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To be more specific, that emblem looked like Ash’s ‘Seikoku’.
 
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-Don…Don…Don…
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There was a frightening beating sound for the egg.
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There was a frightening beating sound form the egg.
   
The confusing part is, it moved with the same rhythm with the glow on Ash’s ‘Seikoku’.
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Ash immediately understood.
 
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“…It is useless, Princess-sama. It seems that Lancelot has its own reason.”
 
“…It is useless, Princess-sama. It seems that Lancelot has its own reason.”
   
“What did you said?!”
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Silvia looked at Ash with an imposing manner.
 
Silvia looked at Ash with an imposing manner.

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Chapter 8 - Avalon's Imperial Princess

Part 1

In the mothership Beowolf- In the armory, under Dr Hoffman’s command the battle is in full swing.

Eco who was naked was floating in magic guided device. ‘Yggdrasill’s’ capsule. There were groups of technician working around her.

This was out of Anya’s area of understanding. She could only stand by and wall and watch silently.

But, she understood well the pain that Eco was feeling.

The cold voice was followed by its echo when it was reflected on the metal body.

“The cartridge had been filled. Prepare for launching.”

“The countdown starts now. Ten, nine, eight… Three, two, one-.”

“Launch the compressed magic!”

A red bean was shot out followed by a loud gun shooting sound. Anya felt that even the ship was vibrating.

“…!”

Then, there were air bubbles coming from Eco’s mouth. If not because of she was in the liquid, she scream could definitely be heard.

Anya couldn’t bear to see Eco suffering and looked away.

Eco’s body had already taken at least ten shots of the compressed magic.

Eco regained her consciousness after the start of the experiment. At the beginning, she was struggling in the water, but ‘Yggdrasill’s’ capsule was not at all affected.

But after receiving a continuous dozens of compressed magic, she lost her strength.

Right now, she was just like a living dead. Her blank eyes were now lifeless and it was terrible. It was pure torture.

Even so, the group of researchers leaded by Dr Hoffman were not at all shaken and continued silently.

“There is no significant change on the appearance of α. There are no abnormalities on her respiratory system. No magic fluctuation can be seen.”

Without realizing, the group of researchers started to refer Eco as α.

Eco is a human, a young dragon and also a living being- But this group of human had taken everything from her. To them, Eco was just experimental material α.

Who knows if they want to remove their feeling of guilt by calling her with symbols… Anya secretly thought so.

At this moment, Dr Hoffman’s voice is heard by Anya.

“Still no changes… It seems like we don’t have any more choices. Activate all the Milinnium.”

Anya turned pale when she heard that.

This means that they had decided to use full power on ‘Yggdrasill’’.

Part 2

“*Sob*… It was all… My fault. *Sob*…”

In the maid’s bedroom in the ground floor of the palace.

Prim was lying on the bed with her pillow wet with tears.

There was only Ash and Silvia beside her bed. Cosette was standing outside the room by the door.

Prim cried while she told the whole incident.

Prim arrived at the ancient palace when she was chasing Eco who was running amok.

She had met a few suspicious people there.

Seeing the enemy suddenly attacked, Eco appeared and became the bait to let Prim escape.

When Prim regained conscious, Eco was no longer there.

After hearing, Ash felt something suspicious.

“Why do you go to the ancient palace?”

“That’s because… It was my entire fault! It was my bad to say such things!”

“Prim, please stay calm. Compared to you, Ash was the person who suffered the most.”

After being advised by Silvia, Prim rubbed of her tears.

“You are right. Sorry…”

“Prim-san, please tell me everything before eco was kidnapped!”

Prim nodded.

“I have no ill intention, it was just that… Ash-sama is a human and Eco is a dragon… So I thought that Eco will feel lonely after Ash-sama married with a human girl. The moment I told her that, Eco rushed out of the room.”

“What…!”

Who would have thought of this, Ash was speechless.

“Idoit! You… Why do you have to tell her this!”

Silvia was mad.

“If I am Eco… I will definitely feel hurt if someone told that to me! Even when Eco is a dragon, her thought is still of a girl’s. She should know very well that her situation is special. Why was she born as a human? Why was she not born as a dragon… If I am Eco, I can never feel secure.”

