User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-178.244.146.161-20170524130013/@comment-29963364-20170525032707

For god's sake.

Great Red and Ophis AREN'T Issei's second parents. If anything, he is a small clone of Great Red, created by Ophis.


 * Great Red provided a small piece of his "True Dragon" flesh.


 * Ophis used her "Dragon God" power to reshape it into a replica of Issei's original body.


 * Ophis used her "Dragon God" power (again) to bond Issei's soul to the new body.

Issei is now a Mini-True Dragon Clone  created with the power of a  Dragon God.