"It was almost a year last I saw you, and a few more months if we include being here. It wasn't easy getting out of the Iifa Tree... I might've brought your body along." Because he wasn't going to leave him in that mess, but it took longer between his own injuries and weight. "Vivi shut down by the time I reached anywhere to recover..."

Because he'd been marked off as dead for as long as it took. And how much people had lectured him on making him worry after before his hair-brained scheme heading to Alexandria.