A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 171: Dealing with the Duplicate

Chapter 171: Dealing with the Duplicate

I lowered my hand with a blank absent expression on my face, my mind disassociated immediately after.

I just stood there until I heard some groaning beside me. I looked over and saw the duplicate struggling to do anything. Her eyes glared at me viciously, the rest of her body unresponsive to her will, still paralysed.

I didn’t do or say anything, I just stared back at her with a cold, heartless gaze. And eventually she regained the ability to speak, albeit weakly.

"Y-You!" She struggled to even get that out, but it did get easier for her as the minute passed, which means I have to decide what to do now before she gets back up and kills me.

"Surprised? Since you were a copy of me, I thought you would’ve known that I had a companion when I came in."

She merely scowled at me as she continued to struggle.

"Doesn’t matter whether you know or not because you’ve already been possessed and defiled." I explained to her what had transpired since Lily possessed her.

"W-What!?! How dare you!!!" She screamed in rage as she shook her head in frustration, barely even able to shake it around.

I ignored her screaming and continued speaking, "Ya’know, after fucking your, or rather my body, I’ve come to a better state of mind, not a perfect one, but still, it’s an improvement. And that’s led me to have the desire to continue living, and I’ll be damned if I let you eat me."

"Oh yeah! What’re you gonna do about it?" She sneered at me.

"Hmm... I haven’t actually decided that yet. I need to kill you to continue progressing in the dungeon, which I want to do as well, but I haven’t come up with how I’m going to kill you yet. What to do, what to do?" I said pretending to think with my hand rubbing my chin as I crouched down to get closer to her.

"Tch. You already have something in mind, don’t you?" She remarked.

"You’re right, I do have something in mind, but to accomplish this, I’ll need to break you, literally." I growled with a chilling tone, one that actually managed to frighten the fake me.

"Y-You don’t have the strength! You can’t break me!" She trembled slightly when she spoke words of defiance, mainly to toughen up her own resolve.

"Doesn’t matter what you think, I’m doing it anyways." I disregarded anything she had to say and proceeded to grab her wrist in both hands.

"W-What do you think you’re doing? Stop that!" She screamed.

I then proceeded to twist it in an unnatural way until it started to creak and crack. My duplicate self was clearly able to feel it as she had shut up as she tried to keep in her wails of pain. I continued to twist her wrist until it was now on backwards, I then tore into the flesh of her wrist with my claws which took a bit of effort with how much more durable her body was compared to mine. Well, she did say it was twice as strong as mine.

As soon as I had cut through more than half her wrist, I twisted it further, causing my duplicate to writhe in agony, or at least as much as she could with her paralysed body.

By the time I was done, you could mistake the wrist for a fountain of blood. The duplicate me was grinding her teeth and glaring at me with hatred. I ignored this did the same to the other wrist.

The reason I was doing this was to make sure that she didn’t attack me with her claws when I swallow her, which she doesn’t know yet. Even if she does, it doesn’t matter.

Once I was done with her wrists, which shouldn’t heal in time by the time I’ve eaten her, it was now onto her mouth, or more specifically, her fangs, which she could use right now.

I brought the end of my tail up to her neck and coiled it around said neck, preventing her from breathing and basically just choking her. This was to make her open her mouth to gasp for breath, which she did.

Although she still had enough air passage to breathe, she would still eventually die. Still, it was enough to make her gasp for breath, which was all I needed.

She struggled to speak to insult me, but she managed to get some words out. "Y-Y-Yo-oo-o-ur p-p-pa-path-the-tic!" Her voice was trembling, and started to sound like mine, all garbled and grated to hell.

I continued to ignore her and grabbed one of her fangs between my thumb, which was on top of her fang, my index and middle finger, which were underneath. I then started to apply pressure on the tooth until I started to hear a cracking noise, at which point I applied all my strength to snap it off.

*SNAP*

"AAAA-AAAAA-AAAAAA!!!!"

The duplicate gave out a high pitched squeal as I had tightened my tail around her throat just as I did that so that her squeals wouldn’t pierce my ears too much and annoy me into killing her sooner.

After her squeals quietened, I moved my hand to her other tooth and did the same, garnering a similar reaction.

After that, I let go of the duplicates neck and moved to her neck once again to inject move paralysis venom. Even though it might not do much, and might not even do anything, I still wanted to do it because I wanted to.

I spent five minutes injecting my venom into her and to my surprise, when I stopped to see the results, it actually worked! Neat.

She was now drooling in pain and anger whilst glaring at me with a fiery hatred and distain, unable to speak or utter up any kind of resistance.

I ignored her and mover over to the tip of her tail and said, "I was going to let you eat me as karma for what I did long ago, but now, I would rather do it the other way around, for the same reasons, an ironic kind of karma if you ask me. I suppose this is my way of repentance for what I did in some ways, but also a form of punishment on myself perhaps? Either way, I’m going to eat you now."

And with that, I grabbed her tail and shoved it into my mouth, and in that moment, I could sense a bit of fear building up under the duplicate’s eyes.

I started to swallow more and more of the duplicate’s tail as I shovelled even more of her into me, feeling the thickness of her tail slide down my oesophagus and into my stomach.

*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp*

Soon I reached her ass. Normally I would play with them at this point, but I wasn’t in the mood for it. So I just continued to swallow her.

*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp*

I soon reached her own stomach.

*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp*

Then her chest, and I couldn’t resist giving those tasty looking mounds a few licks. Those teats were delicious, so delicious that I couldn’t help myself and teased them a bit more.

*Shlrp* *Shlrp*

I quickly stopped, else she regains control of something and retaliates against me, and returned to swallowing her, gulping up her soft mounds that pressed against my throat like marshmallows, whatever those were.

*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp*

Now I was up to her head. Her face was pale, I’m not sure if it was from dread of blood loss but it didn’t matter either way, her mouth was quivering, probably wanting beg for mercy or something, but I wouldn’t stop now. I took another gulp and saw the fear in her eyes mixed with a hint of hatred. It seems that even she can feel fear, though she is supposed to just be a bigger better me so I don’t know what to say to that.

*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp*

With a last couple of gulps, I had now swallowed everything but her broken wrists, which were nestled inside of my mouth, still leaking with blood. It tasted surprisingly sweet, but I had to finish what I started, so with one last gulp, I swallowed the duplicate body up, sealing her fate to be digested by me.

The whole time that I had been swallowing her up, I had also been sending her deeper into my digestive system.

I slithered slowly over to the original pedestal to lean on it, as it was closer than the wall, and fell asleep as my body went to work.

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