Ulquiorra was ready. He rushed toward Harribel, the two of them meeting in the middle.
CLANG
CLANG
They clashed like crazy.
BZZZT—BOOM!
Harribel appeared above Ulquiorra, unleashing a torrent of water.
Ulquiorra opened his mouth as—
Cero Oscuras—was released.
Ulquiorra Cifer was not playing any games; he was going straight for the kill, following his Majesty's order to the letter.
Ulquiorra used his tail, attempting to slam Harribel into the arena, but Harribel skillfully parried the strike before launching several sharks toward him.
Ulquiorra formed a blade of pure energy.
"Lanza del Relámpago."
Ulquiorra created what seemed to be a flaming arrow of green energy and prepared to launch it.
"Cascada."
Harribel met his attack with a wave of energy, a goddamn torrent of destruction clashing against his spear.
KABOOM
BZZZT—BOOM!
The two of them could be seen in the air. She launched a strike, he blocked it with his bare hand, then tried to hit her with his tail.
She ducked under it, his tail barely passing above her chest—the wonderful thing called inertia and gravity doing the Lord's work as Gabriel watched them jiggle a bit.
He was a happy man.
Starrk felt something was off. Even if he could follow the fight, there seemed to be some sort of censorship around Harribel's breast area, nether region, and other spots.
Looking at Gabriel grinning next to him... well, fair enough.
That was his wife. Starrk might have done the same thing, too, so to each their own.
BZZZT—BOOM!
Ulquiorra prepared to use another spear, but she was already in front of him. With a swing of her sword, she smacked that shit away like it meant nothing to her.
He created another and started using it as a sword. The two of them clashed once more.
BZZZT—BOOM!
Ulquiorra's head was slammed into the floor before he was picked up again and slammed into the ceiling.
The young Y/N...Was being manhandled.
BZZZT—BOOM!
"Cero!"
Releasing a massive blast of energy, Harribel summoned all of the humidity in the air before clashing against the Cero with a flood of water.
Ulquiorra's darkness began to spread across the battlefield, trying to drain the fighting spirit from Harribel, trying to put despair into her bones.
Into her very being—getting her too damn scared to even dare fight back.
BZZZT—BOOM!
The whole arena seemed to be flooded.
Yet Ulquiorra still managed to appear behind Harribel, using a well-placed Bala.
He managed to strike her.
The clone made of water vanished.
Ulquiorra's eyes widened slightly.
BZZZT—BOOM!
Harribel was already right on his ass. Before he could react, she struck him. Hard.
Very hard indeed.
He could barely move, his high-speed regeneration working overtime just to get him back up.
Harribel, looking at Ulquiorra, seemed to realize something.
"The despair of everyone watching is fueling him."
She wasn't wrong. His authority did give him that boost, and in his Segunda Etapa state, the longer the fight dragged on, the stronger he would get.
Harribel was not someone who liked to drag out fights when she knew she could end them fast.
"Second Release: Emperatriz del Océano."
And just like that, Harribel stopped holding back.
She began to change.
Her armor became sleeker and more regal, featuring flowing, fin-like extensions that resembled a crown and a royal mantle of the sea.
Her body was covered in glistening, scale-like Reishi plating, reflecting the living essence of the ocean itself. Her eyes glowed with an endless blue, signifying her absolute dominion over water.
Her weapon transformed into dual jagged sabers, each pulsing with torrential energy, capable of splitting the air with waves of compressed water pressure.
The water she created now carried an eerie, bioluminescent glow, giving it the appearance of an endless, abyssal sea of destruction.
Ulquiorra blinked. Was it him, or was there some censorship over her breasts and other areas?
He wondered why he was seeing censorship. Was this part of her transformation or something?
No matter—he would win.
The very next second, the whole arena was flooded with water. Being submerged, Ulquiorra simply held his breath.
He could keep this up for a solid hour, give or take, if he could take in some Reishi.
Odd. There was no Reishi in the air.
Matter of fact... his authority became a non-factor.
Then... he felt it.
Ulquiorra reverted from his Segunda Etapa state back into his Resurrección, and then back into his base form.
The water... it was draining his Reiryoku like crazy. The more it drained, the more water seemed to appear all around them.
So this was the special ability of Harribel's second release state.
It was truly... monstrous.
Opening his mouth...
Cero Oscuras
A powerful Cero was launched at Harribel. Yet the Cero never reached its mark—it died three feet in front of him.
Oh.
"I... surrender," were his words as he realized—the second he was submerged was the second he lost the fight against Her Majesty.
The winner of the battle had been decided, between the Sin of Sloth, Ulquiorra Cifer, and the Sin of Lust, Tier Harribel...the winner of the fight was.
Tier Harribel.