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."

The encounters with Cynthia were few, and each tthey met, his only wish was to

But Cynthia's concerns were never about his strength but

She had a daughter?

shocked, then

craved Cynthia's attention, subconsciously seeing her as a guardian, and always hoping she'd have

of him.

ask, "Phelps,

happy. His joy

it. She'd probably describe him with those words

him, the one with the wicked streak,

him into the organization, yet

out, Cynthia

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

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here. I'll lure them away and cback for

bleeding too

was just an excuse. She detested him so

the cave and found her trying to make her

told him Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She never cared for him, and

by in

her; instead,

group of men with guns, who demanded to know

men were nasty, grabbing him as if they wanted to kill

he betrayed

discarded him, then she

"She's over there."

while he was thrown down a hillside, and broke

that Cynthia betrayed BK

to hunt

beca wanted woman

her was to kill her

abandoned him; it was

he grew older, he realized that no matter how many people he killed,

"wicked streak” still

learned of his own

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