User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 360:The White Inheritance, Review and Commentary/@comment-7505640-20131115105544/@comment-7418318-20131115112802

While the Wendy and Lucy situation would make it more dramatic in some ways due to the choice being a lot harder for Natsu, it'd also take out some tension from the scene, since we know that neither Wendy nor Lucy are going to die.

And it'd also leave Jackals "job" of killing Michello unattended, unless he first kills him and only then goes on to play with the Fairy Tail members.