A week went by and everyone in town was still impressed with Lila's theater performance. This was making the bounty hunters suspicious that Lila could be a witch or not but they need evidence to know if it's true or not. So Marinette hatched a plan.

It only made Adrien disagree with it, "No" He said softly before she gave him the look, "No! No! No!" He said before she still gave him the look, "No!"

"Come on kitty kitty," Marinette said.

"Seriously?! Her?! She's far too annoying it makes me wanna cough a hairball!" Adrien slumps on the bed, "This is gonna torture my nine lives before I'm haunted by embarrassment"

"Got any better idea then?" Marinette asked.

"Uggghh!!! Okay, but you owe me more fish if I do this. I'm not chasing another mouse again" Adrien said.

"Oh, come on. Pretend that Lila is the mouse you want to eat" Marinette said.

"More like a rat carrying disgusting disease spreading everyone's mindless brains. I hate rats" Adrien pouted.

"You like danger all the time" Marinette jungles the bell which triggers his cat instincts.

"Argh, not this emotional need!" Adrien groans and starts to act like a cat.

"You wanna be a good kitty for me?" Marinette asked.

"You got yourself a show, Purrincess," Adrien said.

"Then get your badass in gear and be fierce like a panther for me," Marinette said before jingling the bell.

"Alright! Alright! Stop" Adrien begged.

"Put this on" She tossed his mask over.

"I always wear my mask in public, Mari" Adrien said and put it on.

"Then become cute and adorable like a kitten you are. Everyone loves kittens and puppies" Marinette scratched his chin.

"Oh, you bet I will, milady" Adrien then kissed her cheek.

"High paw?" Marinette held her hand out.

"High paw" Adrien high-fives with her, "But you still owe me my nine lives"

"I know, Kitty" Marinette said.

-

Much later after one of Lila's performances, she was heading back to her coach while Adrien snuck up on her.

"Oh, an autograph? I heard so many things about you" Lila said.

"I'm in fact famous as the only catman around here" Adrien showed himself.

"Your ears? Are they real?" Lila asked.

"Yep, very real" Adrien pulls them to show they don't come off.

"So the story is true. You were cursed by a witch but a girl saved your life by defeating the first witch you both encountered? Everyone knows the great story" Lila said.

"It wasn't a great story, it was a sad story and yes, I was cursed by a witch as a kid. I stopped being a kid when I was 9" Adrien refused to remember it again.

"Have you ever dreamt of turning normal again?" A devious look appeared on Lila's face.

"No. Yes, but this curse made my life better to adapt and given the strength to honor my late mother and kill witches. I cannot go back to being normal because life always has a price to pay in exchange and I cannot wish that on anyone" Adrien said, remembering how he encountered a few witches to change him but also learned there's a price to pay if he became normal.

"There are other ways," Lila said.

"I cannot change what I went through with my life. So stop thinking there's a cure for my curse. Everyone has metaphor curses happening in their lives. Anxiety, bad luck, infertility, anything that's more like a curse than just a dark magic curse. I suppose you never known what miserable life was like to you" Adrien said, nearly about to leave since this woman is a bit too awkward to talk to.

"You have no idea," Lila said.

"And how would you know? A theater actress who acts to perform but doesn't know what's very real?" Adrien crossed his arms.

"I travelled a lot" Lila lied to fool him.

Adrien, however, he can smell fear from a person but there are times he can tell if a person is lying by sensing lies in their voice tones.

"So do I with milady in Europe. Life isn't always as perfect as you think it is, Madame Rossi. For example, everyone thinks being a Werecat is a gift but it's not, it's a curse and I crave fish meat to keep my inner beast under control so I don't savage or attack people. Any person with a dark heart who gets cursed as a werewolf or Werecat, the price to pay would be killing and losing humanity. Like vampires can't walk in sunlight and the price to pay is endless suffering by drinking blood to drain a life. You don't know shit" Adrien glared, not caring if she was a lady but never likes self-proclaimed women thinking they have everything, just like his father who never took his feelings seriously when his mother died.

