User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 500: Fire and Ice, Review./@comment-24277053-20160905210258/@comment-24277053-20160905211513

I guess so, end of the fight, I know it is going to be emotional and they will have an emotional hug, and Brandish will convert Demaria to her side, we all know that is going to happen. But let's a curveball to it.

Wouldn't be great for shock value, if it was revealed that Demaria was in love with Brandish.

Maybe they might be play it for a joke, in Brandish thinks of it as a sisterly thing and is just too dense to understand, and Lucy is there and understand the subtext.