User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 602 - Bane Licking Good/@comment-5592530-20141024092420/@comment-24384892-20141024183346

If Askin was chosen as an elite Sternritter only because Gremmy died, then that would mean that Askin, at the time he was chosen, was the most powerful Sternritter from the lower ranks still alive.