“Princess-sama…”

Ash looked at Silvia who was telling Eco thought in surprise.

“Recently, she had gotten use to the school life. She was also being loved by everyone as the student council’s mascot. Even so, to Eco, the only person she could thrust in… Is no other but Ash.”

“And I… Had said something terrible…”

“Strictly speaking, Eco is still a young dragon who was not even a year old. Can’t you be a little more indirect in your-”

“Forget it, Princess-sama. Right now, we could never solve the problem even after lecturing Prim-san. What’s more, if they had this planned, no matter what Prim-san said, Eco will still be kidnapped.”

“…You are right. But how are we going to rescue Eco?”

Silvia nodded in agreement with Ash.

“Prim-san… Could you describe those people who attacked?”

Ash was praying while asking. He only clue is Prim being the witness.

“Err…They had pretended to be the palace servant. But, they didn’t look like a citizen of the Knight Country. For their skin colour, it looked like they are the Tantalos…. Also, the person who attacked me is a short girl.”

“A Tantalos girl…!”

Ash was feeling Déjà vu. It was like he had found the last piece of puzzle in his memory.

“It was the girl who followed Milgauss!”

Ash’s fists were shacking. The world he was seeing was dyed in red. Even though he had a feeling that Milgauss was the culprit, still, after making sure, he was still in rage.

“Since we knew who was the criminal-”

Silvia immediately stopped Ash who intends to rush out from the room.

“Hold on, Ash! Where do you think you are going to?”

“The ballroom, of course! I want to settle thing with Milgauss!”

“Kept your calm! Do you think that Milgauss will admit it even after you found him?”

“…Maybe not.”

Ash turned speechless.

Silvia was right, no matter how emotional he became, Eco still wouldn’t be able to return safely.”

Just as if she was trying to have Ash cooled down, Silvia made a suggestion in a calm voice:

“Don’t you think that this is a good time to save Eco when Milgauss is busy with the masquerade?”

“What do you meant?”

“Milgauss couldn’t even be bothered by an activity with long history such as this continental congress and will do anything just to capture Eco. Even when I don’t know what was his intentions, but capturing Eco alive is their priority. I am sure that their lackeys won’t do anything to harm Eco when the mastermind was absent.”

After listening to Silvia’s analyse, Ash gave a breath of relieve.

“The problem remains is, where is Eco’s location. Since Ash’s ‘Seikoku’ is not reacting, it means that Eco was being hidden in an enclosed place. For example something that could be a barrier to cut of magic… Anyway, is must be done with the proper equipment. It just can’t be a rally point that they had just constructed.”

“An enclosed place with proper equipments? That’s it, Milgauss had Klaus backing him up…”

Last evening, an airship flew past the evening sky…

The black ship that was waving the Empire’s flag proudly…

Ash remembered.

Ash and Silvia exchanged glances and shouted at the same time:

“Beowolf!”

Part 3

-W-Will…I die just like this…

Eco thought so.

The liquid in the capsule kept on rotating and Eco’s body was being swept by it.

Every time her shoulders or waist touches the glass, her body will move slowly in the opposite direction.

It seems like the liquid was made of special materials. Luckily, it doesn’t affect her breathing. But after suffering a few shots from the magic device, her body turned numb.

This feeling is like an empty mind floating in mid air.

-If I could just… Continue sleeping… Then I won’t feel any pain…

Just when Eco thought so, a power that surpassed those previous ones was released at her.

“Noooooooooo…!”

Even though she thought that she shouted in pain, in truth they were just air bubbles coming out from her mouth.

A bright light flashes and the water turned rapid. Just like being swallowed off by a tsunami, her body kept on rotating and kept on hitting the glass around her.

-W….Why do I have to suffer this kind of pain.

It had passed the limit of her brain to just think of what they are going to do to her. She could only feel that her body had been injected with a vast amount of magic.

The pain she felt is just like her body being ripped open.

It felt like her organs were being messed up by someone.

-Urgh… It hurts…. It hurts…. I beg you all, please stop.

It is pointless no matter how she shout in her mind, the magic was still flowing into the body. E co’s body was jerking nonstop and she was struggling.

You might as well do me a favour by killing me- Eco gave up.

“…!”

