A/N: D: I'm shocked at how many reviews this is getting. I might as well keep going.
XXXV. Bromine (burn)
Ulquiorra thought of himself as too high to show her his zanpaku-tou. On the same note, she deserved a fair fight against him.
And so it began.
XXXVI. Krypton (weakness)
It really hadn't occurred to him that she could heal herself, no matter how severe the injury. Unless he flat out killed her, there was no way that she would stop fighting.
XXXVII. Rubidium (flames)
"Futatabi joushou, nanakai fenikkusu." (1)
XXXVIII. Strontium (combust)
She was faster than he had anticipated, almost completely reading his movements without a single flaw. It was getting harder and harder to convince himself that he had the upper hand.
When he saw his shoulder bleeding, he knew that he lost this battle, but not the war.
He would never lose the war.
1: "Rise again, seventh phoenix" (an allusion to the Shun Shun Rikka; you can consider her zanpaku-tou her seventh weapon)