He's not sure he'd say it's 'remarkable', but what's more interesting is what Tony has to say after that. "Your bar... Oh!" With that, there's a spark of recognition in his eyes - you wouldn't catch him at Insomnia 2.0 under his own whims, but - "The one Kyoko's working at, right?"

Okay, well, that makes him marginally less of a stranger, even if they've still never actually met. At least this puts him somewhere in Shinji's social circle, so he tentatively accepts the offer of a nice, fizzy drink with a soft, "Thank you."