Bet this chapter exists because Takuno-sensei really wanted to draw these two with their palms against their cheeks and also got really into sharks one day.
@te-kun I mean... that's a lot to expect out of a mangaka for a regularly serialized work. There are definitely authors who plan that far ahead, but just as many who don't. In any case, because all of this exposition wasn't laid out at the beginning of the series (which is really a good thing)...
@te-kun I'd kind of assumed that Marcille was just drawn like that to make her cuter and more expressive but that's a fair argument, albeit not proof positive that she was written as a half-elf from the get-go.
The farthest back I can find in terms of foreshadowing is Ch42, where it's implied...
@te-kun I just mean that since the art style has changed somewhat and Marcille was the only elf at the beginning of the series, there's no way to tell whether she was written as a half-elf from the beginning.
I wonder if Marcille being a half-elf is a retcon? Certainly didn't seem that way at the beginning of the series, but I guess that's how twists are supposed to be anyway.