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“Here you go, Ladybug.” These were Ryuuko’s last words as the transformation dropped and Kagami handed the choker to Ladybug.
Kagami was never good at goodbyes, but she wanted to give Longg the best one she could. “Goodbye, Longg. Thank you for giving me the freedom I lacked.” Longg looked into Kagami’s amber eyes with a gentle smile and told her the words she knew would cause her perfect mask to break.
“I will treasure our time together, always.” Before they vanished into the choker. Kagami didn’t stay on the rooftop for much longer, she didn’t want anyone to see this side of herself, her mother would call them “Ugly emotions” but Kagami kinda liked them.
But she didn’t have time to think about all that now, she was rushing home, she was rushing back into a life of normality. But then she had to ask herself the question of why? Why did she step down? Why did she stop being a hero? Why did she want to say goodbye to Longg? The answer was all the same, she couldn’t trust herself to handle the powers after everything she learned in the aftermath of Monarch’s defeat.
The man that tormented Paris, Adrien’s father, was a monster, but he at least got justice given to him… even if he was not alive to see it happen. But someone did get away from the eyes of justice, someone very close to Kagami, her mother.
In the aftermath of it all, Kagami’s mother had cleverly shifted all blame onto Gabriel, she created this narrative of her being a victim and how she was forced to fund his dark schemes. Kagami knew easily when her mother lied, but she was just a teenage girl, even Ladybug was powerless to help as her mother built up the narrative in such a way that Ladybug was too forced to be another puppet in her mother’s scheme.
But this wasn’t the reason Kagami visioned draining all the water from her mother’s body or sending a 1000 volts coursing into her body. No, the truth that caused Kagami to feel the “ugly emotion” of rage was what she learned about the lie her mother told of her status as a blank card holder.
Since the day she first held her card on her ninth birthday, her mother had planted her lies to Kagami about it. She told her, “You are imperfect.” “Be grateful that I still love you.” “Only I can make you perfect.” From that moment on her mother never smiled at her, every day she was reminded that blank cards were rotten and evil, so she must do everything she was told to not end up like all the other blank card holders.
So Kagami kept listening to her mother’s lie one after another and worst of all she actually believed them all. She listened when her mother told her to avoid kids with blank cards at the academy, she listened when her mother told her the answer was to claim Adrien Agreste’s card as her own and she listened every time her mother used her soul card as a reminder that Kagami wasn’t good enough for her love. She would have stayed like this, completely under her mother’s thumb, if not for the events of the diamond dance and Ladybug’s reveal in the months after.
Kagami had skipped the dance with the help of Longg, becoming Ryuuko had given her a taste of freedom and was the doorway to her rebelling against her mother. So in the spirit of Longg she avoided the event.
Besides she felt it was only fair to give her rival in love a chance for Adrien’s hand, she wasn’t really too bothered in the whole romance scene, something she blamed her blank card for doing. But when she heard the aftermath, she regretted not being there, hearing of Marinette’s status as being a fellow blank card holder and her tragic akumatization that ended with her being rushed to hospital.
This event left Kagami feeling numb. Such she knew others had blank cards, she knew of a girl at the school Adrien was going to that had one. But this Alix girl was very anti-social from what Adrien and others had said about her when Kagami had asked.
But to find out her rival was just like her, made Kagami feel something warm in her heart as she remembered staring at her card that night, realising she wasn’t alone. But then Ladybug’s reveal opened her eyes to everything, seeing the hero of Paris open up about being a blank card holder, made Kagami realise that her mother was wrong about a blank card being a mark of evil and rottenness.
How could both the sweetest girl in Paris and its beloved protector be seen as evil? This was the moment the curtain fell and Kagami realised all of her mother’s lies. It took her every ounce of her humanity to not find the nearest sharp object and let out her rage on her mother.
She wasn’t going to prove her right by becoming the monster, her mother believed blank cards to be. But what was Kagami to do with all this rage? and how was she going to fill this empty hole that was left as she uprooted all the lies in her heart.
