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理想のヒモ生活 [The Ideal Sponger Life] (Light Novel) #3
The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 3
This is the third volume in the saga of our beloved “sponging protagonist,” and at this point, “sponging” is the last thing he’s doing. A year has passed since his marriage to Queen Aura of Capua, and the capital has welcomed their new child and heir to the throne, Carlos Zenkichi. The kingdom is busy with festivities to celebrate the happy news, but something more ominous has reached Aura’s ears.
Margrave Gaziel tells her that his territory has had no salt for a year, and with his lands lacking both sea and rock salt, it could spell the region’s end. While the queen immediately orders an investigation, Zenjirou’s free time is becoming more than he can handle in the inner palace, and he starts to investigate what advancements might be made to move their nation forward.
Margrave Gaziel tells her that his territory has had no salt for a year, and with his lands lacking both sea and rock salt, it could spell the region’s end. While the queen immediately orders an investigation, Zenjirou’s free time is becoming more than he can handle in the inner palace, and he starts to investigate what advancements might be made to move their nation forward.
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 18, 2021
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September 14, 2023
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.
April 3, 2024
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.
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