The streets of Tempest were bustling, full of celebrations
Food stalls seen in many rows, merchandise being sold left and right
Right outside of the city, a crowd of elves were seen, escorted by a famous adventurer party, team light speed. The team of 4, Jinrai, Bernie, Jiwu, and of course who else but the their GLORIOUS, BADASS, INVINCIBLE, CHARMING, AWESOME, UNSTOPPABLE, SEXY, COOL, AND SO FAST YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE HIM ACT leader Masayuki aka the Light Speed Hero
Masayuki: (Is there an event going on here? Looks like the festival back at Japan, looks exciting infact! I kinda wanted to check it out. Actually maybe this is the perfect time to drop off the elves and drop out. This is a demon lord country and this event does look busy. I really don't want to risk actually encountering the demon lord himse-)
Just as he was in the middle of hoping for the best, he was approached by none other than Rimuru out of the blue
Rimuru: Welcome to my country, Masayuki the hero
Citizen: it's rimuru!
Merchant: so that's the princess?
Masayuki: (Hold on! Princess Rimuru!? Isn't she the demon lord's sister? Does that mean he's nearby!!?. . . I don't see him anywhere. No mysterious mask wearing people around. Is it just her?)
Jinrai: Oi look Masayuki! It seems the princess has come out of their way to witness your greatness
Jiwu: It seems even royalty can't ignore you
Bernie: It's only to be expected of our great Masayuki
Jinrai: So where's your bro? Our boy Masayuki has a demon lord to slay
Masayuki: (Oi! Are you trying to get us killed!?)
Rimuru: He's not here not as you can see
Bernie: So you're telling us the demon lord can't bring themselves face Masayuki?
Jiwu: It's not surprising that the demon lord would turn tail and run in such cowardice
Jinrai: Ha! Ha! Talk about pathetic!
Masayuki: (We're so doomed)
Rimuru: . . .
Yuuki: Hey! What are you all doing?
Masayuki: Oh! Hey Yuuki!
Jinrai: Well look who it is! Are you who to witness Masayuki take down the demon lord and see these lands be freed?
Yuuki: What!? No! You got the wrong idea. While I don't know the demon lord personally, Rimuru wishes to coexist peacefully. Just you all not getting killed on the spot is proof of that
Bernie: you dare think a demon lord is strong enough to take down Masayuki!
Jiwu: Even from the Guild's grandmaster, we won't accept such disgrace!
Jinrai: Well we heard a few stories here and there about the demon lord. It's probably just an exaggeration anyways. And it'll be our Masayuki to prove it so
Masayuki: (Hold Jinrai! Slow down!)
Yuuki: You're not listening! The demon lord hasn't even done anything to warrent hostility
Jinrai: It may be so, but it's a demon lord we're talking about here. For all we know, they will begin taking over the world tommorow. Since the western holy church has backed off, the only hope for humanity is non other than Masayuki!
Rimuru: All right! All right! I heard you loud and clear! How about we settle with this. We are hosting a battle tournament in the upcoming days of the festival. If Masayuki wins it, he can go ahead and challenge the demon lord. Will that work for ya?
Jinrai: Well what do you say Masayuki? You think it's a deal?
Masayuki: ....a.....a....sure
Rimuru: (Not much of a talker he seems)
Bernie: that settles it
Jiwu: hope the demon lord halts their cowardice by then
Rimuru clicked their tongue at the attitude that Masayuki's party kept giving off
Yuuki: Glad we can all come to an agreement!
Masayuki: Hey Yuuki! Since you're here, wanna go hangout? Checking out their stall?
Yuuki: Oh sorry man, I still have some unloading to finish. Maybe next time
Masayuki: oh sure. . . Maybe next time
Jiwu: Masayuki! Check this stall out! They're serving something called "grilled squid"
Masayuki: grilled squid!?
Rimuru: phew! Thanks for the save yuuki
Yuuki: No problem
Rimuru: So is Masayuki really that strong?
Yuuki: I can't say for sure. I just know he has consecutive wins in other tournaments and that no monster has been able to defeat him. Do you think the very King of the Monsters will change that? Or rather does Masayuki has what it takes to defeat a demon lord?
