His eyes were upon the scales, they always have been. When the time of the final Holy Selection came, he was "chosen," and there his gaze finally wavered.

What retched above the waves was something unexpected, a torn rift in what logic should be held about the world at large. A Hollowfied Ichigo Kurosaki, doused in the fires of Hell, awakens in a completely different world—in a land fraught with salt-drenched beasts of instinct. Said land was aptly named Sal Viento.

Having been destroyed by the Hollowfied Shinigami known as Ichigo Kurosaki, Ulquiorra had seen and barely grasped the concept of the Heart at the last moments of his life. However fortunately, or unfortunately, he had found himself transported to a completely different world. It is now up to him to discover what the Heart truly means, after receiving the most tantalizing glimpse.