Chapter 849 - Strax and Agnes

Strax walked through the mansion's wide corridors with firm, silent steps, his posture erect but without rigidity, like someone who didn't need to impose his presence—it simply existed around him naturally, inevitably. The atmosphere, though bustling at other times, was relatively quiet at that moment of day, with only a few servants crossing the corridors in the distance and instinctively averting their gaze as he passed, not out of direct fear, but out of respect… or perhaps something more difficult to define. His mind wasn't as scattered as before; now there was a clear, simple objective, almost strange compared to his previous decisions. He wasn't going to a meeting, nor to analyze reports, nor to resolve conflicts. He was going to find Agnes.