07/18/24
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Ladybug had three addresses of three women who were fake moms to Cerise. The first one works at an embassy, and Ladybug believes that Lila is using this woman for information on diplomacy or government officials. She decided to start there first since it was nearly close to the bakery.
She gets inside there to start questioning her, "So she's not your biological daughter? She lied to you and you barely see her that much?"
"No, if she were I would have remembered her birth," The embassy woman said.
"She used you as a coverup. Plus, you said she told you that school was closed for months due to Akuma attacks but it was a lie. Have you ever called the school?" Ladybug asked.
"She lied that the principal was akumatized if I tried to call him" The woman replied.
"Hmph. She really was very good at lying her way out of trouble. May I see her bedroom? I like to investigate" Ladybug asked.
"Sure" The embassy woman agreed.
"Also, it was a time she did say a lot that she was always on the phone with Adrien who misses him so much. Was it a lie too?" The first mom asked.
"Yes, he told me himself. For what she is, she was a pathological liar and a con deceiver. Her name was never Lila Rossi at all. One thing is true she is Italian" Ladybug said before heading into the bedroom to investigate and surely enough, there were posters of Italy, "I wonder what else she hides here" Ladybug searched.
Nothing but school work she hid and never did the assignments. Lots of kits with fake green eye color contacts to remain disguised as Lila. Then she finds a secret diary with a lock. She unlocks it and reads it. All her schemes were inside of the diary. Very psychopathic her journalism style looks to be. Especially with all the photos of cut-off Marinette heads being replaced with Lila. Especially with all the photos of Ladybug being terminated due to her hatred.
"She's crazy" Ladybug whispered and needed this as evidence for the professionals.
Next is a second woman who works at the cover magazine and she barely talks about Lila who deceived her into believing she's a new model for the Gabriel brand.
"How much do you know about her?" Ladybug asked.
"A couple of months when she lied about doing model training from Gabriel and she convinced me to get her into a cover magazine with Adrien" The second mother explained.
"According to Adrien, he was very uncomfortable with her. He knew she was a liar from the start but had no choice but to comply with his father who chooses her to model for an exchange" Ladybug explained.
"There was something off about her," The second mother said.
"She always lies her way out of trouble but now she's got what she deserved. I tried to warn her that if she goes down that path, she will be lost to herself" Ladybug said.
"I did get the news that she's been imprisoned," The second mother said.
"Sentenced to maximum asylum. May I check her room? I need evidence of what she's been doing this whole time before becoming a liar long enough until her last" Ladybug asked.
"Go ahead," The second mother said.
Ladybug searched through the room. It had wigs of sorts hidden underneath her bed, the victims she crossed off who wanted to be the female model of the brand until she was chosen with Gabriel.
"She planned it all along," Ladybug said.
It explains why she was approved by Gabriel until he agreed with her.
"That slippery weasel of a liar" Ladybug guessed that these wigs were the inspiration of every girl she found. Or inspirations of adult women with good-looking hair in the Italian fashion ads.
"I hope Kitty's doing well on his part," She said.
After investigating the second woman's residence, she goes to the final woman who can't speak or hear, but Ladybug hires a professional who knows sign language to translate.
"So it was a couple of months ago that she made you believe she's your lost daughter?" Ladybug asked.
"Yes, it was," The third mom said in sign language, "She lied that she talked to her agent and told me that they were gonna shoot a movie in Mexico" The third mom signed.
"Technically she was not your lost daughter. She went to two high schools at once with different identities. It's obvious she was making lies to convince other fake moms what she was doing or where she was going which never happened. I'm sorry she took advantage of you like that. I remember how she lied to have tinnitus and arthritis in her wrist. It explains why she learned these disabilities from you" Ladybug guessed that she had this woman to learn sign language and other disabilities like her deafness for example.
"I'm just glad she's behind bars for her crimes" The third mother signed.
"Asylum actually, but yes. Everyone thought she was sweet but that was her acting. Half a white lie for an actress but not in a movie she never filmed. If she was, there would have been interviews, movie premieres, or her name at the movie end credits but none of them ever happened" Ladybug gave the facts.
"I should've checked that too but I thought she was angelic but I was wrong" The third mother signed.
"Many miss major details these days," Ladybug said.
Ladybug looks in the drawers and sees cut-off photos of Marinette with her friends, "This, for example, she's a narcissist and an insane person wanting everything she couldn't have. Like framing, manipulating, and even ruining the lives of someone who can see through her lies"
"Dear god!" The third mom signed.
"Yeah, definitely not the definition of an angel but more like a demon, ma'am. What else has she told you about her 'friends' that was a lie?" Ladybug asked before placing the cut-off photos in the bag as evidence.
"She tells them about her meeting celebrities" The third mom signed.
"Which also is untrue. Making lies about celebrities in public or on social media can destroy the celebrities' reputations. Like Jagged Stone for example quit his fame a couple of weeks ago. She once made a lie about him writing a song for her which is highly wrong because adult celebrities in their 30s or 40s would never write a song for a minor" Ladybug said.
"I didn't know that" The third mother signed.
"And she also made a lie about me too. I never was best friends with her because real superheroes can't bond a friendship with a civilian or it would become a danger magnet for enemies to use against. And she was never in Mexico for movie filming, she was at school" Ladybug explained where exactly she was doing the whole time.
"I can't believe it" The third mother signed.
