User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-28087053-20170318185110/@comment-96.246.181.213-20170318224301

The one thing that get's annoying about this topic is that people on boths sides keep speaking in absolutes like they know what's going to happen, when they don't.

to get things straight

1 There is no guarantee that sirzechs or anyone inside the seal will get out, as any of them can die at the hands of trihexa during the 10,000 odd years they're scheduled to be in there.

2 No one here knows what sirzech specifically means when he said what he said to issei before going in the seal. it could be literal or could just be in a family sense.

3 No one knows how grayfia would view issei in this hypothetical scenario. All we know is that she considers him to be a little brother, which in itself is not different from several members of his harem in terms of how they initially viewed him (Rias being the best example). To assume she could never fall for him way, way down the line is unfounded.

4 We don't know the degree of grayfia's loneliness, to assume that she'll be just fine goes against the entire point of sirzechs talking to issei, regardless of what he had intended.

My stance on the issue is this; People have to realize how hypocritical it is to say that a woman can't love more than one man in a series where men can love more than one woman. If it were executed well, i dont see how grayfia falling for issei negates her love for sirzechs in the same way that issei falling for anyone doesn't negate his love for rias. I also find this implied rhetoric that widows aren't allowed to move on, regardless of how long it is, to be highly offensive. We dont get to decide how people cope with loss for them(so long as it's not self destructive of course). Nor do we get to doubt whether anyone who remarries truly loved their deceased beloved just because they moved on. jaqueline kennedy remarried after losing JFK, and to her best friend at that. Who are you to say she threw away 10 years of marriage by doing that? She's got entire memoires that say otherwise.

With all that said, we would all want sirzechs to come back. And it's not wrong to think that she could remain on her own. But if it were handled well (In that she waited until it seemed hopeless for him to come back, and didn't just fall into Issei's lap), i would approve of her deciding to move on in such a manner. And if it were to ever happen, she couldn't have picked a better man than the one her husband trusted to look after her.

-Devils advocate rant over