good brother

The time soon came to 1505 in the sea calendar, that is, the year when Ace was five years old and Angel was eight years old.

The training for Ace is still going on in an orderly manner, and Ace, who has already shown his true colors as a bear child, occasionally uses the hunting skills he learned from Angel to attack Angel unexpectedly.

Of course, I didn't succeed even once ㄟ(▔,▔)ㄏ

As for Angel, the identity of the ability user is still a secret, after all, there is no time to use the ability of the devil fruit.

The two and a half children grew up happily in Kebo Mountain. They met the owner of Kebo Mountain—the huge tiger, and successfully arrived at the terminal of uncertain things. Angel also finally I found some books suitable for Ace there, and Ace did not live up to his hopes, basically he can read some simple books by himself.

Today is another time for their monthly waste utilization.

Ace still doesn't have the ability to cross Korbo Mountain alone, and is following Angor step by step.

Angor was a little absent-minded today. He didn't seem to have finally made up his mind until the terminal of the uncertain thing appeared in his field of vision. He suddenly squatted down and looked directly into Ace's eyes.

"Ace, I won't be with you today."

"Eh?"

Ace obviously didn't react. After all, as far as he could remember, as long as he left Dadan's house, Angel never left his sight.

"why……"

Ace showed a slightly aggrieved expression.

He had to admit he was afraid.

"Because as long as I'm by your side, whatever you do, you will have a thought of "It's okay, if it doesn't work, Angel will help me", right?"

Angel knew he couldn't help Ace too much, but he saw that Ace was in danger, even if it wasn't fatal, he couldn't control himself.

Simply, out of sight, out of mind.

And now Ace is strong enough, it's no problem to deal with some small gangsters if they can't beat them.

Angel also flew here last night to investigate, and there will be no pirates coming here recently, so Ace is safe alone.

Much safer than in Corbo Mountain.

So let's start here.

"It's impossible to become strong with such an idea, Ace."

"This time, as long as you should be able to handle the problem alone with your strength, even if I watch you die, I won't make a move!"

Angel spoke nonsense with a serious face.

If Ace's life is really in danger, can he not shoot?

Hehe, what a liar!

Ace was obviously frightened by these words, and his little mouth pouted, feeling that he would cry if he was stimulated a little more.

"Ace, didn't you say you want to become stronger and protect me?"

Angel smiled and released the kill!

"Standing behind me can't protect me."

After Angor finished speaking, he saw Ace's shining eyes and smiled in relief.

"It's okay, I won't harm you, as long as you are careful, there is nothing here that can threaten you."

Angel rubbed Ace's little head.

"Go."

"Oh!"

then……

Angor, who watched Little Ace's back disappear from sight, started to relax.

Little Ace relies on him, so doesn't he depend on little Ace?

How about...following to see? (°-°〃)

Angel shook his head frantically as soon as this idea came up.

No no no no no!no!

Didn't you just make up your mind? !It would be too shameful to give up now!

At least an hour first!

Yes, it is like that! (*v)

Only then did Angel slowly walk towards the terminal of uncertain things, and began to search for some gadgets that could still be used.

an hour~

"...57...58...59...60! Alright! An hour!"

Five minutes ago, I started to stare at the still working watch I picked up last time. When the time came, I immediately let go of my cold face that had been tense for an hour, and looked around with a smile.

"Ace, my little Ace~ where are you~"(*＾ー＾)

Angel murmured softly, and walked through the abandoned terminal in no hurry.

Although he is very concerned about Ace's current situation, it is not to the extent of worrying, after all, he knows Ace's strength like the back of his hand.

If it is not under siege, running is absolutely no problem.

"Hey, have you heard? A brat robbed Howson's money!"

"Hausen? You mean that gangster?!"

"It's him, and now he is leading a dozen or so people to surround that brat. It's just to the west of the garbage dump."

"Really, then we have to stay away from there..."

Angor's mouth twitched as he listened to the entire conversation of the two homeless men passing by.

……No way……

"Ahhh! That bastard!"

Ever since, Angel flew all the way west...

What about Ace?

At the beginning, our little Ace was very well-behaved and didn't directly cause trouble, but just wandered around and recycled some usable things.

However, more than half an hour later, I troubled myself to find the door.

"Quick, quick, quick escape!"

"Oh ah!"

Ace was bending over to pick up a telescope that looked pretty good, but suddenly a person rushed out from behind the garbage mountain next to him. The two of them obviously didn't react. They couldn't dodge in time, and finally rolled out in a ball far away.

"It hurts...you bastard, why are you running so fast?"

Ace rubbed his head and sat up from the garbage dump, looking at the culprit angrily.

"Haha, sorry."

After the man sat up, he straightened his clothes and apologized to Ace with a smile. Only then did Ace notice that the other person was about the same age as him.

"Huh? This is..."

Ace suddenly noticed that the bag that the little devil fell out of just now was a little loose, and from the gaps in the fabric, what was leaking was golden gold.

"Treasure?!"

"Ahh! This is it!"

The boy nervously dodged to block Ace's line of sight, and packed his bags.

"Found it! This way!"

A few adults ran over behind the mountain bag that the kid rushed out of just now, and greeted something loudly, and Ace's eyes were also attracted.

"not good!"

Without saying a word, the kid picked up the package with one hand, grabbed Ace with the other, and ran away.

"Hey! Why are you dragging me?"

Ace was confused, but didn't struggle.

The keen intuition of the D family told him that this person of the same age was not malicious.

"You talked to me just now, and you are about the same age, you will be considered an accomplice!"

The child ran forward without looking back, his eyes cast around, probably looking for a hiding place.

"If you are caught, you will be killed!"

kill?

"Who did you mess with?"

Normally speaking, ordinary punks and homeless people would not kill people. They were just ordinary people who didn't do well. Even if they were doing bad things, they still had an instinctive resistance to killing people.

"The leader of the gangsters in the city."

The kid scurried around to shake off the pursuers, and took Ace to hide behind a mountain of garbage to rest for a while.

"Phew—that person has seen blood on his hands. It's not a problem at all to kill one or two people here."

The child sat down on the spot after confirming that it was temporarily safe.

"That's right, isn't it just stealing some money from him? He doesn't need it, so stingy!"

Ace looked at the righteous brat speechlessly.

"Why do you want to steal his money..."

"I didn't know he was Howson! As for the money..."

The little boy smiled brightly.

"This is the money I saved to go to sea!"

"Go to sea?"

Ace thought of the magnificent scenes that Angor often took him to see.

『"You belong to the sea! Ace!"』

"What a coincidence, I will also go to sea in the future!"

"Eh! Really!"

The little boy was obviously excited to have found a like-minded comrade in arms.

"My name is Sabo! What about you?"

"My name is Ace, the Ace of Ace!"