Heart (3)

Beneath the blue sky within Las Noches, the incessant clang of clashing blades echoed as one black figure and one white figure darted about at speeds almost impossible to follow with the naked eye.

Ulquiorra Cifer rapidly swung the long blade in his hand, a faint flicker of surprise passing through his expressionless eyes.

Earlier, he had already sensed the spiritual pressure Kurosaki Ichigo released during his battle with Grimmjow.

The violence and abandon contained within that spiritual pressure had been like two Espada fighting each other.

He had been looking forward to Kurosaki Ichigo displaying that power now as well, so that he could crush him as a matter of course.