Rimuru: It's too early to say, we'll just have to wait and see
Yuuki: I suppose so
Rimuru: (Yuuki really saved me some trouble there. It's not the first time I had dealt with a rowdy crowd but I actually felt my patience be tested there. I don't mind it when someone belittles me, but it doesn't really seem to be the same when someone insults my family
Seriously he keeps giving me headaches with his antics basically every week and yet I could still find myself getting mad in his defense. I thought he was being ridiculous when he refused to welcome Masayuki saying something like "the hero would likely attack the moment they notice eachother" now it looks I was the ridiculous one all along
Hopefully he wouldn't mind me pitting him against the hero. Well I suppose with how much he's into being a demon lord, he likely would be happy to have a hero and demon lord clash anyways)
somewhere else
Kaijuno: achoo!
Yagami: (bless you)
Kaijuno: (thanks)
Kaijuno: Seems like someone is talking about me
Kaijuno: (Kinda mildly bummed I had to miss out meeting Masayuki. He was the one character I was looking forward to in season 3. I'd rather save the meet up for later. I only a couple of bits here and there about the founder festival arc, but I am aware how mean his party members were. My non-existant woefully introverted heart couldn't handle it
Buuuuuut there was another matter. It wouldn't be just them I wanted to avoid but . . . him. I already pummeled clayman, but there's still the other people who contributed to what happened. The Moderate Clown Alliance, especially their leader, Yuuki. The main mastermind who set up everything to what happened that fateful day.
I knew it would end up contributing in our favor by the end, but I can't let go of a grudge that easily. Especially not to a two faced smug prick like that bastard. Well hopefully rimuru will be there to stop me from doing something regretful, cause even just thinking about him is burning my Wrath to be unleashed)
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At the banquet later at night
Rimuru's Pov
Rimuru: On behalf of Tempest, I Rimuru Tempest welcome you all. Tommorow will be the opening of our founder's festival as well as the grand debut of our new country. But for tonight, I'd like you all to simply enjoy our cuisine. I'm not one for long speeches so let's cut to the chase. Please raise your glass in your hand. To our good health and our continued friendship between our nations. Cheers!
Everyone cheered in celebration, dining of mingling with one another
Tonight is the the night right before the founders festival. I'm currently hosting for the majority of our top guest. Familiar folks from Blumund and Dwargon. Even folks from far off places like Coleus and Raja. I say mostly as there is another banquet being hosted elsewhere in our convention hall. In regards to who were separated from everyone else. That's where the demon lords are placed to keep the rest of our guest from feeling tensed. That one is being hosted by the one main person who is missing, aka ol demon edge lord Kaijuno
Rimuru: (Hosting for a demon lord banquet certainly doesn't sound like a easy job. I can't exactly bring myself to be envious of his situation. Let's hope he'll manage
Kaijuno's Pov
Kaijuno: (. . . Oooooooh this ain't good)
This situation I found myself in right before the founder's festival is nothing to be envious at all. First and most expected, Luminous is absolutely giving me glares almost as bad as she would give to Veldora. That was something I could've scoffed and rolled my eyes although it did made things awkwardly tensed either way. But the big source of worry was that it wasn't just Luminous giving me a pressuring stare, but so was Guy. He did NOT look happy to say the least. Luminous I could dismiss but Guy Crimson was a whole other story. One wrong move and I'm a down for the count in an instant
Dagruel and Ramiris thankfully aren't noting anything to concern over and Dino is being Dino with his usual slumber. Milim and co aren't present since she insisted on attending Rimuru's banquet. And seeing where I got myself in, I wished I could've done the same
Kaijuno: (Hey Yagami! I'm gonna need a good fix of Humility King right about now)
Yagami: (Activating Humility King Mikael)
Kaijuno: (Ok Ok, try to avoid getting yourself killed Kaijuno)
Kaijuno: Welcome everyone. I'd like to thank this moment to thank you all for taking the time to visit for our founder's festival. While the festival officially begins tomorrow, tonight we can just dine and indulge in ourselves til our hearts content together. Here's hoping to a fruitful union for all of us, Cheers!
Nobody cheered and only kept starring, it was a tense and awkward crowd much to Kaijuno's horro
Kaijuno: (NOOOOO! IT'S A TOUGH CROWD!)
Guy: since we're here, there's a couple of matters I'd like to bring up
Kaijuno: . . .yeh?
Guy: first off, I heard about certain sightings of a storm dragon across multiple western nations, wouldn't you know anything about that would ya?
Kaijuno: . . . I dunno
Guy: What do you mean you don't know!?
Kaijuno: I mean-I don't know what say-I just-I dunno
Guy: you dunno. You truly have no explanation on why Veldora was flying around all of sudden?
