Love Bullet - Vol. 3 Ch. 15 - Loop 0

[mercuryblood]

Enemies to lovers! C'mon give it to me!

 

[hymlymffjs]

I have a love hate relationship with sae because shes a horrible person who is completely apathetic to how her actions affect ena but shes also HOT as hell and i need her to dominate me

 

[Kanade0021]

thanks for the translation!

 

[uksi12]

Started reading this yesterday and caught up with it today. Interesting premise, cool characters but surprisingly tragic and the story’s seemingly getting more complex every chapter. What’s up with this time loop stuff anyways? These fan translations are very high quality, so thanks for hosting them.

I feel like this story absolutely cannot pick a lane. We're 15 chapters in and there are like 6 ongoing plots with different protagonists. And now there's time travel too?

In the afterword for Volume 2, the author wrote that this Ena arc will go on for multiple volumes. But if I’m being honest I’d like to know a bit more about Chiyo myself since they’re my favorite cupid but barely anything has been revealed about her past. As for Kanna, I kind of just assumed them to be the cupid that got Aki to fall in love with Koharu in the first place.

Thanks for the chapter :D

Did we ever receive confirmation that the cupid who drove the water-splashing, confession-ruining car was Ena? We were led to think that, but could it have been Sae instead? After all, doesn't Ena want Kitano and Touma to get together?

This chapter makes me realize that a cupid is the perfect murder perpetrator. You can brainwash others, turn invisible, and become forgotten instantly. Nobody seems to remember Sae, after all – in page 4 of Chapter 13.1, Touma says that Hasumi "went back to find a missing classmate."

We know that the time loop starts on July 3 and ends on July 6. We also know that Sae was a cupid this entire time because she did not appear in the class photo a few chapters ago, but does appear in this chapter's class photo.

So, this leaves the question of how Ena was at the WcDonalds... We know the WcDonalds mission (#2) happened shortly after Koharu's mission for Aki in spring 2024 (#1), and Ena was there as a cupid... How does that work, if Ena only became a cupid in July 2024? The timeline doesn't make sense, even if the time loop is taken into account.

I’d imagine this current arc happens before the WcDonalds mission. Maybe there’s some timeline inconsistencies as it was published first. I’m not sure if all cupids can brainwash others besides the matchmaking, I kind of thought it to be Sue’s special ability.

 

[PlsJustLetMeRegisterFfs]

Back when Koharu was using charm, her thing lost its effects very, very fast. People could only vaguely remember some girl and that she needed sth. But this cupid's charm is lasting — I wonder if that means she's been brainwashing people for so long, or it's just a cupid experience thing

 

[njm380]

Thanks for the chapter :D

Did we ever receive confirmation that the cupid who drove the water-splashing, confession-ruining car was Ena? We were led to think that, but could it have been Sae instead? After all, doesn't Ena want Kitano and Touma to get together?

This chapter makes me realize that a cupid is the perfect murder perpetrator. You can brainwash others, turn invisible, and become forgotten instantly. Nobody seems to remember Sae, after all – in page 4 of Chapter 13.1, Touma says that Hasumi "went back to find a missing classmate."

We know that the time loop starts on July 3 and ends on July 6. We also know that Sae was a cupid this entire time because she did not appear in the class photo a few chapters ago, but does appear in this chapter's class photo.

So, this leaves the question of how Ena was at the WcDonalds... We know the WcDonalds mission (#2) happened shortly after Koharu's mission for Aki in spring 2024 (#1), and Ena was there as a cupid... How does that work, if Ena only became a cupid in July 2024? The timeline doesn't make sense, even if the time loop is taken into account.

I believe the wacdonals chapter happened after everything was settled. That chapter had everyone together and all getting along after all. And someone did mention that Love Bullet was initially a one shot so maybe chap 0 was just a hook for us?

 

[njm380]

there's a lot of this setting that we're still not hip to--like what happens to all the stuff that cupids interact with, like food and whatnot? They and their weaponry are fully unnoticed by humans--and we also know that even falling from buildings and the like won't kill a cupid (break all their bones sure, but they'll heal fully in short order).

But you're right. Stuff like human weapons, getting dropped into vats of acid--and also what happens if cupids run afoul of their goddess of love.

But even more than that - we see that there's some bureaucracy of sorts, in the dossiers and pigeon messengers, and the fact that Karma is spent on supplies--that all tells me there's an organization to it all, and the fact that there's a system tracking cupids' Karma, means there's a system keeping track of cupids.
If things get "out of hand", there's likely a security/enforcement system as well. Cupids compete over targets/jobs as we can see, but there's likely ROE involved; I just can't imagine it's completely lawless in how everything operates.

So something must have happened that breaks a rule. Whether it was using something on a cupid that breaks a rule, or the incident itself between Sae & Ena that was the transgression, all of this is, I think, could be involving some larger framework that all the cupids operate within.

That or we're gonna get a crazy curveball with the worldbuilding and find out that there's other forces besides the goddess of love in play.

I don't think it's been explicitly said but what if "karma" also applies to bad karma? And instead of getting reborn back as a human after accumulating good karma, you become some sort of fallen cupid? Basically a demon or something akin to a devil.

Since cupids are tasked to bring people together, I would think that those of the opposite are meant to break apart people. Or bring together the worst possible pair and involve them in a toxic relationship.

And if that is the case, either those fallen ones end up in something opposite that of how the Goddess of love operates or act on their own accord. Fueled by hate instead of love.

 

[borutouzumakicolored123456]

New chapter when (

 

[SkibidiSigmaMale67]

I hope the series is going well cus its been really slow the chapter coming out

 

[miauuuunus]

i hope inee feeds us soon 🥹

 

[GLFanatic]

It's been four months. Any news about this story? Is It on hiatus?

 

[KarlMarx]

Thank you, I knew we saw the photo before and just couldn't figure out what chapter it was in.
So that's another point in favor, and I think it's effectively confirmed as far as who/what Sae is.
I just wanna know if that figure with the blackened/darkened skin on the ground of (what I assume is) Ena's safehouse at the end of chapter 14, is also Sae.

There's a Twitter post link I saw over on Reddit that has Ena and (now confirmable as) Sae, from September of last year.
And that individual has...well, odd colouring to her. in a way that I think might show up as black tones in a monochromatic printing like this manga.

The fact that the figure has wings that look like they're stripped of feathers/damaged, and appears hunched over once the loop resets, makes me wonder as to exactly what Ena has done to Sae in the time since she resurrected.

Personally, I believe Sae might be some sort of devil (or had become one).

It would fit with the red skin colour in the twitter post you linked and the "de-feathered" look as devils and deamons are most often depicted with fleashy/ leathery wings. Still Sae has the powers of a cupid and wears heart shaped earings throughout the arc (the heart shape being a reoccuring symbol of the cupids).
While she is depicted in her cupid form right after Ena's death, I believe up to that point she was still a cupid, but, due to the negative Karma accumulated through her actions, turned into a devil.

I agree that the hunched over figure at the end of Chapter 14 is probably Sae (depicted as a demon), but I don't think Ena has done anything to her (though the circumstances are extreme, I think it goes against Ena's Character, she did try to save her bully after all. I think that might be too dark for the manga to depict a revenge killing even though I'd love it.). My theory is the hunched form of Sae might actually show devastation or deep seated regret. We might be in for a redemption arc at some point as some commenters have suggested.

I really like your theories, they got me thinking about a lot of things I haven't considered before.