Here we go, the crimson demon arc started and ended rather peacefully thanks to the unfair power our favorite green hero is packing. Thankfully there is some high level action to come for the battle junkies out there so don't worry.

Our party, with the addition of Megumin's family and Hiropo decided that we were ready to head to Axel, temporarily in Hiropo's case, he just needed to finalize some of the deals we spoke about at the village. Our welcoming party was...Unexpected but not unappreciated. Apparently the news of me subjugating another demon general spread quickly.

Needless to say the chief and Megumin's family loved it. Especially Komekko who was given food on the house, instantly winning her over and earning her the title of 'Axel's #1 Stomach' Out-eating multiple fully grown adults with ease!

'I should be worried about that. I really should, but it's honestly one of the lesser weird things going on in my life so I'll let it slide.' Not like they were hurting for money, feeding the equivalent of a small army wouldn't be so bad.

For now Megumin's parents and myself were heading to Wiz's shop. Both to start the business partnership and for me to pick up some materials for the festival. When we reached the shop Hyoizaburoo tensed up, I guess he noticed Wiz' magical energy. Pretty impressive considering how much she keeps it contained...Either that or Vanir was pranking me.

We entered the shop just in time for it to explode in my face. Luckily I was in front when it happened so the others didn't get hurt, and all I got was some burnt clothing. As expected Wiz was face down on the floor, covered in ash and unconscious…

"What did she do this time Vanir-san?" As he explained his part the crimson demons just stared in confusion, not expecting two people, much less that one of them would be a true devil of all things. The explosion to the face was taken in stride though, that was at least a fairly common thing in the world of magic...At least when it came to Hyoizaburoo.

"And so you see that blasted collar was nothing but trouble, in fact it nearly killed a customer if it weren't for my timely interruption! I had to discipline the debt magnet for such a mistake!" Damn it Wiz.. I can't even argue against this, it really was such a stupid item to keep around in the open.

"Good work Vanir-san. If you don't mind I'll take Wiz-chan to get healed. Ah! Where are my manners? These two are our guests and future business partners." I introduced the two to the demon who's face lit up at the thought of future profit.

"Hyoizaburoo-san is a magic item craftsman who was coming under hard times so I decided to lend a hand, I'll leave you two alone to talk business. Yuiyui-san, would you like to stay? Or would you prefer to join me and get yourselves settled at the mansion?" At the mention of a mansion she abandoned her husband to the demon lord in an instant. The last thing they heard before the door closed behind them was Vanir's maniacal laughter.

"W-Will he be ok?" Yuiyui asked soon after we left, a small shred of guilt in her voice. It was microscopic though, she may or may not have held a small grudge against her husband's debt creating business. Maybe.. Yes.

"Don't worry about it, for a duke of Hell Vanir-san is quite nice. No, that's a lie, it's more accurate to say that he seeks profit and suffering above all else. Cooperation and business just happens to be the quickest and most sustainable way for him to gain both." He wasn't a good person, the opposite was true in fact. But he was a smart person, which made him reasonable.

It took us a few minutes to reach the mansion, time that Yuiyui used to enjoy the scenery of her new home, since we lived a forested area it was rather nice. As we got close to the mansion I saw a familiar face in the distance. Or more accurately a familiar hairstyle.

"All Might-sensei!" I called out to him, he and the shorter woman next to him looked up when they heard me. 'Wait. Wasn't she that waitress that I hired to fill in for Luna?" The last time I saw her I didn't catch her name, hell I was barely paying attention to her appearance from how ready I was to go on vacation.

Giving her a once over I noticed that she was attractive in a 'girl next door' kind of way. Though with the company I keep my standards might have been unfairly high. She had shorti-ish brown hair that framed her face nicely and sharp. slightly dark-green eyes. And with the way their hands were moving I had a decent idea what was going on.

