Nico remains stiff as a log even after Maki's let go. This is definitely weird. Maki is definitely being weird.

But she knows she's not going to say anything about it in a hundred thousand years, so Nico decides to be the one to break the silence instead.

"You know, I've been thinking it for some time now," she begins, rolling back her shoulders as to loosen them, "but haven't you been calling me over an awful lot since graduation?"