Evernight Light

In the morning Ulquiorra removed the stone door, the spirit particles floating in the air had dissipated, the room was clean and clear at a glance, the woman leaned against the wall with one shoulder, curled up and slept under the window, the curtain woven by sunlight separated her and Between him, that sleeping face had a delicate illusion.He walked up slowly and saw the blanket wrapped around the woman, did he still know it was cold?Looking up again, she found tears in the corners of her eyes.

Did you cry in your dream... He moved behind her, bent down, picked her up, and laid her flat on the sofa. She hadn't woken up yet.

Being such an undefended, wonderful woman, her abilities, and the many incidents that have manifested outside of that, brought a slightly different interest to Ulquiola's long fighting career than he had ever needed before. Caring for others, "caring for" such cumbersome feelings, he never had in his life.

However, facing this special woman, he had to measure his behavior everywhere.To him, the vast majority of human beings are rubbish, and they will die if they touch them lightly. In this regard, a woman with a three-day shield is not much better than them, which annoys him.If she is smarter, she can relieve most of his workload, always caring about those rubbish things, regardless of whether it is useful or not, and even ignoring his own situation.It was impossible for him to stare at her all the time, even in the past, even when he was free, he didn't want to interact with people, everyone was the same, living a boring life just for his own desires.

But this woman is different.Weak but strong, confused but sober, clearly afraid of himself but always smiling innocently at him, a woman full of contradictions, makes Ulquiola constantly want to spy on her, and because of this, he begins to feel that something is going wrong. deviate from the established track.This was the first time he had such an interest, and it subtly brought unexpected results to both the woman and himself.Yesterday, he hinted that the woman turned to him for help, and only wanted to know what the woman really thought, but she cried.

He witnessed the whole process of her eye sockets slowly filling, but she didn't notice it.

Ulquiola couldn't understand that the woman didn't cry out of weakness, the tears she shed in her sleep without asking for anything made him have the urge to reach out and wipe it away, but he couldn't give a reasonable motive.Or can it be said that it was only the rare drop of water that attracted him... He slowly pushed back the long hair around her ear, wiped the tears with his thumb, and wiped his lips with his hand.

At yesterday's meeting, Aizen lightly held the teacup and talked about her three companions invading the virtual circle, explaining in a gentle manner that everything was as usual, and he felt that it was time to strengthen her position before the commotion spread, at the cost of one last memory.So he went to the place where the woman had lived, and spent the afternoon gazing at the unchanging furnishings, unable to find a reason to miss it.The spiritual pressure in this world is thin, and the captain-level gods of death have all withdrawn, but when he returned, he felt five spiritual pressures.

Ulquiola didn't care about the overreaching trash, only their relationship to her past was in the way.He realizes that he will never understand her past and how it affected her, which means that all exploration of it is futile.This is a meaningless game. What he wants to do is to make her body and mind submit to Aizen-sama, and this has nothing to do with understanding.It's just that those words were stuck in his throat all night——

"I'm just worried! I'm only worried if I don't know Ur-jun!"

……woman.It was dead last night.

Time to wake up.

She saw Lan Ran again, in the room where Beng Yu was sealed.That was probably the highest place in the Void Night Palace, Ulquiola led her to stop in front of the door, with her neck and shoulders always arched slightly.This is the instinctive vigilance of predators, a calm humility without emotion, and has nothing to do with etiquette and loyalty.He called "Master Aizen", and the door was opened from both sides. He nodded and said "Go in", his eyes were indifferent.Inoue seemed to understand that this meant letting her go in alone, so he answered bluntly "I'm sorry", and stepped into the night in one step.

Aizen sat in a circular swivel chair under the vast night, turned around and sent away the two female servants by the door. Inoue was at a loss for their jealous complaints. When he watched them go out, that gaze flashed across his eyes again. With Shen Ding standing there, she faintly felt that it was different from usual.

Aizan apologized hypocritically, raised the dark green circular pillar, and unfolded the scattered sections one by one. The crystal sphere placed in the transparent cube was pinched in his hand, shining with wandering light.

Xu's breaking of the surface, Wang Jian's creation, must rely on this collapsed jade, and her power is needed to fully awaken.

"Zhihime, can your power be used for me, right?" She had a graceful demeanor, a gentle face, and steady eyes.

It is this kind of humility that makes her world disillusioned.

I don't know when she followed the familiar figure back home again. Most of the places she experienced were not very strong light, and the clean ground reflected the shadowy light. She looked up but couldn't find a light. Suddenly, there was a vast expanse of whiteness, and the sharp tingling sensation moved her arms to quickly block it. When she was able to open her eyelashes tremblingly, she saw the sky.

