Chapter 6

Even though Pyre had his head in the cloud. That didn't stop him telling his boss - Saito Takeda.

(A name like Saito Takeda may sound kind of weird in a western fantasy universe, but still, Ionia is this kind of strange place. Speaking of which, does names like Zed or Shen sound very normal in this kind of circumstance?)

Pyre sat in his chair, staring at the shadow casted on the table. Like there are something strange where the light and shadow touch.

After a long moment of silence, Saito spoke.

"Pyre, give me a copy of the information of the Omega tavern and its owner."

Pyre nodded and handed over a pile of assorted documents.

Saito flipped through the documents; his brows furrowed when he got to one place.

"Do we know where this guy came from? He couldn't have dropped out of the sky, could he?"

"Uh, sorry boss! The first time his info ever appeared in any of our intelligence network is when he bought the tavern from its former owner."

"Hmm… Well." Saito shook his head "This is Zaun, all of the people here have their own network and methods, you don't have to be sorry for this."

"There's one piece of most recent news." Pyre said in a low voice "He seems to have saved Jinx the loose cannon from Caitlyn and Vi, and he revealed his identity without any concerns."

"Are you sure it is him in person?"

This is Saito's first reaction, even though Zaun's Chem barons have a close relationship with the supreme committee of Piltover. If you take the damage Jinx did to Piltover into consideration, there's still a pretty high chance this guy will get himself into trouble.

"Yes, it's definitely him. He seems to have mentioned that to me on purpose, he said it was him…"

As he talks, Pyre raised his head in confusion.

"He seems to know about part of our plan, but we must avoid the situation of Piltover intervention. Why in this case would he attract the attention of Caitlyn and Vi on purpose? Those two women aren't easy to deal with!"

"Interesting." Saito's eyebrows raised, "If he mentioned his name, there is a significantly smaller chance of Caitlyn and Vi stepping into this mess. For the cautious personality of Caitlyn, she won't cross a powerful mage that easily, especially when this mage is in Zaun. This means that in a short time, we won't have to worry about intervention of Piltover at all."

"And now, the intervention of Piltover goes from 'an event of limited chance' to 'an event that will not happen in a short time but will definitely happen after a period of time'."

Pyre's jaw dropped to the ground in disbelief "And we hire him for real? All the things in Omega tavern are severely over-priced. If we hire him, god knows what price tag he will put on his service…"

"Money is no problem!" Saito interrupted Pyre impatiently, "I don't have much, but I do have plenty of gold. But I need to test him. Battling Evelyn is not enough!"

"A test?" Teemo smirked to Pyre's response, "I'm not saying that your men are worthless. I just felt like nobody is qualified to test me. In other words, how do you make sure I don't accidentally…kill those weaklings?"

"If you want to test me," Teemo's smirk went even bigger, "If you don't find that 'boy who shattered time' who is hiding Bandle city knows where. It's simply impossible."

"Oh, what a coincidence. We found him."

Watching Teemo's smile froze on his furry face, Pyre simply cannot hide his excitement. No one will be happy if you got over-charged so many times in one tavern.

Watching a smugly smiling Pyre walk out of the tavern without ordering any drink at all, Teemo's pointy ears twitched, the stiff expression replaced instantly with a meaningful smile.

"Finally, finding Ekko will be a lot easier in this mess with the help of you guys. As such, the first objective is complete, it's time to plan the next step."

"And of course, about this test, I need to be careful. Hopefully this boy will give me some surprise just like him in Project. Hopefully he won't be as boring as Piltover cops."