Kagami felt like her life had been pointless. What was the point of everything she had done? All the training, all the early mornings, all the telling herself that if she tried a little harder then maybe she would finally be whole in her mother’s eyes.
But that was always impossible, just like her mother was blind to the world around her, so too was Kagami for thinking she could trust her mother’s words. So all that remained was the rage, she wanted to hurt someone or something just so they could understand her feelings.
Ironically this led to her being akumatized into Kaijuko. She didn’t remember much of the battle, but she knew this was her sign that she needed to step away from the hero’s life.
The night after Kagami had retired from being a hero, she was shocked to find Ladybug on her balcony. “You looked like you had a lot on your mind?” Ladybug said, as if she could read Kagami like a book.
Ever since Kaijuko, Ladybug had made it a habit to check up on Kagami, but never at her home like she had done so tonight.
So in that moment, Kagami decided to ask the question in her mind, before it could consume her. “How did you cope with it? How did you live with a blank card?” Kagami's question caught Ladybug off guard, her month looks like a gasping fish, as it is clear the question isn’t an easy one for the hero.
“I didn’t… at first. But I found someone that understood me and my scars.” Ladybug smiles as her blue eyes smile at Kagami. “You should find people that understand too? I may know of a little club… that may be able to help.”
It was Kagami’s turn to be shocked.
“How did you know?” She asked, mystified by Ladybug’s omnificent powers. “I’ve seen those scars, Kagami… Don’t think you have to feel this hurt on your own.” Ladybug pled as for the first time Kagami saw the girl behind the hero’s persona speaking out. Ladybug left soon after, leaving Kagami to go over what she had told her.
“Seek others.” Kagami said it was a cryptic riddle. “Other blank cards?” Kagami was slowly putting the pieces together as she realised where Ladybug was guiding her. “The blank club! Marinette and Alix!” Kagami knew of the club due to Alya writing a piece on it for the school paper, maybe that is how Ladybug knew of them as well!
“Tomorrow, I’ll seek out their help!” Kagami said with a renewed conviction as for the first time in these last few months she felt sure of things in her life.
The next day came quicker than Kagami had liked. She was apprehensive about going to the club, what if they can’t help her? No! They have to help her! Ladybug wouldn’t recommend them if they weren’t helpful.
But that still didn’t stop Kagami feeling the doubt sinking in as she got dressed that morning.
Every time she looked in the mirror, she was still unsatisfied with how she looked. “No… I can’t look foolish. They need to see me as per…” Kagami felt the ice cold chill of her mother’s presence in those words. Kagami looks back to see no one, yet still the feeling remains on her shoulder.
“Why do you still haunt me?” Kagami whispered, she knew her mother fled to the US after shifting all the blame onto Gabriel, yet still Kagami could never be free from her grip. Kagami’s phone alarm rings as it’s time for her to leave, she pauses for a brief moment as the alarm screen is from her only date with a boy whose name she can now barely remember.
“Did I forget to change this screen?” Kagami looks at the screen, she tries to recall the memory of the “date” but finds she remembers more about the fairgrounds food than any of her interaction with the boy. “Was it really that forgettable?” Kagami said as she turned off the alarm, she was caught up in the feeling of confusion? Why didn’t she care more about that moment? That was a time where she truly rebelled against her mother! She went on a “date” with a boy that her mother would never approve of, yet nothing came from it. Kagami felt no fireworks like she saw in so many of the romance manga she read in secret.
In fact she felt almost bored by the idea of dating, yet she was enamoured whenever she got to read it? Maybe this was a side effect of the blank cards? After finding out about her mother’s lies, Kagami decided to look into blank cards more independently and yet only seemed to come out more confused at the idea of what they mean.
Soul cards as a concept made no sense to her? How can people have one, yet also be willing to trade them? The paradox never made sense in Kagami’s mind, but maybe the blank club could be her guiding light? Kagami gained a pep in her step as she entered the school grounds and set her sights on the old art room that Alya mentioned in her article.
