User blog comment:B214/Question and Answers 6/@comment-99.235.66.221-20161130072057/@comment-10330822-20161214075309

I'm not 100% sure Vali and him are equal right now. So Ise winning could make sense, regardless of plot. His DxD is innately superior to Vali's, if it wasn't nerfed, plus, we have no idea how much stronger Ise has gotten during the timeskip that happens during this volume.