[They could start a club, it would surely be a hit.

Anyway, listen, he doesn't trust anyone else to not do something untoward. Leaving it there just seems like asking for that to happen and for it to be on his conscious, to his paranoid brain.]

... That doesn't surprise me as much as it should. You're a fairly inscrutable and strange person, eyepatch-ya. I suppose it's just in my nature to distrust that which I can't predict or understand.
[That is, he's no idea what Takasugi's motives or goals are, and he doesn't like that, so his guard goes up.]