User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 361: The Two Bombs, Review./@comment-3424593-20131122200015/@comment-7418318-20131122213525

I absolutely agree with the part about Lucy choosing.

If he didn't want to kill the pregnant woman or michello, just let Jackal pick some other random person (who's not pregnant) be the 2nd bomb.

Or let Lucy decide, then let Natsu intervene before the person Lucy "condemned" was blown up. As kindhearted as Lucy is, she'd still be devastated about having made the decision, even if it remained without consequence.

But as far as summoning on the landmine goes: I don't think that was really an option.

First Lucy had no way of knowing whether the surge in magicl power might trigger the mine or if Jackal was able to detonate it himself.

But even if she knew that neither would happen, Jackal could still have blown the woman and Michello up faster than she could summon a spirit and send it to attack, which would have ended up with both victims dying, instead of just the "chosen" one. So I think her not going for it was the right decision in that situation.