[In his defense, he did not know Paimon would do something like that. But she also wasn't wrong in the fact that Kaveh was the one who exposed his own weakness right off the bat by telling them not to let people know about his living situation. Which, you know, does nothing but convince Alhaitham further.

And yes, it is a fact that he doesn't care about people's opinions about him, or their reputations for that matter. But he understands how much Kaveh cares about his, even if he finds it illogical, but it doesn't change the fact that it is important to Kaveh, and so—]

You are the one who keeps saying one thing and then doing another. All I can do is act accordingly to what I see and hear.

[Because thinking that he knows everything has so clearly worked out for him before.]