See, it would have bothered me still if she just hadn't considered it necessary, but to be told that she didn't want to be a bother when it ended causing her so much pain and then me having to be there and watch over her. She still had trouble at first being with Zoro and Ace after it.

[So basically she ended being far more of a bother than if she had called him in the first place.]

And then there was that time when some virus was spreading and making people sprout flowers and plants and eventually turned them into fucking trees. And I told her to leave to a city that was safe or back to her world, because back there we could do that, but she refused so I had to use my Cosmo to try to protect her from sprouting. And it still failed and she got sick despite it because she was all around infected people.

[Which, if it had been just Sanji or Zoro he could have understood, but it wasn't just them.]

... Wait, because of "how many times he has died"? Has... Has Ace died again while he was here or something?

[The distress is clear in Ikki's voice at that. What, didn't his brother have enough having died once that he had to die more times?]