"Hey!!!!"
Hiding in the grass, young Ace's face had turned as red as a monkey's butt. He used leaves to cover his lower half, looking both embarrassed and furious.
"I'm definitely going to kill you!!!"
"HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Austin spun Ace's underwear around one hand as he laughed loudly. Such a little brat already knew how to be embarrassed.
Although Sabo had never seen Ace make that expression before and would normally have started laughing long ago,
they were facing an enemy now. He spun the little Steel Pipe in his hand and circled around Austin, intending to snatch Ace's underwear back.
With a sudden flying tackle, he charged decisively toward Austin, but the result was obvious...
"Hey!!! Sabo, why are you too..."
"I didn't want to either!!!"
The two little brats had been thoroughly subdued by Austin and could only crouch in the grass, not daring to show their faces.
It was then that,
because Ace had not returned home for dinner for a long time, Rouge, now around thirty and still not showing much age, arrived in the woods. She remained as charming as ever.
"Ace!!! Ace???"
Her voice called out again and again, and judging by the sound, she seemed to be getting closer.
"Oh no!!!"
Hearing his Mother's calls drawing nearer, Ace looked at Austin, this suspected enemy against whom they had no means of fighting back. Nervousness and cold sweat immediately appeared on his face.
Not even caring that his butt was bare, Ace shouted and charged out, rushing straight at Austin.
"Don't you touch my Mother!!!"
Austin: "(＾ｖ＾)ノ "
Rouge: "???"
"Don't treat your Uncle Austin like that!!!"
"I've taught you better than that, haven't I, Ace?!!!"
If there was anyone the little demon king Ace, fearless of heaven and earth, feared most in this