User blog comment:Piyush Banerjee/Shin DxD 2 discussion/@comment-2607:FB90:4A89:72ED:A0CF:1772:80B1:E181-20190620093332/@comment-2607:FB90:4895:A053:D944:901E:DAF5:838F-20190621081753

My claim was Issei has too much support and not enough devoted battlers like himself. What happened in volume 25 again? Didn’t Xenovia lose to Apollon regardless that Irina and Ouryouu were helping her out? Even though he didn’t retire her she still lost.