——A completely different, clear blue sky with still clouds and a white sun.Zhihime lowered her hand and opened her field of vision, and there was a moon-white sandy land with dunes criss-crossing in front of her eyes. Transparent dry plants were inserted into the ground, and there were huge red pillars in the endless distance.Entering here, the temperature of light, the blowing of wind, living life, moisture, sound and hope are all like being sucked into an invisible void instantly.But I am here, at least I am still living here, Zhi Ji tried to support herself with such thoughts, as if her soul would collapse immediately if she did not do so.

Ulquiorra walked in the valley of the sand dunes without saying a word, "Mr. Ur... are we still in the Palace of Void Night?" Zhiji followed closely behind.

"Yes."

"Then...why can you see the sun? Here..."

"It's just an artificial sun, used for indoor surveillance and lighting. Except for it and those buildings, it's the original appearance of the virtual circle—what are you doing here?" Ulquiola stopped and looked back at the hands she held around her , eye contact.

"...I'm sorry!" Zhi Ji let go of her hands and twisted her back in shock, "I..."

"...?"

"I just think……"

Ulquiola didn't know what made him so irritated, the remaining soft touch on his hand was like the anxiety of being continuously exposed to the blazing sun, and the brow seemed to be about to frown.

"I want to make sure Mr. Ur...whether...he has body temperature, because!...the sunshine here doesn't feel warm at all...is it because the people here don't need it?"

"You must have realized this kind of thing last night." At that time, he rushed up and pulled his hand away regardless.

"At that time...my hands were probably colder than Mr. Ur..."

Her voice became lower and lower, and Ulquiola turned her head: "...So are you satisfied now?"

She pursed her lower lip, and the tightly wound fingertips that she had touched remained as cold as the moonlight from last night.

At the end of the sandy ground are two passages that look the same. When the sunlight enters the entrance for one meter, it is completely covered in darkness. Ulquiorra goes straight to the stone wall between the two passages, and presses it with his open palm. The wall feels like an induction. Weak ripples spread out, fingers sank into the wall as if groping for something, and as his elbow gradually bent to his side, pulling away its true face, Orihime stared at his wrist intently, at this moment the ground began to shake Ming.

The wall of the entire circular sand field moved from both sides to the center where they were, gradually closing the two passages, and the continuous wind blew from behind, and the entrance opposite the sand field expanded accordingly. Take it out completely—a strange and uncomfortable shape, like a dagger or a pointed halberd with armor attached, some kind of sharp weapon exuding an ominous aura, and Ulquiola climbed the Reiatsu on it.

In the next moment, a retrograde blue lightning pierced the field of vision, and the flawless wall in front of him suddenly cracked a slanted crack that runs through the top and bottom, and countless diamond-shaped squares of the same specification turned up from both sides, pushing out like waves , the sound of tens of thousands of hitting each other filled the ears, gradually filling the entrance, and finally appeared in front of the eyes, which was wider and taller than the sum of the previous two rows of passages. There was a stone door on each side The broken-faced soldiers bowed to them, and the moment Zhi Ji stepped into the porch, the sunlight suddenly disappeared behind her, and when she turned her head, what she saw was a crescent moon that was gradually disappearing in the crack of the wall .

"Well, just now you said... the solar energy is used for surveillance, right?" Ulquiorra glanced at her, "Ah...then, the moon seen from my window is also the same?"

"Don't confirm to me one by one what you can see."

——"Don't change clothes in front of the window."

——“What’s there to see, out of the window?—See you’re here often.”

——"If you look at it, there will be nothing else, let's give up the boring hope."

"It turns out that the scenery outside the window is like this..." "The virtual circle without the sun, there will always be only night." "So time is also unnecessary..." "Is it... is this a place..." Zhi Ji unconsciously raised her hand to wipe her eye sockets.

"...What's the matter?" Out of the corner of her eyes, the woman sniffed angrily and shook her hands.

"I've always...lived in this kind of world...Ur-kun...it's so strange..."

Ulquiorra stopped, the woman's sobs delayed the pendulum of time, tending to suffocate.

Is it weird...well, you think so too?

I don't know how much time passed, until her warm sadness faded away, and Ulquiola didn't look at her again.Towards the end of the corridor, the only thing he could say was - "Go in."

That night, she put on the same plain clothes as all the broken faces, the bondage on the skin, the seamless tailoring, showing harsh indifference, it seemed to remind her all the time that everything about her was under their control .However, Orihime asked the waiter naively: "Why did you know my size just by chance?" The other party looked at each other and replied that it was the information extracted in the present world yesterday.

Ur-kun... Could it be that I went through my closet... Ah~!Thinking about it, there is still a pile of clothes that haven't been washed, so it won't grow mushrooms... It's so embarrassing~~ Or did you see my medical examination form?Ha~ That's even worse! !

...the one who promised to seal the past...Speaking of which, what am I looking at?Now that I know it's a monitor, it's better not to stand under the window as Ur-jun said, but I can't look away as if I was attracted by the light. On the other side of the moon, he will be watching me?

