beat the champ

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2025-08-31
Series Updated:
2025-09-16
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He opens his eyes and looks at Mr. Wright, who’s looking a little teary-eyed himself. He stares at him a moment, tilting his head, trying to fit the true shape of Mr. Wright into the infallible, haloed form of his dead foster father. He finds that it, like most things, was only ever a mirage—an illusory idealized shadow of an imperfect man.

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Even though Phoenix can’t explain it, he feels a certain sympathy for Apollo Justice. A sense of regret. What must it be like, to work day-in and day-out for a man like Kristoph Gavin, manipulative and petty and not the perfectly virtuous man he pretends to be? Kristoph Gavin’s ivory tower will fall one of these days, soon if Phoenix has any say in it at all, and Apollo’s going to have to watch it crumble. There won’t be any protecting that kid from the fallout, no matter what Phoenix does.

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title(s) from the mountain goats album "beat the champ"

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