Yusei was momentarily stunned, as if thinking of something, and said uncertainly,
"The danger you mentioned... wasn't the players, but this guy?"
"And hiding underwater was...?"
"To evade his pursuit."
Yusei helplessly shook his head, 'I had thought too simply. Thinking about it carefully, it made sense. Why would Kanna be afraid of these ordinary humans?'
"It's alright. I will protect you."
Yusei reassured Kanna by patting her head. Meanwhile, the dragon opposite also looked over, or more precisely, noticed Yusei sitting on Kanna's head.
"Kanna! You actually let a lowly human sit upon the head of a noble dragon?!"
The massive voice boomed, almost echoing across the sky. The players who had just gone to grind monsters near the Dragon's Lake were once again drawn over.
Kanna's soft voice sounded, refuting the opposing dragon without hesitation.
"Yusei is my friend... not a lowly human."
"Even if he is your friend, he is still human."
"No. He is not human!"
"He is!"
"He is not!"
Yusei listened to the two dragons' argument. He felt something was a bit off, but now wasn't the time to dwell on that.
He patted Kanna beneath him and said, "What should we do now? Fight him off?"
"Mhm. Good idea, but Kanna can't beat him." Kanna said somewhat dejectedly.
Yusei comforted Kanna, "Together, the two of us can definitely defeat him."
"Mhm!"
Yusei and Kanna's conversation wasn't hidden from the red dragon. Its red pupils emitted a heavy puff of smoke, speaking with authority to Kanna.
"Kanna, you insist on joining with this human to deal with me? Defying the Dragon Clan's rules is a grave crime."
Kanna looked seriously at the opposing dragon and said, "I don't know why either, but Kanna really wants to stay by Yusei's side, like we've been friends for a long time."
"Fine! In that case, let's fight!"
The red dragon opened its massive maw. A red energy beam began gathering in its mouth. Kanna was not to be outdone, a beam of light mixed with electricity also began gathering.
The two energy beams clashed. Kanna's side was clearly at a disadvantage, being pushed back bit by bit. Kanna's electric beam was on the verge of being overpowered.
Yusei's eyes focused, and instantly, a giant blue armor began covering Kanna's entire body.
Kanna, still struggling in the beam clash, felt the change on her body and was startled.
In that moment of distraction... the opposing beam directly struck her. Kanna instinctively closed her eyes.
But contrary to her expectation, Kanna, who thought it would hurt, felt completely unscathed. There was no pain at all, just a slight impact.
"What is this?" Only now did Kanna notice the change on her body. She was covered in blue energy armor. From the outside, it looked like custom-made energy armor tailored for her.
Kanna curiously moved her wings and claws, finding she could move freely. The armor wasn't heavy at all, lying on her like a feather robe.
"Is this Yusei's?" Kanna's sparkling large eyes looked back.
"Mhm. How is it? I said I would protect Kanna." Yusei smiled and patted Kanna's head.
It had to be said, Kanna's fleshy and flat head was cool to the touch, yet very fleshy and comfortable to pet. Looking at the soft feathers, Yusei felt lying on them would be very comfortable.
In Kanna's claw appeared a large sword formed from energy, a [Susanoo's Dragon Blade].
"Pii! Amazing! Kanna can use a human weapon now!" Kanna curiously examined the large sword in her claw.
Normally, her claws couldn't properly grip a long sword. Even if she held it, using it would feel strange.
But with the help of Yusei's Susanoo, Kanna held the long sword steadily, using it with ease.
"What is that?" The red dragon opposite looked puzzled at the transformed Kanna, its large brain unable to comprehend what was happening.
But for a dragon, if you can't figure it out, don't bother. Just roast the opponent with dragon breath.
And it did precisely that.
Scorching dragon breath shot out, burning towards Kanna. Yusei didn't have Kanna dodge.
Instead, his Sharingan spun, and black flames appeared out of thin air, instantly clashing with the red dragon breath.
Amaterasu.
Furthermore, Yusei manipulated the large sword in Kanna's claw, coating it with the endlessly burning black flames. The outer Susanoo's armor was also covered in black flames.
Now, from the outside, the combination of Kanna and Yusei looked like a purple-black burning dragon wreathed in black flames.
Kanna was very curious about this change. Especially seeing these black flames contend evenly with the annoying guy's dragon breath made her incredibly curious.
After a moment's thought, she slightly opened her mouth and ate a small portion of the black flames in front of her. Then... she began gathering an electric beam in her mouth.
However, compared to the previous pure white electric beam, Kanna's mouth now also contained the burning black flames.
The electricity and flames merged, forming a special thunder-fire energy.
This was, of course, controlled by Yusei. If he didn't control Amaterasu, the black flames would directly burn Kanna.
Amaterasu combined with Kanna's electric beam was like mixing black into white. The power increased by more than several times.
Kanna didn't hesitate. She opened her mouth, and the black-and-white thunder-fire energy shot out, instantly pushing back the contending red dragon breath and sweeping towards the red dragon.
"What?!" The red dragon widened its boulder-like eyes. It panicked and also fired a red energy beam.
But it was utterly useless. Its energy disintegrated almost instantly.
The [Amaterasu Thunder] formed jointly by Kanna and Yusei poured onto the red dragon's body.
The sky-filled white was ignited by the black flames. The red dragon jumped and flew around wildly in the air like a monkey with a scalded bottom.
Seeing this, Yusei smiled and patted Kanna's head.
"I kept my promise. I protected Kanna!"
"Yusei is a trustworthy friend." Kanna nodded happily.
'This was the first time she had defeated someone stronger than me. Did that mean...'
"Pii! Is Kanna stronger than that guy now?"