Before posting, I decided to test this bug again to see if it actually worked or if it was a fluke. Turns out it was a bug.
Citizens are pretty much immune to swords and hooks. However, when a slayer steps himself onto a citizen, he can kill it without a problem. The slayer cannot kill a citizen with a hook.
From my very simplistic knowledge over C++, I can only guess what any of these values are. Don't take it from me if that's not how it all works. Secreted so it can be skipped by normal formites.
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×PROBLEM: If having a sword in another monster's tile raises a certain value so that the monster then dies, having a slayer's body in another monster's tile might raise a different value, though having the same effect on the monster. I can imagine this is because the hook and body are in different tiles and having the same value for both would break something. Good foresight on Mrimer's part.
SOLUTION: The citizen unit apparently has a higher value requirement before it can die (for example, value=0 means no danger, value=1 means a hook or sword is on me, and value=2 means briar, explosives, (or in this case) a slayer body is on me). A possible solution is to lower the slayer body damage value to 1 and maybe put a "movement unsuccessful bump" script into that.
Attached is a demo of the bug.
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