Ren lets out a little sigh. Okay, still a lot, but apparently Akechi gets better with infodumping as he gets older. He shoots another playful look back when he gets one, but doesn't go any further; he can think with the head between his shoulders instead of the one in his pants sometimes.

"So. We're in a big crossover episode and we don't know when it'll end," Ren sums up. "Many of us from different shows. Vampires are real, time paradoxes aren't, Shinjuku might be gone but it wasn't real in the first place. Gotcha." He's got like 80% of it, at least. Probably. Much better.

Then the last bit...hmm. Ren mulls it over in his head. "Do I need to know anything before dealing with him? I'm not making out in front of a little kid anyway, but..."