"I leave for two days and you get yourself a girlfriend? You work fast sensei." I call him out on it. He tried to play it cool but I knew he was freaking out internally. The man was an amazing hero, but he probably hasn't had a romantic relationship in decades.

"O-oh, Midoriya-sama! Welcome back, I was just showing Yagi-kun around the city.." She explained clumsily. I just had a grin on my face. Sure, showing him around after two days of being here. And in the direction of our mansion. I'll leave them alone for now, my request can wait.

"Of course. Well I'll leave you two to it. I still have to help Yuiyui-san get settled at the mansion, plus I have to heal Wiz-chan here after her latest run in with Vanir-san's disciplining.. We'll be having three new residents, and possibly a guest for the night." I explained and walked off, leaving the two lovebirds alone.

"Izuku-san, was that All Might? I know you said he was thin but I didn't expect.. That. Is he ok?" Yuiyui asked, worried over her future son-in-law's mentor.

"More or less. He took a big injury to his stomach and lungs about 8 years ago. The damage was healed recently, his stomach and left lung grew back, but the effects of malnutrition stuck. Believe it or not he was even thinner just two days ago, he's making good progress."

Before he looked like a skeleton. Now he looks like a zombie. Baby steps, malnutrition usually takes months to fix, it was a small miracle that he gained that much weight so soon. Well that was a problem that would fix itself, for now we headed towards the mansion, specifically some of the empty rooms. Before that I left Wiz down in one of our couches and fed her a healing potion from our stock. We rarely used them since Aqua was a fantastic healer but it pays to be prepared.

"Here it is, you can choose whichever room you like, this entire side of the mansion has been empty since we bought it so it's no problem. The kitchen is downstairs, feel free to cook whatever you want whenever." I thought about it for a bit and decided it would be ok.

"if you want to use our cooking appliances the instruction manuals are in the rightmost cupboard, be careful with the equipment it can be dangerous if used incorrectly." I make sure the emphasize. The appliances were meant to be as intuitive as possible but it never hurt to be careful. I didn't want to buy a new mansion any time soon.

"The baths are across the corridor, third room on the left. Just remember to knock before you go in, the party is still paranoid after...The succubus incident." I said darkly, thankfully Yuiyui didn't comment on that as I continued with the tour.

1 hour, and a surprisingly long tour later

"And there you have it, so long as you remember those simple rules you should do just fine." I finished the tour before looking back on the clearly traumatized woman. "A-are you ok Yuiyui-san?" I asked in concern, she replied with a small, nearly inaudible voice.

"S-so much leather. Why? Why was there so much leather?" Ah, she was still worried about Darkness' hobby room, of which each member of the party got one. Darkness just had one of the more..Unique rooms.

Kazuma just asked for a game room which I gladly provided, it was basically a mini arcade(non-electronic of course. I'm no software engineer) which the whole party used. Aqua asked for a brewery(which again everyone got use out of) Megumin wanted a library(My party is learning..I'm so proud of them!)

For the sake of fairness Iris, Wolbach, All Might, etc. Would receive a room of their own too. We were going to have to renovate the mansion eventually, it was more than enough when we were a party of 6 but now.. Yeah we could use a second building, luckily we had plenty of free space.

With my thoughts focused on the future expansion of our home base I didn't notice a high pitched sound heading towards me until it was too late. A surprisingly strong push came from behind me, knocking me down face first on the floor. Looking over my shoulders I saw the little culprit still hugging me just a bit too tightly.

'It's been a while since someone's tried to glomp me. T-this little girl is surprisingly strong!' The stuffed cheeks gave me a pretty good idea as to why she was hugging me. "K-komekko-chan, I'm glad that you enjoyed your time at the guild, but can you please let me go?" The little demon with a vice grip did as I asked and let me stand up. 'At least none of the others were around to see that.'

"Oh, what do we have here?! The mighty Izuku-kun taken down by this little rascal? How the mighty have fallen!" Eris teased with a shit eating grin. *internal groaning. Let it be known that while Izuku wasn't a very prideful individual, being knocked down by a little girl nearly half his size would hurt anyone's self esteem.

