Jesus fucking Christ, just put the image of a snake behind her or something if you're going to be that blatantly ominous (or whatever appropriate symbolically evil animal fits).
At the end of the day she is only a recurring character with slightly more importance.
There are plenty of spoilers in the comments allready if you want more details about it.
Yeah I don't think he wants to. Ok but I never expected them to go back to this plot point. Most stories just forget about that reason and just go along with it.
Who tf would want to come back to this boring af world? You got magic and cool shit in that world. If you had a leveling system I’d do nothing but grind in the forests/dungeon all day..