera continue to influence Bell's journey even if he remains unaware of their past.
• Heroic Second Wind: In episode 8, after getting mauled by the Minotaur, he gets this at the realization of having to be saved by Ais again. He proceeded to return the favor to the Minotaur, with interest.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He has a pretty low viewpoint of himself. Ryu outright tells him to think more highly of himself, but just telling him to will not fix this problem. Given the fact that Bell almost always fights opponents much stronger and more skilled than he is, this sort of opinion perpetuates itself.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Subverted. Hestia notes that while he's gullible and naive, he generally has a very good read of people and their intentions. After Liliruca robs him blind and cheats him out of his hard-earned money, he continues to trust her after puzzling out her entire backstory, gambling on her becoming The Atoner. In the anime, after nothing more than a mere look at her and a very short conversation with the adventurers extorting her, i.e., they try to recruit him to do the same, he is able to puzzle out most (if not all) of her Freudian Excuse, and he decides to stand by her, no matter what. It works.
• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: His reaction whenever he strokes Lili's animal appendages.
• Ideal Hero: Thanks to his personality and sheer determination to do what he thinks is right he often inspires those around to push even harder. The greatest example of this has to be Finn from Loki Familia who is someone who is always weighing his decisions on a scale choosing the one that will bring him closer to his goal until Bell inspired him.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He knows his initial self looks weak and pathetic next to a powerful woman of high level like Ais. Bell wants to become a heroic figure and to be a man who is equal to Ais in power. He got the Skill Argonaut due to the former.
• Immune to Mind Control:
  • Ishtar's attempts to charm him with her sex powers completely fail because Liaris Freese makes him immune to charms thanks to it being powered by his Single-Target Sexuality for Ais.
  • This is later revealed to work on all seduction-based mental attacks, as the singing of mermaids on the middle floors fails to affect him, much to his own surprise.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Yen Press insists his surname has two L's.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness:
  • Prior to defeating the Minotaur, Bell's soul was almost completely pure. Bell's memory of the Minotaur traumatized him and prevented him from truly fulfilling this trope, as Freya explains to Ottar. After defeating the Minotaur...
    It was shining.
    Bell's spirit shone through.
    Bright enough to burn his image in Freya's eyes.
    Despite being so radiant, the light from his soul was still clear.
    A pure wish.
  • Bell's pure and unending wish to catch up to Ais and stand by her side lets him No-Sell Ishtar's Charm Person ability, because Bell Cranel's Skill makes him too pure to be swayed by the glamour of even a goddess.
  • It's also the reason why Ais is so obsessed with him, as his pureness reminds her of her past self. She goes to great lengths to ensure that he stays pure.
• Innocently Insensitive: Hestia asks Bell if he'd elope with a beautiful goddess if she came up to him one day and confessed to him. Although it's blatantly obvious to everyone else that she's referring to herself, Bell innocently refuses. He explains that such a thing would never happen to him and even if it did, he would never be worthy of being romantically involved with someone so above him in status.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Bete calls him "Tomato Kid" after an incident where a slain Minotaur's blood spilled all over him and he ran around town all red.
  • Tiona calls him "Little Argonaut" after the fight against the Minotaur, comparing Bell with the story's hero.
  • Since the sixth novel it seems everyone on Orario refers to him as "Rabbit". For example, he being chased is referred by townspeople as a "rabbit chase", while some chasers refer to him as such to his face.
• Insecure Love Interest: As much as Bell loves and respects Ais, he also feels unworthy to stand by her side unless he gets much stronger. Interestingly enough, this also applies to Hestia, as well. Besides his lack of interest, Bell opposed the idea of getting into a relationship with a Goddess because of a combination of his devotion to her under the belief that gods are above everyone and the vast difference between their lifespans. Hestia herself doesn't seem to mind, claiming that even when Bell does die, she'll come looking for him, no matter how long it takes.
• Intrinsic Vow: From the prologue onward, Bell is devoted only towards Ais. It's hard to imagine him ever giving up Ais for anyone else. For this reason, he is able to ignore a goddess of beauty's Charm Person ability, which no other mortal is known to be able to do.

K-Y

• Keet: Pretty easily excitable. Especially when he gets new weapons and magic.
