Yellow Springs.
At the bottom of Forgetfulness River.
A stone quietly cracked open, and a figure stepped out from within.
It was an ordinary-looking dead soul.
The dead soul opened its eyes, just about to take in its surroundings, when the power of Water of Forgetfulness washed over it, making it completely forget its past.
It even forgot everything.
By rights, a current of water should have wrapped around it then, carrying it off to be reincarnated.
But by then, the laws of Yellow Springs had fallen into disarray. Forgetfulness River no longer helped the dead souls reincarnate.
The dead soul stood there dumbly at the bottom of the river--
Suddenly, it sensed something and slowly lowered its head to look at its hand.
An eerie rune was etched into its palm, giving off wisps of afterimages.
The afterimages multiplied into thousands upon thousands. Looking closely, one could see the same scenes of Yellow Springs World repeating within them.
The instant the afterimages appeared, the water of Forgetfulness River flowed around the dead soul, no longer touching it at all.
Watching the afterimages on its hand, the dead soul suddenly laughed.
"Hehehe, Parallel World Art? How old-fashioned."
"The strength of a Many-Shadowed Demon... really is only good enough to be eaten as food. It's just a little too hard to swallow."
The dead soul flicked its hand.
The afterimages on its palm scattered at once, vanishing into the void.
The waters of Forgetfulness River closed over it again.
The dead soul paid no mind to the river's erosion. It took a step and walked in a certain direction.
Soon.
A dripping-wet figure emerged from Forgetfulness River and staggered across the vast, boundless red-black earth.
Since Forgetfulness River had stopped flowing and the dead souls within its waters were all coming