Adrien was having so much fun with her, as much as she did see the real him but he did not want her to think he's a zombie from the dead or impersonating Felix.

"Sometimes.....it's hard to find a great life. They always say look on the bright side but I just find what interests me" Adrien explained his white lie of living a curse.

"I can relate to that," Marinette said.

"How long have you known my cousin Felix?" Adrien asked before getting something to eat from the food truck.

"Since I started school with him," Marinette said.

"Well, he once told me that you love fashion designing" He ate his snack.

"I do but only to myself so no one tries to steal credit from me. Like Cerise and Chloe did and I never won" Marinette said, remembering how much hard work she tried until those two took credit and cheated.

"Did you add your signature on them?" He asked.

"Of course I did. But no one believed me" Marinette said before eating her food.

"Well, I'm sure by then that they all know those two were frauds, they'll come around to see you're the real fashion designer. Being an artist is never about competition, popularity, or fame, it's about expressing in artistic side in designing from imagination to reality" Adrien explained what it means to be an artist.

"Yes, it's the one thing keeping me sane," Marinette said.

"Strong passion you have. I love it. My passion is helping" He drank his milkshake, "However, sometimes helping physically is but mentally is not. Like Felix tries to get Chloe to change but Chloe is mentally unstable and cannot be open-minded. It's like I've been helping you because you let me" Adrien explained his meaning of helping.

"Yes. Because you're the first to defy Chloe and her abuse of power" Marinette said.

"And for Cerise?" Adrien asked.

"That only you and Felix saw through her deception" Marinette replied.

"Deception is always the evil sin in lying" Adrien chuckled and took another sip in his milkshake.

"Yup. You and that cat, you both seem to have a sense of justice" Marinette finished her snack.

"Yeah. He inspired Ladybug" Adrien said.

"I know" Marinette replied.

Adrien can hear her pulse filled with exhaustion that it will be time for her to head home.

"Well, I gotta go home, Adrien. It was nice talking to you" Marinette said.

"Wait. Let me walk you home. It's not safe to go alone" Adrien insisted.

"Fine" Marinette rolls her eyes.

She was still surprised at how gentle he was with her. Unlike other guys who only like to break hearts and that it didn't bother them at all. She could tell him and she had a lot in common. Especially when it comes to facing cruelty.

As soon as he made her back home, he respected her personal space and she didn't do hugs, he simply kissed the back of her palm.

"See you soon, Marinette," He said.

"See ya, Aiden," Marinette said before heading inside.

Adrien smiled but he also had to focus on sneaking into the Beauty Divine headquarters for every information he could dog up from that deceitful witch before she tried to find him and kill him for good. He morphed into a bat to fly there before being seen. He comes to the rooftop and turns into a regular cat to sneak in.

"Ah, not needing Claw Noir's help?" Plagg follows.

"Quiet. I'm just being stealthy and as soon as I get in, Claw Noir will do his entrance" Cat Adrien said.

"Okay," Plagg nodded.

Crawling through the air ducts was something he never did in the 21st century. He cautiously crawled as he heard footsteps.

"Did you find him?" Lila as Sierra asked her guards.

"Not yet," One of the guards said.

"Make sure your eyes are protected. It's like stone gaze" Lila warned.

"Yes Mistress" The guards nodded.

"Hmph, coward as always when you lie too much, Lila" Cat Adrien said before morphing into human, "Plagg, claws out" He transformed into Claw Noir.

Crawling in the air ducts was hard but he had to find the office first without alerting the guards. He peered through the vents to look through. He spots his lady sneaking in too to avoid security guards.

"She's in for this too," he thought and the vent he stepped on came open and landed on Ladybug.

"OMPH!" Ladybug grunted with him on top.

"Agh! Sorry" Claw Noir quickly moved his face away from her breasts, "Uh, hi"

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

Claw Noir rolled over to the side, "Same as you. The guards have neck protections and sunglasses to block my hypnosis and my bite"

"You know I got tricks up my sleeve for this" Ladybug gestures her yoyo.