• Kid Hero: Only 14 years old, yet he's also one of the most well-known adventurers in Orario. His youth is also Played for Drama, as his lack of experience contributes to many of his worst traits, namely his cowardice, indecisiveness, and naivety, requiring guidance from Hestia, Lili, and Welf to avoid getting scammed and hurt.
• Killer Rabbit: His albinism, good looks, and mousy personality earn him plenty of comments comparing him to rabbits, but he's also growing faster than any other adventurer in history, and soon becomes a formidable adventurer in his own right.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He's got the personality of one, the noble and virtuous fairy tale sort of hero. He strives to become the toughest version of this. Incidentally, he favors light armor instead of the traditional plate.
• Lightning Bruiser: Within the series, the stats of a person with a status can go from 0 to 999. However, most people reach B (700s) at the very best; practically nobody hits S rank (900s) and reaching it in just one stat is an extraordinary accomplishment. Besides that, everyone tends to have one or more stats dramatically lower than the rest. In contrast, thanks to his Skill Liaris Freese, Bell can not only raise all his stats to S rank, but even go beyond it. Something supposed to be impossible that even the Loki and Freya Familias can't do. In all his known final statuses his stats are all at SS (1000-1199), except for Agility that is always SSS rank (1200+). At Level 4, his final stats were all SSS rank, the highest being SSS 1501. Because of it, Bell has the prowess to stand against opponents one level above him, proving inferior to them mainly due to being less skilled, and has even defeated a few. The effect just increases with each passing level.
• Likes Older Women: Not deliberately, but every girl that Bell (14 years old) has an emotionally significant attachment to women that are significantly older than him, from Eina (19 years old), Hestia (thousands of years old) to Ais (16 years old), the love of his life. His childish personality, however, causes the first to initially see him as a younger brother and the last one to think of him as a "rabbit pet".
• Limit Break: Bell, very rarely, has been able to enter an empowered state called Limit Off. So far, only three times: In Volume 5 against the Black Goliath, in Sword Oratoria Volume 12 against Enyo's Nidhogg, and in Volume 18 against Ottar.
• Lovable Coward: His aw-shucks modesty, indecisiveness, and lack of confidence in himself leads him to try and run away from most of his problems in his early days as an adventurer. In fact, he spends so much time running away that by the time he reaches Level 4, he gains the Escape development ability, improving his already impressive speed so long as he's running away from something. Despite this, he finds reasons to stand his ground when the chips are down, upon which he can become recklessly brave when fighting for the sake of someone else, turning him into a Cowardly Lion.
• Love at First Sight: It took only one look for Bell to fall hopelessly in love with Ais.
• Luck Stat: Eventually gains a "Luck" stat down the line, which will allow him to possibly pull off a justified Deus ex Machina or two. Hestia even alludes to this, pointing out that it probably is a sort of "divine protection".
• Lucky Rabbit's Foot: He may not be an actual rabbit, or even a Hume Bunny, but people have called him a lucky rabbit on at least one occasion, such as when he was at a casino and had such a spectacular winning streak all onlookers were shocked. Syr even sought for his presence in a high-stakes gambling game to improve their odds of winning. As if to lampshade this, his new alias is "Rabbit's Foot" after reaching Level 4 from his duel with Asterios.
• Luminescent Blush: Whenever Ais is in the picture, as well as when Hestia gets a little too flirtatious.
• Magnetic Hero: A more subdued example. He is willing to risk his life to protect his comrades who are also often just as ostracized as he was. He has earned the enmity of many though.
• Magic Knight: Bell is primarily a close-combat fighter given his specialty in handling knives, but between Firebolt and Argonaut, he packs serious magical firepower too.
• Marshmallow Hell: He's subjected to having his head in between a girl's chest a few times, but hilariously he's reacted positively to them.
• Meta Power-Up: His skill, "Liaris Freese" enables him to increase his stats at a quicker rate. It also lets him break the limit impossible to break for anyone else, with most of his stats hitting Rank SS and at least Agility reaching SSS when Rank S is usually considered the pinnacle of power.
• Mistaken for Gay: At one point, by Ais herself. She believed that the "person he wanted to catch up to" was Bete, since they were both speed-type blade users (not realizing that she herself is a speed-type blade user). To her credit, she's not fond of that theory.
• Mr. Imagination: Not in the modern "Chuunibyou" sense as he's in an fantasy universe, but he is too much into the heroes in Classical Mythology.