Soon she was at the door, ready to finally have all her answers, she knocked as she would normally do before entering an important place. Yet after getting no reply, Kagami decided to channel Ryuuko one last time, as she opened the door and stepped into the room.
She had expected to find a pair of well verse thinkers that could grant her the enlightenment she sought. What she didn’t inspect to hear from the pair was.
“I’m telling you legs are far more aesthetically appealing to me in anime girl’s designs than the chest department.”
“Well just think about the practical uses! You could save so much on pillows!” Kagami stopped for a second as she questioned if she walked in on two pre-pubescent boys having a rant about anime girls, but she soon realised it was in fact two girls having this conversation instead.
Kagami had seen a picture of Marinette and Alix, but to see them in person was a completely different feeling. Both were much shorter than she imagined, she had pictured mature, responsible seventeen year old women, just like herself.
Yet here she saw two girls that barely looked older than thirteen in her mind? But to even call them girls could be a big ask in Kagami’s mind, both had style more in line with what more sporty boys would wear, with shorts and baggy t-shirts. Both of them looked like they had been dragged out of bed, especially Marinette, with her messy short blue hair that clearly hasn’t been brushed.
But the details that Kagami was most taken aback by was Marinette’s scars, pictures did them no justice as to truly see that her whole body was covered by them from head to toe. Yet still Marinette didn’t seem put off by them as she had a happy smile on her face as she continued to argue the perks of a large chest. “Plus imagine using them as an air bag…” Marinette stops as she looks up to see Kagami staring at them both.
“Oh didn’t think you would come this soon.” Marinette whispers just loudly enough for Kagami to just make out. “Greetings, blank club… I seek your help in dealing with this.” Kagami being straight to the point and without hesitation summoned her blank card, normally she expected to hear a gasp like she normally does whenever she shows it, but both Marinette and Alix stare at the card and Kagami with a sad smile on both their faces.
“Welcome to the club.” Alix said after a few seconds. “But how can we help you?” Alix looked confused as she questioned Kagami’s request.
Things were not going how she hoped.
“Don’t you have all the answers?” Kagami asked with a hint of desperation in her tone, she was trying not to freak out too quickly. “Ladybug told me you guys would be the ones to help me!” Kagami noticed Alix gave Marinette a strange look as the other girl gave her a lopsided smile.
“Can you not help me then!” Kagami was starting to get annoyed as she wasn’t getting what she hoped out of the pair. “What do you want to know?” Alix finally looked at Kagami again as she saw a sparkle of frustration in the smaller girl’s eye.
“How do you fix it?” Kagami was once again straight to the point with her question, but the look on Alix’s face showed the other girl’s frustration morphed into anger. “What the fuck do you mean by 'fix it?” Kagami felt the urge to take a defensive stance as even for her smaller size, Alix presented herself in quite a menacing aura. Marinette steps in between the pair as if to reduce the risk of someone getting hurt.
“Now, let's be calm here. Kagami didn’t mean it like that.” Marinette words seem to calm the raging bull that Alix was channelling. “You don’t fix this…” Alix summoned her card that, just like Kagami's, was completely blank. “You learn to live with it… The card isn’t the problem… It’s you that need fixing.” These words were not what Kagami wanted to hear at that moment. “No, I’m fine! I’m perfect! You’re the imperfect ones”
Once again the chilling grip of her mother’s cold hands could be felt on her body, but now they wrapped their hands around Kagami’s neck and started to tighten their grip. “Kagami, please we only want to help.” Marinette looks at her with pleading eyes, but in her mind only her mother’s words could be heard.
“Those with blank cards are broken… If you don’t want to be like them, then you must listen to me and only me.” The feeling grew tighter around her neck, as with every second it was getting harder to breathe. Both girls looked worried as they rushed over to Kagami, “Kagami!” She could hear the faint shout from both of them, but it was lost in the endless void that consumed her.
