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"If that's the case, then I'll cut off my left arm and leg!" said Ichigo, but it was too late. Ulquiorra knew it was about to happen, his death. The organs this human had blown away would never regenerate. See? It was already starting. The moment he spread his black wing, it turned to gray ash.

He reached out to touch Orihime. What was this thing called a heart? Did he ever posses one? That's right, he thought. I used to be human, too. Then it all came back to him in a flash.

He had gone by many titles. L, Ryuzaki, the Century's Greatest Detective. None of those were his real name, though. What was his real name? Was it Ulquiorra? He couldn't remember. He was working on a case when he died: Track down and arrest the notorious murderer, Kira. It was too late for that now, though; Ulquiorra knew it.

He looked over at Ichigo, the substitute shinigami. It's a funny thing, Ulquiorra's deaths. Both times he was killed by a shinigami. Ichigo... He looks like a normal human, not anything at all like Ryuk and Rem. Ulquiorra tried to tell Ichigo 'You don't look like the kind of shinigami I know', but his mouth had already turned to dust. All that was left were his eyes. The eyes of a dying dead man, remembering how he once saw the world. But those, too, disappeared quickly. Now only his conscience remained.

Kira, Yagami Light. Ulquiorra had his suspicions about that man... but it was too late - it's always too late...