User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 19 Spoilers/@comment-25732759-20141120220802/@comment-1359322-20141120221415

Here's the issue, fans are assuming that Ophis is weaker than Great Red but Ishibumi never confirmed that. Both Ophis and Great Red are transcendental being but there has never been any clear cut of there being a stronger of the two. So Shiva being closed to Great Red/Ophis/666 isn't impossible.