[The hand on his shoulder does very little. If anything, it makes him a bit resentful, because it's not the hand he wants to have on his shoulder. That's incredibly unfair towards Naruhodou, but a spiral of negativity is nothing if not unreasonable.]

No... There's nothing anyone can do... It is what it is and any attempt to change it is impossible. That's what makes it so very difficult to handle... I may as well give up and die...