Wow. What a bitch.

VARIOUS details I want to mention:
1. Sae was not in the previous version of the class photo in Friction
2. Sae seemingly can disappear not unlike cupids, but people retain the idea of her better than cupids, seeing as they knew she went missing during the landslide
3. Ena died on her birthday
4. Cupids are reborn on their birthday

Was probably already said but i think the boy love Hasumi and not Ito, hence why the love bomb didn't work precedently. On the other side, i don't understand the deal with Sae, she just seem to dislike Hasumi/Ena for no apparent reason, going as far as using her powers to keep it that way. I think that's her here who convince Touma to not help her. Maybe she's also on Touma's case with Ito but decided on a more radical approach and is maybe the Cupid we saw at the end of last chapter.
I think it's possible that it's looping until Touma help Ena/Hasumi to pass on.

i even noticed the heart earrings and thought "oh that's neat" but still totally failed to see that twist coming

Uh oh, evil angel alert.

I’m pretty sure she has some sort of mind control, considering just how easily that teacher went along with whatever she said, and she’s experienced enough that she was able to work on multiple couples at once.

Yeah I didn't notice the earrings but the hypnosis thing gave it away immediately, she even has swirly eyes in that scene :P

Oh shit, Sae was a cupid who used her powers to isolate Hasumi and maybe straight up murdered her

oh~ this was a interesting chapter
I like how despite love bullet, often takes sometime for a chapter to come out, its always so well packed ^_^

If I was her, I would let everyone bite it and still sleep like a baby the same night.

Wow , now that's a cliffhanger. Inee made a great chapter, now I can't wait for the rest of the story.

My guess is that Sae , like some one already suggested, might have deliberately killed Harumi/Ena as a cupid to get her in the cupid ranks, we'll have to wait to see why she did it. But the mere act may have had nefarious consequences on her, as we can see here:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch14#36

She's curled in pain, her skin is blackened and her wings are "mauled". Meanwhile in this chapter she's fine as we can see:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch15#31

Maybe the goodness just straight punished her and cursed her to repeat in loop the events.

By the way Love Bullet did not make the cut ij the top 10 anime that we want to see animated 2026, a shame.

But Gal x Gal did in 5th place, small victory.

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Wow , now that's a cliffhanger. Inee made a great chapter, now I can't wait for the rest of the story.

My guess is that Sae , like some one already suggested, might have deliberately killed Harumi/Ena as a cupid to get her in the cupid ranks, we'll have to wait to see why she did it. But the mere act may have had nefarious consequences on her, as we can see here:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch14#36

She's curled in pain, her skin is blackened and her wings are "mauled". Meanwhile in this chapter she's fine as we can see:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch15#31

Maybe the goodness just straight punished her and cursed her to repeat in loop the events.

By the way Love Bullet did not make the cut ij the top 10 anime that we want to see animated 2026, a shame.

But Gal x Gal did in 5th place, small victory.

I hope you are right. I wanna see that bitch agonizing.

I really want to know what motivates Sae. It sounds like a ridiculously convoluted plan. And for what ? To make someone she hates a cupid like her ? Something that needed her to die on her birthday ?

There's no way her motivations are just spite.

Do...do cupids kill other people to make more cupids? Now I'm wondering if Koharu's accident was more than that.

Kanna was masquerading as Koharu's classmate in her flashback, though I'm sure in her case her aim was to make her fall in love and Koharu's death was a genuine accident she was powerless to prevent. Here though, it certainly looks like Sae caused Ena's death on purpose.

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An invisible and amoral cupid could do a number of wicked things without consequence. I wouldn't be shocked if it comes to light Sae orchestrated all of Hasumi's misery personally, using cupids' innate charm ability to turn classmates against her and likely personally pulling things like

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch13_1#7

when no one was looking. Heck, you can see the teacher's eyes go funny when she leans in to talk about pizza, then the next page he forgets Hasumi exists. Considering Koharu was able to Jedi mind trick people with it on her first day after brief off-screen instruction, one must wonder how much a mortal mind can be made to bend by a cupid who focuses on that sort of thing.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch04#13

I don’t think it was a love plot, simply because of just how isolated she had Hasumi. Maybe it’s some elaborate revenge plot for reasons we don’t yet know about? Or maybe cupids can become overwhelmed by jealousy and turn bad, and something about Hasumi drew Sae’s attention in particular? Heck, maybe she’s just gotten bored/gone a little mad, and started messing with people’s lives for her own amusement.

Either way, I’m excited that we might be seeing a proper villain for this series. I’m pretty sure she has some sort of mind control, considering just how easily that teacher went along with whatever she said, and she’s experienced enough that she was able to work on multiple couples at once.

