The next few weeks saw a very busy period in Lila's life. For once, she really was living as exciting a life as she claimed she did to others. Of course, she had to keep it a secret from the rest of the class. The Miraculous came with an enchantment that prevented her from physically saying anything. Fortunately, lying compulsively was in her nature, so she simply excused her absences by sending a staged video message stating that she was out of the country on business. To help back this up, she told her parents that the school had been closed, with the principal turned into a monster like the one from Bella Rossa's first day. Both sides ate it up like a 3 course gourmet meal.
But that wasn't important. What was important was the things she got up to in her new identity as Bella Rossa. As promised, Lila "redirected" Alya to Bella Rossa, with the two meeting up on the roof of Montparnesse Tower during a non-working day. She told the reporter her "life story", namely that she had received her power from a pair of earrings she had inherited. Which was technically true, giving the lie some credence. She also claimed to have no knowledge of how the Akuma butterflies came about. This would give her more people to save and help build up her image as a hero.
Sure enough, one soon popped up. The woman from the news was annoyed that she had missed out on the first interview with the new superhero. She turned into the super villain Prime Queen, intent on forcing the superheroes into a situation where they could either save the mayor's daughter Chloé, or defeat her in a fight. Luckily, Cat-Boy was there to help, so Lila had him rescue the girl while she defeated Prime Queen. And then she was "nice" enough to provide the woman with an interview after the fact to give herself further publicity. But that was just the start of her battles.
Several more Akumatised victims began to show up in the coming months. There was a weather girl who had lost a vote to a complete amateur (though Lila suspected there was more to it than first appeared). Then there was Myléne from school, who became a horror movie monster that thrives on fear. Fortunately, Bella Rossa found that the creature weakened from courage, which allowed her to go down easily. And that's not getting into Mr. Pidgeon, who had been fined for cultivating rodents. Even after taking him down, Lila had no sympathy for him. Chloé Bourgeois didn't seem to have a lot love for her, as she became Princess Abeile, who had a hive of brainwashed, bee-themed knights serving her. That defeat seemed to have effected her, as she left Paris soon afterwards to live with her mother in New York 3 days later. And those were the good ones. There was an Egyptian pharaoh wannabe, a disgraced master chef, a rejected tv contestant and an evil Santa Claus. There were probably more, but Lila didn't consider any of them worth remembering. She was dedicating herself to finding the culprit behind these attacks before she lost her popularity with the people of Paris.
An event that would come sooner rather than later. With the arrival of another girl from Italy.