"Izuku-nii! Quick do something cool to counteract it!" Something cool? Like what? I'm still a nerd damn it! I can't just be cool on command! Wait.. I got it! "Speaking of fall, I should really get started on the plan to get you back to heaven Eris-chan, meet me tonight and I should be able to do it before morning." It took several seconds before the implications kicked in, by then everyone excluding Komekko who didn't understand were blushing while Eris was on the floor with a nosebleed.

'D-did I really just say that?' I thought in a panic, sure it was super effective as far as payback went but I don't like the way Darkness was looking at me...Was she drooling? Nope! Not dealing with this! Sayonara! Immediate regret!

1 hour later

After hiding in the proverbial hole(my hobby room, aka the garage) for about an hour, I thought it was safe to come back out. From what I could tell Eris was still unconscious from before, Darkness was nowhere to be found(she apparently tired herself out searching for me). Kazuma kept me informed like the bro he was, though I could have gone without the constant salutes.

Thankfully the other girls weren't kept in the loop, I couldn't even imagine how Megumin and Yunyun would react to me dirty talking Eris..Actually I can imagine what they would do, and it ends with a very quick, very painful explosion to the face, possibly multiple.

Aqua would just laugh at me. Maybe even congratulate me for getting one over on her junior. Wolbach would take what I said seriously and probably collapse too. All Might...Must never know. If worse comes to worse I have more than enough blackmail to retaliate but I don't want it to come to that.

That being said I didn't waste all my time while I was hiding. I used the tablet gift to search up chemical mixtures for fireworks. This world has its own version but it just wasn't the same. Detonation magic could, at best, produce three colors. Red, orange, and yellow. And even then they don't have the same patterns that Earth fireworks did.

Thankfully they were surprisingly simple. I already knew how to make gunpowder, I used nitrate as the oxidiser, and some simple chlorate as the chlorine donor. The most complex chemical to copy was dextrin, the binding agent. All in all, I managed to make 48 explosives, 8 of each color.(1)

With that done I should visit the guild again. Though this time I'll be a paying customer, it should be an easy job to just set these up and detonate them right before the festival, I'll even pay them in advance.

Guildhall minutes later.

"Hey Luna-chan, how do I make a request for a job? I made something special for the upcoming Eris festival and I'll need to hold it somewhere along with some adventurers for when it needs to be set up. It's nothing complicated either so I'm sure anyone could do it."

"Oh, normally you'd have to write a formal request and turn it into the guild, but since you're.. Well you, I can handle it myself! From what your describing you want a set space to hold equipment and a set of hands to set it up at a specific time. If it will be here until the festival begins then that will cost you 100,000 eris, plus 50,000 for the adventurers' labour if it's a simple job. Is there anything else I should know?"

I mentioned that the materials were flammable and rather fragile which cost me an extra 100,000 for the extra risk, which I was fine with. With this I was an official patron of the guild. 'Took me long enough I suppose' I thought to myself jokingly. Now that I think about it do we even pay taxes? Something to deal with later, I feel bad sitting on all this money, and not paying our fair share, it sets a bad example.

"Thank you for your patronage! See you soon Izuku-kun." She said playfully, I still had three more things to do before I could head back to the mansion for some rest. First I should check up on Hyoizaburoo and Vanir.

"Hey you two how are the negotiations goi-!" Two unconscious men were lying down on the floor, the smell of alcohol made the culprit obvious. "I..Guess that's a good sign?" Deciding that I was better off not knowing I closed the door on my way out and never looked back.

'Well that was a bust. Guess I should check on Sena next. She must be tired after all that paperwork from last time.' Heading towards the local imperial building I quickly saw the hardworking girl barking orders at her subordinates. Classic Sena.

