Put on an act
Editor: Caron_
After that, they found out that those people weren't roving bandits but members of a mercenary army.
It was said that at the time, this mercenary army accepted a mission from a certain gang from H city to retrieve something important.
Alas, when they got the item and handed it over to the gang, this particular gang actually publicly claimed they didn't receive anything.
As there were many organizations and mercenary armies looking for that item, the gang actually ratted those mercenaries out in order to protect themselves from getting into trouble after receiving the item.
Everyone thought the item was taken by that group of merceneries and was hunting them all down.
These mercenaries were so miserable thanks to those gangsters so obviously, they weren't willing to take things lying down. They ran straight to H city and confronted that gang.