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."

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

never about his

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then he

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

of him.

always ask, "Phelps, are you

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bleeding

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

cave and found her trying

froze, but a voice inside told him Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She never cared

by in her

didn't help her; instead, he walked

guns, who demanded to know

nasty, grabbing him as if they

he betrayed

she had discarded him,

"She's over there."

was thrown down a hillside,

in the organization, he told the Elders that Cynthia betrayed BK and took the jellyfish seal. The

to hunt her

beca wanted woman

who saw her was

him; it was

realized that no matter how

streak” still

of his own origins and that he had

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