Cynthia stared at him for a few minutes before her lips slightly pursed.

"Do you hone yours skills and strength just to bully others?"

"Cynthia, I..."

He simply couldn't accept it. Why should she care about the weak? If they were gone, they were gone.

"Kneel."

That was all Cynthia said, but her face was heavy with gravity.

"Do you know why I've always refused to teach you medicine? It's because you lack any compassion for the vulnerable. You even

find joy in instilling fear in others. Kid, you've got a wicked streak."

The words "wicked streak" seemed to etch themselves deep within him.

In the dead of night, he would wake up to hear Cynthia repeating those words.

Wicked streak, wicked streak.

How dared Cynthia speak of him that way? He was determined to learn medicine and to excel at it.

The thought was rooted in his mind, along with a crazier idea: he would make Cynthia regret her words.

Afterward, Cynthia becbusier, until one day, she returned, battered and bruised, still intent on taking him away.

"Phelps, BK isn't the place for you. It's too dark here, and it twists you more every day. Cwith me."

At that moment, looking into her eyes, he saw her unwavering resolve. She genuinely seemed to want a normal life and had

worked hard for it.

He couldn't understand why anyone would strive for the ordinary when everyone wanted to be extraordinary.

"My daughter is adorable, you'd like her too."

years had he been in BK? The encounters with Cynthia were few, and

never about his strength but whether he had improved

She had a daughter?

shocked, then

seeing her as a guardian, and always hoping she'd

of him.

always ask,

course, he was happy. His joy cfrom

want to hear it. She'd probably describe him with

with the wicked streak,

into the organization, yet refused to mentor him

out, Cynthia

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I'll lure them away and cback for you. Don't leave the

bleeding too

was just an excuse. She detested him so

her trying to make

Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She never cared for him,

by in

didn't help her; instead, he walked

guns, who demanded to know if he'd

grabbing him as if they wanted

he

discarded him, then

"She's over there."

rushed towards Cynthia's location, while he was thrown down a hillside, and broke

told the Elders that Cynthia betrayed BK and took the jellyfish seal. The organization was

to hunt her

beca wanted woman

was to

had abandoned him; it was what

older, he realized that no matter how many people

words "wicked streak” still

disappeared, he learned of his own origins

what are you

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