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Valon eventually becomes infatuated with [[Mai Valentine|Mai]], although she does not appear to return those feelings as strongly as he wished she would. Partly out of jealousy, and partly to help Mai let go of her past, Valon [[duel]]s [[Joey Wheeler]], a young man Mai thought fondly of, after they . In their duel, each gains immense respect for one another, each seeing the other's devotion to protecting Mai and refusal to be intimidated. While Mai is initially angry at Valon for taking thisduel, once he refuses to let her take his place. In the final clash, his drive to win is matched by the joy at facing a great opponent like Joey. However, his focus wavers when Mai (knocked off her feet by the explosion from the attacks colliding) looks at the grappling opponents and calls out Joey's name. Once he loses she , he admits it, drops to one knee in exhaustion, and remains conscious just long enough to entrust Joey with rescuing Mai from her own fears. He then collapses, and the Seal takes his soul. His image appears on a tablet in Dartz's temple to signify his capture, and the image shows him in the same kneeling state. (It is noteworthy that, for all his combativeness and defiance in the past, he is one of only two characters whose soul-carving does not look like he's panicking at his imprisonment. The other is Joey.) Mai goes to him and shows great concern for him, but quickly regains her composure and duels deems him as having been weak. This acts as the final straw for Joey, and and he challenges her to a rematch to dispel the changes to her heart. Valon's soulless body, along with Mai's, is rescued by [[Rafael]], and they are both restored when Dartz is defeated. He wakes up in a seaside house, and he realizes that Mai was there also when he sees she left him one of her Cyber Harpie cards. He is last seen at the end of the [[Dawn of the Duel]] arc, on his motorcycle looking up at the sky.