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At night, Soojin thaws out and comes to Shuhua's room — clinging to her like disposable stickers to paper.
“During the day, I'm Seo Soojin, an ordinary girl living the most ordinary life” — slips in her head inadvertently when she sees Shuhua, wrapped in a blanket up to her nose, looking at the phone screen.
Supercat repeatedly dumps Marinette only to confess his endless love to her alter ego in a couple of minutes.
Stupid, how stupid.
In the daytime, to tell the truth, she also wants to hug. Just doesn't want to be in plain sight — it embarrasses, it makes her blush. Maybe she wants to hold hands, and hug, and say cute things.. and kiss Shuhua, perhaps, she really wants to.
Shuhua's face, flickering with multicolored spots of screen reflection in the darkness of the room, is so childish. Although, in fact, Shuhua of them two behaves more mature. Shuhua allows her to set the pace, allows her to be comforted and soft, allows her too much, Soojin guesses. At least Minnie is already starting to overdo it with jokes on this score.
Soojin is acting stupid.
“But nobody knows something about me,” she thinks climbing onto the bed with her feet and quietly whispering “I love you” like a password to get inside of the girl's cocoon.
Shuhua doesn't seem to be distracted, and animated little characters run through her pupils, and her hair gathered in a sloppy bun sliding from the back of her head, glows faintly.
Supercat arranges a clowning in front of some citizen embittered with life, while Ladybug looks for ways to fix each of the problems on her own.
“I love you,” Soojin mutters into Shuhua’s neck, embracing her with all her limbs at once.
“I love you.” Soojin kisses the girl's shoulder as if accidentally missed her cheek, then her cheekbone, then her ear.
“Love you.”
Supercat smiles from the screen, revealing a row of snow-white teeth and waiting for the accolade from Ladybug. She immediately praises him, after dealing with Akuma, of course.
“I love you too.” Shuhua turns to Soojin as the credits crawl across the screen, and smiles almost wider than a superhero.
The episode ends well, as always. Supercat transforms into Adrian, Ladybug into Marinette.
Shuhua asks for permission before kissing her on the lips.
“This is my precious secret” — Soojin thinks kissing back.