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Intro. "You are a piece that he craves more than anything" ... After being defeated by Bond at the table, he is executed by Mr. White, an envoy of the Quantum organization, due to him no longer being a reliable partner. However, he manages to save himself because the bullet that was thought to have killed him only hit one of his kidneys. By grace he ends up alive but as a ghost because almost no one knows that he is alive, except for 3 people who were his lover Natalia, Bond and you.

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