This chapter speaks of two separate concepts : Void/emptiness and Nihilism. Nihilismstates that life is without objective meaning significance purpose or intrinsic value including ethics and morality. It further states that concrete objects and physical constructs do not exist in the physical world. It may also be seen as a form of skepticism in which accepted knowledge is deemed untrue. VoidIt is essentially the manifestation of nothingness or emptiness. In Buddhism Void/Emptiness is represented by a central dot or a focal point as shown in This chapter opens with a view of the crescent moon of Hueco Mundo as seen through an inverted/upsidedown cross from Ulquiorras perspective Ulquiorra was a Vasto Lorde who had a white form while the Hollows other Vasto Lordes perhaps?? around him were black and the only things that Ulquiorra could perceive through his eyes were their black shapes and their teeth eating each other. The only thing that was functional in Ulquiorras case were just his eyes. His eyes look strangely forlorn as he looked at the black hollows all around him. He referred to them as comrades perhaps he sought for a companion among them. Noticing how different he was from the others he left them. Then he started wandering around the empty desert all alone. It was then that he started contemplating that what he felt was void or emptiness. Immediately afterwards he says The things reflected in my eyes have no meaning. The things that could not be reflected in my eyes do not exist. This is essentially a nihilistic argument. Ulquiorra repeats this again as if trying to convince himself that he was nihilistic when in reality what he truly felt was nothingness. For him nothingness=happiness. His idea of happiness was also found in his nihilistic views. Although emptiness and nihilism are similar there are several differences between them. That is why he repeatedly speaks of that particular line as if trying to cloak his emptiness with nihilism. Ulquiorra came across one of those barren quartzlike trees in the desert and was fascinated by how it stood on the desert all alone and white just like him coming into contact with no one. To Ulquiorra that tree was the closest he felt to kinship so he embraced the void that the tree represented. He found peace and tranquility by being tangled by its roots and sinking his body into it. This chapter was more like a poem than a story philosophically portraying Ulquiorras idea of emptiness while suppressing his ideas about happiness with thoughts of nihilism. Also it was rather symbolic that Ulquiorra who used to be a white Hollow fought Ichigo who had within him a black Hollow.