User blog comment:Sithlord Andeddu/Irene's scheme/@comment-27337151-20160810125245

It's possible that Irene might want to kill both Zeref and Acno but her predicting the future is too big an assumption. Also to think she wants Erza dead just to cut her ties to Ishgar is a bit extreme.Judging by the way she commanded Neinhart, she wants Erza to be surely, absolutely dead. There's something else going on. But I agree that it seems like Irene has some other plans as well.