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The first time he saw Valerie, she was seated high on a platform, dazzlingly beautiful and impossible to ignore, treating all the beast-men like worthless trash.
Julian should have hated her.
But when he heard Valerie casually praise a beast-man for a good fight, he became obsessed.
Why couldn’t *he* be the beast-man Valerie praised?
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Julian stubbornly believed that only a beast-man praised by Valerie was truly valuable.
For that single word of approval, he would have sacrificed his life.
Unfortunately, he was naturally frail and malnourished, barely above the lowest tier in the
arena.
No matter how hard he tried, he failed again and again.
