... Mm. Yeah. [he makes a move to grab chopsticks.] The world's not nice enough to always hand you situations where you don't have to choose.

[still, he can't stop his concern for mineo from bubbling over.]

Well... do your best. It sucks, but don't let it keep you down.

[he'd like to help if he could, but considering that he already broke a long, long time ago, he doesn't even know what he could say. there are other people here far more suited to give mineo advice on how to navigate through this.]