With a violent roar, Kurosaki Ichigo flew upside down like a kite with a broken string, and the tall towers with domes side by side collapsed accordingly.
After the smoke dissipated, a demonic figure appeared in the sky.
"If this is the power of 'will'..."
Ulquiorra looked down at the embarrassed Kurosaki Ichigo in the ruins, his voice cold and ruthless, "Then you humans will be harmed because you have too many such naive ideas. Do you really think that the so-called'
Will a miracle happen to you? Human beings."
"I'm not doing this to defeat you..."
Ichigo Kurosaki stood up in embarrassment and raised his Zanpakuto again, "The reason why I fight... is because I have a reason to win!"
As he spoke, he raised his head and glared at Ulquiorra with firm eyes.
"Give me a break."
The ruthless voice suddenly approached.
Ulquiorra lifted Kurosaki Ichigo up again.
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On the other side, Inoue Orihime and Ishida Uryu finally arrived on the dome.
"Where is Kurosaki and others? Why can't I feel his spiritual pressure?"
Ishida Uryu frowned slightly and asked while observing the surrounding situation.
"..."
Inoue Orihime didn't answer, she just raised her head and looked up.
On the pillars above the dome, under the high-hanging moon, blood was constantly flowing and dripping.
The bruised Kurosaki Ichigo seemed to have lost consciousness. Ulquiorra wrapped his demonic long tail around his neck and hung him in the air. Although he still held the Zanpakutō in his hand, he had obviously lost the power to resist.
.
Seeing such a scene, Inoue Orihime's face turned ugly: "That's... Kurosaki..."
"Miss Inoue, you are here..."
Ulquiorra felt the arrival of the two men and calmly turned his head.
"Does it seem like your human friends brought you here?"
"Mr. Ulquiorra...what are you...doing?"
Inoue Orihime calmed down her mood and asked tentatively.
She knew that Ulquiorra, as the 'Ten Blades', should know very well that this was a 'trial', and he would not allow Kurosaki to truly die in this trial.
However, Ulquiorra did not seem to understand the meaning of Inoue Orihime's question.
"What to do? As you can see...of course I am planning to kill him."
"But...but brother, he..."
Inoue Orihime was a little flustered and wanted to ask something, but was interrupted by Ulquiorra's cold voice.
"'Brother'? Did you mean 'King'? It's a pity... If 'King' really had a problem with this, I wouldn't be able to stand here now."
As he spoke, Ulchio stretched out his dark fingertips and gently stretched them towards Kurosaki Ichigo's defenseless chest.
Dark spiritual pressure condensed on his fingertips.
"don't want!!"
puff--
As Inoue Orihime screamed, the dark flash penetrated Kurosaki Ichigo's chest mercilessly.
Seeing the hole in Ichigo Kurosaki's chest, Orihime Inoue's pupils suddenly shrank, and despair began to spread in her eyes.
"Is this really good? Brother."
In a restricted room deep in Xuye Palace, Nilu looked at the scene where Kurosaki Ichigo was 'killed' and asked with some confusion.
She couldn't understand at all why this man was completely unmoved when it was clearly just a 'trial' and now people were actually killed.
"Do you really think he is dead?" Xuan Hao asked with a smile.
"Huh? Isn't there?"
Nilu's expression became more confused.
Since this man would ask this, does it mean that Kurosaki Ichigo is not dead yet?
But there is no special 'realm' outside the sky. How could Ichigo Kurosaki still be alive?
"Why……"
Xuan Hao shook his head helplessly after hearing this.
After all, the Nilu next to him at the moment is not his sister, so she can't really understand his mind. When her sister's soul is sleeping, the original Nilu seems a little cute. This seems to be helpless, after all, she is still here
He picked it up when he was in the virtual beast state and has always carried it with him, so it still maintains its purest appearance until now.
The soul state of his sister 'Xuan Ya' is very unstable, and she only falls into deep sleep from time to time. It seems that it is time to speed up the search for soul fragments.