• My Greatest Failure: Views having to get rescued by Ais from a Minotaur as this. As a result, he constantly tries to get stronger so that he'll never need to be rescued like that ever again, in addition to catching up to her in terms of skills and strength. The thought of having to be saved by her again from a Minotaur again was what triggered his Heroic Second Wind when previously he was just getting brutalized by the monster.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicest guy the series has to offer.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: He never gets it when women try to pick him up or flirt with him.
• Oblivious to Love: Utterly fails to pick up on Hestia's and Syr's affection for him, and they can't be blamed for being too subtle, given the outright Love Confessions they each gave him.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: His "Hestia Knife" is only useful if he's wielding it, due to Hestia's blessing being imprinted on the weapon. Liliruca is shocked to find out it was worth maybe 30 valis when she tried to pawn it off after stealing it from him, whereas a typical generic weapon would be worth hundreds or thousands of valis.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: As much as he loves Marshmallow Hells, and has quite an active "imagination", if a woman genuinely comes on to him, even his beloved Ais, he shrieks and tries to run away. This is sometimes Played for Laughs, like with the aforementioned Ais, and sometimes played for drama, as with the Ishtar familia.
• Parrying Bullets: Bell gets strong and fast enough to a point that he can use his knife to cut through projectiles fired by monsters.
• Phosphor-Essence: Overlaps with this trope since Argonaut is a highly personal skill, reflecting one quality of Bell's personality; Being pure right down to the soul.
• Playing with Fire: He gains the "Firebolt" spell after reading a spell book.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: Since seduction charms don't work on him, his only reaction to seeing Ishtar naked was asking her to put her clothes back on.
• Power Glows: When he uses his Argonaut skill, the part of his body or weapon he is charging it in glows. In the anime, when he used it while empowered by the Limit Off state, his whole body turned white.
• Power of Trust: He turns his party members from mere acquaintances into True Companions by giving them his trust when any rational person wouldn't. It has certainly worked with Liliruca and Welf Crozzo.
• Pretty Boy:
  • Implied. Informed Attractiveness is an epidemic in this series; you can never really be sure how attractive anyone is until you hear them described. Bell's case was worse than most because as the viewpoint character we never really do. That said, in Sword Oratoria, when Lefiya first bumps into him, he's said to have "rubellite eyes" and "snow white hair". He's never outright stated to be attractive, but it seems that if he's not a bishonen already, he will be in a couple of years. Meanwhile, he's drawn as more generically moe.
  • Hestia adores his "cool looks" while Haruhime also calls him handsome. Aisha also calls him handsome and attractive and wants to take him back to her bedroom after he bumps into her in the Pleasure District, as does the rest of the Ishtar Familia.
  • Side materials and spin-offs like Memoria Freese put Bell in more fanciful outfits give him a neater hairstyle to draw out his full pretty boy looks.
• Red Baron: After defeating a Minotaur and reaching Level 2, he is given the nickname "Record Holder" for reaching Level 2 faster than anyone else in history (the next fastest person, Ais, took a year). He also gets the less impressive alias "Little Rookie" by the gods, but given what was seen in the Light Novels, it could have been a hell of a lot worse. After reaching Level 4 his alias is changed to Rabbit Foot to acknowledge his speed and the rate at which he climbed levels. It also refers to his good luck.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Bell isn't villainous, but get him determined enough and he's most certainly dangerous.
• Rescue Romance: He falls super hard for Ais when she saves him from a Minotaur that her party let escape. Later on, he doesn't appear to notice that he became the rescuer for Lili, and that she is in love with him.
• Reverse Grip: Unusually for a Light Novel or Shōnen protagonist, he favors fighting with agility and knives held icepick-style. He wields a special dagger known as the Hestia Knife that conducts magic, and has had other knives made by Welf from Minotaur and later unicorn horn.
• Rhyming Names: Bell Cranel. It certainly helps sell his "cute" character.
• Screams Like a Little Girl:
  • In the anime, particularly in episode 7 when he tries to dodge Ais and lands his face in her rear. He absolutely screeches. It has to be heard to be believed.
  • It is outright stated in Volume 7 that he sounded like Hestia when he screamed.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: For several episodes, whenever he saw Ais, his reaction is to run away. It isn't until Eina brings Ais in and his escape gets barricaded does he finally get to talk to Ais.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He's so in love with Ais that he doesn't notice the other female character's affections towards him. Actually becomes an important plot point when Bell is staring down Ishtar, a goddess of beauty. She's unable to charm him as a result of his single-minded quest to impress Ais.
