"That is enough," Aizen interrupted. "I'm sorry, Ben but it seems that Luppi is far too determined to let this go. I'm afraid that you'll have to battle."
"Thank you, Aizen-sama," Luppi said with a hasty bow of respect. "I'll put this human in his place."
"Now that's enough, I have already controlled my anger to a limit, but this is all, today I am going to kill someone again." Ben said looking at Luppi, since his anger has crossed his limit.
Aizen actually chuckled. "Very well." He said. "You may begin when you are ready."
"I'm ready now!" Luppi yelled. "Strangle, Trepadora!"
Once again, Luppi underwent that tentacle transformation. Ben didn't even look at him, activated the Ultimatrix and slammed it down.
"Bad Big Chill!" he yelled after transforming.
Luppi sneered. "You're going down this time, boy."
All of the Espada knew that Luppi was doomed the minute Ben chose Big Chill. But they decided to let the poor guy learn his lesson the hard way.
All of Luppi's tentacles shot forward, but Big Chill merely made his body intangible. Luppi's cocky look dropped when he saw his tentacles go harmlessly through his opponent. No matter what he tried, Big Chill just floated there with his arms folded. Furious, Luppi tried attacking in a berserk frenzy but it did no good. Anger began to cloud Luppi's mind as he tried all he could to land even one blow on his intangible opponent.
"Are you done yet?" Big Chill asked, looking at him dangerously.
Luppi was panting now. He couldn't even harm this guy!
"Then I guess it's my turn," Big Chill said. He took a deep breath and unleashed an icy wind at Luppi. Soon, Luppi's tentacles started to freeze. But these attacks didn't do any damage to Luppi, he easily shattered the ice on his tentacles.
"Is that the best you can do?" Luppi asked, his cockiness starting to come back. Even if he couldn't hurt his opponent, the other guy was too weak to hurt him.
"Not even close," Big Chill replied. He took a deeper breath and unleashed a bigger blast of ice at his opponent.
Luppi grunted as his body started to become covered in a layer of it. At first, Big Chill thought he had gained the upper hand. But sadly, Luppi still managed to break out of the ice with that cocky look on his face.
Big Chill shrugged at his opponent. If it was all out that Luppi wanted, it was all out that he was gonna get.
"Time to go Ultimate!"
All of the Espada watched with interest. They were always fascinated by Ben's Ultimate forms.
Big Chill twisted the Ultimatrix dial and slammed it again. The four spikes popped out of the symbol. His body's color scheme was now red instead of blue. He unfolded his wings and antennae to show that they now had a flame design to them. A red tuft on his face made it look like he was wearing a flaming mask.
"Ultimate Big Chill!" he cried in a more gravelly tone than he usually did.
"Heh," Luppi smirked. "Don't think that a new look is gonna save you."
He moved to attack but Ultimate Big Chill was faster. He opened his mouth, but instead of the icy breath that everyone knew, they saw red flames burst out. Luppi's eyes widened as the flames came at him and he instinctively brought up his tentacles to shield himself. Everyone expected the flames to burn the tentacles, but instead found them all to be encased in a huge chunk of ice.
"Huh?" Luppi cried out, the sheer weight of all his frozen tentacles causing him to fall down. "How did…"
"Fire so cold it burns," Ultimate Big Chill explained with a hint of smugness in his voice.
Luppi struggled to free his arms. He was not going to let this kid make a fool out of him again. But Big Chill had plans to kill him for forever, so stupid like this, don't always trouble him.
Ultimate Big Chill then turned intangible and flew straight through Luppi. But this didn't really occur to the young Arrancar because most of his entire body was now encased in ice. Luppi began to desperately use his spiritual pressure to try and break free, but Ultimate Big Chill engulfed Luppi in his ice flames. Once he was done, Luppi was encased in a boulder of ice.
"Well," Ultimate Big Chill said. "That ought to cool him off."
"Fascinating," Szayel said hungrily. "Fire that's capable of freezing anything it comes in contact with. A defiance of the laws of nature. Oh Ben, must you tempt me so?"
Aizen was very impressed as well. Personally, it was always Ben's ultimate forms that intrigued him the most. Did all of Ben's forms have ultimate forms? Or was it just a few? An Ultimate Way Big would be beyond powerful. Aizen rose from his seat.
"It is obvious who the winner is," Aizen said to all present. "Ben, may you release Luppi?"
"Sorry, since I have said, that someone needs to die, so someone needs to die," Ben shouted, shocking the others, and at the same time he flicked his fingers, and in second Luppi was broken into pieces for forever, never to recover.
Luppi killing was not so surprising to them, since killing was normal between them, but the moment Ben killed Luppi and ignored Aizen.
It made them see Ben in a new light, as they thought from the beginning that he was stronger, but a soft toy. Which he has broken.
"And about the Espada thing, I don't care even about that, from the moment I was born, I don't care about anything," Ben said as he looked towards the other Espadas.
"Don't trouble me." After saying that, he goes out of the room.
Ulquiorra looked over at Harribel. "Your new Fraccion is starting to interest me." He said. "Despite the opportunity for more power, he refuses it. Something that is rare in a place like this."
Harribel nodded in agreement. "He has certainly proved that he is more than interesting."
Ulquiorra eyed her. "Just as he has caused you to see him as something more than a mere Fraccion, Harribel."
Harribel was neither afraid nor shocked. She knew that Ulquiorra of all people would eventually notice. She did not look at him and merely continued watching Ben.
"Do not allow him to affect your judgment," he said. "Your mind and body belongs to Aizen-sama. No mere human, regardless of his powers, shall ever change that."
Belong. For so long, that word was one that Harribel herself had used, for the Espada and all other Arrancar did in fact belong to Aizen. She was loyal to Aizen for all he had done, but Ben's humanity was unlike anything in Hueco Mundo. Harribel had never expected a human to be able to affect her so much.
Is it because he's human? Harribel asked herself. Or is it because of the way Ben is?
And so Ben turned down the role of Espada, and it went back to Grimmjow, since Luppi had died.
Soon, everyone in Las Noches knew about Luppi dying after fighting against Ben.