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."

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

proud. But Cynthia's concerns were never about his strength

She had a daughter?

felt shocked, then he

as a guardian, and always

of him.

Cynthia would always ask, "Phelps, are you

happy. His

he admitted that, she wouldn't want to hear it. She'd probably describe him

with the wicked

the organization, yet refused to mentor him or see

their way out, Cynthia encountered

who these assailants were, maybe other

thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt

I'll lure them away and

was bleeding

detested him so much that she wouldn't return

the cave and found her trying to make

voice inside told him Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She never cared for him, and perhaps she

in her

her; instead, he walked

a group of men with guns, who demanded

him as if they wanted to

hesitation, he betrayed Cynthia's

discarded him, then she

"She's over there."

rushed towards Cynthia's location, while he was

that Cynthia betrayed

to hunt her

beca wanted woman

was to kill her without

him; it was what she

realized that no matter how many people he

streak” still haunted

long after Cynthia disappeared, he learned of his own origins and

what are

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