User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage, Review./@comment-107.77.83.21-20160809181105/@comment-7418318-20160809182033

That would be monumentally stupid. To get rid of her relative/failed experiment/whatever, she puts it in a small village and then tells a Zeref cult to invade it, hoping they'd kill that person? Really?

Besides the Zeref cult scoured many villages and took their childs to use as slave labour. Not a good idea to send slavers when you want someone dead rather than captured.

If Irene wanted a child dead, she could do it with a snip of a finger from half a continent away, send one of her many subordinates or she could easily afford to send a proper killer instead of slavers to do the job.