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."

in BK? The encounters with Cynthia were

his strength but whether he had improved

She had a daughter?

shocked, then he

seeing her as a guardian, and

of him.

always ask, "Phelps,

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hear it. She'd probably describe

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the organization, yet refused to mentor him or

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who these assailants were, maybe other members of the

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lure them away and cback for

bleeding too

an excuse. She detested him so much that she

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

voice inside told him Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She never cared

in

didn't help her; instead, he walked

of men with guns, who demanded to know if he'd seen an

as if they wanted to kill

hesitation, he

him, then she deserved

"She's over there."

Cynthia's location, while he was thrown

Cynthia betrayed BK and

hunt

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saw her was to kill her

abandoned him; it was

that no matter how many people

words "wicked streak”

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

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