User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-153.91.251.105-20151019162240/@comment-1776824-20151020020928

By the way, you petulant, nerve-grating person, offering up a constructive criticism of Erza doesn't make me her fan. Especially when anyone around her can attest to the fact that I far from like her. I don't hate her, but I don't like her by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever (I guess a better way to describe it is that I'm bored of her? I dunno). And at no point is anyone not saying that Natsu will never be stronger than Erza. He, and all of us are saying that as it currently stands, Erza remains a league or two above Natsu. Later on when Natsu recovers his powers as E.N.D. no is doubting that he will become irrefutably stronger than her. Does he have his powers back, though? No, he doesn't. She is still stronger and there has been nothing in-story to confirm that he has surpassed her. We have been documenting this series for years. In the words of my good friend Bitch, "put up or shut up."