> When Mumphrey laid out the terms it was that the Heckfire club doesn't cause their extremely nasty brand of trouble and the LL won't come down on them with force and public attention. Since a known associate of the Legion is coming down on them with public attention, then the natural reaction would be...
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It's not public attention...yet.  Chiaki doesn't actually expect any indictments out of the search, she just wants the Heck-Fire Club to feel like it could happen, and they're being watched.  It's an elaborate extortion scheme - and having worked for Akiko, Chiaki has it nearly down to an art.
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| > > That may be a moot point since any judge can sign a search warrant. If it's not one it's another. There's a very long trail of people that would have to be killed to close the investigation at this point, which is what Chiaki was counting on.
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> Who said anything about killing him? Worse would be waking up to find he had seduced a bus full of 5th graders.
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That's one of the reasons Chiaki is going to all this trouble.  If they did something like that, now they know she's watching them.
> And really, people in such positions of power as the Heckfire club don't wield it to end current investigations so much as to let people know what happens when one *opens* one against them. It's an object lesson, of sorts.
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Chiaki has her object lesson to teach too.  Except unlike Mumph's in-your-face style, she plays with subtlety instead like Akiko Masamune would.  They know they tampered with Asil, they can theorize perhaps that managed to irritate the Psychic Samurai, so the message is clear without either side saying much about it.
Of course Chiaki is also a charismatic negotiator - she's not one to light a fire just to watch it burn.  So it'll be interesting what she does next.
