User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 385: Spirit King vs. Demon King, Predictions./@comment-24748439-20140518033359/@comment-4829046-20140518034056

Depends on your perspective. For a lot of people, admiration is akin to liking/crushing and they confuse it for love, so yeah I suppose one or the other, all he wants to know is whether you have special feelings for someone different from how you treat the others.