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."

he been in BK? The encounters with Cynthia were few, and each tthey met,

But Cynthia's concerns were never about his strength

She had a daughter?

then he turned

subconsciously seeing her as a guardian, and always hoping

of him.

Cynthia would always ask, "Phelps,

happy. His joy

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

him, the one with the wicked

the organization, yet

their way out, Cynthia encountered

were, maybe other members

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bleeding too

it was just an excuse. She detested him so much that she wouldn't

the cave and found her trying to make her way back, collapsing not far from

back for

by in

her; instead, he

men with guns, who demanded to know

were nasty, grabbing him as

hesitation, he betrayed

she had discarded him, then she deserved

"She's over there."

Cynthia's location, while he was thrown

Elders that Cynthia betrayed BK and took the

to hunt

beca wanted

her was

abandoned him; it was

older, he realized that no matter how many people he

words "wicked streak” still haunted

disappeared, he learned of his own origins

are

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