"Don't. We can't let that bitch know we broke in. But I do need help on that thing" Claw Noir gestures to the elevator that never existed in his time.

"The elevator? Okay," Ladybug replied.

"Why is it called an elevator?" Claw Noir asked.

"You know elevators were in progress during the 1860s" Ladybug pointed out.

"Yes, but this is more electric and advanced that I've never seen" Claw Noir got in the elevator.

"Right," Ladybug replied and then pressed the button for the secret lair.

"These personas really need to stop. That's another reason why her lies don't attract me that much. When I reveal how it annoys me, she still makes more lies without caring how it makes me feel. Like irritating me doesn't mean shit to her" Claw Noir said.

"She really lives on misery," Ladybug said.

"But that's no excuse for her to lie and pretend to be her personas that don't even exist" Claw Noir stared at the numbers changing, "Like a 5-year-old lying her way to gain attention by adults. Such bullshit" Claw Noir leans against the wall.

"Indeed," Ladybug said.

As soon as the elevator reached the office, they made sure to not alert the guards.

"If you see them, knock their protection. Biting their ass won't do" Claw Noir said before going to the laptop screen to hack in.

"It's a metaphor meaning, not literally. I just say that in a way when I mean kick their asses as a vampire" Ladybug snickered.

"It's not funny. I bite necks, not asses" Claw Noir rolled his eyes before getting in the system.

"I hope you know how to use them," Ladybug said.

"Felix taught me this for a week," Claw Noir said.

"Wow," Ladybug said.

"Lila you crazy bitch" Claw Noir saw lots of witchcraft to create anti-aging beauty cream with witchcraft ingredients of human parts based on victims who have a bit of slow aging DNA than just their age.

He kept reading through. One to create a potion to kill a vampire by stripping its immortality curse but the only thing to do that is with a human relative ingredient which is one from the dead and the other from the living.

"My god" He read in shock.

"She needed your father's femur and I suppose the living is Felix. It makes sense. One dead which means ancient and the other a living human for youth" Ladybug said.

"Yes. She's planning her ultimate revenge on me" Claw Noir said.

"Which is why she's using the business company as a cover," Claw Noir said.

"Of course," Ladybug said.

"I can't let her do this. I did think of becoming human again but being a vampire is what made me who I am now. I can't change what I did and neither can she!" Claw Noir smashed the laptop.

"Kitty easy now!" Ladybug pleaded.

"Milady, no one, not even her family has ever tried to teach her to be good. I gave her multiple chances to stop lying but instead of taking my advice, she got worse. I tried helping, I did, but she constantly gets stubborn like honesty is bullshit to her. I gave up my faith in her because it was pointless to knock sense into her. Honesty is just bullshit to her" Claw Noir said.

"It's too late for her" Ladybug replied.

"No shit" Claw Noir said before hearing footsteps, "Hide"

The two heroes hide behind the closet when the guards come in.

"That woman is delusional. A black cat vampire? More like she read too much horror movies or those Harry Potter movies" The guard scoffed.

"Yeah, who tries to be Paw Noir" The other one said.

Ladybug shushed to Claw Noir. The feline so wanted to sink his fangs in them.

"That deluded bitch is very crazy. You've seen what she does whenever someone sees her lies. "I discover anti-aging is from someone's longevity in DNA". Such bullshit," The guard said.

Claw Noir growled lowly that he's had enough of hearing their nonsense.

"No Kitty, No!" Ladybug said quietly.

The feline growls in defeat that he can't be discovered by them. He did mind control again on those two instead to control them. He made them leave the room so he and Ladybug could get out.

"I could've sunk my fangs in them, milady. They are morons" Claw Noir said.

"I get it, Kitty" Ladybug said.

"Is there a neck I can bite on" Claw Noir feeling desperate for one.

"Alright," Ladybug gave up.

"Never mind. Come on, we need to leave before she...." Claw Noir stopped when he saw Sierra standing there, ".....before she tries to kill my ass again" He growled.

