According to the accessory merchant, there are several bad merchants who don’t sign in with the Merchant’s Guild. They break the rules and regulation, and sell in other’s territories.
And backing them are the moderate faction of the anti-shield coalition.
They didn’t act up during the brainwashing incident, but even now they’re building up wealth and power to get rid of me.
I remember seeing a few nobles like that glaring at me.
And people with so much influence are the ones more likely to be keeping bandits under their belts.
Though I don’t know the truth of the matter