Shinji turned to the person addressing him, and. Well. He completely failed to mask the expression of Oh my god it's the screw guy again. Especially when it was clear from this close that it was a real screw going through a guy's real head.

"Ah...s-so do you." Shinji tried to stop himself from staring and failed miserably. "Sorry, I don't have an invitation. I just sort of. Showed up."