Editing Seikoku no Ryuu Kishi: Volume 6 Chapter 6 (section)

===Part 6===
“Fly, Brigid!”

After Ash issued his command, Brigid let loose a frightening roar. And then as soon as it soared into the sky — Ash felt the pressure of the wind pushing against his entire body. Its speed was astonishing. Speaking of which, why did Brigid become a Maestro? Ash couldn’t figure out the reason for that either. Perhaps having thought of a possibility, he asked Eco who was behind him.

“Brigid become a Maestro, is that something done by your abilities? Or the Avalon Royal Family’s…?”

Hearing this, Eco was also surprised.

“I’m not sure about it either. But just before we were hit by Rebecca’s attack, I felt as though Brigid and I connected with each other. Look.”

Eco hugged onto Ash as she showed her right palm. In the centre of her small palm, a pattern like the head of a dragon had appeared. It was like a false, replacement <Seikoku>.

“Could it be that you’re connected with Brigid right now? But how is that related to it becoming a Maestro?”

“I said I didn’t know! It’s just that after the Astral Flow between Brigid and I connected, I seem to have inadvertently infused my own magic into its appearance. Because…I wanted to be able to protect Ash.”

After Eco’s face reddened, she lowered her head in embarrassment. Ash also felt embarrassed as well, and he felt his cheeks begin to heat up. This so-called Astral Flow was originally a channel that Breeders used to supply Astral to their Pals.

''Eco used this channel to send her own magic to Brigid?''

The problem was, in order to turn Brigid into such a magnificent Maestro, just how much magic was needed for that? Ash was unable to imagine it.

“If it didn’t respond to my feelings, we wouldn’t have been able to do anything but sit there, and we would have been defeated by Rebecca, that is the one thing that I can be sure of.”

Eco used eyes full of loving affection as she stared at the strong and mighty Brigid.

“Yeah, that’s right. Thank you, Brigid.”

Brigid answered with a roar of joy. Ash suddenly realised that he seemed to be forgetting something highly important, but he decided to put defeating Rebecca as his top priority. Thus he pushed his non-essential worries into a corner of his mind. After all, even though Brigid had become a Maestro, the gap between the strength of the two sides should have only been decreased by a small amount. But all fear disappeared from Ash’s mind.

“I’m coming, Rebecca-san!”

Rebecca seemed to have been stunned and remained motionless, and only when she heard Ash’s voice did she raise her head. To actually appear shaken, Rebecca was currently below the standard that she normally showed. But she glided around in the sky at high speed with Cú Chulainn so as to prevent Brigid from attacking her from behind, the strain from that speed couldn’t be underestimated. After the aerial battle between the two Maestros began, the thunderous cheers of the crowd shook the air. Now, the cheers of support for Ash had grown to match those of Rebecca’s supporters. Aside from the cheer squads amongst the spectators dressed in bright red, everyone else kept on shouting out Ash’s name. After escaping from Ash’s chase, Rebecca began to pursue him from behind.  Cú Chulainn opened its enormous mouth and spewed out a {{Furigana|Crimson Breath of the Fire Dragon|Crimson Ex-Breath}}; Brigid quickly turned around, and evaded the flames at the same time to curve around to Rebecca’s back. Cú Chulainn’s enormous body swerved into the attacking range of Brigid.

“—Now!”

Ash shouted out loudly. Brigid fired out a {{Furigana|Silver Ray of the Thunder Dragon|Shiny Silver Lightning Blast}}, Cú Chulainn’s reaction was slightly delayed, but it immediately erected a {{Furigana|Hexagon Barrier|Hexagonal Shield}}. The hexagonal face which acted as a protective barrier was able to block the magic attack just in the nick of time — however, it was unable to completely nullify the shock waves from the attack, thus causing damage to Cú Chulainn’s body.

“Guooooooohhh…!”

Seeing Cú Chulainn groaning in pain, the audience began to stir. The audience was not cheering, rather, they were shocked by what they saw and were now in uproar. Has that Cú Chulainn ever groaned in pain in front of such a large crowd? That was the one thing that everyone was thinking about.

“We have a chance of winning, Ash!”

Eco began to cheer for Ash.

“Yeah. Even if our opponent is the <Scarlet Empress>, I don’t feel like I’ll lose right now!”

After Ash confidently replied, he hugged Eco’s shoulders even tighter. After Eco’s cheeks became a shade of rosy red, she revealed a panicked expression.

“Hey! What are you doing!?”

“Thank you, Eco. Thanks to your help, I was able to fight until this moment.”

“I-I just did what a Pal should do!”

Eco snappily turned her face away to the other side. However, her body was still tightly pressed against Ash’s body, and she didn’t seem to have any intention of separating with him. Feeling the warmth of Eco’s body, Ash felt an indescribable sensation in his heart. Even though they were clearly supposed to be facing off against Rebecca right now, his current state of mind still had room for relaxation, causing Ash himself to feel disbelief.