"Not yet..."
The moment Aizen's words fell, Ulquiorra's gaze in the field suddenly turned cold!
"Whoosh!"
Before anyone could even react, a long, silver-white blade tore through countless buried rocks with unstoppable force, stabbing straight toward Ulquiorra!
Yet, faced with that fierce strike, Ulquiorra's figure abruptly vanished from where he stood!
The next moment, he appeared elsewhere, his emerald eyes coldly fixed on the deeply buried ground in the distance.
The scene drew the attention of everyone in Las Noches, and they were all stunned.
"Gin can still fight!"
"That guy... he really wasn't so easily defeated..."
As everyone whispered among themselves—
"Boom!"
A massive tremor suddenly shook the field. The rubble that had buried the area like ruins flew into the air, scattering in every direction.
From beneath the huge crater emerged Gin Ichimaru, his clothes utterly tattered.
He looked thoroughly battered. His loose robe had long since been shredded, revealing a lean, pale body lined with muscle.
His right shoulder blade appeared to have been broken, twisted out of shape, and his body was covered in injuries from the Cero he had endured earlier. He was in a miserable state.
Even so, the corners of his mouth remained slightly raised. Like a poison snake that refused to die after battle, a faint chill shimmered in his narrowed eyes as he chuckled.
"Ulquiorra, there's something wrong with what you said that needs correcting... I've already said goodbye to my identity as a Death God, you know..."
At that point, his lips curled slightly as he murmured.
"Especially... now that I have a Hollow's body as well..."
As his words fell, an astonishing scene unfolded. Under everyone's shocked gazes, the bones inside his body suddenly began to twist like a snake!
"Crack, crack..."
In the blink of an eye, his