After saying that, Azusa released her spear intent and that scored a direct hit on the man. This immediately reduced his body to dust so it was a perfectly clean kill.
Still Azusa was kind enough to leave his soul behind. And she also left him with a single resurrection chance intact. So his possibility of coming back to life was not zero.
But still, he would not be coming back to life anytime soon. That was because Azusa had captured his soul and had trapped it inside a special magic item. So he would be allowed to resurrect only when she felt like he had suffered enough punishment.
It was not her being too harsh. All the people sent outside the Otrefiona Empire with the honour of their mother nation on their backs needed to be humble and well spoken. It was a matter of national honour.
