I think Naoko basically just wrote herself into a corner. She needed to have Pluto stop time in order to tie the scene together, but it also raised a question as to why Pluto didn’t… you know… just stop time whenever they needed it. So she threw in this important rule about how ...
spewing blood while exposing her cleavage to the readers. Sally’s “rescuer” Hooded Justice stands over her. He is unsympathetic to her plight and tells her to cover up, insinuating that she is partly to blame for Eddie’s violation of her. ...
Roald Dahl wrote great children’s books, and he’s almost as bloody-minded as you. James and the Giant Peach has a pretty high body count. You would be aiming more for the Wednesday Addams kind of children than Pollyanna, but what’s wrong with that? *Goes off reciting the Gashlycrumb...
If not, then surely this must not be the plan Prince Jeonghyun wrote about? Not that it seems revolutionary in any sense anyway... Like you said, you have the guardian vampire and a descendent from Gwi, plus the king's determination. And you end up with explosives as the answer...?