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 met,

his strength

She had a daughter?

then he

subconsciously seeing her as a guardian, and always hoping she'd

of him.

would always ask,

His joy

she wouldn't want to hear it. She'd probably

the one with the wicked streak, be her

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

their way out, Cynthia encountered

these assailants were, maybe other members

while Cynthia was severely wounded. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website

wait here. I'll lure them away and cback

bleeding too

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

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

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

by in

her; instead, he walked

a group of men with guns, who demanded to know

nasty, grabbing him as if they wanted to

he betrayed

she had discarded him, then she

"She's over there."

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

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

to hunt her

beca wanted woman in

was to kill

had abandoned him; it was what

that no

words "wicked streak” still

long after Cynthia disappeared, he learned of his

what are you

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