Well the ranking battles is only the top 100 in Cairo, not the continent. There's probably a huge disparity in strength between rank 1 and 2, seeing how it was mentioned that rank 1 is ranked 80 in the continent, while rank 2 wasn't mentioned at all.
I think it would be a diff story if it was continental rankers but it was just in cairo.. did you not read that one of the rankers was literally a GATEKEEPER??? If he struggled within cairo's rankings it would kinda be a disappointment cus he defeated Butler and this was a YEAR later
Still, considering they're the top 10 I hoped they'd be at least slightly stronger than the previous 90... which they weren't. It felt like the ranks didn't hold any weight to them at all.
I didn't want him to struggle, you're twisting my words. I said I expected the side characters to at least have more personality or weight to them, not to be mere expendables considering they're supposed to be the strongest out of an entire NATION ╮(￣▽￣)╭ if these were the supposed "strongest", Cairo should have fallen LONG ago to other nations, honestly...
Although we knew he'd reach rank 1... I wish they had taken the time to develop the rankers a bit more. At least, rankers 10 to 1 should have been stronger or have more memorable personalities/skills. His fight with Count Nicholas did not feel special or different from other fights at all so it was rather underwhelming ╮(￣▽￣)╭
This being said, I can't wait for him to reorganize the country. All of these factions are really annoying (⌒▽⌒)