User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 369: The Place Prayers Reach, Review./@comment-24016459-20140201140624

Well, to be fair, Crawford was going to die any ways. Even if he did transfer the key to someone else, after having transferred it, his job would be done and they would've killed him.

Now that I think of it that's a pretty cliche scenario :P