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."

Cynthia were few, and each

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

She had a daughter?

felt shocked, then he turned

Cynthia's attention, subconsciously seeing her as a guardian, and

of him.

ask, "Phelps, are

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it. She'd probably describe him with those words

the one with

she who brought him into the organization, yet refused to mentor him or

out,

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excuse. She detested him so

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

back for him. She never cared for him, and perhaps she was

in her

help her;

group of men with guns, who

were nasty, grabbing him as if they wanted

he betrayed Cynthia's

she had discarded him, then she deserved

"She's over there."

rushed towards Cynthia's location, while he was

the organization, he told the Elders that Cynthia betrayed BK and took the

hunt

wanted woman in

was

him; it was what

he realized that no matter how

words "wicked streak” still haunted

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