And if it was really worth that much you'd be telling me you already had succeeded.

[He sees all of that in Karamatsu - the fear, the loneliness, the overarching sense that this is someone who has been told he can't succeed and just internalized it. And if there's anything that really cements that he should take Karamatsu under his wing, it's realizing how much they have in common.]

Be serious for a second, kid - what do you wanna do with your life?