“I love you.” She remembered the words of the boy, yet she didn’t feel those same feelings as she felt the ice covered everything from her body to completely consuming the nameless boy.“I don’t.” She said as she watched the boy shatter as the words “Ice queen!” echo in his voice.
Suddenly she was surrounded by mannequins, all of them perfect copies of her, all of them holding a soul card that wasn’t blank. Unlike hers.
Suddenly she heard them all whispering in her voice. “Broken.” “Im-perfect.” “Unlove-able” “Heartless.” “Blank.” “Soulless.”
The feeling on her throat was unbearable as she felt herself choking as the cold grip was relentless. Her vision started to fade as all the mannequins were now facing her, laughing endless as they watched her collapse to the floor. As the world went black, one final whisper could be heard.
“Die like the mistake you were.” These were the final words her mother said before leaving her alone in Paris. Now they were truly going to be her final words.
Kagami burst awake in a cold sweat. She looked around confused, still disorientated as the world around her came back into focus. She tried to ground herself as she took in her slowly emerging surroundings.
She felt she was lying on something soft, she realised soon after it was a tattered couch.
She looked out the window to see the orange glow of the evening, she recalled it was clear blue sky the last she remembered, had she been out cold for that long?
She tasted the salt of the tears running down her cheeks, she must have been suffering another nightmare.
She could smell a mixture of art supplies and warm food, she was starting to recall she was in an art room.
Then she heard the sound of two people arguing. “No, I didn't overdo it!” “But the packet only said to boil the noodles for five minutes before adding the sauce?” Kagami looked over and saw a small kitchen area in the corner of the room.
There she saw the source of the argument as she saw the pair trying to cook what Kagami could tell was instant noodles. “Once the noodles are soggy, then you add the sauce.” Kagami said groggily as she wiped the tears and slept from her eyes.
Both girls stopped arguing and looked surprised at the arisen Kagami. “She’s alive!” Marinette blurted out as Alix slapped her on the head. “Of course she is bloody alive! We didn’t kill her, she just collapsed from the stress!” Alix said as she focused back on the noodles as she followed Kagami’s advice and added the sauce packet.
Meanwhile Kagami finally remembers everything she was missing, how she came to Marinette and Alix for help, how she got worked up as a pair and how she collapsed from the panic attack she had been avoiding for the past few weeks.
“Am I truly alive?” Kagami mused as Marinette looked at her with a look of pity. “How did you two do it? How did you both manage to be happy?” Kagami was surprised to see both girls break out laughing, yet Kagami had no clue what was so funny to begin with?
“You really are an odd one to think we’re both happy? Fuck no!” Alix replied as Marinette nodded. “But you both seem unaffected by having blank cards? Mother…” Kagami flinched for a moment as she felt like vomiting at the mere mention of her mother. “All the stories I’ve heard don’t end well for blank card holders…” Kagami took an uncomfortable pause as she recalled all the horrible fates she saw online.
“Who said we had it easy?” Marinette said as Kagami heard a slight stutter in her voice. Alix suddenly chimes in with “Fine, I’ll tell you what it’s like… but you got to get one thing clear… It’s not a happy story.” Kagami for the first time is silent as she lets the girls speak.
“My card for the longest time was a curse.” Alix moved closer to Kagami as Marinette focused on the noodles. “From the day I got it, people saw me as an irregular. My brother, my classmates, anyone that knew of my card. Life was hell, I had no friends… No one cared about me. I saw myself as damaged… If my dad wasn’t there for me then… I don’t think I would be here now…” Alix said darkly as Kagami could see the girl’s pain in her words.
“Then as I got older those thoughts and feelings made me grow bitter towards the world around me. Everyone kept moving forwards and yet I stayed the same, they all grew up while I stayed the same. They all moved on with their lives, while I had no clue.” Kagami for the first time saw Alix in a different light as she saw all the pain beneath the flames.
