My Secret Admirer

My Secret Admirer premiered alongside its sister episode, "Desperate Measures" on July 5th, 2013 and is the 6th episode overall in the series.

Someone knocks on the castle doors and Luigi goes to open them but to his surprise, there is nobody there. Thinking some kids were ding-dong-ditching, he didn't think much of it. However, it happens again and again but the strange thing is nobody else seems to pay it any mind besides Luigi which leads him to believe he may be going insane. Fortunately, Mario does admit he has been heading knocking but has always assumed Luigi was dealing with the person since he was always at the front door. Peach decides to investigate this time after another knocking and to Luigi's dismay, someone is at the front door, a little toad asking if he could take a picture with Peach. She obliges and assures Luigi that maybe a group of kids was just playing a prank on him like he initially thought and the one time Peach answered, they just conveniently stopped. Another toad then suddenly appears at the door and pleads with the team if he could spend a few nights in the castle. Peach apologizes and tries to explain that the castle isn't a hotel and is in the middle of a rebuilding phase but despite this, the toad continues to beg her along with Mario and Luigi to stay. The team becomes overwhelmed with guilt and gives in to the toad who introduces himself as Leroy. Luigi becomes extremely suspicious of Leroy and decides to talk to Mario about it who admits it is a little odd but doesn't want to assume the worst from a child.

That night, Luigi hears rustling coming from the bathroom. Thinking it's Mario he calls out for him but instead sees a shadowy figure appear from behind the door messing with some piece of technology and darts off. The next morning, Luigi interrogates Leroy on what he was messing with the night before. Leroy becomes confused and suggests Luigi may have seen someone else. Luigi becomes more enraged at his seemingly victimized attitude and begins to shout. Peach and Toadsworth come and see a timid Leroy on the verge of tears and order Luigi to step back and go to his room. Luigi, still angry storms off to his room with Squirt asking him later on what he is thinking. He decides to confide in Squirt about what he saw last night and says that nobody seems to care about what he thinks. Squirt assures him that he does but maybe until he has concrete evidence to prove he is telling the truth, he should refrain from any suspicions. Mario comes to Luigi and tells him that he needs to clean up the damage made by one of his inventions in the bathroom. Confused, Luigi tells him that he never invented anything within the past week to which Mario stops in his tracks and begins becoming suspicious. Luigi tells him what Leroy had in his hands the night prior and the bros decide to have a stakeout to spy on him.

That night, while struggling to stay awake, Mario and Luigi begin to argue on if what they're doing is a good idea or not. Luigi becomes angry and insists that nobody ever listens to him to which Mario shoots back that he is just being a drama king. Unbeknownst to both of them, Leroy comes from a nearby hallway and begins fiddling with the technology again. Luigi spots him and Mario finally sees for himself what he is doing. They both confront him but Leroy darts off, straight to the entrance doors and out the castle. The bros chase him through the night, through the streets, and end up behind the fungi bar. Leroy comes clean and confesses that he only needed the piece of technology for something important that he cannot say. Mario and Luigi don't buy his story and are about to catch him but he presses a button on the machine and it teleports him away, leaving both bros quite shocked.

The next morning, they tell Squirt, Peach, and Toadsworth everything to which they become furious and believe that he was a mischievous thief all along. Luigi goes up to his room and says to Mario that he thinks that there is something more to Leroy than they are led to believe. Mario insists that there is nothing they could do to solve why he came there. Peach and Toadsworth apologize to Luigi for how they treated him and said from now on, they will inspect anyone wanting to enter the castle as "suspicious". A mailman enters the castle to which Toadsworth accidentally whacks his cane at him, ashamed at what he did, he apologizes sheepishly.