User blog comment:B214/High School DxD DX.4 discussion/@comment-39.51.176.224-20170906050225

So vol 24 is the last of the preliminaries ishibumi made it clear that issei team would loose only one match in the tournament to make issei gain some mental growth but how the hell are they gonna win against a team of Gods will the potential power up issei talked about in vol 23 have a major role so much anxiety not to mention the match between rias team and vali team I suspect it will be a draw but honestly I hope vali wins  I mean come on the only reason rias has won the rating game matches during the youth tournament in the underworld is because of issei she would have lost against Sona and sairaorg