[popcorn is so long........ well, it's not that weird, lavi thinks, as popcorn cutely trembles, if general klaude nine can have a cute monkey then lu bixing can have his... roommate's.... snake!]

-- Yeah, you're Lu Bixing? [for a white(?) man, lavi's pronunciation is perfect,] Nice to meet ya -- and Poppy.

[don't just nickname someone else's snake??? but all of lavi's earlier trepidation is gone, replaced by a not so small amount of cheer.]

You can have the top bunk if you want, I'm fine on the bottom.

[he waves his hand towards the bed, the hand that's holding the textbook he grabbed earlier,]