At the next moment- The Necromancia’s slimy tentacles attacking her from all directions.

Eco couldn’t understand. Where did those tentacles appear from in this enclosed environment?

The tentacles which were wriggling ling a snake slowly snatched her freedom.

Her arms, waist, legs… was entangled by those tentacles. - Stop! This must be an illusion! It is this device that was making me hallucinate…!

Eco tried to stay conscious and opened her eyes widely.

At that moment, the tentacles disappeared.

The feelings of being entangled by those tentacles also disappeared.

However, not long after that, she loses focus and the tentacles appeared again and had her waist surrounded.

In a blink of an eye, she was lifted by those tentacles.

-Stop!

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An abnormally thick tentacle was approaching at Eco’s face.

Eco kept her teeth closed with her might. If she was to be careless, the tentacle will surely wriggle into her mouth. Eco had Goosebumps just by think about it.

Eco initially wanted to ask for Ash’s help. She hoped that he could save him from this hell.

However, from the point she woke up in this device, she couldn’t even summon Ash.

Her Astral Flow with Ash had also been cut off.

The lost of her communication had put her in fear.

Eco was shocked that the lost of her connection with Ash would put her in such great fear.

-I am really an idiot. I only knew what is precious to me after I had lost it.

This experience had made her wanted to treasure Ash much more.

That’s right, without Ash, I can’t do anything… I am really a good for nothing.

-Don…

At that instant, there was something moving in her body.

Part 4

“Something is wrong! The magic indicator is showing an abnormal value!”

“We found an unknown magic source! Its power is increasing!”

“We had lost control of ‘Yggdrasill’! It ignored the emergency stop signal!”

The continuous bad news had made Dr Hoffman turn pale.

The laboratory was as if in a fire and tense atmosphere was spreading.

Everyone was with a panic look and were busy dealing with the buttons on their hands.

“What happened…?”

Anya who was looking from aside wondered.

Basically, there was nothing abnormal with Eco who was in the capsule.

Even though she was shot by the high power compressed magic and had struggle like she was having a nightmare, yet nothing dramatic had happened.

But the indicator was still indicating an abnormal value. Also, they were losing control of ‘Yggdrasill’.

The situation had suddenly become tense.

Even the emergency trigger had been triggered and the bell was ringing loudly.

-Dong!

At that instant, Anya heard something from the ground.

“What is that… Sound?”

As if to prove that it was not an illusion, ‘Yggdrasill’ magic indication exploded.

“Uwaa!”

Some groaned and all the surrounding deviced started to explode with red flames. All the technician were running away in fear.

“Don’t panic! Keep calm!”

Dr Hoffman shouted by not even a single soul was listening.

Because everyone’s sights were Eco who was caged in the capsule.

Eco’s body was glowing with a dim light.

Even Anya was captive by the sight in front.

“Dr Hoffman! Let’s escape!”

A young researcher advised Dr Hoffman. The rest of the researchers were agreeing with him at looked at Dr Hoffman.

Anya left the wall and walk towards Dr Hoffman’s back.

“Dr Hoffman, I also think that it would be wise if we escape now.”

“No!”

Anya was stunned by Dr Hoffman’s aura. She had thought of him as a kind old man and was forced to act cruel as a researcher. Who would know that he would have such a stubborn side.

“What are you thinking! Even an outsider like me knew that this is dangerous! Isn’t there are Millennium attached to that device too?”

What Anya was worried about is the existence of the Millenniums. Just in case the Millenniums explode… Anya was thinking. Let alone Beowolf, it is not even surprising if the capital disappear from the maps forever.

However, Dr Hoffman shook his head slowly.

“…I won’t. That will not happen. The energy in the Millenniums had run dry.”

“What?”

“All the magic energy… Was fully absorbed by experimental material α.”

“-!”

Anya looked at Eco dumbstruck.

The intensity of Eco’s light was getting stronger until the extend where one couldn’t look at her directly. Those ‘Dong’ sounds had become clearer.

Even though there were no dangers of the Millennium exploding, it doesn’t mean that they were free from danger. Eco right now was seen as the bomb.

Later, there was the loud sound of something breaking.

Different from the normal explosions, that explosion sounds like it was originated from something being applied pressure on.

