"Is that what she's been working on...?"

He hasn't had the energy to really press for answers, but that disturbs him, now. He doesn't like the idea that Futaba might go off to confront a hijacked robot without anyone to watch her back, just because Ren's been feeling lazy.

"Let me help. She'll get sucked into the computery stuff, she needs someone who's paying attention to what's going on around her."