I really don't want to sound like an edgelord, but if someone doesn't die in this arc after everything that's happened I'm going to be real disappointed. Melon has a point. You can't just keep raising the stakes, have a massive all out fight, and have a chaotic mob of both carnivores and herbivores, only to have absolutely zero casualties and everyone walks away as friends. That's just not realistic.
I could give the fight with Riz a pass since the end to that confrontation felt natural, but so far this doesn't. I don't feel any kind of tension in the fight because up until this cliffhanger which already feels like a fake-out, the more this arc goes on, the more it seems like everyone will walk away unscathed.
It's not as if the series shies away from the topic of death either. We already had Tem, the Shishigumi fight, and pretty much everyone Melon's interacted with as proof of that.
How do I describe this? The other conflict arcs felt like Baki or Jojo. This one feels like Fairy Tail.