The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 4 by Tsunehiko Watanabe

Author:Tsunehiko Watanabe [WATANABE, TSUNEHIKO]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

For his part, Zenjirou couldn’t muster a response.

Damn, I really screwed up this time! he finally realized, feeling a chill run down his back too late.

Bona didn’t notice the look on his face as she excitedly peered at the enlarged wood grain of the table. As she did so, however, the magic ran out.

“Ah!” she cried as the spell ran its course and the lens lost its form and fell upon the table with a splash.

“My apologies for the rudeness. I suppose normal magic lacks the duration to be effective for this. Besides, the freeform manipulation of water requires too much mana. If I could make it into some kind of magic tool... Your Majesty, thank you so much!”

As one would expect, the princess’s thoughts went in exactly the direction he had feared without any further prompting: to create a spell for forming lenses, then make it into a magic tool. This would lead to The Twin Kingdoms having a monopoly on the momentous discovery of lenses.

Damn, this is a real fuckup. I’ll need to confess to Aura and come up with some kind of contingency plan.

“Not at all; I just hope it was useful,” was all he could manage in the face of his unprecedented blunder.

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That night, once he had returned to the inner palace, he revealed the entire sequence of events that had taken place during their meeting, a meek expression on his face as he delivered his report.

He had felt that their room under the AC was not a suitable venue for such a serious discussion, so they were once again sitting on opposing sofas in the living room.

“Hmm. I think you did well to report on Princess Bona’s surprising appearance and the secret involved in Prince Francesco’s birth, but what are you so concerned about? Would it truly be so much of a problem if the Twin Kingdoms were to develop these water lenses?” Aura asked in puzzlement, crossing her legs after listening to her husband’s repentant report.

This reaction was something Zenjirou had more or less expected. Certainly, a single convex lens could only be used as a magnifying glass, so it didn’t seem to be such a threat. The worst the development would be was a “convenience” for people like Bona who worked with small and delicate objects.

Currently, despite her enthusiastic reaction, Bona herself seemed to have no suspicions of the possibilities being anything more, appearing to see it as nothing strange, taught to her freely through his generosity.

But the possibilities lenses offered were not so benign—something Zenjirou was all too aware of. His regret was due to leaking that information, despite knowing the implications, to someone he should not have in a position of influence.

He picked up a five-yen coin and began his explanation again.

“Right, take a close look: this is what I showed Princess Bona. A convex lens. It bulges at the middle and gets thinner towards the edge.”

“Hmm, I see. It does indeed make things on the other side bigger. Convenient,” Aura nodded after doing as he’d asked, but she remained unconcerned.

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