Adrien was getting help with designing his journal scrapbook to look nice and organized. Marinette came up with suggestions for her boyfriend to make it look unique.

"Yeah, something like that," Adrien said.

"Thanks" Marinette added green.

"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO BE NEAR ADRIEN WHEN HE SHOULD BE BONDING WITH KAGAMI!!!" The akumatized villain had a clock gun to scan Marinette's birth year and it came out 2002 above her head like a floating neon sign, "TIME ERASE THOSE BORN WITH THEIR BIRTH YEAR LIKE YOURS!!!"

"What the?! RUN ADRIEN!!!" Marinette ran with Adrien.

"I'm not leaving you! What do you mean I should bond with Kagami? Don't tell me this is because of the avatars from the alliance rings" Adrien so hated his avatar on the alliance rings.

"It is and that girl who used to be a female avatar told me about her getting fired! Move away from her, Adrien!" The Akuma demanded.

"Lila. Look, whatever Lila told you, she's only manipulating you so you can do the hard work for her!" Adrien said while protecting Marinette.

"That girl you're protecting is manipulating you! From now on, I get to decide who should never be born! I am Birth Remover!" Birth Remover tries to erase those who were born in the year 2002.

"I won't let you!" Adrien held Marinette's hand, "If she dies, I die with her! Kagami and I are friends, not lovers! No one can force anyone whom they should bond with! That's not how true love works like that!"

"That girl has influenced your mind!" Birth Remover couldn't hurt Adrien but then found a teen with a 2002 sign above his head and Birth Remover shot him, making him like a ghost form like his physical body never existed nor born in 2002.

"Run Marinette!" Adrien ran with her.

Birth Remover kept trying to erase Marinette but failed each time.

Adrien ran with her to the alley near the bakery, "Stay here, Marinette! I'll warn Cat Noir about this!" Adrien said before running off to hide to transform, "Lila obviously manipulated that person! She's gone way too far! She'll never change! Plagg, claws out!" He transformed into Cat Noir.

He bears his claws feeling the anger towards Lila's doing, "Hey Birth Remover! It's time to put you in the crib!" He shouted.

"No, I think the kitten needs to be drowned in a litter box!" Birth Remover scans him and his birth year was 2001, "Ah, a year older than that pigtailed brat!"

"Doesn't matter! You're going down for going for that innocent girl!" Cat Noir dodged his blast.

"Aww...how romantic. She should bond with you, not Adrien!" Birth Remover tried to shoot him but he defected it with his staff.

"She's happy with him!" Cat Noir said.

Ladybug soon joined the scene, "Marinette told me everything! And you have your birth year on your head, kitty!"

"Yeah, we need to be careful to not become ghosts!" Cat Noir looks up.

"As well as affecting our future selves too like we never became adults!" Ladybug said.

"Let's stop him together Bugaboo" Cat Noir extends his staff.

"You brats are getting on my nerves about everything!" Birth Remover tries to terminate their existence from ever happening from the year they were born.

"WATCH OUT!" Ladybug tackled Cat Noir before they got hit.

"You do know if you hit us, our miraculous will be a ghost too you know! Like creation and destruction never happened and the universe was never made by its birth!" Cat Noir rolled with Ladybug to dodge the hit.

"Yeah! You hear us, Monarch! Destroying us includes destroying our miraculous!" Ladybug shouted.

"Come on! Do your worst! Or are you a coward?!" Cat Noir dared the akuma to erase his existence and the black cat miraculous, "I still have my birth year above my head! Go ahead! Erase me!"

"No, I need them!" Monarch spoke through.

"Get your pathetic psycho ugly face out of my face, Monarch!" Birth Remover exclaimed.

"Go ahead! Try us!" Ladybug dared.

"Do It! Do it now! You wanna erase us, right?! Just like you tried to erase Marinette! Erasing her would only erase Adrien's happiness and mental state! DO IT!!" Cat Noir so wanted to punch that Akuma.

But Monarch was forced to call back the Akuma. The heroes saw it worked because Monarch never thought that the Akuma power could erase everything like it never happened or was born in existence.

"Ha-ha! It worked! First time without a lucky charm but with our badass style!" Cat Noir said.

"Pound it!" Ladybug fistbumped.

"But we still gotta fix the damage to bring everyone back or they'll be stuck without their existence" Cat Noir suggested.

"Yes, Lucky charm! Huh, a kitty plush? Cute" Ladybug smiled, "MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" She revived every ghost.

"That reminds me. I gotta find my girlfriend too. See ya, bugaboo!" Cat Noir pole vaulted away to find a place to detransform, not enough time to feed Plagg because he was worried about his princess.

Ladybug got back to the hiding spot before him to pretend she was there the whole time.

Adrien was very frantic but sighed in relief that she was okay, "Marinette!" He rushed to hug her, "You're okay!"

