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A new worldview

"Mari you´ve been smiling at the screen for an hour." Alya is getting her stuff ready for her morning classes. I still can´t believe that you repaired the computer the same day and the first thing you did was play MV. "

"I haven't been playing that long ... and it's because I'm done with my homework." Marinette tries to hide a slight blush.

"Yes, of course... don't think I forgot about your secret date. Just because I have class in fifteen..." Alya says before leaving the bedroom. "See you in the cafeteria at 12?"

Marinette only agrees with a small "yes" as she begins to dress up for her classes as well.

It's the week after the wedding between Ladybug and ChatNoir, and Marinette spent most of the weekend playing with her new husband and her group. It is amazing how quickly she adapted to the dynamics of the team, even Tikki told her that every time they fought against monsters, either in a group or as a couple, other players recorded the fights because of how great they looked. What is much more surprising is that the newlyweds had an excellent chemistry. A few days after meeting each other, Ladybug and ChatNoir fought in perfect synchrony with an impressive speed. Not only in combat, both players went for long walks in different places of the game and talked until they had to log out. They came to understand themselves to the point that their friends teased them by saying they looked like a married couple of several years, or an elderly couple according to DarkCupid.

After her calculus and language classes, Marinette meets Alya at the Science cafeteria.

"It seems that today we have sautéed with sweet and sour pork, we have to get in line before... Alya? Can you stop seeing the phone? "

"Shhhh" Alya tries to silence her friend without looking up from the phone. "The university forum is full of gossip today... it seems that many of them are of the Friday game scam."

Gossip. What else could it be? Marinette rolls her eyes and pulls her friend toward the lunch line.

"Wait! Don't pull me so fast that the signal is low. "

"You can read them in the bedrooms after picking up the lunch."

"Ohhh this is another one" Alya says while ignoring her friend. "When I saw the department beauty getting out of the luxurious car my world collapsed." Alya raises an eyebrow as she reads. "What a strange title... although now I have to read everything." Marinette finally manages to push her to the line.

"Ohhhh, there are also pictures!"

"..."

"Hey Mari."

"What is it?"

"The girl in the photos has a bag very similar to yours."

Marinette, intrigued, approaches the phone and looks at the photos. In them appears a young girl with a censored face coming out of a seemingly luxurious car with a pink bag with black details.

"What is this? But it's me. "

"What?!" Alya tries not to raise her voice so much.

"I think that day Manon's mom brought me in her car..."

"What's wrong with this publication? It stains your image without having verified the facts. "Alya starts to smoke from the head." At least they covered your face. But what they want people to think? Everyone is going to imply that you are-"

"-Don't talk here." The bluehead interrupts her before she keeps talking with everyone around. "Let's eat fast and then return to the dorm to track the account."

"Chloè, Rose! Is the computer ready?" Alya and Marinette quickly enter the room and meet the other two.

"It's already on and the program is open!" The shorter blonde replies as they sit around the table.

"Who has so much time to post these things ...?" Alya is still upset while Marinette begins to track the account of the publication.

"Let's see the IP address of the last publication..." after a few minutes the three roommates are behind Marinette watching her work. "This person has a private account under the name L'Impostor, do you have any idea of who is it?"

"L'Impostor? He's famous." Chloe tells her. "It's a last year student and a star student in the Journalism Department. He is handsome and from a family of diplomats... Although I prefer the guys from the engineering department..." Before she gets lost in her thoughts, Rose asks his name.

"Théo Barbot."

"Théo Barbot...? I don't know who he is. Why would he publish this?" Marinette tries to find some memory.

"Based on previous publications..." Rose mentions looking at the university forum on her phone "he seems to be just a gossip person. Maybe he thinks you're a suga-"

"-No!" Marinette stands up from the chair and heads to her own computer. "That's too much! He's going to regret staining my image like that..."

"What are you going to do?"

Marinette turns to them and smiles with a dark look.

"What else can it be? Justice for course! "

The other three just smile at each other and join her in the plan.

That same afternoon, Marinette enters to one of the classrooms from the Journalism Department at the end of the period. Behind her also follows Alya, Chloè, Rose and Juleka from the music department, who joined after finding the publication.