• Situational Sword: He later obtains the Ox Slayer skill, which greatly ramps up his stats whenever he's up against any "bull-type" monster. This primarily extends to minotaurs. The trigger for this skill's manifestation is his desire to defeat Asterius after losing to him.
• Skewed Priorities: He becomes an adventurer in the hopes of one day rescuing a Damsel in Distress and beginning a Rescue Romance. There are some glaring problems with this plan and the first is that any girl he finds in the Dungeon will almost certainly be a Action Girl, and thus unlikely to need rescuing.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: Bell seems to be a cross between this and Stock Shōnen Hero. He starts off being deemed weak by everyone and rejected from most familia, which led him to a steep learning curve of training to increasing his power and actually has to be rescued a number of times throughout the story. However he is able to rapidly grow in strength compared to everyone else due to his unique skill "Liaris Freese", going from being overwhelmed by a Minotaur to being the one to defeat the borderline Hopeless Boss Fight. While he is introduced as a Harem Seeker who goes dungeon crawling to try and pick up girls, this gets dropped early on and he ends up being a Chick Magnet who acquires his own Unwanted Harem. Unlike most light novel protagonists, his physical appearance stands out due to being an albino and he doesn't belong to any modern society which is reflected in his fashion. In addition, while he isn't exactly an Idiot Hero he has been known to have a Horrible Judge of Character, being naive and overly trusting.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: As mentioned above, Bell takes aspects from both this and Stock Light-Novel Hero. His Shonen traits come from how he started off very weak and overshadowed by everyone, before working gradually towards becoming stronger. He's also quite cheerful and while not quite an Idiot Hero does tend to be blissfully ignorant. Also, his appearance heavily stands out with him being albino with Anime Hair.
• Strong Family Resemblance: According to an Alternate Universe short story, Bell's aunt Alfia says he got all of his looks from his mother, from his hair, to his face, to his smile. The only thing he got from his father are his red eyes.
• Super Gullible:
  • Bell is very easily lured in by gestures of kindness. Hestia worries about him as he got conned by Lili before her Heel–Face Turn, while Lili is concerned he has fallen for it again with Welf.
  • In Volume 4, Bell does a quest for Naza to obtain a rare potion ingredient that can be sold for 9,000 valis. He's delighted to find that the reward is 24 potions, a value of 12,000 valis that more than makes up the value. But a quick taste test from Lili confirms that these potions are watered down and their combined value is no more than 4,800 valis. Bell is disheartened that a child from Miach's Familia and a friend of his would rip him off like this.
• Superpower Lottery:
  • His "Liaris Freese" skill, which even the author refers to as "game breaking". It lets him to level grind extremely quickly, allowing him to become a Level 2 Adventurer in a month. The average time it takes someone to rank up, if they even do so (more than half of all adventurers are still Level 1), is unknown, but Naaza, a friend of Bell, took six years to do so. The former record is one year! And that was previously held by Ais.
  • Taken even further down the line when he hits Level 3 within a month after reaching Level 2... and then hitting Level 4 in two months after that! For reference, most adventurers don't even get to Level 2, and many of the Level 3 and 4 adventurers in the story are in their twenties and thirties.
  • He finally hits Level 5 in half a year since he became an adventurer. This officially also makes him a first-class adventurer, of which there are less than forty in the entire city. He is part of Orario's "elite", a.k.a. one of the strongest of the strongest city in the world.
  • His second skill, Argonaut, is even more ridiculous, as a fully-charged shot can easily obliterate monsters several levels above him in overall prowess. When he was just Level 2, it completely destroyed the upper body of the Level 5 Black Goliath. When he was Level 4, it annihilated Enyo's "trump card", the Nidhogg.
• Super-Speed: His highest stat is Agility because of his speed-based fighting style, and his fleet-footedness contributes to his reputation as being rabbit-like.
• Tears of Fear: At the start, he was scared of Minotaurs due to nearly being killed by one at the outset of the story. He gets over it after killing the Minotaur sent after him by Ottar, later going on to kill Minotaurs by the bunch.
• Took a Level in Badass: Actively grinding them:
  • He starts off with just a normal dagger, but has gained new skills, magic, weapons, and armor, ever since.
