It was the start of the three hundred and first iteration, where James had been born, and evaded the contract of the Abyss. Alan vaguely remembered it... but this was how the Abyss had approached the soul of James Smith.
It was the very moment where James had been brought into the universe in Aranus's body. He hadn't woken up in the hospital like Alan had, where he awakened as a human able to use mana... but in the darkness before it.
The Abyss had acted the moment Aranus performed the desperate act of calling another soul to reside in his body. He had been too tired and exhausted at that point to do anything else.
He was tired of everything at that point.
In the perspective of James, he had died in his original world after accomplish everything he had wanted to do, and all of a sudden, he was falling in darkness. During that time, he was going through every decision he had made in his life with not a single regret in his eyes.
