[He swallows. The warm gesture makes this easier and harder at the same time. It's comforting, but it's unfamiliar as well.]

The despair of the Capital opened the Infinite Abyss -- the Gate to the Abysmal Realm. Dahn's plan was to control the Apollyon monsters that came out in order to defeat the Tento lords... But they did not listen to him and began to wreck the Capital instead.