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Seikoku no Ryuu Kishi (Light Novel) - Volume 4, Chapter 8 - Avalon's Imperial Princess, Part 11-16
Volume 4, Chapter 8 - Avalon's Imperial Princess, Part 11-16
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Part 11
“Ara. I don’t remembered inviting you here… Dark Dragon King Mordred.”
In the dragon workshop, Navi and Mordred were having a confrontation. She was sitting on her favorite chair with her legs crossed.
“Kuku. This is your last time to be able to be this relaxed.”
Mordred’s spirit had still maintained Julius’s voice. It was probably because it had inhabited Julius’s body for more than ten years… At least Navi thought so.
“I have taken over sixty percent of Eco’s body. It is only a matter of time before I can fully take control of her body. Avalon is losing.”
“…”
“Next, if I can fuse together with you, I can be fully awakened as the Dark Dragon King. Follow me. Even though you are now called Navi… But… I clearly know that you are not a normal navigator. You are the incarnation of the Dragweiss.”
“Ara. Just what I imagined of the Dark Dragon King. You have made quite some investigations on your own.”
“Fuse with me quickly. Give me the supreme knowledge. Strictly speaking, Avalon and Nehalennia have the same roots… I should also be qualified to fuse with you.”
“I don’t disagree with this.”
Upon hearing Navi’s answer, Mordred smiled.
“So you agree?”
“No I don’t. It is because I don’t like Nehalennia.”
“…What do you say?”
“I'm rooting for Avalon's Imperial Princess and her knight. Especially her knight… Ash Blake, he is far manlier than you.”
“Hmph… what a fox you are. Since it has came to this… I will use force-”
Suddenly, there were numerous tentacles coming from under Mordred’s legs. They were like snakes that had found their prey and attacked Navi.
Part 12
“I am sorry. Could everyone apart from Ash and I leave this ship?”
Upon stepping into Silvanus’s wheelhouse, Julius spoke coldly.
The crew––responsible for the control of the wheel, communications and the rest––turned around and looked Julius in confusion. Then they are all suddenly frightened, as is they see a ghost.
They shouldn’t be blamed since the prince, that should have been executed years ago, was standing in front of them and had asked them to do something unreasonable.
“Hold on… Prince Julius! What do you plan to do?”
Seeing that Ash was requesting an explanation, at the same time Julius answered, he turned around and looked at Veronica who was preparing to sit on the captain’s seat.
“I just don’t want the rest of the people to die with us. Veronica, I hoped that you could also help me by giving out the orders.”
“Do you think that I would even listen to that joke?”
“If the sister is stubborn, the elder brother will have to face some trouble.”
The next instant, with lightning speed, Julius seized Veronica from behind. He was holding a hidden gun. It was a mechanical gun that the military of the Empire used.
Julius even chose to place the tip at Veronica’s temple.
“There is not much time. You should try to listen to your brother sometimes, Veronica.”
“Are you kidding! Silvanus is my magicship. Don’t even think of always doing what you wanted to, Julius.”
“As I have said before, I am your brother. Maybe you are a perfect princess in front of our people, but I knew your Achilles heel. If you still disobey me, I will expose it in front of everyone.”
“What Achilles heel?”
“I know that you love Silvia. There are Silvia portraits in your room. The clothes that Silva wore, Silvia’s growth record, the poem that you wrote from missing Silvia and also Silvia’s human sized doll––”
“I- I promise! Keep quite immediately!”
Ash was in a shock. He had never expected Veronica to surrender easily.
“Everyone, leave the ship immediately! This is an order from Veronica Lautreamont! No one is allowed to disobey!”
It was a direct order from Princess Veronica-sama... All the crew members rushed out from the wheelhouse.
Part 13
When everyone had left the magicship, Julius operated Silvanus while sitting on the pilot’s seat.
With a sudden shake of the magicship, Ash held tightly onto the communication officer's former seat to avoid falling on the floor. Looking out through one of the round cockpit windows, the magicship was rising further and further away from the ground.
It was a totally different experience from sitting on a dragon. When this lump of metal was flying with passengers–– At the same time Ash was amazed, he also started to worry about crashing.
