" I'm going to talk with the Summoners!" A very angry Irelia sweared. Her eyes were feverish with the alcohol she took."That man! He's a murderer!"

Riven sighed as she wondered for how long Irelia's rumbling will go on. After Jhin's threat about her daughter Irelia were practically boiling with rage. For a day she sweared around...

Even now, when they are sitting in the Summoner's, the most popular bar of the League, she was still on and talking how Jhin should be punished and whatnot...

"They probably knew it already." Vi said matter-of-factly. Pinkette and the rest of the Piltover folk returned shortly after the virtuoso did, empty handed and routed... As Riven understood from the stories , he put the Vi and Jayce out with a some kind of neurochemical gas, obliberated Caitlyn's position by using explosives and took Ekko down in a two-to one fight.

Damn resourceful, that Jhin was.

"Everyone knows it. His murders on the first page everytime, continent wide." Jayce added. The inventor wasn't on his prime shape that night. Hair messy, eyes unfocused, as he was drinking from a mug, he was also absentmindly playing with a metallic piece in his hands. He still couldn't fully get over the loss he took.

"As the rumors goes on, judging from the position corpse in, it was a scene from the book, Smile of the Sparrow. Or a brutal and sick adaptation." Ekko joined the conversation. Zaunite boy was healing after the fight in Zaun. There was no external injury, not a cut or a bruise, but something was wrong with his body. As the healers said, Vladimir did a hjink on him while drawing his blood."Yet none can do anything. Because he is a League champion."

"Book was the Killing the Sparrow and no, because none can catch him." Jayce replied."Not we, not you, not the whole Ionian council..."

"They don't want to catch Jhin anyways. Ionian council turning blind eye to his actions." said Vi."They're content with condemning him for his unmentionable actions."

Jayce shook his head."Not anymore. Or on the contrary. Karma made it."

"Did she passed the proposition on the council?" Riven asked in Ionian women presented a proposition about re-awoking the Jhin's criminal status, which is lifted after he joined the League, despite knowing if the council approves, it'll worsen the relations with Noxia.

"A week ago." Jayce answered."Still you can't kill him but open usage of firearms, swords and magic against Jhin is free if he's on the Ionian soil. But all of that is meaningless as long as nobody can laid eyes on him. "

"Coward bitch! This is not meant to end him!" Irelia was not on the Ionian council, but can influence the decisions it made indirectly through her connections."I made the council listen her and in return what she did? She was only trying to scare him off!"

"And what more she could do? Incite Jhin more than you should and he turns to you." Sona asked through her telepatic link."He's an assasin. Maybe he can't kill Karma as long as she stays as one of the League heroes but other council members don't have that kind of protection."

"Sona's right." Riven approved her friend."He has the power of the Noxia behind himself. Spark his ire and see what he can do."

Jayce was on the same page with them too. "Also if they to go further, that shows the whole world the Ionia fear from the Khada Jhin and his actions."

"Are they not?" Irelia hissed through her teeth."We fear from Demancia, Noxus, Chemlords of the more on the list won't do any difference. Ionia, once proud country now fears from a madman."

"Oh, calm down Irelia." Sona rolled her blue eyes. In a sense she's not fearing Jhin as the others do.

"He threathened me in case you didn't notice!" Irelia shouted. Some of the heads turned to table.

"He mocked you, because you mocked him." Sona replied to the angry woman. "He's not going to do anything with your daughter."

"She is right, love." Caitlyn, the aloof sniper of Piltover, finally decided to talk. Her mascared eyes were blue and deep, with her regal way of talking she could be a noble lady. "Jhin has many flaws but being stupid enough to tell you his next target is not one of them."

Irelia was not having any of that."He's a madman!"

Caitlyn smiled to her warmly."But that's what making him vaguely predictable, love. Not on the who he'll choose next but who he won't." Sherrif's lips curled up deliciously as her smile widen." Jhin only kills someone when he sees an artistic value in that. A young woman or men most of times but no children."

"Like you can know him for real!" Irelia replied.

"We're trying to catch him for nearly a year." said Caitlyn, looking to her comrades." I've been familiar with that man more than any."

Although they found no success in that. It was different than the other murder cases,tThey already knew who the killer was. Problem was cathing him on the work. Caitlyn guessing that this must be occurred Jhin mind too, since his highest priority was always keeping himself hidden until the moment he hit. With no solid way to tell who will Jhin choose, only option Caitlyn had, was to stop him before he can do anything. But that also was nearly impossible. The virtuoso was alwas working very tidy. In early days, when the chase newly started and there was people who were willing to sell Jhin, he cut every loose end always and make sure every murder was more gory than the last until none could dare to cross him.

"Not more than Sona over here, love." Irelia snorted.

