Well. He wasn’t not worried, does that count? But he tries to bite back on that worry to keep Shuji from trying to minimize what he’s going through.

It’s a nasty cycle these two keep ending up in out of concern for each other, isn’t it?

“But you feel like you are. So, I’ll stay so you dont have to feel that way alone.” It’s all you can do in the face of whatever this is that is going wrong.