“α….α is escaping!”

A researcher shouted.

The capsule containing eco was now in ruins and the liquid was flowing out like waterfall.

Eco can be seen floating with her eyes closed- in a short moment, she disappeared. What’s left is only stardust like magic particles floating in the air.

“She… Dissapeared…?”

Anya dumbstruck, murmured alone.

Part 5

“Hey… Something’s wrong with Beowolf!?”

When Maestro Lancelot reached the landing space at a height of twenty meters, Silvia shouted:

“That is…!”

Ash who was riding on Lancelot behind Silvia widened his eyes.

The scared airship Esperanza, airship Crown Solas and air ship Silvanus was lined up together.

On the other hand, the huge airship Beowolf was parked quite some distance away from the trio.

The suspicious thing was the black smokes emerging from Beowolf.

Could it be a fire?

If Eco is inside… Ash was too scared to think about it.

“Urgh…!”

At this moment, Ash felt a burning sensation from his left hand.

Although he nearly screamed in pain, he managed to tolerate with it.

It felt like suddenly putting his hand into a furnace.

“Is everything alright, Ash!?”

Silvia was worried about him and turned around and asked, but Ash couldn’t even reply because of the pain.

The ‘Seikoku’ engraved on his left arm was slowly moaning.

A while later, there was a glaring light coming out from his left arm and his sleeve up to his shoulders was burned off. Even the bandage was burned into pieces.

In a blink of an eye, Ash’s ‘Seikoku’ on his left arm was exposed.

“Wha…!”

The ‘Seikoku’ on his hand was glowing with different light intensity from time to time.

Ash was panicking.

It will be alright if it was just glowing but the heat and the pain sensation had no intention of stopping.

It felt that his left arm is going to explode anytime.

“Hey… What is actually happening?”

Silvia was in shock while holding the reins which was probably caused by the fright she experience from seeing Ash’s ‘Seikoku’s’ reaction.

“I don’t know… But I am now sure that I am again connected to Eco!”

Just like responding to Ash’s left arm, there was an object glowing in the sky.

“Ash! Look upwards!”

Silvia who noticed the abnormality was pointing at the sky. Ash too had noticed.

There was something glowing on the sky above the landing area.

“That is…”

The mysterious light was floating in the sky as if it was decorating it.

On the other hand, the full moon didn’t look as charming as before.

By taking a closer look, it was an egg with beautiful flow lines.

There was a big emblem that was carved on the pearl like egg. At a first glance, it looked like a royal emblem.

To be more specific, that emblem looked like Ash’s ‘Seikoku’.

-Don…Don…Don…

There was a frightening beating sound form the egg.

The confusing part is, it moved with the same rhythm as the glow on Ash’s ‘Seikoku’.

Ash immediately understood.

“I couldn’t be more wrong… Eco is in that egg!”

“How is that possible? What are you talking about…?”

“Princess-sama, I beg you. Please take me there!”

“…Alright. I believe in you. Fly Lancelot! Fly higher!”

But Lancelot ignored her orders. It stayed at the twenty meters height at looked at the egg with its head up.

“Hei… Lancelot? Anything wrong? Fly immediately!”

Even though Silvia shouted strictly, Lancelot still ignored her orders. On the other hand, it did an emergency landing at a corner of the landing space.

“What are you doing? Are you disobeying my orders, Lancelot!”

“…It is useless, Princess-sama. It seems that Lancelot has its own reason.”

“What did you say?!”

Silvia looked at Ash with an imposing manner.

“Do you know what Lancelot was thinking?”

“…I am not sure. It was probably affected by the ‘Seikoku’. I don’t know why, but I could somehow understand what Lancelot was thinking.”

After Ash and Silvia was force to alight Lancelot unwillingly, Lancolot again spread it wings and shoot up into the sky.

Looking at Lancelot’s direction, Ash found out something important.

“Princess-sama! There are more and more… Maestros gathering together!”

Groups of Maestro were gathering from all direction. It had become an amazing night view created by the light from the Maestro’s magic.

One by one the Maestro appeared and gathered at the corner of the sky.

For Maestro’s whose numbers were already little to begin with to gather together, it was unheard of even in the old times-

Part 6

References and Translation Notes


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