"So you have come Claw Noir and Ladybug?!" Lila said.

"You know what I see? You wasting your life for years made you lose track of reality and yourself. It's like you can't move on and accept my opinion" Claw Noir makes his opinion of her clearly.

"None of that matters now, I took your life once and I can do it again," Lila said.

"Not if I can help it, Lie-la!" Ladybug shielded Claw Noir.

"You want to strip my immortality to kill me. That's rich coming from a bitch like you. Cursing me definitely was your mistake" Claw Noir hissed.

"It was so you can suffer seeing everyone you know die from old age while you're unchanged. You will be alone after more centuries. But now I decided that you should die now in the modern days!" Lila took out a stake.

"And you lost your family too but you felt no grief" Claw Noir activated his cataclysm since it's lethal and dangerous to get touched by it, "More like you wanted to fuck up my family and do the same to my descendants. You're the one who is gonna get fucked!"

"Then prepare to face your doom!" Lila tries to stab Claw Noir with the stake but Ladybug kicks at her.

"Kitty, run!" Ladybug said.

"I won't leave you Ladybug!" Claw Noir said.

"Agh!" She got stabbed in the leg.

"Then you two lovebirds will perish together!" Cerise then shoves them back with a magic blast.

"Shit!" He morphed into a bat to use his ultrasonic screech at her.

"AAAAGH!" Cerise crashed at the computer.

Ladybug got up and used her lucky charm, "A handkerchief? Well, this should stop the bleeding for the moment!" She wraps it around her leg.

The bat morphed back and aided Ladybug, "We'll meet again, Lila! Mark my words!"

"You're not going anywhere!" Cerise attempts to block their exit.

"Cataclysm!" He touched the floor to escape through and landed on the next floor room to escape with the wounded Ladybug, "Hang on, milady! God, I hope I can fly for real without wings!" He carried her and smashed through the glass window.

Ladybug closed her eyes hoping he won't fall to their deaths. She felt gravity pulling her down but it stopped for a few seconds before opening her eyes to see that her kitty was floating.

"Ha! I knew I could do it! Always trust my vampire instincts!" Claw Noir laughed.

"Look out!" Ladybug saw an incoming dagger but Claw Noir caught it in his hand.

"Hmm.....not such a good idea to curse me into an undefeated monster. Tough luck, Lie-la!" He flies with Ladybug to escape.

They flew down to a nearby alley before Lila could find them.

"That was damn crazy!" Ladybug unwrapped the lucky charm handkerchief and tossed it, "Miraculous Ladybug!" She heals her wound.

"Goddamn it! She almost killed you! She's stronger than she was, milady. Physical combats are not enough. She's too strong" Claw Noir said.

"She came prepared, Kitty," Ladybug said.

"She had someone on the inside to learn my strengths and weaknesses. It has to be Chloe. Who else would want to get revenge on me than just Lila?" Claw Noir asked.

"No doubt it's her. For taking her power away" Ladybug said.

"Lila is definitely using her," Claw Noir said, looking at the dagger he caught, "Big mistake for her to throw a weapon made from witchcraft"

"Right at me," Ladybug said, inspecting the dagger.

"Well, this souvenir would help me kill her, if possible" Claw Noir hides it in his jacket, "Please don't get hurt. It scared me to life" He said the opposite of death.

"Well, thank you for saving me, Kitty" Ladybug said.

"You're welcome, Ladybug" Claw Noir said.

"Kitty, I know you're angry. As much as I want to feel what you're feeling but you know Lila more in your time. I've only known her as Cerise" Ladybug said.

"She ruined everyone's lives now. It's time her life is ruined in hell" Claw Noir said.

"We need a new plan," Ladybug said.

"She's gonna make a lie to the company to disband her persona again," Claw Noir said.

"No doubt about that" Ladybug replied.

"But....I managed to steal one of her witchcraft books. No late fees I suppose" Claw Noir held out the book.

"Good job Kitty" Ladybug scratched his chin.