理想のヒモ生活 3

理想のヒモ生活 [The Ideal Sponger Life] (Light Novel) #3

by Tsunehiko Watanabe, 渡辺恒彦, 文倉十 (Illustrator)

「理想のヒモ」と言いながらヒモらしくない暮らしを送る主人公が大人気のシリーズ第3弾。今回も書籍でしか読めない新章、新たなエピソードもしっかり収録され、パワーアップ!

山井善治郎が女王アウラの元に婿入りしてから、早一年。王都では、二人の間に生まれたカルロス=善吉王子の生誕を祝う大規模な祭りが繰り広げられていた。明るい知らせに、沸き立つカープァ王国。しかし、そんなとき、女王アウラの元に一つの不吉な知らせが届く。ガジール辺境伯領に、今年の塩が届いていないという。領内に海も塩山ももたないガジール辺境伯領にとって、塩の輸入が滞ることは、領地の死をも意味する大問題。原因究明と、事態の解決のため即座に指令を飛ばす、女王アウラ。一方、そうした社会の動きとは無縁の後宮では、善治郎が、暇をもてあまし始めていた。暇に飽かせて、石鹸や蒸留酒の製造に取りかかる善治郎。さらにはガラス製造や、水車の改良にまで知恵を出す。完成までの道のりは遠いが、順調に進む物作り。しかし、そんな善治郎をも巻き込む大事件が起こる。「理想のヒモ」らしくないヒモ暮らしがついに新たな展開を見せる! ?

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Romance, Slice Of Life, Politics

328 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2013

Reviews

[Pieter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Aura and Zenjirou's son is born, leading to some nice family scenes. Zenjirou keeps helping his wife, learn magic and help the kingdom with (minor) technological progress. The only thing that made me wonder a bit was the section on the salt route. It felt a bit out of place, even if it added some action to the story and was an opportunity to show some world building. Maybe it gets a more direct tie in with Zenjirou and Aura at a later volume. Anyway, I enjoyed the quick slice-of-life marriage life and kingdom building of the two. A solid continuation of the series.

[slugbiscuit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Zenjirou’s submissive life continues as due to a lack of birth control and fear of another pregnancy, he enters into a forced celibacy. He also has limited access to his child and is unable to freely speak to him. Otherwise, he is making some personal advances in his magic but has yet to accomplish anything of significance. He is more interested in AC unfortunately. The big subplot for this volume involves a wildlife menace, which is almost always boring especially when not resolved in one volume. Seems like we will have some more interesting developments soon but I’ll have to wait and see.