User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 361: The Two Bombs, Review./@comment-4829046-20131122171103

Mashima simply wanted to join the age-old heroic cliche were the Good guy never chooses between one life and the next and chooses to save both kind of thing and thus made Natsu cancel Jackal's magic before Lucy could step on that thin line between good and evil. It may be irritating but I can't say its anything new in this kind of series and its happened before anyway, albeit not at this level. And am I the only one who wouldn't have cared if both of them died? Thought so. It would make sense though since it fits the "If I had to choose the lesser of two evils I'd rather not choose at all" thing.