"Pay me 10 million a day and I hold the gate back as long as you want"...two chapters later: dead.
No spoiler btw, just my guess, but that was such a huge death flage.
Waving around a key while a big crisis is about to happen. Welp, we all know where this is going. Of course that smug bastard's gonna die. It's just the umpteenth time after all.