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

But Cynthia's concerns were never about his strength

She had a daughter?

shocked, then he turned

craved Cynthia's attention, subconsciously seeing her as

of him.

always ask,

His joy cfrom trampling

want to hear it. She'd probably describe him

one with the wicked streak,

organization, yet refused to

out, Cynthia encountered

these assailants were, maybe other members

in a cave while Cynthia was severely wounded. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website on

away and

was bleeding too

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

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

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

by in

her; instead, he

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

nasty, grabbing him as if they wanted to

he betrayed

him, then she

"She's over there."

towards Cynthia's location, while he was thrown down a hillside, and

betrayed BK and took the jellyfish seal. The organization was

hunt her

wanted woman

her was

it

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

"wicked streak” still

his own origins and that

what are

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