It does make more sense for them to just break in and use a space than bother with money and paperwork. They certainly wouldn't want a trail left to any of their active agents -- I mean, they tried that with the Dark Agency in Sailor V, which managed to masquerade as a real business for, what, nearly two years? And look how well that worked out. Lost effort, lost time, lost resources, all that time wasted actually running a business. Why bother putting in that much effort when a Potemkin village of a shop will do just as well for a life-energy smash-n-grab and leave fewer traces behind?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.