Worthless... a heavy, painful word and from the sounds of it, one that had already cut deeply into Sumi before. Gently, Hamuko rubbed at Sumi's back, quietly supportive as she listened.

"Your senpai... I know the feeling," she admitted quietly - maybe Sumi could tell, maybe she couldn't, but Hamuko knows exactly how another world's version of someone you know just... isn't the same. "If he were here, what do you think he'd say?"