For all the build up, Spriggan gets sniped immediately at the start of the episode, and by Tsav of all people, too. Rhyno, the demon formerly known as Puck Puca, then personally finishes the job by stomping the life out of Spriggan. Not before relishing in Spriggan’s cries of fear, of course. Naturally, I don’t feel bad for the demon who murdered a bunch of orphans. I just… sure, I didn’t expect Spriggan to go out like this, so I guess you could argue that the show surprised me. But why? Why take this route? Franci did this whole “I must find the demon lurking within the city” schtick episodes ago just for said demon to go out like a chump. Spriggan didn’t even put up a fight. Hell, its best laid plans were to try and assassinate Teoritta in relative daylight. It’s so anticlimactic. Defying expectations doesn’t mean it’s automatically narrative brilliance. What it does mean, however, is that Xylo was just a decoy. All this time, I thought that this was his story, but it was someone else’s instead: Kivia’s.