"...It's a surprise, you're quite well dressed."

"Wow!" Orihime turned around in fright, and Ulquiorra was standing at the door looking at her. "When did you stand there?!"

"Just now, there was a lot of fuss and fuss." The same sharp language front, but his expression was different from before, and the premonition during the day was not wrong. "I'm here to tell you that your companion has invaded the virtual circle."

"…Why……"

"Of course it's to save you." With a face that couldn't be more clear, "Aside from that, there is no other reason."

"To...save me..."

"That's right. But to you, their actions have no meaning." "Your body and mind already belong to us." "That's why I let you wear this clothes. Inoue Orihime."

"……Yes."

"Tell me, why do your mind and body exist?"

"...It exists for Aizen-sama and his ambition."

...It was only for a moment, did she show a shaken expression... She didn't even frown to my question, did she already make a decision...A strong woman...

The moment Ulquiola walked out of the door, the last words that rang in his ears almost shook his firm determination all night, and there was a tender smile in the woman's rare rationality: "Mr. Ur, it's the first time you called my What about the name?"

This feeling made him even more irritable, and Jian, who was waiting outside the door to listen to the show, took the opportunity to stop him, "How is that pet lord?——How do you treat her?" "...low level. " "Don't be so rigid, I'm just asking how your 'care' is going, huh?" Neutra leaned over and asked, hitting his hand on the wall.

"Do you care? You are so small...don't worry, that woman fell into the trap of Lord Aizen long before she entered the circle."

"When I brought her here, I set up multiple psychological shackles: give her a 12-hour buffer time, and allow her to say goodbye to her companion. The woman's heart will mistakenly think that we have some sympathy for her and relax." "And then let She chooses who she wants to say goodbye to, and when she is forced to surrender, she has an illusion of self-awareness, and then let her go to the agreed place by herself, which deepens her illusion." "In the end, she will even escape. The will is also disintegrating bit by bit." Ulquiola, who explained the plan in detail as if telling these words to himself, paused when he realized this.

"Also, having her leave a 'say goodbye to someone' thread shows that she has self-awareness and freedom of action while surrendering."

"—In other words, the more obvious the clues, the more the woman seems to be 'betrayed with her own consciousness' in the eyes of her companion." The indifference in his tone deepened, he suppressed the tearing pain in his throat, and let out unnecessary words expression.

"...Should I admire Master Aizen?" Neutra's face changed slightly.

"...This kind of thing is just a game for Aizen-sama. It doesn't matter whether it hits the trick or not, no matter what, the woman doesn't have the strength to escape from here." "Whether it's the will to resist, or Power." He left the speechless Neutra and walked out.

"Has anyone arrived at Ten Blades' bedroom?" In the central monitoring room, Yin squinted his eyes and fell back into the swivel chair in surprise, and smiled lightly: "Huh? Why~ It's so strange, you actually took the initiative to talk to me, Don't you hate me?"

At the door, Ulquiola closed his eyes, coping laxly: "How could it be..."

"Really?" Watching him walk in, "Since Ruby-kun died, I've been very lonely."

Ulquiola looked at him, not knowing the truth of what he said, and turned his attention to the console in front of him, "Is this—?"

"Ah~ not bad." "Control the corridor?"

"It's disgusting~ I didn't do anything evil, and——I hate sad stories." There was a subtle joke in the tone.

Obviously, what Yin is controlling is the palace of No. 90 Blade, the ugly dual personality Killian.One of the woman's companions appeared to have met him.

"By the way, you've come here a lot lately~"

"..."

"Don't look at me like that~ As the monitoring center of the entire palace, it's impossible that there are no monitors~"

"..."

"—Then, are you infatuated with her?"

"boring."

"Bingo~The so-called love is a kind of filling the emptiness in your heart~"

"So it seems that you are the one who needs it the most." Ulquiola turned on the surveillance screen, and the dazzling pictures appeared in front of him one by one. He found the fence in the sand with familiarity, and selected the window divided into four by the fence. The picture was erased, and the face of Inoue looking up appeared on the screen.Throat, burning pain again.

"Hmph... It's not ruled out that I will miss Luanju occasionally." Yin said something indistinguishable from the truth, and lifted it to the screen with great interest, "His Royal Highness is also subtly different~" Turned away as if nothing had happened. topic. "Don't you think~ it's starting to sound like you said, 'sun'?"

...Thank you, Kurosaki-kun, you came here to save me on purpose, but I found something that I must do here...It must be, only I can do it-

Use my ability to make Beng Yu return to the state before it existed.

If it works... maybe it can... save more things.

But I can't go back, Kurosaki-kun, the bond that connects me to this world has been broken.

Please, don't hurt me anymore.