Again, Nalia was given reason to switch gaze between serpent corpse and girl. Don't mess with dark forces, indeed... She opened mouth, attempting to say something, but the words soon died as easily as the snake.
Humanity... Didn't just keep such activities veiled. It was slowly dawning upon the demoness in human guise that humanity hardly even practised them, at all.
Which really did put an entirely new spin upon things.
"Of course you don't," she reasoned, smiling a little more darkly and muttering something along the lines of, "Then I'll need something better," before simply letting go of the beast and discarding it at feet.