"That sounds pretty rough."

He'd say something encouraging about not giving up, but that...can backfire. And from that story, Eiji probably knows more than he wants to about things backfiring, unfortunately.

"Sometimes, things just don't work, huh."

It'd been a hard lesson for him to learn, himself.

But they're both here now. That's gotta count for something. "Good thing you were in here when you figured it out!"