If you want a miserable existence, sure. You don't need to do anything at all if you don't want to.

[He's absolutely not looking up at Otegine more, instead looking at the businesses around them.]

...But that doesn't mean you want to be alive, either. That doesn't mean that your existence right now is what you want, even if makes you useful to anyone or nobody. If given the chance, would you give this life, this form, up? To be something else?