Fortunately, they have reached Masozi's room.

"Goodnight! I will see you tomorrow and explain the cool numbers thing."

“Thank you! I like you!”

And Masozi will smile at Ayako and shut his door and flop on his bed.

….With paper nearby, and, ooh, he has a pen right here and the math puzzle is so interesting….

After Masozi goes back in the room, Nie Huaisang says, "you have great tits."

She does not crack up laughing out loud in the hall.

"...thank? You? I think?" 

"I wish I had tits like yours."

What the hell do you say about thaaaaaaaaat

"I bet with magic that's doable? And I think mundanes can do it too?" 

"I am pretty sure that would look weird."

"...yeah, it kind of would. Sorry." 

"At least I get to admire yours!"

If Nie Huaisang were a girl, this would be her cue to ask if she was free this weekend. If Nie Huaisang were a girl, making out with someone from another enclave still wouldn't be the best of choices, but it would be bad in a way where it makes you a little more prone to bad decisions about how much to trust someone down the line, something where it's a little riskier than she'd be advised but still perfectly possible to do while being careful.

Nie Huaisang is not, in fact, a girl, and in the world that exists, that wouldn't be the kind of decision she'd be teased for. It's the kind of decision that would get her pulled away from the Shanghai table, informed that they all thought better of her than this, and maybe she just shouldn't be doing this sort of thing at all if she's going to take risks like that. 

"I guess you can."

Nie Huaisang is drunk enough to be oblivious to all of this. "They're a very nice shape. I guess that might be the clothes? I'd ask to see how much it's the clothes but I feel like that's probably getting close to territory that would make me want to have sex with you."

(He is, for obvious reasons, navigating using the wall.)

"It's any the clothes. —If you were a girl I'd offer, I meant it when I said you were pretty, but in fact." 

"I mean I assume it has to make me interested in sex with girls because everyone keeps warning me about it but I can't figure out what the appeal would possibly be. So I assume there is some kind of boob mind control going on."

"...that's weird. No, it's not boob mind control, it's just an appealing thing.

Unless it's not, I guess."

"Maybe it's appealing for some people and boob mind control for other people."

"Maybe." This does, admittedly, sound plausible. "If I meet any boys who'd be interested I'll send them your way, I guess." 

"Please do! Every guy at this school either hasn't hit puberty yet or is my enclavemate!"

"In a couple of weeks I'm planning on asking around if any of the Kyoto sophomore girls are interested, we're supposed to date our enclavemates because it's less likely to get all up in your decision-making if it's someone you're already supposed to be trusting and Mei is currently of the opinion that dating at all in the Scholomance is a waste of time and nobody should do it. If that doesn't work-- I don't know, maybe I'll try Tokyo? There have to be some boys who have hit puberty, right, if nothing else there's the one who was getting yelled at over the two Zixuans--"

"I think when I'm sober I think I shouldn't sleep with my enclavemates but right now I just want to finish giving Jiang Cheng a handjob. Possibly with less of an audience."

"...on the one hand what on the other hand I am really not sure I want to know."

"He is apparently really into Disney and jumped me after we finished singing Kiss The Girl and then we got kind of carried away and forgot Wen Ning was there and then Wei Ying walked in and yelled at us."

...really into Disney, huh.

"Huh," is all she says.

"To be fair to him I did spend the entire time I was singing the song on his lap grinding on him so I kind of asked for it."

"Yeah, that does sound like you kind of asked for it." 

"What else am I going to do? Not plead for him to kiss me for three minutes?"