  We study the pion velocity near the critical temperature $T_c$ of chiral
symmetry restoration in QCD. Using the hidden local symmetry (HLS) model as the
effective field theory, where the chiral symmetry restoration is realized as
the vector manifestation (VM), we show that the pion velocity for $T \to T_c$
receives neither quantum nor (thermal) hadronic corrections at the critical
temperature even when we start from the bare theory with Lorentz symmetry
breaking. We show that this is related to a new fixed point structure
originated in the VM. Further we match at a matching scale the axial-vector
current correlator in the HLS with the one in the operator product expansion
for QCD, and present the matching condition to determine the bare pion
velocity. We find that the pion velocity is close to the speed of light, $v_\pi
(T) = 0.83 - 0.99$.
