Here’s the current set of Q&As, plus some of the older ones. I hadn’t bothered including it until now, but the fan club’s page actually numbers all of the Q&A sets. I didn’t write down the dates for the older ones when I copied them, so I’m just going to use the numbering for those.





June 2018 (#80)

Q: Apparently Lina submits reports to the Sorcerer’s Guild about her battles with the Mazoku. Are these only stored at the guild location where she submitted them? Are they copied and sent to all branches of the guild? Or can they be marked to be sent to a specific branch? I’m curious about how they’re handled. Also, are there restrictions on reading or searching through past reports? Does it require authorization?

K: At the present time, it’s handled at the discretion of the higher-ups at each guild location, so sometimes things get suppressed or research gets stolen. Naturally, they have restrictions in place on reading things dealing with dangerous attack spells and things like that, but as long as you’re a sorcerer, you can look at other things about basic theory and such, no problem.

Q: I have a question about refrigerators and freezers in the Slayers world. Do they have them at all? Are they widely available? Naga made money off of oranges frozen with a chilling spell. Are there sorcerers who make and sell ice? As long as the chilling spell doesn’t require a catalyst, then it seems like it would be an awesome business opportunity. Would it?

K: They don’t have much in the way of techniques for refrigeration or freezing, mostly relying on straw and containers to insulate things. However, there are cities with clever sorcerers who make and sell ice as a side business, so depending on where you are, cold storage is a possibility. Wine sellers who cater to the nobility often use it.

Q: In the new work being serialized, Araizumi-sensei is drawing Lina and Gourry’s clothing (equipment) differently. Are you describing them differently in the work because of that?

K: About the change in their costumes, what happened was actually that Araizumi-san contacted me and we discussed it, and I asked him to make the changes. So there may be descriptions of them like that in both the initial serialization and the paperback version. Or there might not be, if I forget.





#5

Q: If someone from the real world managed to go to the Slayers world, how would they end up? Treated like a god from the world of their creator? Or exactly the same as the people in that world? If the latter is the case, then would they be able to use the magic from Slayers, depending on their personal level of ability?

K: They’d probably be thought of as someone who knows a lot. However, that’s leaving aside the question of whether anyone would believe them, since they’d have no way to prove what they’re talking about. They might be able to learn to use spells, if they could properly comprehend that world’s knowledge.

Q: Please let us know what you think of Araizumi-sensei’s “Lina’s Little Boobs Mousepad”.

K: Araizumi-san told me some things in confidence about its creation, it was pretty interesting. I’m looking forward to when it goes on sale.

Q: When I feel like I need cheering up or some courage, I almost always read or watch Slayers. I’ve grown thanks to that(?), which I guess makes me a little weird, but I still do my best every day. How do you psych yourself up?

K: I get myself into the mood to do things by eating something good. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just whatever I’m in the mood for right then, like eating sweets when I want something sweet.





#7

Q: It says in Select v.4 that a Mazoku can tell what kind of magic capacity a person has just by looking at them, but Sherra had to use Dulgofa to search for the Demon Lord, and the Mazoku that Rezo had made pacts with never noticed that the Demon Lord was sealed inside him. Does that mean that as long as they don’t awaken, a person with a fragment of the Demon Lord will have the same kind of magic capacity as a normal human?

K: In the first place, just because someone has a huge magic capacity, that doesn’t mean that they’re the Demon Lord. Besides, the Mazoku don’t have a good grasp of the range of variation in magic capacity among humans. Plus there are also hybrids.

Q: Is Abyss Gate v.4 done yet?

K: Nope, sorry.

Q: Hi! I’m from Kobe, born and raised. What kind of foods from Kobe do you like? Sweets, bread, sake… any kind of food. If you have any recommendations, I’d love to hear them. Just because I’m from here, doesn’t mean that I know what’s the best stuff here.

K: I’ve liked Kobe Fugetsudo’s gaufrettes ever since I was a kid, and I still have some every now and then.

(gaufrette = cream-filled wafer cookie)

Q: Do you like regular custard, baked custard, or sexy ladies?

(This is a pun using a slang term for a sexy woman that has the word “custard” in it.)

K: I love all of them, though which one I’d pick would depend on what I’m in the mood for.





#7 (probably supposed to be #8)

Q: Have any Mazoku ever died of boredom?

K: Leaving aside the question of whether they even feel boredom in the first place, just as humans talk about “being so _____ I could die” but don’t literally die, no Mazoku has ever died (been destroyed) either.

Q: My cousin’s cat won’t play with me! What can I do to get it to play with me?

K: Cats act differently depending on their personalities… if there is a way to get all cats to pay attention to you, I’d like to know what it is, myself.

Q: In Slayers v.15, when Lina sees Rubia’s greenhouse, Lina says that manufacturing high-quality glass requires skilled craftsmen, and it’s really expensive. On the other hand, in the last scene of “The Orb Will Be Mine” from Special v.12, Lina uses a “cheap glass sphere” as a replacement for the real orb. I assume that, for it to be mistaken for an orb, the glass sphere must have been extremely clear and close to perfectly spherical. Can they make glass spheres like that cheaply with the technology they have for manufacturing glass in that world?

(The story they’re referring to here is about Lina competing against a couple of other people to see who can retrieve an orb from some ruins. In the end, Lina swaps the orb out for a glass fake with a low-intensity Lighting spell planted inside and purposely lets the others “win”.)

K: The orb-like glass is fairly valuable itself, naturally. It’s just that it’s still much cheaper than the real thing.

Q: I heard on the news that they discovered in an experiment that neutrinos can move faster than the speed of light! What do you think about that? I recall you complaining before that there’s no way to go beyond the speed of light…

K: I’ve also heard that there are doubts about the accuracy of their measurements, so I don’t think we should celebrate prematurely. I’m going to wait and see how things develop.