But he planned to take Nilu with him when he left.
In this way, not only can I get together with my sister from time to time, but I can also have one more person around me to talk to.
But taking people across the 'boundaries' of the world... seems to be a very challenging problem.
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"No ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"
In the desperate cry of Inoue Orihime, the elves of Shield Shun Rikka flew out from her hair ornaments and quickly caught Kurosaki Ichigo who was dropped by Ulquiorra.
Ulquiorra did not stop Inoue Orihime's actions, but just stood aside and watched calmly.
"hateful!"
Another angry roar came from Ishida Uryu.
The spirits condensed into bows and arrows in his hands.
He drew the bow string angrily, and the concentrated power shot straight towards Ulquiorra's back.
However, facing Uryū Ishida's nearly full-force blow, Ulquiorra just raised his eyes calmly, the black wings behind him gently raised, and the spiritual arrow was instantly shattered.
"I didn't expect that... In my opinion, you are the calmest one among Kurosaki Ichigo's companions."
"I didn't expect you to think so highly of me... Thank you very much." Uryu Ishida's tone was mixed with anger.
"What? Do you want to be like him?" Ulquiorra asked appraisingly.
"No, I still have the energy to fight you... I won't be defeated by you as easily as Kurosaki."
"Is it?"
Ulquiorra asked lightly, and then raised his hand, dark spiritual pressure condensing on his fingertips.
"stop!"
Inoue Orihime raised her head and glared angrily into Ulquiorra's eyes.
"yes."
Faced with such a glare, Ulquiorra responded calmly and lowered his hand.
Although Uryū Ishida on the side was still raising his spiritual bow and condensing his spiritual arrows to point at him at this moment, he seemed not to take the opponent seriously at all and was completely unprepared.
"hateful……"
The expression on Ishida Uryu's face was slightly angry.
But the spiritual arrow condensed in his hand never shot out again.
From the arrow just now, he had already understood the gap between himself and the Arrancar in front of him. It was a chasm that was absolutely unacceptable.
Although he was very unwilling, if it weren't for Inoue, he wouldn't even be qualified to stand here.
"It's useless, Miss Inoue."
After Ulquiorra stopped, he calmly looked at Inoue Orihime, who was trying to heal Kurosaki Ichigo, but her efforts were useless.
"The moment his chest was penetrated, he was already dead. The 'King' did not stop my move, which means...his death is already doomed."
"No...impossible..."
Inoue Orihime kept shaking her head, denying, "Brother, he... wouldn't... wouldn't be so ruthless!"
"Lord Aizen once said... The 'King' will not have any feelings for ants, no... It should be said that from the height of the 'King', you can't see you so-called ants at all, even you, the 'King'
My 'sister' is just a coincidence of 'luck'."
Ulquiorra said without any emotion in his tone, "You should understand...how can such a being really care about your life and death?"
"..."
Hearing this, Inoue Orihime fell silent.
Because Ulquiorra seemed to have really hit the mark.
She is indeed just lucky enough to be able to stand here with such confidence.
But even so... things shouldn't have turned out like this.
Her brother clearly promised her that he would not harm her companions.
A being like that, even if his feelings for her are just because of 'soul fragments', he shouldn't break his promise...
etc……
After thinking about these things, Inoue Orihime suddenly calmed down.
Since my brother didn't stop this from happening, it can only mean one thing.
That is, everything that is happening at this moment is still on the right track.
in other words……
Kurosaki is... not dead yet!
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In the vertical world, it started to rain.
Kurosaki Ichigo stood on the wall of a tall building, with falling raindrops coming towards him.
I feel so uncomfortable, I feel so empty.
He remembered that his chest seemed to have been pierced, and he didn't know if that was the reason.
Is this the 'despair' that that guy Ulquiorra talks about?
Ichigo Kurosaki lowered his head and looked at his own figure reflected on the glass of the skyscraper. His bruised body still looked the same as in reality, and the hole in his chest looked extremely horrifying.
Under such circumstances, he should obviously be dead, but he appears here.
