There is no part of the Art that is interested in "forgiveness" or sympathy, so he hardly feels broken up over Eric's words. He knows exactly what he did and has no intention of shying away from it.

The sight of that watch, the exact twin of the one in his own pocket, does make him freeze up for a moment though as his eyes go wide. For some reason it's the surrealness of seeing a duplicate of that pivotal item that seems to make it truly sink in that everything Eric claimed about the future was true, as if those scars weren't enough. But he doesn't want to talk about Ellie.

"You and he are different, so I can't answer whether or not it would do you any good." For just the briefest of moments his cold tone and expression waver, brows dipping into a pained look of longing before it's all concealed again.