"If you say so, kitty cat" Lila sneered.

"DON'T!!!" He nearly roared like a Panther, "....call me a kitty cat" He said calmly.

"Okay I won't" Lila replied.

"I'm no one's pet," Adrien said coldly before leaving, "What are you looking at?" He scoffed at the horses and they nervously looked away.

He jumps to the roof like a cat with great agility before heading back to his lady. One thing he knows is that this actress is definitely up to something whenever she makes that sneer look which is always a bad sign and the way she spoke about travelling the world made him suspect she was lying. The hair did not have any dandruff smell or dry dead skin cells on her scalp. This was definitely new to him.

He came through the window to see his lady, "This was a nightmare from hell!"

"How?" Marinette asked.

"She gives off bad vibes," Adrien said.

"Care to elaborate on that?" Marinette asked him to be specific.

"Well, when she said she traveled the world her tone suddenly changed and she was trying to tempt me into being turned normal," Adrien said.

"What?" Marinette said.

"Yeah, it was as if it was a near manipulation of my determination but I cannot change what I became. I never had a human teenage or adult life. I can't go back to what I became" Adrien said.

"Adrien, werecat or not you're still the same boy I met," Marinette said.

"Yeah, I know. It's just I dealt with witches playing my hopes to get me to believe I would want to be human again but I can't let a price to pay cause something else to happen. I can't wish that on anyone to take my place of being cursed" Adrien said.

"Like that, I would become a werecat?" Marinette guessed.

"Yes. I cannot let anyone suffer as I did. I'm the only one that has my humanity to keep my conscience like a man" Adrien said.

"What else did she talk about?" Marinette asked.

"Well that she knew a lot about me," Adrien said.

"Definitely suspicious because no one sees what we do in a battlefield of killing witches," Marinette said.

"I don't trust her one bit," Adrien said.

"You always don't trust anyone but me, kitty," Marinette said.

"Well, I trust Zoe" Adrien said.

"Because she's the opposite of Chloe?" Marinette said.

"Yes," Adrien replied.

"My kitty" Marinette scratched his chin.

"Puuuuuuurrrrrrrr" He purred in happiness.

"But seriously, was there anything suspicious when you used your cat senses?" Marinette asked.

"Well, I smell no signs of little dandruff or dead skin cells on her hair roots. It's like it's not even her real hair. I don't know. Her hair doesn't even smell anything like taking a bath with shampoo" Adrien said.

"Perhaps a wig?" Marinette guessed.

"It's possible. I mean, not a lot of people wear wigs these days but for actresses like her, it's a character to play as" Adrien said

"Maybe" Marinette shrugs.

"Well, she was nearly almost interested in me but I only have one lady that knows me for years to tame my inner beast," Adrien said, going to the barrel of fish to eat.

"Yeah, your bugaboo," Marinette said.

He belched a little from eating, "But you're right, Lila does seem suspicious but we need to gather facts whether or not she's a witch. I hate witches using dark magic against humanity"

"So do I, Adrien" Marinette said.

-

Lila was in secret without her wig while having her real pixie short hairstyle, she was angry that this cat was far into his morality than getting his desires the best of him.

"I'm not through yet, Monsieur Cat Noir," Lila said.

She still holds memories of the time his mother was keeping secrets from him to protect her son, "And your partner is going to suffer as the other witches have suffered"

"Just make sure those pathetic losers are out of here!" Chloe was also an ally but a pawn to her without realizing it.

"I got the right stuff to get this city's pests out," Lila said with an evil smirk.

"Then hurry it up! I can't stand another minute when everyone thinks about their so-called heroes saving brats for years!" Chloe said.

"Then are you ready to deal with them, especially that cat boy's girlfriend?" Lila hands over some weaponry with a bee theme.

"The only reason I hated them in the first place is because that lady brat never let me be a witch hunter like her!" Chloe said.

"You'll be the werecat hunter now I guess," Lila said.

"Oh, it will be my pleasure hunting werecats like him" Chloe puts on the gauntlet with a golden retractable blade.