"Shin, tell me what this is," Mark said, showing the leaf in his hand.
Shin looked at it with wide eyes. "Benefactor, isn't that a leaf?"
Mark's eyes twitched again. "No. This leaf had limbs, eyes, and mouth a second ago."
"Ah, that!" Shin hit his palm with the bottom of his fist. "We call it many names. When we use it to frighten girls, we call it the Leaf Freak, but when we are all adults around, we call it the Leaf Walker. It has a human mouth—with lips and all—four legs, ears, and eyes. And it also does weird magic, so we keep it away from our village with Leaf Burning Incense."
"So this is not a Savage?" Mark looked at the little thing with a disappointed expression. "What magic does this thing do?"
The black-haired young man gauged Mark and finally gained some courage as he saw Dona's antics. A butterfly had landed on the nose of Mark's demoness at some point and she had froze, staying unmoving on Mark's back. She looked at the winged creature with a strange expression.
