穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。

High-ranking nobleman Lizel finds himself suddenly transported into an alternate world similar to his own. It’s not a problem. Thanks to his radiantly aristocratic aura and sex appeal, everywhere he goes, people are admiring and helpful and flustered. He acquires a handsome OP adventurer companion, who’s standoffish to everyone, but decides to hang out with Lizel. Then they register Lizel with the adventurers guild and pick up some harmless little boring adventures. The tension probably won’t go anywhere. The best part about this is the audiobook, which is narrated by a voice actor with a charming princely drawl. I read 70% and decided to put it down because I wasn’t enjoying the story and disliked the writing style.

I read this using the Kindle and audiobook version simultaneously. This makes it a little hard to gauge what the difficulty level would feel like if I was reading it normally, without audio. The vocabulary range seemed surprisingly small; I found few new words compared to other books which have easier grammar and kanji. There were times when sentences I might otherwise have found difficult were made easier by the narrator, and also times when I didn’t quite understand something at the speed he was speaking that would have been easier if I’d read it more slowly.

The author loves using kanji for words that other authors write in hiragana. Everywhere there’s things like 此処（ここ）and 筈（はず）. It’s not because of extensive vocabulary. These are just really ordinary basic words that everyone knows in hiragana. I would not have wanted to read this on paper.