[can't believe eiden isn't mentioning the banging part,]

It doesn't sound like you're the burden you're making yourself out to be then, if you're doing something for them.

[a deal is a deal, isn't it? a contract made, even between people who are just acquaintances at best, which he doesn't think is what eiden and his clan members are,]

Especially if they've never told you that you are one.