Doctor Strange's feelings toward Allen were undoubtedly complicated.
Ever since learning why Allen had deliberately messed with him back then, all the dissatisfaction and resentment in his heart had vanished.
After all, whenever he thought back to the Stephen Strange who had stood by and watched people die, sending desperate patients home to await death, even he now felt incomparable disgust and revulsion.
Under the laws of the capitalist United States, however, doing so did not violate a single law.
But as the saying went, someone who prided himself on obeying the law was not necessarily a good person. He could very well be a complete and utter scumbag.
After all, the law only set the lowest moral baseline for members of society.
Obeying the law had never been anything to be proud of. It was the duty every citizen ought to fulfill.
Otherwise, order would collapse, and terrifying violent crimes would fill every street and alley.
Clearly, the old Doctor Stephen Strange had been exactly that sort of "law-abiding" scumbag.
Therefore, Doctor Strange had long since let go of the fact that Allen disliked him and had harshly taught him a lesson, allowing him to experience for the first time what those patients he had "sentenced to death" and sent home to wait for death had felt.
But when he learned that Mordo's magic for controlling the souls of the dead had also come from Allen, an indescribable resistance arose in his subconscious.
Even though Ancient One had repeatedly stressed that Sky City was an important ally of Kamar-Taj.
Just as Stephen Strange raised his head, intending to ask Ancient One for more information about Allen, he suddenly discovered that the soul that had been standing beside him moments ago had disappeared.
At the same time, the surge of