User blog comment:Piyush Banerjee/Shin DxD 2 discussion/@comment-2602:306:CD9A:C860:141A:858E:1B9B:BDB-20190201001403/@comment-28884330-20190202042018

Yeah, it's boring if it's only that. Which is why I don't mean to say the stuff I typed is how the battle should have gone by. Not a chance in hell.

I simply thought up a way in which Rias' team could have won, but that's not something I would have wished for. It's not done to fit in well as narrative, even. It's literally just a thought experiment on how Rias' team could have won, nothing more.

Making this or any other Rias win into the narrative would be crap, actually. It would just mean the whole tournament was thrown away by eliminating the main character in the first round.