Maven knew it, sooner or later Irelia will bring this up. As much as Sona like Irelia, she hated her overprotective tendencies. She turned her head to Riven for support.

"Well, he seems take liking to you..." said The Exile.

Suprisingly Caitlyn was the one who saved the Sona from a heated debate about whether Jhin liked Sona or he was just a friend.

"She's an another quirk in his warped personality, I believe." Sheriff commented."Psychopats cannot process the emotion of love, as we do or like someone other than themselves. But in this case, Jhin seems fixated to Sona. He brings you flowers, right?"

As her cheecks begin reddening, Sona answered her question."Sometimes..."

"Can he be thinking about killing her?" Ekko asked."You know, maybe he's fattening the goose..."

"No. Jhin never showed any affection to those he choose." Caitlyn firmly rejected the boy's notion."He's not seeing them as human. For his eyes, victims are mere tools."

"Then maybe he really taken a liking to her?" said Vi.

"As that seems probable, I don't think Jhin has the function of liking things other than his own creatings." Caitlyn replied."He is narcisstic, that I'm sure."

"So you have no idea at about the very things going on before your eyes." Irelia said rudely. "And here you are, guessing about who he'll choose next."

"Love, if I understand Jhin as I do you, I won't be sitting here, scrapping the bits of his puzzled personality..."

With that, Heirmendenger, sitting on the table next to them for the whole night, get onto his feet and left without listening anymore. Talk between the group was still going on but there is nothing to listen, he heard what he had to.

The yordles next stop was the Jhin's room in the League living area, the virtuoso used was small and tidy. A simple bed was lying near to the one wall, a table and two chairs next to another.

"Is that you, Mister Heimendenger?" Jhin asked when he heard his door opening. He was sitting on his bed, newspapers from all continent spreaded to the sheets.

"I am, Mister Jhin!" The little creature squaled.

On his short legs, the Revered Inventor entered the room. He was small, his yellow hair covering most of his body while big scientist googles rested on his eyes.

"How are you?" Heimendenger asked.

"Fine, thank you." Jhin wasn't wearing his mask right now, but covering his face with a black cowl. Only one of his eyes was open, as it was when he uses his mask."How was your eavesdropping session?"

Looking to Vladimir, whose literally sitting on the table, he didn't answered.

After a moment of silence Jhin saw where he was looking."Vladimir is with me. No worries."

"How you doin' Professor?" Vladimir asked, cruelly smirking to him.

Since Heimender was older and considerably smarter than the rest of the yordles in the League, he know who is the deeds bring pain to many, alongside the happy folk of the Bandle town."F-fine Mister Vladimir."

Vladimir could sense the fear bubbling inside the yordle. Blood pools in his eyes sockets boiled with excitement. Fear was always a potent stimulator for the was killed Heimendenger's kind before too...

"Were there anything worth mentioning?" Jhin asked, suddenly pulling Heimendenger out from his fear-induced trance.

Yellow yordle shrugged."Ionian woman is still angry with you while Riven thinks getting on your bad side is foolish. As I understand from the flow of the talk, also Sona has the same idea."

Of course, Heimendenger's being in the Summoner's was no coincidence. Before Jhin left for his night with Brand and the others, he tasked the yordle with listening Caitlyn and rest of her team in exchange for some exotic pieces from Zaun.

"Anything from the Piltover?" Jhin asked.

He wasn't concerned about what Vi or Jayce or the others think. Only Caitlyn was important. The Sherrif was the only one who could get a bit close to catching the virtuoso even though she still can't pin down any crime on him.

"Vi thinks the Ionian council doesn't care what you do as long as you don't touch them personally. Jayce says they can't act because they can't catch you."

"Partially true. And the Sherrif ?"

"Well, she's a bit curios case. Unlike the others she's religiously avoiding making assumptions about you. So nothing is clouding her judgement."

Jhin replied with a tone showing his admirance."As expected from her."

"That being said, she also has a profile of you."

The virtuoso diverted his eyes to the yordle."A profile?"

"Noted down all of your works, characterstics, way of doing thing's. She is not clearly understanding what will you do next but able to narrow her guesses."

"Is she now..." Jhin murmured.

"She has a list now." Vladimir laughed."Don't forget the idea she gave to Karma."

Jhin slowly shook his head. Of course she was smart, but he never guessed Caitlyn took it this far to catch eye clouded with forming thoughts."Anything other than this, professor?"

"Karma managed to pass her proposition." he replied quickly."You'll be shot if you seen on the Ionia."

Old news. Jhin's connections in have Ionia already informed him about goings in the parlament and the council. He knew the decision even before it made.

Still, he smiled and reached forward."Very well professor."Grabbing a mechanical part under the papers spread around, Jhin tossed it to the Heimendenger."Hope you find it pleasing."