"It's really embarrassing, like a dog soaked in the rain."
A mocking voice came from the front.
Kurosaki Ichigo raised his head and saw the pale figure standing on the edge of the top of the building, with his hands in his pockets and his head looking down at him.
"You appear here...do you want to take advantage of the situation and occupy my body?" Kurosaki Ichigo asked with a slight frown.
"No, I just wanted to...ask you how you feel at the moment?"
The white figure jumped down from the tall building and stopped in front of Kurosaki Ichigo, with a sarcastic smile on his face, "Aren't you aggrieved to be killed by a guy of that level?"
"..."
Kurosaki Ichigo remained silent and did not answer.
"You know...I hate rainy days the most."
Xu Bai didn't seem to intend to continue asking, but calmly moved the topic to other places.
"Then why don't you let the rain stop? This is not the real world, right?" Kurosaki Ichigo murmured as he looked at the falling raindrops in the sky.
"You think I don't want to? But this is your world, not mine."
Xu Bai shrugged slightly, looking a little helpless.
I don't know if it's because they are in a critical moment of 'between life and death', but the atmosphere between the two seems to have suddenly changed. From the time they met before, they wanted to kill each other and devour each other, but now they have become old friends who have known each other for many years.
Together they looked at the rain falling in the sky and said some incomprehensible words.
"Do you know why I don't like rain?"
"Why?" Kurosaki Ichigo was a little confused.
It's strange to think about it, why does Xu Bai hate rain?
Does it often rain in this world?
"Nonsense, of course because you don't like rain!"
Xu Bai's tone was full of complaints.
"I don't like rain?" Kurosaki Ichigo was a little confused.
"The day Kurosaki Masaki died...it was raining both in the sky and on the ground." Xu Bai sneered and turned to look at the sky, "The rain that day almost flooded the entire world here, and almost drowned me."
"You guy..." Kurosaki Ichigo glared at Xubai beside him, maybe because the other person mentioned his mother inexplicably, which made him feel very angry. But he reacted after thinking about it...
This world is his world, and Xu Bai is a poor guy living in his world. In other words... the reason why this guy hates rain may really be caused by himself.
"What? Why are you staring at me like that?"
Xubai turned around and looked at Kurosaki Ichigo mockingly, "I touched on your sadness, so you are unhappy? What a coincidence, I am also very unhappy! Why do I have to be affected by a waste like you? I want to kill you
You guys are very serious."
"As expected... I can't get along with you!"
The expression on Kurosaki Ichigo's face turned ferocious.
He originally felt sorry for the guy in front of him and had suppressed the anger in his heart, but who knew that this guy had such a bad mouth!
"Want to fight?"
"Fight? Are you like this? Stop joking, you loser."
Xubai took a look at Kurosaki Ichigo's appearance at this moment, and sneered, "You are obviously a 'king', but you are easily defeated by a guy like that. You are really disappointing."
The corner of Kurosaki Ichigo's mouth twitched, but soon he sighed slightly.
Although this guy has a bad mouth, what he said is indeed true.
He is now a complete loser. With such a miserable appearance, how can he be qualified to fight with others?
"I remember you said...don't give you a chance?"
Kurosaki Ichigo looked at his bruised body and was silent for a while, then raised his head and looked at Xubai in front of him.
If it were this guy...
"Then now is your chance, give it a try, try to take away the control of your body from the 'waste' you call it?"
"I'm not interested. Don't think about asking me to help you solve your problem with such provocation." Xu Bai taunted, unwilling to be outdone, "If you want me to help you kill that guy outside, there is no way."
"Then... shall we die together?"
Kurosaki Ichigo smiled bitterly, raised his head and continued to look at the falling rain in the sky.
After Xu Bai's reminder.
He seemed to recall the feeling of that day.
The cold rain fell on him, drenching his whole body. He held his mother's hand, which was as cold as the rain.
That day... was his most desperate time.
It was also that day that he felt "powerless" for the first time in his life.