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."

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

never about his strength but whether he had

She had a daughter?

shocked, then he turned

seeing her as a guardian, and

of him.

always ask, "Phelps,

he was happy. His joy cfrom trampling over

to hear it. She'd probably describe him with those

let him, the one with the wicked streak, be

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

way out, Cynthia

didn't know who these assailants were, maybe other members of the organization or

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lure them away and cback for you. Don't leave

bleeding too

just an excuse. She detested him so

left the cave and found her trying to make her

inside told him Cynthia wasn't coming back

in her

help her;

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

grabbing him as if they

hesitation, he betrayed

him,

"She's over there."

was thrown down a hillside, and

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

hunt

beca wanted woman

her was to kill her without

abandoned him; it was

realized that no matter

"wicked streak”

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

what are

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