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Inspired by an illustration by Araizumi, where Lina and Gourry are on a meadow enjoying the blossoming of the flowers, I decided to make a more romantic version because I am sure that in the new novels the feelings that bind them are now evident to both and in the end they too have understood that it is now useless to deny it. I’m happy because I haven’t done a drawing on this couple in years and I have to say I missed them.
Slayers novel 5: Gourry diverting Lina intentionally
This J-Novel translation is not very different from the one in Tokyopop, but the way it is written here fascinates me in how Lina is being diverted and distracted from her original intent (which is hitting and being mad at Gourry as a way of releasing her frustration and worry xD).
I wasn’t quite sure what to say. But Duclis’s final words troubled me. “Grouz’s Zanaffar”? Was he saying there was another Zanaffar out there?! And that it was even more what? While I was thinking all that over…
“I’m so glad you’re okay!” Gourry exclaimed, plopping a hand on my head.
Wham! I tossed and uppercut straight into his jaw.
“Wha… What was that for?!”
“What do you think?! Darn it… Where the heck have you been?!”
“Huh, where else? Looking for you and Amelia.”
“Ohhhhh reeeally… Then let me ask you a question.” I siiidled up next to Gourry. “It would be one thing for you to show up where we got separated, or even in Mayin where the enemy base was… so what the heck are you doing showing up here in this total red herring of a place?!”
Lina has a totally valid point here! I agree with her. So suspicious of Gourry!
“Oh! That’s it!” Gourry clapped his hands in sudden realization.
“What’s it?”
Gourry diverting Lina intentionally!
“Mayin! See, after we got separated, I managed to give those werebeast guys the slip. Then I searched the area but couldn’t find anyone. I was gonna head back to the village where their base was… But, heck of a thing… I ended up forgetting what it was called and where it was! So after wandering a while, I just sorta ended up here…”
Whap! I swatted Gourry in the head with a slipper.
“How’d you manage to get lost on a simple straight road?! Do you realize what your goo-for-brains antics have put me through?!”
“H-Hey! Wait a minute!”
Another intentional diversion! Nobody can convince me that Gourry is not doing this intentionally, knowing fully well what he is doing.
“Don’t even try to make excuses!”
“No, not that! I just wanna know where you got the slipper!”
“My pocket!”
“Why do you have a slipper in your pocket?!”
“I thought something like this might happen, so I swiped it from an inn a while back!”
“You thought… what might happen?”
There was a moment’s silence, and then Amelia chimed in: “Hey, Lina! We don’t have time for couple’s therapy right now!”
“Couple’s therapy?!”
“Didn’t that werebeast say that their base was outside of Mayin?”
By now Lina has absolutely forgotten her original intent... xD xD
“Yeah… I think he said south, past the lake…”
In my head canon, Gourry’s abilities include being able to somehow locate people he is familiar with, and that’s why he is able to find Lina here. And I also believe that he was already seriously hurt when he sent Lina and Amelia away in the fight with the werebeast guys, and he pretended to be ok so that Lina would run away. After that, he had to spend some days recovering (or maybe he found somebody who helped him). When eventually reuniting with her, he lies to her to avoid upsetting her with the truth. In my head canon, there’s also a scene in the future, when they are already an official couple, where they come back to the area and Lina learns that he was really hurt and he sent her away pretending to be ok.
PAHAHHAHAHAH!!! Gourry’s face is gold!
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“She’s hella jealous”
Shoujo Lina. No damns given Gourry.
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Thank you! from Lina and Gourry
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Lina and Gourry romantic moment.
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Sweet love, sweet love Trapped in your love I’ve opened up, unsure I can trust My heart and I were buried in dust Free me, free us
You’re all I need when I’m holding you tight If you walk away I will suffer tonight
I found a man I can trust And boy, I believe in us I am terrified to love for the first time Can you see that I’m bound in chains I finally found my way I am bound to you I am bound to you.
Bound to You by iChristina Aguilera
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Lina and Gourry. Illustration by Rui Araizum