"Is it really a piece of Ekko's time device?" The yordle asked with excitement.

"The stopper, to be exact. He's anchroing his after image with this."

The little creature was nearly shaking as he inspected the piece in his hand."M-marvelous."

As he turned around to leave, suddenly Vladimir reached to the yordle and his body freezed in it's place.

Leaving the papers to lay Jhin get on his feet. His eye wasn't smiling anymore, no, it was burning with something otherwordly. "The Ionian Sun called my last work as brutal and grotesque, professor. Zaun Post saying it was a portrayal of a sick mind. Daily Demancia, is calling people to duty of stopping me."

Vladimir lightened his graps on Heimenger body. As he was squaled loudly Jhin grabbed his shoulders. The virtuoso was stronger than he seems and power behind his hands made the yordle squeal even louder. "Look into my eye, professor." Forcefully, he fixed Heimendenger's head in one place.

"What do you want!?" The yordle whined in fear."I did as you told!"

Smart, effective and easily frightened... Heimendenger could be the best agent Jhin worked with so far.

"This is a mere warning. If I hear this night between you and me from another soul, newspapers will talk about you too." Jhin shook the yordle's little body."Do you understand me, professor?"

Heimender just stood there as he frozen in getting out an answer, Jhin had to shake him for a few times.

"C-c-crystal clear, mister Jhin." said Heimendenger when he finally found his bearings again.

Jhin lingered a bit his only eye to Heimendenger's laboratory googles, he looked him as he could see the yordles let his shoulders go."Good." The virtuoso said as the lights in the green of his eye died down."You may go now, professor. I wish you a pleasant night."

Vladimir pulled his magic back, leaving Heimendenger's body to him.

"M-me too mister Jhin." The yordle stuttered as he turned and hurriedly went to the door.

Duo has ceased their talking until Heimendemger left the flat completely.

"Was that necessary?" The hemomancer asked when the door opened and closed.

Jhin shrugged."Professor is a yordle. Carefree by the nature."

"Letting him walk I mean." Vladimir replied."Who knows when the little shit will run his to whom?He hails from Piltover, you know."

"Killing is prohibited by the League." Jhin sat on his bed again."And since I can't cut his tongue, this is the best I could do."

"I can place a sickness in his blood." Vladimir proposed."It'll kill him after three months."

Jhin arched an eyebrow in suprise, not that Vladimir can see."You can do something like that?"

Vladimir smirked to his reaction."Easier than drawing blood from a time traveller." he replied, referring their latest endeavour in the Zaun."Left no tracks in his blood too."

Jhin chuckled to his... friend. Vladimir was great, only if he doesn't had a tendency to kill the living around him."We could do, if I don't think he has a use for later."

The hemomancer frowned.

"What's more to it..." Jhin sighed as he grabbed a page of newspaper."What will we do about the Sherrif ?"

"Do you think taking actions necessary?"

Vladimir's arrogancy was keeping him from seeing Caitlyn as a threat. Or even if he does see it, he was probably thinking that he could easily get rid of her.

"Immediately." Jhin replied firmly." Now she can know who I won't kill. Tomorrow, she'll know who I will."

"She's troublesome but..." Vladimir's eye narrowed."I don't think the woman is that much of a threat."

"Not now, but sooner or later she'll be." Jhin protested."We need to do something... "

Vladimir's eyebrow sentence nearly always carried a plan with it. "And you propose...?"

"Before our next assignment, which is if we take the Noxian's bloodlust into consideration will be probably after two weeks, at least we should begin executing a plan to confuse her." Jhin answered." And since this requires my utmost attention, you need to tend the other things."

"Such as?"

"The latest business with LeBlanc. She and I were on a new deal for chem supplies before the Zaun work come up..."

"Fuck me!" Vladimir vocalized his concerns on the matter unceremoniously. "I can't do administrative shit!"

Jhin was waiting for this a man of action, Vladimir had a little love for sitting behind a table and talk on the numbers. Add that to his dismay against The Deciever and...voila!

Yet he didn't lost his composure."Details already completed and package routes decided. Money paid, words taken. Everything is ready."

Vladimir was confused."So what will I negotiate?"

Jhin scratched his face over fabric. That was the tricky part. On the papers everything were right, there was nothing to talk anymore. Roads were carefully choosen, officals bought personally by Jhin and distribution points was ready. So Jhin too had no idea on what will they be negotiating. Only a meeting request from LeBlanc.

An obvious trap. A trap that Jhin wouldn't walk into but send a pawn that can overcome LeBlanc's magic. The only question was who set him up and he's going to learn after Vladimir's inevitable brawl.

Meanwhile, he also had to find a way to take Caitlyn out of the picture.