“If not for that idiot… Then I would never have learned to trust others… Never learn to let people into my world again…” Alix smiled as Kagami noticed a smirk on Marinette's face as the girl came over with three bowls of brightly red noodles.
“Sorry… We only have extreme spice. Hope you like it spicy.” Marinette said with a half smile, as Kagami returned it with a nod. “But enough about me…” Alix took a breath as she wiped the tears from her eyes and returned to her more playful self. “Now it’s this idiots turn to show you how fucked up she is.” Marinette responded with a light jab to Alix’s arm.
“You're really asking for a beating today aren't you?” Marinette said playfully before looking towards Kagami, as her happy face dropped. “The me from before was just like you… I believed for so long that my card was a mistake, that I just needed to fix it and then suddenly everything would be okay. I lied… I cheated… I hurt people…” Marinette was on the verge of breaking down.
“I kept telling myself it was all for the greater good of things, that I was making those I care about happy… but it was just me slowly poisoning myself until I almost… I almost…” As Marinette said this, Kagami could see the scars all over Marinette’s body almost glowing with the emotion as the girl clearly relived the events she was describing. “I came so close to death.” Marinette looked Kagami in the eyes, she saw a light in the deep blue of them, that resonated with Kagami.
“But I found someone that understood my scars… someone that taught me how I didn’t need to find love… but that I needed to love myself for who I am now.” Kagami could easily see Marinette gaze landing on Alix. “Even if she a absolute idiot and a fucking pain in my ass sometimes.” Marinette smirked as it was Alix’s turn to lightly jab Marinette in the arm.
“What the idiot and I are trying to say is that we didn’t find happiness from our statues as blanks, but we found a way for it to be our normal and I think you can too.” At that moment Kagami faltered, she wasn’t expecting to be mentioned.
“But how?” Kagami looked at the two as all her defence broke and the walls between them crumbled as for the first time Kagami didn’t feel alone. “Tell us and we will listen.” Both girls said as Kagami didn’t hesitate.
“The day I got my blank card was the day my mother stopped being my mother.” Kagami heard both girls gasp, but this didn’t stop her. “I did everything I could to get her back… I followed all her orders, I trained until my hands were raw, if she hated who I talked to then I would stop talking to them… even if that person made me happy.” Kagami thinks back to the days she spent with Miku in Tokyo, how she helped her get together with Kazuto.
“Then we moved to Paris and she forced me to win over Adrien Agreste… even when I never wanted to do so. But you know what hurts the most even after all that, even after I found out she helped Monarch… what still hurts the most is the fact she abandoned me here…” Kagami for the first time let her guard down and started to cry, all the tears she should have shed over the past years, all the regrets she buried deep within herself. Finally it was all free and it felt good. Suddenly she felt warmth on both sides of her body, as Marinette and Alix hugged her. “It’s alright Kagami… Everything is going to be okay.” Hearing those words only seems to make her want to cry more as she felt for the first time as if someone could finally understand her pain, truly understand it.
She cried for a good few minutes as by the time she had some of her noodles they had gone cold, yet she didn’t care as letting out all those emotions had made her work up an appetite. “You need to have cooked them for a bit longer.” Kagami said after devouring the bowl.
“See I told you so.” Alix said smugly to Marinette while Kagami giggled, she started to find the joy in being around the pair, as they both seemed to lighten the mood.
“So what do I do now?” Kagami asked the pair after they had finished their game of back and forth. “Start living your life.” Marinette said with a toothy grin as Kagami couldn’t help but join her in the smile as she was excited to finally do so, with the help of Marinette and Alix.
The weeks Kagami spent with the pair were the best weeks of her life.
She was introduced to a world of new experiences from small childhood ones like sleepovers, something her mother had always forbidden her from doing, under the fear of Kagami blank card status being revealed.
