"If you can kill monsters with a thought, you would surely be pretty safe. I would not advise you to just assume that you can do that, however."

"Are they different from other animals somehow?"

"Yes - monsters have magic in them. They are animated by Ganon's malice. When killed, they turn to dark smoke. And some, like Guardians, don't even look and act like animals."

"Yeah, I might not be able to kill something like that. Thank you for the warning, I owe you one."

He bows. "You should see Rito Village some time. I'll also tell you that monster parts can be sold, and tend to fetch good prices. You can use them to make useful elixirs."

"I have never heard of an elixir but I'm sure I can learn."

"I'm sure you could find a teacher. And you can also just sell the parts, and buy elixirs. I think it's about time I moved on, however - I want to see an interesting bay I heard about. Good luck!"

And with that, Kass flies off without collecting any further payment than that song.

Okay, so he'll have to show up at Rito Village with monster parts or elixirs for Kass at some point.

He looks around for anyone who looks like they know anything about elixirs or monsters. Or anyone who looks like they could use some help with something.

Nobody looks particularly demanding? There's a bunch of people loading or unloading boats. There's some people cooking. There's some people building things. Someone is selling baskets. Someone else is selling cooked food. There's a woman trying to control two rowdy kids through cajoling. The village is big enough you can't see it all from one spot, though admittedly, not much bigger than that.

He picks whichever of the basket and food sellers looks less busy and goes to try asking that one questions.

"Hey, I'm new here and lost, if you happen to know who needs work done around here I'd remember that when I have anything to pay you back with."

"Depends on what kind of work you want, man. I mean, Brilu goes and gets palm leaves for me, but he's freakin' lazy. So, bring me a bunch of palm fronds and I'll pay you for 'em. Some of the fish guys hate dealing with fish guts, so maybe they'd pay you to go dump them in the compost pit for 'em."

"Thanks! Do all the palm trees here belong to you or just some of them?"

"...What? Just go past the village a ways, man, and try not to kill any of 'em by taking too many leaves at once."

"Oh, thanks, I can do that."

...He can probably do that. How many leaves do they need, anyway. Probably better to err on the side of leaving them alone. He heads inland to look for some good trees.

There's a trail up the cliffs at the rear of the village, and beach on either side. The beaches hold occasional palm trees. They seem to have a lot of leaves, at least.

Well, maybe the beaches are a better bet, then. He assumes the ones closest to the village have probably been harvested from already, so he'll keep walking for a while.

He sees a few people for the first few minutes. Lounging in the sun, or carrying a crab trap, or fishing from little rafts. Eventually they get more sparse. The trees out here don't look much different than they did by the village.

...He sees something that might be a monster in the distance. It's got red skin, and a giant head, and a crude wooden spear. But it's roasting a fish over a fire, which is more the sort of thing people do.

He keeps an eye on it and doesn't come any closer.

Time to... climb the palm trees? That seems like the way to get to the leaves, probably.

It looks like it has two friends, who are sleeping sprawled on the sand.

The palm trees are fairly easy to climb! The leaves break in response to enough pressure just fine, too.

He takes two and then goes looking for another tree. And keeps glancing at the red creatures that might be monsters.

The maybe-monsters seem content to just sit there for now. Someone approaching from further out from the village is walking towards them, but gives them a very wide berth as they approach.

That makes it more likely they're monsters. He stops and watches the person trying to go around them, in case there's any trouble.

The monsters notice the girl! She swears, and drops the fruit she was carrying, and sprints at top speed away as the monsters snatch up weapons and chase her with wordless, grunty growling!

Time to find out if the monsters can die after all.

These monsters can die pretty easily, turns out. They turn to clouds of dark smoke with small whoom sounds after a few seconds, leaving behind weapons and a couple of claws and horns.

Running girl keeps running for a few seconds before realizing he's no longer being chased. Then she looks around in confusion.