@YuriIsTooLewd
Yeah I agree with you. The interaction he had with the turtle felt very off. Maybe the author just wants to reverse expectations and forced this dumb moralistic standpoint in it to justify our MC to beat it up.
She was a half-Elf all along. Dammit, I feel conflicted. It does explain her fat rounded ears.
This would also explain her fear of losing someone as her father or mother most likely died of old age when she was little.