Julius, while he was piloting Silvanus, started telling Ash the whole story.
Part 14
Although what Julius said was hard to believe, basically, the dragons were separated into the Avalon’s holy dragons’ emperor’s family and the Nehalennia’s dark dragons’ king’s family. The two families had incarnated since the ancient times and are still fighting each other right unto this day.
Also, Eco is Avalon’s holy dragons’ emperor’s family’s descendant.
In another words, Eco is the Imperial Princess of the dragons.
“…Even after I had heard of such things, it is still hard for me to believe this. Eco, who has been living with me, is obviously a girl who sleeps late, a glutton and a hot headed girl...”
“I know how you feel. When I found out that my pal is the descendant for the Nehalennia’s dark dragons’ king’s family, I was also astounded. In the beginning, I was also troubled by why was I chosen.”
Julius spoke on.
“Back to the topic, Avalon’s Imperial Princess’s body is really huge. Even though she is still a young dragon, she had this unbelievably huge size… It is totally unbelievable.”
After Julius pressed a few buttons on the dashboard, Eco’s body was shown on the huge screen in front.
Silvanus was three hundred meters above land and was looking at Fontaine city from the sky above.
From the screen, they can see Eco's back that had turned black because of being taken over by Mordred.
With its frightening spiral horns and nine eyes… It is exactly the image of the dark dragon king.
Eco, who was originally standing on two legs, was now standing on all four because of the pain caused by Mordred’s take over.
The worrying part is, Eco was not moving at all and yet she doesn’t look as if she is sleeping…
“Could it be that Eco is fighting Mordred?”
Julius shook his head in disagreement.
“It is impossible. Judging from the huge change of her body, I am afraid that… Eco doesn’t even have the strength to fight back.”
“Is it…”
“But not all hope is lost. In my opinion, Navi is also fighting against Mordred.”
“Navi?”
Why would he mention Navi’s name at such a time?
Before that, how would Julius know about Navi?
“Navi is the incarnation of the Dragweiss. If Navi could keep on fighting back, even after Mordred has fully taken over Eco’s body, he still couldn’t be fully awaken.”
“What do you mean?”
“Regardless of the Avalon’s holy dragons’ emperor or the Nehalennia’s dark dragons’ king, both of them must fuse with the Dragweiss to obtain its supreme knowledge, only then can they receive their true power. I believe that Mordred right now is trying his best to make Navi his own.”
“How come… you know so much about him?”
“That was because I shared the same body with Mordred. Just like what he did to me, to blend into the human society, I could also look into his memories.”
After hearing what Julius had said, Ash was still confused. However, there exists things that could be easily understood without the need for good brains.
“In another words, this is a great time for a counter attack while Mordred is busy dealing with Navi, right?”
“That’s right. This is our only chance for victory. If you can ride on Eco, by chasing Mordred’s spirit out, then you can save Eco and the capital together.”
Ash nodded in agreement to what Julius had said.
“I am willing to give it a try. No matter if it is Avalon or Nehalennia… I don’t think I even know what they mean. I only know that Eco is my pal.”
When Ash turned around and prepared to walk back to the hatch, Julius spoke from behind:
“Although I don’t know why you were chosen… But I am glad that you are Eco’s knight.”
Part 15
“Urgh…”
Ash arrived at the hatch and found that the winds were cold. Such temperatures were unheard of during the summer.
Ash was carrying a parachute–– This is a decision made by Julius and him beforehand.
When Silvanus had come close to Eco, Ash will jump off from the deck with the help of the parachute.
After landing, it's all up to Ash.
Basically, Ash had gone through the parachute landing practices at the academy.
Ash had never intended to become a soldier and had always thought that the academy was wrong to force them to go through those kinds of practices.
Anyway. The academy is not a military school–– But who would've expected that those practices would be useful right now.
“…Right there.”
Ash was looking down towards the ground from the bow and had located Eco’s back.
Although her fur had turned black the enormous amount of magic surrounding her were shooting off strong rays of light, he won’t have to worry about missing his target.
He must make use of the time that Navi was fighting against Mordred to land on Eco’s head.
