The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 6


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With a new year come new beginnings. In this case, that new beginning is in General Pujol’s love life. The man’s petition to marry the eldest daughter of the Gaziel family has arrived on Aura’s desk. Ordinarily, such a petition would be summarily refused—a marriage between the central and provincial nobles runs too great a risk of destabilizing the power of the royal family. However, Aura’s culpability for the general’s bachelorhood means that she cannot dismiss the request so easily. This presents other problems: at least one royal will need to attend, which means Zenjirou will be leaving home once again due to the general’s insistence on holding the ceremony in the border march. At the same time, Freya has arrived, and when she hears of the wedding, she asks to attend as Zenjirou’s partner. Such an arrangement usually indicates romance between the pair, so her suggestion is effectively a marriage proposal. How will Zenjirou respond?! And what will come of his relationship with Aura?!




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 6


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A young girl calling herself Princess Freya arrives in the Kingdom of Capua, claiming to have sailed from across the northern sea! With Queen Aura preoccupied with matters of state, Zenjiro is sent out to the port city of Valentia to see if he can establish profitable trade between the continents. It's Zenjiro's first-ever journey out of the royal palace...what could possibly go wrong?




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 6


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PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA A young girl calling herself Princess Freya arrives in the Kingdom of Capua, claiming to have sailed from across the northern sea! With Queen Aura preoccupied with matters of state, Zenjiro is sent out to the port city of Valentia to see if he can establish profitable trade between the continents. It’s Zenjiro’s first-ever journey out of the royal palace...what could possibly go wrong?




The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 3


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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.




The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 1


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Yamai Zenjirou is your everyday office worker in modern Japan. One morning, he suddenly finds himself summoned to a tropical world where dinosaurs roam the land. He is told that this is the kingdom of Capua and the person who summoned him - its monarch, Queen Aura - wants him to marry her and leave his old life behind for a life of carefree extravagance as her prince consort. The reasons for her offer are many and varied, but she needs an heir, and she wants him to be the one to provide it! If he accepts, he’ll never have to work again, lazing around in luxury with no worries other than securing the kingdom its next monarch. Certainly, sleeping with the buxom beauty is far from a hardship, but is everything really as it seems? He’ll also need to give up everything he knows on Earth. Is he ready to drop it all at a moment’s notice for her sake? And how well will he be able to navigate the politics, people and culture of this new world if he does?




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 4


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Two years have passed since Zenjiro was summoned to a kigdom in another world and married its beautiful queen. Now, Zenjiro and Queen Aura celebrate the birth of their child--the young First Prince of Capua---and the realm celebrates with them. Yet while Zenjiro is busy adjusting to his new life as a father, a bloody massacre breaks out along the vital Salt Road. A company of knights and warriors rides to do battle with all manner of wyverns, even as a delegation arrives from the Twin Kingdoms with an agenda all its own!




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 3


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When he chose to leave Earth and marry Queen Aura, Zenjiro learned that his blood carried an otherworldly ancestry...but it turns out his family tree had more secrets than anyone imagined. The children he and Aura hope to have together could upend the world's peaceful order, bearing powers no one expected. It'll take all of Aura's cunning to navigate intrigue between kingdoms, even while Zenjiro prepares for the possibility of a new addition to their royal family.




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 5


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Not once in hundreds of years has the royal family of Sharou left the Twin Kingdoms, but suddenly, a delegation of their finest enchanters arrives in Capua. Prince Francesco seems at first glance like a carefree fool, but what secrets does this unassuming royal keep hidden from the world? Zenjiro will need all his cunning to navigate the dangers of royal diplomacy...and avoid maybe getting accidentally seduced along the way.




The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 2


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Zenjiro left his life on Earth behind to become the husband of a beautiful queen, but as it turns out, not everything is happily ever after. Behind the smiles of the nobility lurk hidden agendas and ambitious schemes. When even an innocent word or gift carries hidden meanings, can a simple Earthling navigate courtly intrigue? And what does Queen Aura think of all the efforts to ensnare her beloved in a second marriage?




The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 5


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A huge ship, the Glasir’s Leaf, has just appeared off the coast of Capua’s largest port of Valentia, carrying an envoy of the Northern Continent from the Kingdom of Uppasala. The envoy in question calls herself the country’s first princess, Freya Uppasala, and wishes to open talks with Capua. Bound to the capital as she is, Aura cannot see to the matter herself, so Zenjirou is sent far from home for the sake of diplomacy. While both parties sound each other out and try to benefit from an agreement between the two countries, the ambitious General Pujol is far from idle, leading his troops into the mountains between Valentia and the salt road to combat the swarm raptor threat. Capua is now fighting on two fronts: a logistical nightmare to ensure the steady supply of salt to its lands and a diplomatic battle between royals to raise its status on the Southern Continent.