Felix was glad his living ancestor could survive from holy things without feeling so vulnerable from it. But the problem is Lila and her pet is still out there in whatever disguise she's blending in as. Everyone thinks she's dead but Adrien told him she's alive for real than a ghost.

"So how does it feel?" Felix asked.

"Never been better," Adrien said.

"Good. Keeping your ass alive is what I like. But you still can drink blood, right? It's the same thing for a dhampir in fiction" Felix hands him a glass wine of blood.

Adrien then drank it, proving his theory.

"Yup, I can. Just like Alucard in Castlevania" Adrien said.

"You know his name is Dracula backward?" Felix pointed out.

"Yes, I know," Adrien said before finishing his drink, "But I'm not sure if I'll suffocate in the coffin without air," Adrien said.

"No mortal can survive that long locked in" Felix said.

"Nope. But let's see if I can. Use a timer to see how long I can survive in it" Adrien said before getting in his coffin.

Felix sets the timer on his phone, waiting for a reaction. 10 minutes have passed and Adrien only lasted that long until he needed air to breathe out or get suffocated.

"Hah! Oh god!" He panted.

"How was your dead sleep in the death realm?" Felix snickered.

"Briefly I suppose?" Adrien replied.

"You lasted 10 minutes" Felix showed the time.

"Perhaps it's time I drill holes for air" Adrien suggested.

"What you need is a bed, bro. You always wanted to breathe like a human" Felix said.

"A comfortable one," Adrien said.

"Lucky for us, we are rich people, thanks to your parents for becoming millionaires," Felix said.

"Indeed" Adrien replied.

"Now go to a deep catnap. You look like hell from whatever the hell you and your bugaboo were doing in London. I can tell it was definitely very ugly for you" Felix can see he looks nearly a mess.

"Yeah, I do" Adrien lies back in the coffin but has the lid open.

"And flossing your fangs too" Felix tossed the floss to him before leaving.

Adrien then did so before putting on his ear pods while scrolling for the songs on his phone to listen to and chose the song 'Moments We Live For' by In Paradise but in an acoustic version. He closed his eyes listening.

Although his sleep did calm him but a nightmare came to him that Lila was still on the verge of making him insane.

"You can't escape me, Adrien! You only delay the inevitable fate of your love!" Lila's voice echoed.

He held his head at the memory scene of his old home of the mansion from the 1880s, "You can try but that doesn't mean you can stop me! Your obsession is self-harming your psyche!"

The nightmares of his parents manifested with Lila's creation of madness like a fused body of both of them. She was trying to make him insane but Adrien knows how well it's not real.

"No, no, no" Adrien backs away from the mutated fused monster, "They're not real. My parents are dead. My parents died a long time ago" He said to himself to accept this is not his parents but a manifestation of Lila's madness. It was getting too much for him to fight this off.

"AAAAGGGHHHH!!!" Adrien woke in fright and his heartbeat spiked a bit.

"What's wrong?" Plagg asked.

Adrien heard the song still playing from his phone and he turns it off, "Goddamn it! She's trying to manipulate my mind!" Adrien slammed his fist on the coffin.

"She really is desperate," Plagg said.

"Worse. Her madness in my nightmares is creating manifestations of monsters" Adrien said.

"No good" Plagg got worried.

"This is why I hate psychopaths being cunning and highly intelligent" Adrien stands up.

"They can hide that they aren't mentally ill well," Plagg said.

"No, I read in psychology books for months. Psychopaths are very aware of themselves going mentally insane. They don't care who they hurt" Adrien said, heading to the desk to drink more blood.

"Sending her in the spirit realm didn't work but maybe trapping her in a vessel to imprison her would. Like a mirror" Plagg said.

"Maybe. But if so, we can't let anyone shatter it" Adrien said.

"Kid, you're scared. We all are but that doesn't mean you should let her break your spirit. My previous kittens may be scared of destruction power but they still knew how to do things for the greater good, even through shades of grey" Plagg said.

"I am scared, Plagg. I am scared of losing my love, my descendants, and my life. I just want peace but she definitely has no peace for herself" Adrien said, heading downstairs just to see Felix having a good time with his family.

"It has to end," Plagg said.

"I think I know how but Felix must know if Lila had shelter with adult supervision," Adrien said before joining in with his family descendants.

"Very well" Plagg shrugs.

"Hey cuz. You looked like you had a pleasant sleep. Cat food?" Felix gestures to the pizza box.

"Sure. After all, it's my first time" Adrien shrugged.

"I ordered with anchovies," Felix said.

"Yummy" Adrien smiled once he saw it, "How were you guys doing after I was away again?"

"Well, so far, we put garlic around the house to keep that white cat away but he never showed. It was as if he's after your ass so much than ours" Felix said.

"He really wants to be a true lifeform," Adrien said.

"What do you expect? He's like a ghost than haunting anyone but you" Felix ate his pizza.

"Sort of" Adrien replied.

"But he's forced to obey that psycho bitch. I saved his life in the British Museum from a cursed mummy and it somehow made him feel confused or conflicted. I don't know. I can't beat him and neither can he beat me" Adrien said before belching.

"Remember the old video game Tomb Raider Underworld Lara's Shadow you played? Lara helped her doppelgänger become free from Natla's commands. If Blanc is being forced to obey, maybe you can give him a new command" Felix explained.

"I might try that," Adrien said.

"Life is no video game but it's worth a shot. How's the food? I'm glad you get to try one without having the weakness of garlic" Felix asked.

