@bushwhacker2k If you think about it, most of the heroines in actual otome games are bad people, manipulating engaged men into falling in love with them and etc... are not things a good person would do.
@givemersspls If they weren't going to get violent, the most likely action to follow up would be to threaten him, either way, I don't think the villagers were trying to negotiate as much as they were trying to force the prices to rise.
@givemersspls It's the same with the guy being stopped from trading, while we only see one of them being stopped, thanks to the webnovel, it's safe to assume that there were more of such people in there.