"Yeah, thank goodness you're fine," Marinette said.

"I was so scared again," Adrien said.

"I was scared you'd be lost," Marinette said.

"This got to be Lila's doing," Adrien said in anger.

"She's getting worse every day. No one is gonna believe us, Adrien" Marinette said.

"You were right. Not all people deserve a second chance. I gave multiple chances for Chloe to be a better person but she didn't. My patience with her has ended and as well as for Lila. I need a talk with that civilian. You should head home now" Adrien said.

"Okay Adrien, take care" Marinette kissed his cheek.

He later found the civilian and he wanted answers now, "Hello. I want answers. What did Lila tell you about me and my real girlfriend? Be honest!" Adrien demanded since he's gonna do bad cop style since he's had enough with his naive self always doing the good cop style.

"That she made her get fired!" The guy said.

"Was there proof or evidence she showed you or did you just take her word without checking your facts?" Adrien glared coldly, making the civilian back away.

"No, but she sounded serious! I didn't mean to endanger pigtailed girl!" The civilian cowardly spoke.

"My girlfriend did not fire Lila! My father did! He can fire anyone who isn't good enough! I quit modeling before he created the alliance rings! And for the record, you did almost endanger my pigtailed girl! That Italian woman manipulated you, just like she has manipulated my friends!" Adrien was this close to punching him but took a deep breath to calm down, "Ask yourself, do I really enjoy being an avatar in the alliance rings?"

"N-No of course not," The guy said.

"Do Kagami and I look happy together in real life?" Adrien asked again.

"No, you don't," The guy said.

"Exactly! Now get the hell out of my sight while I deal with that liar!" Adrien shoves him off.

-

The next day at school, Lila was at her locker applying blush on her face, and before closing the locker, she was startled by Adrien near her with a pissed-off attitude.

"Agh! Adrien! You look as if someone gave you a bad day" Lila said, pretending to be innocent.

"Oh, it's more than just a bad day for me" Adrien dragged her into the bathroom to talk with her without anyone witnessing.

"Did you tell that guy that Marinette got you fired?!" He asked her furiously.

"What's gotten into you? I never did anything wrong!" Lila lied.

"Don't lie to me! I know you, Lila! And I know how much you hate Marinette just as much as you hate Ladybug! You're afraid of them because they know you are a pathological liar! Tell me the truth now!" Adrien was getting very impatient with her.

He squeezed her arms hard to get her to confess, "Agh! You're hurting me! This isn't you at all!" Lila groaned.

"Tell me now!" Adrien demanded.

"Your....father.....made an agreement.....with me....to be a co-model....with you but for an exchange to....agh....spy on you and.....separate Marinette and your friends....away from you!" Lila being forced to say the honest truth wasn't her taste, "Agh! I swear!"

"My father assigned you to spy on me?! I can't believe he would go way too far to ruin my life just like you tried to ruin Marinette's life! The girl I love!" Adrien was about to bitch slap her but then a ringtone came from Lila's alliance ring as the avatar of Adrien speaks.

"Incoming call from Gabriel Agreste," The Adrien avatar said.

"Answer it, now! Act as if I'm not here since you're very good at lying and acting" Adrien glared.

Lila reluctantly answered, "Yes Gabriel?"

"I expected you to keep my son away from this Dupain Cheng! He got close to her who has been nothing but a terrible bad influence on him! You failed me again! Marinette barely feels any jealousy to see my son with Kagami as the face of the Gabriel brand! It was a mistake to trust you! I expected more from you to use your deception on everyone to believe Marinette is a bad person!" Gabriel criticizes Lila for failing him once again.

Adrien heard everything but remained quiet as he gestured for Lila to say something back to him.

"I did try my best but they told them otherwise!" Lila said.

"That's no excuse! That is why you're no longer the face of the Gabriel brand any more! Every attempt you tried, my son still sees you as nothing but a liar! I expected you to fill his head to believe everyone is a bad influence on him but you failed! He's far too much like his mother! Stubborn and strong-headed!" Gabriel yelled.

Adrien can now understand why his father never approves of him nor let him make his own decisions in life. His father is only using him as his own vision of happiness instead of letting Adrien build his own happiness.

"Such a selfish man," Adrien thought.

"I tried everything! It's you that is pressuring him too much!" Lila complained.

"Then you are no use for me anymore!" Gabriel hung up.

"Hmph, I always knew he would be cruel. No wonder my cousin hates him so much. Heed my warning, liar. Stay away from me, Marinette, and my friends. I tried to give you multiple chances to become a better person but instead, you got worse. Just like Chloe did too. Living a fake life by lying isn't gonna help you have a real life because the real life you once had, you abandoned it" Adrien glared.

"Like that matters, Adrien," Lila said.