  • He goes from screaming in fear from a Minotaur to felling a Silverback, an eleventh floor monster, by himself. And in episode 8, he defeats an even tougher Minotaur himself, utilizing all the training, equipment, and skills he's acquired up to that point. Everyone present during that scene was entirely shocked by how fast he's grown.
  • In Volume 6, he was able to go from being completely shut-down by the Level 3 Hyacinthus, to fighting on par with Hyacinthus (even surpassing him in terms of speed), in the span of one week. Only from training with Tiona and Ais.
  • In Volume 7, he goes from being beat-down by Aisha alone, to giving a literal beatdown to Phryne, making her fall through a stone floor, and then immediately afterward facing Aisha one on one to beat her down with an Elemental Punch to the gut.
  • In Volume 11, he's able to hold his own against a level 7 threat despite being many levels below Asterius at the time. Though, it should be noted his opponent was extremely handicapped by the lost of one arm and other grave injuries in addition to exhaustion, and also deliberately left Bell alive for a rematch.
  • In Volume 12/the beginning of Season 4, Bell has appropriately ranked up to level 4. His power up is apparent to his team by the impressive Argonaut Firebolt he launches in the first episode, but it's underscored by his more mature and leader-like demeanor. He's no longer a rookie.
• True Companions: When he makes friends, he makes them for life. Welf and Lili are fiercely loyal to him and all three would be willing to risk death for each other.
• Turn the Other Cheek: It has yet to be shown anyone who has earned Bell's grudge, and people have done some truly horrific things to him, and his loved ones.
• Twice Shy: He is attracted to Ais, but unable to tell her this because he feels unworthy of standing next to her. Ais feels pretty much the same way, but is too unsure of how to handle of her emotions to speak her mind.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • A variation. Bell is more of the self-trained version of the trope, as since he was the only member of his familia there was nobody to teach him. It's only after training with Ais that he gains the skills needed to fight effectively. Even then, he still struggles against senior human opponents. Ais later gives him some tips, (namely on how to feint) but never an actual fighting style, letting him learn through their sparring sessions. Partially because of her own lack of skill as an instructor.
  • In Volume 8 this is Averted, too: Eina notes that he fought on par with adventurers of his level in spite of the fact that he had far less experience.
  • By Volume 10, however, he is back to it. Relatively though. As his major opponents are all first-class adventurers, the most skilled figthers of the city with years of experience, he is significantly inferior to his adversaries. He also loses to some second-class adventurers, namely Ryuu and Freya Familia's Level 4s, though the former is an outstanding prodigy and in the latter case they are members of the strongest faction, which also specializes in fights between people.
• Unwanted Harem: Bell's sheer niceness has both Hestia and Lili falling for him (his cute looks also help). Even Eina, who is trained to not get attached to any particular adventurers, can't help but feel some level of attraction towards him, though it isn't clear if its romantic or not. There's even the goddesses who followed Hestia on her date who all take a liking to Bell and form a mob around him much to his confusion. Volume 7 starts off with an Amazoness of the Ishtar Familia taking a liking to him, dragging him off to the Familia home, and him getting mobbed by the many Amazoness in the Familia who all want to have their way with him. The girls at the Hostess of Fertility also admire his tush and lament that Syr had gotten engaged to "Bell" earlier that day. Unfortunately for all of them, the only girl Bell wants is Ais and unfortunately for Bell, Ais is pretty much the only girl who has yet to show clear romantic interest in him.
• White Is Pure: His albinism symbolizes his Incorruptible Pure Pureness. The rest of the cast gets this, which is why he's so well-liked.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's understandably frightened by Minotaurs, given that he was almost killed by one. When Freya and Ottar realized this, the former had the latter find and train a Minotaur to unleash on Bell to force him to grow past his fear and become a better adventurer. Bell almost died, but he succeeded in defeating the Minotaur, and every Minotaur after that did not instill fear in Bell the way the first and second did.
• Worthy Opponent: The Xenos Asterius considers Bell to be his greatest rival despite being far stronger than Bell because in his past life he was the Minotaur Bell faced on the 9th floor.
• You Monster!: In the Memoria Freese campaign Winter Magic Miracle, he screams this towards Vitteaux after discovering the latter's true colors.
• You Remind Me of X: When he regains consciousness and finds Ais Wallenstein giving him a Lap Pillow, he initially mistakes her for his mother.

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