Kaijuno: Well- I didn't want sending invites take more than a day and I haven't previously visited anyone else prior so I couldn't just teleport.
Guy: So you had one of the few true dragons be your ride?
Kaijuno: yep and despite some "concern"
Luminous clicked her tongue, knowing full well that was meant for her
Kaijuno: We kept our distance from any major cities. I'm sure some might've been spooked but it shouldn't have been that bad right?
Guy: you truly aren't aware are you?
Kaijuno: . . . No?
Guy: Well for starters, the sighting of Veldora caused massive widespread panic that some cities nearly destroyed themselves out of fear riots. Masses people went unconscious out of panic wheel others gotten trampled. The political side isn't doing much better, after the halting of the panic, government officials have been out eachother's head in regards to respond to this. this leads to another matter. Amongst the chaos, the only thing they could come up with is sending the newest hero Masayuki your way
Kaijuno: Wouldn't facing against a hero come with being a demon lord by default?
Guy: Normally it would be nothing to concern of but this idea of a clash would refuel the fire that was barely extinguished
Kaijuno: (Well that's no fun)
Guy: So in other words, don't you dare engage against Masayuki. It'll create more problems for me. And you certainly wouldn't want me to be more "ferm" would ya?
Kaijuno: N-n-no! Note taken! Crystal clear!
Guy: Onto the final matter
Kaijuno gulped at the idea of even more things to be scolded for
Guy: WHY IS NOIR HERE!
While mostly everyone kept a neutral expression, now everyone absolutely changed to horrified expressions
Kaijuno: (. . . DAMN!- ok in these situations, be dense and hope for the best they buy it)
Kaijuno: Guy, I'm not exactly familiar with anyone named Noir. I'm gonna need you to specify
Guy: Oh! You don't!
Kaijuno: I'm genuinely not aware of anyone who goes by Noir. I'm not pulling your leg
Guy: the one person with black eyes and is in a butler. The one person who goes "KUFUFUFUFUFU" like a catchphrase!
Kaijuno:(. . .*sigh* I wish Rimuru could've handled this like this should've in canon)
Kaijuno: oh! You mean Diablo
Even there was any room amongst the crowd to be not be worried, the moment implied a primordial demon receiving a name would've completely washed everyone with the feelings of dread, especially for Guy
Guy:. . . Excuse me
Kaijuno: (the things I have to put up with)
Kaijuno: Yeah, I know him, he's Diablo
Guy: woah woah woah woah woah! Hold on! Are you saying he is named?
Kaijuno: yes... his name is Diablo
Guy: Are you saying you named Noir? THE primordial black, Noir!
Feeling the sense that he already pulled enough weight, Kaijuno decided to just throw Rimuru under the bus
Kaijuno: No I'm not cause I wasn't the one who named him
Guy: Who could've possibly named him then?!
Kaijuno: Rimuru named him
Guy: your sister?
Kaijuno: yep!
Luminous: she gave the primordial black and name!?
Dagruel: of all people
Dino: Did you know about this Ramiris?
Ramiris: erm, eh nope!
Kaijuno: look, I don't know how they met. For all I know, she summoned Diablo and gave him a named
Guy: That's it!? That's all you have for an explanation!?
Kaijuno: explanation? EXPLANATION!? How can I explain anything about him!? He is the most confusing weirdo, I ever came across! Finding logic in him is like finding a needle in a hay stack. The only guess I can think of is that Diablo is a lolicon
Guy: What's a lolicon?
Kaijuno: To put it safely and cleanly, someone who is into short petite women
Luminous looked to the side, wondering if she should consider herself a lolicon since she does find attraction in short stature and petiteness
Ramiris: would that be out of character for Noir?
Dino: I'm not sure
Guy: . . . No, whatever that's supposed to imply it's not exactly that obscure of him considering he's always been an oddball
Dagruel: Yeah, knowing him, it's not too farfetched
Luminous: And it's not like Newbie here has what it takes to convince a primordial of all beings to serve him
Kaijuno: (Oh it's on Luminous! I just wanted to do it for my own personal appeal but now out of a spiteful resolve, I'm definitly gonna get the demoness trio!)
Dagruel: Also might I ask, why is Leon not here? Did you not invite him?
