(Episode 11 spoilers) daisuki?

Kippershy said:
Daisuki definitely holds that connotation, but isn't exclusively used that way. It doesn't necessarily mean romantic love, but I'd still say there's a small element of romance in how she said it.
That romance however, doesn't have to be sexual, and I don't feel like Equa has sexual feelings for either Ferres or Martese. As SawsyMikey puts forward, it comes off more as a "bromance" type of love.
A true sense of love and appreciation for the other party, without any sexual desire.

Kippershy said:
Now think about everything these girls have gone through, all the times they've had to trust and rely on one another to make it through all the rough situations - how many times they've kept each other safe and how many times they've been hurt for one another. Now add in mundane day to day things they do together, further making memories together, getting more and more intimate with the idea of being around one another.
Now add on the fact that she's had it made very, very clear just how dearly Ferres feels about Aqua, and Aqua has to face that.

That's the kind of stuff that binds people together. I would say there's an element of romantic love, but no sign of sexual desire.