"No... You're lying. There is no way you could be Max!" Patrick roared at Maxine as he feelbly struggled against Silky's web. However, she could tell that he was half convinced already and only needed another small push to convince him.

"I know it's hard to believe, but it is me," Maxine told him, "If you are still not convinced, there are some other things I could use to convince you such as that incident where I had to cover for you and Meagan while the two of your were making out in my room when her father showed up looking for her. I told him you two went to the movies."  From his expression, she knew he was convinced.

"But... but how can you be in two bodies at the same time," he asked.

"It's not that I am in two bodies. Myself and Maxwell are two completely different individuals. I thought I made that clear when I said that my soul merged with this body's original owner. Although when I think about it, I would rather avoid meeting my former self. It would be too awkward for both him and me," Maxine said honestly. In truth she would probably have a hard time processing what she was seeing, if she were to meet Maxwell.

"Yeah you did mention that and I can understand not wanting to meet the other you. Uh... could you cut me down now?" Patrick asked while showing a hopeful smile. 

"As long as you don't try and hack one of my tits off again," Maxine teased him while unconsciously folding her arms under her breasts. She winced at the sudden pain from the wound on her left breast. She realized too late that doing that would aggrivate her wound.

"No, I won't. Sorry about that by the way. I honestly thought you were the bitch that did those things to me," Patrick stated as he looked down in shame. She didn't blame him in the least for his earlier suspicions. 

"Technically at least part of me is that girl, so don't feel too bad about it. I would have done exactly what you did under the same circumstances minus the stalking," Maxine said as she made an essence blade and cut Patrick down, "How's your arm?" Patrick winced in pain as soon as his left arm fell to his side. She felt somewhat regretful that she had done that, but he had tried to kill her just a few minutes ago.

"Hurts like an arm should when it's broken. Did you have to break it?" Patrick said in a frustrated manner.

"You did just try to stab me through the heart. Your lucky that I only broke your arm," Maxine answered. If she hadn't regained her senses earlier, she may have killed him and she knew it.

"Fair enough," Patrick said, "You wouldn't have any Regeneration Fruit on you by any chance?"

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"Sorry, I don't," Maxine answered, Maxine knew that Emily could heal his arm some. However it would be bring unwanted attention to Patrick and herself. Because if Maxine brought Patrick there, Emily would very likely tell General McKenzy and Patrick probably doesn't know that the general isn't as evil as they had thought. Not to mention that it would be awkward once he found out that Emily was General McKenzy's grand daughter. She really would rather avoid that kind of headache.

"There goes that idea," Patrick paused for a moment, "By the way, do I still call you Max or what?"

"Just call me Maxine for now to avoid confusion," Maxine said, "Anyways you best go get that arm tended to. Do you need any help getting out of here?" Maxine felt concerned about him, but knew that he had to have driven here. There was no way he could have run it without being seen at his level of cultivation. She had assumed that he had convinced someone to drive him. He lived almost 100 miles away.

"I should be fine. I don't have far to go. Although I would prefer it if you followed me out of here. Might make it easier explaining about how I broke my arm," Patrick said. Maxine understood why he wanted her to follow him. If he said he got hurt protecting her from a pervert or an animal, it would make sense how he got injured especially when someone noticed she was injured too, even if it is only a single shallow wound.

"Alright, but I need to call the soldier driving me around later to let him know where to pick me up," Maxine said as she picked up a spool of Sikly's silk and stuffed it into her backpack. Maxine looked over at Silky hiding in her webs and said, "I will be back tomorrow, Silky." 

Maxine followed Patrick and only now thought to look at her wound. She scanned it with her spiritual sense and found that if it had gone just an inch lower it would have hit her nipple. If her clothes had shifted too much, she would have ended up giving Patrick a view. Maxine immediately covered herself up with her right arm and felt immensely embarressed.  

It took them about fifteen minutes to reach the place where Patrick's ride was. Maxine saw that it was Patrick's cousin, Carl Manning. She didn't know too much about the man other than he was a skirt chaser. However when they came into sight, Carl ran out of his car towards them. Maxine's fear of men was triggered as he approached and she hid behind Patrick. He gave her a strange look, but otherwise said nothing. 

Patrick started to explain that Maxine had been attacked by a strange cat with a blade on the end of it's tail and had gotten his arm broken after it body slammed him. He had somehow managed to chase it off and they had come back to seek help. Maxine thought his lie was a decent one. There was indeed a copper stage beast like that. It was called the Blade-Tail Cat. It was about the size of a large wolf. Although rare, it did roam in this area.

While Patrick was being led to his ride to go to the hospital, Maxine pulled out her phone and called her driver while trying to keep her wound covered. Carl had asked her if she needed a ride, but she told him she had already called for a ride home. It didn't take her ride long to arrive, but Patrick had already been driven off to the hospital by that time. Her driver glanced at the blood on her shirt as she tried to keep herself covered, but otherwise did nothing as she got into the car. As Maxine leaned back into the seat, she hadn't realized how much she had missed Patrick until she got to see him again. However, she remembered that extremely fast strike Patrick had performed earlier. That had to have been a special attack of his. Although she didn't recall that he had a move like that. She resolved to make a few of her own later.