D. Jiang submitted a comment entitled « Metamorphic data from global subduction zones do not call for excessive overpressures » to Nature Geoscience. His comment on our paper entitled « Metamorphic record of catastrophic pressure drops in subduction zones » (Nature Geoscience 10, 46-50, 2017) will not be published. However, because his comment remains available on the web via ESSOAR (https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10504134.3), I here propose to share my reply.