User blog comment:B214/Volume 22 spoilers/@comment-27083298-20161115021134/@comment-10330822-20161115024036

My money's on Issei for the first fight. I don't know how he is going to win, but it may have something to do with Issei having to come up with a clever strategy instead of just muscling through it like his other matches.

For the second fight, I'm conflicted. I feel it could go either way, but I'm rooting for Sairaorg. True Longinus is pretty broken, but the real question is if Sairaorg can muscle through it. I feel, plot wise, it doesn't do much for Sairaorg's character to lose to Cao Cao. But at the same time I have no idea how he can counter True Longinus. Part of me wonders if there is a special powers of Regulus's Breakdown that we aren't aware of yet, like Blazing Inferno being introduced after the fact for DxD, and maybe Sairaorg will win is a surprising upset.