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 few, and each tthey met, his only

were never about his strength but

She had a daughter?

then he

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

of him.

always ask, "Phelps, are

course, he was happy. His joy cfrom trampling over

wouldn't want to hear it. She'd probably describe him with those words again:

him, the one with the wicked

the organization, yet

their way out,

who these assailants were, maybe other members of the organization or a rival

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bleeding

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

found her trying to make her way back, collapsing

him Cynthia wasn't coming back for him. She

in her

didn't help her; instead, he

men with guns, who demanded to know

as if they wanted

hesitation, he

him, then

"She's over there."

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

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

to hunt her

wanted woman in

who saw her was to kill her

it was what she

no matter how many people he

words "wicked streak” still haunted

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

are

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