One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, starts with the Eight Gates Formation.

But he discovered that he couldn't move.

They were not imprisoned, nor were they oppressed.

Rather, the space, time, and even the concept of "battle" itself around him were forcibly "paused" the instant that golden light appeared.

The whole world seemed to have become a still painting.

In the painting, the only thing that moves is the child, and the golden light at his fingertips that is enough to make even the gods tremble.

call out.

A slender golden ray of light arrived first, even though it was delayed.

It has no speed, because the moment it appears, it has already "arrived" at its destination.

It pierced through Ulquiorra's supposedly absolute defense, through his terrifying spiritual pressure capable of annihilating everything, and through his domain representing "absolute nothingness."

Finally, with perfect precision, the needle struck the hole on his chest that represented "emptiness".

However, the golden light did not cause a penetrating wound like the Thunder Spear.

It simply left a small, sun-like golden mark at the location of that hole.

Immediately afterwards, this mark began to radiate brilliant light!

That was neither scorching light nor destructive light.

It was a light of creation, full of "life," "meaning," and "existence"!

Ulquiorra looked down at the "little sun" blooming wildly on his chest. For the first time, a human-like, extreme... shock and... enlightenment appeared in his empty emerald eyes.

So... that's how it is?

It turns out that the end of nothingness... is not an eternal void.

Instead...light.

His body, composed of absolute nothingness, began to disintegrate inch by inch under the light of this absolute "existence".

He did not turn into dust, nor did he dissipate into spirit particles.

Instead, it transformed into countless warm, golden specks of light, like fireflies on a summer night, slowly drifting towards the sky, and finally completely merging into the world that it had blackened itself.

The desolate, dark green was restored to the original, clear blue of Seireitei.

As the last golden speck of light, symbolizing Ulquiorra's existence, dissipated into the air, the heavy and chilling sense of despair that had weighed on everyone's souls also vanished.

Instead, there is a warm, peaceful atmosphere that seems to heal everything.

But the battlefield fell into an even more profound, deathly silence than before.

"It's...it's a lie, right..."

Grimmjow, the Sixth Espada, who was fiercely fighting Kaido, froze in mid-air. The wild smile on his face had vanished, leaving only pure, animalistic horror. His beast-like eyes were fixed on the tiny figure slowly floating back to the throne, and he made an unintelligible "clucking" sound in his throat, like a cheetah being choked by its natural enemy.

On the other side, Stark, who was being forced back by Kenpachi Zaraki's ferocious sword pressure, also stopped all his movements. Lilynette beside him was so frightened that she could no longer maintain her materialized form and turned back into two pistols. For the first time, Stark's perpetually sleepy face revealed an expression called "fear".

He finally understood.

They did not stumble into unknown territory.

They were... a bunch of reckless ants who had stumbled into the god's backyard.

Now, the garden's owner is displeased because they trampled on an inconspicuous little blade of grass.

"Oh my, this is truly... remarkable research material..."

The Eighth Espada, Szayelaporro Granz, watched the golden light erase Ulquiorra's existence. His mad scientist-like curiosity, after briefly overpowering his fear, plunged him into a morbid excitement. But just as he was about to open his probing nerves to try and analyze the composition of that power, a cold gaze fell upon him.