"I don't pretend by lying to get what I want, Lila! And yes, it does matter! Being a pathological liar makes you a selfish monster. Every toxic influence you create for your own selfish dream, you're still living a fake life than your real one. Sooner or later, the life you're living in, there's a heavy price for your sins and that is your soul to one day get claimed in hell because that's where you'll be when you kick the bucket. You don't care who you hurt to get what you want. No one wants to be around liars like you!" Adrien takes his leave. He was relieved he got it out of his chest. Surely, he knows Lila will never ever change because she doesn't want it to change the life she's living.

-

With Marinette, she was waiting for Adrien. For the sweet boy he is, he can be very overprotective of her, especially how pissed he was when he found out from Kim that Chloe was the cause of Marinette's trauma by bullying and tormenting her. And now he's more pissed off with Lila for trying to hurt Marinette once again.

"He really is my hero" She sighs in love.

Adrien arrived at the library and took his seat next to Marinette, "Sorry I'm late. Let's just say I showed Lila how pissed I was when I warned her to never hurt you again"

"Thank you, Adrien," Marinette said.

"No problem. I know for sure she won't take my word for it again. Sooner or later her soul will pay extra sins when she kicks the bucket down to hell. There's always a law from God" Adrien said, taking out his journal scrapbook to continue.

"Yeah, she's done enough," Marinette said.

"But she still has everyone under her manipulation spell," Adrien said, adding a photo of him and Marinette to the page of the romantic moments they had for a few weeks.

"Yeah, but she'll fail for real one day," Marinette said.

"Obviously she doesn't care who she hurts but she should care more about her sins. Like I said, living a fake life has a price to pay" Adrien said.

"She just doesn't know when to quit," Marinette said.

"More like it's too hard for her to know honesty and sincerity," Adrien said and heard his phone ring that it was his father calling. He glared at the name and pressed Decline since he knew that his father wanted him home.

"It was your dad, right?" Marinette asked.

"Yeah, again," Adrien said.

He can't talk about this in front of her but now finally understanding that his father is ruining his life, he wants to know why he's doing this. Obviously, it was more than being an overprotective parent because real good parents would let their kids be happy, just as long as they can trust what they are doing. His father doesn't seem to trust anyone because he barely takes an interest to get to know anyone and so far, he barely gets out of the house that often. He always sees everyone as a bad influence but he doesn't check his facts about it. Other than that, his club members are all bad people like Audrey Bourgeois. Not a single kindness from anyone.

"I only wish things weren't complicated," Adrien said.

"Still pressuring you again? He needs to get out of the house more often, Adrien. Isolation is very unhealthy for him" Marinette said, adding stickers to her diary.

"Yeah," Adrien agreed.

"Something is definitely bothering you, Adrien. Did your dad do something to you?" Marinette asked.

"No, don't worry about it. Nathalie is there for me as usual but I fear that her illness is becoming worse. She told me the doctors are doing everything they can to get her better" Adrien said, though unaware that Nathalie said that to not have him worried too much.

"I hope they succeed," Marinette said.

"Thanks for the support" Adrien smiled.

"You're welcome my prince," Marinette said.

-

Gabriel can't believe that Adrien is becoming more and more independent than being obedient to his father. And the fact he hung up on him after he fired Lila for failing him.

"I warned you, Gabriel. Your madness is going to make you lose everything. Your wife and now your son" Nathalie said.

"Everything I'm doing is for his happiness. I promised Emilie to make sure Adrien is happy!" Gabriel said.

"Adrien was unhappy all the time when you made him do things against his will. That is not happiness, that is child abuse!" Nathalie said.

"What?!" Gabriel turned.

"You heard me! Your madness made you lack care for him!" Nathalie ranted, "In reality it just makes me think you don't care about his own happiness! He's not you, Gabriel! He has his mother's spirit!"

"She's not around here!" Gabriel yelled.

"That doesn't mean you have to go this far to abuse Adrien out of madness just because he's moving on from the past!" Nathalie smacked him in the back head.

"AAGH!" Gabriel fell to the floor.

"It's like no one matters to you anymore! I promised Emilie to look after Adrien like a mother and you broke a lot of promises to her! Like akumatizing Audrey as Style Queen for the first time, she harmed Adrien because of you!" Nathalie said.

"It wasn't intentional!" Gabriel excused.

"But it did! You chose to akumatize victims instead of stopping yourself from putting Adrien in danger! How many lives are you gonna ruin until you have no one left? Emilie would never want to be brought back by a madman! Adrien assumes she's dead and he would get suspicious that you selfishly brought her back to life! He will never be proud of you!" Nathalie coughed again.

"Get out of my sight!" Gabriel yelled.

"I think your conscience is already dead and gone," Nathalie said before leaving.

Gabriel checks his hand and it's pure black. There were minor ashes as in skin peeling off due to no moisture and no healthy skin anymore. Especially since it's going through the veins to spread and the decay in the bones makes it hard to find muscle reflex in the fingers.