[ marinette????? there's butts to mull over, and then there's also the fact marinette knew chat noir was around which he... actually is quite sure he hasn't actually talked to her directly, but maybe she's just seen him around—

(speaking of that, that's the sound of a maybe-return-text-from-ladybug, isn't it? but right now is marinette time.) ]

Er... [ this little hint of hesitation is more her directly mentioning chat noir, which is unexpected, rather than the butt talk. ] You're safe there, I wasn't thinking that you were thinking about butts. And if you were hiding those mad skills, I'm scared to see how hard my butt's going to get kicked when you're not holding back...

[ he tries so hard, but the girls he knows are TOO COOL FOR HIM.

he has to mull over this last point before he adds in: ]

Anyway, I didn't know Ladybug and Chat Noir were around. [ ... ] No, wait, I knew about Chat Noir... It was just Ladybug I didn't know about, until just a couple of minutes ago. Did you see them by chance or something?

[ this is so fucking awkward

somehow less awkward than trying to subtly grill (not) marinette on how cool he is as chat noir. ]