Though Arlo was used to seeing death, he suddenly felt a sense of loss and desolation at that very moment.

That was also when he abruptly realized that Fleur keeping him alive while ordering Callum's death was not because of her magnanimity for one of her own—it was simply the way things stood for her.

The way she saw it, it was an insult to her that her mysterious foe had force-fed Arlo that Regeneration Pill.

She didn't want that little fact to ever come to light, and killing him and Callum should have been her ideal solution.

If anything, she must have spared Arlo because Silas had just recently 'disappeared' after the fall of the Cyprus base, and Fleur couldn't afford to kill so many important Griffins so soon.

That, or she could just watch as the entire Qing Eliminating Society became demoralized, and she would lose more than she had bargained for.

Hah! And to think she had styled herself as a progenitor of the Griffin lineage, when the lives of her own relatives were worth