have you read Fairy Tail, even the villains kept not being killed time and time againthis is close to One Piece levels of not killing off characters
The abrupt change of scene from "the big evil has been defeated and everyone is happy" to "oh yeah, remember that the city is still under siege? Now you do!" did cause a lot of confusion, yes. The author should've transitioned between the two more gently.I'm not even going to pretend like I know what the fuck is going on any more.