When you put it that way, yeah, I can see what you mean.

[ see? it's stuff like this that confuses jude. ]

I mean, it seems reasonable logic and might have been what would have happened in the end. None of us cared for Ruin collectively, but if you wanted to be sure that she wouldn't have won...

[ jude can come up with this kind of thinking as well, but what newt's saying makes plenty of sense and isn't as cruel. however— ]

But Ruin wasn't your only target, right? There was someone else?