However, Ruby was open-minded about the prospect of death, and she didn't blame Charlie for giving up.

She had every intention to remain in the Champ Elys Villa, living out her remaining days cultivating in seclusion. When the time came and Charlie still couldn't save her, she would just move on and find a quiet, beautiful meadow where she would wait for death.

At some point, she did consider martyring herself against the Qing Eliminating Society—the ward inside her pineal gland, cast by Fleur, was primed to self-destruct. Though it made her a human time bomb, it also meant she had a useful weapon against the Qing Eliminating Society.

But after calming down and strategizing with her knowledge of the Qing Eliminating Society, she knew she had no chance of ever meeting Fleur—all her fury and vengeance would amount to was a few dead Griffins, and possibly unimportant ones, at that.

Ruby certainly wasn't interested in claiming the lives of such puppets, and she naturally gave up on th