"Much better," Adrien said.

"That's nice," Felix said while eating.

"How come you never take vacations more often?" Adrien asked.

"You know me, cuz. I'm still trying to get out of my shell. Especially with therapy sessions, it's still a long way to reach the light" Felix said.

"You can afford a vacation to Thailand or even Kenya," Adrien said.

"Maybe. But I prefer Greece. That's another reason why I named my dog after a Greek mythology monster" Felix said.

"I know" Adrien replied.

"But.....there was someone that may look like that bitch. I checked on the system and her name doesn't even exist. No passports, no ID, and definitely no resume for a flower shop. It could be her" Felix said, holding a picture of a woman with black hair, blue eyes, and glasses.

Adrien took a closer look at the picture, "Must be one of her disguises"

"Totally. A week ago, just before Blanc appeared, I was getting flowers for my grandfather's anniversary at his grave, that woman's voice sounded familiar but I wasn't sure. I didn't tell you this because I didn't want to ruin your moment with Marinette in London" Felix said.

"I understand. But I have the feeling Lila did this over again in the century I was gone to avoid being suspected" Adrien said.

"Well, don't lose sight again. We humans get deceived all the time but you are like a big dog that can smell evil. You may not read minds but you do smell familiar scents. For example, what does my mother smell like?" Felix asked before dragging Adrien away to test him.

"Like flowers?" Adrien replied.

"Smell her scent from the distance, cuz. You've done it many times, especially smelling my cologne" Felix said.

"Yeah, even my princess. And your mother smells like fragrance" Adrien said.

"And can you remember what Lila smelled like?" Felix asked.

"In my time she smelled like a lot of fragrance but in this timeline, she smelled like burnt skin from hell," Adrien said.

"She's been in hell, right?" Felix asked.

"Yeah. I killed her that night. But now she looks more alive. Definitely a bargain with the devil. You've seen movies like this when someone comes back from the dead" Adrien said, heading outside in the garden with him.

"Yes, but they have a deal," Felix said.

"And deals don't end well. If killing her doesn't work, I have to confront her about it. Knowing her she hates disagreements" Adrien picks up a rose with thorns, "Like thorns in her roses is how she is. Thorns make your fingertips bleed. Why do you think they call this phrase thorns on roses?"

"Survival and protection. Why do you think I say that Lila was a thorn on my side?" Felix asked.

"That she keeps bothering you since forever" Adrien replied.

"Exactly and you also feel the same way too. Like desperate for a black cat as a pet" Felix said.

"Yup. Almost" Adrien said.

"If killing her didn't keep her there, killing her again would be like something else," Felix said.

"I don't know Felix. But if you say she's a disguised employee at the flower shop, she's probably not there anymore. She could be anyone" Adrien said, walking back inside with him.

Adrien feels like if he can't stop her, he's gonna have to get through Blanc instead. So he plans to discuss it with Ladybug.

"I gotta get Blanc to see his errors. I can't beat him at all and the more we fight, the more it becomes pointless" Adrien said.

"You're right about that," Felix said.

"But if he can't, I don't know. I gotta find Ladybug and tell her about this. Plagg, claws out" Adrien transformed into Claw Noir said.

"You are gonna need the bloodline strength for this" Felix held his wrist out for him to bite.

"Last time I bit your wrist, it was wrong of me to do that" Claw Noir refused.

"Just do it. The reason you drank blood was because you needed to quench your thirst and your sanity. This time, you need the Graham De Vanily strength to believe in your mother's spirit" Felix urged him.

Claw Noir reluctantly bites his wrist and drinks his blood. It felt like tasting his own human blood than Felix's but he did need blood from a pure one that is descended from his mother's side of the family.

He then pulls off him after drinking enough, "This is the last time I bite your wrist again"

"Of course" Felix nodded.

-

Much later, Ladybug was on patrol while Claw Blanc stalked her. The feline smirked like a maniac since he was this close to stalking her like a predator while she was the prey unaware of her surroundings. Ladybug then stopped at a rooftop. Blanc crouched down to pounce at her.

"Don't! Even! Think! About it!" Claw Noir positioned his claws near his neck.

"GOTCHA!" Ladybug turns around and catches Blanc, revealing it was all a setup.

"You son of a—" Blanc grunts from the struggle.

"Easy, kitty! Calm down!" Claw Noir held him still.

"Don't let go" Ladybug approached.

"He's super pissed off like a real angry cat right now! He's gonna scratch!" Claw Noir held him down.

"Shhh....shhh.....easy kitty," Ladybug thought of petting him to calm down.

If he is Claw Noir's anger manifestation creation, the real cat would always calm down by being petted or his chin scratched.

"What are you.....ohhhhhh" Claw Blanc purred.

"The hell are you doing?" Claw Noir asked.

"Giving him his emotional need" Ladybug explained.

The white feline seems to calm down until his anger recedes and unable to feel any anger in him.

"There kitty kitty," Ladybug said.

"Calmer now?" Claw Noir asked his clone.

"Get off" Blanc shoved him off but with no intention of feeling angry enough, "You don't understand. If I don't destroy you both, she will continue to torture me"

"You're not her weapon nor pawn. You're just you" Claw Noir said.

"This isn't your bidding, it's hers. Like a puppet you are to her" Ladybug said.

"Blanc, we fought a lot and there is no winning or losing. Just an eternal tie. She's only giving you commands, you don't have to listen to hers. Listen to your own" Claw Noir said.

"Your own free will," Ladybug said.