Julius voice emerged from the magic communication device:
“Ash, you may jump anytime.”
“Roger that.”
Ash looked downwards for one more time.
For such a huge beast, her only blind spot will be her head.
Ash tried to imagine himself riding on Eco’s head.
To his surprise, it was not at all scary.
The ‘Seikoku’ on his left arm was getting warm and was flickering with dim light.
It felt as if his ‘Seikoku’ was urging him to move quickly.
Suddenly- Eco lifted her neck and shot a dragon breath towards Silvanus.
“…Urgh!”
A bright light pierced through the night sky. Ash surrendered against the shaking deck and fell down. Although Julius had barely avoided a direct hit, by giving the ship an emergency turn, the strong breath had burned one side of the ship into ashes.
There was smoke and fire emerging from the ship itself and it had begun to falter as it lost balance.
“Tsk…! If you kill me, Eco will die too! If that happens, you also couldn’t get your hands on Eco’s body that you desired that much...! How could someone be this stupid?”
When Ash was groaning, Julius voice could be heard once again through the communication machine:
“Ash, are you alright!”
“Yes, I am!”
“Silvanus is going to do an emergency landing! Jump quickly!”
“I also intend to do that!”
Ash clenched his teeth and jumped off from the deck.
The moment his feet left the deck, Mordred gave a second dragons breath.
Looking backwards, he saw that Silvanus’s fuselage suffered a direct hit from the dragon breath.
Ash shuddered. He was lucky that he had jumped off earlier or else he would be turned into dust also.
Although Julius had said there were going to do an emergency ‘landing’, judging from the speed Silvanus was moving downwards, it looked like it was crashing.
Finally, the unbalanced ship disappeared at the other end of the palace walls- Then a fire pillar could be seen followed by a loud explosion.
“Prince Julius…!”
Ash was sad but there was nothing he could do about it.
Julius had risked his life to fly him into the night sky.
The only thing he can do right now is to complete his mission in return.
Ash's body was moving downwards because of gravity's pull.
His face and ears felt like being crushed by the rushing air pressure.
“Now is the time!”
Ash had got the timing right and pulled the rip cord, the parachute spread open.
An amazing braking force had caused the parachute to slow down.
If another dragon breath was shot off, Ash would certainly be hit but Ash prayed that he will not have such bad luck.
“Wait for me, Eco. I will protect you… I swear!”
Part 16
“Damn! Where am I?”
Eco found out that she was in a cage when she woke up. When she was looking at her body, she found out that she was wearing a dress with low standards.
This style is obviously not of Eco’s preference.
Any dress in Fontaine Palace’s changing room looked better that this. It is even as heavy as lead and it felt more like a binding item rather than an evening dress.
On the other side of the cage was a wide white space. The walls, the floor and the ceiling were white. Not even a speck of dust that could be found.
“How dare anyone to cage a dragon like me in this cage… What were they even thinking!?”
Eco was definitely confused. Yet she still vaguely remembered that she was awakened as a dragon. She even remembered that she had become huge and was looking at the whole of Fontaine palace.
But her memories stopped there.
“Tsk… It seems that you are alright since you are so energetic even in such a situation as this.”
It was a familiar voice.
“Navi? You…!”
Navi was standing outside of the cage. Even though Eco disliked Navi, but in such a situation, Eco was grateful that Navi was here and felt that Navi was like an angel.
The Eco’s angel was now looking like a rag-doll.
Navi, who was always acting calm and give out a noble like feeling, was now seen with mussed up hair and even her evening dress was in rags. All over her body were the marks of being bound.
“What happened? This doesn’t look like you at all…”
Eco was taking a closer look at Navi.
“Hmm… I am only accompanying Mordred in his game. It was just that, his tentacle fetish has given me some trouble!”
“Mordred? Who is that?”
“Please lend me your hand.”
Eco stretched her hand through the gaps between the bars of the cage. After Navi held her hand, a mass amount of knowledge flowed into her brain.
In a blink of an eye, Eco knew everything that had happened. Only now did she realize that she is in her spiritual from.
“To make it simple… That person called Mordred is trying to take over my body, right?”