Standing in front of the class, while the students leave the room, Marinette asks to everyone: "Who among you is Théo Barbot?"

The murmurs in the room begin and some of them start to recognize the Computer Department beauty as the girl in the photos.

"Why are you looking for me?" From the second row in the middle, a tall boy with brown hair, yellow shirt and black pants stands up from his seat. His carefree tone bothers the blue movie more. It calms down quickly and stops later.

"I wanna ask you... What kind of worldview you'll develop if you log onto porn sites twice a week?"

"What did you say?"

"You download content from these sites every Tuesday and Thursday while at work on the 'Youth League Committee of the Journalism Department'. What kind of worldview can you develop?"

The whispers in the room increase and a furious Théo hits the table with his hand.

"YOU!" Before he could continue, Marinette smirks and turns to the class computer, where Rose and Juleka connected a USB and opened some files. Marinette begins to read aloud the information of some of the documents shown in the projector.

"Théo Barbot is on duty at the office of Youth League Committee every Tuesday and Thursday from 7 pm to 11pm. During this period, the computer at the office is directly linked to this IP, and this IP is connected to one of the largest domestic porn sites." After his explanation, Juleka clicks on the account and it is redirected to the mentioned sites, showing some images of previously downloaded videos. The atmosphere becomes tense when the students release some gasps due to the impact.

"That's a lie!" Théo looks at the people around him trying to avoid rumors. "I haven't done this!"

"You just played a card game called 'Fight the Landlord' on a game site called 'Beauty Valley', didn't you?"

Somewhat disconcerted, he doesn't deny it and accepts it with confidence. With the smile still on her face, Marinette returns to show other pages in the projector.

"There's a link on the home page of 'Beauty Valley' that opens this erotic website on the backend to control the traffic. But if we just look at your internet browsing record, we can conclude that you're browsing porn sites." Théo stands still trying to understand what is happening. With this, Marinette wants to make her point.

"The thing is that you shouldn't interpret things out of context and without asking the victim." Marinette returns to the front walking away from the computer. "You posted photos of me in the university forum. Did you ever ask me about the relationship between me and the car owner?"

While the chestnut process all the information, Marinette gives a signal to her friends and the photos of the forum are shown. "This happened a week ago. You took the pictures of me at the gate of our university after I get out of the car and then you hinted that the girl had a sugar daddy."

"Oh, I got it." Théo returns to his previous attitude and approaches her. "You came here to find me because you want me to delete the post, right?"

Marinette only turns back to her friends, who shows a document from a woman. "This was my tutor during my last years at school. Her name is Nadja Chamack, 34 years old, divorced and she has a ten-year-old daughter named Manon, who I help her with Math and Language." She shows two more photos. "This is a picture of Manon and her mother next to the car, taken from one of Mrs. Chamack's social networks, and this is the picture you took."

Both cars are exactly the same, including the code on the license plate. "That day she dropped me at school after I finished the tutoring and I leaned to the window to thank her. It was at that moment that Théo took the picture." Théo lowers his head without knowing what to say.

"I can forgive you despite all your assumptions and your lack of research, as well as your weak and rude reasoning, but I think you owe me an apology. Because you claimed that I had a sugar daddy without figuring out what was really going on first. You´re a journalism major, or have you started developing a cheap TV series? "

Théo lets out a small laugh. "Marinette Dupain Cheng, are you here to get revenge on me?"

Marinette smiles satisfied. "I´m only here to correct your worldview."

Proud of her friend, Alya gives a strong applause to her friend. In a matter of seconds, the rest of the class applauds with her. Astonished, Théo also applauds her in representation of defeat.

Author notes

*Insert MIC DROP* I got really excited writing this chapter. I like the idea of a strong Marinette without Ladybug's need, and don't worry about the black kitten that didn't appear in the chapter, he is appears more in the next chapters! For the pure people who don't know what a sugar daddy is... in short, it's someone wealthy who pays your wishes in exchange of other favors, mostly sexual (more info at google :v). It's not very important, don't tell that I am teaching these things huh! The recommendations for the names of the extras are still ongoing. Thanks for reading!