User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 493: The White Dragneel, Review./@comment-70.179.149.246-20160711153308

I have mixed feeling about this chapter. Although Mirajane technically lost, I didn't quite got the impression that Mirajane can't at least put a good fight against Irene. When she fights, she doesn't always go into a satan soul mode. She most always takes some damage first as if testing her opponent's abilities like her fight against Kamika and Azuma (although this can be attributed to her tendency to lose a lot of magic power with her transformations). With her "fight" with Irene, if August and Brandish did not come, I think she had a good chance of getting out of that rock. Her getting tied to the stone is secondary to being tired at the moment and being surprised by her enemy, but I still think that she could have still put up a resistance if it was only Irene. Once August arrived, it was just hopeless. She was just overwhelmed by both their presence and fear struck her down. But that doesn't exactly correlate if she still has some fight in her.