Man, They're shaping up the power of friendship/feels/whatever real hard here, and hey, I get it.
But god I would be absolutely done if they actually straight up killed him. Like sure probably bring him back because he's the protag and this hasn't really done the work to pull a decoy protag (although shit man if the author did just commit to that, even if it ends up bad props for guts), but just Nah we ain't getting through to him and well we don't have a better option when this veritable god is just running roughshod and just...homeboys dead for a while.
Maybe has a heart to heart with his dead friends in the interim because you know, that makes sense.
But still, just an outright smiting ha.