Koumyou squeezes his hands right back! "Is it not a similar sort of pain, a similar sort of helplessness?"

But comparing that side of things isn't going to get anywhere, he can see, so Koumyou deliberately changes to a whole other tactic--

"You must think I am so much colder than you, that I could turn a blind eye to your troubles."

That's not the sort of thing he'd normally say. He wouldn't normally go there, not deliberately like this. (And not long ago, he'd have said he was that much colder, too.)

But maybe that comparison might get somewhere?

"Am I not allowed to help you, like you would help me?"