"Good afternoon Sena-san. I came to see how you were holding up. Sorry about dumping all that paperwork on you a couple days ago but I had business elsewhere." Well that was half true. Really I was just having a small vacation at the crimson demon village. Though nobody could tell when my vacations ended up subjugating an average of 1.5 demon generals each.

'I should go on vacation more often.' Senna looked angry at first, then resigned, then accepting of what I said. Her subordinates looked at me, then at each other, and then nodded in unison. Walking away from their distracted boss before they were yelled at again.

"O-of course, I understand Izuku-kun. You have your duties as a noble, and your obligations as a member of such a close knit party. Besides, I should be thankful, you brought such a powerful new ally into our country and even placed him in a position to defend the people within the day. Although I would like to ask if anything productive came of your trip?" I smiled at her, I have a feeling she'd be even happier after hearing my story.

"*Sigh. You really are unbelievable Izuku-kun. Another demon general, a partnership with the legendary crimson village, and a new battalion of soldiers that are of above average power. It's almost as if every mission you take is destined for an overwhelming success." She looked both exasperated and ecstatic over the news. Though I'd say it was more like dumb luck and the ridiculous reputation I've grown since coming here.

"Hope you have a great day Senna-san, oh and I have something interesting prepared for the upcoming Eris festival so make sure you make it. I guarantee that it'll be a show to remember!" I exclaimed, smiling the whole time as I sped my way towards the mansion, or more specifically the outer region where I'm sure All Might was.

It took me a few minutes but I finally found him resting at the foot of a tree. A satisfied smile on his face as he truly relaxed for the first time in years. "Well someone had a nice day. I hope it goes well All Might-sensei but I do have a favour to ask." I spoke up catching his attention.

"I sure did. And name it young Midoriya, I already owe you a great deal." Shaking my head at that I didn't try to tell him otherwise, that argument would last the rest of the day with how stubborn we both could be.

"I'd like to spar with you some time later. During the Eris festival actually, it would be a public match to entertain the city along with the other events. How does that sound?" He looked thoughtful for a moment before staring back at me with a smirk.

"It sounds interesting. Reminds me of the old days were hero exhibition matches were more common, plus it would be nice to fight for an audience again. Though I have to ask, just how strong have you become young Midoriya?" He asked curiously, knowing just how quickly people could become strong in this world.

I returned the smirk with one of my own. "Enough to give you a good fight I'm sure. I'll give you the details later when everything is set up. For now just enjoy your time here, you deserve a vacation after everything so have fun!" With this the Eris festival was guaranteed to be memorable, not I just have to come up with a plan on how to not look like an absolute fool.

My physical strength and speed was comparable to All Might's, but his decades of experience made that point nearly moot. I had to use my other skills to equalize the odds, and as a paladin I had a good deal of tricks up my sleeve. My smirk turned mischievous as I made my way home to rest. The week was gonna be a busy one and I'd all the rest I could get.

"Izu-kun! What was that about meeting you tonight for a trip to heaven?!" A voice that signalled doom rang across the field as I walked closer to the mansion. I guess my luck just ran out... Or got stronger I'm not too sure.

It's the latter Deku. Definitely the latter. Anyways that's it for this chapter, the next few should be a lot more action packed compared to the last few, though comedy is still the centerpoint of course.

P.S this is an urgent request for aid. I have officially run out of fanfiction to read! I had 50+ stories stored up and in my hubris I thought they would last me a full month...How wrong I was, not I have none left, and little to no time to search for more. So. I beseech thee! Grant me summa dat gud sheet!(Preferably from the Anime/Manga category though I'm open to others. 40k+ stories or freshly updated stories are also preferable.)

P.P.S I forgot to explain that (1) from earlier whoops. Just wanted to say that the fireworks chemicals were: Strontium Nitrate(Red), Calcium Carbonate(aka chalk(Orange), Sodium Nitrate(Yellow), Barium Carbonate(Green), Copper Chloride(Blue), and finally combination of red chemicals and blue chemicals for purple.