Eiji does sit. It's better. He doesn't feel any pain, like he did the first time it happened, but having a panic attack while standing is not going to do him any favors.

"I lost my taste all of a sudden one day. Nothing led up to it--it just happened. I had the Medals for months before it happened. I guess I thought if I was going to lose any more senses, it would take just as long, but my vision started going out just before I came here. It comes back after a while, but I..."

He draws up his knees and wraps his arms around them.

"I don't want to become a Greeed. But I don't know how to stop it."