User blog comment:B214/Volume 17 spoilers./@comment-1392308-20140827031523

FINALLY managed to finish this volume. I'm so freaking ashamed to call myself a fan at this point but school and work have been killing me...

Man that ending was completely shocking...the freaking EMPEROR! Man, I can't wait to see everyone's reactions if this gets revealed.

Plus Irina's promise with Issei? If he thought she was a boy back then then I predict a Goku/Chi Chi scenario in which Issei unintentionally promised her something romantic (marriage or something less extreme) without knowing what it was at the time.

I enjoyed the action in this volume but I don't think it was quite up to par with Volume 7 and Volume 10 but those were really amazing and we're not at the climax yet so I believe that there's much more to come.

I just finished Life 0 of Volume 18 so I'm almost caught up to the rest of you guys.