He has a sort of hero worship/platonic crush towards the MC, mainly if you trick him often. He's been waiting his entire life to pick up his ancestor's mantle and the MC might just be the absolute perfect master in his eyes.
No matter what, however, he would only have this on a platonic level. Some things are sweeter and more precious when kept as fantasies. Assuming you've tricked him often and been a very heretical master, what Nikos has is already very dear indeed.
Those were the words I was looking for! A crush but more like platonic admiration. I think we've felt an attraction to someone based on their words and actions but it's more about the kind of person they are rather than the person themselves. You'd be happy being considered a close friend of someone like that but not necessarily intimate.
That is something to look forward to, getting to know Nikos as himself and not as Argos. Will he be a sassy tease who becomes the MC's wingman? (Speculating, not an actual question to necessarily answer.)
