When it seems there’s nowhere left to fall, when first your friends betray you, then your team, then the girl you love—and after that, an alien mind decides to use your body, setting you up before Earth’s special services—you come to the conclusion: this is the limit, the point after which you can break, stop fighting, and let life drift.
That’s what the main hero thought—without realizing that deeper than the bottom there is only the Abyss.