  The notion of "hadronic freedom" is introduced based on the vector
manifestation of hidden local symmetry and is used to suggest that the
dileptons measured in relativistic heavy-ion collisions do not provide {\em
direct} information on the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry and hence on
the mechanism for mass generation of light-quark hadrons. We give arguments how
the dileptons emitted from those vector mesons whose masses are shifted \`a la
Brown-Rho (BR) scaling by the vacuum change in temperature -- as in heavy-ion
collisions -- and/or density -- as in cold compressed matter -- could be
strongly suppressed in the hadronic free region between the chiral restoration
point and the "flash point" at which the vector mesons recover $\gsim 90%$ of
their free-space on-shell masses and the full strong coupling strength. It may
seem ironical that the very mechanism i.e., the vector manifestation in hidden
local symmetry, that is to make the mass drop and modify the spectral function
is in turn responsible for the dilepton suppression. A possible falsification
of this drastic prediction will be indicated. We also briefly discuss the
potential role played by the holographic dimension intrinsic in gravity-gauge
duality that provides a unified field theory description of hadrons -- both
mesons and baryons -- under extreme conditions. Baryons arise as coherent
states of pions and vector mesons of holographic QCD which define the ground
state or the "vacuum" on which mesonic excitations could undergo BR scaling.