“That’s right. Anyway, during the time I was running around, he had done nothing bad. But if it's to destroy this capital, it will be an easy task for him.”
“Hmm… So I am such a great dragon.”
According to Navi’s information, Eco is Avalon’s Imperial Princess.
“Huhu. Now Ash is going to look at me differently.”
Seeing that Eco was feeling proud, Navi sighed.
“As long as he can survive. He seems to be doing something foolhardy again.”
Navi held Eco’s hand again and Eco closed her eyes.
That current situation was sent into Eco’s brain as projections.
“What…!”
Eco was speechless.
Under the night sky- Ash leaned out from Silvanus’s deck.
The next instant, Mordred gave a dragon breath to the ground.
Silvanus was hit and was now gliding down from the sky, as if it was a paper plane.
On the other hand, Ash jumped into the air and was falling with his head pointing downwards.
“Hold on… Is he crazy!?”
At that moment, Eco clearly heard Ash’s mumble.
"Wait for me, Eco. I will protect you… I swear!”
In a short moment, tears started to flow from her eyes. Even though she was a spirit, her tears still kept on flowing. Even the Dragweiss couldn’t give an explanation. A warm feeling was haunting her heart… What was that feeling?
“Why…Why? Why would he… try to do so many things for me? Even when I… Have caused many, many troubles for him?”
Navi stretched her hand into the cage and patted her head.
“Do you even have to ask? It is because you are his pal.”
Eco rubbed off her tears and lifted her head.
“Navi, please tell me what can I do for him.”
“Teehee. That’s more like it.”
Navi smiled and waved her hand lightly. With a flash, the cage disappeared. At the same time, the black dress that limits Eco’s movement was broken into particles and a pure white evening dress was reveled from beneath.
In a short time, Navi removed Mordred’s seal.
“I must say that… You are very good.”
Eco was scoping out her dress. Its design compromised of the elements of elegance and purity. It is as if it was made to be worn by the Avalon’s Imperial Princess.
“No matter how great I am, I can't help you with the upcoming step. Understood?”
Eco nodded in reply.
“Then, what should I do?”
After Navi smiled, she cheekily said:
“Of course you are to present him your originally made Ark and the Avalon’s Imperial Princess.”
The next instant, Eco became confused.
“What? Are you serious?”
As if it was natural to do so, Navi nodded without any hesitation.
“All the mimics that you have created, for various emergencies in the past… are useless against Mordred.”
“But, how, am I supposed to do this impossible task!?”
An original Ark could not be completed easily.
It was because Eco had seen her ancestor’s blueprint; she understands how hard it can be. An Ark is not only a strong magic weapon, at the same time, it is also a perfect art masterpiece.
Not to mention that Eco was still a young dragon that was not even a year old without any experience. Navi’s suggestion was like asking a baby to build a palace.
“Anyway, it would not be called difficult if the blueprint could be easily created.”
Eco gave up before she even started but Navi ignored it.
“Rest assured, you must believe in your own ability. You are an Imperial Princess who is the blood descendant of Avalon.”
“But… But what we must think about is not only the armour itself, there is also the Ark-weapon…”
“Listen carefully, the shape itself doesn’t matter. It is the mental power of the creator that decides the strength of the Ark. Even if you don’t know the shape, as long as you focus, the shape of the Ark will be formed.”
“Really…?”
“Yeah. Also, you don’t have to worry about the Ark-weapon. Avalon has a treasured sword that's been passed down through the generations. Just use it.”
After a moment of silent, Eco mumbled:
“…I had always disliked you since the first time I met you. Regardless of your relaxed attitude or your looks that was similar to mine or your overly large breast… I hate them and hate them very much! However… It's funny in the way that I felt you're trustable.”
Eco lifted her head and smile.
Navi also returned a smile.
At the same moment, Eco felt that a light had pierced through that darkness that had been blocking her eyes.
She didn't want to look for trouble anymore.
And she definitely doesn’t want to give in before taking up the challenge.
While the evening dress was swaying, Eco spoke with confidence:
“Just wait and see. I will definitely complete my original Ark!”