Kaijuno: I did invite him after my visit with me. But he turned me down. He said stuff like "Apologies but I already have something scheduled during that time"
Kaijuno used his sound manipulation to mimic Leon's voice, suprising everyone
Dagruel: pfft-ha! That was a really good impression of Leon
Kaijuno: Yeah, I can surprisingly do a couple of voice works. Any recommendations?
Dino: Do ramiris
Ramiris: huh?
Kaijuno: "Keep looking down on me and I'll hit you with one of my 55 finishing moves!"
Dino burst into a fit of laughter in spite of Ramiris's frustration
Kaijuno: I could try to do Rain ahem! "Cmon Guy-sama! Of course I do chores!"
Rain: Hold on! I absolutely do chores! I'm not some lazy maid!
Even Guy chuckled at the Rain's protest
Kaijuno: (*gasp* this might be my opening for a recovery)
Kaijuno: Let's just enjoy this night, it was never the point to vickers amongst eachother. Now how shall we start off? You all prefer the hard stuff or the REALLY hard stuff?
Everyone decided to go for the latter
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Rimuru's Pov
After interacting with my familiar associates and new faces. I walked over to check up on how Kaijuno is doing with his company. When I arrived and opened the door, I noticed there was a barrier right behind it
Rimuru: A barrier?
Raphael: (Notice, the barrier in front of master is a sound proof barrier)
Rimuru: (It's sound proof? I wouldn't need resort to breaking it would I?)
Raphael: (Negative, this barrier can be passed through)
Getting the ok from Raphael-sensei, I casually would through the barrier only to end up with immediate astonishment
A huge wave of intense music hit me with full force, I reactively closed my ears
I was left speechless to the chaotic sight that I had. Ramiris looked to be arguing with some tired silver hair person. There's a competition between a very red person and some big guy on who can drink the most. Both of them are chugging on barrels worth of mead with the assistance of their subordinates.
There's a green hair maid passed out in one of the tables with a blue hair maid who looked on the brink of passing out while Luminous was continuously drank liquor as if there was no alcohol to begin with
And then there's Kaijuno at the center, dancing frantically like a maniac with what looks to be glow sticks in both hands, surrounded by a crowd that are trying to follow along.
Also there was a young white hair lady at the corner just eating some ice cream
I just slammed the door
Rimuru: . . .you know what! Nevermind
3rd Person Pov
The next morning
Most of the demon lords woken up from the last night's party, with their heads feeling like a sun was exploding within, basically a hangover. They were constantly complaining about it, they did wish to do anything for the rest of the day
Fun fact, demon lords are still capable of getting hangovers. Without a Raphael or a Yagami to assist, they'll struggle to turn on poison resistance so they'll be forced to endure until they can focus enough to do so
Narrator's Pov
Rimuru: Are you ready?
Kaijuno: not at all, can't you just do it yourself?
Rimuru: I don't like public speeches either but as the twin rulers, we're unfortunately obligated to do this
Kaijuno: (My rulership is more in name only, but yet again I would like to avoid giving the idea for Rimuru to use for any sort of reason)
In front of the town hall, a large crowd from citizens to visitors was formed in expectations, waiting for the scheduled announcement. It was then that the twin rulers finally stepped foot into their views
Kaijuno: (Yagami, I'm gonna really need some the Humility King please)
Yagami: (Humility King activated)
Rimuru: Hello, I am Rimuru Tempest
Kaijuno: And I am Kaijuno Tempest.
Rimuru: We would like thank you all for accepting our invitation and attending our festival
Kaijuno: I'm sure there are some concerns in regards to my status as a demon lord. I wish to make it clear that I'm not the type of person to suddenly antagonize someone nor a nation on a whim. That said, don't take this as firm of weakness. If any who dare belittle us for being monster or wage war against us with the petty excuse of some noble cause, then we respond to the aggression tenfold
Rimuru: that is the truth. But we're not saying that holding hands with us in harmony could be considered aggression. We're simply hoping through the festival that you learn more about us. Maybe you might even wish to live here and you'd be welcome to do so. But for now, let's enjoy Tempest's harvest festival!
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Within the crowd, a greedy blonde girl is viewing with indifference
Mariabelle: (So this is the newest demon lord? I'm certainly not one to talk, but I was expecting someone more on the older side. Hopefully my spies will do their job right, especially from becoming more ambitious thanks to my greed)
While she thought she was incognito and had no reason to believe she was under suspicion, the one person who knew her complete plan before she even knew what it was caught a glance at her, immediately recognizing who it was
Kaijuno: (. . . I see you fellow reincarnate!)