Extras have more than once shown cupids with green eyes, hinting at some manner of mystical jealousy going on in the verse.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_twitter_extras_english_license_announcement#16

Green eyed Kanna in particular raises questions.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_twitter_extras_english_license_announcement#19

Ena's timeloop in particular is a real mindscrew to me though. Since one might think being stuck in one would mean you are effectively isolated from the rest of the world until it resolves. But that is evidently not the case; her and Chiyo are familiar with each other despite this, and she herself notes she has more flight experience than Kanna. She's been at this for a while, and other cupids occasionally wander into the closed loop and back out again, apparently? But if she's stuck at that point until she resolves groundhog day, then wouldn't everyone else never progress past her until she does? But if they did somehow go on separate from the loop, how the heck would anyone manage to get back into it? Cupid Time Travel powers would be a hell of a thing to throw in... but even as I type this I can't help but note that Koharu and Kanna fell asleep on the way to where they are now. If Chiyo had to pull arcane shenanigans to get back into Ena's loop, that'd be the time to do it.

Because without some manner of time magic even beyond the existence of the loop itself, I don't see how the timeline can make sense without Ena just being trapped in some kind of simulation/hallucination instead.

Cupids are reborn on their birthdays, some amount of time after their death. Ena shows us that amount of time can be ~0. The bio sheets show us that Koharu's birth month is March, while Ena's is July, with nothing indicating to me that Koharu has been at the Cupiding grind for months by now.

I really want to know what motivates Sae. It sounds like a ridiculously convoluted plan. And for what ?

I guess it may have something to do with cupid's primary job, aka making couples? She's saying on page 11 about how she didn't want to split some people apart that are "vibing" and that's why she left Hasumi out (although that doesn't actually make a lot of sense, Hasumi could be just assigned to any group of 4?), could be some twisted sense of doing the job properly :P I agree it's very hard to say so far though.

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crackpot theory: with the average lifespan getting longer, childhood/teenage deaths becoming less common, dating apps/social media making falling in love easier and the population of the world generally rising, there aren't enough new cupids being born to keep up with demand, driving cupid HQ to find "methods" to make more cupids

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They're whitewashing a rat, a piece of shit, a total piece of garbage—someone who's absolutely horrible as a person. It's on the same level as the mangaka projecting themselves as forgiving their ex's cheating in a manga that focuses more on the cheating ex than on the main couple.

I'm relieved that this girl isn't falling for this piece of trash, please let me believe that Japanese women's tastes aren't that terrible

They're whitewashing a rat, a piece of shit, a total piece of garbage—someone who's absolutely horrible as a person. It's on the same level as the mangaka projecting themselves as forgiving their ex's cheating in a manga that focuses more on the cheating ex than on the main couple.

I'm relieved that this girl isn't falling for this piece of trash, please let me believe that Japanese women's tastes aren't that terrible

Uh, are you in the right thread?

NTR never leave people minds

They're whitewashing a rat, a piece of shit, a total piece of garbage—someone who's absolutely horrible as a person. It's on the same level as the mangaka projecting themselves as forgiving their ex's cheating in a manga that focuses more on the cheating ex than on the main couple.

I'm relieved that this girl isn't falling for this piece of trash, please let me believe that Japanese women's tastes aren't that terrible

Uh, are you in the right thread?

I would assume they’re talking about whatever that guy’s name is who the other girl was in love with though who knows. Well, if that is what they’re talking about, I was thinking something kind of similar after reading these theories here. It would suck if the mangaka justified his actions by saying he was just hypnotized or something like that. It would be even worse if that letter thing where she falls out of love doesn’t happen this loop and they actually do get together. I guess that’s probably gonna happen though given the nature of this story.

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we're so back

Kanna was masquerading as Koharu's classmate in her flashback, though I'm sure in her case her aim was to make her fall in love and Koharu's death was a genuine accident she was powerless to prevent. Here though, it certainly looks like Sae caused Ena's death on purpose.

Personally I don’t think it was a genuine accident. I think Kanna got into a fight with another Cupid and that’s what caused the debris to fall. That’s why, in Ch.5, Chiyo says her reputation is that of someone who runs from fights. She’s seen firsthand what careless fighting between cupids can do.

If I’m right that could also provide an interesting bit of conflict between Kanna & Sae. Both are responsible for the birth of a cupid. But where Kanna sees it as a mistake she must atone for, Sae deliberately engineered Ena’s loveless life.

So is Sae yandere or just malicious

So is Sae yandere or just malicious

Cupids can't fall in love so the latter.

I’d like to think she has some form of twisted affection for Ena as she didn’t have to do all that to isolate her so that she would wish to have been loved then become a Cupid. Also, because I feel like Ena would have recognized her if she was actually similar to someone she knew.