User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 463: Black Carpet, Review./@comment-5894890-20151124221629/@comment-5894890-20151125180231

Ajeel was underestimating her by playing around, and because he did that, he got slashed. Afterwards, his cockiness of wanting to be "God" led to him losing, if he just finished her, it would have all ended. Not to mention he felt the need to dominate her by using, possibly, one of his strongest attacks. I guess our definitions of outclassing seems to be different lol. I saw it as him playing around and thinking he is the best, but to his surprise, gets slashed because of it. Him being caught off guard led him being slashed, at the same time, because he wasn't paying attention to his opponent and treating her like nothing, Erza was able to land some blows. That's also when Erza was finally using her head, and requipping useful armors/ swords. Otherwise, Ajeel was definitely stronger, but played his cards badly, while Erza was, for the most part, playing right, and was able to fight back. She literally used her 'nakama' to help her win this battle, rather than the usual 'nakama-powerup'; making me see the fight as something decent.