But Kagami's only regret was never getting to share this experience with Miki, “Maybe one day…” She thought to herself as she drifted off to the sound of Marinette and Alix snorting. But she also made major discoveries about herself like coming to terms with the fact she was aroace, just like Marinette and Alix.
After she went along to that year's pride parade and found she shared a lot of sentiment with that community and so she happily started to wear the colours, finally feeling like she belonged somewhere.
But Kagami also found new passions such as cooking, something she was surprised she found enjoyable after taking a few lessons from Marinette. Kagami found the kitchen to become a space she was most comfortable in as she tried out new recipes and experimented with flavour combinations. She always knew Marinette and Alix supported her interest, but that didn’t prepare her for meeting Marinette’s uncle, Cheng Shifu.
Marinette had mentioned him a few times in the past, but Kagami never expected she would actually get to meet him, let alone get to cook for him! But she did and hearing a master chief praise her cooking filled her with a feeling with a joy she hasn’t ever felt before. Soon after Cheng Shifu started giving Kagami lessons on how to further improve her skills and then he asked her something that changed everything. “Would you be my apprentice in Shanghai?” He said without any hint of his accent showing, clearly he had wanted these words to be as clear as possible.
“Me? But I'm just a novice?” Kagami said humbly, one of the traits she had learned from her time hanging around Alix and Marinette. “Don’t sell yourself short!” Marinette said as she suddenly appeared from behind the nearby wall, followed shortly by Alix.
“Even Alix loves your food and she’s a picky eater!” Marinette adds as Alix goes bright red. “Why did you have to tell her that!” Alix said as she then hid her embarrassment behind her cap. Kagami was still speechless, but when she looked at the eyes of her two friends, burning bright with support for her, did Kagami finally find the words she wanted to say.
“I’ll become your apprentice.”
It was shocking how quickly things moved from that point onwards. Kagami was fearful at first but with support from not just Marinette and Alix, but Adrien, as well as Marinette and Alix’s parents. Did all the work Kagami needed to do before moving to Shanghai get done.
She sold the apartment very quickly and with enough help from Alix’s father did she sort out all the paperwork for her to emigrate to Shanghai. Add to that taking a few refresher classes from Marinette’s mother on how to speak Mandarin and Kagami was as ready as she would ever be to make such a major change to her life.
It still didn’t feel real to her as she stood at the airport gate with her small carry-on bag with Marinette and Alix. She still believed this was all a dream and that suddenly she would wake up to find she was still trapped within her mother’s web. But this wasn’t a dream and the more Kagami stared at the plane, she knew it would take her to her new life, did it start to feel more real to her.
“Now remember what I said about pickpockets… I still have nightmares about that from last time.” Marinette sounds more like a worried mother than one of Kagami’s friends. “Marinette relax, this is the former hero Ryuuko we’re talking about, she can handle herself.” Alix said with a smirk, as Kagami just laughed.
“Thank you Bunnyx, please try to keep Ladybug in check while I’m away.” Both Marinette and Alix's eyes went wide as Kagami casually revealed the fact she knew both of their secret identities to them. “How did you know?” Marinette asked in a mixture of interest and panic.
“Easy… What are the odds that Marinette and Ladybug would share the same beautiful scars? Or that Bunnyx would still remain by Ladybug side… just like Alix does with Marinette.” Kagami braced herself as she expected a negative reaction from the pair, but both responded in laughter.
“So you're not worried that I know?” Kagami asked, still confused at the reaction. “Fuck no… It’s just surprising you didn’t tell us sooner.” Marinette said after wiping the tears of joy from her face. “You were always one of the best temporary holders… Longg holds you very close to her heart.” Hearing those words gave Kagami a feeling of closure that she lacked from her retirement as Ryuuko.
“Thank you… both of you. Without your help I don’t think I would have been able to live my life. So thank you.” Kagami turns to the gate that would be her ticket to her new life, she wanted to hide the fact she was crying as she didn’t want the pair to see her pulling such an ugly face.
