The Ideal Sponger Life manga volume 9 features story by Tsunehiko Watanabe and art by Neko Hinotsuki.

Zenjiro and Princess Freya travel across the kingdom to a very important wedding. With General Pujol set to marry the daughter of an influential lord, it ought to be a day of celebration. Instead, the affair is riven with tension when a foreign dignitary arrives: the notorious Martin Nadal. This matchless commander is the old wartime rival of Pujol himself. Can the old soldiers put aside their differences, or is Martin’s appearance only the first step in a broader political game?