"...if anything keeps the memories from following you home, you won't." It was a simple enough reasoning to him. He had a history with that, so it seemed likely enough. "But if something happens to you because you're doing this, I'll eventually just be a ghost who's still carrying that with me."

It wasn't that he didn't think it wouldn't follow Macaque because he didn't care that much, even a little bit. "And you'll be someone else who got hurt because you got close to me...who I couldn't do anything to protect when it matters..."