"I'm sorry it had to come to this but this is the hard truth everyone has to face. Denial can be cruel but reality never lies" Ladybug said, looking at the drawers of more eye color kits Lila kept.
She even found another wig collection, in different colors, black, blond, and brown, "Ah, another wig collector. I suppose she used expensive money to buy these" Ladybug said, "And now that I think of it, her surname is red in Italian, so each disguise must be color-named" She figured.
"She used my money for this? She lied to give money for charity and funds" The third mother signed.
"Yes, she doesn't care about anyone but herself. Whatever made her like this has to do with the cause of neglect, abandonment, or someone who made lies about her and it inspired her to make lies for attention. Kindness doesn't work to treat her because what she is now, she takes advantage of innocents. Adrien once tried to give her multiple chances, to be honest with herself but seeing what she is now, she only got worse as well as throwing every chance. He did warn her that instead of making friends she's only gonna turn everyone against her. I suppose therapies are just too late for her because it won't make her come to redemption" Ladybug explained why kindness never works on pathological liars because people like her take advantage of their trust and twist it.
"Apparently so" The third mother signed.
x
As soon as she gathered all evidence from 3 women, she finally reached the catacombs which can go for miles, even dead ends too. It's like a maze and easily to get lost.
"Lucky charm" She summoned a lucky charm and out came a metal detector device, "A metal detector? Perfect" She smirked.
It beeped faintly but it will lead her to anything made of metal. Catacombs would never have remains made of metal for centuries.
"I hope Cat Noir's still here" She looks around.
"Here Kitty. You're here?" She calls for him.
She shrieked at rats in the catacombs, but they didn't feel threatened or interested in intruders, "Gross! Shoo! Go away!" She yelped.
She questions herself how Cerise can choose a lair like this to hide from anyone. Catacombs can be very dangerous in other ways. Collapsed tunnels, hidden pits, and unstable ceilings are quite dangerous. Add to that the ever-present risk of becoming hopelessly lost in the labyrinth.
"Even if there's oxygen here it's dangerous," She said and the metal detector picked up something which is much deeper in the catacombs, "Aha!" Ladybug went in that direction.
As she walked, she soon bumped into Cat Noir, "Kitty?"
"Milady?" Cat Noir said.
"Have you found the secret lair yet?" Ladybug asked.
"Nearly. Other than my sense of smell, it keeps leading me to the rats" Cat Noir said.
"Well let's find it together, Kitty," Ladybug said.
"This is too dangerous for the living to inhabit this place. Ghosts and the dead do not like to be disturbed" Cat Noir followed the scent.
"Or they'll haunt us," Ladybug said.
"I do not like this, milady. And I do not want my corpse in this place and I become a ghost cat" Cat Noir shuddered and followed the scent he could smell.
Ladybug's earrings beep that she has minty red until she transforms back, "Hold on. I need to recharge"
"Okay" Cat Noir turns around to face away from her and stands to wait for her to recharge.
"Spots off" She detransformed and handed a macaroon to Tikki, "The fake moms were betrayed by Cerise. They were so foolish of themselves to believe she's a sweet girl until they finally saw the news she's a demon in their eyes now"
"And now with everyone knowing her true colors, they won't fall for her tricks again," Tikki said.
"She's not the only pathological liar, milady. There are hundreds of them but not as menacing like her" Cat Noir said.
"I just hope Cerise won't escape to seek more revenge," Marinette said.
"Alright, I'm full now!" Tikki said after eating her cookie.
"Tikki, spots on" Marinette transformed back.
"And I hope she doesn't steal everything more popular because, to me, it's like she won't be anything good than anything else. There's nothing in the world to gain but lose yourself into that life" Cat Noir said as they came to the dead end of the catacombs, her lair. The mural on the wall, her pin hart of photos, her wigs on the head mannequin display, her supplies on the table, and even a pillow on the edge as a bed which seems uncomfortable to sleep on.
"Ah, she's been decorating her home. Lamps she stole but no plugs" Cat Noir said, looking at the pinboard chart of photos in every location spot she's been working on, even the photo of Hawk Moth through a window of his unknown lair.
"Look at all her phones. It explains why she has different phone numbers in her fake identities so it doesn't give out as being the same person in all places at once" Ladybug said.
"Now that's clever," Cat Noir said.
"And the wigs. She definitely abandoned her old life. Self-loathing is a bad habit you know. Especially the times she pretends she can't do much which is something she doesn't like helping anyone" Cat Noir said, noticing the name Gabi on the bricks, "This was Gabi's lair. Back when he was a mere crook" He dusted it off.
"I don't know by crook but being raised with his family at a fast food restaurant, he certainly did not want to be the next chef," Ladybug said, looking at the pin chart.
"Yeah, getting all greasy and such" Cat Noir stands beside her.
"Until meeting Audrey, Andre, and Adrien's mother" Ladybug looking at the photo in Lila's phone, "He wanted everything and when he met Nathalie, I suppose she was a friend and treasure hunter. Maybe that's what led to meet her and find two miraculous in Tibet"
"It appears so," Cat Noir said, scrolling through and gasping softly at his dead mother in a glass casket, "Emelie Agreste" He spoke out.
"Gabriel said she disappeared for over a year. He lied?" Ladybug gasped.
"Yes. For the world too" Cat Noir said.
"And not signing the death declaration at all" Ladybug said, knowing how important it is if a missing person is not found at all, they declare them to be dead and sign the death declaration papers.
"What Gabriel or should I say Gabi did is beyond inhuman," Cat Noir said.