[Finger guns! She goes right back to playing with Koromaru. No harm, no foul--no one was hurt and better it try to eat her than a human. Or a snake-human? ]
If it comes back, we can shoo it away again. And again. Until it knows it's not worth the trouble, which shouldn't take much.
[Resorting to killing at the first sign of conflict is a very human response to a problem. But maybe it's easier to say that when you're not under any threat. She was the scarier monster of the two, after all.]
Even monsters want to live. It was probably as scared as the villagers.
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[Finger guns! She goes right back to playing with Koromaru. No harm, no foul--no one was hurt and better it try to eat her than a human. Or a snake-human? ]
If it comes back, we can shoo it away again. And again. Until it knows it's not worth the trouble, which shouldn't take much.
[Resorting to killing at the first sign of conflict is a very human response to a problem. But maybe it's easier to say that when you're not under any threat. She was the scarier monster of the two, after all.]
Even monsters want to live. It was probably as scared as the villagers.