yeah, in the artwork the feet are metallic. Why do a sea turtle wear metal shoes?
hahahaha, I had not thought, kiwi is darker than we think, in the first place, that towards a baby turtle without the care of its parents? Although he was enslaved, it does not seem that kiwi has any interest in finding his family, he has metal shoes, possibly the slavers put them on so that he did not escape, but then Kiwi liked it showing that he is a masochist, or maybe the shoes of metal equipped before being captured explaining how easy it was to capture it and this would make the kiwi parents look bad for putting something so heavy on a child, and for that reason kiwi does not want to see them again and after finishing the game that happens with the? grows and throw it to the drain? he is a tragic character
(Not to mention that the slavers did not see how valuable the golden kiwi helmet was that they did not even steal it )