User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-201.18.245.30-20170415025340/@comment-10330822-20170417023710

Once again, I fear you are overestimating their sense of reason. We are literally talking about people who feel bloodlines are everything, Zekram was even willing to help push Issei to being a Satan because he knew his rivalry with Sairaorg would cause him to achieve it as well. They can be just as blind to this as the Old Satan Faction is. In fact, many feel Issei is just a pawn for the higher-ups. And you know what, they might be right. Sirzechs and Ajuka may be trying to push a pro-reincarnated devil agenda by using Issei as a figure-head, because that is what is happening, and they are going out of their way to help him. They also used the King Pieces to cheat to maintain a sense of control over the games, that is also a pretty big statement.

Likewise, Bedeze may factor in, but I doubt it, he's pretty much done after losing his King Piece. However, don't you think their may have been something to him trying to blame Bael?

All I've been saying, and always been saying, is that don't think this is settled, I feel that would be too much of a leap in logic, just because the King Pieces are done. We don't know, for example, where other purebloods sit among the higher rankers, and even though Diehauser, Tannin, Rudiger, and Ruval all seem pro-reincarnated, that doesn't mean all of them are.

For example, what if for example, we rank the Top 10 as we know them. Diehauser is still first, Rudiger is now second, Tannin is maybe third, and Ruval is maybe fourth. What about those other six? What are they? You see, now that the King Pieces are of no more use, the purebloods may try to assassinate people like Tannin and Rudiger to maintain their control. We don't know, and I feel isn't right to just ignore them right now.