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."

with Cynthia were few, and each tthey met, his only wish was to

But Cynthia's concerns were never about his strength but whether he had

She had a daughter?

shocked, then he

her as a guardian, and always hoping she'd have high

of him.

would always ask, "Phelps, are you

was happy. His joy

she wouldn't want to hear it. She'd

him, the one with

organization,

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maybe other

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

he left the cave and found her trying to make her way back,

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

in her

didn't help her; instead, he

guns, who demanded to know if

men were nasty, grabbing him as if they wanted to

hesitation, he betrayed

had discarded him, then she deserved

"She's over there."

while he was thrown down a hillside,

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

to hunt

wanted woman

her was

it was what

as he grew older, he realized that no matter how many

"wicked streak” still haunted

Cynthia disappeared, he learned of his own origins and that

are you

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