Leonard and Claude had first met Mark when he was 10 years old.

Mark had been fighting his way through the slums at the border ever since he was young. He had been filled with hostility. He had fought as if he had nothing to lose.

Whenever the people at the mines had mentioned him, they had often said he was just an orphan brat.

The other children had constantly ganged up on Mark just because there had been no one to protect him. Once, he had smashed another child's head with a rock.

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