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Originally Posted by ReaperxKingx
A situation where its a agree and disagree. I agree on your statement that Ise was afraid of killing Saji, however he himself was quite unaware of the threshold of protection that the rating game provide. The most likely outcome if Ise actually went full out would be an easy defeat of the Sitri. Ise is basically all bronze without brain, he didn't detect Saji's absorption line, while in the case with the other members of the Gremory group it would most likely not be the case. Even if they didn't detect it immediately they would have notice the effects before it forces Ise to retire. You also got to coupled the hard time with the Sitri group is because of the situation. The special rule of the match was "Don’t destroy the department store which has become the battlefield" given by Grayfia who was the arbiter of the match. Heavily favoring the Sitri group which favored tactics over power while Gremory is power over tactics. While I still find the reason justifiable because the Gremory group may be put in a situation where they mustn't destroy a battlefield, the match however was swinging against the Gremory group. Gremory Group's greatest strength is their offensive power (it been shown that the Gremory group's weakness is enemies with high tactics though it have bee shown with enemies that has the power to rival the Gremory, if in a serious battle where an enemy with very low power but great tactics were to fight against an opponent with seer amount of power with moderate tactics, the outcome would swing in the latter) and that was taken away from them.
Though I really hate and I really hate the moment of the "so called if situation", in this situation one must wonder if it was just a straight up battle of attrition, would the battle of Gremory group and Sitri be as heated as it was?
As for the rematch, it depends on situation. If the situation demands power be taken away to evaluate tactics than it would be a hard fight for the Gremory though I believe they can still win despite having Moderate level tactics and will be able to use their power in a way where it isn't overwhelming due to experience of actual combat more so than all the young Devils in my opinion. If, however, (hate using the if world so much) a situation where it is similar to a real battlefield then Gremory group wins decisively. We've Sitri group struggle the most in real combat situations where they are overwhelmed by either dirty tactics use by the Hero Brigade or just being overpowered like when they were in Kyoto (abeit without their Queen and King). A straight battle, no holds barred, with either the Gremory Group or Baal group would suffer in their defeat.
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I was factoring in that Sonas peerage has added 2 new members in the mini grim reaper and the werewolf dude. From what we've seen so far of grim reapers low class reapers are comparable to middle class devils and so forth, so it's a possibility that she would be fairly powerful. The werewolf on the other hand I have no idea, from what I've read of the author and his patterns it's expected that Loup Garou is going to be comparable in strength to at least Sairorge without his Balance Breaker. But yea in a straight up group vs group no holds barred the edge is definitely in Rias' favor, but (I hate to compare her to Batman) if Sona has prep time(which in most cases rating games do), I'm sure she could sneak a victory 2 out of 10 times. In a theoretical battle Rias wins 9/10 times by my estimate. But right now there's no way to accurately measure since we don't know the extent of the power ups Sona's group had and how strong the new group members are.
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Originally Posted by ReaperxKingx
I already that it is coming next year, I am not devoid of knowledge my friend. Just speculating, such as who would be the enemy, new comrades in arms, Norse society, technology, mythical creatures like that of Gramj or the whale like Lyngbak, and anything related to Norse mythology. The interest of Odin's son is a big factor, he has three which are of course Thor, Baldr, and Váli. Then there is relationship of the the Alliance and Norse like if both sides truly are friendly to each other as a whole or do Norse has factions that has detain for them. Then there is the characters' relationship in particular Ise and Thor since Ise was given a replica of the Mjolnir. Too many things that are very interesting.
Though I know of the present Vampire race being on stage, I am just more interest in Norse mythology and how it can be incorporated in the story.
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That's the thing it's waay too early to tell if anything the vampire arc is going to overlap with volume 17, I only say that because in most cases the pattern Ishibumi usually uses hasn't been followed. Most of the time it's
Beginning of arc
>Skirmish
>refelection
>echi
>in house drama
>echi
>character developement
>echi
>training
>foreshadowing of next enemy
>big battle
>echi power up
>fight over
>echi
>conclusion
>rinse and repeat. Most of the time like with CaoCao or Khaos Brigade there are clues(that aren't necessarily hidden let's be honest Ishibumi is no Paluchniak or Ellis) spread around the story. For now we know that Vampires are a potential enemy, so I'm betting that the main enemy of the next volume will be the same as the one in vol.17. Considering the norse people of way back when they'd respect the christian faction as long as they are strong.