“Goodbye Kagami!!!” Both girls' words could be heard over the busy noisy of the airport. As Kagami turned back face filled with tears as she looked at the pair and shouted. “Goodbye my heroes! We will meet again someday!” Before she rushed off, she looked back one more time to see the slowly shrinking sight of Marinette and Alix as the pair waved her goodbye.
“Time to start living.” Kagami said as she entered the plane, she didn’t even hesitate as she did so.
Life from that point onwards was a whirlwind of new experiences for Kagami. Some days it was tough, she still felt like an outsider, even after Cheng Shifu welcomed her with open arms and made her feel at home.
Some days Kagami wanted to cry, she still had night terrors about her mother, coming to her new life and dragging her back into the hell she had escaped. She was thankful Fei was there for her on those nights as she silently understood the pain beneath Kagami’s eyes. But then as time went on those days got easier, Kagami felt more and more at home on the streets of Shanghai, she greeted all the locals in the market and knew all the favourites of the regulars at the shop.
As she grew older the night terrors started to fade away as the love of the people around her shone brighter. By the time she was 21, Kagami had shed her former self completely. Her hair was messier and longer in a way that would drive her mother insane. She dressed more casually, but still with a style of cool, like she had seen in the anime Fei had introduced her to on one of their many girls nights. Speaking of said girls night, Kagami had quite a few mementos in the form of tattoos and piercings that she had gotten from all her time spent with Fei.
But the biggest success in Kagami’s book was actually being recognised as Cheng Shifu’s apprentice by the locals. Her budding passion for cooking had blossomed into a dedication that was far stronger than she had for other hobbies like Fencing and archery. She loved going out into the market and finding new ingredients or even taking trips into the countryside and getting her hands dirty growing her own stuff to be used in all the many dishes she made for the people she held close to her heart. Cheng Shifu has joked on more than one occasion of Kagami taking the shop and becoming the master herself, but Kagami is always quick to remind him that she still has a lot to learn before that point… but the idea of becoming the master is one she does dream of one day doing, as she truly wants to make him proud.
Kagami looked into her reflection as she admired the woman she had become, she smiled, but unlike the smile from when she was younger, a smile that was rough and jagged. Her smile was soft and smooth as it wasn’t just a smile on her face… It was a smile in her heart. “Kagami! The mail is here! One of them is addressed to you!” Fei shouted from the first floor as Kagami was interested in the news and so rushed down as soon as she finished saying
“Good morning.” To the girl inside the mirror.
“Here is your letter!” Fei said as she threw it at Kagami. Now calling what Kagami had in her hands a letter seemed kinda like a joke as it was quite a hefty envelope. She looked at the stamps on the front of the letter and was surprised to see it had come from Africa. Inside Kagami found not a letter, but a whole novel as it was pages upon pages stuffed inside the poor envelope. Kagami knew straight away who the novel was off as soon as she saw the first line.
“Hi Kagami! It’s Marinette!” Kagami read out in excitement to match the tone of the letter. “Oh so this is the Marinette I’ve heard so much about.” Fei said as Kagami continued to read the letter from Marinette. In the letter it retold Kagami of everything the pair had gotten up to since she left for Shanghai.
From Alix’s growth spurt and helping out Manon. All the way up to them deciding to see the world and of their adventures in New York helping out the united heroes. Kagami had just reached the last few pages talking about the pair's time in Africa, meeting Lady lion and about how the pair have handled living more with nature as they’ve both been camping under the stars while in the savannah.
On the last page, things get very interesting as Marinette talked about how they were planning to head to Tibet next and figured that while they were in the country, they would spend some time in Shanghai to see how she was doing. Kagami smiled as Fei grew curious as to what had caused the sudden reaction.
“You're finally going to meet her.” Kagami said as she rushed into the kitchen to tell the Master about the news. “I can’t wait to show them my smile.”
Kagami thought to herself as she burst into the kitchen, she was going to show them both how much she had grown because of them.
“See you soon, Ladybug.”